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A famous novelist receives a large inheritance after his father’s passing. He rents out one of his inherited properties to a Japanese/Chinese woman named Elaine and they embark on an affair, causing rifts in his marriage with Jeanna Ho. One night, Elaine is suddenly found dead in the balcony of the house. When police start their investigation, they realize that there are a lot of suspicious factors to the case leading them to suspect that this is not their normal kidnapping or revenge against an unfaithful husband case.

A sensual drama about love and hate, telling the story of the forbidden love between a female editor and a popular writer.

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The Päätalo film tells the story of Kalle Päätalo, a carpenter and master builder, and his burning desire to become a writer, as well as the long road that led to the creation of Päätalo's first novel. Too much hard work, too little love in his marriage, and too little self-confidence prevent Kalle Päätalo from realizing his lifelong dream of becoming a writer. Until he finds new love.

A novelist visits a bookstore run by a young colleague who's been out of touch, then takes a walk with a film director and his wife. She meets an actress and tries to convince her to make a film together.

Uratsuki is a popular erotic novelist. One day, he decides to write a masterpiece of pure literature and hides himself in a rural inn. One after another, irresistible attractive women appear before him and they have intense sex. This is a mystery-style comedy full of eroticism, a must-see explosion of lust, where a harem-like, intense and sensual relationship unfolds around a sensual novelist with a big dick and excellent technique.

Tatsuo is an aspiring mystery writer with no talent. His new manuscript ends up in a garbage bin. On the same night, a high school girl appears before him claiming she is the protagonist of his novel and that she has come to save it.

A portrait of the prominent Iranian novelist, whose work dealt with the troubled nature of life within his native country, often due to political upheaval.

For Kurumada Yoichi, who works as an editorial in a publishing company, his job is to go to popular author Hara to pick up his manuscript. However, when he goes there at 1am, the manuscript is not yet finished, and he can hear the voices of Hara and his seductive sexy wife Mariko intertwined in the back room. Later, Mariko seduces Yoichi and they have intense sex, but Hara uses this as a pretext to threaten Yoichi, saying that he has the right to sleep with Yoichi's seductive wife Yumi... This is a shocking erotic work that tells the story of a man's forbidden desire to swap partners in a nightmarish way. It is a unique story of lust and desire surrounding a popular novelist who pursues erotism to the point of cruelty and inhumanity.

Xu Jin accidentally found a long-abandoned pen at home. Since then, he has been writing novels day and night as if he was possessed. No one knows what happened to him, including himself. After finishing the novel, he had a question: how to make everyone see his novel? So he started a crazy plan like Yugong moving mountains...

An arranged blind date keeps a hapless bachelor guessing.

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Darian is a successful journalist but when she moves to a new town she starts looking for work. When she answers an ad in the local paper she finds the job is writing lesbian erotica and its not long before fantasy becomes reality.

Lewis was a decently selling writer once. But now that he is older, his books no longer sell, and his girlfriend is tired of being with someone who is always broke. When his publisher screws him over, Lewis is forced to take on a creative teaching job at the local community college to make ends meet. He meets a talented young woman who begins to take over his mind and his life. At the crossroad of possibilities, Lewis must decide to continue with writing or give it up forever.

After murdering a prestigious author and stealing his latest manuscript, Alex thinks she's in the clear until the author's violent, illegitimate son comes for his inheritance.

The journey of an aspiring writer struggling to publish his first novel.

This documentary explores the imaginative world of Australian novelist Elizabeth Jolley. It combines readings, dramatised segments, and witty and playful interviews in which Jolley talks about the craft and practical problems of writing, and her fictional treatment of old age, women's relationships, exile and displacement. Dramatic sequences bring to life Jolley's unforgettable characters. We see the funny, sad and bizarre worlds created in 'Woman in lampshade', 'Milk and Honey', 'Miss Peabody's Inheritance', 'Mr Scobies' Riddle' and 'Palamino'.

