A visit to the extravagant house where Victor Hugo spent his exile in Guernsey between 1855 and 1870, the Hauteville House, entirely designed by the writer. This documentary also looks at a little-known aspect of Hugo: his talents as a decorator, architect and designer.

When a brilliant crime writer investigates a 40-year-old murder, he confronts a small town's worst f...

In 1847, British writer Emily Brontë (1818-48), perhaps the most enigmatic of the three Brontë siste...

After Portnoy's Complaint launched him as a new literary voice, not to mention a scandalous one, Phi...

What does it mean to be Black in America in the 21st century? The recently formed Black American fil...

Jane Austen is about to turn 40, but she still hasn't found her ideal man. When Jane is approached b...

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

An installation film that consists of a six-hour-long monologue performed by Edith Clever, who reads...

Part documentary, part drama, this film presents the life and work of Jack Kerouac, an American writ...

In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social critici...

Explore the life of Flannery O’Connor whose provocative fiction was unlike anything published before...

This film is an attempt to disclose if Raul Brandão has left any trace, in Nespereira, Gumarães.
It's a sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Tétrault's brother Philip , a Montreal poet, mu...

The brilliant Czech writer Milan Kundera has not given an interview in thirty years; nor does he app...
This biographical film examines the multitalented personality of Karel Čapek and the context behind ...

Interviews and archival footage weave together to tell the story of the Master of Suspense, one of t...

About the poet C.A.Conrad, an eccentric Elvis worshiping poet and tarot card reader, who confronts h...

Between 1967 and 1976, Italian writer Goliarda Sapienza (1924-76) wrote The Art of Joy, a subversive...

NYC Graffiti Documentary "Kings Destroy" straight from the boogie down Bronx and right into your liv...

Mark Gatiss explores and celebrates Dracula, an icon of popular culture, asking just why we keep com...