Female writer movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant female writer movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, period drama, period piece, serious, psychological and beautiful films and TV shows about / with female writer, writers, writing, women, love and romance, female protagonist, book, writer's life, mother daughter relationship and love plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as female writer: Based on a True Story (2017), All for Love (2016), Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018), Maya Dardel (2017), Miss Potter (2006), Winter Love Story (2019), My Salinger Year (2020), Colette (2018), Vita & Virginia (2018), The Help (2011).
Best films
New films
| Barbie (2023) | 6.8 | |
| Chinas (2023) | 6.8 | |
| One Day (2024) | 8.0 | |
| Inheritance (2024) | 5.1 | |
| Lonely Planet (2024) | 5.7 |
List of female writer movies
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: 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: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When bestselling celebrity biographer Lee Israel is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack.
Style:
sad, tragicomedy, social, melancholic, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
forgery, cat, female protagonist, female writer, writers, lesbian, living alone, lgbt, accomplice, drinking, deception, letter ...
Time:
future, 90s, year 2014, year 1939, year 1994 ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An internationally respected poet announces she is going to kill herself and needs an heir and executor. Young writers drive up the mountain to compete for the position and are challenged intellectually, emotionally, and erotically.
Style:
psychological, tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense
Plot:
suicide, poet, seductress, loneliness, writers, female writer, rivalry, multiple contestants, death, relationships, inheritance, male female relationship ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The story of Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved and best-selling children's book, "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", and her struggle for love, happiness and success.
Style:
touching, sentimental, period piece, costume drama, serious ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
writers, writer's life, biopic, female artist, book, family relations, snobbism, painting, fall in love, art, happy ending, artist ...
Time:
1900s, victorian era, edwardian era, 19th century, 1910s ...
Place:
england, london, britain, europe, san francisco
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
When new author Cassie is paired with successful author Elliot on a promotional book tour, she learns to believe in her talent. She also finds truth in the old adage “you can’t judge a book by its cover” as she falls for the guy she once ...
Style:
light, sentimental, touching, entertaining, inspirational ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
love story, female writer, christmas, fall in love, love and romance, travel, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, on the road, woman, literature, destiny, interview ...
Place:
usa, boston, new york
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.
Style:
intellectual, talky, clever, witty, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
biopic, addiction, loveless marriage, female nudity, flapper, poetry, prohibition, women, female writer, friendship, hotel, unrequited love ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 1940s, year 1994, victorian era ...
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Ireland
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger.
Style:
captivating, sincere, psychological, independent film
Plot:
aspiring writer, writers, writer's life, coming of age, novelist, female writer, women, career, lifestyle, life philosophy, relationship vs career, grownups ...
Time:
90s, year 1963, year 1988, year 1996, year 1965 ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, washington d.c., brooklyn new york city
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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: 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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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: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Emma, a famous and successful French horror writer, is forced to return to her hometown after the women who haunted her dreams fifteen years ago begin to re-appear. The work she writes is apparently a work of fiction, but how much is fact?
Style:
disturbing, mystical, suspenseful, dark, atmospheric ...
Plot:
writers, childhood trauma, witch, curse, evil spirit, paranormal phenomena, supernatural, female writer, macabre, relationships, fantasy becomes reality, evil witch ...
Place:
brittany, france
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
It’s 1882 and the Gilded Age is in full swing when Marian Brook, a young orphaned daughter of a Southern general, moves in with her rigidly conventional aunts in New York City. With the help of Peggy Scott, an African-American woman masquerading ...
Style:
costume drama, captivating, period piece, historical drama, exciting ...
Plot:
high society, wealthy family, rich man, lifestyle, rich woman, sorority, butler, gilded age, female writer, charity, female protagonist, mansion ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s, 20th century, victorian era
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Trapped in a loveless marriage, a troubled writer experiences a sexual awakening when she meets a carefee American in Italy.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, erotic, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
writers, sexually dissatisfied wife, older woman younger man relationship, love affair, cheating wife, female writer, neglectful husband, relationship problems, creative block, love and romance, writer's life, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe, naples italy
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A retired businesswoman – who tries to control everything around her – decides to write her own obituary. A young journalist takes up the task of finding out the truth, and the result is a life-altering friendship.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, humorous, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
female writer, senior citizen, obituary, advertising executive, radio dj, friendship, restaurant, mother daughter relationship, advertising agency, self discovery, writers, life & death ...
Time:
year 2017
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Nathalie teaches philosophy at a high school in Paris. She is passionate about her job and particularly enjoys passing on the pleasure of thinking. Married with two children, she divides her time between her family, former students and her very ...
Style:
art house, psychological, sincere, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot:
divorce, human animal relationship, midlife crisis, black cat, infidelity, female teacher, husband wife relationship, loss of mother, anarchist, book, anarchism, teacher student relationship ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 90s
Place:
france
Is relevant?
