Screenplay: Philip Roth
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Philip Roth. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
The Plot Against America (TV Miniseries)
2020 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction David Simon · Ed Burns · Minkie Spiro · Thomas Schlamme
Cast Morgan Spector · Zoe Kazan · Winona Ryder · John Turturro
Plot TV Miniseries (2020). 6 Episodes. In 1940 Charles A. Lindbergh, heroic aviator and rabid isolationist, is elected President. Shortly thereafter, he negotiates a cordial "understanding" with Adolf Hitler, while the...
7.0
4K votes
7.0
4K votes
Indignation
2016 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction James Schamus
Cast Logan Lerman · Sarah Gadon · Tracy Letts · Ben Rosenfield
Plot In 1951, Marcus (Lerman), a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with anti-Semitism, sexual repression, and the ongoing Korean War. Based on...
6.2
980 votes
6.2
980 votes
Goodbye, Columbus
1969 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Larry Peerce
Cast Richard Benjamin · Ali MacGraw · Jack Klugman · Nan Martin
Plot Neil Klugman works in the public library and lives in New York with his Jewish aunt rather than in Arizona with his parents. College-girl Brenda Patimkin very much lives with...
6.0
59 votes
6.0
59 votes
Elegy
2008 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction Isabel Coixet
Cast Ben Kingsley · Penélope Cruz · Dennis Hopper · Patricia Clarkson
Plot Cultural critic & university teacher David Kepesh (Ben Kingsley) finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo...
5.8
8K votes
5.8
8K votes
American Pastoral
2016 · Movie · 126 min. · United States
Direction Ewan McGregor
Cast Ewan McGregor · Jennifer Connelly · Dakota Fanning · Peter Riegert
Plot Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new political affiliation threatens to destroy their family.
5.5
2K votes
5.5
2K votes
Deception
2021 · Movie · 105 min. · France
Direction Arnaud Desplechin
Cast Denis Podalydès · Léa Seydoux · Emmanuelle Devos · Miglen Mirtchev
Plot An American novelist living for a time in London converses with his wife, his mistress, and other female characters he may have dreamed up.
5.5
113 votes
5.5
113 votes
The Humbling
2014 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Barry Levinson
Cast Al Pacino · Greta Gerwig · Dianne Wiest · Kyra Sedgwick
Plot A story set on a farm in upstate New York and centered on the sexual (and otherwise) relationship between an aged, suicidal actor and a younger woman... An adaptation of...
5.4
1K votes
5.4
1K votes
The Human Stain
2003 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction Robert Benton
Cast Anthony Hopkins · Nicole Kidman · Ed Harris · Gary Sinise
Plot Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins) is a respected light-skinned African-American professor at a prestigious New England college who has kept his true racial identity a secret for the last fifty years....
5.4
5K votes
5.4
5K votes
Battle of Blood Island
1960 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction Joel Rapp
Cast Richard Devon · Ron Gans · Roger Corman
Plot Two American GIs are the only survivors of a unit wiped out in a battle with Japanese troops on an isolated island. The two, who don't like each other, find...
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Portnoy's Complaint
1972 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Ernest Lehman
Cast Richard Benjamin · Karen Black · Lee Grant · Jack Somack
Plot The movie chronicles a young man's love and passion in his own kinky way.
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