🏷 Discover The Best Writer Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

81 titles with this tag

Uncover the World of Writers Through Cinema and Television

Immerse yourself in the fascinating stories of writers, their struggles, and triumphs, as depicted in some of the most captivating movies and TV shows. From the struggles of a novelist to the creative process of a playwright, these stories showcase the power of the written word and the impact it has on our lives. Explore the world of writers through the lens of cinema and television.

Cast

Hailee Steinfeld

Toby Huss

Adrian Enscoe

Anna Baryshnikov

Dickinson (2019) TV Show

8.5 983 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 30

Audience: TV-14

Story: Emily Dickinson. Poet. Daughter. Total rebel. In this coming-of-age story, Emily’s determined to become the world's greatest poet.

Plot: poetry, lesbian relationship, writer, fictional biography, introspective, furious, emily dickinson, foreboding, ...

Time: 19th century

Cast

Emma Stone

Viola Davis

Bryce Dallas Howard

Octavia Spencer

The Help (2011)

8.2 9.1K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 146 min.

Audience: PG-13

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 struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.

Style: exploitation

Plot: based on novel or book, mississippi river, racial segregation, racism, writer, maid, moral courage, ressentiment, ...

Time: 1960s

Cast

Jack Nicholson

Shelley Duvall

Danny Lloyd

Scatman Crothers

The Shining (1980)

8.2 19.1K votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 144 min.

Audience: R

Story: Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.

Plot: hotel, new year's eve, child abuse, based on novel or book, isolation, telepathy, delusion, halloween, ...

Strangers from Hell (2019) TV Show

8.0 144 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Unpleasant events disturb the life of an aspiring crime fiction writer when he becomes a resident of an apartment building teeming with shady neighbors.

Plot: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), fight, kidnapping, paranoia, hallucination, investigation, psychopath, psychological abuse, ...

Cast

Larry David

Jeff Garlin

Susie Essman

Cheryl Hines

Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000) TV Show

8.0 940 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 12

Episodes: 120

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else.

Plot: screenwriter, writing, idiot, celebrity, observational comedy, jewish american, los angeles, california, ...

Cast

Penn Badgley

Charlotte Ritchie

Griffin Matthews

Anna Camp

You (2018) TV Show

8.0 4.0K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 50

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A dangerously charming, obsessive man goes to extreme measures to insert himself into the lives of women who fascinate him.

Style: dark, psychological

Plot: new york city, based on novel or book, jealousy, infidelity, cheating, obsession, female friendship, addiction, ...

Cast

Mihu00e1ly Vu00edg

Putyi Horvu00e1th

Szu00e9kely B. Miklu00f3s

👤

Erika Bu00f3k

Satantango (1994)

8.0 310 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Germany, Hungary

Duration: 432 min.

Audience: 15

Story: Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.

Plot: farm, countryside, based on novel or book, cat, rain, loneliness, art house, poverty, ...

Place: hungary

Cast

Nathan Fillion

Stana Katic

Molly C. Quinn

Jon Huertas

Castle (2009) TV Show

8.0 2.1K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 8

Episodes: 173

Audience: TV-14

Story: After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard "Rick" Castle receives permission from the Mayor of New York City to tag along with an NYPD homicide investigation team for research purposes.

Plot: new york city, police, writer, novelist, criminal investigation, female detective, homicide detective, criminal consultant, ...

Cast

Marcello Mastroianni

Jeanne Moreau

Monica Vitti

Bernhard Wicki

La Notte (1961)

7.9 742 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Italy, France

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship in Milan.

Plot: infidelity, hospital, black and white, writer, socialite party

Place: milan

Pather Panchali (1955)

7.8 494 votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: India

Duration: 125 min.

Story: Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work. Alone, his wife, Sarbojaya, looks after her rebellious daughter, Durga, and her young son, Apu, as well as Harihar's elderly aunt Indir. The children enjoy the small pleasures of their difficult life, while their parents suffer the daily indignities heaped upon them.