10K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Australia
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The imagined life of one of the world’s most famous authors, Emily Brontë, as she finds her voice and writes the literary classic Wuthering Heights. Explore the relationships that inspired her – her raw, passionate sisterhood with Charlotte and ...
Style:
cute, cerebral, costume drama, crying, romantic drama ...
Plot:
secret relationship, female writer, poem, death of lover, love letter, novelist, female protagonist, wuthering heights, women, based on real people, death of brother, jealousy ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, 1830s
Place:
england, yorkshire, brussels belgium
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
True tale of the tumultuous love affair between two French literary icons of the 19th Century, novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset. But their affair falls apart during an excursion to Venice, Italy where Musset is distracted by drugs and ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, captivating, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot:
sexuality, sex, forbidden love, obsessive love, insomnia, love affair, writers, lifestyle, love and romance, destructive relationship, poet, female writer ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, 1830s
Place:
venice, rome italy, paris france, italy, france ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A biopic of Agatha Christie including her 10 day disappearance.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, tense, detective
Plot:
murder mystery, writers, private detective, disappearance, writer's life, haunted by the past, memory loss, missing person, divorce, female writer, historical figure, historical character ...
Time:
1920s, 1910s, 1930s, year 1912, year 1962
Place:
england, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
To Walk Invisible takes a new look at the extraordinary Brontë family, telling the story of these remarkable women who, despite the obstacles they faced, came from obscurity to produce some of the greatest novels in the English language.
Style:
captivating, dark, historical drama, cult classic, gothic ...
Plot:
writers, victorian england, novelist, sisters, female writer, publisher, women, sister, historical figure, family relations, social relations, writer's life ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1840s
Place:
yorkshire
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A best-selling author hides her love for Christmas after an ugly break up, finding love again when she joins a website for people who are crazy about Christmas: "Christmas Lovers Anonymous".
Style:
semi serious, feel good, thrilling, satirical, captivating ...
Plot:
christmas, female writer, male female relationship, changing lives, love story, romantic relationship, relationships, love affair, satire, love and romance, in love, love interest ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Lifestyle guru and romance expert, Joanna Moret, has developed a fool-proof strategy for ending holiday loneliness and it's all detailed in her best-selling book, The Love Audit. After appearing on a morning show, she is offered the biggest ...
Style:
entertaining, romantic, sweet, light, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
christmas, holiday, female writer, christmas romance, pretend relationship, lifestyle, love and romance, relationship vs career, unlikely couple, fall in love, life philosophy, opposites attract ...
Place:
chicago
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Margaret Lea, a young biographer, attempts to interview writer Vida Winter, whose health is deteriorating. Vida has previously denied access to the secrets of her life and childhood home. Vida tells her story to Margaret, helping Margaret to ...
Style:
gothic, captivating, serious, touching, psychological ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
family secret, childhood trauma, twins, family relations, writer's life, sister sister relationship, haunted by the past, sibling relationship, writers, aging, unsupportive parent, storytelling ...
Place:
england, united kingdom
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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
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
While grappling with tremendous personal tragedy, writer Isabel Wilkerson sets herself on a path of global investigation and discovery.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot:
caste system, female writer, class system, society, love story, social problems, relationships, male female relationship, social issues, love interest, relationship problems, love affair ...
Place:
germany, india
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a reservation mix-up at a mountain resort forces a newly-single travel writer to share a cabin with a handsome widower and his precocious daughter over the holidays, their lives are transformed by the magic of Christmas and the unexpected power ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, sincere, funny, light ...
Plot:
christmas, single father, christmas season, christmas vacation, snowstorm, single parent, father daughter relationship, female writer, car breakdown, misunderstanding, party, lawyer ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Ruby, an aspiring romance novelist, joins a writers retreat in Tahoe, in order to win a lucrative book deal. But when Woody, the hotel owner, shows her the beauty of nature, Ruby wonders if she's been writing the wrong kinds of stories.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, satirical, romantic drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
lake tahoe, female writer, couple relations, writer's life, relationships, love story, love affair, romantic relationship, love and romance, male female relationship, love interest, satire ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Eren Yeager and others of the 104th Training Corps have just begun to become full members of the Survey Corps. As they ready themselves to face the Titans once again, their preparations are interrupted by the invasion of Wall Rose—but all is not ...
Style:
anime, manga, exciting, futuristic, tense ...
Plot:
fight, female writer, giant monster, survival, violence, adaptation, struggle for survival, violent, supernatural ability, humanity, morphing, humanity in peril ...
Time:
2010s
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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: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.
Style:
romantic, sweet, touching, costume drama, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
unfulfilled love, love story, couples, writer's life, love and romance, love, prejudice, fall in love, biopic, women, passion, destiny ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, victorian era, ancient times, 50s ...
Place:
england, ireland, britain, europe, london
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