Writer Movies

This documentary focuses on the journey of Merton, a bohemian who went from communism to Catholicism before finding his calling as a monk cloistered...

An internal struggle ensues when a young man is confronted with the choice between his girl and his smokes.

A charismatically verbose writer who befriends the resident bartender on a train ferrying dark secrets. The writer’s sanity begins to unravel...

Diane di Prima (1934-2020) was a poet, writer, publisher and playwright whose work has been associated with the Beat movement. Born and raised in New...

Narrated collection of the greatest Dobrisa Cesaric's poems.

This is a sort of documentary made by Vilgot Sjoman about Vilgot Sjoman as a sort of cinematic autobiography aired on Swedish television originally...

Beatriz Portinari is not only the name of the inspiring muse of Dante Alighieri, but also the pseudonym with which the Platense writer Aurora...

Documentary about the Austrian-American writer Charles Sealsfield

This film is an episodic look at the lives of artists who have been separated from their normal lives for nearly a century to create their works. ...

Hülya is a young German-Turkish writer. Several years after the death of her father, she decides to write a novel about him. In order to get to...

Fresh off a relationship, Briar finds a waning comfort in an old script, and a new friend.

Documentary about the writer Thomas Verbogt and the creation of his latest work. The film shows how Verbogt takes a radical experience from his...

Australian writer Wongar lives a secluded life taking care of his 6 dingoes for which he believes embody the spirits of his tragically lost...

A short documentary about a reclusive writer.

The Tender Skin, a struggling writer-turned-bartender grapples with longing and regret when a chance encounter reignites buried feelings at an art...

A young woman suffers with writers block and her own sobriety

A documentary about the Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov, who won the International Booker Prize in 2023 for his novel Time Shelter.

The story of Gvantsa, a young displaced writer from Abkhazia whose play, As a Token of Love, carries the memory of the home she was forced to leave...

After Portnoy's Complaint launched him as a new literary voice, not to mention a scandalous one, Philip Roth went on to be hailed by many as...