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Cast

Anne Hathaway

Jim Sturgess

Tom Mison

Jodie Whittaker

One Day (2011)

7.4 4.5K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After spending the night together on the eve of their college graduation, Dexter and Emma are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, and sometimes not.

Plot: based on novel or book, comedian, love, author, writer, divorce, friends in love, woman director, ...

Cast

Yoo Ah-in

Steven Yeun

Jeon Jong-seo

Kim Soo-kyung

Burning (2018)

7.4 1.8K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: South Korea, Japan

Duration: 148 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Deliveryman Jong-su is out on a job when he runs into Hae-mi, a girl who once lived in his neighborhood. She asks if he'd mind looking after her cat while she's away on a trip to Africa. On her return, she introduces to Jong-su an enigmatic young man named Ben, who she met during her trip. One day Ben tells Jong-su about his most unusual hobby.

Style: melancholy, philosophical

Plot: fire, jealousy, dreams, countryside, love triangle, cat, sex shop, sadness, ...

Cast

Greg Kinnear

Jennifer Connelly

Lily Collins

Nat Wolff

Stuck in Love (2013)

7.4 2.0K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: R

Story: An acclaimed writer, his ex-wife, and their teenaged children come to terms with the complexities of love in all its forms over the course of one tumultuous year.

Plot: cheating, parent child relationship, writing, thanksgiving, north carolina, love, writer, dating, ...

Cast

Emma Thompson

Tom Hanks

Colin Farrell

Paul Giamatti

Saving Mr. Banks (2013)

7.3 3.5K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, History

Country: Australia, United Kingdom

Duration: 126 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Author P.L. Travers looks back on her childhood while reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.

Plot: biography, based on true story, death of father, alcoholism, author, writer, aftercreditsstinger, disneyland, ...

Time: 1960s

Cast

Nicolas Cage

Meryl Streep

Chris Cooper

Tilda Swinton

Adaptation. (2002)

7.3 2.8K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: R

Story: Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to adapt "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orlean, Kaufman's life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman and Orlean's book become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the other's.

Style: cynical, philosophical, satirical, absurd

Plot: based on novel or book, marriage crisis, alligator, writer's block, orchid, writer, twins, reflective, ...

Sophie's Choice (1982)

7.3 942 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance, War

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 151 min.

Audience: R

Story: Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.

Plot: new york city, concentration camp, holocaust (shoah), writer

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Place: poland

Cast

Frank Langella

Michael Sheen

Kevin Bacon

Rebecca Hall

Frost/Nixon (2008)

7.3 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: France, United Kingdom

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: R

Story: For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit for one all-inclusive interview to confront the questions of his time in office and the Watergate scandal that ended his presidency. Nixon surprised everyone in selecting Frost as his televised confessor, intending to easily outfox the breezy British showman and secure a place in the hearts and minds of Americans. Likewise, Frost's team harboured doubts about their boss's ability to hold his own. But as the cameras rolled, a charged battle of wits resulted.

Plot: usa president, politics, camera, lie, watergate scandal, scandal, richard nixon, reporter, ...

Time: 1970s

Cast

Fabrice Luchini

Ernst Umhauer

Kristin Scott Thomas

Emmanuelle Seigner

In the House (2012)

7.2 917 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Country: France

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: R

Story: A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, but the boy’s intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events.

Plot: high school, teacher, teen angst, male homosexuality, school, writer, teacher student relationship, lgbt, ...

Cast

Bradley Cooper

Robert De Niro

Abbie Cornish

Andrew Howard

Limitless (2011)

7.2 11.6K votes

Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The life of an unsuccessful writer is transformed by a top-secret 'smart drug' that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life.

Plot: new york city, medicine, politician, iq, pill, stalking, superhuman, transhumanism, ...

Cast

Aleksandr Galibin

Anna Kovalchuk

Oleg Basilashvili

Aleksandr Abdulov

The Master and Margarita (2005) TV Show

7.2 94 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: Russia

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Story: The Master and Margarita is a Russian television production of Telekanal Rossiya, based on the novel The Master and Margarita, written by Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov between 1928 and 1940. Vladimir Bortko directed this adaptation and was also its screenwriter.

