Topic: Literature

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast William Holden · Gloria Swanson · Erich von Stroheim · Nancy Olson

Plot A bankrupt screenwriter (William Holden) takes refuge in the mansion of a faded star (Gloria Swanson) of the silent era, in order to escape the debt-collectors who are chasing after...

Direction Laura Hojman

Cast Pedro Casablanc

Plot Documentary feature film that recovers the memory and work of Antonio Machado, on the 80th anniversary of his death. The poet’s life as a symbol of the Spain that was...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Harriet Andersson · Gunnar Björnstrand · Max von Sydow · Lars Passgard

Plot A young woman, Karin, has recently returned to the family island after spending some time in a mental hospital. On the island with her is her lonely brother and kind,...

Direction Ken Burns · Lynn Novick

Cast Patricia Clarkson · Jeff Daniels · Mary-Louise Parker · Keri Russell

Plot 3 episodes. Explore the painstaking process through which Hemingway created some of the most important works of fiction in American letters. Premiere: April 5 on PBS.

Direction Ramón Gener · Joan Costa

Cast Ramón Gener

Plot "This is Art" is a TV serie about the art and the emotions.

Direction Peter Weir

Cast Robin Williams · Robert Sean Leonard · Ethan Hawke · Josh Charles

Plot Painfully shy Todd Anderson has been sent to the school where his popular older brother was valedictorian. His room-mate, Neil, although exceedingly bright and popular, is very much under the...

Direction Rob Reiner

Cast Kathy Bates · James Caan · Frances Sternhagen · Richard Farnsworth

Plot Best-selling novelist Paul Sheldon is on his way home from his Colorado hideaway after completing his latest book, when he crashes his car in a freak blizzard. Paul is critically...

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Teresa Menezes · Diogo Dória · Mario Barroso · Manuela de Freitas

Direction Miguel Gonçalves Mendes

Cast José Saramago · Pilar del Río · Gabriel García Márquez · Gael García Bernal

Plot "José and Pilar," a documentary by Miguel Gonçalves Mendes, is a deeply moving story about love, loss and literature. It follows the days of José Saramago, the Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist,...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Brigitte Bardot · Michel Piccoli · Jack Palance · Georgia Moll

Plot French playwright Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli) is hired by the arrogant American producer Jeremy Prokosch (Jack Palance) to rewrite the screenplay of a commercial version of Ulysses and his Odyssey,...

Direction Michael Radford

Cast Philippe Noiret · Massimo Troisi · María Grazia Cucinotta · Linda Moretti

Plot A simple postman’s eyes are opened to a world of amorous possibilities when he delivers letters to one of the most romantic poets of the 20th century in this lyrical...

Direction Joel Coen

Cast John Turturro · John Goodman · Judy Davis · Michael Lerner

Plot In 1941, New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture. Staying in the eerie Hotel Earle, Barton develops severe writer's block. His...

Direction Richard Attenborough

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Debra Winger · Joseph Mazzello · Edward Hardwicke

Plot Based on a true story, C S Lewis (Anthony Hopkins) is a world renowned writer and professor. Unmarried he leads a gentlemans life filled by intellectual pursuits, remaining untouched by...

Direction Paolo Sorrentino

Cast Toni Servillo · Carlo Verdone · Sabrina Ferilli · Serena Grandi

Plot The story of an aging journalist who bitterly recollects his passionate, lost youth. A portrait of today's Rome. Journalist Jep Gambardella (Toni Servillo, 'Il divo' and 'Gomorrah') has charmed and...

Direction Charlie Arnaiz · Alberto Ortega

Cast Luis García Montero · Miguel Ríos · Angels Barceló · Ismael Serrano

Plot A film documentary about famous spanish poet Luis García Montero.

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Julie Christie · Oskar Werner · Cyril Cusack · Anton Diffring

Plot In an oppressive future, a fireman whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.

Direction Charlie Arnaiz · Alberto Ortega

Cast Aitana Sánchez-Gijón · Francisco Umbral · María España Suárez · Raúl del Pozo

Direction Giuseppe Tornatore

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Roman Polanski · Sergio Rubini · Nicola Di Pinto

Plot Onoff is a famous writer who hasn't published any new books for quite some time and has become a recluse. When he is picked up by the police one stormy...

Direction Marc Forster

Cast Johnny Depp · Kate Winslet · Freddie Highmore · Julie Christie

Plot A tale of magic and fantasy inspired by the life of James Barrie, the real-life author of the children's classic "Peter Pan". Set in London in 1904, the film follows...

Direction Taichi Ishidate

Plot TV Series (2018). 13 Episodes. Violet Evergarden, a young girl formerly known as "the weapon," has left the battlefield to start a new life at CH Postal Service. There, she...