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1. Seinfeld (1989–1998)
TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy
The continuing misadventures of neurotic New York City stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld and his equally neurotic New York City friends.
Stars: Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards, Jason Alexander
Votes: 351,779
2. It's Okay to Not Be Okay (2020)
TV-MA | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An extraordinary road to emotional healing opens up for an selfish antisocial children's-book writer and a selfless psych-ward caretaker when they cross paths.
Stars: Kim Soo-hyun, Seo Ye-Ji, Oh Jung-se, Park Gyuyoung
Votes: 34,382
3. Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Bridget Jones is determined to improve herself while she looks for love in a year in which she keeps a personal diary.
Director: Sharon Maguire | Stars: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Gemma Jones
Votes: 263,857 | Gross: $71.54M
4. Elf (2003)
PG | 97 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Raised as an oversized elf, Buddy travels from the North Pole to New York City to meet his biological father, Walter Hobbs, who doesn't know he exists and is in desperate need of some Christmas spirit.
Director: Jon Favreau | Stars: Will Ferrell, James Caan, Bob Newhart, Zooey Deschanel
Votes: 310,890 | Gross: $173.40M
5. Julie & Julia (2009)
PG-13 | 123 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Julia Child's story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell's 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child's first book.
Director: Nora Ephron | Stars: Amy Adams, Meryl Streep, Chris Messina, Stanley Tucci
Votes: 128,906 | Gross: $94.13M
6. White Noise (I) (2005)
PG-13 | 101 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
An architect's desire to speak with his wife from beyond the grave becomes an obsession with supernatural repercussions.
Director: Geoffrey Sax | Stars: Michael Keaton, Deborah Kara Unger, Ian McNeice, Chandra West
Votes: 50,828 | Gross: $56.39M
7. Miss Potter (2006)
PG | 88 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
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.
Director: Chris Noonan | Stars: Renée Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Emily Watson, Barbara Flynn
Votes: 32,030 | Gross: $2.98M
8. The Last Days of Disco (1998)
R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Story of two female Manhattan book editors fresh out of college, both finding love and themselves while frequenting the local disco.
Director: Whit Stillman | Stars: Chloë Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale, Chris Eigeman, Mackenzie Astin
Votes: 14,376 | Gross: $2.99M
9. Hopscotch (1980)
R | 106 min | Adventure, Comedy
Grounded with a desk job by incompetent superiors, a clever CIA agent retires and writes a tell all memoir that will embarrass his bosses, prompting him to go on the run and elude them.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Sam Waterston, Ned Beatty
Votes: 8,960
10. Reprise (2006)
R | 105 min | Drama
Fueled by literary aspirations and youthful exuberance, two competitive friends endure the pangs of love, depression, and burgeoning careers.
Director: Joachim Trier | Stars: Anders Danielsen Lie, Espen Klouman Høiner, Viktoria Winge, Odd-Magnus Williamson
Votes: 15,643 | Gross: $0.55M
11. Amelia (2009)
PG | 111 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.
Director: Mira Nair | Stars: Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston
Votes: 13,627 | Gross: $14.24M
12. The Answer Man (2009)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Romance
A reclusive author of spiritual books is pursued for advice by a single mother and a man fresh out of rehab.
Director: John Hindman | Stars: Jeff Daniels, Lauren Graham, Lou Taylor Pucci, Olivia Thirlby
Votes: 7,294 | Gross: $0.03M
13. Susan Slade (1961)
Not Rated | 116 min | Drama
Premarital sex, secrets, and society. At 17, shy Susan Slade is on her way to California after a 10-year stay at a remote Chilean mine where her father was chief engineer. Onboard ship, ... See full summary »
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Troy Donahue, Dorothy McGuire, Connie Stevens, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 944
14. Grey Owl (1999)
PG-13 | 118 min | Biography, Drama, Western
The story of the life and work of the Canadian fur trapper-turned-conservationist who claimed to be an aboriginal North American.
Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Stewart Bick, Vlasta Vrana, Annie Galipeau
Votes: 4,047 | Gross: $0.63M
15. Conversations with God (2006)
PG | 109 min | Adventure, Drama
Chronicles the dramatic true journey of a struggling man turned homeless, who inadvertently becomes a spiritual messenger and bestselling author.
Director: Stephen Deutsch | Stars: Henry Czerny, Michelle Merring, Frederick Charles Canada, Bill Geislinger
Votes: 2,497 | Gross: $0.42M
16. Non-Stop (2013 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 90 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A woman, after being left at the altar, has a brief liaison with a handsome stranger on a plane which ultimately puts her and everyone else on the flight in terrible danger.
Director: Richard Gabai | Stars: Lacey Chabert, Drew Seeley, Will Kemp, Betsy Russell
Votes: 911
17. Undercover Angel (1999)
PG | 91 min | Comedy, Drama
A writer with no focus in his work, becomes the unwilling babysitter of a precocious little girl who turns his life around.
Director: Bryan Michael Stoller | Stars: Yasmine Bleeth, Dean Winters, Emily Mae Young, Lorraine Ansell
Votes: 1,096
18. The War Is Over (1966)
121 min | Drama, War
A middle-aged political activist tries to dissuade his young followers from taking radical action.
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Yves Montand, Ingrid Thulin, Geneviève Bujold, Jean Dasté
Votes: 2,442
19. Emily's Reasons Why Not (2006– )
30 min | Comedy, Romance
Emily Sanders is a successful young woman with fabulous job in publishing and great friends. She got to where she is by working hard and always followed a set of self-imposed guidelines ... See full summary »
Stars: Heather Graham, Nadia Dajani, James Patrick Stuart, Khary Payton
Votes: 217
20. A Storybook Christmas (2019 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 83 min | Comedy, Romance
Event Planner Celeste is surprised when a nanny agency sends a man to take care of her niece during Christmas. However, she soon realizes she may have found the perfect nanny for her niece, and the perfect Christmas love for herself.
Director: Curtis Crawford | Stars: Ali Liebert, Jake Epstein, Habree Larratt, Victoria Maria
Votes: 993
21. 150 Milligrams (2016)
128 min | Biography, Drama
Dr. Irène Frachon from Brest discovers, that Mediator pills cause heart valve problems/deaths. In 2009, she starts an uphill battle against the producer and the French health authorities.
Director: Emmanuelle Bercot | Stars: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Benoît Magimel, Charlotte Laemmel, Isabelle de Hertogh
Votes: 1,512
22. Full Speed (1996)
85 min | Drama, Romance
A brief extract of four kids' lives somewhere in France. Quentin, who won a writers contest and now pays more attention to his career as an author than to his friends, beautiful Julie, his ... See full summary »
Director: Gaël Morel | Stars: Élodie Bouchez, Stéphane Rideau, Pascal Cervo, Meziane Bardadi
Votes: 881
23. Hawaiian Gardens (2001)
Not Rated | 110 min
A seductive 17-year-old temptress who loves to read finds herself in an unusual triangle between her mother's lover--a 70-year-old writer--and a German copyright pirate.
Director: Percy Adlon | Stars: Tzi Ma, Richard Roundtree, Rodney Rincon, Joseph Anthony
Votes: 65
24. Hot and Deadly (1982)
R | 90 min | Action, Drama
Carefree electrician Tom Cathral is recruited by The Company, and is quickly offered a full-time promotion to join the Retrievers, an elite squad of crooked secret operatives. His refusal ... See full summary »
Director: Elliott Hong | Stars: Max Thayer, Shawn Hoskins, Lenard Miller, Randy Anderson
Votes: 165
25. Believe in Me (1971)
R | 86 min | Drama
An intern (Michael Sarrazin) and his literary lover (Jacqueline Bisset) are consumed by their addictions to the drug called speed, methamphetamine.
