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List of writing a book movies

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The Skin of Sorrow (2010)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In 19th-century France, a man (Thomas Coumans) magically has his wishes come true but at a price that shortens his life.
Style: thought provoking, philosophical, captivating, visually appealing, sad ...
Plot: curse, supernatural power, frustration, pain, ambition, poverty, suicide attempt, medieval, abuse, rise to the top, love interest, desperation ...
Time: 1830s, 19th century, 1820s
Place: france, paris france
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 7.1
 130K
Booksmart (2019)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Two academic teenage superstars realize, on the eve of their high school graduation, that they should have worked less and played more. Determined to never fall short of their peers, the girls set out on a mission to cram four years of fun into one ...
Style: feel good, teen, cult classic, funny, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot: lesbian, coming of age, high school, teenager, lesbian teen, last day of school, teenage sex, female best friends, lesbian sex, teen party, lesbian interest, sexual humor ...
Time: year 2019, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new haven connecticut, los angeles
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 7.3
 140K
Capote (2005)
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: captivating, dramatic, dark, talky, psychological ...
Plot: writers, prison, biopic, literature, journalism, murder, moral dilemma, murderer, investigation, eccentricity, manipulation, friendship ...
Time: 60s, 50s, year 1960, 1950s, 20th century ...
Place: kansas, usa, new york, europe, new orleans ...
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A Young Emmanuelle (1976)
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, serious, erotic, realistic, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: watching sex, loss of virginity, 16 year old, lesbian sex, emmanuelle, women, coming of age, brother sister relationship, dead mother, female pubic hair, nudity, sex ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: switzerland
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 5.7
 66K
Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce. After a series of paintings by an unknown artist are discovered, a supernatural force enacts revenge on those who have allowed their greed to get in the way of ...
Style: surreal, scary, enigmatic, suspense, slasher ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: art collector, supernatural, gay, supernatural horror, painting, art dealer, blood, art theft, social satire, surrealism, painter, art gallery ...
Time: year 2019, 21st century
Place: los angeles, miami
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The Impossible Years (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Trouble in suburbia: psychiatrist's teenage daughter gets arrested for demonstrating on a college campus--holding a sign with a "dirty word" written on.
Style: realistic, semi serious, clever, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience: teens
Plot: revolutionary war, love, struggle, revolutionary, freedom, revolution, psychiatrist, college life, family life, family relations, teenage life, parents and children ...
Time: 60s
Place: california
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 7.1
 8K
Images (1972)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Schizophrenic housewife, engulfed by terrorizing apparitions, kills off each, unknowing if these demons are merely figments of her hallucinatory imagination or part of reality.
Style: surreal, mind bending, psychological thriller, psychological, slasher ...
Plot: schizophrenia, mental breakdown, mental illness, surrealism, hallucination, adultery, countryside, husband wife relationship, loneliness, delusion, country house, vacation gone wrong ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: ireland
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 6.6
 2K
Bad Ronald (1974)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A shy teenager accidentally kills a mocking peer, and his mother helps him hide in a spare room in their house. Problems arise when the mother goes for an operation and dies, and the house is sold to a new family, with the teen still living inside.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary ...
Plot: murder, voyeurism, mental illness, psychopath, hidden room, death of mother, voyeur, mysterious character, social misfits, teenage life, parents and children, secret ...
Time: 70s
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 5.6
 5K
Nina Forever (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Holly loves Rob and tries to help him through his grief – even if it means contending with his dead girlfriend Nina, who comes back, bloody and broken, every time they make love
Style: horror comedy, dark comedy, cynical, absurd, mindfuck ...
Plot: haunted by the past, death of girlfriend, car accident, suicide attempt, selfish woman, love, zombie, co worker co worker relationship, mourning, love triangle, rivalry, grief ...
Time: year 2016
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Magic Beyond Words: The J.K. Rowling Story (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Magic Beyond Words: The J.K. Rowling Story is a made-for-TV film starring Australian actress Poppy Montgomery. The film, which was shot in B.C. Canada locations altered to look like British locations, details the journey of struggling single mother ...
