Playwright Movies

In Dublin circa 1911, John Cassidy (Rod Taylor), an impoverished idealist, whose ambitions are restricted by the demands of looking after his family,...

The lives of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar and Lorraine, one of her daughters, and the community of Bradford, in the 30 years since the...

An unparalleled portrait of Arthur Miller (1915-2005), a major writer who left an indelible mark on the world. Miller's life is intimately connected...

A tough girl raised in the streets finds that her dialect and manners are helpful as source material for a playwright.

A Broadway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few...

In July 1953, at a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote in Portofino, Italy, Tennessee Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo meet Anja...

In search of inspiration and new topics, the famous metropolitan writer Kim Yesenin goes to the province. Unexpectedly for himself, he discovers that...

A daydreaming dramatist and his beloved persevere through hard times in the hope that one of his plays will be a hit.

Barbara Field, born into poverty with a rare condition that means she is entirely covered in hair. Given the precious gift of an education, she is...

An account of the brief life of the writer Albert Camus (1913-1960), a Frenchman born in Algeria: his Spanish origin on the isle of Menorca, his...

Three playwrights develop a plot around a drunk who gets killed in their apartment.

A playwright with a dark past risks his life in returning to his home city to find out if a woman with whom he once had a passionate and illicit...

A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.

A young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when her boss' son falls for her.

A homicide detective suspects a playwright who bases his play on a murder.

Award-winning Irish actor Gabriel Byrne explores the life, works and passions of George Bernard Shaw, a giant of world literature, and - like Byrne -...

In observing a solitary classmate, a student begins to suspect that the loner has the ability to write words that will kill those who read them.

A young playwright who writes porno novels to overcome a writer's block, lives the fantasies of one of his books, while trying to move with his wife...

A playwright, who lost her fiance to suicide, is haunted by his spirit while staying on a remote island with his mother.

Alan Tanner's new play opens in a week, but he just can't finish the third act. He's retreated to a snowbound cottage to work, but blonde neighbor...