Screenplay: Stanley Ellin
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Stanley Ellin. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Web of Passion
1959 · Movie · 94 min. · France
Direction Claude Chabrol
Cast Madeleine Robinson · Antonella Lualdi · Jean-Paul Belmondo · Jacques Dacqmine
Plot The Marcoux family lives in a country home, supported by their vineyard. Father Henri possesses a roving eye, and spends more time with their attractive neighbor, Léda, than his family....
6.4
266 votes
6.4
266 votes
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby (TV)
1956 · Movie · 30 min. · United States
Direction James Neilson
Cast Robert H. Harris · Meg Mundy · Gage Clarke · Louise Larabee
Plot Antiques dealer Laurence Appleby thinks he has solved his financial problems by killing his wife Lena, but new complications arise in his second marriage.
6.3
80 votes
6.3
80 votes
The Big Night
1951 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Losey
Cast John Drew Barrymore · Preston Foster · Joan Lorring · Howard St. John
Plot George La Main, just turned 17, suffers growing pains and is anxious to prove his manhood. That night, George's adored father Andy is savagely beaten by sportswriter Al Judge. Traumatized...
6.0
177 votes
6.0
177 votes
House of Cards
1968 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction John Guillermin
Cast George Peppard · Inger Stevens · Orson Welles · Keith Michell
Plot Leschenhaut and Morillon are trying to organize a plot to overthrow the French government and set up a new fascist organization. Their plans are interrupted by Davis, an American boxer,...
5.1
90 votes
5.1
90 votes
Alfred Hitchcock presents: The Blessington Method (TV)
1959 · Movie · 26 min. · United States
Direction Herschel Daugherty
Cast Henry Jones · Irene Windust · Paul E. Burns · Vaughn Meadows
Plot In the future year of 1980, life expectancy has increased dramatically and JJ Bunce provides an essential service.
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A Prayer in the Dark (TV)
1997 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Jerry Ciccoritti
Cast Lynda Carter · Teri Polo · Colin Ferguson · Phillip Jarrett
Plot The Hayworth family lives in a Quaker territory in up-state New York. The matriarch, Emily runs the local bank. Years before, she and her family took in troubled, young Jimmy...
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Sarmaga
2017 · Movie · 30 min. · Brazil
Direction Jon Lewis
Cast Carlos Betão · Antonio Fabio · Celso Jr. · Gil Santana
Plot Sarmaga is a restaurant lost in time, frequented by a select clientele who turn up on a nightly basis in the patient hope of seeing the elusive owner and to...
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Suspense (TV Series)
1949 · Series · 25 min. · United States
Direction Robert Stevens · Robert Mulligan · John Peyser · Byron Paul
Cast Rex Marshall · Robert Emhardt · Robert H. Harris · John Baragrey
Plot Suspense is an American television anthology series that ran on CBS Television from 1949 to 1954. It was adapted from the radio program of the same name which ran from...
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Alfred Hitchcock presents: The Day of the Bullet (TV)
1960 · Movie · 25 min. · United States
Direction Norman Lloyd
Cast Barry Gordon · Glenn Walken · John Craven · Alfred Hitchcock
Plot When a young boy reports a mob beating to the police, and his father does not encourage him, he is adversely affected for the rest of his life.
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Alfred Hitchcock presents: The Festive Season (TV)
1958 · Movie · 25 min. · United States
Direction Arthur Hiller
Cast Alfred Hitchcock · Carmen Mathews · Edmon Ryan · Richard Waring
Plot A bitter man continues to live in a dark old mansion with his controlling sister, whom he believes killed his wife, while openly planning her murder.
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Nothing But the Best
1964 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Clive Donner
Cast Alan Bates · Denholm Elliott · Harry Andrews · Millicent Martin
Plot Success has James Brewster's name written all over it, and he also has his heart set on his boss's daughter. A con artist hires him to help out on a...
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Ghost Story (Circle of Fear) (TV Series)
1972 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Don McDougall · Daryl Duke · Paul Stanley · Robert Day
Cast Sebastian Cabot · Sheila Larken · Jodie Foster · Martin Sheen
Plot TV Series (1972-1973). 23 episodes. An anthology of suspense dramas concentrating on individuals confronted with supernatural occurrences. On January 1973, beginning with the 14th episode, the series title changed from...
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Specialty of the House (TV)
1959 · Movie · 30 min. · United States
Direction Robert Stevens
Cast Robert Morley · Kenneth Haigh · George Keymas · Bettye Ackerman
Plot Mr. Laffler invites Mr. Costain to join him for dinner at a private club that he describes as a very special experience. To his disappointment, Laffler is informed that the...
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