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Audience: kids
Plot: biopic, multiple sclerosis, writers, rising to stardom, writer's life, school, family relations, rise to the top, ambition, artists and showbiz, single parent, single mother ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 80s, 21st century
Place: england, europe, london
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Whole New Thing (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Socially isolated by his parents (Rebecca Jenkins, Robert Joy), an androgynous teen (Aaron Webber) enrolls in high school and develops a crush on his male teacher (Daniel MacIvor).
Style: sentimental, humorous, touching, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: coming of age, gays and lesbians, gay teenager, youth, lgbt, teachers and students, gender, bullying, gay teacher, gay, school, high school ...
Place: canada, nova scotia
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.
Style: medical drama, disturbing, psychological, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: biology, medical research, black, women, research, genetics, profanity, fight, death, medical, black history, experimental technology ...
Time: 50s, 90s, 1940s, 1950s, 2000s
Place: north carolina, baltimore
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Up to His Ears (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Up the Himalayas... Up the Yang-tze... Up in a balloon... Up-stage with a stripper... Up-town in Hong Kong... You can't keep a great adventurer down
Style: semi serious, realistic, exciting, humorous, slapstick comedy ...
Plot: on the run, goofy hero, danger, disorder, escapades, assassination attempt, love and romance, on the road, dull life, husband wife relationship, obsession, economist ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: himalaya, nepal, hong kong, asia, india
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 4.7
 630
The Alcove (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In 1936 Italy, Elio returns home from Africa with a present for his wife in the form of Zerbal (Laura Gemser), the daughter of a tribal king. Unbeknown to him, his neglected wife Alessandra (Lili Carati) has formed a relationship with Elio’s ...
Style: erotic, sexual, sensual, crying, sexploitation film
Plot: lesbian sex, explicit sex, oral sex, lgbt, erotica, sexploitation, lesbian, jealousy, exploitation, revenge, colonialism, racial prejudice ...
Time: 1930s
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 3.4
 651
Dreamaniac (1986)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A heavy-metal musician makes a deal with a satanic succubus to make him successful with women, in return for the succubus being able to feed on the girls.
Style: slasher, grindhouse, horror musical, bloody, surprise ending ...
Plot: bare chested male, zombie, heavy metal, hard rock, teenager, rock and roll, rock, characters killed one by one, dream, witchcraft, thunderstorm, sex scene ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
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A Place Among the Living (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A mediocre pulp novelist is approached by a stranger claiming to be a serial killer with a proposition to chronicle his crimes.
Plot: novelist, roman, translator, bookseller, suicide, writers, writing a book, deal with the devil, serial killer, existentialism, literary agent, art exhibition ...
Time: year 1958, 1950s
Place: paris france
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 4.7
 505
All or Nothing (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The lives of three best friends - Linda, Vanda and Edo - get all tangled by four attractive men.
Style: entertaining, humorous, funny, witty, romantic ...
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, female friendship, group of friends, secret, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, psychiatrist, husband wife relationship, party, christmas eve, single woman, doctor, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, central europe, prague
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Klown Forever (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Frank and Casper's friendship is put to a test, when Casper decides to leave Denmark to pursue a solo career in Los Angeles. Determined to win his best friend back Frank chooses to follow Casper insuring an eventful trip.
Style: sexy, sex comedy, buddy comedy, family comedy
Plot: male pubic hair, male nudity, drunken sex, bachelor, hand job, skinny dipping, christmas party, housekeeper, racism, sports car, great dane, fistfight ...
Place: copenhagen, california, denmark, los angeles
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 7.4
 1K
Doll (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 131 min.
Story: The rise and fall of the most distinguished Polish-Gypsy poetess Bronislawa Wajs, widely known as Papusza, and her relationship with her discoverer, writer Jerzy Ficowski.
