Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko Otowa stars as the wife who supports him through his early struggles.
A comedy about a screenwriter (Wuhl) whose old movie script is read by a producer (Landau) and the search for financial backers begins. But it seems that each money source (Aiello, DeNiro, Wallach) has his own mistress that he wants put into the film. Gradually, the screenwriter is forced to make changes to his script to accommodate these backers until he finally sees no semblance of his original ideas in the writing.
Mistress
1992
5
A screenwriter discreetly pens a romance film script based on his feelings after reconnecting with his high school crush.
Jatuh Cinta Seperti di Film-Film
2023
8
Rick is a screenwriter living in Los Angeles. While successful in his career, his life feels empty. Haunted and confused, he finds temporary solace in the decadent Hollywood excess that defines his existence. Women provide a distraction to his daily pain, and every encounter brings him closer to finding his place in the world.
Knight of Cups
2015
5
Hotel employee Lisa develops an obsession with her co-worker Lance, a struggling actor who has appeared in several films as an extra.
Speaking Parts
1990
6
A horror film about a screenwriter who loses the ability to distinguish between his fantasy world and the real world, with disastrous consequences. As he ruminates on his place in any world and loses his grip, he also loses his wife and his children's respect, and critics tear him apart. The final undoing of this screenwriter is a deadline that must be met at all costs, costs that perhaps are too great.
Deadline
1980
5
Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to notice the terrible sacrifices made by his wife when she accepts a job at a local inn.
或る夜ふたたび
1956
0
A television writer is troubled by accusations that a young boy's death resulted from actions the boy copied from the writer's teleplay.
The Storyteller
1977
0
Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them. They get a chance when killings plague the fashion photography studio of Ralph McCormick (Edmund Lowe). After his secretary, Julie Taylor(Anita Louise) reports an attempt to murder her there, Erika McCormick's (Ann Savage) Aunt Isabel Fleming (Mary Forbes) is stabbed and the evidence points to Madge Lawrence (Bess Flowers) an older model and an apparent suicide. Police Inspector Joseph Clinton (Frank Craven) declares the case closed...but then Erika is murdered.
Dangerous Blondes
1943
6
A young screenwriter allows others to exploit her in the hopes of "making it" in Hollywood.
The Lonely Lady
1983
4
A postpartum writer struggles to make a deadline as she experiences an identity crisis between her various personas.
Cow Heavy and Floral
2024
0
Kyrah and Isaac were once the leaders of a multinational special forces group called Shadow Force. They broke the rules by falling in love, and in order to protect their son, they go underground. With a large bounty on their heads, and the vengeful Shadow Force hot on their trail, one family's fight becomes all-out war.
Shadow Force
2025
6
A Japanese abalone divers' couple has to confront the arrival of brutal investors on their coastline.
人魚伝説
1984
6
The attempt to spend a romantic anniversary at a hotel ends badly for Laura and Marius, having to return to their apartment early. At home they find that romance still exists. Unfortunately, not for them.
Dragostea e în aer
2025
0
1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.
Mank
2020
6
The writer of a bad TV series begins to rethink his life when he meets and falls in love with a beautiful actress.
Instant Karma
1990
4
"The Big Meet" follows drunken writer Blake (Lane Carlson) on an absurd adventure with a macho stranger called Nate (Mike Genovese) he meets in a bar. Several drinks later, the impaired writer is lured into a haphazard plot to murder his newfound companion.
The Big Meet
2013
0
Namiko is married, but has an infatuation with Ishizuka who runs a nightclub. The businessman is also planning on wrecking the company of Namiko's husband. As personal lives and professional careers intertwine and cross one another including a love triangle dangerously, the affair is taken up a notch following a murder.
「女の小箱」より夫が見た
1964
6
A struggling screenwriter is hired by a low-budget film producer to create a fresh and unconventional story. His inspiration comes from a mysterious man who appears to predict the future. As the script takes shape, reality and fiction begin to intertwine, leading to a series of bizarre and comedic events that spiral out of control.
Film Mish Hindi
0
Hans is a street fruit peddler and born loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After recovering from a debilitating heart attack, his business finally begins to take off. However, the more he becomes a credit to his family, the more depressed he becomes.
Händler der vier Jahreszeiten
1972
6
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
The Player
1992
7