150 Films About Writers
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1. Qu Yuan (1977)
118 min | Drama, History
The tragedy of great Chinese ancient poet Qu Yuan in Warring States period.
Directors: Fong Pau, Xian Xu | Stars: Tseng Chang, Ching Lee, Fong Pau, Hee Ching Paw
Votes: 19
Chinese poet Qu Yuan (B.C. 352-281)
Chinese poets Cao Pi (187-226), Cao Zhi (192-232 )
3. An Amorous Woman of Tang Dynasty (1984)
102 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Rebellious Yu Yuan-gi becomes a Taoist priestess in order to avoid traditional roles designated to her as a woman by the society and focus on her studies and poetry. However, her trysts with both her maid and a ronin lead to trouble.
Director: Eddie Ling-Ching Fong | Stars: Patricia Ha, Alex Man, Kuo-Chu Chang, Monica Lam
Votes: 260
Chinese female poet Yu Xuan-Ji (844-868)
4. Sennen no koi - Hikaru Genji monogatari (2001)
143 min | Biography, Drama, History
Based on the ancient Japanese Tale of Genji. This film is set in 900AD and tells the story of a famous female writer of the time, Murasaki Shikibu. Her story begins from the death of her ... See full summary »
Director: Tonkô Horikawa | Stars: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Yûki Amami, Tôru Kazama, Morio Kazama
Votes: 184
Japanese novelist Murasaki Shikibu (c. 973-1014 )
5. Genji monogatari: Sennen no nazo (2011)
136 min | Drama, Fantasy
"Genji Monogatari" focuses on the love and hate relationships surrounding Hakaru Genji. Lady Fujitsubo is Genji's first love. Miyasutokoro Ryokuzono is obsessed with Genji and eventually ... See full summary »
Director: Yasuo Tsuruhashi | Stars: Tôma Ikuta, Miki Nakatani, Yôko Maki, Mikako Tabe
Votes: 174
Japanese novelist Murasaki Shikibu (c. 973-1014 )
6. The Life of Dante (1913)
44 min | Short, Drama, Romance
Director: Mario Caserini | Stars: Oreste Grandi, Fernanda Negri Pouget, Giovanni Enrico Vidali, Cesare Gani Carini
Votes: 21
Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
7. San xiao (1964)
113 min | Comedy, History, Music
Director: Pingqian Li | Stars: Sisi Chen, Qun Xiang, Di Bai, Li Chu
Votes: 39
Chinese poet Tang Yen (1470-1523)
8. The Outlaw (2010)
106 min | Biography, Drama, History
A chronicle of the life of Lope de Vega, the Spanish playwright who dominated Spain's early Golden Age of theater.
Director: Andrucha Waddington | Stars: Alberto Ammann, Leonor Watling, Pilar López de Ayala, Ramon Pujol
Votes: 1,149
Spanish writer Lope de Vega (1562-1635)
9. Shakespeare in Love (1998)
R | 123 min | Comedy, Drama, History
The world's greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.
Director: John Madden | Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Tom Wilkinson
Votes: 234,257 | Gross: $100.32M
British writer William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
10. Anonymous (I) (2011)
PG-13 | 130 min | Drama, Thriller
The theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who penned Shakespeare's plays. Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I and the Essex rebellion against her.
Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, David Thewlis, Sebastian Armesto
Votes: 42,127 | Gross: $4.46M
British writer William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
11. Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
PG | 137 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly.
Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez, Jacques Weber
Votes: 25,934 | Gross: $15.14M
French writer Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–1655)
12. Jean de La Fontaine - Le défi (2007)
100 min | Biography, History
Biography of the French poet Jean de la Fontaine, who lived in the times of Louis XIV.
Director: Daniel Vigne | Stars: Lorànt Deutsch, Philippe Torreton, Sara Forestier, Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Votes: 150
French poet Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695)
13. Molière (2007)
PG-13 | 120 min | Biography, Comedy
To satisfy his creditors, a witty actor reinvents himself as a satirical playwright, with uproarious, yet bittersweet, results.
