List of Movies - Literature

A novelist whose marriage starts to deteriorate after she unintentionally overhears her husband offering up a frank assessment of her work.

Miyazawa Masajiro owns and runs a pawn shop for generations. His first son is Miyazawa Kenji and his daughter is Miyazawa Toshi. Kenji is supposed to take over the pawn shop as the first son, but he refuses to take over the store....

Literary genius Samuel Beckett lived a life of many stages: Parisian bon vivant, Resistance fighter in World War II, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband and recluse. But for all the adulation he received, he was a...

English professor and author Thelonious "Monk" Ellison writes a satirical novel under a pseudonym, with the intent to expose the hypocrisies of the publishing industry.

Origin chronicles the remarkable life and work of Pulitzer Prize winning author Isabel Wilkerson as she investigates the genesis of injustice and uncovers a hidden truth that affects us all.

Follows the new journey of four best friends as they take their book club to Italy for the fun girls trip they never had.

The radical honesty of the books by young adult fiction pioneer Judy Blume changed the way millions of readers understood themselves, their sexuality, and what it meant to grow up, but also led to critical battles against book ban

Almost a century after “Orlando” was published, Paul B. Preciado tells Virginia Woolf that her fictional character is now the root of all non-binary bodies. A revolutionary film in which life, writing, theory and image merge f...

A hot, dry summer, like so many in recent years. Forest fires are uncontrollable. Four young people meet in a holiday home on the Baltic Sea not far from Ahrenshoop. Slowly and imperceptibly they are enclosed by the walls of flame...

She is Austrian, he Swiss; she is a poet, he a playwright; she is a daredevil yet vulnerable, he is adventurous but a little conservative. When Ingeborg Bachmann and Max Frisch meet for the first time in Paris in the summer of 195...

Shere Hite's bestselling book 'The Hite Report' liberated female orgasm by revealing most private experiences of thousands of anonymous surveys. Her findings rocked American establishment and current conversations about gender, se

A documentary film about Elfriede Jelinek, who in 2004 became the first Austrian author to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, focuses on her artistic approach to language.

A young aspiring writer discovers secrets about her family's past when she finds herself mysteriously being pulled back and forth in time to a 19th century plantation. Canceled after its first season.

Havana, spring 1971: The poet Heberto Padilla has just been set free and appears before the Cuban Writers’ Union where he pronounces a statement of “heartfelt self-criticism”, declares himself to be a counterrevolutionary ag...