The Shining

The Shining 1980

8.21

Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.

1980

I Am Frankelda

I Am Frankelda 2025

8.24

Frankelda, a frustrated young Mexican writer from the 19th Century, travels in the form of a ghost to a kingdom of her own invention inhabited by Spooks, which are all the monstrous characters she created in her horror tales. Her guide is Herneval, the Prince of Spooks, who takes her to help him save the balance between the Realm of Fiction and the Realm of Existence by using her talent as a writer.

2025

Naked Ambition 3D

Naked Ambition 3D 2014

4.98

An honors graduate in literature, Wyman is stuck writing cheap erotic fiction, but somehow ends up starring in an AV film. Suddenly a porn superstar in Japan, he discovers a whole new world fraught with pleasure, pain and more twists and turns than he or the audience expects.

2014

Limitless

Limitless 2011

7.19

The life of an unsuccessful writer is transformed by a top-secret 'smart drug' that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life.

2011

The Help

The Help 2011

8.20

Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.

2011

Secret Window

Secret Window 2004

6.57

Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.

2004

mother!

mother! 2017

6.96

A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.

2017

Moulin Rouge!

Moulin Rouge! 2001

7.54

A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with the club's most notorious and beautiful star.

2001

A Knight's Tale

A Knight's Tale 2001

6.87

William Thatcher, a knight's peasant apprentice, gets a chance at glory when the knight dies suddenly mid-tournament. Posing as a knight himself, William won't stop until he's crowned tournament champion—assuming matters of the heart don't get in the way.

2001

I Spit on Your Grave

I Spit on Your Grave 2010

6.51

A beautiful woman from the city, Jennifer Hills, rents an isolated cabin in the country to write her latest novel. Soon, a group of local lowlifes subject her to a nightmare of degradation, rape, and violence.

2010

Orange County

Orange County 2002

5.99

Shaun Brumder is a local surfer kid from Orange County who dreams of going to Stanford to become a writer and to get away from his dysfunctional family household. Except Shaun runs into one complication after another, starting when his application is rejected after his dim-witted guidance counselor sends in the wrong form.

2002

The Chronology of Water

The Chronology of Water 2025

6.80

A woman, after an abusive childhood, escapes into competitive swimming, sexual experimentation, toxic relationships, and addiction before finding her voice through writing.

2025

One Day

One Day 2011

7.40

A romantic comedy centered on Dexter and Emma, who first meet during their graduation in 1988 and proceed to keep in touch regularly. The film follows what they do on July 15 annually, usually doing something together.

2011

The Lost City

The Lost City 2022

6.47

Reclusive author Loretta Sage writes about exotic places in her popular adventure novels that feature a handsome cover model named Alan. While on tour promoting her new book with Alan, Loretta gets kidnapped by an eccentric billionaire who hopes she can lead him to the ancient city's lost treasure that featured in her latest story. Alan, determined to prove he can be a hero in real life and not just on the pages of her books, sets off to rescue her.

2022

Hemingway & Gellhorn

Hemingway & Gellhorn 2012

6.10

Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.

2012

Fairyland

Fairyland 2025

5.80

A father-daughter relationship evolves through an era of bohemian decadence in 1970s San Francisco to the sober and heartbreaking era of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.

2025

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961

7.63

Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.

1961

Little Ashes

Little Ashes 2008

5.86

About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.

2008

Hunger

Hunger 1966

7.30

In 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania, in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he meets is defeat and suffering while his sense of reality is withering. One moment he is delighted and the next he curses everybody. All the time he manages to maintain human dignity and pride.

1966

Shirley

Shirley 2020

6.10

A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.

2020

Castle

Castle 2009

7.97

After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard "Rick" Castle receives permission from the Mayor of New York City to tag along with an NYPD homicide investigation team for research purposes.

2009

You

You 2018

8.02

A dangerously charming, intensely obsessive young man goes to extreme measures to insert himself into the lives of those he is transfixed by.

2018

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Curb Your Enthusiasm 2000

8.03

The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else.

2000

Murder, She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote 1984

7.52

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

1984

30 Rock

30 Rock 2006

7.47

Liz Lemon, the head writer for a late-night TV variety show in New York, tries to juggle all the egos around her while chasing her own dream.

