Literary agent movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant literary agent movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out humorous, realistic, independent film, captivating, melancholic and serious films and TV shows about / with literary agent, writers, book, writer's life, writing, friendship, novelist, kiss, love and romance and obsession plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as literary agent: Let Them All Talk (2020), The Agent (2008), A Thousand Words (2012), Welcome Home (2015), My Girlfriend's Boyfriend (2010), Vampire's Kiss (1988), A Novel Romance (2015), Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018), My Words, My Lies - My Love (2009), Love, Nina (2016).

List of literary agent movies

Let Them All Talk (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A celebrated author takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent.
Style: rom com, suspense, semi serious, satirical, funny ...
Plot: nephew, writers, literary agent, cruise, female friendship, ocean liner, ship, coming of age, friendship, aunt, secret revealed, writer's life ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: seattle, new york, cleveland ohio, dallas texas, wales
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 5.7
 81
The Agent (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: It's all in a day's work for high-flying literary agent Alexander; manuscripts to read, deals to be done, celebrity clients to be taken out to lunch, but first there is an author to deal with whose latest book the agent thinks is, frankly, ...
Style: dark comedy, satirical, cynical, twisted, black comedy
Audience: adult
Plot: literary agent, behind the scenes, negotiation, satire, ego, professional rivalry, manipulation, office politics, ambition, urban, celebrity culture, scheming ...
Time: 2000s
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A Thousand Words (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Jack McCall is a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has set his sights on New Age guru Dr. Sinja (Cliff Curtis) for his own selfish purposes. But Dr. Sinja is on to him, and Jack’s life comes unglued after a ...
Style: light, entertaining, humorous, touching, inspirational ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: life & death, guru, change of heart, liar, workplace, buddhist, life philosophy, family relations, life turned upside down, imaginary, communication problem, redemption ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
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 6.0
 336
Welcome Home (2015)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After a hugely successful debut novel, Stewart Paylor is supposed to be delivering chapters of his new book. Unbeknownst to everyone around him, including Cynthia, his literary agent/girlfriend, Stewart has writer’s block and has not written a ...
Style: emotional, captivating, dramatic, entertaining, realistic ...
Plot: writer's block, children, christian, literary agent, settler, deadline, homelessness, dysfunctional family, writer's life, best selling author, writers, family relations ...
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My Girlfriend's Boyfriend (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: When Ethan arrives at the airport just in time to declare his undying love for his girlfriend, love appears to have conquered all. The scene, however, is really the ending of Ethan's novel, which his agent calls "unrealistic." Ethan ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, indie film ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: fall in love, love triangle, writers, secret, brother sister relationship, siblings relations, family relations, couples, literary agent, male female relationship, dating, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, utah
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey in WWII.
Style: touching, romantic, sincere, uplifting, period piece ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: world war two, german occupation, writers, marriage proposal, letter, friendship, fiance fiancee relationship, nazi occupation, german soldier, strong female character, female writer, unwed mother ...
Time: 1940s, post world war two, year 1941, year 1946
Place: england, london
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 6.1
 24K
Vampire's Kiss (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A publishing executive is visited and bitten by a vampire and starts exhibiting erratic behavior. He pushes his secretary to extremes as he tries to come to terms with his affliction. The vampire continues to visit and drink his blood, and as his ...
Style: dark comedy, psychological, surreal, sexy, funny ...
Audience: date night
Plot: vampire, supernatural, mental illness, secretary, female vampire, psychiatrist, cockroach, nightclub, insanity, macabre, hallucination, yuppie ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, new jersey
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A Novel Romance (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Romance novelist Liam Bradley (Dylan Bruce) has already found massive success with three books written under the pen name Gabriel August, but he's mysteriously unknown to his legions of readers. With his first book written as a way to heal ...
Style: feel good, humorous, sweet, funny, light ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: happy ending, novelist, love, true love, false identity, loyalty, competition, male female relationship, journalism, promise, friendship, rivalry ...
Place: portland oregon, new york
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Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When bestselling celebrity biographer Lee Israel is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack.
Style: sad, tragicomedy, social, melancholic, period piece ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: forgery, cat, female protagonist, female writer, writers, lesbian, living alone, lgbt, accomplice, drinking, deception, letter ...
Time: future, 90s, year 2014, year 1939, year 1994 ...
