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51. A Talent for Murder (1984 TV Movie)
80 min | Drama, Mystery, Comedy
A famed mystery writer (Dame Angela Lansbury) and her doctor ex-lover (Sir Laurence Olivier) solve her daughter-in-law's murder.
Director: Alvin Rakoff | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Laurence Olivier, Hildegard Neil, Charles Keating
Votes: 173
52. Les rois du gag (1985)
98 min | Comedy
Paul Martin and François Leroux are brothers-in-law and comics without fame. One day, the famous television comics, Gaëtan, finds himself in the little theater where Paul and François produce themselves under the name of "Gagsters".
Director: Claude Zidi | Stars: Michel Serrault, Gérard Jugnot, Thierry Lhermitte, Macha Méril
Votes: 720
53. Betlémské svetlo (2022)
100 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Everyday existence of writer Sejnoha is enlivened by persistent characters from his stories to remind him of some major questions. How to fulfill our own expectations of a better existence without destroying everything we have?
Director: Jan Sverák | Stars: Zdenek Sverák, Daniela Kolárová, Vojtech Kotek, Tereza Ramba
Votes: 146
54. Lonely Wives (1972)
R | 79 min | Comedy
A reporter begins research on a story involving married European women and their secret fantasies and desires.
Director: Hubert Frank | Stars: Barbara Nielsen, Ingeborg Steinbach, Ewa Strömberg, Ingrid Steeger
Votes: 200
55. Bozena (2021– )
TV-PG | Biography, Drama, History
Biopic of Bozena Nemcová, a famous Czech 19th century writer and feminist, focused on her complicated on-off relationship with her husband Josef Nemec.
Stars: Anna Geislerová, Jan Hájek, Anna Kameníková, Martin Mysicka
Votes: 103
56. The Fearing Mind (2000–2001)
Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Bill Fearing, a famous writer of suspense thrillers, gets his ideas from things that happen in his family. When he gets an idea, the viewers enter his mind and see the gruesome events unfold.
Stars: Harry Van Gorkum, Susan Gibney, Katee Sackhoff, Rae Allen
Votes: 52
57. Le grand jeu (I) (2015)
99 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Ostensible puppet master is an affable white-haired gentleman named Joseph Paskin casually approaches the sullen Pierre Blum outside a French casino. Joseph pretends not to recognize the 40... See full summary »
Director: Nicolas Pariser | Stars: Melvil Poupaud, André Dussollier, Clémence Poésy, Sophie Cattani
Votes: 446
58. Waterlily Jaguar (2018)
86 min | Drama
Bob, a famous novelist, seeks to write a more serious book, only to find himself tumbling down a spiral of obsession that may leave his most important relationships in shambles, including his marriage.
Director: Melora Walters | Stars: James Le Gros, Mira Sorvino, Stacey Oristano, Dominic Monaghan
Votes: 80
59. A Força dos Sentidos (1978)
100 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
A writer moves to an isolated beach house to write a new book, and gradually gets involved with his odd new neighbors.
Director: Jean Garret | Stars: Benjamin Cattan, Francinette Costa, Lia Farrel, Emil Grigoletto
Votes: 62
60. Hazy Little Thing (2020)
85 min | Drama
Follows writer Billie through a birthday weekend full of friends and family rushing to her 'rescue' after she 'accidentally' threatens suicide on social media.
Director: Sam Coyle | Stars: Erin Margurite Carter, Emily Coutts, Jade Hassouné, Dayle McLeod
Votes: 33
61. Havel (2020)
104 min | Biography, Drama, History
'Havel' covers the Czech president's transformation from playwright to politician
Director: Slávek Horák | Stars: Anna Geislerová, Stanislav Majer, Barbora Seidlová, Martin Hofmann
Votes: 509
62. Wood House
45 min | Short, Crime, Drama | Post-production
An ex convict who has given up his dreams and a successful author who has fallen into debt and procrastination decide to overcome their past traumas to write a new book that can set their life back on track.