Style: non-linear, realistic, serious, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot: gypsy, gypsy camp, world war two, rise and fall, poet, writer's life, ambition, unfulfillment, poetry, writers, dialogue, biopic ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: poland
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No Time for Love (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Circumstances force the unstructured yet charming Danish Bohemian novelist, Simon, to share his flat in Copenhagen with the very organized and beautiful Swedish lawyer, Malou. Simon dreams of children and a family. Malou is solely focused on her ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, romantic drama
Audience: date night
Plot: opposites attract, law firm, relationship vs career, hotshot lawyer, love and romance, writer's life, ambition, couples, career woman, disorder, high priced lawyer, female nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, copenhagen
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 7.1
 93
The Question (1977)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: 1957. For several months, Henri Charlègue, the ex-director of the newspaper "Alger democratic", banned, has been living in hiding. Suspected of belonging to the FLN, he is actively sought by paratroopers.
Plot: french algerian war, political violence, electric torture, writing a book, wanted, dissident, torturer, communist, tortured to death, political repression, french army, political prisoner ...
Time: 60s, year 1956, 1950s, year 1957
Place: algeria, france
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 7.2
 3K
Destiny (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Musical, Romance
Country: France, Egypt
Duration: 135 min.
Story: The story is set in the 12th century in Arab-ruled Spanish province Andalusia, where famed philosopher Averroes is appointed grand judge by the caliph and his liberal court judgements are not liked by everyone. The caliph's political rivals, ...
Style: islamic, serious, realistic
Plot: philosopher, medieval, philosophy, writers, arab, religion, sociology, ramadan, muslim, islam, cop, time machine ...
Time: medieval times, middle ages, 12th century
Place: middle east, spain, europe, andalusia
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 6.1
 30K
House (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Roger Cobb is a author who has just separated from his wife. He moves into a new house and tries to work on a novel based on his experiences in the Vietnam War. Strange things start happening around him; little things at first, but as they become ...
Style: scary, cult classic, horror comedy, creepy, grindhouse ...
Plot: haunted house, ghost, vietnam war, zombie, monster, supernatural, missing person, house, haunted, writers, happy ending, husband murders wife ...
Place: vietnam, asia
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The Girl from Nowhere (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Michel, a retired math teacher, has lived alone since his wife’s death and occupies his time writing an essay about the beliefs that shape daily life. One day he comes across Dora, a young homeless woman, who shows up injured on his doorstep, and ...
Style: surreal, tense, psychological, erotic, captivating ...
Audience: adult
Plot: paranormal phenomena, ghost, mysterious girl, loneliness, older man younger woman relationship, hallucination, reincarnation, introspection, self discovery, apparition, hopes, supernatural power ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france
Is relevant ?
 8.1
 490K
The Help (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's ...
Style: touching, inspirational, thought provoking, uplifting, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens, kids, date night ...
Plot: racism, friendship, discrimination, civil rights, writers, women, maid, master and servant, human spirit, life is a bitch, racial segregation, racial issues ...
Time: 60s, 2010s, year 2011, 1900s, 50s ...
Place: mississippi, usa, america, africa, southern usa
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Laurence Anyways (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 168 min.
Story: The story of an impossible love between a woman named Fred and a transgender woman named Laurence who reveals her inner desire to become her true self: a woman.
Style: aesthetic, sincere, emotional, romantic, social ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: transsexual, transsexuality, lgbt, impossible love, lgbtq, couple relations, transgender, follow your dream, lgbtqi, amor, lesbian, gender ...
Time: 90s, year 2012, 20th century, 80s
Place: montreal, quebec
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 8.0
 55K
Winter Sleep (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany
Duration: 196 min.
Story: Aydin, a retired actor, owns a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal and his sister Necla, who is coping with her recent divorce. During the winter, snow covers the ground and boredom brings the return of old memories, pushing ...
Style: philosophical, art house, meditative, independent film, lyrical ...
Plot: midlife crisis, divorce, family problems, winter, art, storytelling, snow, social differences, haunted by the past, couple relations, dull life, estrangement ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: middle east, maghreb, cappadocia turkey, turkey
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