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...

Max

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...

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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