Screenplay: Arthur Miller

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Arthur Miller. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Difficult Years

1948 · Movie · 113 min. · Italy

Direction Luigi Zampa

Cast Umberto Spadaro · Ave Ninchi · Delia Scala · Massimo Girotti

Synopsis Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk ineffectually in secret against Mussolini, even as his own son Giovanni is sent into...

7.6

123 votes

7.6

123 votes

An Enemy of the People

1978 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction George Schaefer

Cast Steve McQueen · Bibi Andersson · Charles Durning · Richard Dysart

Synopsis A scientist stands against an entire town when he discovers their medicinal spa is polluted.

7.4

345 votes

7.4

345 votes

The Misfits

1961 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Clark Gable · Marilyn Monroe · Montgomery Clift · Eli Wallach

Synopsis Roslyn Tabor (Marilyn Monroe) befriends three cowboys while in Reno to obtain a divorce, and is extremely upset when she realizes they plan to trap wild horses to sell them for dog meat.

7.4

6K votes

7.4

6K votes

The Crucible

1957 · Movie · 145 min. · France

Direction Raymond Rouleau

Cast Simone Signoret · Yves Montand · Mylène Demongeot · Alfred Adam

Synopsis Salem, 1692. Industrious farmer, John Proctor, has twice made love to 17-year-old Abigail, a youth he and his wife have taken in. (His wife Elisabeth has rebuffed him for seven months; she is puritanical and cold.) When she finds John...

6.8

25 votes

6.8

25 votes

All My Sons

1948 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Irving Reis

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Burt Lancaster · Mady Christians · Louisa Horton

Synopsis All My Sons tells the story of Joe Keller, a successful, middle-aged, self-made man who has done a terrible and tragic thing: during World War II, rushing to meet an order from the Army, he knowingly sold them defective airplane...

6.8

231 votes

6.8

231 votes

A View from the Bridge

1962 · Movie · 110 min. · France

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Raf Vallone · Jean Sorel · Maureen Stapleton · Carol Lawrence

Synopsis Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman is unhappily married to Beatrice and unconsciously in love with Catherine, the niece that they have raised from childhood. Into his house come two brothers, illegal immigrants, Marco and Rodolpho. Catherine falls in love with...

6.8

61 votes

6.8

61 votes

Death of a Salesman

1951 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Laslo Benedek

Cast Fredric March · Mildred Dunnock · Kevin McCarthy · Cameron Mitchell

Synopsis Willy Loman has led a life consisting of sixty years of failure. Loman's wife supports him, but he soon begins to lose his grip on reality and slips between the past and the present, frantically trying to find where he...

6.6

120 votes

6.6

120 votes

Playing for Time (TV)

1980 · Movie · 150 min. · United States

Direction Daniel Mann · Joseph Sargent

Cast Vanessa Redgrave · Jane Alexander · Maud Adams · Christine Baranski

Synopsis Female prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp (Auschwitz) are spared from death in return for performing music for their captors.

6.6

216 votes

6.6

216 votes

The Crucible

1996 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Nicholas Hytner

Cast Daniel Day-Lewis · Winona Ryder · Paul Scofield · Joan Allen

Synopsis A small group of teen girls in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts caught in an innocent conjuring of love potions to catch young men are forced to tell lies that Satan had invaded them and forced them to participate in the rites...

6.2

5K votes

6.2

5K votes

Focus

2001 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Neal Slavin

Cast William H. Macy · Laura Dern · David Paymer · Meat Loaf

Synopsis Set in New York during the height of World War II, FOCUS recounts the unraveling of an American community when the identity of a man (William H. Macy) and his wife (Laura Dern) are mistaken. Slowly ostracized at home and...

5.9

85 votes

5.9

85 votes

Eden

2001 · Movie · 91 min. · Israel

5.2

96 votes

5.2

96 votes

Everybody Wins

1990 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Karel Reisz

Cast Nick Nolte · Debra Winger · Will Patton · Judith Ivey

Synopsis Debra Winger plays Angela Crispini, a dim woman who believes that corrupt court officials convicted an innocent boy of murder. The story comes from Miller's one act play, SOME KIND OF LOVE STORY, which generated speculation about whether the mercurial,...

5.1

242 votes

5.1

242 votes

Direction Ivo van Hove

Cast Emun Elliott · Phoebe Fox · Michael Gould · Richard Hansell

Synopsis The great Arthur Miller confronts the American dream in this dark and passionate tale.

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The Crucible (TV)

2014 · Movie · 190 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Yaël Farber

Cast Richard Armitage · Harry Attwell · Samantha Colley · Marama Corlett

Synopsis Lust and betrayal against the backdrop of the Salem witch trials. A fllming of the Arthur Miller's play directed by Yaël Farber at the Old Vic Theater.

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The American Clock (TV)

1993 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Bob Clark

Cast Darren McGavin · David Strathairn · Felton Perry · Mary McDonnell

Synopsis This film is based on Arthur Miller's recollection of the events of the 1930s Depression. John Rubinstein, Mary McDonnell, and Loren Dean are all members of an upper class family who find the world completely changed when they lose everything...

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National Theatre Live: All My Sons

2019 · Movie · 165 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jeremy Herrin

Cast Jenna Coleman · Bill Pullman · Sally Field · Colin Morgan

Synopsis America, 1947, Joe and Kate Keller are a success story. But their contented lives are about to shatter. A figure from the past forces long buried truths to the surface lying bare the price of their American dream.

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Estudio 1: La muerte de un viajante (TV)

1972 · Movie · 139 min. · Spain

Direction Pedro Amalio López

Cast José María Rodero · Berta Riaza · Juan Diego · José María Caffarel

Synopsis Adaptation of the work of Arthur Miller

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Not rated

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