Place: manhattan new york city, new york
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My Words, My Lies - My Love (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: David, a waiter, finds an unpublished manuscript in a dresser drawer. To impress a girl, he claims to be the author. When the novel becomes a best-seller the real author introduces himself in his life and begins to take-over David's life.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic
Audience: date night
Plot: novelist, rising to stardom, wooing, fall in love, overnight success, dishonesty, writer's life, love and romance, cons and scams, literary agent, monkey, plagiarism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe
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 7.2
 1K
Love, Nina (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: Twenty years old and from Leicester, Nina moves to North London in 1982, to care for the two young boys of a working single mother, George, the editor of a London literary review.
Style: light, ironic, sincere, humorous, retro ...
Plot: nanny, single mother, family relations, eccentric family, female protagonist, mischievous children, neighbor neighbor relationship, follow your dream, coming of age, everyday life, friendship, intimate ...
Time: 80s
Place: london
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 7.2
 69K
Wonder Boys (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Grady (Michael Douglas) is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years -- not since he wrote his award winning "Great American Novel" 7 years ago. This weekend proves even worse than he could imagine as he ...
Style: melancholic, talky, humorous, dark comedy, intellectual ...
Audience: date night
Plot: college, midlife crisis, professor, coming of age, adultery, divorce, mentor, gay relationship, college professor, teacher student relationship, university, alienation ...
Time: 20th century, y2k, year 2000, 90s, 2000s
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
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 7.0
 31K
Tenebrae (1982)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book.
Style: slasher, creepy, dark, scary, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, killer, lesbian, dog attack, gory, writers, blood, murder mystery, investigation, obsession, female nudity, voyeurism ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: rome italy, italy, rhode island, new york, new york state ...
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The Killing Floor (2007)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A literary agent moves into a penthouse apartment. Soon after the move, he receives crime scene photographs that seem to have taken place in his new apartment. Next he receives a series of stalker videotapes that document his every move.
Style: serious, suspenseful, psychological, scary, tense ...
Plot: danger, losing-it hero, home invasion, stalking, obsession, investigation, dangerous attraction, mentally unstable, dishonesty, vengeance, gory, serial killer ...
Place: new york
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 4.1
 508
Losing Control (1998)
Genre: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Kim is suffering from writer's block. A chance encounter with a handsome stranger opens her to a world of risky sexual experimentation. However, she becomes worried when he refuses to say anything about himself.
Style: erotic, sexy, slasher, sexual, detective ...
Audience: adult
Plot: erotica, female masturbation, rape turns to consensual sex, sex game, female nudity, exhibitionism, sex with a stranger, lesbian sex, sex, obsession, writers, lesbian cunnilingus ...
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Memories of Sherlock Holmes (2000)
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Detective television series based on the works of Arthur Conan Doyle. Five films about Sherlock Holmes, shot by Igor Maslennikov earlier, were remounted in 2000, a connecting story about Conan Doyle's literary secretary, Mr. Wood, who is ...
Style: detective, suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: sherlock holmes, investigation, writer's life, writers, uncover truth, murder investigation, crime solving, sleuth, accusation, crime investigation, literary, biopic ...
Time: victorian era, turn of the century
Place: london
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We Love You, Sally Carmichael! (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Readers across the world are in love with author Sally Carmichael's series of romance novels that chronicle the epic love story between a human girl and a merman. But no one knows that Sally Carmichael is really Simon Hayes, a bitter, serious ...
Style: captivating, light, entertaining, crying, romantic comedy
Plot: writers, love story, novelist, love and romance, writing a book, society, writer's life, merman, brother brother relationship, movie star, bookstore, anonymity ...
Place: utah, salt lake city utah
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 7.6
 361K
YOU (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: When a brilliant bookstore manager crosses paths with an aspiring writer, he uses the internet and social media to gather the most intimate of details and get close to her. A charming and awkward crush quickly becomes obsession as he quietly and ...
Style: tense, psychological thriller, disturbing, sexy, erotic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: fatal attraction, stalker, obsessive love, obsession, murder, psychopath, romantic obsession, obsessed fan, sex, social media, love affair, tragic love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, california, los angeles
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The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In 1843, Dickens was a literary rock star, but struggling financially after the slow sales of his previous novel, Martin Chuzzlewit. Seized with the vision of a story that would fire the hearts of humanity, Dickens pitched his publishers A Christmas ...
Style: costume drama, period piece, feel good, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: christmas, writers, charles dickens, victorian england, book, publisher, holiday, inspiration, father son relationship, debt, poverty, christmas carol ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, future, 1800s, year 1943
Place: turkey, england, new york, london
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 6.9
 2K
Betrayal (1983)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Pinter's semi-autobiographical play examining the surprise attraction, shy first steps, gradual flowering, and treasonous deception of a woman's extramarital affair with her husband's best friend; the entire story is told from the ...
