Screenplay: Sonya Levien

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


Lucky Star

1929 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Janet Gaynor · Charles Farrell · Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams · Paul Fix

Plot Mary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared. Tim enlists in the army and goes to the battlefields of Europe, where he...

7.7

353 votes

7.7

353 votes

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1939 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Charles Laughton · Maureen O'Hara · Cedric Hardwicke · Thomas Mitchell

Plot Of the many film versions of Victor Hugo's novel, this classic from Hollywood's golden year of 1939 remains the best, rivaled only by the 1923 silent version starring Lon Chaney....

7.4

1K votes

7.4

1K votes

Quo Vadis

1951 · Movie · 171 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Robert Taylor · Deborah Kerr · Peter Ustinov · Leo Genn

Plot Returning to Rome after 3 years in the field, General Marcus Vinicius meets Lygia and falls in love with her. She is a Christian and doesn't want to have anything...

7.3

11K votes

7.3

11K votes

State Fair

1933 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Janet Gaynor · Will Rogers · Lew Ayres · Sally Eilers

Plot Stong's 1932 novel is the basis for the popular film with Pat Boone and Ann-Margret and the recent Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical. The plot follows the adventures of the...

6.9

66 votes

6.9

66 votes

Ramona

1936 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

6.9

53 votes

6.9

53 votes

Drums Along the Mohawk

1939 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Claudette Colbert · Henry Fonda · Edna May Oliver · John Carradine

Plot In Revolutionary America, Gil Martin takes his new wife Lana back to his farm in upstate New York. The area is remote and a distance from the fort but they...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

Interrupted Melody

1955 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Curtis Bernhardt

Cast Glenn Ford · Eleanor Parker · Roger Moore · Cecil Kellaway

Plot Marjorie Lawrence (Eleanor Parker) crowds her life with excitement and achievement from the day she leaves her Australian home and goes to Paris to study voice. After a triumphal debut...

6.6

175 votes

6.6

175 votes

In Old Chicago

1938 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Tyrone Power · Alice Faye · Don Ameche · Alice Brady

Plot Story of the great fire of 1871. Fictional story of two sons of Mrs. O'Leary (the owner of the cow which started the fire), one a rogue (Power) the other...

6.6

340 votes

6.6

340 votes

The Valley of Decision

1945 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast Greer Garson · Gregory Peck · Donald Crisp · Lionel Barrymore

Plot Mary Rafferty (Greer Garson) comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the...

6.6

208 votes

6.6

208 votes

Jeanne Eagels

1957 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

6.5

69 votes

6.5

69 votes

Rhapsody in Blue

1945 · Movie · 135 min. · United States

Direction Irving Rapper

Cast Robert Alda · Joan Leslie · Alexis Smith · Charles Coburn

Plot Composer George Gershwin is driven by his need to succeed. Unfortunately his drive destroys his romantic relationships with singer Julie Adams, who is desperately in love with him, and aloof...

6.3

70 votes

6.3

70 votes

Oklahoma!

1955 · Movie · 140 min. · United States

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Gordon MacRae · Shirley Jones · Charlotte Greenwood · Rod Steiger

Plot Set in the times of the early 1900s', the musical is partially about the Indian Territory becoming the state of Oklahoma. Curly is a stubborn cowboy who had trouble admitting...

6.3

466 votes

6.3

466 votes

State Fair

1945 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Jeanne Crain · Dana Andrews · Dick Haymes · Vivian Blaine

Plot Farm family Frake, with discontented daughter Margy, head for the Iowa State Fair. On the first day, both Margy and brother Wayne meet attractive new flames; so does father's prize...

6.3

88 votes

6.3

88 votes

The Cowboy and the Lady

1938 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction H.C. Potter

Cast Gary Cooper · Merle Oberon · Patsy Kelly · Walter Brennan

Plot Poor Mary Smith can't go night-clubbing or have any other fun because any hint of scandal could damage her father's political career. She decides to rebel and convinces her two...

6.2

232 votes

6.2

232 votes

Bhowani Junction

1956 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Ava Gardner · Stewart Granger · Bill Travers · Abraham Sofaer

Plot This period film is a drama of chaos and revolt in which a young Anglo-Indian woman is forced to choose between her two races and twin allegiances when they are...

6.2

672 votes

6.2

672 votes

Ziegfeld Girl

1941 · Movie · 132 min. · United States

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast James Stewart · Judy Garland · Hedy Lamarr · Lana Turner

Plot Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer...

6.2

133 votes

6.2

133 votes

Berkeley Square

1933 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Frank Lloyd

Cast Leslie Howard · Heather Angel · Valerie Taylor · Irene Browne

Plot A young American man is transported back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.

6.2

23 votes

6.2

23 votes

Cavalcade

1933 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Frank Lloyd

Cast Clive Brook · Diana Wynyard · Herbert Mundin · Frank Lawton

Plot A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are the...

6.1

508 votes

6.1

508 votes

The Great Caruso

1951 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Mario Lanza · Ann Blyth · Dorothy Kirsten · Jarmila Novotna

Plot Loosely traces the life of tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921). He loves Musetta, in his home town of Naples, and then Dorothy, the daughter of one of the Metropolitan Opera's patrons....

5.8

216 votes

5.8

216 votes

Four Men and a Prayer

1938 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Loretta Young · Richard Greene · George Sanders · David Niven

Plot Colonel Loring Leigh, British Indian Army, appears to have issued an order that cost 90 lives. Cashiered, he returns home, tells his sons of a conspiracy by an arms syndicate...

5.6

267 votes

5.6

267 votes