Ghost writer movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant ghost writer movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, humorous, realistic, disturbing, suspense and psychological films and TV shows about / with ghost writer, writers, writer's life, friendship, female protagonist, female writer, fall in love, kiss, writing and couples 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 ghost writer: Ghost Writer (2015), Chicago Typewriter (2017), Moon in a Bottle (2007), Colette (2018), Body of Deceit (2017), 'Til There Was You (1997), The Story of My Life (2004), Lost (2021), Magical Nights (2018), The Wife (2017).
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
Two women are bound by their mutual passion for writing. Tono Risa is already a successful writer. Her books are all best sellers and have been made into movies, putting increasing pressure on Risa to keep churning out masterpieces. The professional ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, emotional, tension ...
Plot:
writers, writer's block, novelist, ghost writer, creative process, character study, literary, problem, writer's life, women, female protagonist, female writer ...
Place:
tokyo
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story:
Writers that lived under Japanese rule in the 1930's are reincarnated into a bestselling writer who is in a slump, a mysterious ghostwriter and an anti-fan of the bestselling writer.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, dorama, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
reincarnation, japanese occupation of korea, ghost writer, ghost, supernatural, korean history, new life, writer's life, destiny, identity crisis, creative block, life & death ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
korea
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Zeta has a month to hand in a novel she has been commissioned to write and every day she searches for inspiration among the strange customers who are regulars at the Café Rossignol. There she becomes close to Alicia, a pretty waitress who ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot:
ambition, desire for fame, fall in love, friends, love and romance, writer's life, ghost writer, cafe, creative block, self discovery, intimate, bittersweet ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
spain, europe
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28K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Hungary, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
French novelist, Colette, overcomes an abusive marriage to emerge as a leading writer in her country and a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Style:
captivating, costume drama, historical drama, period piece, intellectual ...
Audience:
family friendly, chick flick
Plot:
lgbt, lgbtq, sex scene, lesbian relationship, female protagonist, novelist, lesbian attraction, writers, lesbian, open marriage, woman, female writer ...
Time:
19th century, 1900s, 1890s, year 1900, victorian era ...
Place:
paris france, france, algeria, louisiana, marseille
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Genre: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An accident in Malta leaves ghostwriter Alice with memory loss. Suffering from writer's block, she returns to the island to recover when she meets the sensual Sara. As they bond, a shady stranger begins to taint the stay with mystery.
Style:
erotic, suspenseful, captivating, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
lesbian relationship, lesbian love, memory loss, romantic triangle, forbidden love, ghost writer, lesbian sex, police surveillance, love triangle, lesbian, tragic love, secret ...
Place:
malta
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Two strangers, whose paths are always crossing, finally meet when fate steps in. It took them twenty years to fall in love at first sight.
Style:
sentimental, light, sweet, melancholic, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
closeted homosexual, loneliness, dating, best friend, support group, stereotypes, neighbor, single parent, parent child relationship, looking for love, unfulfilled love, neighbor neighbor relationship ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s, 60s
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Raphael is a ghostwriter who takes a job writing for famous footy player Kevin. To his delight and his girlfriend, Murials horror, Kevins current girlfriend is an old (easily rekindled) flame of Raphaels. A freak accident leaves a close friend dead ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, sentimental, captivating, funny ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
humour, introspection, rise to the top, relationship vs career, love triangle, affair, couple relations, lifestyle, writer's life, love and romance, fall in love, couples ...
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story:
A forty year old woman who feels like she has not accomplished anything in life and a twenty-seven year old man who's frightened of himself.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, suspense, philosophical
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, hardship, loneliness, female writer, ghost writer, writers, anxiety, writer's life, social problems, thoughtful, friendship, emotional breakdown ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Italy, 1990. On the night when Italy's national football team is eliminated from the World Cup by Argentina on penalty kicks, a well-known film producer is found dead in the Tiber River. The main suspects for the murder are three young aspiring ...
