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    Werewolf (1997)

    Unscrupulous archaeologists try to take advantage of an outbreak of lycanthropy prompted by the...

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    The Whole Wide World (1996)

    A romance builds between a school teacher and a talented writer.

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    Naked Lunch (1991)

    After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally...

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    Full Speed (1998)

    A young French author (Pascal Cervo) cajoles a homosexual into recalling teen experiences with a...

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    Stone Reader (2003)

    Filmmaker Mark Moskowitz discovers a great unknown novel, "The Stones of Summer" by Dow Mossman, and...

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    Play It Again, Sam (1972)

    The spirit of Humphrey Bogart provides manly advice to a lovelorn movie buff whose wife has recently...

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    Anne B. Real

    A New York teenager's (Janice Richardson) drug-addicted brother (Carlos Leon) sells her lyrics to a...

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    'til There Was You (1997)

    Circumstances keep fated lovers (Jeanne Tripplehorn, Dylan McDermott) unaware of each other's...

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    Mansfield Park (1999)

    Sent to live with relatives by her impoverished parents, a girl grows up, becomes a writer and falls...

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    Weekend Warriors (1986)

    A screenwriter (Chris Lemmon) and Hollywood entertainers join the National Guard in 1961, then put...

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    Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life (1998)

    Dramatic narrative feature documentary about writer Ayn Rand. Film incorporates a screen adaptation...

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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 War Between Men and Women

    A Thurberesque New Yorker (Jack Lemmon) going blind acquires a wife (Barbara Harris), three...

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    Force of Circumstance (1990)

    A courier who represents Moroccan dissidents arrives in Washington with secret documents.

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    Evil Under the Sun (1982)

    Agatha Christie's Belgian sleuth, Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov), solves the murder of an actress at...

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    The Forgotten One

    A relocated writer (Terry O'Quinn) sees a ghostly beauty (Blair Parker) ; then his new girlfriend...

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    Earth Entranced

    A poet flees the pampered world of the elite for that of radical politics, yet soon discovers that...

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    Grim Prairie Tales (1990)

    A timid writer and brusque mountain man meet one night and exchange horror stories.

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    Deconstructing Harry (1997)

    An immature middle-aged writer (Woody Allen) with lifelong women problems seeks someone to accompany...

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    Shipwreck (1978)

    Robert Logan stars in still another of his many independently produced films designed for the...

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    I Am a Camera (1955)

    Julie Harris repeats her stage portrayal of the irrepressible Sally Bowles in John Van Druten's I Am...

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    Slow Dancing in the Big City (1978)

    A husky New York columnist (Paul Sorvino) falls for a ballerina (Anne Ditchburn) in bad health who...

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    Jungle Moon Men (1955)

    The fifteenth of Columbia's "Jungle Jim" series, Jungle Moon Men stars Johnny Weissmuller, here...

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    Derrida (2002)

    Documentary about French philosopher (and author of deconstructionism) Jacques Derrida, who sparked...

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    Breakfast of Champions (1999)

    An unhappy car dealer (Bruce Willis) believes that a dime-store author/philosopher (Albert Finney)...

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    Burroughs

    This biographical documentary on author and eccentric William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch), founder of...

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    Don't Just Stand There! (1968)

    This comedy finds American writer Lawrence Colby (Robert Wagner) augmenting his scribing income by...

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    Aspen Extreme (1993)

    An autoworker (Paul Gross) and his buddy (Peter Berg) exit Detroit, move to Colorado and become...

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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...

  • Falsche Bewegung picture
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    Falsche Bewegung

    The Wrong Move and The Wrong Movement were the English-language titles for German director Wim...