Style: psychological, realistic, talky, captivating, tense ...
Plot: marital infidelity, love triangle, betrayal, unfulfillment, dishonesty, illicit affair, adultery, danger, infidelity, autobiography, friends, rivalry ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: england, europe, venice, london
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 6.9
 1K
Three Days (2001)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Ten years ago, Andrew married his childhood sweetheart, Beth. Now Andrew's a high-powered literary agent, but his relationship with his wife has not fared as well. When Beth is tragically killed just days before Christmas, an angel gives Andrew ...
Style: sincere, sentimental, touching, captivating
Plot: angel, death of wife, second chance, marriage, christmas, holiday, snow, love and romance, husband wife relationship, winter, death, afterlife ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s
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The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Over the course of 12 years, and three stages of life, Sidney Hall falls in love, writes the book of a generation and then disappears without a trace.
Style: lyrical, melancholic, meditative, captivating, romantic drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: writers, investigator, abusive parent, pain, publisher, disappearance, transformation, depression, classmate, coming of age, best friend, choice ...
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While the Women Are Sleeping (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Kenji and Aya spend their summer days in a Hotel. While she is doing her own thing, he tries to work on his novel. But then a few strange hotel guest arouse the curiosity of the couple...
Style: captivating, light, sentimental, contemplative, entertaining ...
Audience: kids
Plot: peeping tom, japanese teenager, secretly observing, peeping, husband wife relationship, writers, pregnancy, restaurant, male female relationship, dream, amusement park, married couple ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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 5.4
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Drift (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Man in relationship connects with another man and tries to make love-triangle work. (Canadian)
Style: psychological, touching, sincere, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, novelist, breakup, serial killer, introspection, gay, couples, drug abuse, tragic love, fall in love, writer's life, starting over ...
Time: 90s
Place: canada, los angeles, california
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Where Sleeping Dogs Lie (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A murder mystery writer misreads the nervous man he bullies in a spooky Hollywood mansion.
Style: independent film, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense
Plot: serial killer, writers, bare chested male, basement, mafia, murder, supernatural, ghost, writer's life, danger, investigation, swimming pool ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
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Delta of Venus (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A struggling American writer and a fellow American expatriate begin a sordid affair among the chaos and discord of 1940 Paris, France on the brink of World War II.
Style: erotic, sexy, sexual, sensual, postmodern ...
Audience: adult
Plot: male nudity, sexually dissatisfied wife, erotica, nudity, art, obsession, temptation, world war two, infidelity, lesbian sex, poetry, threesome ...
Time: 1940s
Place: paris france, england, france, europe, new york ...
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 6.8
 6K
Look at Me (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: This is the story of human beings who know exactly what they'd do if they were somebody else, but can't handle being themselves very well, who are very simply struggling to find out who they are.
Style: stylized, lyrical, semi serious, sincere, humorous ...
Plot: friendship, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, music, parents and children, writer's life, family problems, couples, chess, teenage girl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, overweight woman ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, tokyo
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 3.9
 13K
11-11-11 (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Spain, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After the death of his wife and child, an author travels to Barcelona to see his estranged brother and dying father, where he learns that his life is plagued by events that occur on 11/11/11.
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: occult, supernatural, nightmare, religions or cults, danger, curses spells and rituals, sibling relationship, estrangement, writer's life, brother brother relationship, evil, religion ...
Time: year 2000, 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: spain, barcelona
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A Closed Book (2009)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Jane appears to be ideal: attractive, intelligent, unruffled by her employer's abrupt eccentricities. But, gradually, we come aware that Jane has another agenda. Incrementally, Sir Paul's familiar surroundings are altered. His housekeeper ...
Style: psychological, captivating, serious, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: blindness, rivalry, femme fatale, danger, twists and turns, gain trust, boss and employee, mind game, haunted by the past, estate, power relations, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, oxford university, europe
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Wives and Lovers (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Wives and Lovers is a 1963 film directed by John Rich. It stars Janet Leigh and Van Johnson. Husband and wife Bill and Bertie Austin and their daughter live in a low-rent apartment. He's a struggling writer, at least until agent Lucinda Ford ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sexual, sex comedy ...
Plot: lifestyle, writer's life, artists and showbiz, dishonesty, rise to the top, actor's life, love and romance, unsupportive spouse, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, dull life, family relations ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: connecticut, new england, new york, texas
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