Screenplay: Kent Jones

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


The Daily Show (TV Series)

1996 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Madeleine Smithberg · Lizz Winstead · Chuck O'Neil · Scott Preston

Cast Jon Stewart · Stephen Colbert · Craig Kilborn · Lewis Black

Plot Providing comedy/news in the tradition of TV Nation and SNL's Weekend Update, Comedy Central's Daily Show reports on the foibles and of the real world with a satirical edge. In...

7.8

135 votes

7.8

135 votes

My Voyage to Italy

1999 · Documentary · 243 min. · Italy

Direction Martin Scorsese

Cast Martin Scorsese

Plot One of the most acclaimed directors of our time, Academy Award(R) nominee Martin Scorsese, directs and narrates this remarkable in-depth look at the careers of great Italian filmmakers and their...

7.6

748 votes

7.6

748 votes

A Letter to Elia

2010 · Documentary · 60 min. · United States

Direction Martin Scorsese · Kent Jones

Cast Elia Kazan

Plot For Martin Scorsese, growing up in Little Italy, seeing On the Waterfront and East of Eden as a young man was a life-changing experience. Scorsese appears on and off camera...

7.3

476 votes

7.3

476 votes

Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (TV)

2007 · Documentary · 77 min. · United States

Direction Kent Jones

Cast Martin Scorsese · Elias Koteas · Roger Corman · Glen Gabbard

Plot Martin Scorsese narrates this tribute to Val Lewton, the producer of a series of memorable low-budget horror films for RKO Studios. Raised by his mother and his aunt, his films...

7.0

81 votes

7.0

81 votes

Hitchcock/Truffaut

2015 · Documentary · 80 min. · United States

Direction Kent Jones

Cast David Fincher · Martin Scorsese · Wes Anderson · Richard Linklater

Plot Filmmakers discuss how Francois Truffaut's 1966 book "Cinema According to Hitchcock" influenced their work.

7.0

3K votes

7.0

3K votes

Diane

2018 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Kent Jones

Cast Mary Kay Place · Jake Lacy · Andrea Martin · Deirdre O'Connell

Plot Diane is a widowed, altruistic septuagenarian whose life is dictated by the needs of others. She fills her days serving food to the homeless, visiting ailing friends in the last...

5.8

314 votes

5.8

314 votes

Jimmy P.

2013 · Movie · 120 min. · France

Direction Arnaud Desplechin

Cast Benicio del Toro · Mathieu Amalric · Gina McKee · Larry Pine

Plot At the end of World War II, Jimmy Picard, a Native American Blackfoot who fought in France, is admitted to Topeka Military Hospital in Kansas - an institution specializing in...

5.1

617 votes

5.1

617 votes

Lady by the Sea: The Statue of Liberty (TV)

2004 · Documentary · 55 min. · United States

Direction Martin Scorsese · Kent Jones

Cast Philip Lopate · James Sanders · Martin Scorsese

Plot Film-maker Martin Scorsese looks back over the impact of The Statue of Liberty on the twentieth century, her evolution and what she meant to people of the past and what...

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Untitled Jesus Film

2025 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Martin Scorsese

Plot Film based on Shūsaku Endō's book "A Life of Jesus"; the movie will focus on “Jesus’ core teachings in a way that explores the principles but doesn’t proselytize.

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