Screenplay: Jonathan Demme

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


Fighting Mad

1976 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Jonathan Demme

Cast Peter Fonda · Gino Franco · Harry Northup · Phil Carey

Plot An Arkansas farmer stages a one-man war against corrupt land developers who want to evit him and his neighbors from their farms for real estate developments.

5.2

26 votes

5.2

26 votes

Black mama, white mama

1973 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Eddie Romero

Cast Pam Grier · Margaret Markov · Sid Haig · Lynn Borden

Plot The action opens in the South Seas. Lee Daniels (Pam Grier) is the girlfriend of the island's biggest pimp and drug dealer, and she just ran off with $40,000.00USD of...

4.8

139 votes

4.8

139 votes

Caged Heat

1974 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Jonathan Demme

Cast Juanita Brown · Roberta Collins · Erica Gavin · Ella Reid

Plot A girl is caught in a drug bust and sent to the hoosegow. The iron-handed superintendent takes exception to a skit performed by the girls and takes punitive steps, aided...

4.4

199 votes

4.4

199 votes

The Truth About Charlie

2002 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

4.2

2K votes

4.2

2K votes

The Agronomist

2003 · Documentary · 90 min. · United States

Direction Jonathan Demme

Plot The true story of Jean Dominique, a Haitian radio journalist and human rights activist.

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Jimmy Carter Man from Plains

2007 · Documentary · 125 min. · United States

Direction Jonathan Demme

Cast Jimmy Carter · Larry King · Wolf Blitzer · Jay Leno

Plot Late in 2006, President Jimmy Carter tours the U.S. promoting his provocative "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid." Demme's camera follows Carter from city to city, home to Plains (population 635), visiting...

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The Hot Box

1972 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

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