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1. Crimson Peak (2015)
R | 119 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds - and remembers.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Hunnam
Votes: 158,340 | Gross: $31.09M
2. Croupier (1998)
Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama
An aspiring writer is hired as a croupier at a casino, where he realizes that his life as a croupier would make a great novel.
Director: Mike Hodges | Stars: Clive Owen, Nick Reding, Nicholas Ball, Alexander Morton
Votes: 23,539 | Gross: $6.20M
3. The Peanuts Movie (2015)
G | 88 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Snoopy embarks upon his greatest mission as he and his team take to the skies to pursue their archnemesis, while his best pal Charlie Brown begins his own epic quest back home to win the love of his life.
Director: Steve Martino | Stars: Noah Schnapp, Bill Melendez, Hadley Belle Miller, Francesca Capaldi
Votes: 49,842 | Gross: $130.18M
4. Maggie's Plan (2015)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Maggie wants to have a baby, raising him on her own, but when she gets romantically involved with John, a married man, things get complicated and all the balance of Maggie's plans may collapse.
Director: Rebecca Miller | Stars: Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, Julianne Moore, Maya Rudolph
Votes: 18,329 | Gross: $3.35M
5. Twixt (2011)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A struggling horror writer visiting a small town on a book tour 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.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Val Kilmer, Bruce Dern, Elle Fanning, Ben Chaplin
Votes: 11,708
6. Genius (2016)
PG-13 | 104 min | Biography, Drama
A chronicle of Max Perkins's time as the book editor at Scribner, where he oversaw works by Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.
Director: Michael Grandage | Stars: Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Laura Linney
Votes: 21,373 | Gross: $1.36M
7. Love at Second Sight (2019)
117 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A man tries to make his wife fall in love with him again, after waking up in an alternate reality where she never knew him.
Director: Hugo Gélin | Stars: François Civil, Joséphine Japy, Benjamin Lavernhe, Camille Lellouche
Votes: 6,039
8. Zoom (2015)
Not Rated | 96 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
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.
Director: Pedro Morelli | Stars: Tyler Labine, Alison Pill, Michael Eklund, Mariana Ximenes
Votes: 3,012
9. Two English Girls (1971)
130 min | Drama, Romance
At the beginning of the 20th century, middle-class young Frenchman Claude Roc meets young Englishwoman Ann Brown in Paris. They become friends and she invites him to spend holidays at the ... See full summary »
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Kika Markham, Stacey Tendeter, Sylvia Marriott
Votes: 5,866
10. Promise at Dawn (2017)
131 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A man recounts his life, from his childhood through his experiences in World War II, and the story of his self-sacrificing mother, who raised him alone.
Director: Eric Barbier | Stars: Pierre Niney, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Didier Bourdon, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Votes: 3,853
11. House by the River (1950)
Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A deranged writer murders a maid after she resists his advances. The writer engages his brother's help in hiding the body, causing unexpected problems for both of them.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Louis Hayward, Lee Bowman, Jane Wyatt, Dorothy Patrick
Votes: 4,171
12. Cosmos (2015)
Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A young man, hoping to write a novel, visits a French guest-house with a friend, he but finds himself distracted by a strange mystery and the stranger inhabitants of the home.
Director: Andrzej Zulawski | Stars: Sabine Azéma, Jean-François Balmer, Jonathan Genet, Johan Libéreau
Votes: 2,195 | Gross: $0.02M
13. The History of Love (2016)
134 min | Drama, Romance, War
The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother's loneliness.
Director: Radu Mihaileanu | Stars: Gemma Arterton, Sophie Nélisse, Elliott Gould, Derek Jacobi
Votes: 1,533
14. Nobody Else But You (2011)
Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A bestselling crime novelist who is desperately looking for a new story hones his focus on the apparent suicide of a small-town woman, an aspiring model who thought she was the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe.
Director: Gérald Hustache-Mathieu | Stars: Jean-Paul Rouve, Sophie Quinton, Guillaume Gouix, Arsinée Khanjian
Votes: 2,961 | Gross: $0.04M
15. Madrigal (2007)
112 min | Sci-Fi
"Not everything is what it seems". This is the motto of Fernando Pérez's Madrigal, an esoteric fable built, in the first part, around a handsome actor's love story with an overweight and ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Pérez | Stars: Carlos Enrique Almirante, Liety Chaviano, Ana de Armas, Luis Alberto García
Votes: 163
16. Cézanne et moi (2016)
R | 117 min | Biography, Drama
The parallel paths of the lives, careers and passionate friendship of post-impressionist painter Paul Cezanne and novelist Emile Zola. Both left their hometown to conquer the art scene in Paris.
