Screenplay: N.J. Crisp

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by N.J. Crisp. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Colditz (TV Series)

1972 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Brian Degas · Gerard Glaister · Peter Cregeen · Viktors Ritelis

Cast David McCallum · Richard Heffer · Bernard Hepton · Paul Chapman

Synopsis This grim and claustrophobic drama chronicles the lives of the prisoners in Colditz Castle from the arrival of the first British prisoners after Dunkirk until the liberation of the castle by the Americans in 1945. Colditz was a "special" camp,...

7.3

199 votes

7.3

199 votes

Direction Roy Ward Baker

Cast Peter Cushing · John Mills · Anne Baxter · Anton Diffring

Synopsis Sherlock Holmes has retired. But when MacDonald asks him to take on another case, he says yes. There has been some mysterious murders, and there are no visible causes for the deaths. At the same time Holmes gets this case,...

6.0

178 votes

6.0

178 votes

Dixon of Dock Green (TV Series)

1955 · Series · 45 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ted Willis · Douglas Moodie · Vere Lorrimer · David Askey

Cast Jack Warner · Peter Byrne · Geoffrey Adams · Jeanette Hutchinson

Synopsis 432 episodes (1955-1976). Constable George Dixon and his colleagues at the Dock Green police station in the East End of London deal with petty crime, successfully controlling it through common sense and human understanding.

Not rated

Not rated

Enemy at the Door (TV Series)

1978 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bill Bain · Jonathan Alwyn · Christopher Hodson · Martyn Friend

Cast Alfred Burke · Bernard Horsfall · Antonia Pemberton · Simon Cadell

Synopsis TV Series (1978-1980). 26 episodes. Drama about the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands during the Second World War.

Not rated

Not rated

That Good Night

2017 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Eric Styles

Cast John Hurt · Charles Dance · Erin Richards · Max Brown

Synopsis Ralph, a once-famous screenwriter, is in his seventies and terminally ill. He has two final missions: to be reconciled to his son, Michael, and, secretly, to ensure he is not a burden to his wife, Anna, as he goes "into...

Not rated

Not rated

Trapped

1967 · Series · United Kingdom

Direction Graham Evans · Valerie Hanson · Quentin Lawrence · Bill Stewart

Cast Rowena Cooper · Ralph Watson · Edward Woodward · Julia Foster

Synopsis TV series (1967). 11 episodes.

Not rated

Not rated

The Man in Room 17

1965 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Boisseau · Peter Plummer · Claude Whatham · David Cunliffe

Cast Richard Vernon · Michael Aldridge · Denholm Elliott · Willoughby Goddard

Synopsis Crime series about a secret government department, "Room 17", set up to deal with crimes that baffle police and government agencies. Headed by veteran World War II Agent Oldenshaw (Richard Vernon), and partnered, initially, with criminologist Dimmock (Michael Aldridge), who...

Not rated

Not rated

Murder Elite

1985 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Claude Whatham

Cast Ali MacGraw · Billie Whitelaw · Hywel Bennett · Ray Lonnen

Synopsis An English woman returns to her homeland after losing her fortune in America, and is stalked by a serial killer.

Not rated

Not rated