Director: Laurent Tirard | Stars: Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini, Laura Morante, Edouard Baer
Votes: 6,573 | Gross: $0.64M
French writer Molière (1622-1673)
14. The Color of Pomegranates (1969)
Not Rated | 79 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life of the Armenian poet Sayat-Nova, from childhood to death: his spiritual journey, artistic endeavors, and inner conflicts within the cultural and historical context of Armenia. Hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.
Director: Sergei Parajanov | Stars: Sofiko Chiaureli, Melkon Alekyan, Vilen Galstyan, Gogi Gegechkori
Votes: 13,525
Armenian poet Sayat-Nova (c. 1712-1795)
15. Beaumarchais the Scoundrel (1996)
116 min | Adventure, Comedy, History
The life story of the titular Beaumarchais, playwright and adventurer, who gets himself into numerous different scrapes and romantic encounters in 18th Century France.
Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Manuel Blanc, Sandrine Kiberlain, Michel Aumont
Votes: 1,465 | Gross: $0.63M
French writer Pierre Beaumarchais (1732-1799)
16. Quills (2000)
R | 124 min | Biography, Drama
In a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.
Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine
Votes: 56,711 | Gross: $7.06M
French writer Marquis de Sade (1740-1814)
17. Young Goethe in Love (2010)
Not Rated | 102 min | Biography, Romance
After aspiring poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fails his law exams, he's sent to a sleepy provincial court to reform. Instead, he falls for Lotte, a young woman who is promised to another man.
Director: Philipp Stölzl | Stars: Alexander Fehling, Miriam Stein, Moritz Bleibtreu, Volker Bruch
Votes: 3,074 | Gross: $0.16M
German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
18. Feuerreiter (1998)
130 min | Drama
Film about the German poet Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1843), concentrating on his ardent affair with Susette Gondard.
Director: Nina Grosse | Stars: Martin Feifel, Marianne Denicourt, Ulrich Mühe, Matthias Faber
Votes: 84
German poet Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843)
19. The Young Schiller (2005 TV Movie)
90 min | Biography, Drama
Young poet Friedrich Schiller flees from the elite academy of Prince Carl Eugen to become an acclaimed theater writer in Mannheim. But the influence of Carl Eugen reaches farther than Schiller thought.
Director: Martin Weinhart | Stars: Matthias Schweighöfer, Teresa Weißbach, Robert Dölle, Jürgen Tarrach
Votes: 403
German poet Friedrich Schiller (1788-1805)
20. Becoming Jane (2007)
PG | 120 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.
Director: Julian Jarrold | Stars: Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters, James Cromwell
Votes: 65,062 | Gross: $18.67M
British novelist Jane Austen (1775-1817)
21. Miss Austen Regrets (2007 TV Movie)
TV-G | 90 min | Biography, Drama, History
In the later years of her life, as she's approaching the age of forty, the novelist Jane Austen helps her niece find a husband.
Director: Jeremy Lovering | Stars: Samuel Roukin, Olivia Williams, Greta Scacchi, Imogen Poots
Votes: 3,601
British novelist Jane Austen (1775-1817)
22. Haunted Summer (1988)
R | 106 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
In 1816, authors Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley get together for some philosophical discussions, but the situation soon deteriorates into mind games, drugs and sex.
Director: Ivan Passer | Stars: Philip Anglim, Laura Dern, Alice Krige, Eric Stoltz
Votes: 586 | Gross: $0.01M
British poets Lord Byron (1788-1824), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
23. Byron (2003 TV Movie)
147 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Following the success of his poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", Byron becomes the toast of London.
Director: Julian Farino | Stars: Stephen Campbell Moore, Oliver Milburn, Michael Elwyn, Jonny Lee Miller
Votes: 1,155
British poet Lord Byron (1788-1824)
24. Shelley (1979–1983)
30 min | Comedy
James Shelley, an educated, sardonic, permanently unemployed "professional freelance layabout," has many battles with authority, the tax-man, his landlady, and his girlfriend Fran.
Stars: Hywel Bennett, Belinda Sinclair, Josephine Tewson, Garfield Morgan
Votes: 314
British poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
25. Rowing with the Wind (1988)
R | 105 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Lord Byron, poet Percy Shelley, his future wife, Mary Shelley (writing Frankenstein) and others spend the summer of 1816 together.