2006

Californication

Californication 2007

7.63

A self-loathing, alcoholic writer attempts to repair his damaged relationships with his daughter and her mother while combating sex addiction, a budding drug problem, and the seeming inability to avoid making bad decisions.

2007

The Dick Van Dyke Show

The Dick Van Dyke Show 1961

7.54

The Dick Van Dyke Show centers around the work and home life of television comedy writer Rob Petrie. The plots generally revolve around problems at work, where Rob got into various comedic jams with fellow writers Buddy Sorrell, Sally Rogers and producer Mel Cooley.

1961

Dickinson

Dickinson 2019

8.50

Emily Dickinson. Poet. Daughter. Total rebel. In this coming-of-age story, Emily’s determined to become the world's greatest poet.

2019

Newhart

Newhart 1982

7.10

Dick Loudon and his wife Joanna decide to leave life in New York City and buy a little inn in Vermont. Dick is a how-to book writer, who eventually becomes a local TV celebrity as host of "Vermont Today." George Utley is the handyman at the inn and Leslie Vanderkellen is the maid, with ambitions of being an Olympic Ski champion; she is later replaced by her cousin Stephanie, an heiress who hates her job. Her boyfriend is Dick's yuppie TV producer, Michael Harris. There are many other quirky characters in this fictional little town, including Dick's neighbors Larry, Darryl, and Darryl...three brothers who buy the Minuteman Cafe from Kirk Devane. Besides sharing a name, Darryl and Darryl never speak.

1982

The Beast in Me

The Beast in Me 2025

7.12

A famous author is pulled into a twisted mind game with her rich, powerful new neighbor — who might be a murderer.

2025

The Perfect Couple

The Perfect Couple 2024

6.74

Amelia is about to marry into one of the wealthiest families on Nantucket, until a shocking death derails the wedding — and turns everyone into a suspect.

2024

Salem's Lot

Salem's Lot 1979

6.79

Ben Mears has returned to his hometown to write a book about the supposedly haunted Marsten House. When people around the Marsten House start dying mysteriously, Mears discovers that the owner of the mansion is actually a vampire who is turning them into an army of undead slaves.

1979

Eromanga Sensei

Eromanga Sensei 2017

5.94

Masamune Izumi is a high school student who writes light novels. Sagiri Izumi is an antisocial girl who never leaves her room. A year ago, she became Masamune's stepsister. But one day, Masamune discovers a terrifying revelation: the artist “Eromanga-sensei,” who illustrates his novels, is none other than his sister Sagiri! His antisocial little sister, who lives under the same roof as him, uses a spicy pseudonym and draws obscenities?!

2017

Episodes

Episodes 2011

7.19

A British husband-and-wife comedy writing team travel to Hollywood to remake their successful British TV series, with disastrous results.

2011

Good Advice

Good Advice 1993

6.00

Good Advice is an American situation comedy series that aired for two seasons on CBS from 1993 to 1994. It was co-created and executive produced by Danny Jacobson and Norma Safford Vela; and starred Shelley Long and Treat Williams. The Show was a hit, but it was cancelled because Long had suffered health problems that made her unable to film any new episodes for a long period of time.

1993

Ellery Queen

Ellery Queen 1975

7.50

Ellery Queen is an American television detective mystery series based on the fictional character Ellery Queen. It aired on NBC during the 1975-76 television season and stars Jim Hutton as Ellery Queen, David Wayne as his father, Inspector Richard Queen, and Tom Reese as Sgt. Velie. Created by the writing/producing team of Richard Levinson and William Link, the title character "breaks" the fourth wall to ask the audience to consider their solution.

1975

Journal with Witch

Journal with Witch 2026

8.91

Reclusive novelist Makio Koudai has always preferred the company of books—but when her sister and brother-in-law pass away, Makio unexpectedly becomes the guardian of her 15-year-old niece, Asa Takumi. As they navigate grief, clashing personalities, and the challenges of living together, the two slowly open their hearts to each other, discovering warmth, understanding, and the meaning of family.

2026

Strangers from Hell

Strangers from Hell 2019

8.05

Unpleasant events disturb the life of an aspiring crime fiction writer when he becomes a resident of an apartment building teeming with shady neighbors.

2019

Suddenly Susan

Suddenly Susan 1996

5.80

Susan Keane is a glamorous San Francisco magazine writer beginning to adjust to being single, who learns to be independent-minded, after being taken care of all her life.

1996