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1. 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: 450,692 | Gross: $56.82M

2. Capote (2005)

R | 114 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.

Director: Bennett Miller | Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Clifton Collins Jr., Catherine Keener, Allie Mickelson

Votes: 141,239 | Gross: $28.75M

3. The Invisible Woman (2013)

R | 111 min | Biography, Drama, History

At the height of his career, Charles Dickens meets a younger woman who becomes his secret lover until his death.

Director: Ralph Fiennes | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Felicity Jones, Kristin Scott Thomas, Tom Hollander

Votes: 10,508 | Gross: $1.23M

4. Rich and Famous (1981)

R | 117 min | Drama

Liz and Merry become BFFs in college. A decade later, Liz is a serious writer with writer's block, and Merry is a homemaker and a mom who has written a novel. Other bestsellers, riches, and fame follow.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, David Selby, Hart Bochner

Votes: 2,060 | Gross: $14.49M

5. Marquis de Sade's Justine (1969)

R | 90 min | Drama

Penniless and separated from her sister, a beautiful, chaste orphan must endure an endless parade of villains, perverts and degenerates who covet her virtue and life.

Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Romina Power, Maria Rohm, Rosemary Dexter

Votes: 2,059

6. October Road (2007–2008)

TV-PG | 43 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Best-selling author Nick Garrett hopes to get over his writer's block by going back to his hometown of Knights Ridge, Mass. There, he realizes he's got to finally face the people he wrote about unfavorably in his novel.

Stars: Bryan Greenberg, Laura Prepon, Warren Christie, Brad William Henke

Votes: 4,927

7. 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: 5,532 | Gross: $4.08M

8. Just My Type (2020 TV Movie)

TV-G | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Vanessa, a features writer in NYC, hopes to land the interview of a lifetime with renowned mystery author, Martin Clayborne.

Director: Paul Ziller | Stars: Bethany Joy Lenz, Brett Dalton, Aleque Reid, Colleen Wheeler

Votes: 2,012

9. Albatross (2011)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama

Beth, a bookish teenager, befriends Emilia, an aspiring novelist who has just arrived in town. Emilia soon begins an affair with Beth's father that threatens to have devastating consequences.

Director: Niall MacCormick | Stars: Felicity Jones, Jessica Brown Findlay, Sebastian Koch, Julia Ormond

Votes: 5,622

10. All for Love (II) (2016 TV Movie)

TV-G | 83 min | Comedy, Romance

After 73 errors about firefighters in her last romance novel, Jo's publisher, Diana, insists on weeks of research for her next book by training at a military boot camp run by her navy seal brother.

Director: Lee Friedlander | Stars: Sara Rue, Steve Bacic, Teryl Rothery, Jordana Largy

Votes: 1,810

11. Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe (2016)

106 min | Biography, Drama, History

Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" toward the events in war torn Europe, and his search for a new home.

Director: Maria Schrader | Stars: Barbara Sukowa, Tómas Lemarquis, Aenne Schwarz, Valerie Pachner

Votes: 2,668 | Gross: $0.08M

12. Neruda (2016)

R | 107 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.

Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Mercedes Morán, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba

Votes: 11,068 | Gross: $0.94M

13. That Night in Varennes (1982)

R | 150 min | Drama, History

During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps.

Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla, Harvey Keitel

Votes: 2,540

14. Magic Beyond Words: The J.K. Rowling Story (2011 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 90 min | Biography, Drama

An inspiring look at JK Rowling's rise to become one of the most influential writers-from her humble beginnings as an imaginative young girl and awkward teenager to the loss of her mother and the genesis of the Harry Potter phenomenon.

