Films about screenwriters

2011 film by Woody Allen

1950 film by Billy Wilder

2002 film directed by Spike Jonze

1991 film by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

1963 film by Jean-Luc Godard

2019 film directed by Pedro Almodóvar

Mank is a 2020 American biographical drama film about screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz and his development of the screenplay for Orson Welles's 1941 film Citizen Kane. It was directed by David Fincher based on a screenplay written by his late father Jack Fincher and was produced by Ceán Chaffin, Douglas Urbanski, and Eric Roth. It stars Gary Oldman in the title role, alongside Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Arliss Howard, Tom Pelphrey, Sam Troughton, Ferdinand Kingsley, Tuppence Middleton, Tom Burke, Joseph Cross, Jamie McShane, Toby Leonard Moore, Monika Gossman, and Charles Dance.

1992 film directed by Robert Altman

2015 film by Jay Roach

2012 film by Martin McDonagh

2001 film by Frank Darabont

1950 film by Nicholas Ray

2009 film by Ricky Gervais

1964 film directed by Richard Quine

2023 film directed by Andrew Haigh

1978 film by Herbert Ross

2024 film directed by Jason Reitman

2019 film directed by Hirokazu Koreeda

1982 American comedy film directed by Richard Benjamin

Iruvar () is a 1997 Indian Tamil-language epic political drama film co-written, produced, and directed by Mani Ratnam. The film, inspired by the lives of M. G. Ramachandran, M. Karunanidhi and J. Jayalalithaa, is set against the backdrop of cinema and politics in Tamil Nadu. It stars Mohanlal with an ensemble supporting cast including Prakash Raj, Aishwarya Rai, Revathi, Gautami, Tabu, and Nassar. Rai, who was crowned Miss World 1994, made her first screen appearance, playing dual characters.

1959 film by Guru Dutt

2004 comedy film directed by Jeff Nathanson

1982 film by Norman Jewison

2019 film directed by Nisha Ganatra

2014 film directed by Marc Lawrence

1994 film by George Huang

2000 film by David Mamet

1998 film by Mika Kaurismäki

1999 film by Albert Brooks

1989 film by Christopher Guest

Kokowääh is a 2011 German film directed by Til Schweiger. It was released in German-speaking countries (Germany, Austria, South Tyrol and Switzerland) on 3 February 2011. The film stars Til Schweiger, his daughter Emma Schweiger, Jasmin Gerat and Samuel Finzi. Another of Schweiger's daughters, Luna Schweiger, makes a small appearance in the film. Kokowääh is an onomatopoetic depiction of the French pronunciation of coq au vin. A sequel, Kokowääh 2, was released on 7 February 2013 with Schweiger having returned as director, co-writer and producer.

1992 film by Barry Primus

1998 film by David Veloz

1954 film by Frank Tashlin

2001 film by Tom DiCillo

2022 film directed by Farhad Samji

1946 film by Mervyn LeRoy

1987 film directed by Bill Froehlich

2015 film directed by Vikramjit Singh

2007 film by Harris Goldberg

2014 film directed by Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K.

1952 French film directed by Julien Duvivier

1993 film by Ben Affleck

1959 black comedy film directed by George Marshall

1998 film by Lee Jeong-hyang

2005 film by Craig Lucas

1938 American comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon

2001 film directed by Mike Binder

2014 Tamil film directed by Karthik Subbaraj

2004 film by Mark Atkins

1992 film by Jefery Levy

1988 film by Michael Jenkins

2018 film directed by James Franco

2003 film directed by Amos Kollek

1990 film directed by Eugene Corr and Robert Hillmann

2018 film by Paolo Virzì