Affairs of a Gentleman (1934)

Thriller
2007
Movie

The Number 23

6.4
2007

Animal control officer Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him, as more and more similarities between himself and his literary alter ego seem to arise.

Genre : Thriller

6.3

Mystery
2020
Movie

Agatha and the Midnight Murders

6.3
2020

As bombs fall on London, writer Agatha Christie decides it is time to kill off her most famous creation.

Genre : Mystery

6.7

Drama
2018
Movie

The Vanishing of Sidney Hall

6.7
2018

Over the course of 12 years, and three stages of life, Sidney Hall falls in love, writes the book of a generation and then disappears without a trace.

6.5

Mystery
2013
Movie

Night Train to Lisbon

6.5
2013

Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring life he has led for years and to embark on an enthralling adventure. In search of the author, Gregorius acts as detective, pulling together pieces of a puzzle that involves political and emotional intrigue and the highest possible stakes. His voyage is one that transcends time and space, delving into the realms of history, medicine and love, all in search of true meaning to his life.

Genre : Mystery

Drama
1966
Movie

Madame X

6.4
1966

Holly Parker, the wife of a wealthy diplomat, is compromised by the accidental death of a man who has been romantically pursuing her. She is forced by her mother-in-law to assume a new identity in order to save the reputation of her husband and infant son. She wanders the world, trying to forget her heartbreak with the aid of alcohol and unsavory men. Eventually returning to the city of her downfall, she murders a blackmailer who threatens to expose her past. Amazingly, Holly is represented at her murder trial by her now adult son, who has become a public defender. In the hope of protecting her family, she refuses to reveal her real name and is known to the court as "Madame X".

7.5

Drama
2022
Movie

Where the Crawdads Sing

7.5
2022

Abandoned by her family, Kya raises herself all alone in the marshes outside of her small town. When her former boyfriend is found dead, Kya is instantly branded by the local townspeople and law enforcement as the prime suspect for his murder.

Drama
2013
Movie

Kill Your Darlings

7
2013

A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.

7.3

Drama
2009
Movie

A Single Man

7.3
2009

Set in Los Angeles in 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, is the story of a British college professor who dwells on the past and cannot see his future. We follow him through a single day, where a series of events and encounters ultimately lead him to decide if there is a meaning to life after the death of his long time partner, Jim.

5.9

Drama
2005
Movie

Asylum

5.9
2005

A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.

Comedy
2015
Movie

Just Before I Go

6.4
2015

Ted Morgan has been treading water for most of his life. After his wife leaves him, Ted realizes he has nothing left to live for. Summoning the courage for one last act, Ted decides to go home and face the people he feels are responsible for creating the shell of a person he has become. But life is tricky. The more determined Ted is to confront his demons, to get closure, and to withdraw from his family, the more Ted is yanked into the chaos of their lives. So, when Ted Morgan decides to kill himself, he finds a reason to live.

Genre : Comedy

6.3

Drama
2013
Movie

Horns

6.3
2013

In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to strange horns sprouting from his temples.

7.6

Thriller
1950
Movie

In a Lonely Place

7.6
1950

A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.

Genre : Thriller

6.6

Mystery
2004
Movie

Secret Window

6.6
2004

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.

Genre : Mystery

Drama
2002
Movie

Possession

6
2002

Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell is an American scholar in London to study Randolph Henry Ash, now best-known for a collection of poems dedicated to his wife. When Maud and Roland discover a cache of love letters that appear to be from Ash to La Motte, they follow a trail of clues across England, echoing the journey of the couple over a century earlier.

Drama
2005
Movie

Neverwas

6.4
2005

Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What he doesn't reveal at the time of his appointment is that this was the very place where his novelist father, T.L. Pierson, spent many years of his life.

6.9

Thriller
1992
Movie

Basic Instinct

6.9
1992

Catherine, a novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite, becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered -- a crime she had described in her latest story.

Genre : Thriller

7.3

Drama
2024
Movie

Turtles All the Way Down

7.3
2024

Aza confronts her potential for love, happiness, friendship, and hope while navigating an endless barrage of invasive, obsessive thoughts.

5.8

Drama
1970
Movie

They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

5.8
1970

A police detective's investigation of a prostitute's murder points to his best friend.