150 Films About Writers
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- DirectorFong PauXian XuStarsTseng ChangChing LeeFong PauThe tragedy of great Chinese ancient poet Qu Yuan in Warring States period.Chinese poet Qu Yuan (B.C. 352-281)
- StarsMoses ChanAda ChoiPriscilla KooChinese poets Cao Pi (187-226), Cao Zhi (192-232 )
- DirectorEddie Ling-Ching FongStarsPatricia HaAlex ManKuo-Chu ChangRebellious Yu Yuan-gi becomes a Taoist priestess in order to avoid traditional roles designated to her as a woman by the society and focus on her studies and poetry. However, her trysts with both her maid and a ronin lead to trouble.Chinese female poet Yu Xuan-Ji (844-868)
- DirectorTonkô HorikawaStarsSayuri YoshinagaYûki AmamiTôru KazamaBased on the ancient Japanese Tale of Genji. This film is set in 900AD and tells the story of a famous female writer of the time, Murasaki Shikibu. Her story begins from the death of her husband, a Japanese noble, then moves on to her recruitment to train the Prince's young 'wives in waiting'. It is dotted throughout and actually composed mainly of one of the fictional stories she wrote, the tale of Genji. Genji is a rich playboy who falls in love and has a son to his stepmother. He falls in love often and has many wives whom are all completely subservient to him. Genji is played by a woman actress from the all-female Takarazuka theatre. The two interrelating stories are also interrupted occasionally by fantasimical musical clips from a past Japanese teen-idol, Seiko Matsuda.Japanese novelist Murasaki Shikibu (c. 973-1014 )
- DirectorYasuo TsuruhashiStarsTôma IkutaMiki NakataniYôko Maki"Genji Monogatari" focuses on the love and hate relationships surrounding Hakaru Genji. Lady Fujitsubo is Genji's first love. Miyasutokoro Ryokuzono is obsessed with Genji and eventually becomes a spirit. Kao Yu, who is from the lower class, give comfort to Genji's emotional wounds. Writer Shikibu Murasaki is jealous of Genji and is eventually ordered by Abe Seime to write a work.Japanese novelist Murasaki Shikibu (c. 973-1014 )
- DirectorMario CaseriniStarsOreste GrandiFernanda Negri PougetGiovanni Enrico VidaliItalian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
- DirectorPingqian LiStarsSisi ChenQun XiangDi BaiChinese poet Tang Yen (1470-1523)
- DirectorAndrucha WaddingtonStarsAlberto AmmannLeonor WatlingPilar López de AyalaA chronicle of the life of Lope de Vega, the Spanish playwright who dominated Spain's early Golden Age of theater.Spanish writer Lope de Vega (1562-1635)
- DirectorJohn MaddenStarsGwyneth PaltrowJoseph FiennesGeoffrey RushThe world's greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.British writer William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
- DirectorRoland EmmerichStarsRhys IfansVanessa RedgraveDavid ThewlisThe theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who penned Shakespeare's plays. Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I and the Essex rebellion against her.British writer William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
- DirectorJean-Paul RappeneauStarsGérard DepardieuAnne BrochetVincent PerezFamed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly.French writer Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–1655)
- DirectorDaniel VigneStarsLorànt DeutschPhilippe TorretonSara ForestierBiography of the French poet Jean de la Fontaine, who lived in the times of Louis XIV.French poet Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695)
- DirectorLaurent TirardStarsRomain DurisFabrice LuchiniLaura MoranteTo satisfy his creditors, a witty actor reinvents himself as a satirical playwright, with uproarious, yet bittersweet, results.French writer Molière (1622-1673)
- DirectorSergei ParajanovStarsSofiko ChiaureliMelkon AlekyanVilen GalstyanThe life of the Armenian poet Sayat-Nova, from childhood to death: his spiritual journey, artistic endeavors, and inner conflicts within the cultural and historical context of Armenia. Hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.Armenian poet Sayat-Nova (c. 1712-1795)
- DirectorÉdouard MolinaroStarsFabrice LuchiniManuel BlancSandrine KiberlainThe life story of the titular Beaumarchais, playwright and adventurer, who gets himself into numerous different scrapes and romantic encounters in 18th Century France.French writer Pierre Beaumarchais (1732-1799)
- DirectorPhilip KaufmanStarsGeoffrey RushKate WinsletJoaquin PhoenixIn a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.French writer Marquis de Sade (1740-1814)
- DirectorPhilipp StölzlStarsAlexander FehlingMiriam SteinMoritz BleibtreuAfter aspiring poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fails his law exams, he's sent to a sleepy provincial court to reform. Instead, he falls for Lotte, a young woman who is promised to another man.German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
- DirectorNina GrosseStarsMartin FeifelMarianne DenicourtUlrich MüheFilm about the German poet Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1843), concentrating on his ardent affair with Susette Gondard.German poet Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843)
- DirectorMartin WeinhartStarsMatthias SchweighöferTeresa WeißbachRobert DölleYoung poet Friedrich Schiller flees from the elite academy of Prince Carl Eugen to become an acclaimed theater writer in Mannheim. But the influence of Carl Eugen reaches farther than Schiller thought.German poet Friedrich Schiller (1788-1805)
- DirectorJulian JarroldStarsAnne HathawayJames McAvoyJulie WaltersA biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.British novelist Jane Austen (1775-1817)
- DirectorJeremy LoveringStarsSamuel RoukinOlivia WilliamsGreta ScacchiIn the later years of her life, as she's approaching the age of forty, the novelist Jane Austen helps her niece find a husband.British novelist Jane Austen (1775-1817)
- DirectorIvan PasserStarsPhilip AnglimLaura DernAlice KrigeIn 1816, authors Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley get together for some philosophical discussions, but the situation soon deteriorates into mind games, drugs and sex.British poets Lord Byron (1788-1824), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
- DirectorJulian FarinoStarsStephen Campbell MooreOliver MilburnMichael ElwynFollowing the success of his poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", Byron becomes the toast of London.British poet Lord Byron (1788-1824)
- CreatorPeter TilburyStarsHywel BennettBelinda SinclairJosephine TewsonJames Shelley, an educated, sardonic, permanently unemployed "professional freelance layabout," has many battles with authority, the tax-man, his landlady, and his girlfriend Fran.British poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
- DirectorGonzalo SuárezStarsHugh GrantLizzy McInnernyValentine PelkaLord Byron, poet Percy Shelley, his future wife, Mary Shelley (writing Frankenstein) and others spend the summer of 1816 together.British poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), novelist Marie Shelley (1797-1851)