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All of Us Strangers(2023)

R
| 1h 45min | Drama, Romance / Love, Fantasy
3.9/5 (with 16 votes)

One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry, which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories of the past and finds himself drawn back to the suburban town where he grew up, and the childhood home where his parents appear to be living, just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before.

Directed by Andrew Haigh - With Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy, Jamie Bell

Midnight in Paris(2011)

PG-13
| 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.

Sunset Boulevard(1950)

PG
| 1h 50min | Drama
4.2/5 (with 1,089 votes)

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

Seven Psychopaths(2012)

R
| 1h 50min | Comedy, Crime
3.4/5 (with 1,744 votes)

A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.

Youth(2015)

R
| 1h 58min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 921 votes)

Two lifelong friends bond whilst vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena, Mick is intent on finishing the screenplay for what may be his last important film for his muse Brenda. And where will inspiration lead their younger friend Jimmy, an actor grasping to make sense of his next performance?

Leaving Las Vegas(1995)

R
| 1h 51min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 649 votes)

Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.

Playing It Cool(2014)

R
| 1h 34min | Comedy, Romance / Love
2.9/5 (with 338 votes)

A young man meets and instantly falls in love with an engaged woman.

Mank(2020)

R
| 2h 13min | Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 685 votes)

1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.

Bros(2022)

R
| 1h 55min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 195 votes)

Two emotionally unavailable men attempt a relationship.

Contempt(1963)

NR
| 1h 43min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 335 votes)

A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb at the box office, he brings in a screenwriter to energize the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife.

Barton Fink(1991)

R
| 1h 56min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller, Mystery
3.7/5 (with 725 votes)

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

Russian Dolls(2005)

3.3/5 (with 288 votes)

Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.

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The Player(1992)

R
| 2h 4min | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
3.6/5 (with 323 votes)

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

Trumbo(2015)

R
| 2h 4min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 708 votes)

The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.

The Muse(1999)

PG-13
| 1h 37min | Fantasy, Comedy, Romance / Love
2.7/5 (with 54 votes)

What happens when a screenwriter loses his edge, he turns to anyone he can for help...even if it's the mythical "Zeus's Daughter". And he's willing to pay, albeit reluctantly, whatever price it takes to satisfy this goddess, especially when her advice gets him going again on a sure-fire script. However, this is not the limit of her help, she also gets the writer's wife going on her own bakery enterprise, much to the chagrin of the screenwriter who has already had to make many personal sacrifices for his own help.

In a Lonely Place(1950)

3.8/5 (with 230 votes)

An aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental and mentally impaired boyfriend is a murderer.

The Front(1976)

PG
| 1h 35min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 65 votes)

A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.

Return to Horror High(1987)

R
| 1h 35min | Horror, Comedy
2.7/5 (with 76 votes)

A few years ago, a mysterious serial-killer caused panic on Crippen High School. The killer was never caught. A movie company, Cosmic Pictures, has decided to make a feature movie about these events - on location, at the now abandoned school. Since members of cast and crew disappear without a trace, it seems as if history is repeating itself...

Magical Nights(2018)

1h 50min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 84 votes)

Rome, 1990. The night Italy's national football team is eliminated from the World Cup by Argentina on penalty kicks, a well-known film producer is found dead in the Tiber river. The main suspects for the murder are three young aspiring screenwriters, who–promptly taken to the police–start to tell their version of the story.

Directed by Paolo Virzì

Mistress(1992)

R
| 1h 50min | Comedy, Drama
2.7/5 (with 15 votes)

A comedy about a screenwriter (Wuhl) whose old movie script is read by a producer (Landau) and the search for financial backers begins. But it seems that each money source (Aiello, DeNiro, Wallach) has his own mistress that he wants put into the film. Gradually, the screenwriter is forced to make changes to his script to accommodate these backers until he finally sees no semblance of his original ideas in the writing.

Deadline(1980)

2.8/5 (with 11 votes)

A horror film about a screenwriter who loses the ability to distinguish between his fantasy world and the real world, with disastrous consequences. As he ruminates on his place in any world and loses his grip, he also loses his wife and his children's respect, and critics tear him apart. The final undoing of this screenwriter is a deadline that must be met at all costs, costs that perhaps are too great.

Susan Slept Here(1954)

NR
| 1h 38min | Comedy, Drama
3.2/5 (with 9 votes)

On Christmas Eve, suffering from a case of writer's block, screenwriter Mark Christopher and his gofer Virgil get an unexpected visit from Sergeant Maizel. Knowing Christopher is working on a juvenile delinquent script, the sergeant brings by delinquent Susan thinking she will inspire Christopher while providing a place for her to spend the holidays outside of juvenile hall.

The Lonely Lady(1983)

R
| 1h 32min | Drama
2.7/5 (with 6 votes)

A young screenwriter allows others to exploit her in the hopes of "making it" in Hollywood.

Directed by Peter Sasdy - With Pia Zadora, Lloyd Bochner, Bibi Besch, Joseph Cali, Jared Martin, Daphna Kastner, ...

Half Magic(2018)

R
| 1h 34min | Romance / Love, Comedy
2.8/5 (with 18 votes)

Three women use their newly formed sisterhood to fight against sexism, bad relationships and low self-esteem. Through embracing their wild adventures, they learn the secret to ultimate fulfillment.

House Swap(2010)

1h 24min | Horror, Thriller
2.1/5 (with 10 votes)

A young California screenwriter and his composer girlfriend exchange their Echo Park home for a sprawling Tudor mansion near Glastonbury, England, in the hope of finding creative inspiration. Thinking they have the best of the bargain, they soon learn that the house comes with a stalker who seems able to enter through locked doors. Driven beyond endurance by the continual harassment, the screenwriter sets a trap to exact his revenge...

Directed by Mark Ezra

Film, Film, Film(1968)

20min | Comedy, Animation
3.8/5 (with 22 votes)

The trials and tribulations of putting a feature film together.

Directed by Fyodor Khitruk

Below Zero(2011)

R
| 1h 39min | Horror, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 14 votes)

When Jack (Edward Furlong) is in danger of missing a deadline, his manager orders him to take whatever measures are needed to complete his screenplay. Jack locks himself in a slaughterhouse freezer but discovers that his inner demons are keeping him company. Despite the cold, Jack's imagination is red-hot as he concocts the story of Frank (Furlong), a tow truck driver who's locked in a fridge with the dying victim of a serial killer.

Directed by Justin Thomas Ostensen - With Edward Furlong, Michael Berryman, Kristin Booth

Evil Eyes(2004)

1h 20min | Horror
1.7/5 (with 6 votes)

A screenwriter is plagued by nightmares as he writes a script about a family that was slaughtered years before. Soon, the grisly murders he's writing about start to actually happen.

Directed by Mark Atkins - With Adam Baldwin, Udo Kier, Mark Sheppard, Jason David

Trumbo(2007)

PG-13
| 1h 36min | Documentary, History
3.4/5 (with 14 votes)

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Directed by Peter Askin - With Dalton Trumbo

Daddy Nostalgia(1990)

1h 45min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 8 votes)

A half English, half French screenwriter visits her parents on the Riviera after her father's heart surgery. Once there, she begins to connect with him in a way she never did before, as each member of the family tries to cope with his imminent death.

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