Screenplay: James Joyce

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


The Dead

1987 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Huston

Cast Anjelica Huston · Donal McCann · Helena Carroll · Cathleen Delany

Plot John Huston's last film is a labor of love at several levels: an adaptation of perhaps one of the greatest pieces of English-language literature by one of Huston's favorite authors,...

7.3

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7K votes

Ulysses

1967 · Movie · 132 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Strick

Cast Barbara Jefford · Milo O'Shea · Maurice Roeves · T.P. McKenna

Plot Adapted from the brilliant novel by James Joyce, "Ulysses" portrays a stream-of-consciousness day in the life of Leopold Bloom, Molly Bloom, and Stephen Dedalus (the hero of Joyce's earlier autobiographical...

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6.0

74 votes

James Joyce's Women

1985 · Movie · 88 min. · Ireland

Direction Michael Pearce

Cast Fionnula Flanagan · Chris O'Neill · Tony Lyons · James E. O'Grady

Plot In this tribute to James Joyce, Fionnula Flanagan gives a tour-de-force performance as a half-dozen or so women in Joyce's real and fictional worlds. When she portrays his wife Nora...

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Passages From James Joyce's Finnegans Wake

1966 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

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Fragments of an Alms-Film

1972 · Movie · 75 min. · Portugal

Direction João César Monteiro

Cast Manuela de Freitas · João Perry · Dalila Rocha · Catarina Coelho

Plot On his first feature, Monteiro analyzes a family: the relationships between father and daughter, husband and wife, and also the relationship between the head of the family and his wife's...

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Bloom

2003 · Movie · 113 min. · Ireland

Direction Sean Walsh

Cast Stephen Rea · Angeline Ball · Hugh O'Conor

Plot Adapted from James Joyce's Ulysses, Bloom is the enthralling story of June 16th, 1904 and a gateway into the consiousness of its three main characters: Stephen Dedalus, Molly Bloom and...

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Carnet de identidad

1970 · Documentary · 27 min. · Spain

Direction Llorenç Soler

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

1977 · Movie · 92 min. · Ireland

Direction Joseph Strick

Cast Bosco Hogan · T.P. McKenna · John Gielgud · Rosaleen Linehan

Plot This film is a beautiful adaptation of James Joyce's autobiographical novel in which the author, through the character of Stephen Dedalus, portrays his youth, his Irish Catholic upbringing, and his...

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John Cage Performs James Joyce (S)

1985 · Documentary · 15 min. · Japan

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Cast John Cage

Plot A voice performance by John Cage who “reads”, “vocalizes” and “whispers” in three different manners his artificial language taken from “Finnegens Wake” by James Joyce. Cage freely composed the letters...

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