Movies and TvShows featuring "scriptwriting" theme.

Youth is a comedy-drama movie set in a Swiss hotel, where an aging composer and a film director confront their fears and regrets while reflecting on their lives. Through their conversations and encounters with other hotel guests, they explore themes of aging, love, ambition, and the pursuit of happiness. The stunning backdrop of the Swiss Alps adds to the beauty and serenity of the film.

Something in the Air is a drama/romance movie set in 1970s France. It follows a group of young people who become involved in political activism and rebellion during the aftermath of the May 1968 events. The story focuses on their personal relationships, artistic creations, and their hope for a better future.

Tel Aviv on Fire is a comedy/drama/romance film that takes place in the 2010s and revolves around a Palestinian man named Salam, who works as an assistant on a popular soap opera called "Tel Aviv on Fire." The soap opera is set in the Israeli-Palestinian border and focuses on a forbidden love story between a Palestinian spy and an Israeli general's wife. Salam is unexpectedly promoted to be the main scriptwriter of the soap opera, but he soon finds himself caught in a conflict between the Israeli military and the Palestinian security forces. As Salam faces challenges in writing the storylines, he becomes entangled with real-life events and must navigate the politics and tensions of the Israeli-Palestinian relationship. Along the way, he develops a unique relationship with an Israeli officer at a checkpoint and finds himself in unexpected situations that test his creativity, determination, and understanding of both cultures.

In 'Epidemic,' a post-punk filmmaker is working on his second film in a trilogy while a deadly plague sweeps through the city. As he becomes increasingly obsessed with finishing the script, reality and fiction begin to blur, pushing him to the brink of madness. Set in a morgue-like atmosphere, the film explores themes of artistic obsession, mortality, and the fine line between reality and imagination.

Dead Tired (1994) is a comedy film set in Paris, France. It follows the story of a character who experiences a role reversal and finds themselves in a double identity situation. The film explores the humorous consequences of this situation in a lively and entertaining manner.

Features a sit-down with two of the film's writers; the third, Ronny Graham, passed away in 1999.

A film director, whose career is going downhill, reluctantly decides to adapt an inadaptable best selling novel. Will she succeed or will the book adapt her in the process?

Hamburg wrote and directed the crime comedy Safe Men, which played at Sundance and spawned a devoted cult following. A sure-thing comedy closer, the New York City native built hilarious set pieces and character work into Meet the Parents, Zoolander, and Meet the Fockers that not only helped lift them to huge box office but also pushed a few new catchphrases into the American lexicon. A veteran of the uncredited production rewrite, Hamburg also wrote and directed the romantic comedy Along Came Polly in 2004. In this amusing interview, Hamburg discusses how he developed his talent for writing actor-hooking dialogue in the humorous monologues he performed in college, why he'd do a thousand test screenings if he could, and what it's like to hand a new scene to Robert De Niro and stand there waiting to see if he likes it.

Two scriptwriter friends with opposing personalities fuss and fight as they cobble together a script for a modern political film. Their arguments seem endless, they constantly stray from the plot, but the story slowly takes shape around garage mechanics at Moliterno & co. who fight a multinational in order to save their business.

Martin and Margot are two writers traveling through Guatemala to find La Bestia, the mythological poet that brought them together. In their journey their relationship and future will be compromised by an unexpected pregnancy.

While working the graveyard shift at a newspaper factory with his three best friends, Dalen Gus has plans to write the next big screenplay for Hollywood. But when Dalen meets Ellie, the new and eccentric girl at work, he's immediately veered off course from his ambitious path. Ellie lures Dalen down a dark, twisted road that takes him completely out of his comfort zone.