Director: Paul A. Kaufman | Stars: Poppy Montgomery, Emily Holmes, Antonio Cupo, Janet Kidder

Votes: 2,770

15. Amour Fou (2014)

Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Drama

Berlin, the Romantic Era. Young poet Heinrich wishes to conquer the inevitability of death through love, yet is unable to convince his skeptical cousin Marie to join him in a suicide pact. ... See full summary »

Director: Jessica Hausner | Stars: Christian Friedel, Birte Schnöink, Stephan Grossmann, Sandra Hüller

Votes: 1,757 | Gross: $0.01M

16. 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: 1,219

17. Old Gringo (1989)

R | 119 min | Adventure, History, Romance

When school teacher Harriet Winslow goes to Mexico to teach, she is kidnapped by Gen. Tomas Arroyo and his revolutionaries. An aging American, Ambrose "Old Gringo" Bierce also in Mexico, ... See full summary »

Director: Luis Puenzo | Stars: Jane Fonda, Gregory Peck, Jimmy Smits, Patricio Contreras

Votes: 2,108 | Gross: $3.57M

18. The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 104 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The rather eccentric (especially in her thinking) author of "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" becomes involved with a much younger, and married man, to the dismay of those close to her.

Director: Christopher Menaul | Stars: Helen Mirren, Eric Stoltz, Julie Delpy, Peter Fonda

Votes: 1,654

19. Lady of the Camelias (1981)

115 min | Drama, Romance

A young girl from the provinces, comes to Paris with one goal: to become a part of the rich bourgeoisie. To achieve this she will use her unique beauty and charm.

Director: Mauro Bolognini | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Gian Maria Volontè, Bruno Ganz, Fabrizio Bentivoglio

Votes: 723

20. Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse (2020 TV Movie)

70 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Follows the story of when a 6-year-old Roald Dahl meets his idol, Beatrix Potter.

Director: David Kerr | Stars: Dawn French, Bill Bailey, Rob Brydon, Jessica Hynes

Votes: 1,042

21. Christmas Next Door (2017 TV Movie)

TV-G | 86 min | Family, Romance

A famous MGTOW author is forced to look after his niece and nephew over the holidays and, with the help of his Christmas-loving neighbor, he learns to find love and the Christmas spirit.

Director: Jonathan Wright | Stars: Jesse Metcalfe, Fiona Gubelmann, Brittany Bristow, Jenna Weir

Votes: 2,833

22. Just in Time for Christmas (2015 TV Movie)

TV-G | 96 min | Comedy, Romance

Lindsay, a psychology professor, gets a chance to decide between relocating to a new place for her dream job and marrying Jason, her childhood sweetheart when she is helped by a mysterious messenger.

Director: Sean McNamara | Stars: Eloise Mumford, Michael Stahl-David, Tess Atkins, Laura Soltis

Votes: 2,925

23. The Christmas Chalet (2019 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama, Family, Romance

A Christmas-loving divorcee books a chalet with her mother and daughter for the holidays, where she meets a writer who despises Christmas. Together they learn the magic of Christmas and family.

Director: Jennifer Gibson | Stars: Erica Durance, Robin Dunne, Elva Mai Hoover, Micah Kalisch

Votes: 1,012

24. Love Always, Santa (2016 TV Movie)

TV-G | 84 min | Drama, Romance

A widow's daughter writes to Santa Claus, asking for her mother to find love again. When a struggling writer receives the letter, he finds new inspiration and the beginnings of a romance.

Director: Brian Herzlinger | Stars: Marguerite Moreau, Mike Faiola, Brady Smith, Isadora Swann

Votes: 1,823

25. Small Town Christmas (2018 TV Movie)

TV-G | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A high-flying female novelist from New York takes a trip to the small town that inspired her latest best-seller.

Director: Maclain Nelson | Stars: Ashley Newbrough, Kristoffer Polaha, Preston Vanderslice, Bailey Skodje

Votes: 2,010

26. The Man with a Cloak (1951)

Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In 1848 NYC, a Frenchwoman visits exiled former French Marshal Thevenet to ask for his financial help in behalf of his French grandson but Thevenet's house staff schemes to kill him and take his fortune.

Director: Fletcher Markle | Stars: Joseph Cotten, Barbara Stanwyck, Louis Calhern, Leslie Caron

Votes: 1,318

27. The Callback Queen (2013)

88 min | Comedy, Romance

In the cut-throat London film industry a vivacious actress chasing her big break struggles to maintain her integrity in the face of the director's advances.

