Screenplay: Daniel Fuchs
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Daniel Fuchs. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 14
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
Direction George Sidney
Cast Kim Novak · Jeff Chandler · Agnes Moorehead · Charles Drake
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...
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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.
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