Screenplay: Daniel Fuchs

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


Criss Cross

1949 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Burt Lancaster · Yvonne De Carlo · Dan Duryea · Stephen McNally

Synopsis While driving an armored car in a lonely road, Steve Thompson recalls his life, after divorcing his beloved wife Anna and working in many places in the United States of America, from the moment he returned home in Los Angeles...

7.5

3K votes

7.5

3K votes

The Hard Way

1943 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast Ida Lupino · Joan Leslie · Dennis Morgan · Jack Carson

Synopsis Embittered, ambitious Helen Sherman sees an opportunity to escape her drab small-town life by becoming a 'stage mother' to her musically-talented younger sister.

7.1

23 votes

7.1

23 votes

Storm Warning

1951 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Stuart Heisler

Cast Ginger Rogers · Ronald Reagan · Doris Day · Steve Cochran

Synopsis Marsha Mitchell, a traveling dress model, stops in a southern town to see her sister who has married a Ku Klux Klansman. Marsha sees the KKK commit a murder and helps District Attorney Burt Rainey in bringing the criminals to...

6.7

231 votes

6.7

231 votes

Hollow Triumph

1948 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Steve Sekely · Paul Henreid

Cast Paul Henreid · Joan Bennett · Eduard Franz · Leslie Brooks

Synopsis John Muller (Paul Henreid), medical school dropout and brilliant crook, plans a holdup which goes a little bit wrong, and finds vindictive gambler Rocky Stansyck after him. At the end of his tether, he stumbles onto a lucky chance to...

6.6

544 votes

6.6

544 votes

The Big Shot

1942 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Seiler

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Irene Manning · Richard Travis · Susan Peters

Synopsis Three time loser Duke Berne risks life in prison with one more armored car robbery. His attorney's wife Lorna, Berne's old sweetheart, keeps him from it but he goes to jail anyway. Duke and Lorna get some time together again...

6.6

156 votes

6.6

156 votes

Jeanne Eagels

1957 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

6.5

69 votes

6.5

69 votes

Saddle the Wind

1958 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Robert Parrish · John Sturges

Cast Robert Taylor · Julie London · John Cassavetes · Donald Crisp

Synopsis Steve Sinclair (Robert Taylor) is a world a world-weary former gunslinger, now living as a peaceful farmer. Things go wrong when his wild younger brother Tony (John Cassavetes) arrives on the scene with his new bride Joan Blake (Julie London).

6.4

528 votes

6.4

528 votes

Interlude

1957 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast June Allyson · Rossano Brazzi · Marianne Koch · Françoise Rosay

Synopsis The story of a young woman, Helen Banning (June Allyson), who travels to Munich in search of life experience and romance. While working for America House, she meets a famous symphony conductor, Tonio Fischer (Rossano Brazzi), and begins a relationship...

6.4

204 votes

6.4

204 votes

Love Me or Leave Me

1955 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction Charles Vidor

Cast Doris Day · James Cagney · Cameron Mitchell · Robert Keith

Synopsis Jazz Age singing sensation Ruth Etting had looks, ambition and a haunting, smoketinged voice. It took more than that to make her a star. It took Marty 'The Gimp' Snyder, the limping, evil-tempered Chicago hood who propelled Ruth from dingy...

6.4

401 votes

6.4

401 votes

The Gangster

1947 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Wiles

Cast Barry Sullivan · Belita · Joan Lorring · Akim Tamiroff

Synopsis Chubunka is the self-made head of the rackets in the sleazy boardwalk community of Neptune City, a low-rent version of Coney Island. He has become infatuated with a sultry nightclub chanteuse and lavishes her with gifts and attention, spending money...

6.0

24 votes

6.0

24 votes

Between Two Worlds

1944 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Edward A. Blatt

Cast John Garfield · Paul Henreid · Sydney Greenstreet · Eleanor Parker

Synopsis Several people are killed in a London air raid. They each awake aboard a strange ship which will deliver each of them either to heaven or hell. Their lives and stories are revealed as they individually begin to realize where...

5.8

26 votes

5.8

26 votes

The Underneath

1995 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Steven Soderbergh

Cast Peter Gallagher · Alison Elliott · Elisabeth Shue · Joe Don Baker

Synopsis Michael Chambers returns home to celebrate his mother's marriage. Michael had been ousted from his home town due to his gambling indiscretions and had left his wife to deal with the mess he created. He now must reassimulate back into...

5.5

400 votes

5.5

400 votes

The Human Jungle

1954 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Joseph M. Newman

Cast Gary Merrill · Jan Sterling · Regis Toomey · Lamont Johnson

Synopsis Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled with juvenile delinquency, petty crimes, graft and also a recent unsolved murder of a strip-tease dancer. Recognizing the laxity of the department he...

Not rated

Not rated

Taxi

1953 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Gregory Ratoff

Cast Dan Dailey · Constance Smith · Neva Patterson · Blanche Yurka

Synopsis A New York cab driver helps an Irish immigrant girl with a baby, locate her missing husband.

Not rated

Not rated