# The best movies about writers

Blank pages, editors, forgers and tormented geniuses: films about writers' lives, based on the picks of Selim Niederhoffer, Abby McAlban and À livre ouvert.

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- Sep 23, 2026 · Chloé
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## Top 10

1. **Capote (2005)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Writing In Cold Blood; an Oscar for Philip Seymour Hoffman.
2. **Barton Fink (1991)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A blocked playwright in Hollywood, by the Coen brothers.
3. **The Hours (2002)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Virginia Woolf and Mrs Dalloway across three eras.
4. **Midnight in Paris (2011)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A screenwriter who runs into Hemingway and Fitzgerald.
5. **Adaptation. (2002)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A screenwriter who can't adapt a book about orchids.
6. **Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Lee Israel, a biographer turned letter forger.
7. **Finding Neverland (2004)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — J.M. Barrie and the birth of Peter Pan.
8. **Shakespeare in Love (1998)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Young Shakespeare stuck on Romeo and Juliet.
9. **Wonder Boys (2000)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A professor and novelist unable to finish his book.
10. **Genius (2016)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Editor Max Perkins and Thomas Wolfe.
11. **Bright Star (2009)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Poet John Keats's love for Fanny Brawne, by Jane Campion.
12. **Saving Mr. Banks (2013)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — P.L. Travers facing Walt Disney over Mary Poppins.
13. **Tolkien (2019)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The writer's youth and the First World War.
14. **Mary Shelley (2017)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The young woman who wrote Frankenstein.

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