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

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

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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Not rated