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  • Shakespeare in Love picture
    Movies

    Shakespeare in Love (1998)

    Young William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) falls for Viola (Gwyneth Paltrow), reawakening his...

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    Adaptation (2002)

    A screenwriter (Nicolas Cage) asks his identical twin, who is in the same profession, for advice on...

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    Best Seller (1987)

    A former hit man (James Woods) for a corporate big shot wants a police detective/novelist (Brian...

  • House picture
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    House (1986)

    A mounted fish moves, household objects levitate, and monsters haunt a troubled novelist (William...

  • The Lost Weekend picture
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    The Lost Weekend (1945)

    Billy Wilder's Academy Award-winning portrait of an alcoholic writer facing a losing battle against...

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    8 1/2 (1963)

    An Italian film director (Marcello Mastroianni) seeking the meaning of life retreats from his wife...

  • A Bigger Splash picture
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    A Bigger Splash

    Photographer Jack Hazan shoots an improvisational documentary chronicling painter David Hockney and...

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    Sweet Dreams (1981)

    A police chief suspects a couple (David Newsom, Amy Yasbeck) offering to help an attack victim...

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    Deathtrap (1982)

    A cat-and-mouse game ensues between a blocked Broadway playwright (Michael Caine), his wife (Dyan...

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    The Tango Lesson (1997)

    A film director, Sally, is agonizing over the visuals to a film called "Rage," a $20 million epic on...

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    The Misadventures of Margaret

    A woman achieves fame with a tawdry novel and then begins work on her new book -- an adaptation of...

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    Burn (1998)

    Ben is a twenty-something screenwriter who's having writers block. He isn't helped in his struggle...

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    Paris, France (1994)

    The overlapping story of four people who test the furthest reaches of their sexuality while trying...

  • Communion, A True Story picture
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    Communion, A True Story (1989)

    Adaptation of the Whitley Strieber's non-fiction account of his encouters with "nonhuman beings".

  • The Man Who Loved Women picture
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    The Man Who Loved Women (1983)

    A psychiatrist (Julie Andrews) recalls the fate of her late patient, a sculptor (Burt Reynolds)...

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    Hacks (1997)

    A burned-out writer (Stephen Rea) becomes obsessed with a story about a woman's (Illeana Douglas)...

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    Barton Fink (1991)

    A serious Broadway playwright (John Turturro) sweats out a B-movie script in a weird 1941 Hollywood...

  • Soldados De Salamina picture
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    Soldados De Salamina (2004)

    A drama set in the Spanish Civil War period.

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    Leaving Metropolis

    A famous painter creates a triangle in a young couple's marriage.

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    Roula (1995)

    The story of a writer-in-morning, Leon, who, two years following the tragic death of his wife,...

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    Ficcio

    Alex is approaching forty. An experienced filmmaker, he is trying to complete his latest script, so...

  • Lucky picture
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    Lucky

    Lucky is a South African AIDS orphan who learns about life through an unlikely bond with an Indian...

  • The Trouble With Dick picture
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    The Trouble With Dick

    A science fiction writer suffering from writer's block finds himself involved with three women.

  • Follow the Bitch picture
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    Follow the Bitch (1998)

    A battle-of-the-sexes comedy about a lone woman who invades the boys' poker night.

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    Bleeding Hearts (1996)

    A white paralegal (Mark Evan Jacobs) becomes attracted to a black teenager (Karen Kirkland) while...

  • La Tortue sur le dos picture
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    La Tortue sur le dos

    Unable to put a single word on paper, a youngish man with one novel to his credit finds that his...

  • Des Enfants Gates picture
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    Des Enfants Gates

    A successful writer-director rents an apartment in a drab modern building to escape the intrusions...

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    Campo Europa

    This surreal, amateur, and confusing story laden with puzzling symbolism depicts the turbulent...

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    La Rubia del Bar

    A man introduces a woman to the world of pornographic photo-novels -- an interest that soon becomes...

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    Das Schweigen des Dichters

    This drama comes from one of Germany's greatest contemporary directors, Peter Lilienthal; and is one...