A Place Among the Living (2003)

What is real and what is fiction? Faced with writer's block with his novel, Lewis Fielding turns to a film script about a woman finding herself after his wife Elizabeth returns from Baden Baden. She didn't quite find herself there but had a brief encounter in a lift with a German who says he is a poet. Now the German is in England, gets himself invited to tea where he claims he admires Fielding's books. Which one does he like the best? "Tom Jones." Amused at being confused with the other Fielding, the novelist works the German into the plot.

Man in relationship connects with another man and tries to make love-triangle work.

A paranoid writer is unable to get started on his second novel. He hires a secretary and then his troubles really begin.

Set in ancient Britain, at a time when much of Europe was ruled with harsh tyranny by Rome, a tribe of Britons led by Selina, set out to defy the invaders and discard their yoke of bondage. The Roman commander, Justinian, is sent to quell the uprising, punishing the dissenters with brute force but when he becomes emotionally attached to Selina, he is torn between his duty to Rome and his love for the Viking Queen.

Amélie, a young Belgian woman, having spent her childhood in Japan, decides to return to live there and tries to integrate in the Japanese society. She is determined to be a "real Japanese" before her year contract runs out, though it precisely this determination that is incompatable with Japanese humility. Though she is hired for a choice position as a translator at an import/export firm, her inability to understand Japanese cultural norms results in increasingly humiliating demotions. Though Amelie secretly adulates her, her immediate supervisor takes sadistic pleasure in belittling her all along. She finally manages to break Amelie's will by making her the bathroom attendant, and is delighted when Amelie tells her the she will not renew her contract. Amelie realizes that she is finally a real Japanese when she enters the company president's office "with fear and trembling," which could only be possible because her determination was broken by Miss Fubuki's systematic torture.

Attila, the leader of the barbarian Huns and called by the Romans "The Scourge of God", sweeps onto the Italian peninsula, defeating all of the armies of Rome, until he and his men reach the gates of the city itself.

The film fictionalizes the real relationship between French sculptor Henri Gaudier and Polish writer Sophie Brzeska, twenty years his senior, who came to Paris, she says, for its “creative atmosphere.”

Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.

Novelist Janet Frobisher, lives in an isolated house, having been separated for years from her criminal husband. She has fallen in love with her secretary's fiancé and when her estranged husband unexpectedly appears, Janet poisons him, but just as she's about to dispose of the body, one of her husband's criminal cohorts also shows up.

A young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her past shows up.

BBC rendition of Shakespeare's Coriolanus

Writers, publishers, fans, and friends share their perspectives and memories of sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick. In his career, Philip Kindred Dick (1928–82) published dozens of science fiction novels and short stories. His work has reached a wider audience due to such film adaptations as BLADE RUNNER (1982), TOTAL RECALL (1990), MINORITY REPORT (2002), and A SCANNER DARKLY (2006).

An Australian truck driver writes romance novels. His engaged, tomboyish, crop duster best friend's name, Ruby Vale, is unasked used as author. Complications arise when his novel takes off. Will they remain friends or...?

어릴 적 로마 군에 의해 가족을 모두 잃은 뒤 노예 검투사가 된 ‘마일로’(킷 해링턴)는 폼페이 영주의 딸 ‘카시아’(에밀리 브라우닝)와 운명적인 사랑에 빠지게 된다. 풍요를 기원하는 비날리아 축제의 대규모 검투 경기에 참여한 ‘마일로’는 자신의 부모를 죽인 ‘코르부스’(키퍼 서덜랜드)를 발견한다. 로마의 상원 의원이 된 ‘코르부스’는 ‘카시아’와 정략 결혼을 계획하고, ‘마일로’는 부모의 복수와 자신의 연인을 지켜내기 위해 목숨을 건 최후의 검투에 나선다. 그 순간 갑자기 폭발을 시작하는 베수비오 화산! 도망칠 새도 없이 쏟아지는 뜨거운 용암과 화산재에 폼페이는 순식간에 무너져 내리는데…

Tolla is an unemployed translator whose wife is leaving him. Despondent and weak, he submits to the suggestion of an acquaintance to have a contract placed on the man that his wife is seeing. Instead, however, he arranges for the hit to be placed on himself. Before the contract is executed, he develops a relationship with a prostitute, and then changes his mind. In order to survive he takes the obvious course of action, which turns out to have possibly been unnecessary, and then he must deal with the guilt.

Jake Speed (Wayne Crawford) is the lead character in some of the biggest page-turners of the 1940s. A chiseled, heroic action figure, Speed saves lives on paper, but when a young girl is kidnapped and her sister (Karen Kopins) begs the real-life Speed for help, he must find a way to be as gallant as the book hero whose creation he's inspired. Accompanied by the victim's sibling, Speed flies to Africa to see if he's up to the task.

Mike, a Hemingway-esque adventure novelist, is spending his days in a self-imposed exile somewhere in Central America. A reporter for Sight Magazine, Katie, has tracked him down in the hope of getting the biggest scoop of her career. Mike falls for Katie. On a flight to Mexico City, their plane crashes near a remote hideaway of Nazi war criminals in hiding. The Nazis want to stay hidden and plan to dispose of their new guests

지하철 광고판에 독특한 카피가 눈길을 끈다. 카피는 순전히 한 여자에 대한 남자의 사랑 고백… 어느 새 유명해진 이 글을 그녀도 역시 보고 있을까? 그녀, 이 러브레터의 주인공은 다름아닌 미모의 아가씨 라우라! 하지만 그녀에게 사랑은 미용실에서 머리 모양을 바꾸는 것 만큼이나 손쉬운 일이다. 맘에 드는 남자가 있으면 바꾸면 그만! 더 멋진 남자, 더 끌리는 남자가 바로 내 남자. 하지만 천방지축 라우라에게 만만치 않은 상대가 나타났으니 시니컬한 매력과 지적인 향기가 배어나는 연륜 있는 남자, 올리베라 한편, 라우라의 엄마 야나는 프리랜서 번역가! 딸만큼이나 자유분방하고 영어를 즐겨 쓰며 명품 가방을 좋아하는 그녀의 꿈은 사랑하는 남자를 만나 행복하게 사는 것. 단,지저분하고 매너 없는 체코 남자는 사양이다. 한때 근사한 오페라 극장에 운동화와 스웨터를 걸치고 나왔던 그 녀석 때문일까… 두 모녀에게 어느 날 청천벽력 같은 사건이 벌어진다. 딸의 새로운 남자친구가 20년 전 내가 찼던 그 폭탄…? 철없고 발칙하지만 깜찍하고 발랄한 두 모녀 … 이들은 진정 사랑을 찾을 수 있을까?

소설가이자 대학교수인 톰 릭스는 제자와의 스캔들로 학교에서 추방당하고 아내와 딸마저 등을 돌린다. 접근금지 명령을 받은 톰은 딸을 만나기 위해 무작정 파리를 찾는다. 멀리서나마 딸을 볼 수 있다는 기대감으로 행복해하던 것도 잠시 파리에 도착하자마자 모든 소지품을 도둑맞게 되고 불법 이민자들이 사는 누추한 호텔에서 생활하게 된다. 호텔 주인의 도움으로 미스터리한 야간 경비 일을 얻게 되지만 힘든 일상은 계속 반복되고 절망감과 고독에 휩싸인 채 오직 소설을 쓰겠다는 집념으로 하루하루를 버티는 톰. 어느 날 예술가들이 모이는 살롱의 파티에 참석하게 된 톰은 관능적이면서 지적인 매력을 발산하는 여인 마르짓을 만나게 된다. 파리 5구에 위치한 마르짓의 집에서 다시 만난 두 사람은 사랑을 나누게 되고 절망에 내몰린 자신의 이야기를 들어주며 위로해 주는 마르짓에게 깊게 빠져드는 톰. 오후 4시, 마르짓을 만나기 위해 그녀의 아파트를 찾던 톰은 어느 순간 자신 주변에 이상한 일들이 벌어지고 있다는 사실을 느끼게 된다. 협박하던 옆 방 건달이 끔찍한 시체로 발견되자 살인 용의자가 되어 경찰에게 검거된 톰은 마르짓에 대한 놀라운 사실을 알게 되는데... 매일 오후 4시, 나와의 약속을 지키면 내가 평생 당신을 지켜줄게!

Elizabeth Rimplegar inhabits a household populated by virtual lunatics. Her mother, Nellie, mishandled the family fortune, and, alas, the stock market crash has depleted their worth. Elizabeth's goofy brothers cannot easily adjust to the life of the average worker. Meanwhile, the family doctor has his eye on Elizabeth, but he will have to compete with her suitor, an ill-informed writer.