Screenplay: John Mortimer
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by John Mortimer. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 21
Brideshead Revisited (TV Miniseries)
1981 · Series · 659 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Charles Sturridge · Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Cast Jeremy Irons · Anthony Andrews · Diana Quick · Laurence Olivier
Plot TV Series (October 1981 - December 1981). Jeremy Irons stars as the impressionable Oxford youth bedazzled by Sebastian Flyte (Anthony Andrews), youngest of the wealthy ill-fated Marchmain family. Irons quickly...
7.9
2K votes
7.9
2K votes
Bunny Lake is Missing
1965 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Otto Preminger
Cast Carol Lynley · Keir Dullea · Laurence Olivier · Noël Coward
Plot Ann Lake has recently settled in England with her daughter, Bunny. When she goes to retrieve her daughter after the girl's first day at school, no one has any record...
7.0
2K votes
7.0
2K votes
John and Mary
1969 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Peter Yates
Cast Dustin Hoffman · Mia Farrow · Michael Tolan · Sunny Griffin
Plot Dustin Hoffman is John, and Mia Farrow is Mary in this drama about a couple who meet in a singles bar.
6.3
203 votes
6.3
203 votes
Tea with Mussolini
1999 · Movie · 116 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Franco Zeffirelli
Cast Cher · Judi Dench · Joan Plowright · Maggie Smith
Plot Semi-autobiographical tale from the early life of director Franco Zeffirelli looks at the illegitimate son of an Italian businessman. The boy's mother has died, and he is raised by an...
6.1
1K votes
6.1
1K votes
The Ballad of the Running Man
1963 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Carol Reed
Cast Laurence Harvey · Lee Remick · Alan Bates · Felix Aylmer
Plot Hard up and with a grudge against insurance companies, Rex Black feigns his death and meets up with his wife and the money in Malaga when things seemed to have...
5.8
176 votes
5.8
176 votes
The Dock Brief
1962 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom
Direction James Hill
Cast Peter Sellers · Richard Attenborough · Beryl Reid · David Lodge
5.6
85 votes
5.6
85 votes
Guns of Darkness
1962 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Asquith
Cast Leslie Caron · David Niven · David Opatoshu · James Robertson Justice
Plot Caught in a South American country during a coup, a British couple try and help the former President escape to the border.
5.2
30 votes
5.2
30 votes
Don Quixote (TV)
2000 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction Peter Yates
Cast John Lithgow · Bob Hoskins · Isabella Rossellini · Vanessa Williams
Plot John Lithgow stars as Don Quixote in the timeless story of an idealistic man who, along with an acquisitive squire, embarks on an adventurous journey in pursuit of his dreams....
4.9
261 votes
4.9
261 votes
Maschenka
1987 · Movie · 103 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction John Goldschmidt
Cast Irina Brook · Cary Elwes · Sunnyi Melles · Jonathan Coy
Plot The story, said to be semi-autobiographical, is of Lev Glebovich Ganin (Elwes), a Russian émigré who has been displaced by the Russian Revolution. Now living in a boarding house in...
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Edwin (TV)
1984 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Rodney Bennett
Cast Alec Guinness · Renée Asherson · Paul Rogers
Plot Touching comedy about a high court judge, now retired to his English countryside home, who resolves to end years of suspicion about his wife's fidelity and the true paternity of...
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Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series)
1978 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Donald McWhinnie · Roger Bamford · Julian Amyes · Robert Tronson
Cast Leo McKern · Jonathan Coy · Julian Curry · Marion Mathie
Plot (1978-1992). 7 seasons. Horace Rumpole is an "Old Bailey Hack," one of the underpaid barristers who ply the courtrooms of the Old Bailey, London's criminal court. Rumpole refused to handle...
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A Voyage Round My Father (TV)
1984 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alvin Rakoff
Cast Laurence Olivier · Alan Bates · Jane Asher · Elizabeth Sellars
Plot Screen legend Laurence Olivier stars as the eccentric patriarch, a blind barrister so stubborn and cantankerous that he refuses to acknowledge his sightlessness. Alan Bates (Gosford Park) portrays his devoted...
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Shades of Greene (TV Series)
1975 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Hammond · Alan Cooke · Alastair Reid · Philip Saville
Cast Denholm Elliott · Shane Briant · Neville Phillips · Ian Hendry
Plot TV Series (1975). 18 episiodes
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In Love and War (TV)
2001 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction John Kent Harrison
Cast Callum Blue · Barbora Bobulova · Peter Bowles · Nick Reding
Plot After being released from an Italian prison, British officer Eric Newby (Blue) must find his way out of Italy before the Germans come. However, he is injured on the way...
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Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life (TV)
1961 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Silvio Narizzano
Cast Ingrid Bergman · Rip Torn · Helena de Crespo · Jerry Orbach
Plot Helen Lester is in love with a man she has known just 24 hours, a playboy who spent time in jail for passing bad checks. Though the man has promised...
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Paradise Postponed (TV Miniseries)
1986 · Movie · 569 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alvin Rakoff
Cast Paul Shelley · David Threlfall · Michael Hordern · Annette Crosbie
Plot The plot focused on inquires into why the leftist Reverend Simeon Simcox left the Simcox brewery millions to Leslie Titmuss, a city developer and Conservative cabinet minister. Simeon's sons Fred,...
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Lunch Hour
1963 · Movie · 64 min. · United Kingdom
Direction James Hill
Cast Shirley Anne Field · Robert Stephens · Kay Walsh · Hazel Hughes
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Will Shakespeare (TV Miniseries)
1978 · Movie · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Mark Cullingham · Robert Knights · Peter Wood
Cast Tim Curry · Paul Freeman · John Normington · Ron Cook
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The Ebony Tower (TV)
1984 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Knights
Cast Laurence Olivier · Roger Rees · Greta Scacchi · Toyah Willcox
Plot A young artist goes to interview an older painter who lives in the south of France with two young women. He gets caught up in the painter's Bohemian lifestyle and...
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Summer's Lease (TV Miniseries)
1989 · Movie · 55 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Martyn Friend
Cast Susan Fleetwood · Rosemary Leach · Gabrielle Anwar · Feodor Chaliapin Jr.
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