Director: Rizwan Rahman | Stars: Zeed, Serena, Soloman, Neha Wailihang Rai
63. An Erotic Tale (2002)
28 min | Comedy, Short
Ernest Hemingway wrote his Parisian stories on the table of a sidwalk café. Niko prefers to pen his Berlin tales on the counter of a funky bar behind the shark tank. What better place for a... See full summary »
Director: Dito Tsintsadze | Stars: Silvina Buchbauer, Lasha Bakradze, Tobias Oertel
Votes: 41
64. Hazlitt in Love (1977 TV Movie)
60 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of the love of writer and critic Willlam Hazlitt for the young daughter of his landlady in the 1820s.
Director: Michael Darlow | Stars: Kenneth Haigh, Lynne Frederick, Tony Aitken, Erik Chitty
65. Rent Control (1981)
95 min | Comedy, Mystery
Leonard Junger, an aspiring television writer, tries to find a cheap apartment for his estranged wife and daughter so that they can be a family again. During his quest, he encounters mystery and murder.
Director: Gian Luigi Polidoro | Stars: Brent Spiner, Elizabeth Stack, Jeanne Ruskin, Kimberly Stern
Votes: 42
66. Cervantes (1981)
540 min | Biography, Drama
Life of Miguel de Cervantes. Writer of book "Don Quijote de la Mancha".
Stars: Julián Mateos, Chema Muñoz, Carlos Lucena, Ana Marzoa
Votes: 31
67. Thomas Hardy: Fate, Exclusion & Tragedy (2021 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary, Biography
Hardy is not the man he appears to be. Combining radical instincts, a hatred of hypocrisy, poetic brilliance and a deep sense of the tragic basis of life, Hardy had a quiet external ... See full summary »
Directors: Vance Goodwin, Adrian Munsey | Star: Thomas Hardy
Votes: 7
68. Peacock (2015)
27 min | Short, Biography, Comedy
A twisted gay romance set in the 19th Century picturesque Bohemia telling a tabooed true story of birth of one of the nation's most influential writers, starring Julius Feldmeier (Tore ... See full summary »
Director: Ondrej Hudecek | Stars: Julius Feldmeier, Cyril Dobrý, Marie Poulová, Tomas Pivoda
Votes: 130
69. The Starry Sky Above Me (2017)
77 min | Comedy
1996, Bruno publishes his first novel. He is critically acclaimed and is seen as the french John Fante. Twenty years later, Bruno is soon 50 and has not published anything since. He is ... See full summary »
Director: Ilan Klipper | Stars: Laurent Poitrenaux, Camille Chamoux, Marilyne Canto, Alma Jodorowsky
Votes: 116
70. Bohéma (2017)
TV-PG | 75 min | Biography, Drama, History
Following the end of WWII, a once acclaimed and wealthy elite of celebrities now has to face the consequences of their collaboration during Nazi occupation in communist Czechoslovakia.
Stars: Michal Dlouhý, Vladimír Javorský, Jaroslav Plesl, Sasa Rasilov
Votes: 80
71. 8 hlav sílenství (2017)
107 min | Animation, Biography, Comedy
Story of the talented Russian poet, Anna Barkova (1906-1976), who spent twenty-two years of her life in the Gulags. She survived thanks to her poems, thanks to hope and her passionate love for a woman named Valentina.
Director: Marta Nováková | Stars: Aneta Langerová, Marie Stípková, Anna Sedlácková, Zuzana Fialová
Votes: 43
72. Cervantes contra Lope (2016 TV Movie)
87 min | Biography, Drama, History
As in a documentary, the confrontation between two of the most famous writers of Spanish literature at the beginning of the 17th century is relived: Miguel de Cervantes and Lope de Vega. A ... See full summary »
Director: Manuel Huerga | Stars: Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Jose Coronado, Albert Pérez, Lluís Villanueva
Votes: 49
73. 3 Seasons in Hell (2009)
110 min | Drama, Romance
A 19 year old nonconformist poet living in 1947 Czechoslovakia is blind to the Communist behemoth looking over him, and instead lives a bohemian life with sexually liberated girls. There he... See full summary »
Director: Tomas Masin | Stars: Krystof Hádek, Karolina Gruszka, Martin Huba, Jan Kraus
Votes: 423
74. When Autumn Comes
81 min | Drama, Mystery | Completed
A Filipina student in London grapples with her sanity as her loved ones and friends change around her.
Director: Christopher Jacobs | Stars: Hannah Knight, Daniel Davids, Peter Jeffries, Julia Saubier
75. Vergeten straat (1999)
110 min | Drama, Romance
A celebrated Flemish writer, occupying a small apartment in a big Belgian city, which he uses as a working-place, witnesses how the inhabitants of a dead-end street try to fight the injustice of expropriation.
Director: Luc Pien | Stars: Jos Verbist, Anja Daems, Caroline Maes, Guy Dermul
Votes: 196
76. V.I.P. vrazdy (2016– )
60 min | Comedy, Crime
Stars: Sona Norisová, Patrik Dergel, Jan Révai, Jirí Dvorák
Votes: 47
77. Hovory s TGM (2018)
80 min | Biography, Drama, History
On 26 September 1928, Karel Capek and President T.G. Masaryk meet in the gardens of Topolcianky castle to decide about the fate of their joint literary work. Their fiction film dialogue is ... See full summary »
Director: Jakub Cervenka | Stars: Jan Budar, Martin Huba
Votes: 176
78. Collin (1981 TV Movie)
181 min | Drama
Hans Collin is a disillusioned GDR writer suffering from writer's block who must deal with his bitter adversary from the Stasi, Wilhelm Urack. Based on the novel of the same name by Stefan Heym.
Director: Peter Schulze-Rohr | Stars: Curd Jürgens, Hans Christian Blech, Thekla Carola Wied, Margot Werner
Votes: 9
79. The Secret of a Great Narrator (1972)
101 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Alexandre Dumas Sr. is a charming but poor young man who comes to Paris in the 1820s and enters the service of the king. He is hired as a scribe, and from the moment he picks up a pen for the first time, his fate is sealed.
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Martin Stepánek, Petr Stepánek, Otakar Brousek, Jana Hlavácová
Votes: 40
80. Clovek proti zkáze (1989)
89 min | Biography, Drama, History
A film about the last years of Karel Capek's life. Although the film is conceived as a family drama in which human relationships play an important role, its overall message is dominated by ... See full summary »
Directors: Jaromír Pleskot, Stepán Skalský | Stars: Josef Abrhám, Hana Maciuchová, Frantisek Rehák, Vera Galatíková
Votes: 87
81. Tezký zivot dobrodruha (1941)
89 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A writer of pulp crime novels is drawn into a series of real crimes.
Director: Martin Fric | Stars: Otomar Korbelár, Ladislav Pesek, Adina Mandlová, Jaroslav Marvan
Votes: 70
82. Rozverné léto (2017)
28 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A poetically tuned chamber drama about the relationship triangle between father, son, and Linda; characterized by a theme of love that can take many forms.
Director: Michaela Poláková | Stars: Kristýna Boková, David Novotný, Josef Trojan
Votes: 15
83. Tajné sny (2004 TV Movie)
80 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Arthur Putnam is a writer of psychological-crime novels who is beginning to feel his literary inspiration drying up. His latest novel is supposed to be his swan song. However, as is often ... See full summary »
Director: Juraj Herz | Stars: Anna Geislerová, Therese Herz, Emil Horváth, Vítezslav Jandák
Votes: 15
84. The Poet and the Plant (2020)
10 min | Short, Drama
A poet loves his new houseplant so much he kills it. A meditation on true love, loneliness, and listening. And an allegory for modern man's relationship with nature, and how it can heal.
Directors: Tom Basis, Robert Summerlin | Stars: Masha Shub, Sarah Snook, Robert Summerlin
Votes: 11
85. Dwitiyo Ripu (2015)
Drama
Story of a young desperate writer, lost in the world of reality and fiction, who must decide whether to commit a murder or not.
Director: Abhijit Chowdhury | Stars: Bitan Biswas, Biswajit Chakraborty, Debashree Chakrobarty, Kheya Chattopadhyay
Votes: 31
86. Voda co ma drzí nad vodou (2019)
73 min | Drama
About the Slovak poet Jozef Urban (1964-1999) whose debut in 1985 was awarded the Ivan Krasko Prize. Urban used paradox as a working tool from the beginning; he is a poet of intellect.
Director: Tomás Magnusek | Stars: Roman Pomajbo, Ondrej Kalamár, Andrea Ruzicková, Robert Roth
Votes: 11
87. A Child's Voice (1978)
30 min | Short, Drama, Horror
A popular radio personality writes and broadcasts ghost stories over the air. He receives a strange call warning him not to finish his latest story, which is about a child who dies assisting in a magician's show.
Director: Kieran Hickey | Stars: T.P. McKenna, R.D. Smith, Stephen Brennan, June Tobin
Votes: 62
88. Diffidence (2010)
7 min | Short, Drama
A man must accept himself for who he is without compromising the expectations his peers set upon him.
Director: Jerry Tai | Stars: Aurora Buchanan, Dan Dumsha, Ryan Erwin
Votes: 36
89. Wait it Out (2018)
19 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
When a self proclaimed 'anti-bully' is set up on a blind date with his recently out of the closet high-school bully, his notions of what it means to be a bully, a victim and a role model ... See full summary »
Director: Alexandra Seal | Stars: Dave Coleman, Armistead Johnson, Gary Leimkuhler, Gerrard Lobo
91. Kill your darlings (2021)
16 min | Short, Comedy, Sci-Fi
The writer of detective novels has to travel to another dimension to save many lives.
Director: Dimitri Kanjuka | Stars: Roman Dvorak, Daniel Svoboda, Dominik Vrba
92. Spravedlnost pro Selvina (1968 TV Movie)
70 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A dark comedy about a man who, against his will, dedicated his life to the fight for justice.
Director: Jirí Weiss | Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Jirina Sejbalová, Míla Myslíková
Votes: 41
93. Rozprávky z Hollywoodu (1992 TV Movie)
Biography, Drama
Director: Stanislav Párnicky | Stars: Emil Horváth, Milan Bahúl, Jela Buckova, Vladimir Cerny
Votes: 16
94. Drahý lhár (1967 TV Movie)
67 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Eva Sadková | Stars: Blanka Bohdanová, Felix Le Breux
95. How Long You Wander (2019)
16 min | Short, Biography, History
In nineteenth century Massachusetts, a young Emily Dickinson falls in love with her best friend, Susan, but things get complicated when Susan gets engaged to Emily's brother.
Director: Cybelle Kaehler | Stars: Sarajane Bradford, Edgar Khatchatrian, Mulan McNabb, Sophia Metcalf
96. Ó ti lektori (1953)
Short, Comedy
The young writer Parízek has been waiting for one of the editors in the publishing house for several times. He would like to know when his novel about the North Bohemian mines will be ... See full summary »
Director: Vladimír Svitácek | Stars: Jirí Sovák, Vlasta Chramostová, Bohus Záhorský, Vladimír Bejval
97. Zdena Salivarová a Josef Skvorecký, 11.5. 1990 (2013 Video)
56 min | Documentary, Talk-Show
Director: Ales Záboj | Stars: Zdena Skvorecka, Josef Skvorecký
98. Archiméduv bod (1982 TV Movie)
69 min | Biography, Drama
Director: Rudolf Tesácek | Stars: Ilja Racek, Zdena Herfortová, Ladislav Lakomý, Jan Vlasák
99. Durch diese Nacht sehe ich keinen einzigen Stern (2005)
112 min | Biography, Drama
Director: Dagmar Knöpfel | Stars: Corinna Harfouch, Bolek Polívka, Petr Forman, Ondrej Vetchý
Votes: 54
100. Vlcí halír (1975 TV Movie)
81 min | Biography, Drama, History
Director: Jaroslav Novotný | Stars: Blanka Blahníková, Jana Brezinová, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Vera Bublíková