Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "male-writer"

1. Barbie (I) (2023)

PG-13 | 114 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans.

Director: Greta Gerwig | Stars: Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Issa Rae, Kate McKinnon

Votes: 541,753 | Gross: $636.24M

2. London Fields (2018)

R | 118 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Clairvoyant femme fatale Nicola Six has been living with a dark premonition of her impending death by murder. She begins a tangled love affair with three uniquely different men: one of whom she knows will be her murderer.

Director: Mathew Cullen | Stars: Theo James, Amber Heard, Cara Delevingne, Jason Isaacs

Votes: 12,261 | Gross: $0.25M

3. Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken (2023)

PG | 91 min | Animation, Action, Comedy

A shy adolescent learns that she comes from a fabled royal family of legendary sea krakens and that her destiny lies in the depths of the waters, which is bigger than she could have ever imagined.

Directors: Kirk DeMicco, Faryn Pearl | Stars: Jane Fonda, Lana Condor, Toni Collette, Colman Domingo

Votes: 10,932

4. John Tucker Must Die (2006)

PG-13 | 89 min | Comedy, Romance

Three ex-girlfriends of a serial cheater set up their former lover to fall for the new girl in town so they can watch him get his heart broken.

Director: Betty Thomas | Stars: Jesse Metcalfe, Ashanti, Arielle Kebbel, Sophia Bush

Votes: 88,256 | Gross: $41.01M

5. North Country (2005)

R | 126 min | Drama

A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States, Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.

Director: Niki Caro | Stars: Charlize Theron, Jeremy Renner, Frances McDormand, Thomas Curtis

Votes: 44,983 | Gross: $18.32M

6. We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2018)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Merricat, Constance and their Uncle Julian live in isolation after experiencing a family tragedy six years earlier. When cousin Charles arrives to steal the family fortune, he also threatens a dark secret they've been hiding.

Director: Stacie Passon | Stars: Taissa Farmiga, Alexandra Daddario, Crispin Glover, Sebastian Stan

Votes: 9,592 | Gross: $7.67M

7. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)

R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

After finding love, Bridget Jones questions if she really has everything she'd ever dreamed of having.

Director: Beeban Kidron | Stars: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Gemma Jones

Votes: 122,637 | Gross: $40.23M

8. An Education (2009)

PG-13 | 100 min | Drama

A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.

Director: Lone Scherfig | Stars: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Olivia Williams

Votes: 138,222 | Gross: $12.57M

9. Showing Up (2022)

R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama

A sculptor preparing to open a new show tries to work amidst the daily dramas of family and friends.

Director: Kelly Reichardt | Stars: Michelle Williams, Hong Chau, André 3000, Todd-o-Phonic Todd

Votes: 5,553

10. Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)

PG-13 | 132 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

A single mother, with dreams of becoming a writer, has a son at the age of 15 in 1965, and goes through a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father.

Director: Penny Marshall | Stars: Drew Barrymore, Steve Zahn, Adam Garcia, Brittany Murphy

Votes: 30,595 | Gross: $30.17M

11. The Innocents (2016)

PG-13 | 115 min | Drama, History

1945. Mathilde is a French Red Cross doctor working on a mission to help the French survivors of the German camps. While she works in Poland, she is asked for help by a nun. In her convent, several nuns are pregnant.

Director: Anne Fontaine | Stars: Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza, Vincent Macaigne

Votes: 11,631 | Gross: $1.06M

12. The 4th Man (1983)

Unrated | 102 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A man who has been having visions of an impending danger begins an affair with a woman who may lead him to his doom.

Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Jeroen Krabbé, Renée Soutendijk, Thom Hoffman, Dolf de Vries

Votes: 8,557

13. Mr & Mme Adelman (2017)

120 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

For more than 45 years, Sarah and Victor have been together. How did they do it? Who's really Sarah, this enigmatic woman who's always been on the shadow of her husband? Love, ambition and secrets feed this unusual couple's odyssey.

