Best "diary" Movies of All Time

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets(2002)

FSK: 6+ years

3.9/5 (with 10,293 votes)

Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure and danger await when bloody writing on a wall announces: The Chamber Of Secrets Has Been Opened. To save Hogwarts will require all of Harry, Ron and Hermione’s magical abilities and courage.

Directed by Chris Columbus - With Daniel Radcliffe, Warwick Davis, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Kenneth Branagh, Alan Rickman, ...

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button(2008)

FSK: 12+ years

| 2h 46min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance / Love

3.8/5 (with 5,674 votes)

I was born under unusual circumstances. And so begins The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans, from the end of World War I in 1918 into the 21st century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man's life can be. Benjamin Button, is a grand tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.

Directed by David Fincher - With Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Julia Ormond, Tilda Swinton, Mahershala Ali, ...

The Prestige(2006)

FSK: 12+ years

| 2h 10min | Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

4.1/5 (with 7,192 votes)

A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.

Directed by Christopher Nolan - With Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, Piper Perabo, ...

Man on Fire(2004)

FSK: 16+ years

| 2h 26min | Action, Drama, Thriller

3.7/5 (with 2,220 votes)

Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.

Directed by Tony Scott - With Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Christopher Walken, Giancarlo Giannini, Radha Mitchell, Marc Anthony, ...

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A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge(1985)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 27min | Horror

2.9/5 (with 846 votes)

Jesse Walsh moves with his family into the home of the lone survivor from a series of attacks by dream-stalking monster Freddy Krueger. There, Jesse is bedeviled by nightmares and inexplicably violent impulses. It turns out Freddy needs a host body to carry out his gruesome vendetta against the youth of Springwood, Ohio. While Freddy gains influence, Jesse and his girlfriend, Lisa race against the clock trying to figure out what's going on.

Directed by Jack Sholder - With Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Robert Rusler, Clu Gulager, Hope Lange, Robert Englund, ...

Midnight in Paris(2011)

FSK: 0+ years

| 1h 34min | Fantasy, Comedy, Romance / Love

3.8/5 (with 3,314 votes)

A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.

Directed by Woody Allen - With Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kurt Fuller, Michael Sheen, Carla Bruni, Marion Cotillard, ...

The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations(2009)

FSK: 18+ years

| 1h 30min | Science Fiction, Thriller, Drama, Crime

2.7/5 (with 242 votes)

The story revolves around a man trying to uncover the mysterious death of his girlfriend and save an innocent man from the death chamber in the process, by using his unique power to time travel. However in attempting to do this, he also frees a spiteful serial-killer.

Directed by Seth Grossman - With Chris Carmack, Rachel Miner, Melissa Jones, Sarah Habel, Richard G. Wilkinson

Bridget Jones's Diary(2001)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 37min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Drama

3.4/5 (with 2,226 votes)

A chaotic Bridget Jones meets a snobbish lawyer, and he soon enters her world of imperfections.

Directed by Sharon Maguire - With Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Gemma Jones, Jim Broadbent, Shirley Henderson, ...

Lolita(1962)

FSK: 12+ years

| 2h 34min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love

3.7/5 (with 859 votes)

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.

Directed by Stanley Kubrick - With James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon, Peter Sellers, Lois Maxwell, Marianne Stone, ...

Eastern Promises(2007)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 40min | Thriller, Crime, Mystery

3.7/5 (with 1,421 votes)

A Russian teenager, living in London, dies during childbirth but leaves clues to a midwife in her journal, that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.

Directed by David Cronenberg - With Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Donald Sumpter, Jerzy Skolimowski, ...

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Heathers(1989)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 43min | Comedy, Crime

3.7/5 (with 703 votes)

A girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics: by killing the popular kids.

Directed by Michael Lehmann - With Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty, Kim Walker, Lisanne Falk, Patrick Labyorteaux, ...

Freedom Writers(2007)

FSK: 12+ years

| 2h 3min | Crime, Drama

4.0/5 (with 967 votes)

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.

Directed by Richard LaGravenese - With Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Glenn, April Lee Hernández, Hunter Parrish, Imelda Staunton, ...

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Date Movie(2006)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 23min | Comedy, Romance / Love

2.1/5 (with 436 votes)

Spoof of romantic comedies which focuses on a man, his crush, his parents, and her father.

