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Movies About Writers

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Cervantes
People who added this item 6 Average listal rating (4 ratings) 7.8 IMDB Rating 5.8
Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
Beloved Infidel
People who added this item 23 Average listal rating (9 ratings) 6 IMDB Rating 6.1
Beloved Infidel
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)
The Farewell
People who added this item 2 Average listal rating (1 ratings) 7 IMDB Rating 0
The Farewell
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
People who added this item 15 Average listal rating (7 ratings) 5.7 IMDB Rating 6.8
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732–1799)
Nora
People who added this item 33 Average listal rating (16 ratings) 6.1 IMDB Rating 6.1
Nora
James Joyce (1882-1941)
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I, the Worst of All (1990)
People who added this item 16 Average listal rating (6 ratings) 6.3 IMDB Rating 7.1
I, the Worst of All (1990)
Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695)
Haunted Summer
People who added this item 18 Average listal rating (10 ratings) 7.1 IMDB Rating 5.8
Haunted Summer
Mary Shelley (1797-1851)

Lord Byron (1788-1824)

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Hamsun (1996)
People who added this item 18 Average listal rating (12 ratings) 7.3 IMDB Rating 0
Hamsun (1996)
Knut Hamsun (1859-1952)
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Sade (2000)
People who added this item 28 Average listal rating (12 ratings) 4.7 IMDB Rating 6.2
Sade (2000)
Marquis de Sade (1740-1814)
Pandaemonium
People who added this item 17 Average listal rating (7 ratings) 6.3 IMDB Rating 6.4
Pandaemonium
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Aleksis Kiven elämä
People who added this item 43 Average listal rating (32 ratings) 5.8 IMDB Rating 0
Aleksis Kiven elämä
Aleksis Kivi (1834-1872)
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Guy de Maupassant
People who added this item 1 Average listal rating (0 ratings) 0 IMDB Rating 5.7
Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
Lope
People who added this item 20 Average listal rating (8 ratings) 5.9 IMDB Rating 6
Lope
Lope de Vega (1562–1635)
L'autre Dumas (2010)
People who added this item 17 Average listal rating (7 ratings) 6.3 IMDB Rating 6.3
L'autre Dumas (2010)...
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)
Hammett
People who added this item 41 Average listal rating (26 ratings) 6.2 IMDB Rating 0
Hammett
Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961)
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Heart Beat (1980)
People who added this item 17 Average listal rating (5 ratings) 5.8 IMDB Rating 5.9
Heart Beat (1980)...
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
Poet and Muse
People who added this item 12 Average listal rating (9 ratings) 6 IMDB Rating 0
Poet and Muse
Eino Leino (1878-1926)
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Devotion (1946)
People who added this item 16 Average listal rating (9 ratings) 7.2 IMDB Rating 6.7
Devotion (1946)...
Emily, Charlotte and Anne Bronthe.
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
People who added this item 243 Average listal rating (122 ratings) 7.9 IMDB Rating 7.9
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
Yukio Mishima (1925-1970)
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Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend
People who added this item 2 Average listal rating (2 ratings) 6.5 IMDB Rating 5.7
Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend (1923)
Friedrich Schiller (1788–1805)
The Beloved Rogue
People who added this item 18 Average listal rating (10 ratings) 7.8 IMDB Rating 7.5
The Beloved Rogue (1927)
François Villon (1431-1463)
House of Death
People who added this item 3 Average listal rating (1 ratings) 5 IMDB Rating 6.4
House of Death (1932)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)
Voltaire
People who added this item 4 Average listal rating (2 ratings) 8.5 IMDB Rating 6.7
Voltaire (1933)
Voltaire (1694-1778)
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
People who added this item 26 Average listal rating (10 ratings) 7.4 IMDB Rating 6.9
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
Robert Browning (1812–1889)
The Life of Emile Zola
People who added this item 148 Average listal rating (66 ratings) 7.3 IMDB Rating 7.2
The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
Émile Zola (1840–1902)
Young Pushkin
People who added this item 0 Average listal rating (0 ratings) 0 IMDB Rating 7.2
Young Pushkin (1937)
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)
The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938)
People who added this item 27 Average listal rating (14 ratings) 7.7 IMDB Rating 7.2
The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938) (1938)
Maxim Gorky (1868-1936)
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The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
People who added this item 4 Average listal rating (2 ratings) 7.5 IMDB Rating 5.7
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Jack London
People who added this item 7 Average listal rating (2 ratings) 5.5 IMDB Rating 5.2
Jack London (1943)
Jack London (1876–1916)
The Adventures of Mark Twain
People who added this item 11 Average listal rating (6 ratings) 7.3 IMDB Rating 7.2
The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944)
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Hans Christian Andersen (1953)
People who added this item 36 Average listal rating (24 ratings) 7 IMDB Rating 6.8
Hans Christian Andersen (1953) (1952)
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875)
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
People who added this item 23 Average listal rating (14 ratings) 7.8 IMDB Rating 7.1
The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960)
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
People who added this item 14 Average listal rating (9 ratings) 6.3 IMDB Rating 6.5
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)
Jacob Grimm (1785-1863)

Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859)
A Season in Hell
People who added this item 2 Average listal rating (1 ratings) 4 IMDB Rating 6.5
A Season in Hell (1971)
Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891)

Paul Verlaine (1844-1896)
The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe
People who added this item 7 Average listal rating (1 ratings) 6 IMDB Rating 6
The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe (1974)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Julia
People who added this item 130 Average listal rating (63 ratings) 6.6 IMDB Rating 7.1
Julia (1977)
Lillian Hellman (1905-1984)

Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961)
Molière
People who added this item 5 Average listal rating (3 ratings) 4.7 IMDB Rating 7.7
Molière (1978)
Molière (1622-1673)
Stevie
People who added this item 14 Average listal rating (6 ratings) 8.2 IMDB Rating 7.2
Stevie (1978)
Stevie Smith (1902-1971)
The Bronte Sisters
People who added this item 36 Average listal rating (19 ratings) 6.8 IMDB Rating 6.5
The Bronte Sisters (1979)
Emily, Charlotte and Anne Bronthe.
Agatha
People who added this item 37 Average listal rating (14 ratings) 6.1 IMDB Rating 6.3
Agatha (1979)
Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
Céleste
People who added this item 1 Average listal rating (1 ratings) 5 IMDB Rating 6.8
Céleste (1980)
Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
Where the Buffalo Roam
People who added this item 165 Average listal rating (101 ratings) 6.3 IMDB Rating 6.6
Where the Buffalo Roam (1980)
Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005)
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Dvadtsat shest dney iz zhizni Dostoevskogo
People who added this item 2 Average listal rating (1 ratings) 4 IMDB Rating 7.3
Dvadtsat shest dney iz zhizni Dostoevskogo (1981)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)
Priest of Love
People who added this item 19 Average listal rating (12 ratings) 7.2 IMDB Rating 6
Priest of Love (1981)
D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
Cross Creek
People who added this item 18 Average listal rating (9 ratings) 7.6 IMDB Rating 7
Cross Creek (1983)
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953)
Lev Tolstoy
People who added this item 2 Average listal rating (2 ratings) 5.5 IMDB Rating 7
Lev Tolstoy (1984)
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
James Joyce's Women
People who added this item 3 Average listal rating (2 ratings) 7 IMDB Rating 7.2
James Joyce's Women (1985)
James Joyce (1882-1941)
Dreamchild
People who added this item 27 Average listal rating (13 ratings) 6.8 IMDB Rating 7
Dreamchild (1985)
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
Meteor and Shadow
People who added this item 1 Average listal rating (1 ratings) 5 IMDB Rating 5.3
Meteor and Shadow (1985)
Napoleon Lapathiotis (1888-1944)
The Last Road
People who added this item 0 Average listal rating (0 ratings) 0 IMDB Rating 4.6
The Last Road (1986)
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)
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