Screenplay: Jo Eisinger
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Jo Eisinger. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Night and the City
1950 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Jules Dassin
Cast Richard Widmark · Gene Tierney · Googie Withers · Hugh Marlowe
Plot Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) is a London hustler with ambitious plans that never work out. One day, when he encounters the most famous Greco-Roman wrestler in the world, Gregorius, at...
7.7
3K votes
7.7
3K votes
Danger Man (TV Series)
1960 · Series · 26 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Charles Frend · Peter Graham Scott · Michael Truman · Terry Bishop
Cast Patrick McGoohan · Richard Wattis · Lionel Murton · Michael Ripper
Plot John Drake is a special operative for NATO, specializing in security assignments against any subversive element that threatened world peace.
6.7
39 votes
6.7
39 votes
The Sleeping City
1950 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction George Sherman
Cast Richard Conte · Coleen Gray · Richard Taber · John Alexander
Plot An intern is shot mysteriously on an East River pier adjoining Bellevue Hospital. The chief investigating detective views this as a difficult case, so with the cooperation of the Commissioner...
6.4
43 votes
6.4
43 votes
Crime of Passion
1957 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Gerd Oswald
Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Sterling Hayden · Raymond Burr · Fay Wray
Plot Barbara Stanwyck plays a not-your-average '50s woman -- an extraordinary witty advice columnist -- who sacrifices her career to help advance her new husband's (Sterling Hayden), at any cost! Kathy...
6.2
267 votes
6.2
267 votes
The House of the Seven Hawks
1959 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Robert Taylor · Nicole Maurey · Linda Christian · Donald Wolfit
Plot Reminiscent of the film noir detective films like The Maltese Falcon, The House of Seven Hawks is really the same type of bird. Aptly directed by Richard Thorpe, the story...
6.0
124 votes
6.0
124 votes
They came to Rob Las Vegas
1968 · Movie · 124 min. · Spain
Direction Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi
Cast Gary Lockwood · Elke Sommer · Lee J. Cobb · Jean Servais
Plot A gang of thugs who rob an armored car while it is enroute between Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Nobody has ever successfully robbed an armored car from this company...
6.0
299 votes
6.0
299 votes
The Dirty Game
1965 · Movie · 133 min. · United States
Direction Terence Young · Werner Klingler · Carlo Lizzani · Christian-Jaque
Cast Henry Fonda · Robert Ryan · Vittorio Gassman · Annie Girardot
Plot The US intelligence chief in Europe relates the stories of three different operations that he was involved in with colleagues in Paris and Djibouti, Rome, and Berlin.
6.0
29 votes
6.0
29 votes
The Rover
1967 · Movie · 107 min. · Italy
Direction Terence Young
Cast Anthony Quinn · Rosanna Schiaffino · Rita Hayworth · Richard Johnson
5.7
183 votes
5.7
183 votes
The Jigsaw Man
1984 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terence Young
Cast Michael Caine · Laurence Olivier · Susan George · Robert Powell
Plot Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to retrieve some vital...
4.8
189 votes
4.8
189 votes
Poppies Are Also Flowers
1966 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Terence Young
Cast Yul Brynner · Omar Sharif · Angie Dickinson · Stephen Boyd
4.8
185 votes
4.8
185 votes
Cold Sweat
1970 · Movie · 94 min. · France
Direction Terence Young
Cast Charles Bronson · Liv Ullmann · James Mason · Jill Ireland
Plot Joe Martin, a quiet American, lives a quiet life in the South of France renting boats to tourists. He is happily married to Fabienne and has a twelve-year-old daughter named...
4.8
210 votes
4.8
210 votes
Bedevilled
1955 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Anne Baxter · Steve Forrest · Simone Renant · Maurice Teynac
Plot Nightclub singer fleeing the scene of a murder is protected by a young man who is studying for the priest hood.
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Die Herrin der Welt - Teil II
1960 · Movie · 89 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction William Dieterle
Cast Martha Hyer · Carlos Thompson · Micheline Presle · Carl Lange
Plot Second part of William Dieterle’s Mistress of the World.
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Mistress of the World
1960 · Movie · 98 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction William Dieterle
Cast Martha Hyer · Micheline Presle · Carlos Thompson · Lino Ventura
Plot Professor Johansson has made a huge scientific breakthrough; a device that will create a huge magnetic pulse that knocks out all electricity over a continent-wide area. The military applications are...
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The Walls Came Tumbling Down
1946 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Lothar Mendes
Cast Lee Bowman · Marguerite Chapman · Edgar Buchanan · George Macready
Plot Gilbert Archer, a Broadway gossip-columnist for a newspaper, learns that his best friend,a priest, has been murdered and one of the suspects is a pretty girl, Patricia Foster. In one...
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The Spider
1945 · Movie · 63 min. · United States
Direction Robert D. Webb
Cast Richard Conte · Faye Marlowe · Kurt Kreuger · John Harvey
Plot An ex-cop who is now a private detective is hired by a woman to be the go-between in retrieving an important envelope from her partner. The detective has the partner...
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As the Sea Rages
1959 · Movie · 104 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Horst Hächler
Cast Maria Schell · Cliff Robertson · Cameron Mitchell · Peter Carsten
Plot This curious film offers some depth amidst its seemingly simple exterior. While several characters are examined, it's the 'stranger on the shore' that will eventually change the lives of all...
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The Big Boodle
1957 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Richard Wilson
Cast Errol Flynn · Rossana Rory · Francisco Canero · Louis Oquendo
Plot Tough guy fights Cuban gangsters and counterfeiters.
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Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (TV Series)
1983 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Hunt · Robert Iscove
Cast Powers Boothe · Kathryn Leigh Scott · Billy Kearns · Ken Pogue
Plot The series chronicles the cases of private detective Philip Marlowe. Set in Los Angeles during the 1930s, storylines were adapted from Chandler's short stories. Philip Marlowe, Private Eye aired in...
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The System
1953 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Lewis Seiler
Cast Frank Lovejoy · Joan Weldon · Robert Arthur · Paul Picerni
Plot Gambler John Merrick (Frank Lovejoy) is the head of a bookie syndicate and the newspaper is crusading against him and the rackets, primarily because Merrick is in love with Felice...
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