Set in a chic and middle class Johannesburg, a jaded academic and his journalist wife have their lives turned upside down when a celebrated and hedonistic older writer unexpectedly moves into their home.
Casts Kagiso Lediga, Pearl Thusi, Andrew Buckland, Akin Omotoso, Precious Makgaretsa, Kate Liquorish, Tessa Jubber, Yamkela Mvenya, Tesebo Kotlolo
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Arsenic and Old Lace
Caché
The Happiness Playbook
Manhattan
Stalker
The Door in the Floor
The Front
Trick
Blithe Spirit
The Glory of Life
Genius
Moulin Rouge!
Tsotsi
Kadhantharam
Le Pion
Adaptation.
Stay Cool
The Wednesday Woman
Munnariyippu
SIMILAR MOVIES
Breakfast at Tiffany's
IMDB 7.6 | Oct , 1961
Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.Arsenic and Old Lace
IMDB 7.6 | Sep , 1944
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!Caché
IMDB 7 | Oct , 2005
George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that feature his family, along with disturbing drawings that are difficult to interpret. He has no idea who has made and sent him the videos. Progressively, the contents of the videos become more personal, indicating that the sender has known George for a long time.The Happiness Playbook
IMDB 5.3 | Nov , 2023
Journalist Amy goes undercover at a happiness retreat run by the handsome Paul. Sparks fly between the two, but when Amy learns Paul is secretly the son of a wealthy investor, she must choose between a career-making story or her growing feelings for Paul.Manhattan
IMDB 7.7 | Apr , 1979
Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.Stalker
IMDB 8.1 | May , 1979
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.The Door in the Floor
IMDB 6.1 | Jul , 2004
The lives of Ted and Marion Cole are thrown into disarray when their two adolescent sons die in a car wreck. Marion withdraws from Ted and Ruth, the couple's daughter. Ted, a well-known writer, hires as his assistant a student named Eddie, who looks oddly similar to one of the Coles' dead sons. The couple separate, and Marion begins an affair with Eddie, while Ted has a dalliance with his neighbor Evelyn.The Front
IMDB 7 | Sep , 1976
A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.Trick
IMDB 6.9 | Jul , 1999
Gabriel is a young, aspiring musical composer whose life seems stuck in the First Act. When his new musical number gets a critical reception, a theatre colleague, Perry, tells Gabriel that he needs to get a life before he can write about one – so he heads straight for his local gay bar.Blithe Spirit
IMDB 5.7 | Nov , 2020
A spiritualist medium holds a seance for a writer suffering from writers block but accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife which leads to an increasingly complex love triangle with his current wife of five years.The Glory of Life
IMDB 7.4 | Mar , 2024
Because of the power of love, the last year of Franz Kafka's life becomes his happiest. The well-known writer has never before been able to allow himself to experience intimacy, he suffers from tuberculosis and is dependent on his overbearing family. In the summer of 1923, he met Dora Diamant in the seaside resort Graal-Müritz on the Baltic Sea coast, where he is convalescing and she is working in a Jewish Volksheim. He is a man of world, the 14 years younger woman is from the deep East, he can write, she can dance. She has both feet firmly on the ground, he is always hovering a little above it. She embraces the indicative, he gets tangled up in the conjunctive. But the worldly wise Dora accepts him as he is. And he accepts her. Together they go to Berlin and when Franz's health deteriorates rapidly, to a sanatorium in Austria. They are granted a single year together until Franz Kafka's health deteriorates incurable. However their year together allows them to feel the glory of life.Genius
IMDB 6.5 | Jun , 2016
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer falls into his hands, Perkins is convinced he has discovered a literary genius.Moulin Rouge!
IMDB 7.5 | May , 2001
A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with the club's most notorious and beautiful star.Tsotsi
IMDB 6.9 | Dec , 2005
A young South African boy from the Johannesburg ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster, leaves home as a child to get away from his helpless parents. Now a teenage thug, Tsotsi finds a baby in the back seat of a car he's just stolen. He decides that it is his responsibility to care for the infant and in the process learns that maybe the criminal life isn’t the best way.Kadhantharam
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2016
Rajaram, a writer and an orator has been fondling a dream around his son Sidharth. While the father is ensconced in these thoughts, the son Sidharth perceives such thoughts to be selfish and imprudent and dismisses them with contempt.Le Pion
IMDB 6.3 | Oct , 1978
Humiliated and down on his luck, a superintendent turns his life around when he decides to write a book.Adaptation.
IMDB 7.3 | Dec , 2002
Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to adapt "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orlean, Kaufman's life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman, Orlean's book, become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the others'.Stay Cool
IMDB 4.9 | Sep , 2011
A successful author is forced to confront an unrequited high school crush when he returns home to deliver a commencement address to graduating seniors. Shasta O'Neil, a sexy high school senior flirts with the visiting author and invites him to the prom.The Wednesday Woman
IMDB 0 | May , 2000
Muriel Davidson, a successful mystery author in a vulnerable stage of her life, falls for a charismatic ex-con. As they begin to bond over their traumatic pasts, Muriel's life slowly begins to resemble one of her darker novels.Munnariyippu
IMDB 7.4 | Aug , 2014
Raghavan, a simple and lonely man, comes out of jail. His life changes after he meets Anjali, a journalist who wants to prove herself professionally.