Writer Movies

The film tells of the radical life-search by the Swiss writer Paul Nizon, born 1929 in Bern, Switzerland, who became what “he was meant to...

Elmore Leonard, author of more than 40 novels, is renowned in the literary community. From his westerns and early novels of crime based in Detroit...

This feature doc profiles acclaimed writer Alistair MacLeod. Hailed internationally as a master of the short story, MacLeod also wrote a novel, No...

Documentary film on the critically acclaimed novel El traductor by Salvador Benesdra, a journalist in midst of crisis in the mid 90s. Unable to...

In an inner city loft Belinda(Smuts-Kennedy) lives her dream of being a writer. Across the street is Suzanne (Rutter), a painter who has the success...

A dark evening, a crime writer Peter Sander, drives through a forest when his car runs out of petrol . A little distance from the road there is a...

Filmmaker Rodney Evans embarks on a scientific and artistic journey, questioning how his loss of vision might impact his creative future. Through...

A wealthy young man writes a play under a different name to prove to his overbearing mother that he can succeed on his own.

Narrated by Linda Hunt, this documentary examines the life of the late author and gay rights activist Paul Monette. Born in 1945 to a well-off...

The story of a young writer who tries to save his personal identity while facing the corrupted environment and temptations of a love affair.

A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife.

It's a sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Tétrault's brother Philip , a Montreal poet, musician and diagnosed paranoid...

A new musical chronicling the life of America's great literary icon, Edgar Allan Poe, as he rises from the grave to reconcile his life and fix his...

Prolific writer Joyce Carol Oates has remained intensely private. Until now. Through a long-standing friendship, and persistent inquiry, director...

This film is not a classic portrait but a documentary using fiction to bring Martin Suter’s novels to life while introducing us to the author...

Jack, a celebrated screenwriter, finds his world shaken when he encounters a cutting-edge AI scriptwriting system. Initially skeptical, he soon...

Marvin, a young aspiring writer from New York, moves to California to write a novel. He ends up rooming with a chaotic, bohemian musician named Jay....

Documentary about the Austrian-American writer Charles Sealsfield

A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.