Director: Gonzalo Suárez | Stars: Hugh Grant, Lizzy McInnerny, Valentine Pelka, Elizabeth Hurley
Votes: 1,138
British poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), novelist Marie Shelley (1797-1851)
26. Gothic (1986)
R | 87 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
The Shelleys visit Lord Byron and compete to write a horror story.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Natasha Richardson, Myriam Cyr
Votes: 8,859 | Gross: $0.92M
British novelist Marie Shelley (1797-1851) & poets Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), Lord Byron (1788-1824)
27. Bright Star (2009)
PG | 119 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The three-year romance between 19th-century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne near the end of his life.
Director: Jane Campion | Stars: Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw, Paul Schneider, Kerry Fox
Votes: 28,687 | Gross: $4.44M
British poet John Keats (1795-1821)
28. Poslednyaya doroga (1986)
101 min | Biography, Drama, History
About the death of Aleksandr Pushkin, the leading poet and writer of Russia, who was shot on a duel and died when he was 37.
Director: Leonid Menaker | Stars: Aleksandr Kalyagin, Vadim Medvedev, Irina Kupchenko, Yelena Karadzhova
Votes: 91
Russian writer Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837)
29. Balzac: A Passionate Life (1999 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 240 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A man who created great literature from the adventures of his own life--and the women at the heart of it. Although gruff, unsophisticated, and far from handsome, Balzac exerts an irresistible fascination on women.
Director: Josée Dayan | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Jeanne Moreau, Fanny Ardant, Virna Lisi
Votes: 656
French novelist Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
30. Dumas (2010)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, History
When Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet, his ghostwriter, are at the summit of their collaboration, Auguste decides to pass himself off as Alexandre in order to seduce Charlotte, a fervent admirer of the great man.
Director: Safy Nebbou | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Benoît Poelvoorde, Dominique Blanc, Mélanie Thierry
Votes: 698
French novelist Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)
31. The Story of Adele H (1975)
PG | 96 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Adèle Hugo's unrequited love for a lieutenant.
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, Sylvia Marriott, Joseph Blatchley
Votes: 8,970
The daughter of French novelist Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
32. Winter in Mallorca (1970)
GP | 106 min | Biography, Drama
In 1838, cigar-smoking French writer, George Sand and her lover, composer-pianist Frédéric Chopin rent a former monastery in Mallorca as a winter retreat. However, what promised to be a warm, sunny vacation soon turns sour.
Director: Jaime Camino | Stars: Lucia Bosè, Christopher Sandford, Henri Serre, Enrique San Francisco
Votes: 34
French novelist Georges Sand (1804-1876)
33. Impromptu (1991)
PG-13 | 107 min | Biography, Comedy, Music
In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand.
Director: James Lapine | Stars: Judy Davis, Hugh Grant, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters
Votes: 5,507 | Gross: $4.08M
French novelist Georges Sand (1804-1876)
34. Children of the Century (1999)
135 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A story of doomed passion between two genius writers of the 19th century - novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset.
Director: Diane Kurys | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Benoît Magimel, Stefano Dionisi, Robin Renucci
Votes: 2,022 | Gross: $0.05M
French novelist Georges Sand (1804-1876)
35. Chopin: Desire for Love (2002)
R | 134 min | Drama, Romance, Music
A tangled web of unruly passion lies at the center of this drama, chronicling the stormy affair between the great piano virtuoso Frédéric Chopin and the flamboyant feminist writer George Sand.
Director: Jerzy Antczak | Stars: Piotr Adamczyk, Danuta Stenka, Adam Woronowicz, Bozena Stachura
Votes: 810
French novelist Georges Sand (1804-1876)
36. Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairy Tale (2003 TV Movie)
174 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A fictionalized account of the young life of Hans Christian Andersen, a young man with a penchant for storytelling but struggles to find his place in the world and gain the affection of the... See full summary »
Director: Philip Saville | Stars: Kieran Bew, Emily Hamilton, Flora Montgomery, James Fox
Votes: 574
Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875)
37. Young Andersen (2005)
110 min | Biography, Drama, History
Drama about the difficult early years of Danish writer of fairy tales Hans Christian Andersen.
