15 Movies Like Shirley (2020)

The story of Sir J.M. Barrie's friendship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan.

In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.

A THOUSAND ACRES is a drama about an American family who meets with tragedy on their land. It is the story of a father, his daughters, and their husbands, and their passion to subdue the history of their land and its stories.

A grifter working his way up from low-ranking carnival worker to lauded psychic medium matches wits with a psychiatrist bent on exposing him.

In upstate New York in the 1850s, Abigail begins a new year on the rural farm where she lives with her husband Dyer. As Abigail considers the year to come through her journal entries, we experience the marked contrast between her deliberate, stoic manner and her unraveling complex emotions. Spring arrives and Abigail meets Tallie, an emotionally frank and arrestingly beautiful newcomer renting a neighboring farm with her husband, Finney. The two strike up a tentative relationship, filling a void in their lives which neither knew existed.

An introvert freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors who welcome him to the real world.

Under the cover of night, Cecilia flees her boyfriend Adrian's high-tech home by sedating him with sleeping pills and disabling the surveillance and alarm systems. Now the girl lives at a friend's house, is afraid to go out and suffers from persecution mania when she learns that her former tormentor committed suicide. Adrian, a market leader in optical engineering, has left Cecilia a large inheritance, and at last the girl's life should be getting better. But soon she begins to feel anxious again, as if Adrian is sneaking up on her unnoticed - after all, you can't hide from a stalker you can't see.

Life and facts of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who at 16 met 21 year old poet Percy Shelley, resulting in the writing of Frankenstein.

When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.

The life of celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel, "The Catcher in the Rye".

A linguistics professor and her family find their bonds tested when she is diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease.

An acclaimed writer, his ex-wife, and their teenaged children come to terms with the complexities of love in all its forms over the course of one tumultuous year.

Colette is pushed by her husband to write novels under his name. Upon their success, she fights to make her talents known, challenging gender norms.

In 1947, the talented and famous Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was forced to appear before the Commission of Inquiry on Un-American Activities, accused of adherence to Communist views. Refusing to admit any guilt or to denounce his comrades, he became one of ten filmmakers to be placed on Hollywood's so-called "Black List. They were sentenced to a year in prison and banned from working in the film industry in the future.

However, after getting out of prison, Dalton Trumbo continued to do what he loved to do - write screenplays. He had to do it secretly and under various pseudonyms...

When, one day in 1929, writer Thomas Wolfe decided to keep the appointment made by Max Perkins, editor at Scribner's, he had no illusions: his manuscript would be turned down as had invariably been the case. But, to his happy amazement, his novel, which was to become "Look Homeward, Angel," was accepted for publication. The only trouble was that it was overlong (by 300 pages) and had to be reduced. Although reluctant to see his poetic prose trimmed, Wolfe agreed and was helped by Perkins, who had become a true friend, with the result that it instantly became a favorite with the critics and a best seller. Success was even greater in 1935 when "Of Time and the River" appeared, but the fight for reducing Wolfe's logorrheic written expression had been even harder, with the novel originally at 5,000 pages. Perkins managed to cut 90,000 words from the book, and with bitterness ultimately taking its toll, the relationships between the two men gradually deteriorated. Wolfe did not feel grateful to Perkins any longer but had started resenting him for owing his success to him.

Genius (2016) is on #15 spot of movies related to Shirley (2020). Genius (2016) was released in 2016, made by Michael Grandage and has average rating 6.5 in 2022. Main stars of the Genius (2016) film are: Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman.