Movies by Lists - Writers, Poets and Playwrights (189 [253]) 
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| Adventures of Mark Twain, TheThe dramatized life of immortal humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, from his days as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River until his death in 1910 shortly after Halley's Comet returned. | 1944 | Irving Rapper | Adventure, Biography, Drama | 7.1 (1.2K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| AgathaDecember 1926, Agatha Christie's husband asks for a divorce. She leaves her car and goes missing 11 days. She books into a hotel as Mrs. Neele. Fiction: A US reporter looks for her and investigates. | 1979 | Michael Apted | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.3 (3K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| AgathaDecember 1926, Agatha Christie's husband asks for a divorce. She leaves her car and goes missing 11 days. She books into a hotel as Mrs. Neele. Fiction: A US reporter looks for her and investigates. | 1979 | Michael Apted | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.3 (3.1K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| American SplendorAn original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar. | 2003 | Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini | Biography, Comedy, Drama | 7.4 (49.4K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Angel at My Table, AnJanet Frame was a brilliant child who, as a teen, was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. Explore Janet's discovery of the world and her life in Europe as her books are published to acclaim. | 1990 | Jane Campion (*) | Biography, Drama | 7.5 (7.7K votes) | 158 | 20220414 |
| Angela's AshesBased on the best-selling autobiography by Irish expatriate Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Lime | 1999 | Alan Parker | Biography, Drama | 7.3 (21.6K votes) | 145 | 20211228 |
| Anton Chekhov 1890 [Anton Tchékhov 1890]In 1890,Russian writer Anton Chekov writes short stories in newspapers to feed his family. He achieves success in the form of Pushkin prize. However, he decides to meet convicts at Sakhalin when one of this brothers die due to tub... | 2015 | René Féret | Biography, Drama, History | 6.3 (270 votes) | 96 | 20221116 |
| Aspern Papers, TheA young writer tries to obtain romance letters a poet sent to his mistress. | 2018 | Julien Landais | Drama | 4.5 (736 votes) | 90 | 20220822 |
| BarflyBased on the life of successful poet Charles Bukowski and his exploits in Hollywood during the 60s, 70s, and 80s. | 1987 | Barbet Schroeder | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.2 (19.9K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Barretts of Wimpole Street, TheElizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning. | 1934 | Sidney Franklin | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (1.9K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Barretts of Wimpole Street, TheElizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning. | 1957 | Sidney Franklin | Biography, Drama, History, Romance | 6.5 (502 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Basketball Diaries, TheA teenager finds his dreams of becoming a basketball star threatened after he free falls into the harrowing world of drug addiction. | 1995 | Scott Kalvert | Biography, Crime, Drama, Sport | 7.3 (118.8K votes) | 102 | 20231207 |
| BeatThe story of writer William Seward Burroughs and his wife. | 2000 | Gary Walkow | Drama | 5.6 (1.5K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Beaumarchais the Scoundrel [Beaumarchais l'insolent]The life story of the titular Beaumarchais, playwright and adventurer, who gets himself into numerous different scrapes and romantic encounters in 18th Century France. | 1996 | Édouard Molinaro | Adventure, Comedy, History, Romance | 6.8 (1.3K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Becoming Astrid [Unga Astrid]Biopic of Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, the author of numerous children's books and creator of Pippi Longstocking. | 2018 | Pernille Fischer Christensen | Biography, Drama | 7.1 (6.4K votes) | 123 | 20220822 |
| Becoming ColetteAt the turn of the century, Henri Gauthier-Villars, a notorious bachelor, marries the young country girl Gabrielle Colette and introduces her to debauched Parisian life. Gabrielle keeps a diary of all her experiences, which Villars, | 1991 | Danny Huston | Biography, Drama | 5.5 (263 votes) | 97 | 20220315 |
| Becoming JaneA biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman. | 2007 | Julian Jarrold | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (60.7K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Before Night FallsThe life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas. | 2000 | Julian Schnabel | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.2 (24.9K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| Beloved InfidelToward the end of his life, F. Scott Fitzgerald is writing for Hollywood studios to be able to afford the cost of an asylum for his wife. He is also struggling against alcoholism. Into his life comes the famous gossip columnist. | 1959 | Henry King | Biography, Drama, Romance | 6.1 (1.1K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| Beloved RogueFrançois Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot. | 1927 | Alan Crosland | Adventure, Drama, History, Romance | 6.9 (770 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Beloved Sisters [Die geliebten Schwestern]The 18th century literary genius Friedrich Schiller falls in love with the sisters Charlotte and Caroline von Lengefeld. After a passionate summer together in a menage a trois, jealousy and rivalry endanger their union. | 2014 | Dominik Graf | Drama, History, Romance | 6.1 (1.5K votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
| Beyond Good and Evil [Al di là del bene e del male]The life and ideas of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. A love triangle unfolds as Nietzsche and his best friend decides to live with a Jewish woman. According to Nietzsche's philosophy, that is beyond all morality. Depicti | 1977 | Liliana Cavani | Biography, Drama | 6.3 (439 votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Black ButterfliesIn Apartheid-torn South Africa, poet Ingrid Jonker (Carice van Houten) struggles tragically in search of love and a sense of home. | 2011 | Paula van der Oest | Biography, Drama | 6.1 (2.1K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Brain on FireA young, capable professional cannot explain her newly erratic behavior. | 2016 | Gerard Barrett | Biography, Drama | 6.6 (21.1K votes) | 88 | 20220415 |
| Bright StarThe three-year romance between 19th-century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne near the end of his life. | 2009 | Jane Campion (*) | Biography, Drama, Romance | 6.9 (26.7K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Bronte Sisters, The [Les soeurs Brontë]In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations. | 1979 | André Téchiné | Biography, Drama, History | 6.5 (1.1K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Brothers Grimm, TheWill and Jake Grimm are traveling con-artists who encounter a genuine fairy-tale curse which requires true courage instead of their usual bogus exorcisms. | 2005 | Terry Gilliam (*) | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 5.9 (124.3K votes) | 118 | 20230806 |
