Writer's life movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant writer's life movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, melancholic, sexy, intellectual and visually appealing films and TV shows about / with writer's life, writers, writing, artists and showbiz, art, storytelling, mentor, dialogue, nude and death plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as writer's life: My Salinger Year (2020), Anton Chekhov 1890 (2015), Californication (2007), The Words (2012), Not Another Happy Ending (2013), Total Eclipse (1995), Men in Trees (2006), Midnight in Paris (2011), Secret Window (2004), Quills (2000).
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Ireland
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger.
Style:
captivating, sincere, psychological, independent film
Plot:
aspiring writer, writers, writer's life, coming of age, novelist, female writer, women, career, lifestyle, life philosophy, relationship vs career, grownups ...
Time:
90s, year 1963, year 1988, year 1996, year 1965 ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, washington d.c., brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Summer 1890. In order to make some money to feed his family, Anton Chekhov, modest physician, wrote short stories for newspapers to sign Antosha Tchékhonté. Important characters, writer and editor, just make him aware of his talent. His situation ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
writers, literature, writer's life, biopic, tuberculosis, family relations, couple relations, life is a bitch, obsession, siblings relations, artists and showbiz, infidelity ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
russia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
A self-loathing, alcoholic writer attempts to repair his damaged relationships with his daughter and her mother while combating sex addiction, a budding drug problem, and the seeming inability to avoid making bad decisions.
Style:
sexy, erotic, witty, cynical, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
womanizer, lifestyle, dark humor, writer's life, writers, lust, addiction, sexual relations, female nudity, nudity, sex scene, alcoholism ...
Time:
y2k, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, new york, canada
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The Words follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. There's only one catch - he didn't write it. As the past comes back to haunt him and his ...
Style:
suspense, romantic, intellectual, contemplative, serious ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
writers, writer's life, lovers, passion, relationships, love story, literature, guilt, white male black female relationship, survival, life philosophy, life ...
Time:
year 2012, post world war two, 21st century
Place:
usa, paris france, france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When a struggling publisher discovers his only successful author is blocked he knows he has to unblock her or he's finished. With her newfound success, she's become too damn happy and she can't write when she's happy.The only ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic, sexual ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
publisher, writer's block, writers, writer's life, workplace romance, overnight success, workplace, love and romance, power relations, workplace situations, charm, happy ending ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
scotland
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.
Style:
erotic, cult classic, costume drama, sexual, serious ...
Plot:
gay, poet, lgbt, homosexuality, male nudity, violence, melancholy, homosexual, writer's life, homoeroticism, teenage boy, gay teenager ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, victorian era, turn of the century, 1870s
Place:
paris france, europe, africa, france, holland ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Men in Trees is an American romantic television comedy-drama series which premiered on September 12, 2006 on ABC and starred Anne Heche who played relationship coach Marin Frist. The series was set in the fictional town of Elmo, Alaska and concerned ...
Style:
touching, realistic, semi serious, humorous, clever ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
love and romance, looking for love, starting over, fish out of water, social relations, dating, village life, fall in love, hopes, lifestyle, writer's life, family problems ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
alaska, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Spain, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.
Style:
feel good, melancholic, romantic, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
time travel, painter, literature, artist, bohemian life, magic realism, love and romance, love story, writers, nostalgia, writer's life, art ...
Time:
19th century, 2010s, year 2011, 20th century, 1920s ...
Place:
paris france, france, versailles, europe, montmartre paris ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his ...
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, dark, suspense ...
Plot:
psychology, twists and turns, insanity, split personality, stephen king, isolation, losing-it hero, obsession, plot twist, haunted house, macabre, writer's life ...
Time:
year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
mississippi, usa, tennessee, new york state
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of France ...
Style:
erotic, period piece, sexy, gothic, sexual ...
Plot:
sexuality, writer's life, rape, priest, sex, perversion, steamy romance, aristocracy, eccentricity, fetish, sexual tension, writers ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, ancient times, year 2000, georgian era ...
Place:
france, paris france, europe
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.
Style:
realistic, stylized, dark comedy, independent film, clever ...
Plot:
writer's life, artist, biopic, depression, superhero, art, antisocial behavior, loser, comic book, writers, character study, childhood ...
Time:
20th century, year 2003, 2000s, 60s, 70s ...
Place:
usa, ohio, new york, cleveland ohio
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, UK, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Author P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood as Walt Disney Pictures adapts her novel Mary Poppins for the big screen.
Style:
sentimental, touching, factual, sad, inspirational ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family friendly, girls' night, adult
Plot:
childhood, filmmaking, biopic, hollywood, writer's life, success, love, family drama, family relations, showbiz, parents and children, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 2013, edwardian era, 60s, 1900s, 20th century ...
Place:
california, los angeles, australia, usa, london ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, UK, Belgium, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident. In director Roman ...
Style:
political thriller, atmospheric, suspense thriller, political, tricky ...
Plot:
writers, twists and turns, political conspiracy, politics, investigation, writer's life, betrayal, espionage, desert island, conspiracy, suspicion, uncover truth ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new england, new york, oxford university, massachusetts, britain ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's Literary lions, but illness and ten years of writers block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for ...
Style:
touching, realistic, talky, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, writers, aging, writer's life, friendship, male female relationship, masseuse, starting over, character study, love and romance, couples, graduation ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city, california ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The 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.
Style:
touching, sentimental, period piece, costume drama, serious ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
writers, writer's life, biopic, female artist, book, family relations, snobbism, painting, fall in love, art, happy ending, artist ...
