يناقش العمل فكرة المجتمع وثقافته بتقييد الأشخاص في قوالب معتادة وعنصرية، حيث يسعى الكاتب مونك لكسر قيود المجتمع من خلال كتاب جديد، ولكن سرعان ما ينعكس الأمر على حياته بالكامل.
True-crime writer Ellison Oswald 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.
Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work -- which he doesn't remember writing.
شيزوكو تسوكيشيما، فتاة في الرابعة عشر من عمرها، طالبة في مدرسة موكايهارا الثانوية، تعيش في طوكيو مع والديها أساكو وسيا، وأختها شيهو. شيزوكو دودة كتب وتهوى الكتابة أيضاً، تستعير الكتب دائماً من مكتبة مدرستها الثانوية، وفي أحد المرات لاحظت في بطاقة استعارة الكتاب اسم "سيجي أماساوا"، وقد تكرر هذا الاسم في كثير من الكتب التي استعارتها. وخلال الأيام التالية تتعرف على شاب من المدرسة يتضح لاحقا أنه هو سيجي. ، تتعرف شيزوكو على سيجي أكثر ويصبحان صديقين، وقد كانت بالصدفة قد تعرفت على جده الذي يملك محلاً للأثريات والساعات، تكتشف شيزوكو أن سيجي يهوى صناعة آلة الكمان، وهو جاد في هوايته لدرجة أنه سيسافر شهرين إلى إيطاليا لتعلم هذه الصناعة، وهنا تبدأ شيزوكو بمقارنة نفسها بسيجي، وتخوض مرحلة فكرية تحاول فيها أن تقرر مستقبلها، ولأنها مهتمة بالكتابة تقرر أن تبدأ بالتأليف، ولذلك جهزت نفسها واستعارت كثيرا من الكتب.
يكتب مستشار قانوني متقاعد رواية يأمل في إيجاد حل لإحدى قضايا القتل السابقة التي لم يتم حلها ولحبه غير المتبادل مع رئيسه - وكلاهما لا يزال يطارده بعد عقود.
تكلف فيوليت بمهمة تعليم فتاة آداب وأخلاقيات الفتيات الراقيات في الطبقة النبيلة لتصبح الفتاة قادرة على التعايش مع الطبقة النبيلة، ولكن تواجه فيوليت بعض الصعوبات في مراعاة مزاجها ومحاولة إقناعها بتعلم طريقة عيش النبلاء والانخراط في مجتمعهم.
يتصالح كاتب معروف وزوجته السابقة وأطفالهم المراهقون مع تعقيدات الحب بجميع أشكاله على مدار عام واحد مضطرب.
A British crime novelist travels to her publisher's upmarket summer house in Southern France to seek solitude in order to work on her next book. However, the unexpected arrival of the publisher's daughter induces complications and a subsequent crime.
بعد أن يتعرّض ابنه للتنمّر بلا رحمة لكونه مثليًّا، ينطلق رجل في مهمة عبر البلاد للتوعية بعواقب التحيّز.
Four actors go to a cabin in the woods to write, direct, and act in a film that will jump-start their careers. Their idea is a horror film about a man with a bag over his head, but what happens when that man mysteriously shows up?
Sibyl, a jaded psychotherapist, returns to her first passion: writing. But her newest patient Margot, a troubled up-and-coming actress, proves to be a source of inspiration that is far too tempting. Fascinated almost to the point of obsession, Sibyl becomes more and more involved in Margot’s tumultuous life, reviving volatile memories that bring her face to face with her past.
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she hears a young woman tell that she finds it harder and harder to bear her life, Marion starts to reflect on her own life. After a series of events she comes to understand how her unemotional attitude towards the people around her affected them and herself.
Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
A lonely doctor who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its former resident, a frustrated architect. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.
During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the war. The trial does not progress as smoothly as expected by the General Staff, as the defence puts up a strong fight in the courtroom.
In 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania, in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he meets is defeat and suffering while his sense of reality is withering. One moment he is delighted and the next he curses everybody. All the time he manages to maintain human dignity and pride.
A teenager attends a fantasy writers' convention where he discovers his idea has been stolen by an established novelist.
A troubled young man discovers that he has a knack for writing when a counselor encourages him to pursue a literary career.