| ByronFollowing the success of his poem ""Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"", Byron becomes the toast of London. | 2003 | Julian Farino | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (1.1K votes) | 147 | 20240228 |
| CapoteIn 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on dea | 2005 | Bennett Miller | Biography, Crime, Drama, History | 7.3 (130.6K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| CarringtonThe platonic relationship between artist Dora Carrington (Dame Emma Thompson) and writer Lytton Strachey (Jonathan Pryce) in the early twentieth century. | 1995 | Christopher Hampton | Biography, Drama, Romance | 6.8 (5.4K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| CélesteIn 1914, with men gone to war, Marcel Proust hired Céleste Albaret as his attendant. More than eight years later, she was at his side when he died. During this entire time, she only entered his room when he rang for her, sleeping fro | 1980 | Percy Adlon | Biography, Drama, History | 6.7 (231 votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Cezanne et MoiThe parallel paths of the lives, careers and passionate friendship of post-impressionist painter Paul Cezanne and novelist Emile Zola. Both left their hometown to conquer the art scene in Paris. | 2016 | Danièle Thompson | Biography, Drama | 6.0 (1.3K votes) | 117 | 20220415 |
| Chatterley Affair, TheThe trial, under The Obscene Publications Act, of the publishers of D.H. Lawrence's 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'in 1960 was a sensation that consumed the nation. The movie follows two fictional jurors, Helena and Keith, who become passi | 2006 | James Hawes | Drama, Romance | 7.3 (445 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Childhood of Maxim Gorky, The [Detstvo Gorkogo]A drama reveals the great writer's inauspicious early years as an orphan raised by conniving relatives. | 1938 | Mark Donskoy | Biography, Drama | 7.2 (705 votes) | 98 | 20220414 |
| Children of the Century, The [Les enfants du siècle]A story of doomed passion between two genius writers of the 19th century - novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset. | 1999 | Diane Kurys | Biography, Drama, Romance | 6.4 (1.8K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Christopher and His KindHow real-life British-American author Christopher Isherwood and his German boyfriend Heinz met and fell in love during the 1930s and the rise of Nazism. | 2011 | Geoffrey Sax | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (4.3K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| ColetteColette is pushed by her husband to write novels under his name. Upon their success, she fights to make her talents known, challenging gender norms. | 2018 | Wash Westmoreland | Biography, Drama, History, Romance | 6.8 (22.2K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Color of Pomegranates, The [Sayat Nova]A surreal biopic of Armenian poet Sayat Nova, told via non-narrative amalgamations of images, hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov. | 1969 | Sergei Parajanov (*) | Biography, Drama, History, Music | 7.7 (10.3K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Coming ThroughCelebrated actor and actress Sir Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet) and Dame Helen Mirren (Prime Suspect) star in this movie by award-winning playwright Alan Plater about one of the great love affairs and greatest scandals of the twentieth cen | 1988 | Peter Barber-Fleming | Drama, Romance | 6.1 (171 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Cross CreekIn the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editor and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American li... | 1983 | Martin Ritt (*) | Biography, Drama, Romance | 6.9 (2K votes) | 127 | 20240419 |
| Cyrano, My Love [Edmond]December 1897, Paris. Edmond Rostand is not yet thirty but already two children and a lot of anxieties. He has not written anything for two years. In desperation, he offers the great Constant Coquelin a new play, a heroic comedy, ... | 2018 | Alexis Michalik | Comedy, Drama, History, Romance | 7.3 (3K votes) | 110 | 20220822 |
| Dance FirstMany parts of the literary Samuel Beckett giant's life: Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband and recluse. | 2023 | James Marsh | Biography, Drama | 6.1 (473 votes) | 100 | 20240820 |
| Dangerous BeautyA Venetian courtesan becomes a hero to her city, but later becomes the target of an inquisition by the Church for witchcraft. | 1998 | Marshall Herskovitz | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.2 (17.3K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Dash and LillyBiographical look at the bombastic love affair that writers Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman shared in 1940 and 50's Hollywood. Refusing to marry, but deeply in love, the two engaged in many affairs and battled the bottle. Das... | 1999 | Kathy Bates | Drama | 6.6 (336 votes) | 100 | 20231001 |
| Day of Despair, The [O Dia do Desespero]Portrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco. | 1992 | Manoel de Oliveira (*) | Biography, Drama | 6.7 (200 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Death in Granada [The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca]A journalist starts an investigation into the disappearance of famed poet and political agitator, Garcia Lorca, who disappeared in the early days of the Spanish Civil War in the the 1930's. | 1996 | Marcos Zurinaga | Biography, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.1 (1K votes) | 114 | 20240511 |
| Decameron NightsThe main story combines bits of Giovanni Boccaccio's own life (maybe and maybe not) with three of his most fabulous stories of love. It has Boccaccio following Fiametta to a country villa where she and five other women---The Contessa | 1953 | Hugo Fregonese | Drama, Adventure, Romance | 5.4 (271 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| DevotionGenius authors Emily and Charlotte Bronte fall in love with their curate as they seek to get their work published. | 1946 | Curtis Bernhardt | Biography, Drama | 6.6 (926 votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Diary of Anne Frank, TheDuring World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. | 1959 | George Stevens (*) | Biography, Drama, Family, History, War | 7.4 (12.6K votes) | 180 | 20211228 |
| Diving Bell and the Butterfly, TheThe true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn't paralyzed. | 2007 | Julian Schnabel | Biography, Drama | 8.0 (106.5K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| DovlatovThe film actions unfold in 1971, telling about the four days of life of famous writer Sergei Dovlatov. The film raises the eternal issue of the Russian and European culture - the issue of moral choice. | 2018 | Aleksey German Jr. | Biography, Drama | 6.4 (2K votes) | 126 | 20220822 |
| DreamchildIan Holm is children's author Lewis Carroll in this poignant fantasy-drama set in 1930s New York and populated by the fabulous special effects creatures of Muppet master Jim Henson. In HD. | 1985 | Gavin Millar | Biography, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 6.8 (1.6K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Dreamer of Oz, TheThe film is the biography of Frank Baum, the children's book author and creator of the fantasy world Oz. | 1990 | Jack Bender | Biography, Drama, Family, Fantasy | 7.2 (592 votes) | 100 | 20240630 |
