Publishing movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant publishing movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, sexy, clever, melancholic, interesting and talky films and TV shows about / with publishing, writers, friendship, catastrophe, drinking alcohol, culture clash, love and romance, mentor, husband wife relationship and storytelling plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as publishing: The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Obscene (2007), A Friendly Tale... (2020), My Salinger Year (2020), The Squid and the Whale (2005), Ugly Betty (2006), Kaiyoppu (2007), Julie & Julia (2009), The Fable (2019), The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015).
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List of publishing movies
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The Devil Wears Prada is about a young journalist who moves to New York to work in the fashion industry. Her boss however is extremely demanding and cruel and won’t let her succeed if she doesn’t fit into the high class elegant look of their ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, funny, light, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
fashion, women, city life, workplace intrigue, fashion industry, journalism, workplace situations, career woman, strong female character, relationship vs career, obnoxious boss, ambitious woman ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city, miami ...
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Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A look at the life and work of American publisher Barney Rosset, who struggled to bring controversial works like "Tropic of Cancer" and "Naked Lunch" to publication.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, controversial, experimental
Plot:
writer's life, rebelliousness, ambition, fighting the system, society, lifestyle, obsession, journalism, rise and fall, rebellion, politics, maverick ...
Place:
chicago illinois
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Lea and her husband Marc have known Francis and his wife Karine for a very long time. Over the years, each one of them has been assigned a specific role. The balance and dynamic of the group is blown up when Lea decides to write a novel, which ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, sincere, talky
Plot:
thirtysomething life, writer's life, novelist, introspection, couple relations, husband wife relationship, human nature, group of friends, marriage, buddies, breaking point, old friend ...
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Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A skeptical writer shows up in Evergreen to get the scoop on the town's famed passion for Christmas during a search for a long-lost time capsule.
Style:
feel good, light, sweet, emotional
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
christmas, female writer, love, fall in love, love and romance, publishing, ambition, couples, friendship, love affair, male female relationship, train travel ...
Place:
vermont, new york
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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:
sincere, captivating, psychological
Plot:
aspiring writer, writers, writer's life, literary agent, female writer, women, career, lifestyle, life philosophy, relationship vs career, life, grownups ...
Time:
90s, year 1995, year 1996, year 1965, year 1988 ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, washington d.c., brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980's.
Style:
talky, sincere, thought provoking, depressing, absurd ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
divorce, coming of age, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, infidelity, teacher student relationship, adultery, marriage, teenager, crumbling marriage, childhood, adolescence ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Smart but wholesome Betty embraces her unique appearance and independent attitude in the cutthroat world of New York fashion. With the help of her proud yet far-from-glamorous family from Queens, Betty will continue to have big dreams and deal with ...
Style:
not serious, humorous, realistic, dark drama, campy ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
workplace, fashion, power relations, lifestyle, model, couples, obnoxious boss, fish out of water, workplace romance, workplace intrigue, workplace situations, boss and employee ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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661
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A amateur writer who seems to have nothing to live for, finds himself as the only hope of three people.
Plot:
writer's block, writers, bomb, police station, publishing, poem, novelist, passion, cell phone, malayalam, book
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and ...
Style:
feel good, inspirational, sweet, light, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
cooking, cooking and food, food, chef, self fulfillment, women, love, lifestyle, cookbook, couple relations, blogger, mentor ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, 60s, 20th century, post world war two ...
Place:
paris france, new york, france, europe, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Fable is a legendary yakuza hitman equal to none—but his boss orders him and his sultry associate to lay low and learn how to live a "normal life" in Osaka.
Style:
captivating, humorous, feel good, entertaining, perverse ...
Plot:
yakuza, hitman, sexy girl, employer employee relationship, contract, gang, office, crime boss, killer, hidden identity, assassin, escapades ...
Time:
future
Place:
japan, osaka japan
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA, Singapore, Hong Kong, United Arab Emirates, India
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.
Style:
intellectual, philosophical, clever, inspirational, motivational ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
mathematics, genius, scientist, discovery, mathematician, imagination, life, cambridge university, mentor, transformation, science, culture clash ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, year 1914, year 1976, post world war one ...
Place:
england, india, bombay india
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Set in England during the early 19th century, Pandaemonium evokes late-1960s America in its depiction of the relationship between Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Linus Roach) and William Wordsworth (John Hannah). Instead of going to Vietnam, Wordsworth ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, realistic, captivating
Plot:
friendship, betrayal, politics, addiction, drug abuse, prodigy, rise and fall, tragic hero, writer's life, lifestyle, tragic love, idealism ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era, 1790s, 19th century
Place:
france, england, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In Genève, bookseller and publisher Axel Thorpe catches willful, rich 16-year old Sibylle Ashby shoplifting. She brags about her writing, so he challenges her to produce a book. She writes an erotic novel that Thorpe publishes anonymously, and it ...
Style:
sex comedy, sexy, erotic, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
watching sex, loss of virginity, lesbian sex, emmanuelle, women, coming of age, dead mother, brother sister relationship, female masturbation, lesbianism, adultery, sex ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
switzerland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Denmark
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Set in 1973 Spain, a struggling encyclopedia salesman and his wife take advantage of an offer to make adult films. The act turns him into an aspring legit filmmaker and her into an international sex symbol.
Style:
humorous, erotic, atmospheric, funny, semi serious ...
Plot:
adult filmmaking, porn, cuckold, movie business, obsessive quest, obsession, couple relations, crumbling marriage, impotent husband, fondling, rebelliousness, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
spain, europe, london, california
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
Style:
emotional, depressing, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
suicide, depression, writers, mental illness, adultery, death, poet, art, tragic love, writer's life, artist, couple relations ...
Time:
50s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
england, london, europe, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Isaac Geldhart is a Holocaust survivor who, overcome by grief at the recent death of his wife, seems determined to run his publishing firm into the ground by printing books that have no hope of financial success. His son Aaron, who also works at the ...
Style:
melancholic, talky, serious, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
jewish, single father, writer's life, family bonds, writers, family problems, introspection, love and romance, dealing with death, parents and children, family life, siblings relations ...
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, london
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Three women's escapes from their afflicted lives. Each struggles to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.
Style:
talky, intense, stylized, touching, psychological ...
Plot:
abusive husband, starting over, adolescence, family relations, hitchhiker, couple relations, human nature, parents and children, love affair, life is a bitch, self discovery, couples ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey, new york state, haiti ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his girlie magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for ...
Style:
sexual, controversial, factual, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
courtroom drama, free love, legal, lawyer, courtroom, court, drug addiction, rebellion, fighting the system, love, eroticism, lawsuit ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s, 50s
Place:
kentucky, usa, ohio, cincinnati ohio, beverly hills ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his memoirs the two develop a close friendship, but Arnaud becomes jealous when Nelly ...
Style:
sexy, breathtaking, witty, talky, cerebral ...
Plot:
love triangle, death, fighting the system, culture clash, love, love story, crime gone awry, corruption, destiny, french, greed, character study ...
Time:
1920s, 90s
Place:
france, paris france, california, tokyo, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When a young man agrees to housesit for his boss, he thinks it'll be the perfect opportunity to get close to the woman he desperately has a crush on – his boss's daughter. But he doesn't plan on the long line of other houseguests ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, not serious, sexy, funny ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
fish out of water, farce, workplace, boss and employee, stupidity, dumb, father daughter relationship, disorder, goofy hero, misfit, estate, looking for love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago illinois, usa
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union, Italy
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
The social ferment in late 19th century Russia which led to the 1917 Russian Revolution is movingly portrayed in this lengthy historical drama, which is very faithful to the 1907 novel The Mother by the celebrated Marxist writer Maxim Gorky ...
Plot:
protest, oedipus complex, russian soldier, communist, forced suicide, secret police, worker, socialist, demonstration, murder of mother, communism, publishing ...
Place:
siberia, ussr, russia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.
Style:
witty, melancholic, clever, touching, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
sex, infidelity, writers, women, seduction, pimp, love affair, family problems, open marriage, adultery, money problems, death ...
Place:
california, santa monica california, pasadena california, los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
An egocentric bum transforms the lives of a shy New Jersey garbageman and his sister.
Style:
talky, stylized, humorous, sexy, allegory ...
Plot:
writers, art, suicide, writer's life, suburbs, bittersweet, violence, poetry, obsession, brutality, dark hero, life & death ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new jersey, usa, stockholm sweden, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A shy teenage boy trying to escape the influence of his domineering mother, has his world changed when he begins to work for a retired actress.
Style:
touching, sentimental, witty, sweet, feel good ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, dysfunctional family, eccentricity, obsession, family problems, friendship, parenthood, honest, redemption, parents and children, intergenerational friendship, family relations ...
Time:
70s
Place:
england, united kingdom, edinburgh scotland, scotland, london
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In 1962 New York City, love blossoms between a playboy journalist and a feminist advice author.
Style:
humorous, romantic, light, parody, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, date night, chick flick
Plot:
womanizer, writers, battle of the sexes, love, journalist, twists and turns, fall in love, manipulation, couples, wooing, verbal byplay, dishonesty ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1962
Place:
new york, usa, maine, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Each week, Pierre and his friends organize what is called as "un dîner de cons". Everyone brings the dumbest guy he could find as a guest. Pierre thinks his champ -François Pignon- will steal the show.
Style:
feel good, humorous, funny, light, talky ...
Plot:
french, misfit, screwball, food, farce, friendship, disorder, goofy hero, nothing goes right, ambition, mistaken identity, mentor ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
france, paris france, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The portrait of a woman who, at the edge of survival, found a world of meaning.
Style:
realistic, touching, sexy, witty, thought provoking ...
Plot:
writers, swamp, friendship, courage, culture clash, depression, destiny, childhood, unlikely friendships, solitude, aging, character study ...
Time:
80s, 1930s
Place:
florida, new york, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Isabelle's life revolves around the New York bookshop she works in and the intellectual friends of both sexes she meets there. Her grandmother remains less than impressed and decides to hire a good old-fashioned Jewish matchmaker to help ...
Style:
touching, feel good, sentimental, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, family outing
Plot:
matchmaking, fall in love, judaism, jewish, love and romance, thirtysomething life, workplace, couple relations, self discovery, parents and children, unfulfilled love, eligible bachelor ...
Time:
80s, 18th century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, lower east side manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
"Conversations with God" is the true story of Neale Donald Walsch that inspired and changed the lives of millions. The journey begins after he unexpectedly breaks his neck in a car accident and loses his job.
Style:
realistic, serious, spiritual, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
human spirit, introspection, change of luck, religions or cults, hopes, rise to the top, society, redemption, unemployment, rich and poor, faith, spirituality ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
Paul Dedalus is at a crossroads in his life. He has to make several decisions; should he complete his doctorate, does he want to become a full professor, does he really love his long-standing girlfriend, or should he re-start with one of his other ...
Style:
sexy, semi serious, realistic, talky, sexual ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
gynecological exam, jewish, friendship, infidelity, abortion, unhappiness, divorce, female nudity, sex, extramarital affair, seduction, adultery ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france, europe, paris france
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