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

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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.

Not rated

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated