Screenplay: Ernest Hemingway
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Ernest Hemingway. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
The Killers
1946 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Robert Siodmak
Cast Burt Lancaster · Ava Gardner · Edmond O'Brien · Albert Dekker
Plot Two professional killers invade a small town and kill a gas station attendant, "the Swede", who's expecting them. Insurance investigator Reardon pursues the case against the orders of his boss,...
7.9
8K votes
7.9
8K votes
To Have and Have Not
1944 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Howard Hawks
Cast Humphrey Bogart · Walter Brennan · Lauren Bacall · Dolores Moran
Plot 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 Old Man and the Sea (S)
1999 · Movie · 20 min. · Russia
Direction Aleksandr Petrov
Plot The Old Man and the Sea is a 1999 paint-on-glass-animated short film directed by Aleksandr Petrov, based on the novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. The film follows...
7.5
4K votes
7.5
4K votes
The Killers
1964 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Don Siegel
Cast Lee Marvin · Angie Dickinson · John Cassavetes · Ronald Reagan
Plot Ernest Hemingway's short story THE KILLERS was turned into two memorable films noir at the beginning and the end of the high period of the genre. The original 1946, directed...
7.2
3K votes
7.2
3K votes
The Breaking Point
1950 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast John Garfield · Patricia Neal · Phyllis Thaxter · Juano Hernández
6.9
377 votes
6.9
377 votes
A Farewell to Arms
1932 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Frank Borzage
Cast Helen Hayes · Gary Cooper · Adolphe Menjou · Mary Philips
Plot A tale of the love between ambulance driver Lt. Henry and Nurse Catherine Barkley during World War I. The action takes place in Italy and the two fall in love...
6.6
2K votes
6.6
2K votes
The Old Man and the Sea
1958 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction John Sturges
Cast Spencer Tracy · Felipe Pazos · Harry Bellaver · Don Diamond
Plot An old Cuban fisherman goes out to get fish, something he has not done well at for the last three months. He catches a huge one which is devoured by...
6.6
2K votes
6.6
2K votes
The Spanish Earth
1937 · Documentary · 54 min. · United States
Direction Joris Ivens
Plot A documentary showing the struggle of the Spanish Republican government against a rebellion by ultra-right-wing forces led by Gen. Francisco Franco and backed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
6.5
471 votes
6.5
471 votes
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1943 · Movie · 170 min. · United States
Direction Sam Wood
Cast Gary Cooper · Ingrid Bergman · Akim Tamiroff · Arturo de Córdova
Plot This respectful adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novel of the Spanish Civil War was one of the most sensational and popular films to come out of wartime Hollywood. Gary Cooper and...
6.3
3K votes
6.3
3K votes
The Macomber Affair
1947 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Zoltan Korda
Cast Gregory Peck · Joan Bennett · Robert Preston · Reginald Denny
Plot Robert Wilson leads safaris on the Kenyan savannah. On this occasion, he takes Mr. and Mrs. Macomber out to chase buffalo. The obnoxius ways of Margaret Macomber make the three...
6.2
180 votes
6.2
180 votes
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1952 · Movie · 117 min. · United States
Direction Henry King
Cast Gregory Peck · Ava Gardner · Susan Hayward · Hildegard Knef
Plot As writer Harry Street lays gravely wounded from an African hunting accident he feverishly reflects on what he perceives as his failures at love and writing. Through his delirium he...
6.2
2K votes
6.2
2K votes
Islands in the Stream
1977 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Franklin J. Schaffner
Cast George C. Scott · David Hemmings · Gilbert Roland · Susan Tyrrell
Plot Thomas Hudson (George C. Scott) is an American sculptor whose self-imposed isolation on an island in the Bahamas is ended by two forces: the visit of his sons and the...
6.1
176 votes
6.1
176 votes
The Old Man and the Sea (TV)
1990 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Jud Taylor
Cast Anthony Quinn · Gary Cole · Patricia Clarkson · Alexis Cruz
Plot It takes courage for any actor to fill shoes previously worn by Spencer Tracy, but no one could accuse fellow two-time Oscar® winner Anthony Quinn of cowardice. It was, in...
6.1
444 votes
6.1
444 votes
A Farewell to Arms
1957 · Movie · 152 min. · United States
Direction Charles Vidor
Cast Rock Hudson · Jennifer Jones · Vittorio De Sica · Oskar Homolka
Plot Frederick Henry, an American serving as a volunteer ambulance driver with the Italian forces in the First World War, is wounded and falls in love with his attending nurse, the...
6.0
803 votes
6.0
803 votes
The Gun Runners
1958 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Don Siegel
Cast Audie Murphy · Eddie Albert · Patricia Owens · Everett Sloane
Plot A charter boat captain runs guns during the Cuban revolution.
5.8
56 votes
5.8
56 votes
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
1962 · Movie · 145 min. · United States
Direction Martin Ritt
Cast Richard Beymer · Diane Baker · Corinne Calvet · Fred Clark
5.8
127 votes
5.8
127 votes
Under My Skin
1950 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Jean Negulesco
Cast John Garfield · Micheline Presle · Luther Adler · Orley Lindgren
Plot After expatriate American jockey Danny Arnold double-crosses ruthless gambler Louis Bork, he flees Italy with his adoring son Joe, who isn't aware of his father's lies and corruption. While in...
5.8
23 votes
5.8
23 votes
Force of Arms
1951 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast William Holden · Nancy Olson · Frank Lovejoy · Gene Evans
Plot Winter, 1943. The German army has halted the American advance in the mountains of Italy; back-and-forth combat decimates Joe Peterson's platoon. On leave in Naples, Joe meets WAC lieutenant Eleanor...
5.8
158 votes
5.8
158 votes
Murderers (S)
1958 · Movie · 19 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Andrei Tarkovsky · Aleksandr Gordon · Marika Beiku
Cast Yuli Fait · Aleksandr Gordon · Valentin Vinogradov · Vadim Novikov
Plot Two men besiege a lunch bar looking for a third man they must kill. This is Andrei Tarkovsky's first student film while he was studying at VGIK.
5.7
1K votes
5.7
1K votes
The Sun Also Rises
1957 · Movie · 130 min. · United States
Direction Henry King
Cast Ava Gardner · Tyrone Power · Mel Ferrer · Errol Flynn
Plot After the First World War, Jake Barnes drifts through Europe seeking excitement to compensate for the impotence caused by a war wound. In Paris he meets Lady Brett Ashley, the...
5.4
470 votes
5.4
470 votes