Director: Rumle Hammerich | Stars: Simon Dahl Thaulow, Peter Steen, Stine Fischer Christensen, Annemarie Malle Klixbüll
Votes: 550
Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875)
38. The Death of Poe (2006)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, Horror
A dramatic retelling of the last weeks in the life of poet Edgar Allan Poe with theories about the cause of his mental breakdown and premature death in 1849 Baltimore.
Director: Mark Redfield | Stars: Mark Redfield, Kevin G. Shinnick, Jennifer Rouse, Tony Tsendeas
Votes: 66
American novelist Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
39. The Raven (I) (2012)
R | 110 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
When a madman begins committing horrific murders inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's works, a young Baltimore detective joins forces with Poe to stop him from making his stories a reality.
Director: James McTeigue | Stars: John Cusack, Alice Eve, Luke Evans, Brendan Gleeson
Votes: 88,279 | Gross: $16.01M
American novelist Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
40. Dickens of London (1976–1977)
60 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Charles Dickens grew up in a family where his father was larger than life. The elder Dickens is a teller of tales and always seems to have ambitions that are well beyond his means or his ... See full summary »
Stars: Roy Dotrice, John F. Landry, Diana Coupland, Adrienne Burgess
Votes: 82
British novelist Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
41. Lermontov (1986)
100 min | Biography, Drama
Lyrically beautiful dramatised documentary on the life of the Russian Romantic poet, Mikhail Lermontov (1814-41)
Director: Nikolay Burlyaev | Stars: Nikolay Burlyaev, Ivan Burlyaev, Vladimir Faibyshev, Galina Belyaeva
Votes: 57
Russian writer Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841)
42. The Brontës of Haworth (1973– )
60 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Dramatized biography of the Brontë sisters Charlotte, Anne and Emily.
Stars: Alfred Burke, Vickery Turner, Ann Penfold, Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Votes: 122
British novelist Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), Emily Brontë (1818-1848) & Anne Brontë (1820-1849)
43. The Brontë Sisters (1979)
Not Rated | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History
In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations.
Director: André Téchiné | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Marie-France Pisier, Isabelle Huppert, Pascal Greggory
Votes: 1,217
British novelist Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), Emily Brontë (1818-1848) & Anne Brontë (1820-1849)
44. To Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters (2016 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History
A chronicle of the Brontë sisters' battle to overcome obstacles and publish their novels, which would become some of the greatest in the English language.
Director: Sally Wainwright | Stars: Finn Atkins, Charlie Murphy, Chloe Pirrie, Adam Nagaitis
Votes: 3,093
British novelist Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), Emily Brontë (1818-1848) & Anne Brontë (1820-1849)
45. Beautiful Dreamers (1990)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama
When the superintendent of the Canadian insane asylum, Dr. Maurice Bucke, meets poet Walt Whitman, his life and that of his wife and patients is radically changed. Like Dr. Bucke, Whitman ... See full summary »
Director: John Kent Harrison | Stars: Colm Feore, Rip Torn, Wendel Meldrum, Sheila McCarthy
Votes: 209
American poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
46. The Demons of St. Petersburg (2008)
118 min | Biography, Drama, History
Biopic of the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Director: Giuliano Montaldo | Stars: Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Carolina Crescentini, Roberto Herlitzka, Anita Caprioli
Votes: 337
Russian novelist Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1882)
47. The Great McGonagall (1975)
PG | 95 min | Biography, Comedy
William Topaz McGonagall, the world's greateset poet. Unfortunately the whole of the rest of the world disagreed. His talent made him a sort of Victorian Chris Evans but without the cash.
Director: Joseph McGrath | Stars: Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Julia Foster, John Bluthal
Votes: 286
Scottish poet William McGonagall (1825-1902)
48. The Last Station (2009)
R | 112 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's (Christopher Plummer's) struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things.
Director: Michael Hoffman | Stars: Helen Mirren, James McAvoy, Christopher Plummer, Paul Giamatti
Votes: 19,152 | Gross: $6.62M
Russian writer Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910)
49. Dreamchild (1985)
PG | 94 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Ian Holm is children's author Lewis Carroll in this poignant fantasy-drama set in 1930s New York and populated by the fabulous special effects creatures of Muppet master Jim Henson.