Director: Nicolas Bedos | Stars: Doria Tillier, Nicolas Bedos, Denis Podalydès, Antoine Gouy

Votes: 5,778

14. Vicious and Nude (1980)

95 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

An aging writer, Juan (Jack Taylor) has a successful career and a nice family. One day, the family goes on a trip and he stays at home. Two beautiful girls knock on his door and claim their car broke down. He lets them in and gets seduced. Deadly mistake.

Director: Manuel Esteba | Stars: Jack Taylor, Adriana Vega, Eva Lyberten, Silvia Solar

Votes: 149

15. A Little Princess (1986–1987)

TV-G | 163 min | Drama, Family

Sara Crewe enters a London boarding school a wealthy lady when she bids her father farewell as he enters the British Army, but her lifestyle quickly vanishes when her father suddenly dies, and Sara must endure a life of servitude.

Stars: Maureen Lipman, Amelia Shankley, Miriam Margolyes, Annette Badland

Votes: 776

16. The Boys Club (1996)

R | 91 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

In Ontario, Canada, three fourteen-year-old boys, Kyle, Brad and Eric are forced to perform an ordeal when they find a wounded mysterious fugitive named Luke, who has a gun and claiming to be a cop, has taken a hiding in their clubhouse.

Director: John Fawcett | Stars: Chris Penn, Dominic Zamprogna, Stuart Stone, Devon Sawa

Votes: 1,347

17. Miraculous Brothers (2023– )

TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

An aspiring writer deep in debt encounters a young man with no memories and strange abilities. Together, they fight injustice and form an unlikely bond.

Stars: Jung Woo, Bae Hyun-Sung, Park Yu-rim, Oh Man-seok

Votes: 724

18. Power of Grayskull: The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2017)

95 min | Documentary, History

The history of Mattel's definitive action figure toy line.

Directors: Randall Lobb, Robert McCallum | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Frank Langella, Anthony De Longis, Richard Edlund

Votes: 1,800

19. The Other Side of Sunday (1996)

PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy, Drama

The Other Side of Sunday criticizes the small, and often tight church community. We follow the Preachers Daughter; Maria, in her journey to liberate herself from the stiff church community and her strict religious father.

Director: Berit Nesheim | Stars: Marie Theisen, Hildegun Riise, Bjørn Sundquist, Sylvia Salvesen

Votes: 1,284

20. Sex, the City and Me (2007 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama

A businesswoman (Parish) edged out of her job when she falls pregnant, takes her employer to court.

Director: Philippa Lowthorpe | Stars: Sarah Parish, Ben Miles, Daniel Lapaine, Shaun Dingwall

Votes: 144

21. Carrie's War (2004 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama, Family

Carrie Willow and her younger brother Nick are evacuated from London to a small Welsh town during World War II. Fleeing the German bombing, they are taken in by strict Mr Evans and his sister.

Director: Coky Giedroyc | Stars: Keeley Fawcett, Jack Stanley, Karen Meagher, Eddie Cooper

Votes: 507

22. Soap Opera (2023– )

Comedy

Screenwriter Isabel is betrayed by her mentor Lauro but when she decides to confront him Isabel ends up magically inside her soap opera, Rebound of Fate as the protagonist.

Stars: Monica Iozzi, Miguel Falabella, Caio Menck, Maria Bopp

Votes: 108

23. Bob's Birthday (1993)

12 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A devoted and happily-married housewife organises a surprise party on the occasion of her husband's birthday, unbeknownst to her that her dentist spouse is experiencing a sudden mid-life crisis at his office.

Directors: David Fine, Alison Snowden | Stars: Andy Hamilton, Alison Snowden, Harry Enfield, Andrew MacLachlan

Votes: 1,029

24. Floating Sunflowers (2014)

TV-14 | 12 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

June (Anna Chlumsky), a still-life painter, and Henry (Francisco Solorzano), a fiction author, each caught in an emotional winter of their own. Unable to tap into their creative spirit, all... See full summary »

Director: Francisco Solorzano | Stars: Anna Chlumsky, Francisco Solorzano, Lynn Cohen, Christopher Whalen

Votes: 19

25. Written By (2022)

15 min | Short, Drama

Kenzie, a 20-something Angeleno discovers during a totally boring and routine general check up that she is fictional. And even worse, that she was written by a dude.

Directors: Callie Bloem, Christopher J. Ewing | Stars: Jaz Sinclair, Sara Paxton, Katie Aselton, Jamila Allen

Votes: 37

26. Je n'aime que toi (2004)

105 min | Romance

The unexpected acquaintance with a young prostitute helps the venerable writer to overcome writer's block. Quite shocking story of her life inspires him for a new book.

Director: Claude Fournier | Stars: Michel Forget, Noémie Godin-Vigneau, Dorothée Berryman, Jean-Nicolas Verreault

Votes: 108

27. Joe's So Mean to Josephine (1996)

89 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A man and woman meet and find out they have trouble with their relationship.

Director: Peter Wellington | Stars: Eric Thal, Sarah Polley, Don McKellar, Waneta Storms

Votes: 336

28. Good Boy (II) (2015)

Not Rated | 15 min | Short, Crime, Drama

Two high school friends, Caleb and Macon, are reunited after many years. During the tense reunion, Macon fights his tortured mind, wrestling with a dark secret that is the source of Caleb's greatest pain.

Director: Chris Coats | Stars: Francis Martinelli, Nicholas Tucci, Cliff Weissman, Toni Christopher

Votes: 88

29. Neko Atsume House (2017)

92 min | Family

A novelist who is struggling with writer's block finds in a cat an unusual way of easing his anxieties and will challenge himself to make the cat visit him again

Director: Masatoshi Kurakata | Stars: Atsushi Itô, Tae Kimura, Shioli Kutsuna, Tomorô Taguchi

Votes: 168

30. The Homecoming (2015)

100 min | Drama

Gunnar is a sociologist in his fifties who has written countless self-help books. He lives in a beautiful house that is way too big for him and Dísa, his wife of thirty years. Their ... See full summary »

Director: Björn Hlynur Haraldsson | Stars: Hilmar Jonsson, Þórunn Arna Kristjánsdóttir, Hilmir Jensson, Harpa Arnardóttir

Votes: 66

31. Kasa wo Motanai Aritachi wa (2016– )

25 min | Drama

A 30-year-old, unsuccessful sci-fi writer Jun is asked by his editor to write a "love-themed" short story for an online magazine targeted for young readers.

Stars: Ren Kiriyama, Shigeaki Katô, Masanobu Sakata, Rika Adachi

Votes: 24

32. 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

33. The Boys Club: Deleted Scenes (1996 Video)

Not Rated | Short, Adventure, Crime

Deleted scenes from the 1996 film, 'The Boys Club'.

Director: John Fawcett | Stars: Dominic Zamprogna, Amy Stewart, Jarred Blancard

34. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: Time's Arrow (1992)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Captain Picard and his archaeological curiosity are called upon by scientists from Earth when they find evidence to support beliefs that aliens had visited Earth in the late 1800s.

Director: Les Landau | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Votes: 3,691

35. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: Time's Arrow, Part II (1992)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Captain Picard and crew follow Data back to the late 1800s to get him back, only to find the suspected alien visitors killing people of that time.

Director: Les Landau | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Votes: 3,666

36. The Sandman (2022– )
Episode: Dream of a Thousand Cats/Calliope (2022)

TV-MA | 64 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

In this two-part story collection, a Siamese cat dreaming of a new world and a writer in desperate need of inspiration cross paths with Morpheus.

Directors: Louise Hooper, Hisko Hulsing | Stars: Tom Sturridge, Sandra Oh, Rosie Day, David Gyasi

Votes: 5,823

37. Private Talk with Alexis Texas (2019– )
S01 EP9 - RUDE JUDE (PT.1) (2020 Podcast Episode)

50 min | Talk-Show

This show is so "extravagant" that we had to divide it in 2 parts. Alexis sits down with the unapologetic, raw, shameless, disturbing and defiant Rude Jude.

Directors: Anthony Canello, Dray Millz | Stars: Rude Jude, Alexis Texas