Screenplay: John Mortimer

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


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

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

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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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