Director: Gavin Millar | Stars: Coral Browne, Ian Holm, Peter Gallagher, Caris Corfman
Votes: 1,748 | Gross: $1.22M
British writer Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
50. The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985)
G | 86 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher and Huck Finn join Mark Twain on his airship to meet Halley's Comet.
Director: Will Vinton | Stars: James Whitmore, Michele Mariana, Gary Krug, Chris Ritchie
Votes: 3,400 | Gross: $0.85M
American novelist Mark Twain（1835-1910）
51. The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
Passed | 116 min | Biography, Drama
The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfus Affair.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut, Gloria Holden
Votes: 9,011
French writer Émile Zola (1840-1902)
52. Karl May (1974)
187 min | Biography, Drama, History
This ethereal, three-hour biopic is the middle film in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's "German Trilogy" on the mythological foundations of the Third Reich.
Director: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Stars: Helmut Käutner, Kristina Söderbaum, Käthe Gold, Attila Hörbiger
Votes: 173
German writer Karl May (1842-1912)
53. When Nietzsche Wept (2007)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama
Viennese doctor Josef Breuer meets with philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to help him deal with his despair.
Director: Pinchas Perry | Stars: Ben Cross, Armand Assante, Joanna Pacula, Michal Yannai
Votes: 4,864
German scholar, writer Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)
54. Adventures in Silverado (1948)
Approved | 75 min | Western
Into California's 1880 frontier country rides Robert Louis Stevenson Edgar Barrier, the novelist, looking for story material 'in a land of stage-drivers and highwaymen', and soon finds it ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: William Bishop, Gloria Henry, Edgar Buchanan, Forrest Tucker
Votes: 132
Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
55. Tusitala (1986)
300 min | Drama
The last years in the life of Robert Louis Stevenson, when he left Great Britain for Sydney and west Samoa.
Stars: John McEnery, Angela Punch McGregor, Todd Boyce, Ray Barrett
Votes: 10
Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
56. Total Eclipse (1995)
R | 111 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.
Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, David Thewlis, Romane Bohringer, Dominique Blanc
Votes: 16,768 | Gross: $0.34M
French poets Jean Rimbaud (1854-1891) & Paul Verlaine (1844-1896)
57. Wilde (1997)
R | 118 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The turmoil in poet/playwright Oscar Wilde's life after he discovers his homosexuality.
Director: Brian Gilbert | Stars: Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave, Jennifer Ehle
Votes: 18,120 | Gross: $2.16M
Irish writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
58. Angel (2007)
Not Rated | 134 min | Drama, Romance
The rise and fall of a young eccentric British writer, in the early 20th century.
Director: François Ozon | Stars: Romola Garai, Sam Neill, Lucy Russell, Michael Fassbender
Votes: 5,636
British novelist Marie Corelli (1855-1924)
59. The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle (2005 TV Movie)
90 min | Biography, Drama
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is the author of the famous Sherlock Holmes books. The film shows us how Doyle came up with the idea of the 'super detective' and how he uses the techniques of his ... See full summary »
Director: Cilla Ware | Stars: Douglas Henshall, Tim McInnerny, Brian Cox, Sinéad Cusack
Votes: 286
Scottish novelist Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
60. Arthur & George (2015)
45 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle recaptures his zest for life by pursuing and challenging a notorious miscarriage of justice.
Stars: Martin Clunes, Arsher Ali, Charles Edwards, Art Malik
Votes: 1,414
Scottish novelist Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
61. The Lost Boys (1978)
274 min | Biography, Drama
The story of J.M. Barrie and his relationship with the Llewelyn-Davies family. Barrie writes PETER PAN for the five boys, and later adopts George, Jack, Peter, Michael, and Nicholas.
Stars: Ian Holm, Anna Cropper, William Hootkins, Maureen O'Brien
Votes: 124
Scottish writer James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937)
62. Finding Neverland (2004)
PG | 106 min | Biography, Drama, Family
The story of Sir J.M. Barrie's friendship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan.
