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) ... ...
Biography
USA|Japan
1985
120 Minutes
Ken Ogata Kenji Sawada Toshiyuki Nagashima
militia member soldier young man author general nationalist dark moving temple japan home downward spiral darkness nationalism literature tradition book rivalry 1970s
A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.
Documentary
USA
2010
82 Minutes
Jane Beasley
historian author interviewee interviewer harper lee oprah winfrey tom brokaw fascinating engaging moving united states archive literature legacy biography documentaries history society rise 2010s
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 »
Drama
USA|India
2006
122 Minutes
Kal Penn Tabu Irrfan Khan Zuleikha Robinson Jacinda Barrett Glenne Headly Brooke Smith Sahira Nair Jessica Blank
mother son husband girlfriend in-law singer emotional calcutta, india new york city airplane cemetery culture clash childhood wedding interracial relationship literature discovery transformation 2000s
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.
Documentary
USA
2007
81 Minutes
interviewee historian professor soldier marine military officer inspiring somber office movie set iraq afghanistan military base battlefield literature horrors of war iraq war afghanistan war history transformation
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 »
Romance
France
1988
100 Minutes
Miou-Miou Patrick Chesnais Christian Ruche María Casares Sylvie Laporte Michael Raskine Brigitte Catillon Régis Royer Pierre Dux
young woman boyfriend young boy widow businessman maid creative dreamy offbeat cheeky bedroom dreamworld hospital literature fantasy life imitating art poetry inspiration role playing adventure
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 »
Romance
USA
1988
97 Minutes
Amy Irving Reizl Bozyk Peter Riegert Jeroen Krabbé Sylvia Miles Suzzy Roche George Martin John Bedford Lloyd Claudia Silver David Hyde Pierce Rosemary Harris
bookseller grandmother vendor author heartwarming amusing new york city delicatessen bookstore apartment romance family culture maturing literature love rivalry transformation 1980s
A Manhattan single meets a man through her Jewish grandmother's matchmaker.
Romance, Drama
USA
2007
106 Minutes
Maria Bello Amy Brenneman Emily Blunt Maggie Grace Kathy Baker Hugh Dancy Kevin Zegers Marc Blucas Jimmy Smits Lynn Redgrave Nancy Travis
friend cheater teacher mother lesbian husband dreamy emotional heartwarming house bar coffee shop hotel literature romance infidelity homosexuality writers friendship discovery
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.
Gay & Lesbian, Comedy, Drama
UK
2006
109 Minutes
Richard Griffiths Frances de la Tour Stephen Campbell Moore Samuel Barnett Dominic Cooper James Corden Jamie Parker Russell Tovey Samuel Anderson Sacha Dhawan Andrew Knott
student headmaster gay/lesbian teenager friend teacher emotional profound england university education sex literature coming of age friendship loneliness discovery pursuit transformation sacrifice
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.
Romance, Comedy, Drama
USA|Canada|Australia
2013
111 Minutes
Clive Owen Juliette Binoche Amy Brenneman Bruce Davison Keegan Connor Tracy Adam DiMarco Valerie Tian Eva Allan Janet Kidder David Lewis Josh Ssettuba
woman man teacher art teacher english teacher student brooding charming emotional intense moving quirky witty uplifting prep school school america competition love courtship
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.
Romance
USA
1962
119 Minutes
Troy Donahue Suzanne Pleshette Angie Dickinson Rossano Brazzi Constance Ford Hampton Fancher Iphigenie Castiglioni Chad Everett Gertrude Flynn Pamela Austin Lili Valenty
librarian architect romantic interest ex-girlfriend heartwarming charming rome apartment bookstore countryside street love triangle romance travel american tourists education literature love transformation 1960s
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 »
Comedy, Drama
USA
1970
124 Minutes
Elliott Gould Candice Bergen Jeff Corey Robert F. Lyons Max Julien Cecil Kellaway Jon Lormer Leonard Stone William Bramley Jeannie Berlin John Rubinstein
graduate student student activist teacher administrator unrestrained offbeat california university lecture hall campus life activism values literature education transformation underdog discovery 1970s
A Vietnam vet and former social radical is conflicted by his desire to become a teacher and his sympathy with anti-establishment student protests.
