The best movies about writers
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: Capote (2005) · Barton Fink (1991) · The Hours (2002). (Updated Sep 23, 2026.)
Blank pages, editors, forgers and tormented geniuses: films about writers' lives, based on the picks of Selim Niederhoffer, Abby McAlban and À livre ouvert.
Automatically translated (original in Français). See the original
Top 10
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1
Capote (2005)
Writing In Cold Blood; an Oscar for Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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2
Barton Fink (1991)
A blocked playwright in Hollywood, by the Coen brothers.
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3
The Hours (2002)
Virginia Woolf and Mrs Dalloway across three eras.
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4
Midnight in Paris (2011)
A screenwriter who runs into Hemingway and Fitzgerald.
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5
Adaptation. (2002)
A screenwriter who can't adapt a book about orchids.
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6
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
Lee Israel, a biographer turned letter forger.
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7
Finding Neverland (2004)
J.M. Barrie and the birth of Peter Pan.
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8
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Young Shakespeare stuck on Romeo and Juliet.
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9
Wonder Boys (2000)
A professor and novelist unable to finish his book.
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10
Genius (2016)
Editor Max Perkins and Thomas Wolfe.
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11
Bright Star (2009)
Poet John Keats's love for Fanny Brawne, by Jane Campion.
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12
Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
P.L. Travers facing Walt Disney over Mary Poppins.
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13
Tolkien (2019)
The writer's youth and the First World War.
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14
Mary Shelley (2017)
The young woman who wrote Frankenstein.
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