| Dumas [L'autre Dumas]When Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet, his ghostwriter, are at the summit of their collaboration, Auguste decides to pass himself off as Alexandre in order to seduce Charlotte, a fervent admirer of the great man. | 2010 | Safy Nebbou | Comedy, Drama, History | 6.3 (668 votes) | 105 | 20230328 |
| Edge Of Love, TheTwo feisty, free-spirited women are connected by the brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both. | 2008 | John Maybury | Biography, Drama, Romance, War | 6.2 (17.5K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| End of the Tour, TheThe story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.' | 2015 | James Ponsoldt | Biography, Drama | 7.3 (30K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| FactotumThis drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along t | 2005 | Bent Hamer | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.6 (14.3K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Farewell, The [Abschied – Brechts letzter Sommer]It is one of the last days of an exceptionally hot summer in 1956. Bertolt Brecht (Bierbichler) is about to leave his lakeside house among the tall birches in Brandenburg to return to Berlin for the upcoming theater season. Most of t | 2000 | Jan Schütte | Biography, Comedy, Drama | 6.2 (185 votes) | 97 | 20220419 |
| Fear And Loathing In Las VegasAn oddball journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel to Las Vegas for a series of psychedelic escapades. | 1998 | Terry Gilliam (*) | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 7.6 (272.7K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Finding NeverlandThe story of Sir J.M. Barrie's friendship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan. | 2004 | Marc Forster | Biography, Drama, Family | 7.6 (203.7K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Freethinker, The [Fritänkaren]a 274-minute documentary portrait of the life of playwright August Strindberg. The topic of the movie is inextricable from its method of production: for two years, beginning in 1992, Watkins created the film in a communal collaborati | 1994 | Peter Watkins (*) | Biography, Drama | 7.5 (86 votes) | 276 | 20211228 |
| Friedrich Schiller - Eine DichterjugendDespite his wish to become a pastor, Friedrich Schiller is ordered to join a military school. There, he begins to write poetry... | 1923 | Curt Goetz | Biography, Comedy, Drama | 5.9 (63 votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| GeniusA chronicle of Max Perkins's time as the book editor at Scribner, where he oversaw works by Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others. | 2016 | Michael Grandage | Biography, Drama | 6.6 (19.2K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Girl, InterruptedBased on writer Susanna Kaysen's account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the late 1960s. | 1999 | James Mangold | Biography, Drama | 7.3 (177.5K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| GoldeneyeFact-based biography of James Bond author, Ian Fleming. The film focuses on his wartime exploits and romantic adventures which ultimately led to his creation of the super-spy. | 1989 | Don Boyd | Biography | 6.4 (416 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Goodbye Christopher RobinThe relationship between writer AA Milne and his son, Christopher Robin, and how this became the inspiration for Winnie the Pooh. | 2017 | Simon Curtis | Biography, Drama, Family | 7.1 (26.7K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Gorky 3 - My Universities [Moi universitety]The last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy's Maxim Gorky trilogy. Having endured a painful youth in Detstvo Gorkogo (1938) and a torturous sojourn as a serf in My Apprenticeship, future writer Maxim Gorky reaches maturity | 1940 | Mark Donskoy | Biography, Drama | 6.5 (202 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| GothicThe Shelleys visit Lord Byron and compete to write a horror story. | 1986 | Ken Russell (*) | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery | 5.7 (7.8K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, TheIn the aftermath of World War II, a writer forms an unexpected bond with the residents of Guernsey Island when she decides to write a book about their experiences during the war. | 2018 | Mike Newell (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 7.4 (43K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Guy de MaupassantThe life and times of the famous French writer Guy de Maupassant. | 1982 | Michel Drach | Biography, Drama, Romance | 5.6 (151 votes) | 131 | 20231013 |
| HammettFictional account of real-life mystery writer Dashiell Hammett, and his involvement in the investigation of a beautiful Chinese cabaret actress' mysterious disappearance in San Francisco. | 1982 | Wim Wenders (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 6.5 (3.2K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| HamsunNorwegian Nobel Laureate Knut Hamsun's controversial support for the Nazi regime during WW2 and its consequences for the Hamsun family after the war. | 1996 | Jan Troell | Biography, Drama, War | 7.1 (1.6K votes) | 159 | 20211228 |
| Hans Christian AndersenThe opening scene of the movie describes it best: "Once upon a time there lived in Denmark a great storyteller named Hans Christian Andersen. This is not the story of his life, but a fairy tale about the great spinner of fairy tales. | 1952 | Charles Vidor (*) | Biography, Family, Musical, Romance | 6.9 (3.8K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Happy Prince, TheThe untold story of the last days in the tragic times of Oscar Wilde, a person who observes his own failure with ironic distance and regards the difficulties that beset his life with detachment and humor. | 2018 | Rupert Everett | Biography, Drama | 6.3 (5.1K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Haunted SummerIn 1815, authors Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley get together for some philosophical discussions, but the situation soon deteriorates into mind games, drugs and sex. | 1988 | Ivan Passer | Biography, Drama, Romance | 5.7 (530 votes) | 106 | 20220822 |
| Heart BeatThe life and friendship between the icons of the Beat Generation - Neal Cassady, Carolyn Cassady and Jack Kerouac. | 1980 | John Byrum | Drama | 5.8 (676 votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Hella WThe life of a heroine. The life and work of Hella Wuolijoki. A poet, spy and millionaire, she turned into an internationally acclaimed businesswoman, politician and playwright, who collaborated with Europe's leading writers such as B | 2011 | Juha Wuolijoki | Biography, Drama, History, War | 5.3 (361 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Hemingway and GellhornA drama centered on the romance between Ernest Hemingway and World War II correspondent Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway's inspiration for For Whom the Bell Tolls, and the only woman who ever asked for a divorce from the writer. | 2012 | Philip Kaufman (*) | Biography, Drama, Romance | 6.3 (9.5K votes) | 155 | 20211228 |
| Hemingway's Adventures of a Young ManAn immature young man from Middle America grows to manhood after a cross-country journey and his military service in World War I. | 1962 | Martin Ritt (*) | Adventure, Drama, War | 6.3 (613 votes) | 145 | 20211228 |