Style:
captivating, tense, enigmatic, humorous, non-linear
Plot:
murder mystery, film producer, murder, friendship, police investigation, murder suspect, police interrogation, ghost writer, rivalry, society, death, writers ...
Time:
year 1990, 90s
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Sweden, USA, Switzerland, Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Style:
thought provoking, sincere, lyrical, novela, intellectual ...
Plot:
writers, infidelity, marriage, aspiring writer, novelist, twists and turns, father son relationship, family relations, revelation, adulterous husband, professor, love affair ...
Time:
1950s, year 1992, 60s, 90s, 2010s ...
Place:
stockholm sweden, connecticut, new york, manhattan new york city, eastern europe ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A gifted high-school student flubs her college admissions interviews for the most unexpected reasons in this independent coming-of-age drama. Cynical, world-weary Evie is more interested in taking care of her family than getting into the Ivy League ...
Style:
contemplative, independent film, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
family relations, family problems, mentally challenged, family life, parents and children, sister sister relationship, mental retardation, ghost writer, bad father, human nature, coming of age, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, harvard university, yale university
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Who is this Karim D. ? The new young writer whom the media can't get enough of? Or his alias, Arthur Rambo, the author of old hate-fuellled messages which are dredged up, one day, from social media websites?
Style:
emotional, thought provoking, disturbing, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
social media, writers, secret identity, ghost writer, hidden identity, human nature, friendship, family relations, literary, friends, playwright, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Vanni and Linda live in a penthouse apartment for rent in the center of Rome. Vanni writes novels, Linda 'cooperates' to his novels. Between a vernissage and an exhibition of Basquiat, thay hang out Alfredo and Constanza, a couple on the ...
Style:
feel good, light, humorous, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
relationships, ghost writer, writer's life, couple relations, male female relationship, family relations, writers, family life, couples, humour, living together, female writer ...
Place:
rome italy
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of an intelligent loser who lives in a communal apartment in St. Petersburg works as a “literary Negro” by Olga Buzova and writes an autobiography on her behalf.
Style:
funny, light, humorous, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot:
friendship, ghost writer, friends, writers, writer's life, family problems, humour, financial problem, society, lifestyle, storytelling, living together ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
st. petersburg russia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Plum Kettle, ghost-writer for the editor of one of New York’s hottest fashion magazines, struggles with self-image and sets out on a wildly complicated road to self-acceptance. At the same time, everyone is buzzing over news reports about men, ...
Style:
satirical, captivating, disturbing, humorous, poetic ...
Plot:
fat girl, diet, satire, porn, violence, discrimination, sexism, revenge killing, obesity, social satire, overweight, ghost writer ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Ivy is a talented up-and-coming romance book editor, up for a promotion at work but tasked with helping a stubborn mystery writer incorporate romance more successfully into the next book in his best-selling series. When he volunteers to be ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, romantic, captivating
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love and romance, love interest, couple relations, romantic relationship, love story, posing as husband and wife, escapades, couples, fall in love, writers, relationships, ghost writer ...
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Genre: Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Liam, an aspiring and ambitious young writer, eagerly accepts a tutoring position at the family estate of his idol, renowned author J.M. Sinclair. But soon, Liam realizes that he is ensnared in a web of family secrets, resentment, and retribution. ...
Style:
psychological thriller, thrilling, captivating, psychological, independent film
Plot:
male nudity, writers, problem, writer's life, intrigue, ghost writer, secret, teenage son, dysfunctional marriage, tutor, slow burn, mind game ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
As our third longest serving Prime Minister, Andrew Dugdale mattered. He dined with presidents and kings, hosted world summits and changed the lives of millions of his fellow Australians. But now he's retired; a not-so-elder statesman with time ...
Style:
satirical, feel good, semi serious, humorous, political ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
politics, political satire, writers, prime minister, relationships, secret, ghost writer, humour, satire, lifestyle, minister, political unrest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Valeria, young secretary of a producer, lives with an eccentric mother and secretly writes for a successful screenwriter, Alessandro. One day, she receives an unusual present from a stranger: it’s the plot of a movie about the mysterious but ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense
Plot:
lifestyle change, female protagonist, female writer, ghost writer, changing lives, writer's life, mysterious character, secret, screenwriter, assassination, murder, mother daughter relationship ...
