Screenplay: William Faulkner

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


The Big Sleep

1946 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Lauren Bacall · John Ridgely · Martha Vickers

Synopsis It tells the story of private detective Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart), hired by General Sternwood (Charles Waldron) to deal with a blackmailer. The General has two daughters. One, Vivian (Lauren...

8.1

23K votes

8.1

23K votes

To Have and Have Not

1944 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Walter Brennan · Lauren Bacall · Dolores Moran

Synopsis Harry Morgan (Humphrey Bogart) is the owner-operator of charter boat in wartime Martinique. Morgan's right-hand man is Eddie (Walter Brennan), a garrulous alky whose pet question to anyone and everyone...

7.9

12K votes

7.9

12K votes

The Tarnished Angels

1957 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Rock Hudson · Robert Stack · Dorothy Malone · Jack Carson

Synopsis Story of a friendship between an eccentric journalist and a daredevil barnstorming pilot.

7.3

1K votes

7.3

1K votes

The Long, Hot Summer

1958 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast Paul Newman · Joanne Woodward · Orson Welles · Lee Remick

Synopsis Ben Quick arrives in Frenchman's Bend, MS after being kicked out of another town for allegedly burning a barn for revenge. Will Varner owns just about everything in Frenchman's Bend...

7.2

4K votes

7.2

4K votes

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Intruder in the Dust

1949 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast David Brian · Claude Jarman Jr. · Juano Hernández · Porter Hall

Synopsis In 1940s Mississippi two teenage boys and an elderly woman combine forces to prevent a miscarriage of justice and clear a black man of a murder charge.

6.9

210 votes

6.9

210 votes

Land of the Pharaohs

1955 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Jack Hawkins · Joan Collins · Dewey Martin · Alex Minotis

Synopsis In ancient Egypt the Pharaoh Khufu (Jack Hawkins) is obsessed with acquiring gold and plans to take it all with him into the "second life". To this end he enlists...

6.9

3K votes

6.9

3K votes

Tomorrow

1972 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Anthony

Cast Robert Duvall · Olga Bellin · Sudie Blond · Richard McConnell

Synopsis Set in the Depresion Era, Duvall staras as Jackson Fentry, a young man who leaves his father's farm to work at a local sawmill. Fentry rescues a young pregnant woman,...

6.8

60 votes

6.8

60 votes

The Road to Glory

1936 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Fredric March · Warner Baxter · Lionel Barrymore · June Lang

Synopsis The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt. Denet becomes more and more somber....

6.8

223 votes

6.8

223 votes

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Today We Live

1933 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks · Richard Rosson

Cast Joan Crawford · Gary Cooper · Robert Young · Franchot Tone

Synopsis The two lovers are living together and are not married as they hesitantly explain to her brother. They had made a promise as children to get married when they grew...

6.4

296 votes

6.4

296 votes

The Story of Temple Drake

1933 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Stephen Roberts

Cast Miriam Hopkins · Jack La Rue · William Gargan · William Collier Jr.

Synopsis A wealthy but neurotic Southern belle finds herself trapped in the hideout of a gang of vicious bootleggers. The gang's leader lusts after her, and is determined not to let...

6.4

55 votes

6.4

55 votes

Deep Valley

1947 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Ida Lupino · Dane Clark · Wayne Morris · Fay Bainter

Synopsis Uneducated and poor, Libby lives a sheltered life in a broken down shack with her unloving parents. When a work crew of San Quentin convicts arrives to put in a...

6.3

22 votes

6.3

22 votes

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Flesh

1932 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Wallace Beery · Ricardo Cortez · Karen Morley · Jean Hersholt

Synopsis Slimy American con man Nicky and his girl Laura Nash (Ricardo Cortez & Karen Morley) are in a German jail. Laura is released but has no means to free Nicky...

6.2

135 votes

6.2

135 votes

The Sound and the Fury

1959 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast Yul Brynner · Joanne Woodward · Margaret Leighton · Stuart Whitman

Synopsis The Sound and the Fury doesn't exactly signify nothing, but as a filmization of William Faulkner it could have been far better. Yul Brynner is the oldest son of a...

6.0

196 votes

6.0

196 votes

5.9

35 votes

Submarine Patrol

1938 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Richard Greene · Nancy Kelly · Preston Foster · George Bancroft

Synopsis A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser and with a motley crew.

5.9

100 votes

5.9

100 votes

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The Reivers

1969 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Mark Rydell

Cast Steve McQueen · Rupert Crosse · Mitch Vogel · Sharon Farrell

Synopsis An old man looks back 60 years to a road trip from rural Mississippi to Memphis, a horse race, and his own coming of age. Lucius's grandfather gets the first...

5.8

266 votes

5.8

266 votes

As I Lay Dying

2013 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction James Franco

Cast James Franco · Logan Marshall-Green · Danny McBride · Tim Blake Nelson

Synopsis Based on the 1930 classic by Faulkner, it is the story of the death of Addie Bundren and her family's quest to honor her wish to be buried in the...

5.3

449 votes

5.3

449 votes

The Sound and the Fury

2014 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

5.3

67 votes

5.3

67 votes

Slave Ship

1937 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast Warner Baxter · Wallace Beery · Elizabeth Allan · Mickey Rooney

Synopsis Captain Lovett ordered his first mate Thompson to get rid of his slave-trading crew and get a more respectable bunch for standard shipping, but when he brings his new bride...

Not rated

Not rated

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