Screenplay: Peter Ruric

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Peter Ruric. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Black Cat

1934 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast Boris Karloff · Bela Lugosi · David Manners · Julie Bishop

Plot The first cinematic teaming of horror greats Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi is a bizarre, haunting, and relentlessly eerie film that was surprisingly morbid and perverse for its time. Peter...

6.5

1K votes

6.5

1K votes

Guy de Maupassant's Mademoiselle Fifi

1944 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Simone Simon · John Emery · Kurt Kreuger · Alan Napier

Plot In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors. But when a Prussian officer holds the coach...

6.1

85 votes

6.1

85 votes

Affairs of a Gentleman

1934 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Edwin L. Marin

Cast Paul Lukas · Leila Hyams · Patricia Ellis · Phillip Reed

Plot When a novelist is murdered, suspicion falls on all the women he had affairs with--and then wrote about in his books.

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Twelve Crowded Hours

1939 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Lew Landers

Cast Richard Dix · Lucille Ball · Allan Lane · Donald MacBride

Plot When the brother of his girlfriend Paula Sanders is accused of murder, reporter Nick Green tries to clear him. He suspects gangster George Costain of the crime. Nick steals a...

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Grand Central Murder

1942 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction S. Sylvan Simon

Cast Van Heflin · Patricia Dane · Cecilia Parker · Virginia Grey

Plot A convict being escorted in for retrial escapes at Grand Central and threatens his old girlfriend on the phone. She flees for her new beau's private railcar at the same...

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Jericho

1937 · Movie · 77 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Thornton Freeland

Cast Paul Robeson · Henry Wilcoxon · Wallace Ford · Kouka

Plot During the Great War, a Negro corporal, Jericho Jackson, disobeys an order and saves crewmen trapped below deck after an attack. A sergeant dies in the incident; Jackson is court-martialed...

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Alias a Gentleman

1948 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Harry Beaumont

Cast Wallace Beery · Tom Drake · Dorothy Patrick · Gladys George

Plot A convict is finishing a ten-year prison sentence, during which time he has studied to become a gentleman and intends to go straight. But his former partner, believing he is...

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