Screenplay: Arthur Laurents
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Arthur Laurents. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Rope
1948 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Alfred Hitchcock
Cast James Stewart · John Dall · Farley Granger · Cedric Hardwicke
Plot Brandon and Philip are two young men who share a New York apartment. They consider themselves intellectually superior to their friend David Kentley and as a consequence decide to murder...
8.1
35K votes
8.1
35K votes
West Side Story
1961 · Movie · 151 min. · United States
Direction Robert Wise · Jerome Robbins
Cast Natalie Wood · Richard Beymer · George Chakiris · Russ Tamblyn
Plot This romantic musical update of 'Romeo and Juliet' won ten Oscars. The tale of a turf war between rival teenage gangs in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen and the two lovers who...
7.3
44K votes
7.3
44K votes
Caught
1949 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Max Ophüls
Cast James Mason · Barbara Bel Geddes · Robert Ryan · Natalie Schafer
Plot Young model Leonora Eames (Bel Geddes) marries multimillionaire Smith Ohlrig (Ryan). Ohlrig though is deranged and did not marry for love. Eames insists several times that she married for love,...
7.1
1K votes
7.1
1K votes
West Side Story
2021 · Movie · 156 min. · United States
Direction Steven Spielberg
Cast Rachel Zegler · Ansel Elgort · David Álvarez · Ariana DeBose
Plot Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of the Broadway musical “West Side Story.” The original was inspired by William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” and centers on the rivalry between the Jets and the...
6.9
9K votes
6.9
9K votes
Bonjour tristesse
1958 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Otto Preminger
Cast Jean Seberg · David Niven · Deborah Kerr · Geoffrey Horne
Plot Cecile, decadent young girl who lives with her rich playboy father Raymond. When Anne, Raymond's old love interest, comes to Raymond's villa, Cecile is afraid for her way of life.
6.8
2K votes
6.8
2K votes
Summertime
1955 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David Lean
Cast Katharine Hepburn · Rossano Brazzi · Darren McGavin · Jane Rose
Plot Jane Hudson, a jaunty as well as attractive middle-aged secretary from Akron, Ohio, has finally made it to Venice, Italy, for her long-awaited dream vacation. Never-married Jane is a self-described...
6.8
1K votes
6.8
1K votes
The Way We Were
1973 · Movie · 118 min. · United States
Direction Sydney Pollack
Cast Robert Redford · Barbra Streisand · Bradford Dillman · Viveca Lindfors
Plot This classic film starts out with Katie and Hubbell meeting up after 20 years. There is a flashback showing you that they went to the same college and that they...
6.8
6K votes
6.8
6K votes
Anastasia
1956 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Anatole Litvak
Cast Ingrid Bergman · Yul Brynner · Helen Hayes · Akim Tamiroff
Plot Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russian throne. While...
6.7
2K votes
6.7
2K votes
The Turning Point
1977 · Movie · 119 min. · United States
Direction Herbert Ross
Cast Anne Bancroft · Shirley MacLaine · Mikhail Baryshnikov · Tom Skerritt
Plot The story of two women whose lives are dedicated to ballet. Deedee left her promising dance career to become a wife and mother and now runs a ballet school in...
6.5
632 votes
6.5
632 votes
Home of the Brave
1949 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Mark Robson
Cast Jeff Corey · James Edwards · Lloyd Bridges · Douglas Dick
Plot A sensitive, educated black man's World War II-time problems. This is essentially the duplicate of his peace-time problems which are pointed up in a flashback of his life, and primarily...
—
Not rated
—
Not rated
Anna Lucasta
1949 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Irving Rapper
Cast Paulette Goddard · William Bishop · Oskar Homolka · John Ireland
Plot A prostitute is thrown out of her house by her alcoholic father, and her scheming brother-in-law tries to devise a plan to marry her off and make some money in...
—
Not rated
—
Not rated
Gipsy (TV)
1993 · Movie · 136 min. · United States
Direction Emile Ardolino
Cast Bette Midler · Peter Riegert · Cynthia Gibb · Ed Asner
Plot Based on the autobiography of Gypsy Rose Lee, this made-for-TV movie-previously a Broadway smash and a 1962 film-depicts the life and times of a stripper and her domineering mother.
—
Not rated
—
Not rated