Director: Danièle Thompson | Stars: Guillaume Canet, Guillaume Gallienne, Alice Pol, Déborah François
Votes: 1,420 | Gross: $0.26M
17. Love Lasts Three Years (2011)
98 min | Comedy, Romance
A look at the dissolution of a marriage.
Director: Frédéric Beigbeder | Stars: Louise Bourgoin, Gaspard Proust, JoeyStarr, Jonathan Lambert
Votes: 5,080
18. Sun Kissed (2006)
Unrated | 92 min | Drama, Romance
Teddy, a young writer, ventures to an isolated desert house to complete his first novel, where he meets and seduces the mysterious caretaker, Leo. Layers of memory and hallucination unfold that intertwine the two men.
Director: Patrick McGuinn | Stars: John Ort, Gregory Marcel, Laura Hofrichter, George Stoll
Votes: 489
19. Whole New Thing (2005)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
After years of being home schooled by hippie parents, Emerson is enrolled at his local high school. The intelligent and androgynous youth confounds his classmates and captures the attention... See full summary »
Director: Amnon Buchbinder | Stars: Aaron Webber, Robert Joy, Rebecca Jenkins, Daniel MacIvor
Votes: 1,312 | Gross: $0.01M
20. Redwoods (2009)
Not Rated | 82 min | Drama, Romance
An unfulfilled gay man in a stagnant relationship finds his life changed forever when he meets a struggling writer visiting the Redwoods Country.
Director: David Lewis | Stars: Matthew Montgomery, Tad Coughenour, Caleb Dorfman, Brendan Bradley
Votes: 1,691
21. Love and Fury (2016)
94 min | Drama, Romance
1980s Helsinki. Two aspiring writers fall in passionate love. One publishes a hit novel, the other spirals into madness. Their intense relationship blurs the line between love and madness, testing their bond.
Director: Alli Haapasalo | Stars: Laura Birn, Lauri Tilkanen, Kaija Pakarinen, Tiina Weckström
Votes: 557
22. The Overbrook Brothers (2009)
Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
A road movie where two brothers search for their biological parents.
Director: John E. Bryant | Stars: Nathan Harlan, Mark Reeb, Laurel Whitsett, John Jones
Votes: 247
23. Sirens: Home Movie Chat with Hugh Grant and John Duigan (2010 Video)
19 min | Short, Biography, Comedy
Stars: Hugh Grant, John Duigan
24. Sirens: Producer Sue Milliken in conversation with Paul Harris from 3RRR's Film Buff Forecast (1994 Video)
33 min | Short, Talk-Show
Stars: Paul Harris, Sue Milliken
25. Parallel Novel (2016)
3 min | Short, Fantasy
A writer tries to force his character into suicide, but the character fights back.
Director: Go Min-si | Star: Im Too-Chul
26. Je les aime tous (2017)
29 min | Short, Drama
Director: Guillaume Kozakiewiez | Stars: Corinne Masiero, Alice Barnole, Benjmain Morel, Paul Manate
Votes: 16
27. My Brilliant Career: The Miles Franklin Story (2004 Video)
4 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Star: Miles Franklin
28.
Amor en custodia (2005–2006)
Episode:
Episode #1.5
(2005)
45 min | Drama, Romance
Stars: Margarita Gralia, Sergio Basañez, Paola Núñez, Andrés Palacios
29.
Amor en custodia (2005–2006)
Episode:
Episode #1.25
(2005)
45 min | Drama, Romance
Stars: Margarita Gralia, Sergio Basañez, Paola Núñez, Andrés Palacios
30.
One Tree Hill (2003–2012)
Episode:
You're Gonna Need Someone on Your Side
(2008)
TV-14 | 40 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Missing Nathan gives Jamie nightmares about Dan, who is indeed paroled. Lucas and Lindsay decide to 'coincidentally' have separate stag and hen nights at the same place, so Nathan and Haley... See full summary »
Director: Michael J. Leone | Stars: Chad Michael Murray, James Lafferty, Hilarie Burton Morgan, Bethany Joy Lenz
Votes: 364
31.
Modern Family (2009–2020)
Episode:
Career Day
(2013)
TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Phil's rival, Gil Thorpe, offers Claire a job, Lily gets a extra-generous gift from the Tooth Fairy, and Jay decides to begin working on his novel.
Director: James Alan Hensz | Stars: Ed O'Neill, Sofía Vergara, Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell
Votes: 2,094