Time:
1900s, victorian era, edwardian era, 19th century, 1910s ...
Place:
england, london, britain, europe, san francisco
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
In 1857, at the height of his fame and fortune, novelist and social critic Charles Dickens meets and falls in love with teenage stage actress Nelly Ternan. As she becomes the focus of his heart and mind, as well as his muse, painful secrecy is the ...
Style:
costume drama, period piece, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
love affair, actress, writers, writer's life, forbidden love, biopic, older man younger woman relationship, secret relationship, affair, scandal, secret, marital discord ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, ancient times, 1860s, 1850s ...
Place:
london, england, britain, europe, manchester
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The 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.'
Style:
philosophical, meditative, psychological, serious, sincere ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
loneliness, journalism, writers, book, friendship, existentialism, writer's block, dog, poet, biopic, novelist, depression ...
Time:
90s, 2010s, year 2015, 20th century, year 1996 ...
Place:
minneapolis minnesota, illinois, nebraska, new york, usa ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," before it's even written. When a lovely noblewoman auditions for a role, they fall into forbidden love -- and his play finds a new ...
Style:
romantic, sexy, inspirational, period piece, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
forbidden love, cross dressing, love and romance, shakespeare, lovers, gender disguise, couples, writer's life, tudors, literary, passionate love, monarchy ...
Time:
16th century, ancient times, middle ages, medieval times, 90s ...
Place:
england, london, europe, britain
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
While traveling in Paris, author Henry Miller and his wife, June, meet Anais Nin, and sexual sparks fly as Nin starts an affair with the openly bisexual June. When June is forced to return to the U.S., she gives Nin her blessing to sleep with her ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, controversial, sensual, sexual ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
sexuality, sex, writers, affair, open relationship, unfaithful wife, love triangle, sexual promiscuity, sensuality, lesbian, lesbian sex, adultery ...
Time:
1930s, year 1931, year 1932, 20th century
Place:
paris france, europe, france
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, England, 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.
Style:
realistic, serious, gloomy, contemplative, period drama ...
Plot:
writers, women, art, writer's life, biopic, historical event, tuberculosis, winter, disease, painting, fire, siblings ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s, year 1979, 1840s, 1830s ...
Place:
yorkshire, france, united kingdom, europe, england ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.
Style:
romantic, sweet, touching, costume drama, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
unfulfilled love, love story, couples, writer's life, love and romance, love, prejudice, fall in love, biopic, women, passion, destiny ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, victorian era, ancient times, 50s ...
Place:
england, ireland, britain, europe, london
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A struggling writer finds a shortcut to fame, but a blackmailer threatens to ruin his perfect life.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
fall in love, writers, desire for fame, writer's life, hidden identity, love and romance, plagiarism, young man, artists and showbiz, cons and scams, blackmail, hallucination ...
Time:
year 2015, 21st century
Place:
france, algeria
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90K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain, Hungary
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.
Style:
gothic, psychological, period piece, gothic horror, costume drama ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder mystery, investigation, police investigation, who done it, edgar allan poe, police detective, riddles and clues, writer's life, writers, murder investigation, murder ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, year 2012, 1840s, edwardian era ...
Place:
maryland, baltimore, former yugoslavia, usa, paris france ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Belgium, Iran
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano.
Style:
philosophical, sincere, meditative, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot:
art, writers, wedding anniversary, love affair, writer's life, passion, lost love, marriage, divorce, lifestyle, wine, dialogue ...
Time:
2010s, 90s, year 2010, 21st century
Place:
italy, europe, iran, tuscany, vienna
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146K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
"The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a ...
Style:
depressing, intellectual, psychological, touching, poignant ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
suicide, depression, mental illness, aids, writers, lesbian, bipolar disorder, lgbtq, writer's life, lgbt, lesbian love, introspection ...
Time:
year 1941, 1940s, year 2001, 90s, 1920s ...
Place:
new york, england, california, london, los angeles ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Everybody knows that your life is a story. But what if a story was your life? Harold Crick is your average IRS agent: monotonous, boring, and repetitive. But one day this all changes when Harold begins to hear an author inside his head narrating his ...
Style:
philosophical, surreal, sexy, humorous, witty ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
literature, paranoia, novelist, publisher, love story, philosophy, writer's life, existentialism, metaphysics, happy ending, transformation, food ...
Time:
year 2006, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
chicago, usa, seattle
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
Style:
philosophical, intellectual, visually stunning, breathtaking, art house ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
stripper, writer's life, party, high society, passion, female nudity, friendship, artist, aging, surrealism, skinny dipping, male nudity ...
Time:
2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place:
rome italy, italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
During his twenties, a young man works at various homeless shelters in Boston, where he often intersects with his brilliant but troubled father.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
father son relationship, homeless, absent father, homeless shelter, writer's life, suicide, anal rape, poet, writers, estrangement, family relations, social misfits ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, boston, massachusetts, new york
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20K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
True 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.
Style:
depressing, sentimental, touching, melancholic, intellectual ...
Plot:
alzheimer's disease, sex scene, writers, female pubic hair, writer's life, skinny dipping, love, biopic, mental illness, bisexual, adultery, making love ...
Time:
year 2001, 20th century, 50s, 90s, 1950s
Place:
england, europe
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19K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.
Style:
sincere, emotional, tense, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
gay interest, writers, journalism, gay, murder, obsession, biopic, friendship, writer's life, gossip and rumors, manipulation, character study ...
Time:
1950s, year 2006, 50s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
kansas, manhattan new york city, usa, new york, mexico ...
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