A polymerizable
liquid crystal composition is provided that has a wide range where a
liquid crystal phase is exhibited, has excellent
solubility in an
organic solvent, and is facilitated in control of an alignment state. The use of the polymerizable
liquid crystal composition provides a polymerizable liquid
crystal composition that has good
solubility in a
solvent with high safety, such as PGMEA, and can control various alignment states. The polymerizable liquid
crystal composition in one aspect contains a
fluorenone derivative represented by the formula (1) and a compound having a
bisphenol skeleton represented by the formula (2). In the formulae (1) and (2), W1 represents
hydrogen,
fluorine,
chlorine, methyl or ethyl; X1 represents
hydrogen,
fluorine, methyl or
trifluoromethyl; Z11 to Z14 are bonding groups; A1 represents a
divalent cyclic group; Y1 represents alkylene having from 2 to 20 carbon atoms; A2 represents a
divalent group having a
bisphenol skeleton; X2 represents
hydrogen,
fluorine, methyl or
trifluoromethyl; W2 represents hydrogen,
halogen,
alkyl or fluoroalkyl; Y2 independently represents a
single bond, —CH═CH— or —(CH2)2—; and n2 independently represents an integer of from 2 to 15.