Director: Marc Forster | Stars: Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie, Radha Mitchell
Votes: 211,994 | Gross: $51.68M
Scottish writer James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937)
63. Cruz e Sousa - O Poeta do Desterro (1998)
86 min | Drama
Poet Cruz e Souza was a black man, born in the State of Santa Catarina, Brazil, where the majority of the population are blonde. He was also poor and fell a prey to the racism of his time. ... See full summary »
Director: Sylvio Back | Stars: Kadu Karneiro, Maria Ceiça, Léa Garcia, Dani Ornellas
Votes: 45
Brazilian poet João da Cruz e Sousa (1861-1898)
64. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Family, Romance
The life and adventures of the Ingalls family in the nineteenth century American Midwest.
Stars: Melissa Gilbert, Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Rachel Lindsay Greenbush
Votes: 26,834
Adapted from the autobiographical novels of American writer Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957)
65. Gorky 1: The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938)
98 min | Biography, Drama
A drama reveals the great writer's inauspicious early years as an orphan raised by conniving relatives.
Director: Mark Donskoy | Stars: Aleksei Lyarsky, Varvara Massalitinova, Mikhail Troyanovskiy, Elizaveta Alekseeva
Votes: 779
Russian writer Maxim Gorky (1868-1936)
66. Colette, une femme libre (2004– )
115 min | Biography
Stars: Marie Trintignant, Wladimir Yordanoff, Lambert Wilson, Barbara Schulz
Votes: 52
French novelist Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette（1873-1954）
67. Rilke et Rodin, une rencontre (2007 TV Movie)
52 min | Drama
Director: Bernard Malaterre | Stars: Jacques Bondoux, Cyril Descours, Birgit Ludwig, Catherine Chauvière
Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)
68. Jack London (1943)
Approved | 94 min | Adventure, Biography, War
Episodes in the adventurous life of the American novelist (1876-1916).
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Michael O'Shea, Susan Hayward, Osa Massen, Harry Davenport
Votes: 446
American novelist Jack London (1876-1916)
69. Jack London's Love of Life (2012)
Not Rated | 87 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Jack, an Alaska gold rush era miner, is abandoned by his partner and left to make his way through the wilderness alone. Starving and injured, he struggles physically and spiritually to come... See full summary »
Director: Kevin Swigert | Stars: Pete Ammel, Phebe Horschel
Votes: 820 | Gross: $0.04M
American novelist Jack London (1876-1916)
70. Klondike (2014)
46 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Two childhood friends, Bill Haskell and Byron Epstein, embark on a journey to Klondike, Yukon, in hopes of discovering a fortune in a remote town.
Stars: Abbie Cornish, Marton Csokas, Ian Hart, Greg Lawson
Votes: 6,595
American novelist Jack London (1876-1916)
71. The Hours (2002)
PG-13 | 110 min | Drama, Romance
The story of how the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" affects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives.
Director: Stephen Daldry | Stars: Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Stephen Dillane
Votes: 138,466 | Gross: $41.68M
British writer Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
72. Nora (2000)
R | 106 min | Biography, Drama
Dublin, 1904, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, uninhibited manner, and before long, he's convinced her to come with him to Trieste.
Director: Pat Murphy | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Susan Lynch, Andrew Scott, Vinnie McCabe
Votes: 1,844 | Gross: $0.01M
Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941)
73. Kafka (1991)
PG-13 | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Kafka works during the day at an insurance company, where events lead him to discover a mysterious underground society with strange suppressive goals.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Theresa Russell, Joel Grey, Ian Holm
Votes: 10,566 | Gross: $1.06M
German-language writer Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
74. Coming Through (1988 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, Romance
Celebrated actor and actress Sir Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet) and Dame Helen Mirren (Prime Suspect) star in this movie by award-winning playwright Alan Plater about one of the great love ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Barber-Fleming | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Helen Mirren, Alison Steadman, Philip Martin Brown
Votes: 187
British writer David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930)
75. Tom & Viv (1994)
PG-13 | 115 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
In 1915, Tom and Viv elope, but her gynecological and emotional problems disrupt their honeymoon. Her father is angry because Tom's poetry doesn't bring in enough to live, but her mother is happy Viv has found a tender and discreet husband.
