Writing a novel movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant writing a novel movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out psychological, captivating, realistic, feel good, serious and melancholic films and TV shows about / with writing a novel, writers, kiss, novelist, bare chested male, murder, book, female nudity, love and obsession plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as writing a novel: The Help (2011), All for Love (2016), Swimming Pool (2003), Vita & Virginia (2018), Twixt (2011), Little Women (2019), The Second (2018), Bird Box (2018), Maggie's Plan (2015), Ghost Writer (2019).
Best films
New films
| Madame (2017) | 6.1 | |
| One Winter Weekend (2018) | 6.6 | |
| All for Love (2016) | 6.5 | |
| The Pier (2019) | 7.1 | |
| The Lost City (2022) | 6.1 |
List of writing a novel movies
525K
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, feel good, thought provoking, uplifting ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, kids, date night ...
Plot:
racism, friendship, civil rights, discrimination, writers, women, master and servant, racial segregation, maid, feminist, racial issues, blacks and whites ...
Time:
60s, year 2011, year 1963, 1900s, 50s ...
Place:
mississippi, usa, america, southern usa, africa
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
When a romance novelist is teamed with a Navy SEAL as research for her book, by a mandate from her publisher, she is less than thrilled and he is more than honest. However, as she works with the SEAL, she has a change of heart and learns to look at ...
Style:
entertaining, captivating, light, emotional, romantic comedy
Plot:
female writer, writing a novel, novelist, christmas, fall in love, relationships, couple relations, love affair, broken heart, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, research, love story ...
Place:
new zealand
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In the middle of this amusing thriller is a relationship between two different types of females, one is a well know British author and the other is a sex-crazed French teen. The two get into some relationship trouble while living together in this ...
Style:
sexy, sensual, ambiguous ending, art house, suspense ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, pre-teens, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, obsession, swimming pool, swimming, murder, writers, voyeurism, sex, frenchwoman, lust, murder mystery, self discovery ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, cote d'azur, europe, south of france, london ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Socialite Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf run in different circles in 1920s London. Despite the odds, the magnetic Vita and the beguiling Virginia forge an unconventional affair, set against the backdrop of their own strikingly ...
Style:
historical romance, period piece, factual, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, lesbian romance, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, sapphic, sex scene, polyamory, female protagonist, doomed love, anxiety, lesbian couple ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
england
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13K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A writer with a declining career arrives in a small town as part of his book tour and gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl. That night in a dream, he is approached by a mysterious young ghost named V. He's unsure of her ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, psychological, captivating, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
ghost, murder, small town, supernatural, vampire, small town sheriff, writing a novel, sheriff, writer's life, lifestyle, writers, murder mystery ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, year 1955
Place:
usa, california
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280K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Style:
romantic, sentimental, inspirational, sweet, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, family outing, kids, date night, teens ...
Plot:
love, sisters, coming of age, writers, female protagonist, generosity, friendship, sister sister relationship, publisher, women's rights, sister, aspiring writer ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1860s, 2010s, year 2019
Place:
new york, france, paris france, massachusetts, usa
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The persona of a celebrated author is threatened when her best friend and muse reveals the dark secret behind her first novel's provenance, igniting an incendiary tale of sex, lies and betrayal.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
gang rape, childhood memory, mysterious man, revenge, writing a novel, friend, deception, rape, betrayal, secret, muse, supernatural horror ...
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418K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A woman and a pair of children are blindfolded and make their way through a post-apocalyptic setting along a river.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, end of the world, epidemic, creature, fear, blindness, post apocalypse, characters murdered one by one, pursuit, survival horror, dystopia, parents and children ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Maggie 's plan to have a baby on her own is derailed when she falls in love with John, a married man, destroying his volatile marriage to the brilliant and impossible Georgette. But one daughter and three years later, Maggie is out of love and ...
Style:
romantic, melancholic, talky, stylized, sentimental ...
Plot:
writers, stepmother, relationships, marriage, divorce, hotel, friendship, marxism, blended family, narcissist, character study, eccentricity ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, quebec, brooklyn new york city, california
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Six episodes of the original series, restored and on the big screen for the first time, and a special retrospective documentary encompass this Fathom Event.
Style:
disturbing, twist ending, tense, suspense, thrilling ...
Plot:
criminal, breaking and entering, violent, deaf, writing a book, crazy, murderer, multiple storylines, macabre, terror, violence, psychopath ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An old diary containing dark secrets found by Naya, a novelist who has out of ideas for 3 years. This book is a good material for her latest novel, but something unexpected starts to happen.
Style:
mystical, captivating, psychological, thrilling, indonesian
Plot:
student, parents, couples, school, haunted house, suicide, novelist, writers, brutality, macabre, serial killer, survival ...
Place:
indonesia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Seattle magazine writer Samantha Hart is sent home to write an article about the wedding destination of Hawthorne Vineyards, she discovers the ex who broke her heart not only runs the vineyard, but he’s about to get married there.
Style:
talky, touching, emotional, romantic
Plot:
brother brother relationship, vineyard, ex boyfriend, lovers, true love, young lovers, engagement, family relations, love and romance, couple relations, youth, relationships ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oregon, seattle, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Sydney Ragsdale, recently divorced, decides to spend Christmas in a house she inherited with her young daughter. As Sydney begins to spend more time at the local bookstore, she meets a teacher, Mac, who also fills in for the town Santa. Mac tries to ...
Style:
romantic, light, captivating, feel good, romantic comedy ...
Plot:
christmas, family holiday, holiday, christmas romance, realtor, teacher, dating, love, family relations, couples, fall in love, bookstore ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york
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25K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland, France, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Jack Manfred is an aspiring writer who to make ends meet, takes a job as a croupier. Jack remains an observer, knowing that everything in life is a gamble and that gamblers are born to lose. Inevitably, he gets sucked into the world of the casino ...
Style:
neo noir, clever, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
gambling, casino, croupier, writers, terrorist, cons and scams, caper, addiction, greed, relationships, career change, bet ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1998
Place:
england, london, ireland, europe, south africa ...
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet: can he write a classic novel like "Wuthering Heights" in twenty-four hours? Upon his arrival, however, the writer discovers that the manor, thought empty, actually has ...
Style:
slasher, gothic horror, classic horror, gothic, retro ...
Plot:
haunted, house, writers, mind game, murder, supernatural, cannon, old dark house, trapped, american abroad, writing a novel, bet ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, year 1982
Place:
wales
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Croatia
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Robert is a SF writer, who realizes that he can make his thoughts material. Because of that, a group of aliens arrives to Earth. Their leader is Andra, who shows affection for Robert, which does not please his girlfriend, Biba. A monster, Mumu, has ...
Style:
dark comedy, horror comedy, metafiction, absurd, psychotronic ...
Plot:
monster, aspiring writer, absurdism, time travel, altering history, alien, creature, breast feeding, female android, androgyny, shapeshifter, shapeshifting ...
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175K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Follows a reclusive romance novelist who was sure nothing could be worse than getting stuck on a book tour with her cover model, until a kidnapping attempt sweeps them both into a cutthroat jungle adventure, proving life can be so much stranger, and ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, funny, cute, rom com, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, family friendly
Plot:
kidnapping, treasure, treasure hunt, novelist, jungle, snake, bodyguard, cargo plane, model, woman in jeopardy, volcano, agoraphobia ...
Time:
2020s, future
Place:
canary islands, fictional island
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263K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, scary ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
obsession, insanity, hostage, loneliness, psychopath, stephen king, kidnapping, snow, isolation, captivity, obsessed fan, female psychopath ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1990, 80s
Place:
colorado, persia, usa, new york
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Joan Wilder is thrust back into a world of murder, chases, foreign intrigue... and love. This time out she's duped by a duplicitous Arab dignitary who brings her to the Middle East, ostensibly to write a book about his life. Of course he's ...
Style:
entertaining, exciting, romantic, light, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, kids, boys' night, teens, family outing ...
Plot:
treasure hunt, desert, adventurer, archaeologist, couple relations, love and romance, treasure, happy ending, novelist, culture clash, escapades, treasure hunter ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
africa, middle east, egypt, french riviera, south of france ...
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329
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Acclaimed author and recluse Norma Boswell is reaching the end of her days. She has kept her terminal diagnosis secret from everyone around her, her housekeeper and gardener, as well as her estranged son, Justin. As her health continues to decline, ...
Style:
heartfelt, romantic drama, emotional, melancholic, sentimental ...
Plot:
cancer, mortality, terminal illness, healing, caregiver, aging, friendship, bittersweet, female protagonist, compassion, legacy, introspection ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA, UK, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Argentina
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Dean and Sal are the portrait of the Beat Generation. Their search for "It" results in a fast paced, energetic roller coaster ride with highs and lows throughout the U.S.
Style:
road movie, sexy, inspirational, period piece, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
road trip, on the road, writers, beat generation, homoeroticism, nude, infidelity, homoerotic friendship, bisexual, travelogue, beatnik, poetry ...
Time:
1940s, year 1948, 1950s, year 1951, year 1949 ...
Place:
nebraska, arizona, california, usa, virginia ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An adaptation of the novel "Frankenstein," as told through the life of Mary Shelley. As she creates her masterpiece, she gives birth to a monster.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
supernatural, experiment gone awry, life & death, violence, chase, mutant, frankenstein's monster, monster, danger, experiment, frankenstein, vengeance ...
Time:
19th century, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
Miss Austen takes a literary mystery – Cassandra Austen notoriously burning her famous sister Jane’s letters – and reimagines it as a fascinating, witty and heart-breaking story of sisterly love, while creating in Cassandra a character as ...
Style:
period drama
Plot:
spinster, brother sister relationship, death of sister, unrequited love, death of fiance, writing a novel, female writer, death of father, priest, moving, engaged couple, sister in law sister in law relationship ...
Time:
1830s, 1810s, 1790s, 1840s
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Lou, a creative and dreamy 12-year-old girl, lives alone with her mother in an orange building with tons of little balconies that give access to the roof. Mina has been her best friend since kindergarten, and Lou has been in love with Tristan, one ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, feel good ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
youth, coming of age, family relations, single parent, fall in love, neighbor, friendship, couples, sexual attraction, teenager, best friend, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A paranoid writer is unable to get started on his second novel. He hires a secretary and then his troubles really begin.
Style:
slasher, psychological, grindhouse, slasher horror, terrifying ...
Plot:
rape and revenge, female nudity, masturbation, nudity, psychopath, erotica, rape, sadism, serial killer, assault, sexual perversion, rape victim ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A police detective is in charge of the investigation of a brutal murder, in which a beautiful and seductive woman could be involved.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, detective, neo noir ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
femme fatale, obsession, sex, nudity, manipulation, seduction, sexual tension, dangerous attraction, police investigation, murder, fatal attraction, strong sexual content ...
Time:
90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, bay area, persia, oakland california, california ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, France, Australia, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
Until The End of the World is an odyssey for the modern age. As with Homer's Odyssey, the purpose of the journey is to restore sight -- a spiritual reconciliation between an obsessed father and a deserted son. Dr. Farber, in trying to find a ...
Style:
road movie, futuristic, surreal, cyber, bleak ...
Plot:
cyberpunk, distopia, on the road, photograph, chase, virtual reality, post apocalypse, magic, dream, lovers, train, road trip ...
Time:
future, year 1991, 90s, near future, year 1999 ...
Place:
australia, berlin germany, china, moscow russia, venice ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Snoopy embarks upon his greatest mission as he and his team take to the skies to pursue their arch-nemesis, while his best pal Charlie Brown begins his own epic quest back home.
Style:
feel good, humorous, computer animated, sweet, 3d animation ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, toddlers, family outing, preschool ...
Plot:
friendship, peanuts, dog, school, popularity, young lovers, unrequited love, american football, poodle, beagle, imagination, young heroes ...
Time:
2010s, 20th century, year 2016
Place:
usa, north america, france, europe, minnesota
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Cara, a women’s magazine writer, who gets burned by her boyfriend on New Years’ Eve, decides to go on a dating detox. Challenged by her employer to write about it, she hopes a spontaneous ski getaway with her best friend will spark inspiration. ...
Style:
captivating, feel good, romantic, humorous, light ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
ski resort, christmas, snow, beautiful scenery, winter, male female relationship, isolated place, prejudice, happy ending, self discovery, love and romance, couple relations ...
Place:
seattle
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3K
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each lives in a separate reality but authors a story about one of the others.
Style:
surreal, humorous, captivating, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
filmmaking, drawing, sex scene, writers, multiple storylines, workplace romance, surrealism, filmmaker, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, breakup, internet, photo studio ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
toronto ontario canada
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