Reading a book movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant reading a book movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out touching, melancholic, weird, psychological, serious and crying films and TV shows about / with reading a book, book, kiss, bare chested male, death, telephone call, husband wife relationship, family relations, storytelling and female nudity plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as reading a book: The Reader (2008), Book Club (2018), American Kamasutra (2018), Gemma Bovery (2014), Call Me by Your Name (2017), Inkheart (2008), Captain Fantastic (2016), The Swimming Pool (1969), The Best Way to Walk (1976), Illiterate (2018).
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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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273K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Germany, USA, Poland
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as ...
Style:
sexy, melancholic, touching, sexual, inspirational ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
forbidden love, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, coming of age, holocaust, nazi, first love, trial, world war two, older woman younger man sex, sex, unlikely couple ...
Time:
post world war two, year 1966, year 1958, year 2008, 20th century ...
Place:
germany, israel, west berlin west germany, hamburg germany, europe ...
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35K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Four lifelong friends have their lives forever changed after reading Fifty Shades of Grey in their monthly book club.
Style:
light, rom com, romantic, humorous, lighthearted ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
female friendship, female protagonist, dating, friendship, senior citizen, widow, book, female judge, judge, online dating, discussion, drinking alcohol ...
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young woman finds herself involved in a dangerous love triangle when she gets involved with the writer of a popular steamy novel.
Style:
sexy, captivating, melancholic, touching, sincere ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
sex scene, sexual relations, sex, strong sexual content, submission, female masturbation, dangerous attraction, self discovery, love, love and romance, lifestyle, betrayal ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple moving into a small farm nearby. Not only are the names of the new arrivals Gemma and Charles Bovery, ...
Style:
sexy, sentimental, touching, sexual, lyrical ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
hot and sexy, infidelity, unfaithful wife, love triangle, love and romance, couple relations, sex scene, infatuation, baker, mysterious girl, women, sexual relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
normandy, europe, france, london
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Elio Perlman is spending the summer with his family at their vacation home in Lombardy, Italy. When his father hires a handsome doctoral student, the curious 17-year-old finds himself developing a growing attraction to the young man.
Style:
touching, lgbt cinema, disturbing, independent film, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay, summer, gay love, love, homosexual, gay relationship, gay romance, homosexuality, first love, gay interest, father son relationship ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 2010s, 2000s, year 2017
Place:
italy, nebraska, mediterranean sea, europe
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85K
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The adventures of a father and his young daughter, in their search for a long lost book that will help reunite a missing, close relative.
Style:
fairy tale, touching, costume drama, entertaining, exciting ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, girls' night, teens, kids ...
Plot:
fictional reality, young heroes, adventurer, medieval, writers, imaginary, supernatural, book, parents and children, magic, kidnapping, heroes ...
Time:
year 2008, middle ages
Place:
alps, italy
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A father living in the forests of the Pacific Northwest with his six young kids tries to assimilate back into society.
Style:
philosophical, intellectual, cerebral, emotional, sad ...
Audience:
date night, kids, teen drama, adult
Plot:
road trip, home schooling, family drama, dysfunctional family, teenage girl, capitalism, parenthood, children, survivalist, socialism, precocious child, funeral ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, 90s, near future, 21st century
Place:
washington state, nebraska, new mexico, xian, oregon
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern is to gratify their mutual passion - until the day when Marianne invites her former lover and his ...
Style:
sexy, tension, erotic, sexual, neo noir ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
swimming pool, murder by drowning, nudity, cemetery, father daughter relationship, vacation, death by drowning, sports car, sexual attraction, drunken man, jealousy, chess ...
Time:
60s
Place:
french riviera, cote d'azur, saint tropez, riviera, south of france ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In a vacation camp somewhere in the French country, 1960. Marc et Philippe are two of the counsellors. Marc is very virile, while Philippe is more reserved. A night, Marc surprises Philippe dressed and made-up like a woman. From now on, he will keep ...
Style:
crying, realistic, semi serious, psychological, humorous ...
Plot:
summer camp, gay, gay interest, outdoor sex, homoeroticism, swimming pool, lgbt, humiliation, assault, male nudity, female nudity, bullying ...
Time:
80s, 60s
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Leo Cramps, 30, is illiterate. One day, having failed to read instructions, he is the victim of an accident at the factory where he is a worker. Immobilized, he meets his neighbor, a nurse and a single mother passionate about reading.
Style:
emotional, motivational, disturbing, serious, life affirming ...
Plot:
nurse, illiteracy, lifestyle change, literacy, uneducated, traumatic childhood, jealousy, love, young man, quitting a job, fired from the job, male protagonist ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
france
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261K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
Style:
gothic, dark fantasy, dark, atmospheric, grim ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mad scientist, frankenstein's monster, storytelling, monster, fire, love, flashback, blind man, butterfly, captain, ship, north pole ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s, victorian era, 1810s
Place:
edinburgh scotland, vienna, london
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as "firemen", to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of ...
Style:
futuristic, atmospheric, thought provoking, tense, stylized ...
Plot:
totalitarianism, distopia, resistance, book, dystopia, satire, rebellion, dystopian future, fighting the system, fire, alienation, dictatorship ...
Time:
year 1966, future, distant future, 60s, near future
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop.
Style:
surreal, black comedy, funny, dark comedy, atmospheric ...
Plot:
dark humor, twists and turns, subway, city life, nothing goes right, suicide, mistaken identity, artist, coincidence, female nudity, diner, nightclub ...
Time:
20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Claire (Alexandra Breckenridge), a savvy venture capitalist from New York City, escapes to a quaint town in Vermont for the holidays and becomes a guest of the Fortenbury Bookstore. Upon arrival, Claire finds Christmas celebrations have been ...