| Henry & JuneAnaïs Nin meets the American writer, Henry Miller, in Paris in 1931. She keeps a diary of her sexual awakening which includes Henry and his wife, June. | 1990 | Philip Kaufman (*) | Biography, Drama | 6.3 (13.1K votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| Hours, TheThe story of how the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" affects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives. | 2002 | Stephen Daldry | Drama, Romance | 7.5 (129.5K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| House of Death [Myortvyy dom]Some episodes in the life of Dostoevsky. The cardinal change in Dostoevsky's worldview, his coming from revolutionary ideas to the preaching of humility and mercy are demonstrated. | 1932 | Vasili Fyodorov | Biography, Drama | 6.2 (48 votes) | 91 | 20220822 |
| HowlAs Allen Ginsberg talks about his life and art, his most famous poem is illustrated in animation while the obscenity trial of the work is dramatized. | 2010 | Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman | Biography, Drama, Romance | 6.7 (12.9K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| I Shot Andy WarholThis is the story of Valerie Solanas who was a 60s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce. After many times of ignoring her, Valerie shot | 1996 | Mary Harron | Biography, Drama | 6.6 (6.7K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| I, the Worst of All [Yo, la peor de todas]A viceroy and an archbishop take their posts in Mexico. A local nun, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695), intrigues them. The viceroy and his wife find her brilliant and fascinating. The prelate finds her a symbol of European laxit | 1990 | María Luisa Bemberg | Drama | 7.0 (644 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| ImpromptuIn 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand. | 1991 | James Lapine | Biography, Comedy, Music, Romance | 6.9 (5K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| InfamousWhile researching his novel "In Cold Blood", Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith. | 2006 | Douglas McGrath | Biography, Crime, Drama | 7.0 (17.1K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Invisible Woman, TheAt the height of his career, Charles Dickens meets a younger woman who becomes his secret lover until his death. | 2013 | Ralph Fiennes | Biography, Drama, History, Romance | 6.2 (9.8K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| IrisTrue story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease. | 2001 | Richard Eyre | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (18K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Isn't She GreatBette Midler and Nathan Lane star in this comedy about Jacqueline Susann, the ambitious woman of dubious talent who wrote Valley of the Dolls, a best-selling novel that became a sensation. | 2000 | Andrew Bergman | Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance | 5.3 (2.5K votes) | 95 | 20231101 |
| Jack LondonEpisodes in the adventurous life of the American novelist (1876-1916). | 1943 | Alfred Santell | Adventure, Biography, War | 5.2 (371 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| James Joyce's WomenIn this tribute to James Joyce, Fionnula Flanagan gives a tour-de-force performance as a half-dozen or so women in Joyce's real and fictional worlds. When she portrays his wife Nora remembering their time together, Flanagan captures | 1985 | Michael Pearce | Drama | 6.2 (147 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| JuliaAt the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany. | 1977 | Fred Zinnemann (*) | Drama | 7.2 (9.4K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Julie & JuliaJulia Child's story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell's 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child's first book. | 2009 | Nora Ephron | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (125.7K votes) | 123 | 20230830 |
| KafkaKafka works during the day at an insurance company, where events lead him to discover a mysterious underground society with strange suppressive goals. | 1991 | Steven Soderbergh (*) | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.9 (9.9K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| KangarooA mild-mannered English conscientious objector moves to what he feels will be the relative calm of Australia after World War I, but gets caught in the middle of violent battles between the rising trade unions and fascist groups. | 1986 | Tim Burstall | Drama | 6.3 (260 votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Karl MayThis ethereal, three-hour biopic is the middle film in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's "German Trilogy" on the mythological foundations of the Third Reich. | 1974 | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Biography, Drama, History | 6.9 (152 votes) | 187 | 20211228 |
| Keeper, The - The Legend Of Omar KhayyamKamran is a 12 year old boy in the present day who discovers that his ancestor is the 11th Century Mathematician, Astronomer, Poet of Persia, Omar Khayyam. The story has been passed down in his family from one generation to another, | 2005 | Kayvan Mashayekh | Adventure, Drama, Family | 6.5 (766 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Kill Your DarlingsA murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs. | 2013 | John Krokidas | Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.5 (37.4K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Lady Caroline LambA noblewoman doomed to a loveless marriage falls into a scandalous affair with the dashing Lord Byron. | 1972 | Robert Bolt | Drama, History, Romance | 5.5 (492 votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| Last CallRenowned writer F. Scott Fitzgerald is living the last months of his life with his youthful secretary, confidant and protege who later wrote a memoir of their time together. | 2002 | Henry Bromell | Biography, Drama | 6.4 (842 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Last Station, TheA historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's (Christopher Plummer's) struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things. | 2009 | Michael Hoffman | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (18.4K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Last Time I Committed Suicide, TheIn 1946 Denver, an aspiring writer who enjoys irresponsible adventures with his friend writes a letter about his life before and after the suicide attempt by his sad, commitment-seeking girlfriend. | 1997 | Stephen Kay | Biography, Drama, Romance | 5.5 (2.4K votes) | 92 | 20230728 |
| Leopardi [Il Giovane Favoloso]Based upon the short but fruitful life of illness-racked Italian poet and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi. | 2014 | Mario Martone | Biography, Drama, History | 6.7 (2.8K votes) | 143 | 20211228 |
| Les amants du Flore [Sartre & de Beauvoir]Biographical film about French writers Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre and their relationship. | 2006 | Ilan Duran Cohen | Biography, Drama | 6.6 (577 votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Libertine, TheThe story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work. | 2004 | Laurence Dunmore | Biography, Drama, History, Romance | 6.3 (35.9K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Life of Emile Zola, TheThe biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfus Affair. | 1937 | William Dieterle (*) | Biography, Drama | 7.2 (8K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| The Lost BoysThe story of J.M. Barrie and his relationship with the Llewelyn-Davies family. Barrie writes PETER PAN for the five boys, and later adopts George, Jack, Peter, Michael, and Nicholas. | 1978 | Rodney Bennett | Biography, Drama | 8.0 (124 votes) | 270 | 20231112 |
