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Summary: Puppeteer Li Tian-lu tells his life story, and through it, the story of Taiwan in the first half of the 20th century.
Runtime: 2 h 22 min

Country: Taiwan
Language: Chinese
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Summary: This final installment in Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy follows Apu's life as an orphaned adult aspiring to be a writer.
Runtime: 1 h 45 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: India
Language: English
Domestic: $ 134,241
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Summary: American journalist Nick Orton is caught up in the world of Chinese gods and monsters while on a search for the long lost manuscript to 'Hsi Yu Chi' (The Journey to the West) by Wu Ch'eng En. He is accompanied on his journey by a ...
Release Date: March 11, 2001
Runtime: 1 h 15 min
MPAA: Unrated

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Summary: Bennie travels to Buenos Aires to find his long-missing older brother, a once-promising writer who is now a remnant of his former self. Bennie's discovery of his brother's near-finished play might hold the answer to understanding ...
Runtime: 2 h 07 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 5,000,000
Domestic: $ 518,522
International: $ 2,355,952
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Summary: A dark domestic-horror drama about the ties that bind--and the ties that really bind.
Release Date: January 22, 2011
Genres: Drama, Horror, Short
Runtime: 0 h 28 min

Country: United States
Language: English
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Summary: In an abandoned tenement, an African-American militant writer and a Jewish novelist develop a friendship while struggling to complete their novels, but inner tension rises between the two.
Runtime: 1 h 33 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 2,000,000
Domestic: $ 2,010
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Summary: Two young friends find a magic book that brings a ventriloquist's dummy to life.
Runtime: 1 h 30 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Franchise: Goosebumps
Movie budget: $ 35,000,000
Domestic: $ 46,700,633
International: $ 46,619,747
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Summary: Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a mother and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.
Runtime: 2 h 04 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
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Summary: A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.
Runtime: 1 h 46 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 6,500,000
Domestic: $ 1,435,016
International: $ 571,375
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Summary: A mysterious virus hits an isolated elementary school, transforming the kids into a feral swarm of mass savages. An unlikely hero must lead a motley band of teachers in the fight of their lives.
Runtime: 1 h 28 min
MPAA: R

Distributor: HBO Zone, Tubi TV
Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 60,058
International: $ 425,486
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Summary: A young autistic woman runs away from her caregiver in an attempt to submit her 500-page manuscript to a "Star Trek" writing competition at Paramount Pictures.
Runtime: 1 h 33 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 9,868
International: $ 396,864
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Summary: A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger.
Runtime: 1 h 41 min
MPAA: R

Countries: Canada, Ireland
Language: English
Domestic: $ 54,730
International: $ 902,862
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Summary: In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1970s.
Runtime: 1 h 56 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 25,000,000
Domestic: $ 7,164,995
International: $ 4,607,466
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Summary: A wealthy art gallery owner is haunted by her ex-husband's novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a symbolic revenge tale.
Runtime: 1 h 56 min
MPAA: R

Countries: United States, China
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 22,500,000
Domestic: $ 10,663,357
International: $ 19,648,500
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Summary: When a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent agent with the only athlete who stays with him and his former colleague.
Release Date: December 13, 1996
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Runtime: 2 h 19 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 50,000,000
Domestic: $ 153,952,592
International: $ 119,600,000
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Summary: Karen O'Connor, a young journalist known for her celebrity profiles, is consumed with discovering the truth behind a long-buried incident that affected the lives and careers of showbiz team Vince Collins and Lanny Morris.
Runtime: 1 h 47 min
MPAA: Unrated

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 25,000,000
Domestic: $ 872,142
International: $ 2,615,536
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Summary: A rare book dealer, while seeking out the last two copies of a demon text, gets drawn into a conspiracy with supernatural overtones.
Runtime: 2 h 13 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 38,000,000
Domestic: $ 18,661,336
International: $ 39,740,562
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Summary: Fictional account of real-life mystery writer Dashiell Hammett, and his involvement in the investigation of a beautiful Chinese cabaret actress' mysterious disappearance in San Francisco.
Runtime: 1 h 37 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 42,914