Director: Stuart Hagmann | Stars: Michael Sarrazin, Jacqueline Bisset, Jon Cypher, Allen Garfield
Votes: 190
26. Novel Romance (2006)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Romance
A successful female editor whose biological clock is ticking and and a struggling writer make a deal to realize her dreams of motherhood and his dreams of literary stardom. But once they get everything they want, are they really happy?
Director: Emily Skopov | Stars: Traci Lords, Paul Johansson, Sherilyn Fenn, Mariette Hartley
Votes: 284
28. Eine Liebe für den Frieden - Bertha von Suttner und Alfred Nobel (2014 TV Movie)
88 min | Biography, Drama, History
An unusual woman, a dramatic life: Bertha von Suttner never had it easy. Although she was born as Countess Kinsky and was highly educated, she and her family do not enjoy a good reputation.... See full summary »
Director: Urs Egger | Stars: Birgit Minichmayr, Sebastian Koch, Philipp Hochmair, Sona MacDonald
Votes: 145
29. Forbidden Lie$ (2007)
Not Rated | 104 min | Documentary, Drama
A dramatized documentary investigating accusations that "Forbidden Love" author Norma Khouri made up her biographical tale of a Muslim friend who was killed for dating a Christian.
Director: Anna Broinowski | Stars: Norma Khouri, Malcolm Knox, Rana Husseini, Caroline Overington
Votes: 633
30. The Novelist (I) (2009)
75 min | Drama
The journey of an aspiring writer struggling to publish his first novel.
Director: Jason Young | Stars: Clare Buckingham, Greg Cheverall, Raymond Coker, Tracy Anne Green
Votes: 16
31. Bookmaker's Progress (1979)
28 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Donald Winkler | Star: Katie Malloch
32. Author A Parody (2018)
8 min | Short, Comedy, Drama | Completed
Writing Romance Can Be a Riot.
Director: Kailin Gow | Star: Kailin Gow
33. Ap' ti Thalassa (2010)
16 min | Short, Fantasy, Mystery
A young Bible salesman comes out of the sea in a beach seemingly outside of time and space, and there he finds a young girl who's not at all interested in his merchandise. Nevertheless, he ... See full summary »
Director: Sifis Mainas | Stars: Charis Chiotis, Elias Kounelas, Evgenia Kovotsou, Manos Vakousis
34.
Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode:
Author! Author!
(1979)
TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance
During a trip to Walnut Grove, Caroline's mother passes away. Her father is very grief-stricken, until son-in-law Charles - impressed with his stories about growing up in the Little House ... See full summary »
Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson
Votes: 269
35.
Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode:
Once Upon a Time
(1983)
TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Laura needs something to fill some time so Almanzo tells her about a book writing contest. He convinces her to write her stories down that she told him about growing up. She travels to ... See full summary »
Director: Maury Dexter | Stars: Melissa Gilbert, Dean Butler, Katherine MacGregor, Richard Bull
Votes: 237
36.
Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode:
A Little Night Work
(1988)
TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After her publisher announces his impending retirement, Jessica heads to NYC where she is simultaneously wooed by potential new publishers and a smooth-talking jewel thief.
Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Angela Lansbury, John Dye, Jamie Farr, Leann Hunley
Votes: 398
37.
Shelley (1979–1983)
Episode:
Owner Occupiers
(1980)
Comedy
With the baby on the way, and feeling more financially secure, Shelley and Fran are househunting. They manage to find their dream home - even if it does need demolishing and rebuilding! ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Parker | Stars: Hywel Bennett, Belinda Sinclair, Josephine Tewson, Sylvia Kay
Votes: 18
39.
Being Erica (2009–2011)
Episode:
What I Am Is What I Am
(2009)
TV-PG | 42 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Erica goes back to 1995, her second year of university, where she is invited to join a secret society.
Director: Chris Grismer | Stars: Erin Karpluk, Tyron Leitso, Vinessa Antoine, Reagan Pasternak
Votes: 147