Screenplay: Harold Pinter
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Harold Pinter. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
The Servant
1963 · Movie · 115 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Joseph Losey
Cast Dirk Bogarde · Sarah Miles · Wendy Craig · James Fox
Plot The aristocratic Tony moves to London and hires the servant Hugo Barrett for all services at home. Barrett seems to be a loyal and competent employee, but Tony's girlfriend Susan...
7.6
5K votes
7.6
5K votes
The Go-Between
1971 · Movie · 116 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Joseph Losey
Cast Julie Christie · Alan Bates · Margaret Leighton · Michael Redgrave
Plot Summer 1900: Queen Victoria's last and the summer Leo turns 13. He's the guest of Marcus, a wealthy classmate, at a grand home in rural Norfolk. Leo is befriended by...
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
The Guest
1963 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Clive Donner
Cast Alan Bates · Donald Pleasence · Robert Shaw
Plot Aston (Robert Shaw), a quiet, reserved man, lives alone in a top-floor cluttered room of a small abandoned house in a poor London district. He befriends and takes in Mac...
6.7
42 votes
6.7
42 votes
The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981 · Movie · 123 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Karel Reisz
Cast Meryl Streep · Jeremy Irons · Hilton McRae · Emily Morgan
Plot A film is being made of a story, set in 19th century England, about Charles, a biologist who's engaged to be married, but who falls in love with outcast Sarah,...
6.6
3K votes
6.6
3K votes
Accident
1967 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Joseph Losey
Cast Dirk Bogarde · Stanley Baker · Jacqueline Sassard · Michael York
Plot Stephen is a married Oxford professor experiencing the pangs of a mid-life crisis as he begins to bristle at the stifling emotional repression of the society in which he lives....
6.6
857 votes
6.6
857 votes
The Pumpkin Eater
1964 · Movie · 118 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Jack Clayton
Cast Anne Bancroft · Peter Finch · James Mason · Cedric Hardwicke
Plot The study of a marriage. Jo has five children and husband number two when she meets writer Jake Armitage. She leaves this husband to marry Jake, and his career takes...
6.6
245 votes
6.6
245 votes
Reunion
1989 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Jerry Schatzberg
Cast Jason Robards · Christien Anholt · Samuel West · Françoise Fabian
Plot American lawyer Henry Strauss (Robards) is preparing to return to Germany for the first time since he left in 1933 following Adolf Hitler's rise to power. He is seeking to...
6.4
71 votes
6.4
71 votes
The Last Tycoon
1976 · Movie · 125 min. · United States
Direction Elia Kazan
Cast Robert De Niro · Robert Mitchum · Theresa Russell · Ingrid Boulting
Plot F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
6.3
2K votes
6.3
2K votes
Betrayal
1983 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David Hugh Jones
Cast Jeremy Irons · Ben Kingsley · Patricia Hodge · Caspar Norman
Plot Pinter's semi-autobiographical play examining the surprise attraction, shy first steps, gradual flowering, and treasonous deception of a woman's extramarital affair with her husband's best friend; the entire story is told...
6.3
102 votes
6.3
102 votes
The Comfort of Strangers
1990 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Paul Schrader
Cast Christopher Walken · Rupert Everett · Natasha Richardson · Helen Mirren
Plot An English couple holiday in Venice to sort out their relationship. There is some friction and distance between them, and we also sense they are being watched. One evening, they...
6.3
1K votes
6.3
1K votes
The Birthday Party
1968 · Movie · 123 min. · United Kingdom
Direction William Friedkin
Cast Robert Shaw · Patrick Magee · Dandy Nichols · Sydney Tafler
Plot Stanley is a british lodger who is visited by two unexpected guests, menacing and mysterious strangers, Goldberg and McCann. They offer to host Stanley's birthday party after Stanley's landlady tells...
6.3
38 votes
6.3
38 votes
The Homecoming
1973 · Movie · 111 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Hall
Cast Paul Rogers · Ian Holm · Cyril Cusack · Vivien Merchant
Plot Max is a surly pensioner who alternately venerates and vilifies his dead wife. Sam, his brother, is a supercilious chauffeur. Lenny is a smiling, snake-like pimp. Joey is a thick-witted,...
5.9
39 votes
5.9
39 votes
The Quiller Memorandum
1966 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Michael Anderson
Cast George Segal · Alec Guinness · Max von Sydow · Senta Berger
Plot Two British agents are murdered by a mysterious Neonazi organization in West Berlin. The British Secret Service sends agent Quiller to investigate. Soon Quiller is confronted with Neonazi chief "Oktober"...
5.6
394 votes
5.6
394 votes
The Handmaid's Tale
1990 · Movie · 109 min. · Germany
Direction Volker Schlöndorff
Cast Natasha Richardson · Faye Dunaway · Aidan Quinn · Elizabeth McGovern
Plot In a dystopicly polluted rightwing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.
5.6
641 votes
5.6
641 votes
The Trial
1993 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David Hugh Jones
Cast Kyle MacLachlan · Anthony Hopkins · Jason Robards · Juliet Stevenson
Plot Joseph K. awakes one morning, to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested. Joseph is not told what he is charged with, and despite...
5.5
93 votes
5.5
93 votes
Sleuth
2007 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Kenneth Branagh
Cast Michael Caine · Jude Law · Harold Pinter · Kenneth Branagh
Plot A millionaire detective novelist matches wits with the unemployed actor who ran off with his wife in a deadly serious, seriously twisted game with deadly consequences.
5.2
6K votes
5.2
6K votes
The Heat of the Day (TV)
1989 · Movie · 106 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Christopher Morahan
Cast Michael Gambon · Patricia Hodge · Michael York · Ralph Michael
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Do You Remember? (TV Series)
1978 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Kaye Cooper · John Frankau · Simon Langton · Marc Miller
Cast Brenda Bruce · Ian Holm · Jean Kent · Mel Martin
Plot TV Series (1978). 7 episodes.
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Teatro de siempre: El portero (TV)
1968 · Movie · 77 min. · Spain
Direction Claudio Guerín
Cast Manuel Dicenta · Estanis González · Nicolás Dueñas
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Tea Party (TV)
1965 · Movie · 75 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Charles Jarrott
Cast Leo McKern · Vivien Merchant · Jennifer Wright · John Le Mesurier
Plot A self-made millionaire of humble origins acquires a new secretary just before he is due to marry a woman of aristocratic lineage. He also starts to suffer mysterious problems with...
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