Style:
entertaining, feel good, romantic, humorous, light ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
small town, christmas, gay couple, christmas eve, christmas romance, fall in love, happy ending, family relations, optimism, christmas spirit, festival, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Place:
vermont, new york
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
While settling his father’s estate, Finn Conrad becomes suspicious as to why the man left a nurse $50,000. His dad knew her for less than two months before he died. Just before Christmas, Finn wants what to reclaim what he considers his family’s ...
Style:
romantic, captivating, disturbing, touching, sweet
Audience:
girls' night, family outing
Plot:
christmas, single mother, winter, christmas romance, false identity, sick child, medical experiment, fall in love, opposites attract, life is a bitch, hopes, love ...
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Year 2038: The mineral resources of the earth are drained, in space there are fights for the last deposits on other planets and satellites. This is the situation when one of the bigger mining corporations has lost all but one mineral moons and many ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, futuristic, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
robot, corruption, undercover agent, moon, save the world, dystopian future, heroic mission, escapades, androids and robots, rescue, chaos and mayhem, survival ...
Time:
future, 2030s
Place:
space western
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268K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
Style:
psychological, scary, tense, spooky, dark ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural, macabre, ghost, nightmare, monster, fear, danger, trauma, book, single mother, nightmare comes true, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
australia, adelaide south australia, oceania, new zealand
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, ...
Style:
neo noir, detective, noir, perverse, political ...
Plot:
train, police, investigation, serial killer, boxing, killing spree, flashback, teenage girl, teenage boy, running from police, strangulation, loneliness ...
Time:
60s
Place:
paris france, france
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10K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The Munns, father John and sons Chris and Tim, recede to the woods of rural Georgia. Their life together is forever changed with the arrival of Uncle Deel, though the tragedy that follows forces troubled Chris to become a man.
Style:
harsh, suspense, suspenseful, depressing, intense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, curse, juvenile delinquency, murder, homelessness, tragedy, lifestyle, danger, parents and children, single father, violence, boy ...
Time:
year 2004, 70s, 21st century
Place:
southern usa, savannah georgia, usa, iceland, nebraska ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them ...
Style:
atmospheric, feel good, sentimental, cute, cult classic ...
Audience:
date night, kids, teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, boy scout, children, adolescence, first love, camp, youth, island, summer camp, orphan, search party, childhood ...
Time:
60s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1965, 2010s
Place:
new england, rhode island, nebraska, usa, england ...
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
An oily, amoral estate agent is preyed upon by one of his victims, who quietly moves into his flat and, unseen, begins a deliciously malicious campaign of revenge.
Style:
scary, dark comedy, unusual plot structure, humorous, psychological ...
Plot:
sociopathy, male objectification, revenge, traumatized man, peeping tom, psychopath as protagonist, sociopath, psychopath, manipulative person, settler, conflict between friends, egocentric man ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
britain
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When teacher Simon arrives in a small, secluded village to take over the local school, he is surprised to discover that his predecessor has disappeared without a trace - and that nobody seems too concerned about it. As Simon probes deeper into the ...
Style:
slasher, crying, surprise ending, independent film, freeze frame ...
Plot:
island, secret, guesthouse, rural setting, brother sister kiss, surrealism, murder, deception, family secret, jacket, fisherman, escape ...
Place:
australia
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, USA, Australia, Canada, Denmark
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Working-class family man Christopher Robin encounters his childhood friend Winnie-the-Pooh, who helps him to rediscover the joys of life.
Style:
fairy tale, sincere, touching, sad, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, family outing, adult
Plot:
winnie the pooh, childhood, bear, father daughter relationship, magic realism, mission, children, parenting, talking animal, animal, friend, friendship ...
Time:
20th century, future, 2010s
Place:
england
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young woman goes on a notorious ax-murdering rampage in Massachusetts at the turn of the century.
Style:
costume drama, suspense, queer horror, historical drama, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
lesbian, sex scene, maid, last will and testament, father daughter relationship, lesbian sex, lizzie borden, friendship, caught having sex, tragic event, extramarital affair, attorney ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
massachusetts, new england
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, variously await their fate.
Style:
period piece, psychological, suspense, thought provoking, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
world war one, trench warfare, great war, nightmare, war, mentally unstable, british army, army, officer, world war two, battles, fear ...
Time:
1910s, future, year 1918
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After 29-year-old Adaline recovers from a nearly lethal accident, she inexplicably stops growing older. As the years stretch on and on, Adaline keeps her secret to herself until she meets a man who changes her life.
Style:
romantic, touching, emotional, dramatic, romantic drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love, immortality, love story, immortal, loneliness, supernatural, life & death, love and romance, destiny, impossible love, beautiful scenery, supernatural romance ...
Time:
future, edwardian era, 2010s, year 2015, 20th century ...
Place:
san francisco, peru, california, oregon, arizona ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Spain, Thailand, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of ...
Style:
suspense, inspirational, heartbreaking, emotional, motivational ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, survival, catastrophe, ocean, tsunami, courage, forces of nature, destruction, danger, family in danger, vacation ...
Time:
year 2004, year 2012, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
thailand, southeast asia, asia
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, France, Netherlands
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband's restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed but ...
Style:
sexy, black comedy, art house, disturbing, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
food, cannibalism, brutality, restaurant, taboo sex, violence, sex, gangster, adultery, public humiliation, surrealism, sex scene ...
Time:
year 1989, 20th century, 80s, future
Place:
britain
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A 15-year-old discovers the joys and heartaches of first love with an older teen, but in the ensuing years, cannot seem to move past their breakup.
Style:
sexy, serious, erotic, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lovers apart, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, sex scene, youth, childhood sweetheart, lovers reunited, female nudity, mother daughter relationship, teacher student relationship, teenage love, letter, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 1999, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, normandy, marseille ...
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