| Lost Illusions [Illusions perdues]Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, he learns the dark side of the arts business as he tries to stay true to his dreams. | 2021 | Xavier Giannoli | Drama, Romance | 7.4 (5.8K votes) | 149 | 20231116 |
| Lost ZweigThe life of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig in Brazil. He wrote the famous book ""Brasil, País do Futuro"" (Brazil, Country of the Future). He and his wife Lotte, in a mysterious death pact, decided to kill themselves in the week follo... | 2002 | Sylvio Back | Drama | 6.6 (76 votes) | 113 | 20240511 |
| Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to be FreeBorn 1861, Lou Andreas Salomé shuns tradition in pursuit of intellectual perfection, inflaming the hearts and minds of the 19th century's greatest thinkers, including Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Sigmund Freud. | 2016 | Cordula Kablitz-Post | Biography, Drama, History, Romance | 6.6 (554 votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Loves of Edgar Allan Poe, TheEdgar Allan Poe led an unhappy childhood, broken only by the unceasing devotion of his foster mother, Mrs. Frances Allan, whose loving ministrations gave him courage to carry out his desire to write. His first love was Elmira Royster | 1942 | Harry Lachman | Biography, Drama | 5.6 (214 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Mad Love [Amour Fou]Berlin, the Romantic Era. Young poet Heinrich wishes to conquer the inevitability of death through love, yet is unable to convince his skeptical cousin Marie to join him in a suicide pact. It is whilst coming to terms with this re... | 2014 | Jessica Hausner | Comedy, Drama | 6.4 (1.7K votes) | 96 | 20231101 |
| Man Who Invented Christmas, TheThe journey that led to Charles Dickens' creation of "A Christmas Carol," a timeless tale that would redefine Christmas. | 2017 | Bharat Nalluri | Biography, Comedy, Drama | 7.0 (15.8K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Marcel Proust's Time Regained [Le temps retrouvé, d'après l'oeuvre de Marcel Proust]A lush, elegant epic taking us on a time-swirling trip down the infinitely complex labyrinth that is Marcel Proust's memory lane. | 1999 | Raúl Ruiz | Drama, Romance, War | 6.8 (2.5K votes) | 169 | 20211228 |
| Mary ShelleyLife and facts of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who at 16 met 21 year old poet Percy Shelley, resulting in the writing of Frankenstein. | 2017 | Haifaa Al-Mansour | Biography, Drama, History, Romance | 6.5 (14.9K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Mishima - A Life In Four ChaptersA fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima. | 1985 | Paul Schrader (*) | Biography, Drama | 8.0 (10.9K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Miss Austen RegretsIn the later years of her life, as she's approaching the age of forty, the novelist Jane Austen helps her niece find a husband. | 2007 | Jeremy Lovering | Biography, Drama, History, Romance | 7.1 (3.3K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Miss PotterThe story of Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved and best-selling children's book, "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", and her struggle for love, happiness, and success. | 2006 | Chris Noonan | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (29.3K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| MoliereWho was Moliere? He is known everywhere as one of the world's greatest playwrights. But who was he? Born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin in 1622, the son of a prosperous tapestry maker. His mother died when he was a boy. Growing up in the tee | 1978 | Ariane Mnouchkine | Biography, Drama, History | 7.6 (810 votes) | 260 | 20211228 |
| MoliereTo satisfy his creditors, a witty actor reinvents himself as a satirical playwright, with uproarious, yet bittersweet, results. | 2007 | Laurent Tirard | Biography, Comedy | 7.2 (6.2K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Mrs. Parker and the Vicious CircleDorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair. | 1994 | Alan Rudolph | Biography, Drama | 6.4 (4.5K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| My Boy JackAuthor Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 18-year-old son after he goes missing during World War I. | 2007 | Brian Kirk | Biography, Drama, History, War | 7.1 (5.6K votes) | 95 | 20240407 |
| My Brilliant CareerA proud young woman in early 20th century Australia must choose between marriage and independence. | 1979 | Gillian Armstrong | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.2 (4.2K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| My Heart Is Mine Alone [Mein Herz - Niemandem!]The life of Jewish Expressionist poet and performance artist, Else Lasker-Schüler (1869-1945), told chronologically in vignettes given context by archival footage of turn-of-the-century Germany, World War I, and the ascent of the Thi | 1997 | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Biography, Drama | 5.8 (24 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| My Left FootChristy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot. | 1989 | Jim Sheridan (*) | Biography, Drama | 7.9 (72.5K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| My Life and Times with Antonin Artaud [En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud]May, 1946, in Paris young poet Jacques Prevel meets Antonin Artaud, the actor, artist and writer just released from a mental asylum. Over ten months, we follow the mad Artaud from his cruel coaching of an actress in his ""theatre o... | 1993 | Gérard Mordillat | Biography, Drama | 6.9 (164 votes) | 90 | 20240323 |
| NellyInspired by the life and works of Nelly Arcan, a sex worker turned international literary star, lost between irreconcilable identities, whose life ended tragically. | 2016 | Anne Émond | Biography, Drama | 5.7 (496 votes) | 100 | 20220415 |
| NerudaAn inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party. | 2016 | Pablo Larraín | Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller | 6.8 (10.2K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| NoraDublin, 1904, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, uninhibited manner, and before long, he's convinced her to come with him to Trieste. | 2000 | Pat Murphy | Biography, Drama | 6.0 (1.7K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Old GringoWhen school teacher Harriet Winslow goes to Mexico to teach, she is kidnapped by Gen. Tomas Arroyo and his revolutionaries. An aging American, Ambrose "Old Gringo" Bierce also in Mexico, befriends Gen. Arroyo and meets Harriet. Bierc | 1989 | Luis Puenzo (*) | Adventure, History, Romance | 5.8 (2K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| On His Own [V lyudyakh]For the family really no money, Alexei began to make a living. Everything was limited to dirty chores, but while reading could end his depression. After hard working experience, he was determined to Kazan in the passion of being a st | 1939 | Mark Donskoy | Biography, Drama | 6.9 (247 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| On The RoadYoung writer Sal Paradise has his life shaken by the arrival of free-spirited Dean Moriarty and his girl, Marylou. As they travel across the country, they encounter a mix of people who each impact their journey indelibly. | 2012 | Walter Salles | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 6.0 (41.9K votes) | 124 | 20220822 |
| OscarBiography of Irish writer Oscar Wilde. | 1985 | Henry Herbert | Biography, Drama, History | 6.9 (44 votes) | 0 | 20231017 |
| Out of AfricaIn 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter. | 1985 | Sydney Pollack (*) | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.2 (77.6K votes) | 161 | 20211228 |
| Outlaw, The [Lope]A chronicle of the life of Lope de Vega, the Spanish playwright who dominated Spain's early Golden Age of theater. | 2010 | Andrucha Waddington | Biography, Drama, History | 6.1 (1.1K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| PandaemoniumFriendship and betrayal between two poets during the French Revolution. | 2000 | Julien Temple | Biography, Drama | 6.4 (847 votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Papa Hemingway In CubaIn 1959, a young journalist ventures to Havana, Cuba to meet his idol, the legendary Ernest Hemingway who helped him find his literary voice, while the Cuban Revolution comes to a boil around them. | 2015 | Bob Yari | Biography, Drama | 6.3 (1.5K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| PasoliniA kaleidoscopic look at the last day of Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975. | 2014 | Abel Ferrara | Biography, Drama | 5.9 (3.9K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Poet in New York, AA look at Welsh poet Dylan Thomas's fatal visit to New York City, and his stormy relationship with his wife Caitlin. | 2014 | Aisling Walsh | Biography, Drama | 6.8 (262 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, AStephen Dedalus is a young man growing up in Ireland in the early part of the twentieth century. His search for knowledge and understanding, and the decline of his family's circumstances, lead him to revelations on the nature of art | 1977 | Joseph Strick | Drama | 6.3 (212 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Postcards from America [Post Cards from America]In the midst of the AIDS crisis, a young man from the suburbs moves to the big city of New York and ends up working as a hustler. | 1994 | Steve McLean | Drama | 5.9 (256 votes) | 92 | 20230806 |
| Postman, The [Il postino]A simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet, and then uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice. | 1994 | Michael Radford, Massimo Troisi | Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.7 (35.7K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Prick Up Your EarsBiographer John Lahr is writing a book about playwright Joe Orton. Joe and Kenneth meet at drama school and live together for ten years as lovers and collaborators. Both want to be writers, but only one of them is successful. | 1987 | Stephen Frears (*) | Biography, Drama | 7.3 (6K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Priest of LoveFollowing the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow", D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they return to England for a short time, then to | 1981 | Christopher Miles | Biography, Drama, Romance | 6.3 (373 votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Queen of the DesertA chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century. | 2015 | Werner Herzog (*) | Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance | 5.7 (11.4K votes) | 128 | 20220415 |
| Quiet Days in Clichy [Jours Tranquilles a Clichy]Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris. | 1990 | Claude Chabrol (*) | Drama | 4.8 (653 votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Quiet Passion, AThe story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist. | 2016 | Terence Davies (*) | Biography, Drama | 6.5 (5.6K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| QuillsIn a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor. | 2000 | Philip Kaufman (*) | Biography, Drama | 7.3 (53.5K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Rebel in the RyeThe life of celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel, "The Catcher in the Rye". | 2017 | Danny Strong | Biography, Drama, Romance, War | 6.6 (9.6K votes) | 106 | 20220415 |
| River Runs Through It, ATwo sons of a stern minister - one reserved, one rebellious - grow up in rural 1920s Montana while devoted to fly fishing. | 1992 | Robert Redford (*) | Drama | 7.2 (58K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| Rowing with the Wind [Remando al viento]Lord Byron, poet Percy Shelley, his future wife, Mary Shelley (writing Frankenstein) and others spend the summer of 1816 together. | 1988 | Gonzalo Suárez | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance | 5.7 (1.1K votes) | 105 | 20221116 |
| Rum Diary, TheAmerican journalist Paul Kemp takes on a freelance job in Puerto Rico for a local newspaper during the 1960s and struggles to find a balance between island culture and the expatriates who live there. | 2011 | Bruce Robinson | Comedy, Drama | 6.2 (101.5K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| SadeA man prepares himself to be transferred to a detention center and rest home where he will relive one more time the highlights of his youth. | 2000 | Benoît Jacquot | Biography, Crime, Drama, History | 6.2 (1.7K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Saint-ExPoetic biography of author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. | 1996 | Anand Tucker | Biography, Drama, Fantasy | 5.1 (221 votes) | 82 | 20231013 |
| Saving Mr BanksAuthor P.L. Travers reflects on her childhood after reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen. | 2013 | John Lee Hancock | Biography, Comedy, Drama | 7.5 (158.7K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Secret Life of Ian Fleming, TheIan Fleming's life (1908-64) as journalist and naval intelligence officer was a lot like the womanizing James Bond, he would later write 12 spy novels about. | 1990 | Ferdinand Fairfax | Adventure, Biography, War | 6.3 (614 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton, TheIn 19th century Victorian England, Mrs. Isabella Beeton produced what became an essential book for housewives of the day. She was married at a relatively young age to Sam Beeton, a publisher of books and magazines on a variety of ... | 2006 | Jon Jones | Biography | 7.3 (334 votes) | 85 | 20240715 |
| Set Fire to the StarsAn aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hell-raising hero, Dylan Thomas. | 2014 | Andy Goddard | Biography, Drama | 5.8 (1.4K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| ShadowlandsNoted author and scholar finds love, then must endure its loss... | 1986 | Norman Stone | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.5 (543 votes) | 92 | 20220723 |
