Literature Movies, Movies about Literature

Here we've displayed a list of the best Literature films : Mishima(1985), Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird(2010), The Namesake(2006), Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience(2007), La Lectrice(1988), Crossing Delancey(1988), The Jane Austen Book Club(2007), The History Boys(2006), Words and Pictures(2013), Rome Adventure(1962), Getting Straight(1970), Voltaire(1933) ... ...

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Mishima

A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.

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Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird

It is our national novel. Reading to Kill a Mockingbird is something we all have in common. Harper Lee's first and only novel turns 50 this summer and the author hasn't given an interview ... See full summary »

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The Namesake

American-born Gogol, the son of Indian immigrants, wants to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers, despite his family's unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways.

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Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience

A unique documentary about troops' experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan, based on writings by soldiers, Marines, and air men. Some writings were published in the New Yorker in summer 2006. A... See full summary »

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La Lectrice

A multi-faceted film based on Raymond Jean's novel "La Lectrice". Constance (Miou-Miou) reads the novel aloud in bed to her lover. Inspired by the story of Marie, a woman who advertises her... See full summary »

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Crossing Delancey

A Manhattan single meets a man through her Jewish grandmother's matchmaker.

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The Jane Austen Book Club

Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen, only to find their relationships -- both old and new -- begin to resemble 21st century versions of her novels.

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The History Boys

An unruly class of gifted and charming teenage boys are taught by two eccentric and innovative teachers, as their headmaster pushes for them all to get accepted into Oxford or Cambridge.

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Words and Pictures

An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important.

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Rome Adventure

Prudence resigns from her teaching position after being criticized for giving a student her copy of a romance novel. She sails for Italy, takes a job at a small bookstore in Rome, and meets... See full summary »

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Getting Straight

A Vietnam vet and former social radical is conflicted by his desire to become a teacher and his sympathy with anti-establishment student protests.

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Voltaire

Writer and philosopher Voltaire, loyal to his king, Louis XV of France, nonetheless writes scathingly of the king's disdain for the rights and needs of his people. Louis admires Voltaire ... See full summary »

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Fast and Loose

Rare booksellers Joel and Garda Sloane are engaged to find who is stealing rare books from a private library.

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Austenland

Obsessed with Pride and Prejudice (1995), a woman travels to a Jane Austen theme park in search for her perfect gentleman.

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Rowing With the Wind

Lord Byron, poet Percy Shelley, his future wife, Mary Shelley (writing Frankenstein) and others spend the summer of 1816 together.

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Please Turn Over

Sophie, a flighty young model, learns that her boyfriend is planning to leave her for another woman. Sophie resolves to either win him back or assassinate her rival. A handsome doctor (who ... See full summary »

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The Extra Man

A man who escorts wealthy widows in New York's Upper East Side takes a young aspiring playwright under his wing.

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Fahrenheit 451

In a terrifying care-free future, a young man, Guy Montag, whose job as a fireman is to burn all books, questions his actions after meeting a young woman - and begins to rebel against society.

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Impromptu

Amorous encounters punctuate a weekend retreat taken by several of 19th-century Europe's greatest creative minds.

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Goethe!

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