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

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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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