He wrote horror stories about ghosts I am a writer who likes to fantasize about himself. One day there was a man named (Fang Chuan Hotel Room No. 701). I received a mail. I want a director The novel he was writing in order to get a script Famous for being haunted to finish We decided to visit this Fengchuan hotel for one night. Whose words is it? I asked to get only this room without listening. It was strange when a witch arrived in this room Among the supernatural events is information for his novel Can you collect and come back out overnight? Amid the haunting horrors of the unseen world We must continue to see whether life will end.

Two years after their first meeting, Kijima and Kuzumi reconnect in the countryside, rekindling their bond after years of exchanging letters.

Writers of crime fiction and nonfiction discuss influential movies about police officers and the criminal element.

True-crime writer Ellison Oswalt is in a slump; he hasn't had a best seller in more than 10 years and is becoming increasingly desperate for a hit. So, when he discovers the existence of a snuff film showing the deaths of a family, he vows to solve the mystery. He moves his own family into the victims' home and gets to work. However, when old film footage and other clues hint at the presence of a supernatural force, Ellison learns that living in the house may be fatal.

Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.

When the plots of reclusive author Elly Conway's fictional espionage novels begin to mirror the covert actions of a real-life spy organization, quiet evenings at home become a thing of the past. Accompanied by her cat Alfie and Aidan, a cat-allergic spy, Elly races across the world to stay one step ahead of the killers as the line between Conway's fictional world and her real one begins to blur.

Reclusive author Loretta Sage writes about exotic places in her popular adventure novels that feature a handsome cover model named Alan. While on tour promoting her new book with Alan, Loretta gets kidnapped by an eccentric billionaire who hopes she can lead him to the ancient city's lost treasure that featured in her latest story. Alan, determined to prove he can be a hero in real life and not just on the pages of her books, sets off to rescue her.

A misanthropic author, a single mother and waitress, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.

Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.

In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand.

Ivan Canabrava is a writer, turned insurance ivestigator who investigates mysterious deaths involving Bufo Marinus. Bufo Marinus is a frog poison causing catalepsy in humans, simulating death, enabling grand insurance fraud and other crimes. Ten years later, now as a successful writer, similar characters possibly using Bufo Marinus reappear and create an intricate plot full of surprises.

Struggling writer Lowen Ashleigh is on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime: she's been hired to complete the remaining books in a successful series that bestselling thriller author Verity Crawford is unable to finish after a mysterious accident. Upon arrival at the lavish Crawford estate, Ashleigh slowly learns that things are not exactly as they seem.

When the executives at Heartstrings Press wants to drop Michael Rothchild’s next romance book, junior editor, Dori Shephard, argues her way into working as the lead editor. But Dori’s dream job becomes her nightmare as she realizes Michael isn’t everything she imagined. Dori breaks the news to Michael that the executives think he’s an ill-mannered, washed up novelist and want to terminate his contract. Not wanting to be dropped from Heartstrings Press, Michael agrees to work with Dori for 30 days. While Dori wrestles with Michael’s languorous behavior she’s also in the midst of planning her wedding to her fiancé, Philip. However, things go awry for Dori when work becomes an obstacle in her relationship. Dori must learn what true love really means before it’s too late.

Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.

An acclaimed writer, his ex-wife, and their teenaged children come to terms with the complexities of love in all its forms over the course of one tumultuous year.

Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.

Jack Manfred is an aspiring writer who to make ends meet, takes a job as a croupier. Jack remains an observer, knowing that everything in life is a gamble and that gamblers are born to lose. Inevitably, he gets sucked into the world of the casino which takes its toll on his relationships and the novel he is writing.

Joan Wilder is thrust back into a world of murder, chases, foreign intrigue... and love. This time out she's duped by a duplicitous Arab dignitary who brings her to the Middle East, ostensibly to write a book about his life. Of course, he's up to no good, and Joan is just another pawn in his wicked game. But Jack Colton and his sidekick Ralph show up to help our intrepid heroine save the day.

Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin finds Ruby, in the flesh, sitting on his couch about a week later, he is completely flabbergasted that his words have turned into a living, breathing person.

Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life.

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 discovered a literary genius.

A gay man breaks up with his lover after meeting a college student at a party.

In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.

Novelist follows an adolescent who makes the wrong decisions in the streets of London.