Director: Graham Cantwell | Stars: Amy-Joyce Hastings, Mark Killeen, Seán T. Ó Meallaigh, Kate Braithwaite

Votes: 281

28. Priest of Love (1981)

R | 125 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow", D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they ... See full summary »

Director: Christopher Miles | Stars: Ian McKellen, Janet Suzman, Ava Gardner, Penelope Keith

Votes: 524

29. The Christmas Shepherd (2014 TV Movie)

TV-G | 84 min | Drama, Romance

The search for a missing dog leads to a new romance.

Director: Terry Ingram | Stars: Teri Polo, Martin Cummins, Jordyn Ashley Olson, Jill Teed

Votes: 1,374

30. Touched by Romance (2014 TV Movie)

G | 86 min | Drama

Norma, an author of novels, finds herself diagnosed with cancer. Emma, Norma's nurse, is doing a secret treatment that no one may know about. While in her treatment to help her feel happy, ... See full summary »

Director: Bradford May | Stars: Doris Roberts, Rachael Carpani, Ernie Hudson, Elizabeth Bond

Votes: 287

31. Der Todesrächer von Soho (1972)

81 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

A London slasher pack the suitcases of his victims before stabbing them to death in this adaptation of Edgar Wallace's 'Secret of the Black Suitcases.'

Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Horst Tappert, Fred Williams, Barbara Rütting, Elisa Montés

Votes: 408

32. A Joyous Christmas (2017 TV Movie)

TV-G | 84 min | Drama, Family, Romance

A young self-help author returns to her hometown during the Christmas holidays to promote her new book. She soon discovers the true meaning of Christmas and family.

Director: Allan Harmon | Stars: Natalie Knepp, Michael Rady, Bonnie Bedelia, Steve Bacic

Votes: 1,544

33. Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and 'To Kill a Mockingbird' (2010)

82 min | Documentary, Biography, History

It is our national novel. Reading to Kill a Mockingbird is something we all have in common. Harper Lee's first and only novel turns 50 this summer and the author hasn't given an interview ... See full summary »

Director: Mary McDonagh Murphy | Stars: Mary Badham, Jane Beasley, Rick Bragg, Tom Brokaw

Votes: 352 | Gross: $0.03M

34. Molière (1978)

260 min | Biography, Drama, History

Who was Moliere? He is known everywhere as one of the world's greatest playwrights. But who was he? Born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin in 1622, the son of a prosperous tapestry maker. His mother ... See full summary »

Director: Ariane Mnouchkine | Stars: Philippe Caubère, Marie-Françoise Audollent, Frédéric Ladonne, Odile Cointepas

Votes: 891

35. Chameleon (2008)

Not Rated | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller

While cleaning offices at night, Gábor learns a lot about the employees by examining what they leave behind, carefully choosing his targets, always disillusioned women whom he seduces, ... See full summary »

Director: Krisztina Goda | Stars: Ervin Nagy, Gabriella Hámori, Zsolt Trill, János Kulka

Votes: 2,473

36. Mark Twain and Me (1991 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 93 min | Biography, Drama

Dorothy Quick, a young girl, befriends the famous writer, Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens, during the final years of his life.

Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Jason Robards, Talia Shire, R.H. Thomson, Fiona Reid

Votes: 193

37. Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954)

152 min | Comedy, Drama, History

The history of the palace of Versailles from its founding to the present.

Director: Sacha Guitry | Stars: Michel Auclair, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean-Louis Barrault, Jeanne Boitel

Votes: 636

38. Olhos nos Olhos (2008–2009)

50 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

Twin brothers Vasco and Victor, both villains, compete to take over a struggling cosmetics company owned by the Viana Levi family, led by the mysterious maestro Leonardo. This complex ... See full summary »

Stars: Paulo Pires, José Wallenstein, Bárbara Norton de Matos, Nuno Távora

Votes: 39

39. Hibiki: Shôsetsuka ni naru hôhô (2018)

105 min | Drama

Hibiki is a precocious 15-year-old with a penchant for writing. She enters her novel to literary magazine Mokuren for nomination, but it does not satisfy conditions for their Rookie of the ... See full summary »

Director: Shô Tsukikawa | Stars: Yurina Hirate, Mizuki Itagaki, Keiko Kitagawa, Kazushige Komatsu

Votes: 497

40. La Maison de la radio (2013)

Not Rated | 104 min | Documentary

Twenty-four hours in the life of Radio France, from one dawn to another. Along its corridors, inside its recording studios, with its producers, presenters, journalists and various guests. ... See full summary »

Director: Nicolas Philibert | Stars: Jean-François Achilli, Evelyne Adam, Jean-Claude Ameisen, Arno

Votes: 306 | Gross: $0.01M

41. Corps et biens (1986)

100 min

The romantic and cruel escapades of a gigolo and a mysterious woman.

Director: Benoît Jacquot | Stars: Lambert Wilson, Dominique Sanda, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Ingrid Held

Votes: 65

42. Cet amour-là (2001)

Unrated | 100 min | Drama

Cet Amour-là is an intimate portrait of a legendary love affair. Set against the beauty of the Breton seaside, it is also a film that revels in the insights that Marguerite Duras' writing affords.

Director: Josée Dayan | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Aymeric Demarigny, Christiane Rorato, Sophie Milleron

Votes: 370 | Gross: $0.07M

43. Chateaubriand (2010 TV Movie)

102 min | Biography

The film is based on real events in the life of the famous French writer and politician François-René de Chateaubriand.

Director: Pierre Aknine | Stars: Frédéric Diefenthal, Armelle Deutsch, Annelise Hesme, Aurélia Petit

Votes: 44

44. The Brontes at the BBC (2016 TV Movie)

Documentary

A survey of Bronte adaptations on BBC Television from 1956 to 2006.

Director: Rebecca Whyte | Stars: Kay Adshead, Stanley Baker, Joan Bakewell, Claire Bloom

Votes: 12

45. Those of Our Land (1915)

44 min | Documentary, Short

With family connections to some famous French artists, writers, and musicians of the time, Sacha Guitry decided to film the individuals in action, to celebrate the greatness of his culture, threatened by Germany in the ongoing Great War.

Directors: Sacha Guitry, Frédéric Rossif | Stars: André Antoine, Lysiane Bernhardt, Sarah Bernhardt, Edgar Degas

Votes: 99

46. Freedom and Other Maladies (2016)

53 min | Documentary, Biography, Romance

Gholam-Hossein Saedi was an acclaimed Iranian author, playwright and screenwriter with an oeuvre that contains more than thirty publications. Freedom And Other Maladies depicts Saedi's ... See full summary »

Director: Shirin Saghaie | Stars: Reza Aghnami, Bahman Amini, Ali Badri, Jimmy Carter

Votes: 17

47. East of Eden: Art in Search of Life (2005 Video)

20 min | Documentary, Short

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Stars: Susan Schillinglaw, Thomas Steinbeck, Richard Schickel, Elia Kazan

Votes: 41

48. Pasternak (1965)

9 min | Documentary, Short, Biography

This short film, a mini-biography of of writer and Nobelist Boris Pasternak, serves as something of a promotional film for the upcoming film version of his novel Doctor Zhivago (1965). It ... See full summary »

Director: Thomas Craven | Stars: David Lean, Alec Guinness, Omar Sharif, Geraldine Chaplin

Votes: 111

49. Dirty Books, Dirty Movies: Barney Rosset on Henry Miller (2002 Video)

17 min | Documentary, Short

Barney Rosset talks about running Grove Press, his various censorship battles, and his friendship with Henry Miller.

Director: Gary Hertz | Star: Barney Rosset

Votes: 19

50. Onsenba: Sex jisshû (1973)

63 min

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Director: Ryûji Akitsu | Stars: Naomi Tani, Misa Aoyama, Shingko Jô, Rima Aoyama