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Movies Like Book of Sex

If you liked Book of Sex (2005), a movie directed by Antonio Adamo, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Not Another Happy Ending

    Not Another Happy Ending (2013)

    ★ 5.8/10

    When a struggling publisher discovers his only successful author is blocked, he knows he has to unblock her or he's finished. With her newfound success, she's become too happy and she can't write when she's happy. The…

  2. 2Deconstructing Harry

    Deconstructing Harry (1997)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.

  3. 3Adaptation.

    Adaptation. (2002)

    ★ 7.3/10

    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…

  4. 4Lonely Planet

    Lonely Planet (2024)

    ★ 6.1/10

    At an idyllic writers retreat in Morocco, a newly single novelist finds an unexpected connection with a younger man who's reevaluating his life choices.

  5. 5The Girl in the Book

    The Girl in the Book (2015)

    ★ 5.8/10

    The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.

  6. 6Can You Ever Forgive Me?

    Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)

    ★ 6.8/10

    When a bestselling celebrity biographer is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.

  7. 7The Vanishing of Sidney Hall

    The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2018)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Over the course of 12 years, and three stages of life, Sidney Hall falls in love, writes the book of a generation and then disappears without a trace.

  8. 8Mother

    Mother (1996)

    ★ 6.8/10

    A neurotic, twice-divorced sci-fi writer moves back in with his mother to solve his personal problems.

  9. 9Neverwas

    Neverwas (2005)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What he doesn't reveal at the time of his appointment is that this was the…

  10. 10The Words

    The Words (2012)

    ★ 6.7/10

    The Words follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. There's only one catch - he didn't write it. As the past comes back to…

  11. 11Skin Deep

    Skin Deep (1989)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Hard-drinking novelist Zach Hutton spirals out of control after his wife and mistress both leave him. Alone and crippled by a bad case of writer's block, Zach slips in and out of casual relationships and one-night…

  12. 12Love Me Love Me

    Love Me Love Me (2026)

    ★ 6.1/10

    After her brother's death, June moves to Milan for a fresh start, finding comfort in Will, the perfect honor student at her new international school. But when his troubled best friend James—hiding a dangerous life in…

  13. 13Throw Momma from the Train

    Throw Momma from the Train (1987)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Larry Donner, an author with a cruel ex-wife, teaches a writing workshop in which one of his students, Owen, is fed up with his domineering mother. When Owen watches a Hitchcock classic that seems to mirror his own…

  14. 14Argylle

    Argylle (2024)

    ★ 6/10

    When the plots of reclusive author Elly Conway's fictional espionage novels begin to mirror the covert actions of a real-life spy organization, quiet evenings at home become a thing of the past. Accompanied by her cat…

  15. 15Stranger Than Fiction

    Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

    ★ 7.3/10

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

  16. 16The World According to Garp

    The World According to Garp (1982)

    ★ 6.7/10

    A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon.

  17. 17Orlando

    Orlando (1992)

    ★ 7/10

    England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to satisfy a very particular request.

  18. 18A Thousand Words

    A Thousand Words (2012)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Jack McCall is a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has set his sights on New Age guru Dr. Sinja for his own selfish purposes. But Dr. Sinja is on to him, and Jack’s life comes…

  19. 19Sebastian

    Sebastian (2024)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Max is a 25-year-old freelance writer and aspiring novelist who seems well on his way to success in London’s cultural spheres. Yet by night, he finds a different kind of exhilaration as a sex worker with the pseudonym…

  20. 20A Journal for Jordan

    A Journal for Jordan (2021)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Based on the true story of First Sergeant Charles Monroe King, a soldier deployed to Iraq begins to keep a journal of love and advice for his infant son. Back at home, senior New York Times editor Dana Canedy revisits…

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