A writer in 1930s Moscow has his work banned and is expelled from the official union, leaving him without income. He then writes a novel about a mysterious dark visitor and gradually starts confusing his real life with the story.

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks ...

Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further ...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Pari...

Summer 1890. In order to make some money to feed his family, Anton Chekhov, modest physician, wrote ...

The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Cha...

A fictionalized account of famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair...

A novelist's longstanding marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears her husband giving his hon...

A novelist with a severe case of writer’s block is given the chance to finish her book at an empty w...

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

Leningrad, one summer in the early eighties. Smuggling LPs by Lou Reed and David Bowie, the undergro...

A writer forms a triangle with a schoolmarm and a Mexican general on the run.

The lives of a disparate group of unfulfilled people converge at a small, seaside English hotel in t...

A woman, married off to an abusive butcher, is overpowered by the twin forces of patriarchy and trad...

In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sen...

An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed ...

Muriel Davidson, a successful mystery author in a vulnerable stage of her life, falls for a charisma...

Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid...