Best "novelist" Movies of All Time

101 movies found (page 1/4):

Argylle(2024)

3.1/5 (with 407 votes)

When the plots of reclusive author Elly Conway's fictional espionage novels begin to mirror the covert actions of a real-life spy organization, quiet evenings at home become a thing of the past. Accompanied by her cat Alfie and Aiden, a cat-allergic spy, Elly races across the world to stay one step ahead of the killers as the line between Conway's fictional world and her real one begins to blur.

Directed by Matthew Vaughn - With Dua Lipa, Henry Cavill, Sam Rockwell, Bryan Cranston, Bryce Dallas Howard, Catherine O'Hara, ...

Romancing the Stone(1984)

| 1h 46min | Adventure, Romance / Love, Comedy, Action

3.4/5 (with 829 votes)

Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.

Directed by Robert Zemeckis - With Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Alfonso Arau, Manuel Ojeda, Holland Taylor, ...

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Nocturnal Animals(2016)

1h 56min | Drama, Thriller

3.7/5 (with 3,628 votes)

Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.

Directed by Tom Ford - With Jake Gyllenhaal, Amy Adams, Laura Linney, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Michael Shannon, Isla Fisher, ...

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Stuck in Love(2013)

Κ-15

| 1h 37min | Drama, Comedy

3.7/5 (with 875 votes)

An acclaimed writer, his ex-wife, and their teenaged children come to terms with the complexities of love in all its forms over the course of one tumultuous year.

Directed by Josh Boone - With Jennifer Connelly, Greg Kinnear, Lily Collins, Logan Lerman, Kristen Bell, Liana Liberato, ...

The Man Who Invented Christmas(2017)

1h 45min | Drama, History, Comedy, Kids & Family

3.4/5 (with 357 votes)

In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.

Directed by Bharat Nalluri - With Dan Stevens, Jonathan Pryce, Christopher Plummer

The Wife(2018)

1h 40min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 499 votes)

A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Directed by Björn Runge - With Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Christian Slater, Max Irons, Annie Starke, Elizabeth McGovern, ...

Ruby Sparks(2012)

1h 44min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Fantasy, Drama

3.6/5 (with 707 votes)

Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin finds Ruby, in the flesh, sitting on his couch about a week later, he is completely flabbergasted that his words have turned into a living, breathing person.

Directed by Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris - With Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Antonio Banderas, Annette Bening, Chris Messina, Deborah Ann Woll, ...

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Genius(2016)

Κ-12

| 1h 44min | History, Drama

3.3/5 (with 298 votes)

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer falls into his hands, Perkins is convinced he has discovered a literary genius.

Directed by Michael Grandage - With Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Guy Pearce, Jude Law, Dominic West, Laura Linney, ...

You Hurt My Feelings(2023)

1h 33min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 46 votes)

A novelist's longstanding marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears her husband giving his honest reaction to her latest book.

Directed by Nicole Holofcener - With Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tobias Menzies, Michaela Watkins, Arian Moayed, Owen Teague, Jeannie Berlin, ...

Based on a True Story(2017)

1h 37min | Thriller, Mystery, Drama

2.9/5 (with 220 votes)

Delphine is the author of an autobiographical novel that has become a bestseller. Exhausted by the promotional tour, just when she feels out of place, paralyzed by the idea of having to start writing again, she meets Elle, a young, attractive, intelligent, intuitive woman who seems to understand her better than anyone.

Directed by Roman Polanski - With Emmanuelle Seigner, Eva Green, Vincent Perez, Damien Bonnard, Camille Chamoux, Brigitte Roüan, ...

Afire(2023)

1h 42min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 26 votes)

A seaside vacation takes an unexpected turn when Leon and Felix show up at Felix's family's holiday home to discover Nadja, a mysterious woman, already there. As an ever-encroaching forest fire threatens their well-being, relationships are tested and romances are kindled.

Directed by Christian Petzold - With Thomas Schubert, Paula Beer, Langston Uibel, Enno Trebs, Matthias Brandt

Summer Villa(2016)

1h 24min | Romance / Love, Comedy, TV Movie

3.2/5 (with 40 votes)

Although a successful romance novelist, Terry Russell hasn't had luck in her own love life. After a disastrous first date with cocky, hot-shot New York chef Matthew Everston, she retreats to her friend's French villa for the summer to finish her latest novel, with her reluctant teenage daughter in tow.

Directed by Pat Kiely - With Kasia Malinowska, Hilarie Burton, Victor Webster, Emorphia Margaritis, Jocelin Haas, Cristina Rosato, ...

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Stranger Than Fiction(2006)

1h 53min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 995 votes)

Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life.

Directed by Marc Forster - With Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah, Emma Thompson, Linda Hunt, ...

Blithe Spirit(1945)

1h 36min | Comedy, Fantasy

3.5/5 (with 54 votes)

An English mystery novelist invites a medium to his home, so she may conduct a séance for a small gathering. The writer hopes to gather enough material for the book he's working on, as well as to expose the medium as a charlatan. However, proceedings take an unexpected turn, resulting in a chain of supernatural events being set into motion that wreak havoc on the man's present marriage.

Directed by David Lean - With Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond, Margaret Rutherford, Joyce Carey, Noël Coward, ...

Impromptu(1991)

1h 47min | Drama, Comedy, Music, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 22 votes)

In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand.

Directed by James Lapine - With Judy Davis, Hugh Grant, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Julian Sands, Emma Thompson, ...

