Female Writer Movies

The story of the making of The Bell Jar, the unique, semi-autobiographical novel written by American writer Sylvia Plath (1932-63), published in...

British author Agatha Christie (1890-1976) is the world's most translated author: her heroes, private detective Hercule Poirot and amateur sleuth...

An account of the life and work of the Swiss writer Johanna Spyri (1827-1901), the barely known artistic mother of Heidi, her brave alpine heroine,...

Presented by HBO and recorded live at the American Palace Theatre in New York, 'Hazelle!' a one-woman show consisting of a series of interconnected...

While it may be universally acknowledged that she’s one of the great English writers, Giles Coren breaks down his many reasons for hating Jane...

A young writer finds herself promoting her new book in a televised interview, but things are not what they seem when the interviewer starts to...

A hopeless waitress and a melancholy neon sign maker are on separate paths and struggle through the everyday alone. Their thoughts for each other...

Minutes before leaving the floor that they have shared for years and ending their relationship, Gala and Marçal try to confront all those...

A reinterpretation of the Greek legend of Penelope, ”the most faithful of wives”, who waited 20 years for her husband Odysseus to return...

A desktop documentary that focuses on the Golden Record that NASA sent into space in the late 1970s. The piece reflects on issues such as the power...

"The palm trees on the reverse are a delusion; so is the pink sand". This line, taken from a poem by Margaret Atwood, lights the path traced in...

A young woman must make the choice whether to allow her abusive father back into her life.

Through one woman's experience as an adopted person and also as a mother who relinquished her child in 1971, this documentary highlights the many...

With an off beat sense of humour, the film looks at the politics and glamour of lipstick and the dilemmas of the modern woman in a marketed world.