Writer Movies

Interviews and archival footage weave together to tell the story of the Master of Suspense, one of the most influential and studied filmmakers in the...

With less than 9 hours left, a writer struggling with writer's block must find creative inspiration before it's too late.

A screenwriter travels to an abandoned house to finish a script on time, but a series of strange events lead her to a psychological breakdown.

Based on the 1995 beat 'em up game of the same name, this story features a disgruntled comic book creator and a queer writer of color who become...

The story of a Jewish novelist, Harry Lesser, struggling to complete his latest work, and his antagonistic relationship with a black writer who moves...

A portrait of the brilliant American writer Truman Capote (1924-84) and the New York high society of his time.

In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to...

Mild-mannered mystery writer D. H. Mercer has become so immersed in his material that his creation, hard-boiled private eye Biff Deegan, constantly...

A documentary about the production of From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) and the people who made it.

This film concerns a writer of mystery stories who bases his villain on a criminal, played by Malcolm McDowell, who is incarcerated in prison....

A paranoid writer is unable to get started on his second novel. He hires a secretary and then his troubles really begin.

The film deals with the unforeseen effects generated by a young writer's suicide.

Documentary about the life and work of Jorge Luis Borges, from his own memories and reflections.

A queer memoirist's rise to fame turns into a chilling nightmare when he hires a medium to stop the traumatic voices in his head, at the moral cost...

A grief-stricken screenwriter unknowingly enters a three-way relationship with a woman and her film executive husband - to chilling results.

Documentary about Kathy Acker where she talks about her writing and her life in New York.

The life and work of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, a long interview, fragments of some of his most significant verses and dramatizations of...

When a self-help writer's advice goes wrong, she finds herself in the crosshairs of an obsessive young woman with a thirst for vengeance.

A famous crime writer becomes a victim after a crazed fan brutally attacks her. She isolates herself in her apartment, trying to cope and get on with...

A plucky personal assistant is sent by her boss into the desert to retrieve a mysterious present from his wife only to find it contains a demonic...