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1. Kill Your Darlings (2013)
R | 104 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs.
Director: John Krokidas | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Michael C. Hall, Ben Foster
Votes: 41,234 | Gross: $1.03M
2. Ask the Dust (2006)
R | 117 min | Drama, Romance
Mexican beauty Camilla Lopez (Salma Hayek) hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini (Colin Farrell), a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career and a blue-eyed blonde on his arm.
Director: Robert Towne | Stars: Colin Farrell, Salma Hayek, Donald Sutherland, Eileen Atkins
Votes: 10,087 | Gross: $0.74M
3. Barton Fink (1991)
R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner
Votes: 128,949 | Gross: $6.15M
4. Paterson (2016)
R | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A quiet observation of the triumphs and defeats of daily life, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details.
Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani, Nellie, Rizwan Manji
Votes: 88,937 | Gross: $2.14M
5. Mayakovskiy. Dva dnya (2013– )
44 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A story about the last two days of Mayakovsky's life and some episodes of the previous time.
Stars: Andrey Chernyshov, Darya Dostal, Dmitriy Nagiev, Karen Badalov
Votes: 33
6. Dostoevskiy (2011– )
54 min | Biography, Drama
Dostoevsky seen through the prism of his relationships, and his struggles with poverty, trial, exile and imprisonment in Omsk, Siberia, writings, gambling.
Stars: Aleksey Shevchenko, Evgeniy Mironov, Chulpan Khamatova, Irina Rozanova
Votes: 311
7. Esenin (2005)
516 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After policeman Aleksandr Hlystov receives an old photo of poet Esenin's dead body just taken out of a loop he immediately begins an investigation, not an official one, but he tries to ... See full summary »
Stars: Sergey Bezrukov, Sean Young, Gary Busey, Kseniya Rappoport
Votes: 754
8. La grande librairie (2008– )
55 min | Talk-Show
Stars: François Busnel, Augustin Trapenard, Amélie Nothomb, Erik Orsenna
Votes: 30
9. Chicago Typewriter (2017)
70 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Writers that lived under Japanese rule in the 1930s are reincarnated into a bestselling writer who is in a slump, a mysterious ghostwriter, and a devoted fan of the bestselling writer.
Stars: Yoo Ah-in, Lim Soo-jung, Go Kyung-pyo, Kwak Si-yang
Votes: 2,116
10. American Fiction (2023)
R | 117 min | Comedy, Drama
A novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from Black entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of the hypocrisy and madness he claims to disdain.
Director: Cord Jefferson | Stars: Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander
Votes: 75,570
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