10 Movies Every Aspiring Writer Should Watch

10 Movies Every Aspiring Writer Should Watch

We have 10 movies every aspiring writer should watch. These movies have relatable characters, and scenarios, and will offer you the drive you need to start.

The Lost Weekend (1945)

The Lost Weekend (1945)

Don Birnam is battling alcoholism and ends up going on a bender for four days. He struggles with perfectionism, self-doubt, and severe writer’s block.

I Remember Mama (1948)

I Remember Mama (1948)

Young aspiring writer Katrin Hanson tells the story of her childhood days at the turn of the century in San Francisco.

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Joe Gillis is a hack writer who wants to receive fame in Hollywood. Until he meets a long-forgotten movie star named Norma Desmond.

Ace in the Hole (1951)

Ace in the Hole (1951)

Chuck Tatum is a cynical and disgraced big city reporter who winds up at a small Albuquerque, New Mexico newspaper.

Misery (1990)

Misery (1990)

Paul Sheldon is a best-selling novelist. He plans to end his career as a writer of the romance genre and concentrate on serious novels.

Finding Forrester (2000)

Finding Forrester (2000)

Jamal Wallace befriends an isolated writer named William Forrester who helps him, develop his writing skill.

Almost Famous (2000)

Almost Famous (2000)

William Miller is a 15-year-old rock journalist in the 1970s. He gets a dream assignment for writing a story for the popular Rolling Stone magazine.

Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

An IRS auditor named Harold Crick abruptly hears a voice narrating his life and he discovers that he is perhaps a character in a novel.

Julie & Julia (2009)

Julie & Julia (2009)

In 2022, Julie Powell starts a blog in an attempt to keep track of every recipe in the cookbook named Mastering the Art of French Cooking.

Midnight in Paris (2011)

Midnight in Paris (2011)

Gil Pender is an unhappy but successful screenwriter. He is struggling with his first novel.