Director: Brian Gilbert | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Miranda Richardson, Rosemary Harris, Tim Dutton
Votes: 1,865 | Gross: $0.54M
American poet Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)
76. The Other One (1981)
100 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters exchanged by two of the most outstanding names... See full summary »
Director: João Botelho | Stars: Fernando Cabral Martins, André Gomes, Juliet Berto, Jorge Silva Melo
Votes: 106
Portugal poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
77. Mensagem (1988)
110 min | Biography, Drama, History
Based on the work by Fernando Pessoa - a "message" about the destinies of Portugal - not just in isolation but looking at them as precursors and announcers of the fate of the entire planet.
Director: Luis Vidal Lopes | Stars: Filipe Ferrer, António Caldeira Pires, Álvaro Simões, Antonio Miguens
Votes: 13
Portugal poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
78. Disquiet (2010)
90 min | Drama
A room in Lisbon. A man dreams and establishes a theory to make it come true. This film is based on The Book of Disquiet , the posthumous work of the Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa. It ... See full summary »
Director: João Botelho | Stars: Cláudio da Silva, Pedro Lamares, Ricardo Aibéo, Suzie Peterson
Votes: 478
Portugal poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
79. Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures (2004 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Late in 1926 acclaimed mystery writer Agatha Christie disappears after marital problems and creates a media frenzy.
Director: Richard Curson Smith | Stars: Olivia Williams, Anna Massey, Raymond Coulthard, Stephen Boxer
Votes: 249
British novelist Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
80. Henry & June (1990)
NC-17 | 136 min | Biography, Drama
Anaïs Nin meets American writer Henry Miller in Paris in 1931. She keeps a diary of her sexual awakening, which includes Henry and his wife June.
Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Fred Ward, Uma Thurman, Maria de Medeiros, Richard E. Grant
Votes: 14,182 | Gross: $11.57M
American writer Henry Miller (1891-1980)
81. Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
R | 125 min | Biography, Drama
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.
Director: Alan Rudolph | Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Campbell Scott, Matthew Broderick, Peter Gallagher
Votes: 4,883 | Gross: $2.14M
American writer Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
82. Behind the Lines (1997)
R | 96 min | Biography, Drama, History
Based on Pat Barker's novel of the same name, "Regeneration" tells the story of soldiers of World War One sent to an asylum for emotional troubles. Two of those soldiers are England's most important WW1 poets.
Director: Gillies MacKinnon | Stars: Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby, Jonny Lee Miller, Stuart Bunce
Votes: 2,499 | Gross: $0.02M
British poet Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
83. Hanako & Anne (2014)
15 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Follows the life of translator Hanako Muraoka; from the turbulent Meiji Period, to the Taisho Period and the Showa Period. Hanako Muraoka would go on to translate novel "Anne of Green Gables," by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Stars: Akihiro Miwa, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Sarah Macdonald, Ryohei Suzuki
Votes: 83
Japanese translator, writer Muraoka Hanako (1893-1968) , poet Yanagihara Byakuren (1885-1967)
84. Cross Creek (1983)
PG | 127 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
In the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editor and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.
Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Mary Steenburgen, Rip Torn, Peter Coyote, Dana Hill
Votes: 2,031 | Gross: $0.20M
American writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953)
85. Cherry Blossoms (1988)
95 min | Drama
The film deals with the life of Chinese writer Yu Ta-fu. Most of the film is a flashback telling the story of Yu's coming of age in Japan and the strained relations between the Japanese culture and his own.
Director: Eddie Ling-Ching Fong | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Wong Yuk-Ling, Sachiko Nakamura, Tat-Wah Fok
Votes: 70
Chinese writer Yu Ta-fu (1896-1945)
86. Ren jian si yue tian (2000)
367 min | Drama, Romance
Stars: Lei Huang, Rene Liu, Xun Zhou, Annie Shizuka Inoh
Votes: 103
Chinese poet Xu Zhimo (1897-1931)
87. Enid (2009 TV Movie)
82 min | Biography, Drama
Edwardian child Enid Blyton begins to tell stories to her brothers as an escape from their parents' rows before the father deserts the family. While training as a teacher after the Great ... See full summary »
Director: James Hawes | Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Matthew Macfadyen, Denis Lawson, Claire Rushbrook
Votes: 1,668
British writer Enid Blyton (1898-1967)
88. Shadowlands (1986 TV Movie)
92 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Noted author and scholar finds love, then must endure its loss...
Director: Norman Stone | Stars: Joss Ackland, Claire Bloom, David Waller, Rupert Baderman
Votes: 609
British writer Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) & American poet Helen Joy Davidman (1915-1960)
89. Shadowlands (1993)
PG | 131 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned Christian theologian, writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham from the U.S.
Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Julian Fellowes, Roddy Maude-Roxby
Votes: 20,436 | Gross: $25.84M
British writer Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) & American poet Helen Joy Davidman (1915-1960)
90. Lorca, muerte de un poeta (1987–1988)
118 min | Biography, Drama
Biography of the Spanish poet and playwright Lorca, who was executed by followers of Franco in 1936.
Stars: Nickolas Grace, Antonio Iranzo, Francisco Jarque, Mario Pardo
Votes: 138
Spanish poet Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (1898-1936)
91. Little Ashes (2008)
R | 112 min | Biography, Drama, History
About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.
Director: Paul Morrison | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Javier Beltrán, Matthew McNulty, Marina Gatell
Votes: 9,623 | Gross: $0.48M
Spanish poet Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (1898-1936)
92. The Broken Tower (2011)
Not Rated | 99 min | Biography, Drama, History
A biography of American poet Hart Crane who committed suicide at the age of 32 by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba.
Director: James Franco | Stars: James Franco, Michael Shannon, Stacey Miller, Richard Abate
Votes: 1,307
American poet Hart Crane (1899-1932)
93. In Love and War (1996)
PG-13 | 113 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A bitter love story between a talented writer and a gentle nurse.
Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Sandra Bullock, Chris O'Donnell, Mackenzie Astin, Margot Steinberg
Votes: 9,124 | Gross: $14.48M
American writer Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
94. Midnight in Paris (2011)
PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Kurt Fuller
Votes: 449,712 | Gross: $56.82M
American writers Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
95. Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 155 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A drama centered on the romance between Ernest Hemingway and World War II correspondent Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway's inspiration for For Whom the Bell Tolls, and the only woman who ever asked for a divorce from the writer.
Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Clive Owen, David Strathairn, Rodrigo Santoro
Votes: 10,408
American writer Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) & journalist Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998)
96. Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
PG-13 | 125 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Author P.L. Travers reflects on her childhood after reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.
Director: John Lee Hancock | Stars: Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Annie Rose Buckley, Colin Farrell
Votes: 169,984 | Gross: $83.30M
Australian born novelist P. L. Travers (1899-1996)
97. A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story (1994 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 95 min | Biography, Drama
Biography of American novelist Margaret Mitchell, who wrote "Gone With The Wind".
Director: Larry Peerce | Stars: Shannen Doherty, Dale Midkiff, Matt Mulhern, Ann Wedgeworth
Votes: 229
American novelist Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949)
98. In Love with Barbara (2008 TV Movie)
Drama
In the 1970s the redoubtable and eccentric Barbara Cartland, prolific author of hundreds of romantic novels, is interviewed on television, where she expresses anti-feminist views. Despite ... See full summary »
Director: Tim Whitby | Stars: Julie Barclay, India Skye Beale, Sarah Buckland, Tom Burke
Votes: 44
British romance writer Barbara Cartland (1901-2000)
99. Akarui hô e akarui hô e: Dôyô shijin Kaneko Misuzu (2001 TV Movie)
Biography, Drama
With an elder brother and an adopted younger brother who doesn't know it, Teru grows up in her father's bookstore. After she has graduated from girls school at the age of 17, her younger ... See full summary »
Stars: Takako Matsu, Kyôko Kagawa, Ken Miyake, Yoshiko Nakada
Japanese poet Kaneko Misuzu (1903-1930)
100. A Wanderer's Notebook (1962)
124 min | Drama
Fumiko struggles to get her literary work published, spending years working in poverty while being abused by her boyfriend all the while hoping to break free from the cycle.
Director: Mikio Naruse | Stars: Hideko Takamine, Akira Takarada, Daisuke Katô, Keiju Kobayashi
Votes: 432
Adapted from the autobiographical novel of Japanese writer Fumiko Hayashi (1903-1951)
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