Writer Movies

Documentary about the Austrian-American writer Charles Sealsfield

A documentary recreating the life and writings of celebrated Irish author James Joyce with readings from his most famous works filmed on location in...

After Portnoy's Complaint launched him as a new literary voice, not to mention a scandalous one, Philip Roth went on to be hailed by many as...

An insight look into the curious life of the spanish novelist Ángel Vázquez with the city of Tangier in the background, as a second...

An internal struggle ensues when a young man is confronted with the choice between his girl and his smokes.

Antonio Gracia José (1942-2011), known as “Pierrot,” was a prominent member of the Barcelona art scene, a pioneer in the...

An up-and-coming filmmaker sets out to write a romcom. The only problem is, he has never been in a relationship before. All of that is about to...

Documentary about ecuadorian writer Jorge Enrique Adoum.

"A young writer has a tought time trying to finish his book, in the midst of it, his terror seems to escape out of its pages"

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

Short documentary about Emmen, one of the first planned cities in the Netherlands, a home for workers in the textile and metal industry. Emmen was...

After portraying the German writer in "W. G. Sebald. Der Ausgewanderte", Thomas Honickel decides to show places that played a role in Sebald's life,...

In this artistic exploration of the life and work of writer Henry Miller, filmmaker Joe Kishton skillfully weaves clips of films and interviews of...

A multifaceted portrait of the German writer W.G. Sebald.

In his exploration of the cultural dynamic between East and West, Adolf Muschg, the most significant Swiss writer since Frisch and Dürrenmatt,...

Ron Padgett (1942- ) is a poet and editor whose artistic career took off during his teenaged years in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There, along with Joe Brainard...

Tension flares between Sheriff Henry Turner and his son Jason after Henry loses his job and Jason takes over. A local writer chronicles the heart...

A documentary on the "Slovak Solzhenitsyn" Rudolf Dobiáš (*1934), political prisoner during the Communist era.

A short documentary about a reclusive writer.