Items27The creator’s order
  1. 184 Charing Cross Road (1987)84 Charing Cross Road (1987) 7.4/10 on IMDbReleased Feb 13, 1987The purest book lover's movie ever made, and almost nothing happens in it. Anne Bancroft plays Helene Hanff, a New York writer who orders secondhand books by post from a London shop, and Anthony Hopkins is Frank Doel, the bookseller who answers her letters across two decades. The pleasure is in…0
  2. 2The Bookshop (2017)The Bookshop (2017) 6.5/10 on IMDbReleased Nov 10, 2017A widow decides to open a bookstore in a small Suffolk coastal town in 1959, and the town's polite establishment decides she shouldn't. Emily Mortimer plays her with stubborn gentleness, and Bill Nighy is wonderful as a reclusive reader won over by the books she sends him. Isabel Coixet's…0
  3. 3You've Got Mail (1998)You've Got Mail (1998) 6.8/10 on IMDbReleased Dec 18, 1998The comfort-watch of the bunch, and the one that understood the independent bookstore's fight with the chains before most people noticed it. Meg Ryan runs a small children's bookstore in New York; Tom Hanks runs the giant discount chain opening around the corner. Neither knows the other is the…0
  4. 4The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (2018) 7.3/10 on IMDbReleased Apr 19, 2018A book club invented on the spot as a cover story during the German occupation of Guernsey becomes the thing that keeps a handful of islanders sane. Lily James plays a London writer who starts a correspondence with one of its members after the war and travels to the island to meet them. It works…0
  5. 5The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (2022)The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (2022) 6.7/10 on IMDbReleased Oct 7, 2022A grieving, prickly island bookseller whose shop is failing and whose rare edition of Poe poems has just been stolen finds a toddler left in his store, and slowly lets life back in. Kunal Nayyar plays the bookseller, with Lucy Hale and Christina Hendricks in support. It is small and sentimental,…0
  6. 6The Booksellers (2020)The Booksellers (2020) 6.9/10 on IMDbReleased Mar 6, 2020D.W. Young's documentary tours New York's rare and secondhand book trade, from the antiquarian book fair at the Park Avenue Armory, where first editions fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars, to the Strand and Argosy and collectors' apartments crammed floor to ceiling. Fran Lebowitz, Susan Orlean…0
  7. 7Desk Set (1957)Desk Set (1957) 7.2/10 on IMDbReleased Aug 2, 1957Katharine Hepburn runs a TV network's reference library, a team of women who can answer any question from memory and the shelves, and Spencer Tracy is the methods engineer installing a computer that might make them redundant. Decades later it plays as a sharp, funny argument for the human…0
  8. 8Party Girl (1995)Party Girl (1995) 6.5/10 on IMDbReleased Jun 9, 1995The only movie on this list where the Dewey Decimal System becomes a punchline and a calling. Parker Posey plays a New York club kid who, after her aunt bails her out of jail, takes a job at her aunt's library to pay the money back and discovers she has a gift for order. It is a scrappy 1990s…0
  9. 9Storm Center (1956)Storm Center (1956) 6.6/10 on IMDbReleased Jul 31, 1956Bette Davis plays a small-town librarian who refuses to remove a controversial book from her shelves and is branded a Communist for it during the Red Scare. It is earnest and a little stagey, but few Hollywood movies have put a librarian's principles so squarely at the center. Watch it alongside…0
  10. 10The Public (2019)The Public (2019) 6.7/10 on IMDbReleased Apr 5, 2019During a brutal cold snap, homeless patrons of Cincinnati's public library refuse to leave at closing time, and a librarian finds himself in a standoff with police and politicians. Emilio Estevez wrote, directed and stars. This is the movie for anyone who knows that a modern public library is as…0