Literature movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant literature movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, thought provoking and talky films and TV shows about / with literature, writers, friendship, death, dialogue, art, storytelling, mentor, book and adaptation plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as literature: Midnight in Paris (2011), Dead Poets Society (1989), Mary Shelley (2017), Finding Forrester (2000), Anton Chekhov 1890 (2015), Howl (2010), The Words (2012), The Distinguished Citizen (2016), Capote (2005), The Bookshop (2017).
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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: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.
Style:
philosophical, inspirational, sentimental, uplifting, touching ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, kids, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot:
teacher, suicide, poetry, coming of age, poet, mentor, teenager, literature, teachers and students, friendship, philosophy, dedicated educator ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, 20th century, year 1989, year 1959
Place:
vermont, new england, usa, harvard university
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Luxembourg, USA, Ireland, Australia
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”
Style:
gothic, stylized, costume drama, atmospheric, period piece ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
poet, forbidden love, young lovers, literature, love and romance, relationship problems, tragedy, female writer, renegade, frustration, social misfits, writers ...
Time:
19th century, regency period, 1810s, georgian era
Place:
london, scotland, switzerland
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Gus van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents while living on the streets of the Bronx. He accidentally runs into an old writer named Forrester who discovers his passion for writing. With help ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, touching, sincere, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
mentor, literature, dedicated educator, coming of age, prejudice, genius, basketball, writers, teacher, african american, prodigy, intergenerational friendship ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, scotland, usa, bronx 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: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, ...
Style:
sexy, thought provoking, sexual, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot:
poet, gay, poetry, writers, homosexuality, beat generation, literature, freedom, biopic, lgbt, gay interest, art ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 1920s, post world war two, year 1957 ...
Place:
california, san francisco, kansas, bronx new york city, arkansas ...
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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
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
After refusing big and prestigious awards all over the world, Mr. Mantovani, Literature Nobel Prize winner, accepts an invitation to visit his hometown in Argentina, which has been the inspiration for all of his books. It turns out that accepting ...
Style:
parody, hispanic, dark comedy, black comedy, road movie ...
Plot:
writers, literature, book, nobel prize winner, award, painting, hometown, prize, job, secrets, feeling, social satire ...
Place:
argentina, iberian peninsula, barcelona
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A biopic of the writer, Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book, 'In Cold Blood'.
Style:
sexy, captivating, dark, dramatic, talky ...
Plot:
prison, writers, lgbtq, literature, biopic, murder, moral dilemma, murderer, journalism, investigation, manipulation, eccentricity ...
Time:
60s, 50s, 1950s, 20th century, year 2005 ...
Place:
kansas, new york, new orleans, europe, spain ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Spain, Germany, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Set in an small English town in 1959, the story of a woman who decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, captivating, tense, thought provoking ...
Plot:
small town, bookstore, literature, narrow mindedness, widow, independent woman, platonic relationship, death, storekeeper, society, writers, women ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1959
Place:
germany
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his ...
Style:
suspense, witty, disturbing, surreal, enigmatic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
writers, teacher, obsession, high school, privacy invasion, mind game, student, stalking, direction and purpose, art, desire, high school life ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Nakajima Atsushi was kicked out of his orphanage, and now he has no place to go and no food. While he is standing by a river, on the brink of starvation, he rescues a man whimsically attempting suicide. That man is Dazai Osamu, and he and his ...
Style:
anime, emotional, exciting, humorous, captivating ...
Plot:
supernatural ability, investigation, battles, friendship, literature, group of criminals, supernatural, fight, teamwork, paranormal investigation, murder investigation, mafia ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
Taking place between the years 1837 and 1843, Balzac’s classic novel focuses on the young poet Lucien de Rubempré, who leaves Angouleme for Paris in the pursuit of becoming an author.
Style:
costume drama, atmospheric, touching, realistic, talky ...
Plot:
theater, sex scene, female nudity, ambition, media manipulation, hashish, poet, male nudity, death, infidelity, nudity, dandy ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, 1830s, 1840s, georgian era
Place:
paris france, france
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and purses scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, melancholic, costume drama, intense ...
Plot:
infidelity, adultery, tragic hero, family life, hopes, village life, destructive relationship, dull life, love affair, husband wife relationship, adulterer, male female relationship ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, turn of the century, victorian era, 1830s ...
Place:
normandy, france, europe, switzerland, london
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Alternately tragic and comic, an exploration of the complexities of love in both its brightest and darkest corners. Adapted from John Irving's best-selling novel A Widow for One Year, the film is set in the privileged beach community of East ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, erotic, melancholic, touching ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, infidelity, unfaithful wife, sex scene, writers, unfaithfulness, masturbation, female nudity, writer's life, dysfunctional family, older woman younger man sex, cheating wife ...
Time:
year 2004, 90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, Denmark, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and ...
Style:
touching, period piece, captivating, costume drama, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
world war one, wartime, death, aspiring writer, women, war, nurse, poetry, wartime life, love and romance, love affair, adaptation ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, edwardian era, year 1918, 1920s ...
Place:
england, london, oxford university, france, yorkshire ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Rita, a 26 year old Scouse hairdresser with a sharp wit, is married to her childhood sweetheart, the feckless Denny. He wants a baby, she doesn't. She wants to discover herself, so she joins the Open University. Dr. Frank Bryant Is a ...
Style:
talky, touching, witty, inspirational, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
working class, troubled marriage, teacher student relationship, teacher, literature, teaching, mentor, professor, self discovery, university, infidelity, social differences ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s, 20th century
Place:
london, england, ireland, europe, dublin ireland ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected ...
Style:
touching, thought provoking, gothic, compassionate, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, manly, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
lawyer, courtroom, courtroom drama, trial, racism, small town, legal, single father, coming of age, rape, justice, childhood ...
Time:
1930s, year 1932, 20th century, year 1962
Place:
alabama, usa, southern usa, america, africa ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Son de Mar (English: "Sound of the Sea") is a 2001 Spanish drama / erotic film directed by Juan José Bigas Luna based on the novel of the same title by Manuel Vicent. It revolves around Ulises (Jordi Mollà), who comes to a fishing ...
Style:
erotic, atmospheric, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
love triangle, pregnant woman, female nudity, breast feeding, lovers reunited, lust, wedding, wedding ring, attraction, love at first sight, pregnancy, fall in love ...
Place:
valencia spain, spain
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Oreki Houtarou is a minimalistic high school boy. One day, he joins the Classic Literature Club at his elder sister's request. There he meets Chitanda Eru, Fukube Satoshi, and Ibara Mayaka. Chitanda is a calm beautiful girl but she turns into ...
Style:
anime, captivating, detective, touching, romantic ...
Audience:
kids, teen drama
Plot:
slice of life, school club, high school, amateur detective, art, schoolgirl, uncover truth, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, investigation, conversation, literature, escapades ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.
Style:
visually stunning, serious, costume drama, inspirational, intense ...
Plot:
shakespeare, conspiracy theory, politics, writers, queen elizabeth i, tudors, incestuous sex, poet, political intrigue, incest, intrigue, royalty ...
Time:
16th century, middle ages, 17th century, ancient times, year 2011 ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, new york, wales ...
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Genre: Animation
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
"Miss Bernard" herself, Machida Sawako, and her book-loving friends live their literary days in the library. This gag series glorifying famous literature is filled with love for books of all sorts, as well as the kinds of things that all ...
Style:
anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, lighthearted ...
Plot:
school, slice of life, friendship, teenager, literature, high school life, library, friends, teenage life, schoolboy, teacher student relationship, schoolgirl ...
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Genre: Animation, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
A theatrical film version of Madhouse's Aoi Bungaku Series anime. The film will re-edit the four episodes based on Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human (Ningen Shikkaku) novel, which have character designs inspired by manga artist and novel ...
Style:
anime, psychological, adult animation, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
unrequited love, friendship, surrealism, literature, meaning of life, life philosophy, human nature, social relations, introspection, multiple storylines, humanity, self discovery ...
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
The publication of a new dictionary titled The Great Passage progresses. Mitsuya Majime, originally from publisher Genbu Shobo's sales department, has been recruited by Kouhei Araki, a veteran editor of the dictionary department who is looking ...
Style:
anime, disturbing, captivating, intellectual, manga ...
Plot:
publishing, workplace, slice of life, teamwork, literature, working life, job, japanese culture, dedication, perseverance, character study, literary ...
Place:
tokyo
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
When Kazusa enters high school, she joins the Literature Club, where she leaps from reading innocent fiction to diving into the literary classics. But these novels are a bit more...adult than she was prepared for. Between euphemisms like fresh dewy ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, semi serious, romantic comedy
Plot:
japanese schoolgirl, friendship, literature, slice of life, high school life, teenager, school club, teenage girl, schoolgirl, romantic relationship, japanese teenager, sex education ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Senegal
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
From his village in northern Senegal, Yao is a 13-year-old boy ready to do anything to meet his hero: Seydou Tall, a famous French actor. Invited to Dakar to promote his new book, the latter goes to his country of origin for the first time. To ...
Style:
road movie, light, sweet, touching, scenic ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
fandom, child, literature, cultural icon, fan, small village, movie actor, actor, village, humour, actor's life, african american protagonist ...
Place:
africa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 41 min.
TV show
Story:
A dreamy seamstress and mother of three's life is turned upside down when she's wrongly diagnosed with a terminal disease along with an actually terminally ill wealthy book publisher.
Style:
uplifting, novela, life affirming, emotional, humorous ...
Plot:
friendship, terminal illness, literature, life, relationships, romantic relationship, male female relationship, meaning of life, changing lives, hopes, second chance, lifestyle change ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Taiwan, UK, Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Tyler knows a lot about accidents. So much so, he is scared to do anything that might endanger him, like riding his bike, or climbing into his treehouse. While in an old library, he is mystically transported into the unknown world of books, and he ...
Style:
fairy tale, feel good, surprise ending, independent film, melancholic ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing, teen drama, horror for children
Plot:
parallel universe, magic, book, imagination, dragon, fantasy world, librarian, rain, magic wand, child, pirate, island ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Literature professor Jim Bennett leads a secret life as a high-stakes gambler. Always a risk-taker, Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster and offers his own life as collateral. Staying one step ahead, he pits his creditor against the ...
Style:
clever, tense, realistic, cynical, independent film ...
Plot:
gambling, addiction, gambling addiction, gambling debt, gambler, writers, gangster, human nature, moral dilemma, character study, police investigation, family relations ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
las vegas, los angeles, california, usa, nevada ...
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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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