Karl May (1974) Excerpt

Karl May

Karl May is a 1974 West German biographical drama film directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, starring Helmut Käutner as the writer Karl May.

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Kojak Budapesten (1980) Trailer

Kojak Budapesten

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Lt. Kojak arrives in Budapest as a guest speaker for the 'International Crime Writers Conference'. Soon after he starts enjoying the pleasures that the city has to offer, he assists his old friends at the police department with a case. The case involves solving the murder of a noted scientist, unaware that a Mafia hit man and his female companion are targeting him.Written by Re-wrote the paragraph due to poor anf improper English on the original.

House of the Long Shadows (1983) Trailer

House of the Long Shadows

 Room for every nightmare... A nightmare in every room.

House of the Long Shadows is a 1983 horror-parody film directed by Pete Walker. 

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An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet: can he write a classic novel like "Wuthering Heights" in twenty-four hours? Upon his arrival, however, the writer discovers that the manor, thought empty, actually has several, rather odd, inhabitants.Written by Jack Witzig <tomveil@interstat.net>

Tenebre (1982) Trailer

Tenebrae

A Descent Into Madness

Tenebrae (also known as Tenebre) is a 1982 Italian horror thriller film written and directed by Dario Argento. 

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With Argento's trademark visual style, linked with one of his more coherent plots, Tenebrae follows a writer who arrives to Rome only to find somebody is using his novels as the inspiration (and, occasionally, the means) of committing murder. As the death toll mounts the police are ever baffled, and the writer becomes more closely linked to the case than is comfortable. Written by David Carroll <davidc@atom.ansto.gov.au>

Brown Sugar (2002) Trailer

Brown Sugar

When did you first fall in love with hip-hop?

Brown Sugar is a 2002 American romantic comedy film written by Michael Elliott and Rick Famuyiwa, directed by Famuyiwa, and starring Taye Diggs and Sanaa Lathan.

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This romantic comedy centers on a romance between an A&R exec, Dre, at a hip-hop label and a magazine editor, Sidney, who have known each other since childhood.. They find themselves drifting towards being more than friends, even as Dre is engaged, and Sidney starts being wooed by a handsome basketball player. Written by PhatBleek

Beloved Sisters (2014) Trailer

Die geliebten Schwestern

Beloved Sisters (German: Die geliebten Schwestern) is a 2014 German drama film written and directed by Dominik Graf. 

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The aristocratic sisters Charlotte and Caroline both fall in love with the controversial young writer and hothead Friedrich Schiller. Defying the conventions of their time, the sisters decide to share their love with Schiller. What begins playfully, almost as a game among the three of them, soon turns serious as it leads to the end of a pact. Written by Anonymous

Following (1998) Trailer

Following

 You're Never Alone.

Following is a 1998 British neo-noir drama thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan.

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An older man listens to Bill's story about being a callow writer who likes to follow strangers around London, observing them. One day, a glib and self-confident man whom Bill has been following confronts him. He's Cobb, a burglar who takes Bill under his wing and shows him how to break and enter. They burgle a woman's flat; Bill gets intrigued with her (photographs are everywhere in her flat). He follows her and chats her up at a bar owned by her ex-boyfriend, a nasty piece of work who killed someone in her living room with a hammer. Soon Bill is volunteering to do her a favor, which involves a break-in. What does the older man know that Bill doesn't? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>

The Squid and the Whale (2005) Trailer

The Squid and the Whale

Joint Custody Blows.

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In 1986, In Brooklyn, New York, the dysfunctional family of pseudo intellectuals composed by the university professor Bernard and the prominent writer Joan split. Bernard is a selfish, cheap and jealous decadent writer that rationalizes every attitude in his family and life and does not accept "philistines" - people that do not read books or watch movies, while the unfaithful Joan is growing as a writer and has no problems with "philistines". Their sons, the teenager Walt and the boy Frank, feel the separation and take side: Walt stays with Bernard, and Frank with Joan, and both are affected with abnormal behaviors. Frank drinks booze and smears with sperm the books in the library and a locker in the dress room of his school. The messed-up and insecure Walt uses Roger Water's song "Hey You" in a festival as if it was of his own, and breaks with his girlfriend Sophie. Meanwhile Joan has an affair with Frank's tennis teacher Ivan and Bernard with his student Lili.Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Croupier (1998) Trailer

Croupier

 Life's a Gamble

Croupier is a 1998 film starring Clive Owen as a croupier, and was directed by Mike Hodges.

