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  • Factotum

    This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of “Factotum” author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don’t interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along the way, he fends off the distractions offered by women, drinking and gambling.

  • Shadows in the Sun

    An aspiring young writer tracks a literary titan suffering from writers block to his refuge in rural Italy and learns about life and love from the irascible genius and his daughters.

  • Russian Dolls

    Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.

  • Capote

    A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book “In Cold Blood”.

  • Armando’s Tale of Charles Dickens

    Armando Iannucci presents a personal argument in praise of the genius of Charles Dickens. Through the prism of the author’s most autobiographical novel, David Copperfield, Armando looks beyond Dickens – the national institution – and instead explores the qualities of Dickens’s work that still make him one of the best British writers. While Dickens is often celebrated for his powerful depictions of Victorian England and his role as a social reformer, this programme foregrounds the elements of his writing which make him worth reading, as much for what he tells us about ourselves in the twenty-first century as our ancestors in the nineteenth. Armando argues that Dickens’s remarkable use of language and his extraordinary gift for creating characters make him a startlingly experimental and psychologically penetrating writer who demands not just to be adapted for television but to be read and read again.

  • Infamous

    While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.

  • Miss Potter

    Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved children’s book “The Tale of Peter Rabbit”, struggles for love, happiness and success.

  • A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

    Dito Montiel, a successful author, receives a call from his long-suffering mother, asking him to return home and visit his ailing father. Dito recalls his childhood growing up in a violent neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., with friends Antonio, Giuseppe, Nerf and Mike.

  • Stranger Than Fiction

    Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life.

  • A Copenhagen Love Story

    After author Mia finds love with single father Emil, their happiness is put to the test as they undergo fertility treatments to have kids of their own.