Croupier(1998)

| 1h 34min | Drama, Thriller

3.4/5 (with 119 votes)

Jack Manfred is an aspiring writer who to make ends meet, takes a job as a croupier. Jack remains an observer, knowing that everything in life is a gamble and that gamblers are born to lose. Inevitably, he gets sucked into the world of the casino which takes its toll on his relationships and the novel he is writing.

Directed by Mike Hodges - With Clive Owen, Alex Kingston, Gina McKee, Kate Hardie, Nicholas Ball, Alexander Morton, ...

My First Summer(2020)

1h 18min | Drama, Romance / Love

4.1/5 (with 82 votes)

Isolated on a remote property, 16-year-old Claudia finds her world transformed when a spirited girl named Grace wanders into her garden.

Directed by Katie Found - With Markella Kavenagh, Maiah Stewardson, Steve Mouzakis, Arthur Angel

She-Devil(1989)

1h 39min | Comedy

3.0/5 (with 162 votes)

A cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.

Directed by Susan Seidelman - With Meryl Streep, Roseanne Barr, Ed Begley, Jr., Linda Hunt, Sylvia Miles, A Martinez, ...

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Apur Sansar(1959)

1h 45min | Drama, Romance / Love

4.1/5 (with 93 votes)

Apu is a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer. An old college friend talks him into a visit up-country to a village wedding...

Directed by Satyajit Ray - With Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore

5 to 7(2014)

1h 38min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 167 votes)

A young writer begins an affair with an older woman from France whose open marriage to a diplomat dictates that they can meet only between the hours of 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Directed by Victor Levin - With Anton Yelchin, Bérénice Marlohe, Olivia Thirlby, Lambert Wilson, Frank Langella, Glenn Close, ...

The Flower of My Secret(1995)

1h 43min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 95 votes)

Marisa Paredes is Leocadia ("Leo") Macias, a woman writing “pink” romance novels under the alias of Amanda Gris that are very popular all across Spain. Unlike her romantic novels, her own love life is troubled. Leo has a less than happy relationship with her husband Paco, a military officer stationed in Brussels then later in Bosnia, who is distant both physically and emotionally.

Directed by Pedro Almodóvar - With Marisa Paredes, Juan Echanove, Rossy de Palma, Chus Lampreave, Joaquín Cortés, Carme Elias, ...

The End of the Tour(2015)

1h 46min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 243 votes)

The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.'.

Directed by James Ponsoldt - With Jason Segel, Jesse Eisenberg, Mamie Gummer, Anna Chlumsky, Joan Cusack, Ron Livingston, ...

To Walk Invisible(2016)

2h | Drama, History

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

Neverwas(2005)

1h 48min | Drama, Fantasy, Thriller

3.2/5 (with 54 votes)

Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What he doesn't reveal at the time of his appointment is that this was the very place where his novelist father, T.L. Pierson, spent many years of his life.

Directed by Joshua Michael Stern - With Ian McKellen, Aaron Eckhart, Brittany Murphy, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Alan Cumming, ...

Zoom(2015)

1h 36min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

2.9/5 (with 43 votes)

A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each lives in a separate reality but authors a story about one of the others.

Directed by Pedro Morelli - With Gael García Bernal

Princess Cyd(2017)

1h 36min | Romance / Love, Drama

3.3/5 (with 58 votes)

High school athlete Cyd Loughlin lives alone with her depressive father in South Carolina, perpetually longing to get away from it all. When her aunt, famous novelist Miranda Ruth, agrees to host her for a few weeks during the summer, Cyd jumps at the opportunity. While there, she falls for a girl in the neighborhood, even as she and her aunt gently challenge each other in the realms of sex and spirit.

Directed by Stephen Cone - With Rebecca Spence

A Novel Romance(2015)

1h 23min | TV Movie, Romance / Love, Comedy, Drama, Action

3.1/5 (with 35 votes)

Romance novelist Liam Bradley (Dylan Bruce) has already found massive success with three books written under the pen name Gabriel August, but he's mysteriously unknown to his legions of readers. With his first book written as a way to heal after a broken relationship, Liam has slowly become disheartened with writing strictly for romantic fantasy, something evident to a sweet, but honest, journalist who reviews books, Sophie Atkinson (Amy Acker), whom he meets by chance on a plane. The two begin a tentative relationship in Sophie’s home town of Portland, Oregon, where Liam has come to find inspiration for his newest entry. Liam’s agent puts him on the spot with a long-planned reveal of Gabriel August’s true identity, but Sophie doesn’t know of his public persona. The longer Liam avoids telling her the truth, the deeper a hole he digs for himself. Will their romance survive once his true identity comes to light?

The Novelist's Film(2022)

1h 32min | Drama

3.1/5 (with 15 votes)

A novelist visits a bookstore run by a young colleague who's been out of touch, then takes a walk with a film director and his wife. She meets an actress and tries to convince her to make a film together.

Directed by Hong Sang-soo - With Lee Haeyoung, Kim Min-hee, Seo Young-hwa, Kwon Hae-hyo, Gi Ju-bong, Park Mi-so, ...

Mother(1996)

1h 44min | Comedy

3.3/5 (with 31 votes)

After two failed marriages a science fiction writer decides that coming to terms with his mother will improve his chances for a successful relationship, so he moves in with her.

Directed by Albert Brooks - With Debbie Reynolds, Paul Collins, Albert Brooks, John C. McGinley, Vanessa Estelle Williams, Lisa Kudrow, ...

No Longer Human(2019)

2h | Drama, Thriller

3.2/5 (with 10 votes)

The story of Osamu Dazai, one of Japan's most celebrated novelists, absorbed in alcohol and love; married and in a relationship with two other lovers.

Directed by Mika Ninagawa

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