Screenplay: Robert Harris
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Robert Harris. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
An Officer and a Spy
2019 · Movie · 126 min. · France
Direction Roman Polanski
Cast Jean Dujardin · Louis Garrel · Emmanuelle Seigner · Grégory Gadebois
Plot On 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a young promising officer, is degraded for spying for Germany, wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island. Among the...
6.9
6K votes
6.9
6K votes
The Ghost Writer
2010 · Movie · 128 min. · France
Direction Roman Polanski
Cast Ewan McGregor · Pierce Brosnan · Olivia Williams · Kim Cattrall
Plot The film, based on Robert Harris' novel of the same name, centers on a ghostwriter (Ewan McGregor) who is hired to complete the memoirs of a former British prime minister...
6.8
40K votes
6.8
40K votes
Munich: The Edge of War
2021 · Movie · 123 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Christian Schwochow
Cast George MacKay · Jannis Niewöhner · Jeremy Irons · Alex Jennings
Plot A British diplomat travels to Munich in the run-up to World War II, where a former classmate of his from Oxford is also en route, but is working for the...
6.2
3K votes
6.2
3K votes
Werewolf of London
1935 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Stuart Walker
Cast Henry Hull · Valerie Hobson · Warner Oland · Spring Byington
Plot Botanist Dr Wilfred Glendon goes on an expedition into the Himalayas in search of the marifisa lupina lumina, a rare orchid that only blooms by moonlight. He finds the marifisa...
6.1
365 votes
6.1
365 votes
Fatherland (TV)
1994 · Movie · 106 min. · United States
Direction Christopher Menaul
Cast Rutger Hauer · Miranda Richardson · Peter Vaughan · Michael Kitchen
Plot Thriller based on the premise that Hitler won the Second World War. It's 1964 and Germany rules Europe. When a number of high ranking Third Reich officials are found dead,...
5.9
323 votes
5.9
323 votes
Enigma
2001 · Movie · 114 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Michael Apted
Cast Dougray Scott · Kate Winslet · Saffron Burrows · Jeremy Northam
Plot In this twisty thriller about Britain's secret code breakers during World War II, Tom Jericho (Dougray Scott, best known as the villain of Mission Impossible 2) devised the means to...
5.9
4K votes
5.9
4K votes
The Fear Index (TV Miniseries)
2022 · Series · 45 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David Caffrey
Cast Josh Hartnett · Jerry Killick · Hans Peterson · Arsher Ali
Plot 4 Episodes. A scientist-turned-wall street tycoon becomes the target of a plot to destroy the world's financial markets.
5.3
88 votes
5.3
88 votes
Archangel (TV)
2005 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Jon Jones
Cast Daniel Craig · Yekaterina Rednikova · Gabriel Macht · Lev Prygunov
Plot Set in contemporary Moscow and the frozen northern town of Archangel, the drama revisits the stark landscape of Communist Russia and takes place over four days in the life of...
5.0
377 votes
5.0
377 votes
Selling Hitler (TV Miniseries)
1991 · Movie · 300 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alastair Reid
Cast Jonathan Pryce · Alexei Sayle · Alison Doody · Tom Baker
Plot In 1981, Gerd Heidemann, a bloodhound reporter for the German magazine Stern, believes he has stumbled onto the greatest literary find of the century: the personal diaries of Adolf Hitler....
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Manhattan Moon
1935 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Stuart Walker
Cast Ricardo Cortez · Dorothy Page · Henry Mollison · Hugh O'Connell
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Ladies Must Love
1933 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Ewald André Dupont
Cast June Knight · Neil Hamilton · Sally O'Neil · Dorothy Burgess
Plot Three Broadway gold-diggers sign a contract to share their ill-gotten gains, and convince their more morally upstanding roommate, Jeannie, into signing it as well. When she falls for a Park...
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Conclave
2024 · Movie · min. · United Kingdom
Direction Edward Berger
Cast Ralph Fiennes · John Lithgow · Stanley Tucci · Isabella Rossellini
Plot It follows Cardinal Lomeli as he oversees the group of Cardinals responsible for selecting a new Church leader while trying to uncover a secret from the late Pontiff.
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