Highest-Rated Movies about 'Writers', Sort by Popularity

Atonement (2007), Julia (1977), Leaving Las Vegas (1995), An Angel at My Table (1990), The Sea Wolf (1941), American Splendor (2003), The Squid and the Whale (2005), Shadowlands (1993) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Writers movies.

#16. Without Reservations (1946)

Storyline: Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>

Plot Keywords: author, captain, lieutenant, producer, passenger, charming, madcap ...

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#17. Charlie Bubbles (1968)

Storyline: Charlie Bubbles, a writer, up from the working class of Manchester, England, who, in the course of becoming prematurely rich and famous, has mislaid a writer's basic tool - the capacity to feel and to respond. Now he must visit his estranged wife and son, whom he has set up on a farm outside his native city. His journey accidentally becomes an attempt to reestablish his connections with life, people, and his own history.—alfiehitchie

Plot Keywords: writer, wife, mistress, son, agent, profound, uneasy ...

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#18. The Eclipse (2009)

Storyline: Having lost his beloved wife to cancer, the dejected widower and father of two, Michael Farr, is still struggling to find his feet in the Irish seaport town of Cobh. To keep his mind occupied, Michael volunteers for the picturesque town's annual literary festival, transporting famous authors such as the self-centred American novelist, Nicholas Holden, and the quiet British ghost-story writer, Lena Morelle, to various events. Once, those two polar opposites had a meaningless fling; however--even though Nicholas is still eager to pick up where they left off--more and more, Lena finds herself attracted to the sombre Michael, whose father-in-law's eerie ghost haunts him in the dead of night. Is this dreadful apparition a tangible manifestation created by a wounded soul?—Nick Riganas

Plot Keywords: widower, writer, brooding, chilling, frightening, gripping, seaside ...

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#19. How to Build a Girl (2019)

Storyline: The novel charts the journey of teenager Johanna Morrigan (Beanie Feldstein), who reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde: fast-talking, lady sex-adventurer, moves to London, and gets a job as music critic in the hope of saving her poverty stricken family in Wolverhampton.—variety

Plot Keywords: teen girl, music journalist, band member, amusing, cheery, creative, emotional ...

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#21. Authors Anonymous (2014)

Storyline: After a dysfunctional group of unpublished writers with the motto "all for one" accept Hannah Rinaldi (Kaley Cuoco) into their fold, the last thing they expect is her overnight success - but that's exactly what they get. While her career takes off, her eccentric and envious colleagues (Chris Klein, Teri Polo, Dylan Walsh, Dennis Farina and Jonathan Bennett) struggle to find their own paths to publishing fame and fortune. Tensions rise, rivalries form, and hearts are broken. Rejection turns to desperation. Good thing they're only armed with pens...—Forever Sunny Productions

Plot Keywords: author, aspiring writer, writer, celebrity, friend, jealous person, amusing ...

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#22. Razors: The Return of Jack the Ripper (2016)

Storyline: The first installment in an exciting new horror franchise. A young writer believes she has discovered the holly grail of terror, the knives used by Jack the Ripper for his notorious murders. Attending an intensive workshop in a haunted Victorian warehouse, run by the mysterious screen-writing guru Richard Wise she and five colleagues aim to write the ultimate horror film. But when the knives go missing the writers are plunged into a world of terror. Who is the little girl in the Victorian dress who haunts their dreams? and who is killing them one by one? Is it Ruth avenging womankind for the appalling Ripper murders or one of the other students trying to make their story come out on top, or is it the spirit of Jack, slowly re-assembling himself and becoming stronger with each new murder. As the warehouse become transformed through sound and light into the Whitechapel of the 1880's the writers must solve the mystery....or the next death scene they write may be their own. (Razors 3D (C) 2012 Ian Powell & Magic Mask Pictures Limited. All Rights Reserved—Ian Powell

Plot Keywords: author, young girl, suspenseful, thrilling, gory, brutal, intense ...

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