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

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

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