Place:
rome italy, italy, palermo italy
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A young woman named Savannah Knoop spends six years pretending to be a transgender writer named JT Leroy, the made-up literary persona of her sister-in-law.
Style:
tense, disturbing, captivating, queer cinema
Plot:
writers, secret identity, gay, fraud, women, secret, ghost writer, lie, aspiring writer, con trick, deception, personality change ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Al Stump is a famous sports-writer chosen by Ty Cobb to co-write his official, authorized 'autobiography' before his death. Cobb, widely feared and despised, feels misunderstood and wants to set the record straight about 'the greatest ...
Style:
factual, intense, serious, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
baseball, brutality, ghost writer, storytelling, biopic, underdog, dark hero, adaptation, lone hero, mentor, historical figure, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, year 1994, 50s, 1940s
Place:
detroit, georgia, usa, california, new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An irreverent and refreshing take on the queer world of sex, lust and unrequited love. Lanky, blue haired Jackson, record store employee and poet, is in love with most of the men in his life! A refreshing departure from the typical gay love story, ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, semi serious, humorous, erotic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
gay, gays and lesbians, unrequited love, gay erotica, sex toy, male pubic hair, male nudity, infidelity, gay lead character, death of friend, lgbt, fall in love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iowa, mojave desert, california, usa, los angeles
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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: 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, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Pierre Blum, 40, is a writer who had his time of glory in the early 2000s. One evening, on a casino terrace, he meets Joseph Paskin. This mysterious man, charismatic and manipulative, is influential in the world of politics and persuades Pierre to ...
Style:
political thriller, ambiguous ending
Plot:
ghost writer, bribery, murder of friend, on the run, female journalist, dead body, puppet master, casino, paranoia, dissident, escape, political manipulation ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
paris france, england
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Lauren Hennessey has always loved to cook and is a proud perfectionist at her job at "Food & Entertainment Magazine's" test kitchen while she dreams of being able to finally afford culinary school in Paris. When her boss ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, feel good, sexual, light ...
Plot:
fall in love, food, workplace situations, couples, relationship vs career, starting over, celebrity culture, school, happy ending, restaurant, love, holiday ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, san francisco
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Story:
Struggling writer Lowen Ashleigh is on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime: she's been hired to complete the remaining books in a successful series that bestselling thriller author Verity Crawford is unable ...
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, intense, psychological horror, twist ending ...
Plot:
secrets, obsession, claustrophobia, manipulation, female protagonist, cat and mouse, haunting, slow burn, sexual tension, macabre, isolation, trauma ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Hubert Wolfe, bestselling author, suffers from the writer's block for a long time. Thus, he often used a ghost writer, the talented but taciturn Dany. While the deadline for his next novel approaches, Wolfe still requires the help of his secret ...
Style:
existential, suspense, atmospheric, melancholic, dark comedy
Plot:
self discovery, literary, identity, creative block, deception, redemption, moral ambiguity, midlife crisis, small town, fraud, betrayal, friendship ...
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Poland, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A writer goes through a tough period after the release of her latest book, as she gets involved with an obsessive admirer.
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, meditative, art house ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
female writer, writers, mysterious character, obsessed fan, lgbt, loneliness, deception, poisoning, laptop, party, plot twist, atmosphere ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
paris france
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Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Holly, a professor at a small college, has had a long history of finding the wrong guy. She’s accomplished quite a bit in her life, but after her younger sister announces she is pregnant, Holly decides she is going to make an effort to meet Mr. ...
Style:
humorous, romantic, funny, entertaining, light ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
christmas, father daughter relationship, christmas romance, mistaken identity, secret identity, snow, deception, happy ending, love letter, womanizer, male female relationship, inspiration ...
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