| ShadowlandsC.S. Lewis, a world-renowned Christian theologian, writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham from the U.S. | 1993 | Richard Attenborough (*) | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.3 (18.6K votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| Shakespeare in LoveThe world's greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays. | 1998 | John Madden | Comedy, Drama, History, Romance | 7.1 (221.3K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| Soldier's Daughter Never Cries, AThis fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotionless slice-of-life story. Jones here is portrayed as Bill Willis, a former war hero and now successful author who obviously drinks too much and is | 1998 | James Ivory (*) | Drama | 6.8 (2.4K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe, ThePoe's fiance, Lenore, falls into a coma and is taken for dead. She is rescued at the last possible moment from being buried alive, but the experience has driven her insane. On the advice of his friend, Dr. Forrest, Poe commits Lenore | 1974 | Mohy Quandour | Drama, Horror | 5.7 (106 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Stefan Zweig - Farewell to EuropeBefore Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" toward the events in war torn Europe, and his search for a new home. | 2016 | Maria Schrader | Biography, Drama, History | 6.7 (2.3K votes) | 106 | 20220415 |
| StevieThis biographical film has Glenda Jackson portraying a British poet with emotional problems. | 1978 | Robert Enders | Biography, Drama | 6.9 (545 votes) | 102 | 20240622 |
| SylviaStory of the relationship between poets Edward James "Ted" Hughes (Daniel Craig) and Sylvia Plath (Gwyneth Paltrow). | 2003 | Christine Jeffs | Biography, Drama, Romance | 6.3 (10.8K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Testament of YouthA British woman recalls coming of age during World War I - a story of young love, the futility of war, and how to make sense of the darkest times. | 2014 | James Kent | Biography, Drama, History, War | 7.3 (28.3K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| That Night in Varennes [La Nuit De Varennes]During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps. | 1982 | Ettore Scola | Drama, History | 7.3 (2.2K votes) | 150 | 20211228 |
| This Boy's LifeThe story about the relationship between a rebellious 1950s teenager and his abusive stepfather, based on the memoirs of writer and literature Professor Tobias Wolff. | 1993 | Michael Caton-Jones | Biography, Drama | 7.3 (58.3K votes) | 115 | 20240419 |
| To Walk Invisible The Bronte SistersA chronicle of the Brontë sisters' battle to overcome obstacles and publish their novels, which would become some of the greatest in the English language. | 2016 | Sally Wainwright | Biography, Drama, History | 7.4 (2.6K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| TolkienThe formative years of the orphaned author J.R.R. Tolkien as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school. | 2019 | Dome Karukoski | Biography, Drama, Romance, War | 6.8 (37.9K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Tom & VivIn 1915, Tom and Viv elope, but her gynecological and emotional problems disrupt their honeymoon. Her father is angry because Tom's poetry doesn't bring in enough to live, but her mother is happy Viv has found a tender and discreet h | 1994 | Brian Gilbert | Biography, Drama, Romance | 6.3 (1.7K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Total EclipseYoung, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle. | 1995 | Agnieszka Holland | Biography, Drama, Romance | 6.5 (16.3K votes) | 111 | 20230715 |
| Trials of Oscar Wilde, TheA chronicle of Oscar Wilde's libel suit against the Marquis of Queensberry and the tragic turn his life takes because of it. | 1960 | Ken Hughes | Biography, Drama, History | 7.1 (921 votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| TrumboIn 1947, Dalton Trumbo was Hollywood's top screenwriter, until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs. | 2015 | Jay Roach | Biography, Crime, Drama | 7.5 (80.1K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| VioletteViolette Leduc, born a bastard at the beginning of last century, meets Simone de Beauvoir in the years after the war in St-Germain-des-Prés. Then begins an intense relationship between the two women that will last throughout their li | 2013 | Martin Provost | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (2.1K votes) | 139 | 20211228 |
| Vita & VirginiaThe fascinating true story of the love affair between socialite and popular author Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf. | 2018 | Chanya Button | Biography, Drama, Romance | 5.8 (3.9K votes) | 110 | 20220822 |
| VoltaireWriter and philosopher Voltaire, loyal to his king, Louis XV of France, nonetheless writes scathingly of the king's disdain for the rights and needs of his people. Louis admires Voltaire but is increasingly influenced against him by | 1933 | John G. Adolfi | Drama | 6.5 (228 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Waste of Shame, A - The Mystery of Shakespeare and His SonnetsA mystery in Shakespeare's sonnets is explored. | 2005 | John McKay | Drama | 6.5 (257 votes) | 85 | 20231101 |
| Where the Buffalo RoamSemi-biographical film based on the experiences of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. | 1980 | Art Linson | Biography, Comedy | 6.5 (11.8K votes) | 99 | 20220414 |
| Whole Wide World, TheIn 1933 Texas, a schoolteacher and aspiring writer meets a pulp fiction writer, and a relationship soon develops between the two, but it is doomed by his slavishly devotion to his ailing mother and insistence on his freedom. | 1996 | Dan Ireland | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.1 (3.7K votes) | 111 | 20220723 |
| WildeThe turmoil in poet/playwright Oscar Wilde's life after he discovers his homosexuality. | 1997 | Brian Gilbert | Biography, Drama, Romance | 6.9 (16.9K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Wodehouse in ExileAn all-star cast heads up this intimate film about how author, P.G.Wodehouse, came to face a charge of treason during the Second World War and how this quintessential Englishman, creator of Jeeves and Wooster, became an exile from... | 2013 | Tim Fywell | Drama | 7.2 (355 votes) | 82 | 20240605 |
| Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, TheThe story of Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, and three of their stories... | 1962 | Henry Levin, George Pal | Animation, Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance | 6.3 (1.8K votes) | 135 | 20220731 |
| Young CassidyThe misadventures of a young idealist man in Dublin, Ireland in the early twentieth century. | 1965 | Jack Cardiff, John Ford | Biography, Drama | 6.5 (1.1K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Young Goethe in Love [Goethe!]After aspiring poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fails his law exams, he's sent to a sleepy provincial court to reform. Instead, he falls for Lotte, a young woman who is promised to another man. | 2010 | Philipp Stölzl | Biography, Romance | 6.6 (3.1K votes) | 102 | 20240407 |