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It's tempting to put too much weight on the way screenwriter Paul Mayersberg lays out the intricate rules, shows off the particular lingo, and creates a feeling of being a fly on the wall of a casino in London. With Jack Manfred (Clive Owen)--sometimes "Jake" when he imagines himself as the protagonist of the novel he's writing, but always the pragmatist--as our guide, Croupier is always digging deeper into the shady world of professional gambling, even as its story flounders with double-crosses and backstabs and stretches to tie it to a lofty theme of chance.

A Song to Remember (1945) Trailer

A Song to Remember

A Song to Remember is a 1945 Columbia Pictures biographical film which tells a fictionalised life story of Polish pianist and composer Frédéric Chopin.

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Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. At a recital in a duke's home Chopin insults the new Russian-installed governor, and must flee the country. The professor takes him to Paris, where he eventually comes under the wing and influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world, to the exclusion of his old friends and patriotic feelings towards Poland.

Written by Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>

Infamous (2006) Trailer

Infamous

There's more to the story than you know

Infamous is a 2006 American drama film based on the 1997 book by George Plimpton, Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career.

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On November 16, 1959, Truman Capote reads about the murder of a Kansas family. There are no suspects. With Harper Lee, he visits the town: he wants to write about their response. First he must get locals to talk, then, after arrests, he must gain access to the prisoners. One talks constantly; the other, Perry Smith, says little. Capote is implacable, wanting the story, believing this book will establish a new form of reportage: he must figure out what Perry wants. Their relationship becomes something more than writer and character: Perry killed in cold blood, the state will execute him in cold blood; does Capote get his story through cold calculation, or is there a price for him to pay?

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Closet Land (1991) Trailer

Closet Land

 No one can harm you in your imagination.

Closet Land is a 1991 independent film written and directed by Radha Bharadwaj.

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A young writer is interrogated by a sadistic secret policeman. She is accused of embedding political messages in her children's stories. The entire movie takes place in one room, with only the two actors. The movie is set in an unidentified, modern police state.Written by Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com>

Naked Lunch (1991) Trailer

Naked Lunch

 The book was banned. The film should never have been made. Too late.

Naked Lunch is a 1991 science fiction drama film written and directed by

 David Cronenberg and starring Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, and Roy Scheider.

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Not an adaptation of beat writer William S. Burrough's novel but a mix of biography and an interpretation of his drug- induced writing processes combined with elements of his work in this paranoid fantasy about Bill Lee, a writer who accidentally shoots his wife, whose typewriter transforms into a cockroach and who becomes involved in a mysterious plot in North African port called Interzone. Wonderfully bizarre, not unlike Burrough's books.Written by Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca>

Little Ashes (2008) Trailer

Little Ashes

Three rebels willing to take on the world. Two lovers risking it all.

 One story, untold until now,

Little Ashes is a 2008 Spanish-British drama film set against the backdrop of Spain during the 20s

 and 30s, as three of the era's most creative young talents meet at university and set off on a course

 to change their world. 

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About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer 

Federico García Lorca.

Sunset Blvd. (1950) Trailer

Sunset Blvd.

A Hollywood Story

This is it .. the most compelling dramatic story ever unfolded on the screen ..

 a tale of heartache and tragedy ..love and ambition .. told against the 

fabulous background of Hollywood.

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Under the Tuscan Sun (2003) Trailer

Under the Tuscan Sun

High Heels (1991) Trailer

Tacones lejanos

The Shrink Is In (2001) Trailer

The Shrink Is In

I Spit on Your Grave (2010) Trailer

I Spit on Your Grave

Mansfield Park (1999) Trailer

Mansfield Park