Plot: based on novel or book, black magic, miniseries, writer, devil, moscow, russia

Trumbo (2015)

7.2 1.7K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: R

Story: The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.

Plot: parent child relationship, movie business, screenwriter, biography, hollywood, writer, communism, blacklist, ...

Time: 1940s

Episodes (2011) TV Show

7.2 206 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 41

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A British husband-and-wife comedy writing team travel to Hollywood to remake their successful British TV series, with disastrous results.

Plot: hollywood, writer, sitcom

Carnage (2011)

7.2 3.2K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: France, Germany

Duration: 80 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two pairs of parents hold a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a fight, though as their time together progresses, increasingly childish behavior throws the discussion into chaos.

Style: tense

Plot: flat, hamster, dark comedy, vomit, based on play or musical, insult, writer, tulips, ...

The Beast in Me (2025) TV Show

7.1 266 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A famous author is pulled into a twisted mind game with her rich, powerful new neighbor — who might be a murderer.

Style: philosophical

Plot: writer's block, lesbian relationship, disappearance, miniseries, writer, death, ex-wife, death of a loved one, ...

Sideways (2004)

7.1 1.9K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two middle-aged men embark on a spiritual journey through Californian wine country. One is an unpublished novelist suffering from depression, and the other is only days away from walking down the aisle.

Style: whimsical

Plot: based on novel or book, golf, wine, road trip, stag night, marijuana, writer, buddy, ...

Place: california

Cast

Mohanlal

Kaniha

Shankar Ramakrishnan

Madhu

Spirit (2012)

7.1 30 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: India

Duration: 145 min.

Story: Raghunandan (Mohanlal) is a TV show host and a budding novelist. He is a loner and a compulsive alcoholic, the latter of which resulted in his divorce from Meera (Kaniha). Despite this Meera and her husband Alexy (Shankar Ramakrishnan) are his best friends. His alcoholism however starts taking a huge toll on his life and things take a turn for the worst. At this point he meets Maniyan (Nandu) a plumber who is a bigger alcoholic than he is which makes Raghu re-evaluate his relationship with alcohol.

Plot: hidden camera, writer, tragic event, police station, alcoholic

Newhart (1982) TV Show

7.1 60 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 8

Episodes: 184

Audience: TV-G

Story: Dick Loudon and his wife Joanna decide to leave life in New York City and buy a little inn in Vermont. Dick is a how-to book writer, who eventually becomes a local TV celebrity as host of "Vermont Today." George Utley is the handyman at the inn and Leslie Vanderkellen is the maid, with ambitions of being an Olympic Ski champion; she is later replaced by her cousin Stephanie, an heiress who hates her job. Her boyfriend is Dick's yuppie TV producer, Michael Harris. There are many other quirky characters in this fictional little town, including Dick's neighbors Larry, Darryl, and Darryl...three brothers who buy the Minuteman Cafe from Kirk Devane. Besides sharing a name, Darryl and Darryl never speak.

Plot: small town, writer, inn, sitcom

Cast

Carmen Maura

Luis Hostalot

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What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)

7.1 270 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: Spain

Duration: 102 min.

Story: A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her headstrong mother-in-law, and her sex worker neighbor, among others.

Plot: prostitute, husband wife relationship, madrid, spain, sadism, taxi driver, hustler, dark comedy, ...

Cast

Glenn Close

Jonathan Pryce

Christian Slater

Max Irons

The Wife (2017)

7.1 1.1K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Sweden, Switzerland

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: R

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.

Plot: infidelity, husband wife relationship, based on novel or book, professor, nobel prize, stockholm, sweden, flashback, ...

Time: 1960s, 1990s

Cast

Daniel Auteuil

Juliette Binoche

Annie Girardot

Bernard Le Coq

Caché (2005)

7.0 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: France, Austria

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: R

Story: George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that feature his family, along with disturbing drawings that are difficult to interpret. He has no idea who has made and sent him the videos. Progressively, the contents of the videos become more personal, indicating that the sender has known George for a long time.

Plot: dreams, paris, france, upper class, suppressed past, paranoia, anonymous letter, confidence, ...

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