Directed by Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer - With Alyson Hannigan, Adam Campbell, Sophie Monk, Jennifer Coolidge, Mauricio Sanchez, Eddie Griffin, ...

Stealing Beauty(1996)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 56min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 258 votes)

Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to become reacquainted.

Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci - With Liv Tyler, Jeremy Irons, D. W. Moffett, Rachel Weisz, Jean Marais, Joseph Fiennes, ...

The Diary of Anne Frank(1959)

FSK: 12+ years

| 3h | Drama, History

3.6/5 (with 151 votes)

The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.

Directed by George Stevens - With Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters, Richard Beymer, Gusti Huber, Lou Jacobi, ...

The Chorus(2004)

FSK: 6+ years

| 1h 36min | Drama

3.9/5 (with 1,076 votes)

Set in 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.

Directed by Christophe Barratier - With Gérard Jugnot, François Berléand, Jean-Baptiste Maunier, Jacques Perrin, Kad Merad, Armen Godel, ...

Over Her Dead Body(2008)

FSK: 6+ years

| 1h 35min | Comedy

2.8/5 (with 203 votes)

After his fiancée, Kate, dies in an accident on their wedding day, veterinarian Henry grows depressed. To help him move on, his sister has him visit psychic Ashley and gives her Kate's diary. Ashley uses the journal's details to convincingly deliver the fake message that Kate wants Henry to move on. However, Kate's ghost is watching over Ashley and Henry. Furious when they fall for each other, she vows to sabotage their relationship.

Directed by Jeff Lowell - With Eva Longoria, Paul Rudd, Lake Bell, Jason Biggs, Lindsay Sloane, Ali Hillis, ...

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White Squall(1996)

FSK: 12+ years

| 2h 9min | Adventure, Action, Drama

3.2/5 (with 145 votes)

In 1960, a hardy group of prep school students boards an old-fashioned sailing ship. With Capt. Christopher Sheldon at the helm, the oceangoing voyage is intended to teach the boys fortitude and discipline. But the youthful crew are about to get some unexpected instruction in survival when they get caught in the clutches of a white squall storm.

Directed by Ridley Scott - With Jeff Bridges, John Savage, Ryan Phillippe, Scott Wolf, Balthazar Getty, Jeremy Sisto, ...

The Barbie Diaries(2006)

1h 10min | Kids & Family, Animation

3.2/5 (with 161 votes)

This movie stars Barbie as a teenage girl, trying to deal with crushes, rivals and friendship as she tries to achieve her dream of working as a news anchor for her school's TV station. She doesn't always make the right decisions, but she's a nice enough character and considerably less "perfect" than she is portrayed in her other films.

Directed by Eric Fogel

Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac(1973)

1h 27min | Drama

2.5/5 (with 9 votes)

Linda comes to the big city in search of fun and excitement. What she finds is exploitation and abuse at the hands of a succession of sleazy guys. Searching for love, she enters into a lesbian relationship with a beautiful countess, discovers drugs and swingers' parties and starts acting in porno movies. She also begins to write a secret diary... With a cast of some of the most stunning Euro actresses of the period, wall-to-wall sex and nudity, pot parties, porno shoots and a psychedelic soundtrack, this is a gem of 1970s exploitation cinema from Jess Franco. Street scenes shot in Benidorm (Alicante, Spain) and Las Palmas (Gran Canaria, Spain).

Directed by Jesús Franco - With Jacqueline Laurent, Anne Libert, Howard Vernon, Jesús Franco

Ghajini(2008)

3h 6min | Action, Romance / Love, Thriller

3.5/5 (with 165 votes)

A man suffering from anterograde amnesia as a result of a violent attack in the past sets out to avenge his girlfriend's death with the aid of photographs, notes and tattoos all over his body.

Directed by A. R. Murugadoss - With Aamir Khan, Asin, Jiah Khan, Riyaz Khan

Bodyguard(2011)

2h 14min | Drama, Action, Romance / Love

2.7/5 (with 56 votes)

Lovely Singh is extremely respectful of Mr Rana and his daughter Divya. While appointed as Divya's bodyguard, he falls in love with a girl he has never met, unaware that she is none other than Divya.

Directed by Siddique - With Salman Khan, Asghar Nai Peeli Texy hai, Raj Babbar, Hazel Keech, Mahesh Manjrekar

The First Day of the Rest of Your Life(2008)

1h 54min | Drama

3.8/5 (with 209 votes)

A sprawling drama centered on five key days in a family's life.

Directed by Rémi Bezançon - With Camille De Pazzis, Cécile Cassel, Déborah François, François-Xavier Demaison, Françoise Brion, Gilles Lellouche, ...

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Poison Ivy 2: Lily(1996)

1h 46min | Drama, Romance / Love, Thriller

2.4/5 (with 52 votes)

A young and naive college art student becomes obsessed with assuming the identity and personality of a departed coed who used to live in her room, and in so doing causes complications that result in two men, a student and her art professor, lusting after her.

Directed by Anne Goursaud - With Alyssa Milano, Xander Berkeley, Johnathon Schaech, Belinda Bauer, Camilla Belle

Mr. & Mrs. Smith(1941)

FSK: 6+ years

| 1h 35min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 80 votes)

Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her? To her shock, he answers, "No". Later that day, they separately discover that, due to a legal complication, they are not legally married.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock - With Carole Lombard, Robert Montgomery, Gene Raymond, Jack Carson, Lucile Watson, Emma Dunn, ...

Hour of the Wolf(1968)

1h 30min | Drama, Horror

3.7/5 (with 201 votes)

While vacationing on a remote German island with his pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.

Directed by Ingmar Bergman - With Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Gertrud Fridh, Georg Rydeberg, Erland Josephson, Ingrid Thulin, ...

The Diary Of Anne Frank(2016)

FSK: 12+ years

| 2h 8min | Drama

3.8/5 (with 49 votes)

The story of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who went into hiding with her family in Amsterdam and became a victim of the Holocaust.

Directed by Hans Steinbichler - With Lea van Acken, Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Noethen, Stella Kunkat, Margarita Broich, André Jung, ...

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The Shrine(2010)

FSK: 18+ years

| 1h 25min | Horror

2.7/5 (with 93 votes)

A group of young journalists investigate a cult said to practice human sacrifice, but their ambitious ways may lead them to becoming the cult's next victims.

Directed by Jon Knautz - With Aaron Ashmore, Cindy Sampson, Meghan Heffern, Trevor Matthews

The Cement Garden(1993)

1h 45min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 38 votes)

After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a mysterious illness. Aware that she is going to have to go into hospital she opens a bank account for the children, so that they can be financially self-sufficient and will be able to avoid being taken into care by the authorities. Unfortunately she also dies and Julie and Jack (the older, teenage children) decide to hide her body in the basement so that they can have free reign of their household. Soon Tom has taken to dressing as a girl whilst Sue has become increasingly reticent, confiding only to her diary, meanwhile Jack and Julie sense an attraction developing for each other. However Julie's new beau, Derek, threatens to unearth the many dark secrets within this family as he becomes increasingly suspicious of Jack.

Directed by Andrew Birkin - With Andrew N. Robertson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jochen Horst, Alice Coulthard, Ned Birkin, Sinéad Cusack, ...

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Summer Interlude(1951)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 36min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.7/5 (with 62 votes)

A jaded prima ballerina reminisces about her first love affair after she is unexpectedly sent her lover's old diary.

Directed by Ingmar Bergman - With Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten, Alf Kjellin, Gunnar Olsson, Stig Olin, Renée Björling, ...

Movies: Best "diary" Movies

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets(2002)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button(2008)

The Prestige(2006)

Man on Fire(2004)

A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge(1985)

Midnight in Paris(2011)

The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations(2009)

Bridget Jones's Diary(2001)

Lolita(1962)

Eastern Promises(2007)

Heathers(1989)

Freedom Writers(2007)

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Date Movie(2006)

Stealing Beauty(1996)

The Diary of Anne Frank(1959)

The Chorus(2004)

Over Her Dead Body(2008)

White Squall(1996)

The Barbie Diaries(2006)

Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac(1973)

Ghajini(2008)

Bodyguard(2011)

The First Day of the Rest of Your Life(2008)

Poison Ivy 2: Lily(1996)

Mr. & Mrs. Smith(1941)

Hour of the Wolf(1968)

The Diary Of Anne Frank(2016)

The Shrine(2010)

The Cement Garden(1993)

Summer Interlude(1951)

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