Marvin, a young aspiring writer from New York, moves to California to write a novel. He ends up rooming with a chaotic, bohemian musician named Jay. Marvin finds himself inexorably drawn into the vibrant youth culture of San Francisco's Mission District as both Jay and himself watch their worlds disintegrate. They discover that each has a lot to learn from the other. Mission is a coming-of-age story casting a spotlight on a place and time, moments before artistic aspiring types yielded the Mission to the dotcom entrepreneurs.

Dinty is a newsboy whose fight to care for his ailing mother leads him into conflicts with the other...

Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train...

A cranky, retired author reluctantly embarks on a final book tour to help out a young publisher.

In Manhattan, the aspirant writer Jabez Stone is a complete loser: he is not able to sell his novels...

When a wealthy scriptwriter and socialite's daughter is murdered, he feels let down by the courts, a...

A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.

An opportunistic singer woos a wealthy widow to boost his career.

A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getti...

Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's...

Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and ...

About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico Ga...

Two strangers, whose paths are always crossing, finally meet when fate steps in. It took them twenty...

Laura, an unemployed writer in New York City, tries to juggle an unexciting boyfriend, an affair wit...

Described as a comedic drama set in the world of artificial intelligence, around the period at OpenA...

A golddigging femme fatale leaves a trail of men behind her, rich and poor, alive and dead.
Patricia Highsmith’s late life solitude in the Swiss Alps is interrupted by Edward, a young literary...

After fifteen years of marriage, an affluent couple divorce and take up with new partners.

Louis, a Flemish writer, decides to isolate himself at the Côte d’Azur, hoping this place will bring...

Penelope Campbell loves her annual summer vacations visiting her Grandma Dot, despite Dot's constant...