| Young Karl Marx, The [Le jeune Karl Marx]The early years of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Jenny Marx, between Paris, Brussels and London. | 2017 | Raoul Peck | Biography, Drama, History | 6.6 (6.3K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| ZeldaFamous 1920s modernist US writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his eccentric Flapper socialite wife Zelda Sayre's relationship began quite passionately, but he slowly fell into alcoholism and she was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia | 1993 | Pat O'Connor | Biography, Drama | 6.0 (138 votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles' | 1974 | George Schaefer | Biography, Drama, Romance | 5.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood | 1975 | Anthony Page | Biography, Drama, Romance | 6.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Belle of Amherst | 1976 | Charles S. Dubin | Biography, Drama | 8.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Meteoro kai skia | 1985 | Takis Spetsiotis | Biography, Drama | 5.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Poslednyaya doroga | 1986 | Leonid Menaker | Biography, Drama, History, Romance | 5.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Waiting for the Moon | 1987 | Jill Godmilow | Drama | 6.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| American Playhouse: Zora Is My Name! | 1990 | Neema Barnette | Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi | 6.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Indecent Acts | 1995 | Will Parry | Biography | nan (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Nerolio | 1996 | Aurelio Grimaldi | Drama | 6.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Saint-Exupéry: La dernière mission | 1995 | Robert Enrico | Biography, Drama | 6.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Gambler | 1997 | Károly Makk | Biography, Drama, Romance | 6.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Passion of Ayn Rand | 1999 | Christopher Menaul | Biography, Drama, Romance | 5.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Balzac | 1999 | Josée Dayan | Biography, Drama, Romance | 6.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Die Braut | 1999 | Egon Günther | Biography, Drama | 4.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne | 2000 | nan | Horror, Sci-Fi, Adventure | 6.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Borstal Boy | 2000 | Peter Sheridan | Drama, Romance | 6.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Piñero | 2001 | Leon Ichaso | Biography, Drama | 6.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Road from Coorain | 2002 | Brendan Maher | Biography, Drama | 7.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Colette, une femme libre | 2004 | nan | Biography | 6.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures | 2004 | Richard Curson Smith | Drama | 6.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Hunger auf Leben | 2004 | Markus Imboden | Biography, Drama | 7.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Sartre, l'âge des passions | 2006 | nan | Biography | 7.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Jean de La Fontaine - Le défi | 2007 | Daniel Vigne | Biography, History | 4.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Daphne | 2007 | Clare Beavan | Biography, Drama, Romance | 6.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Sagan | 2008 | Diane Kurys | Biography | 6.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| La très excellente et divertissante histoire de François Rabelais | 2010 | Hervé Baslé | Drama | 6.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Enid | 2009 | James Hawes | Biography, Drama | 6.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Broken Tower | 2011 | James Franco | Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War | 4.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| A Tale of Love and Darkness | 2015 | Natalie Portman | Biography, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance, War | 6.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Florbela | 2012 | Vicente Alves do à | Biography, Drama | 6.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Magic Beyond Words: The J.K. Rowling Story | 2011 | Paul A. Kaufman | Biography, Drama | 6.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Leonie | 2010 | Hisako Matsui | Biography, Drama | 6.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Hemingway vs. Callaghan | 2003 | Michael DeCarlo | Biography, Drama | 6.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Klassikko | 2001 | Kari Väänänen | Comedy, Drama | 6.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Hemingway | 1988 | nan | Biography | 6.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway | 1989 | José MarÃa Sánchez | Drama | 7.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Fleming | 2014 | nan | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Boku to tsuma no 1778 no monogatari | 2011 | Mamoru Hoshi | Drama | 7.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Tagebuch der Geliebten | 1935 | Henry Koster | Drama, Romance | 5.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story | 1994 | Larry Peerce | Biography, Drama | 6.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Cervantes | 1967 | Vincent Sherman | Adventure, Biography, Drama, History | 5.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| D'Annunzio | 1987 | Sergio Nasca | Biography, Drama | 6.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Fallada - letztes Kapitel | 1988 | Roland Gräf | Biography | 6.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Friedrich Schiller - Der Triumph eines Genies | 1940 | Herbert Maisch | Drama | 7.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Mah e Mir | 2016 | Anjum Shahzad | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Flores raras | 2013 | Bruno Barreto | Biography, Drama, History, Romance | 7.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Una stagione all'inferno | 1971 | Nelo Risi | Biography, Drama | 6.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Screenplay: Boswell & Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles | 1993 | John Byrne | Drama | 6.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| HG Wells' War with the World | 2006 | James Kent | Biography, Drama | 5.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Letters from Baghdad | 2016 | Zeva Oelbaum, Sabine Krayenbühl | Documentary, Biography, History | 6.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Hazlitt in Love | 1977 | Michael Darlow | Biography, Drama, History, Romance | nan (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Z: The Beginning of Everything | 2015 | nan | Biography, Drama, History | 7.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| In Love and War | 1996 | Richard Attenborough | Biography, Drama, Romance, War | 5.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Last Good Country | 2013 | Aidan Brezonick | Short, Adventure, Biography, Drama | nan (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Life in Squares | 2015 | nan | Drama | 6.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Love School | 1975 | nan | Drama | 7.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Mary Shelley | 2004 | Guylaine Dionne | Documentary | 4.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Red Rose | 2004 | Robbie Moffat | Drama | 4.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Ãmile Zola ou La conscience humaine | 1978 | nan | Biography, Drama | 7.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Antonia. | 2015 | Ferdinando Cito Filomarino | Biography, Drama | 6.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Dnevnik ego zheny | 2000 | Aleksey Uchitel | Biography, Drama | 6.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Hemingway, the Hunter of Death | 2001 | Sergio Dow | Adventure, Drama | 5.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Portrait of a Marriage | 1990 | nan | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder | 1999 | Marcus Cole | Adventure, Biography, Family, Romance, Western | 6.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Kästner und der kleine Dienstag | 2016 | Wolfgang Murnberger | Biography, Drama, History | 7.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |