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Little Women(2019)

PG
| 2h 15min | Drama, Romance / Love, History
3.9/5 (with 2,785 votes)

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

Miss Potter(2006)

3.3/5 (with 214 votes)

Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved children's book "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", struggles for love, happiness and success.

Mistress America(2015)

R
| 1h 24min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 232 votes)

Tracy, a lonely college freshman in New York, is rescued from her solitude by her soon-to-be stepsister Brooke, an adventurous gal about town who entangles her in alluringly mad schemes.

Can You Ever Forgive Me?(2018)

R
| 1h 47min | Drama, Crime, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 564 votes)

When a bestselling celebrity biographer is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.

To Walk Invisible(2016)

3.7/5 (with 25 votes)

To Walk Invisible takes a new look at the extraordinary Brontë family, telling the story of these remarkable women who, despite the obstacles they faced, came from obscurity to produce some of the greatest novels in the English language.

Directed by Sally Wainwright - With Finn Atkins

Sylvia(2003)

R
| 1h 49min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 50 votes)

Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.

Agatha(1979)

PG
| 1h 39min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 21 votes)

England, 1926. An American journalist looks for mystery writer Agatha Christie when she suddenly disappears without explanation, leaving no trace.

Little Girl Blue(2023)

2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

In 2016, French writer and photographer Carole Achache took her own life. After Carole's death, her daughter Mona Achache, a film director, discovers thousands of photos, letters and recordings that Carole left behind, but these buried secrets make her disappearance even more of an enigma. Through the power of filmmaking and the beauty of incarnation with the help of actress Marion Cotillard, the director brings her mother back to life to retrace her journey and find out who she really was.

The Passion of Ayn Rand(1999)

2.4/5 (with 5 votes)

Author Ayn Rand becomes involved with a much younger and married man, to the dismay of those close to her.

The Bronte Sisters(1979)

2h | Drama
3.0/5 (with 12 votes)

In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, England, 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.

Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple(2020)

3.4/5 (with 6 votes)

British writer Agatha Christie (1890-1976) published her first novel in 1920, in which the eccentric Belgian private sleuth Hercule Poirot made his debut. Later, in 1927, the first short story starring the gentle spinster Miss Jane Marple appeared. A fascinating journey through popular culture in search of the footprints of two of the most charismatic characters in crime and mystery literature.

Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt(2015)

2h 5min | Documentary, History
3.8/5 (with 7 votes)

The life and work of German political philosopher of Jewish descent Hannah Arendt (1906-75), who caused a stir when she coined a subversive concept, the banality of evil, in her 1963 book on the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann (1906-62), held in Israel in 1961, which she covered for the New Yorker magazine.

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Enid(2009)

1h 22min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 12 votes)

Edwardian child Enid Blyton begins to tell stories to her brothers as an escape from their parents' rows before the father deserts the family...

Agatha Christie, the Queen of Crime(2018)

3.8/5 (with 3 votes)

British author Agatha Christie (1890-1976) is the world's most translated author: her heroes, private detective Hercule Poirot and amateur sleuth Miss Marple, are known the world over. But who is the woman behind her bestsellers? A biographical search for clues, the unraveling of an iridescent personality whose existence and works were shaped by the tragic history of the 20th century: the eventful life of the Queen of Crime.

Loving Highsmith(2022)

1h 24min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 5 votes)

The story of the life, loves and work of US writer Patricia Highsmith (1921-95), told through her unpublished diaries, her own voice and that of those who knew her, both family and close friends.

Directed by Eva Vitija

Two Sisters(1991)

10min | Drama, Animation
2.8/5 (with 10 votes)

Viola writes novels in a darkened room. Marie, her sister and only companion, takes care of her every need. Together, they are an island unto themselves, quiet and complete in their isolation. And then the abrupt arrival of a stranger throws their tenuous order into chaos. An animated short etched directly onto tinted 70 mm film.

Directed by Caroline Leaf

Devotion(1946)

1h 47min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Brontë vie for the affection of the Rev. Arthur Nicholls. Along with their sister Anne, Emily and Charlotte also try to help their tormented brother Branwell, a gifted artist whose life is being destroyed by alcohol.

Dagny(1977)

1h 25min | Drama
0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Dagny Juell was the doctors daughter who left Kongsvinger for Berlin to study music, and became famous painter Edvard Munchs mistress and model. Than she ran into August Strindberg. They had a brief affair but after a couple of weeks Dagny left him for Stanisław Przybyszewski.

Directed by Haakon Sandøy - With Lise Fjeldstad, Daniel Olbrychski, Per Oscarsson, Maciej Englert, Olgierd Łukaszewicz, Jerzy Cnota, ...

The Strange Life of Dr. Frankenstein(2018)

3.9/5 (with 4 votes)

In 1818, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, a powerful and timelessness novel which eternal theme is nothing other than man's quest for the secret of life. Since then, the Creature became a pop culture icon, overshadowing the novel and Doctor Frankenstein himself.

Hazelle!(1995)

Presented by HBO and recorded live at the American Palace Theatre in New York, 'Hazelle!' a one-woman show consisting of a series of interconnected vignettes involving a host of Hazelle Goodman's well-crafted and distinct characters, which center on a NY York neighborhood. Often hilarious, sometimes poignant, but always though provoking and brilliantly performed, Goodman uses humor to celebrate humanity in way that is as relevant in 1995 as it is timeless.

Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space(2023)

1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Raised in the small all-Black Florida town of Eatonville, Zora Neale Hurston studied at Howard University before arriving in New York in 1925. She would soon become a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, best remembered for her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. But even as she gained renown in the Harlem literary circles, Hurston was also discovering anthropology at Barnard College with the renowned Franz Boas. She would make several trips to the American South and the Caribbean, documenting the lives of rural Black people and collecting their stories. She studied her own people, an unusual practice at the time, and during her lifetime became known as the foremost authority on Black folklore.

Is It True What They Say About Ann?(2004)

38min | Documentary
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

The most controversial political commentator of our day, and the author of three New York Times bestsellers, Coulter has a mad-cap mouth and an allergy to political correctness. But who is the woman behind the stinging barb and the quick wit? And what does she really believe when you strip off the rhetoric? This film takes you behind the bombast through original interviews with the woman Al Franken calls the reigning diva of the hysterical right—and who George magazine selected as one of the twenty most fascinating women in politics.

Ever Here I Be(2010)

16min | Comedy
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A hopeless waitress and a melancholy neon sign maker are on separate paths and struggle through the everyday alone. Their thoughts for each other collide with magnetic force, can fate under the guise of a cupid cowboy and a band of coffee bean ants connect the lost souls?

Bon Appétit(2018)

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Plastic Girl(2023)

A young writer finds herself promoting her new book in a televised interview, but things are not what they seem when the interviewer starts to challenge her.