Films like Genius
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer falls into his hands, Perkins is convinced he has discovere...
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Cradle Will Rock
Film · 1999 · also dramaA true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.
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Richard Jewell
Film · 2019 · also drama and historyRichard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a co...
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Cabrini
Film · 2024 · also drama and historyItalian immigrant Francesca Cabrini arrives in 1889 New York City and is greeted by disease, crime, and impoverished children. Cabrini sets off on a daring mission to con...
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Deadline - U.S.A.
Film · 1952 · also dramaNew York City newspaper The Day is in trouble. Even though editor Ed Hutcheson has worked hard running the paper, its circulation has been steadily declining. Now the pub...
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Mank
Film · 2020 · also drama and history1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen...
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Dreamchild
Film · 1985 · also drama80-year-old Alice Hargreaves is about to visit Columbia University to attend a reception in honour of author Lewis Carroll. As a child, Alice's close friendship with the...
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Hammett
Film · 1982 · also dramaChinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living, receives an unexpe...
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My Salinger Year
Film · 2020 · also dramaA college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger.
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A Call to Spy
Film · 2020 · also drama and historyThe story of Vera Atkins, a crafty spy recruiter, and two of the first women she selects for Churchill's "secret army": Virginia Hall, a daring American undaunted by a di...
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Chaplin
Film · 1992 · also dramaAn aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent personal life and his r...
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