10 movies about writers we must absolutely watch

There’s one thing to read about a writer and experience his dilemmas with expression, and then there’s watching him prancing about the screen in all his gloom and glory. But whichever may be the medium of exhibition, we as readers are always game to get a glimpse of the writer’s life. Cinemas have time and again tried to tell their stories and with much success. We have selected 10 of the best movies that depict the immortal spirit of authors and their lives.

Daniel Radcliffe, Jack Huston and Ben Foster play Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, respectively, in John Krokidas' directorial debut, which chronicles the first meetings of these members of the Beat Generation in the 1940s, and the violent crime in which they were all implicated.
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This brilliant movie features Nicolas Cage as Charlie Kaufman attempting to adapt Susan Orlean’s real-life book "The Orchid Thief".
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This tragic movie is an exploration of Sylvia Plath’s life and her eventful marriage with poet Ted Hughes. Played by Gwyneth Paltrow, Sylvia is a tragic yet beautiful movie.
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The Oscar-winning movie revolves around Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and the struggles of mental illness intertwined in stories about three women.
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Johnny Depp stars as the J M Barrie in Marc Forster's tear-jerking, Oscar-winning drama. The movie is based on an episode of Barrie’s life and his relationship with Sylvia Llewelyn and her little sons who inspired Peter Pan.
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The love story of John Keats and Fanny Brawne finds a poetic expression through this beautiful movie. With a background score filled mostly with Romantic poetry, Bright Star ends with the untimely demise of the great 25-year-old poet.
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Anne Hathaway, despite being an American, plays Jane Austen in this movie opposite James McAvoy, who plays Austen’s love interest. It is a charming movie that deals with the life of one of the greatest Romance novelists of all times.
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Irish novelist Irish Murdoch’s tragic decline to the Alzheimer’s disease finds perfect expression through the acts of Kate Winslet and Judie Dench. Winslet’s brilliant portrayal of Murdoch is based on Bayley’s memoir, Elegy for Iris.
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A modern-day screenwriter/aspiring novelist gets lost in the streets of Paris after midnight only to be joined in the jolly company of famous literati of the 1920s. From Hemmingway, to Joyce, from the Fitzgeralds to Dali and Picasso, this Woody Allen flick has an orgasmic charm over all English literature graduates and aspiring writers.
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This is the story of a young Che Guevara, a medical student, before he became “Che” and travelled South America on his motorcycle with his best friend.
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