Keyword: female writer

One Night

6.8

2023

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This is the story of three women whose bond was all but destroyed by the traumatic events of one night 20 years ago.

Hard Cell

6.4

2022

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A documentary crew follows the inmates and staff of HMP Woldsley while Catherine Tate portrays multiple characters to capture the penal system at its brutal humorous best.

Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen

7.7

2022

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A life as dramatic as her work. Lucy Worsley discovers the origins of Agatha Christies macabre magic - and with some compelling characters, uncovers carefully concealed secrets.

Mae West: Dirty Blonde

6.7

2021

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Can You Ever Forgive Me?

7.5

2018

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When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.

Loving Highsmith

6.5

2022

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Based on Patricia Highsmiths personal writings and accounts of her family and lovers, the film casts new light on the famous thriller writers life and oeuvre, permeated by themes of love and its defining influence on identity.

Mistress America

6.7

2015

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A lonely college freshmans life is turned upside-down by her impetuous, adventurous stepsister-to-be.

Riverfront Romance

5.9

2021

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After saving up for years, writer Cara Durant finally buys her dream house on the riverbank of her hometown, only to discover a hydro dam being built right in front of it, spearheaded by the handsome and nomadic Riley Evans.

Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women

7.7

2008

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Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women, leads a literary double life, writing under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard, an identity that remains until the 1940s.

Vita Activa : The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

7.7

2015

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A documentary about the life and work of Hannah Arendt, the prolific and unclassifiable thinker, political theorist, moral philosopher and polemicist, and with her encounter with the trial of Eichmann a high ranking Nazi.

To Walk Invisible

7.4

2016

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A chronicle of the Brontë sisters battle to overcome obstacles and publish their novels, which would become some of the greatest in the English language.

Miss Potter

7

2006

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The story of Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved and best-selling childrens book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, and her struggle for love, happiness, and success.

Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Suspense

6.8

2020

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To mark the centenary of the publication of Agatha Christies debut novel, a celebration of ten of her most beloved stories.

Sylvia Plath: Inside the Bell Jar

6.8

2018

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The story of Sylvia Plaths seminal novel The Bell Jar as well as the parallels between her life and the book. The film includes an exclusive testimony from Sylvia Plaths daughter Frieda Hughes about her mother.

Enid

6.7

2009

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Edwardian child Enid Blyton begins to tell stories to her brothers as an escape from their parents rows before the father deserts the family. While training as a teacher after the Great War she sends her stories to publishers; one of them, Hugh Pollock, takes her on and also marries her. They have two daughters, but Enid is a terrible mother, letting a nanny raise them while she, ironically, is bestowing treats on anonymous children who worship her for her stories. She is completely self-absorbed,driving Hugh to drink and then to another woman. Enid uses the children as emotional blackmail to get a divorce on her terms before marrying Kenneth Waters, a weak man similar to her father. After World War Two she is as popular as ever, despite accusations of using a syndicate to pen her books, and she carries on, adored by children who do not know her true nature, for another 20 years before her death in 1968.