Plot: robbery, misery, difficult childhood, move, monsoon, teacher, priest, remembered death, ...

Cast

Ray Milland

Jane Wyman

Phillip Terry

Howard Da Silva

The Lost Weekend (1945)

7.6 672 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last – one way or another.

Plot: based on novel or book, alcohol, brother, paranoia, bartender, addiction, alcoholism, flashback, ...

Cast

Audrey Hepburn

George Peppard

Patricia Neal

Buddy Ebsen

Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

7.6 4.5K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.

Plot: new york city, love of one's life, broken engagement, cat, store window, cigarette, free spirit, writer, ...

Cast

David Duchovny

Natascha McElhone

Evan Handler

Pamela Adlon

Californication (2007) TV Show

7.6 1.3K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 7

Episodes: 84

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A self-loathing, alcoholic writer attempts to repair his damaged relationships with his daughter and her mother while combating sex addiction, a budding drug problem, and the seeming inability to avoid making bad decisions.

Plot: self-destruction, change, addiction, writer, willpower

Place: california

Murder, She Wrote (1984) TV Show

7.5 455 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 12

Episodes: 264

Audience: TV-14

Story: An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

Plot: detective, maine, writer, investigator, elderly, mystery writer, mysterious, criminal consultant, ...

Cast

Haluk Bilginer

Melisa Su00f6zen

Demet Akbau011f

Ayberk Pekcan

Winter Sleep (2014)

7.5 626 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Turkey, France

Duration: 196 min.

Story: Aydın is a hotel owner and a retired actor in rural Turkey. As winter emerges he begins navigating the conflicts within the relationships with his wife, sister and existence.

Plot: hotel, husband wife relationship, retirement, rural area, writer, anatolia, turkey

Cast

Ethan Hawke

Julie Delpy

Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick

Jennifer Prior

Before Midnight (2013)

7.5 2.7K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Greece, United States of America

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: R

Story: It has been nine years since we last met Jesse and Celine, the French-American couple who once met on a train in Vienna. They now live in Paris with twin daughters but have spent a summer in Greece at the invitation of an author colleague of Jesse's. When the vacation is over and Jesse must send his teenage son off to the States, he begins to question his life decisions, and his relationship with Celine is at risk.

Style: romantic

Plot: hotel, hotel room, dreams, airport, greek, friends, author, writer, ...

Place: greece

Cast

Tina Fey

Alec Baldwin

Tracy Morgan

Jane Krakowski

30 Rock (2006) TV Show

7.5 822 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 7

Episodes: 138

Audience: TV-14

Story: Liz Lemon, the head writer for a late-night TV variety show in New York, tries to juggle all the egos around her while chasing her own dream.

Style: lighthearted

Plot: new york city, writing, parody, female protagonist, writer, sketch comedy, employer employee relationship, sitcom, ...

Cast

Amy Adams

Jake Gyllenhaal

Michael Shannon

Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Nocturnal Animals (2016)

7.4 8.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America, China

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: R

Story: Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.

Plot: based on novel or book, cheating, parent child relationship, hostage, insomnia, cowardice, flashback, revenge, ...

Cast

Lal

Sreenivasan

Vinay Forrt

Sajitha Madathil

Shutter (2012)

7.4 21 votes

Genre: Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 134 min.

Story: When Rasheed returns to Kozhikode from the Gulf, his friend locks him up in a commercial space with Thankam, a prostitute. Things go down the hill when his friend is unable to let him leave.

Plot: friendship, prostitute, society, writer, car driver

Cast

Mammootty

Aparna Gopinath

Nedumudi Venu

Prithviraj Sukumaran

Munnariyippu (2014)

7.4 23 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 115 min.

Story: Raghavan, a simple and lonely man, comes out of jail. His life changes after he meets Anjali, a journalist who wants to prove herself professionally.

Plot: jail, writer, murderer, wrongful conviction

1 2 3 … 5 Next »