Drama
USA
1933
72 Minutes
George Arliss Doris Kenyon Margaret Lindsay Theodore Newton Reginald Owen Alan Mowbray
writer louis xv count de sarnac daughter mistress philosopher engaging suspenseful melodramatic dungeon versailles, france palace apartment bedroom literature human rights french history social change confrontation 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 »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1939
80 Minutes
Robert Montgomery Rosalind Russell Reginald Owen Ralph Morgan Etienne Girardot Alan Dinehart Jo Ann Sayers Joan Marsh John Hubbard Tom Collins Sidney Blackmer
amateur sleuth bookseller wife wealthy man inspector butler amusing crafty household library murder investigation literature wealth family mystery discovery 1930s
Rare booksellers Joel and Garda Sloane are engaged to find who is stealing rare books from a private library.
Romance
UK|USA
2013
96 Minutes
Keri Russell JJ Feild Jennifer Coolidge Bret McKenzie Georgia King James Callis Jane Seymour Ricky Whittle Ruben Crow
single woman friend literary character love interest winsome heartwarming uplifting household theme park england vacation romance literature fanaticism adventure love 2010s
Obsessed with Pride and Prejudice (1995), a woman travels to a Jane Austen theme park in search for her perfect gentleman.
Drama
Spain
1988
126 Minutes
Hugh Grant Lizzy McInnerny Valentine Pelka Elizabeth Hurley José Luis Gómez Virginia Mataix Ronan Vibert Jose Carlos Rivas Kate McKenzie Jolyon Baker Terry Taplin
poet writer husband stepsister friend monster creative melodramatic geneva villa england frankenstein's monster mary shelley percy bysshe shelley lord byron madness literature quest transformation wretched excess
Lord Byron, poet Percy Shelley, his future wife, Mary Shelley (writing Frankenstein) and others spend the summer of 1816 together.
Comedy
France|Italy
1960
87 Minutes
Ted Ray Jean Kent Leslie Phillips Joan Sims Julia Lockwood Tim Seely Charles Hawtrey Dilys Laye Lionel Jeffries June Jago Colin Gordon
neighbor teenager daughter suburban girl suburbanite amusing hilarious lighthearted suburb suburbia suburbs united kingdom england suburban life small town writing literature success discovery growing up
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 »
Comedy
France|USA
2010
108 Minutes
Kevin Kline Robert Pulcini Paul Dano John C. Reilly Katie Holmes Marian Seldes Celia Weston Patti D'Arbanville Dan Hedaya Lynn Cohen John Pankow
extra professor escort amusing new york city literature cross-dressing relationships transformation 1920s
A man who escorts wealthy widows in New York's Upper East Side takes a young aspiring playwright under his wing.
Sci-Fi, Drama
USA
2018
101 Minutes
Michael B. Jordan Michael Shannon Sofia Boutella Laura Harrier Martin Donovan Keir Dullea Lilly Singh Grace Lynn Kung
fireman outlaw thrilling suspenseful spirited future dystopia future outlaws fire literature dystopia adventure rescue revenge pursuit future
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.
Comedy, Drama
1991
109 Minutes
Judy Davis Hugh Grant Mandy Patinkin Bernadette Peters Julian Sands Ralph Brown George Corraface Emma Thompson David Birkin Nimer Rashed
duchess artist playwright composer endearing moving touching france countryside country house george sand frédéric chopin literature music love seduction love pursuit discovery 1830s
Amorous encounters punctuate a weekend retreat taken by several of 19th-century Europe's greatest creative minds.
Drama
2010
100 Minutes
Alexander Fehling Miriam Stein Moritz Bleibtreu Volker Bruch Burghart Klaußner Henry Hübchen Hans Michael Rehberg Josef Ostendorf
poet writer woman offbeat cheery witty rousing intense germany town house affair love broken heart literature romance biography love forbidden love 1770s