Screenplay: John Mankiewicz

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


House of Cards (TV Series)

2013 · Series · 50 min. · United States

Direction Beau Willimon · David Fincher · James Foley · Robin Wright

Cast Kevin Spacey · Robin Wright · Michael Kelly · Kate Mara

Plot TV Series (2013-2018). 6 Seasons. 73 Episodes. Ruthless and cunning, Congressman Francis Underwood (Kevin Spacey) and his ambitious wife Claire (Robin Wright) stop at nothing to conquer everything. This wicked...

7.9

28K votes

7.9

28K votes

House, M.D. (TV Series)

2004 · Series · 45 min. · United States

Direction David Shore · Greg Yaitanes · Deran Sarafian · Juan José Campanella

Cast Hugh Laurie · Lisa Edelstein · Omar Epps · Robert Sean Leonard

Plot TV Series (2004-2012). 8 Seasons. 177 Episodes. A maverick, anti-social doctor (Laurie) who specializes in infectious diseases does whatever it takes to solve the puzzling cases that come his way.

7.6

99K votes

7.6

99K votes

Magic City (TV Series)

2012 · Series · 50 min. · United States

Direction Mitch Glazer · Ed Bianchi · Simon Cellan Jones · David Petrarca

Cast Jeffrey Dean Morgan · Olga Kurylenko · Danny Huston · Jessica Marais

Plot TV Series (2012-2013). 2 Seasons. 16 Episodes. Centers on Miami mobsters and other characters from Miami Beach in the late 1950s.

6.5

370 votes

6.5

370 votes

Interrogation (TV Series)

2020 · Series · 46 min. · United States

Direction John Mankiewicz · Anders Weidemann · Ernest R. Dickerson · Patrick Cady

Cast Kyle Gallner · Kodi Smit-McPhee · Ellen Humphreys · Melinda McGraw

Plot TV Series (2020). 10 Episodes. A non-linear crime series that is centered around an interrogation of people who might be involved in a decades-old murder case. Premiere: February 6 on...

6.2

95 votes

6.2

95 votes

New Amsterdam (TV Series)

2008 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Christian Taylor · Allan Loeb · John David Coles · Jean de Segonzac

Cast Nikolaj Coster-Waldau · Zuleikha Robinson · Alexie Gilmore · Stephen Henderson

Plot TV Series (2008). 8 Episodes. In the 1600's the Dutch take over Manhattan island and during a massacre of native people, John Amsterdam saves the life of a woman, being...

5.8

184 votes

5.8

184 votes

Where's Marlowe?

1999 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Daniel Pyne

Cast Miguel Ferrer · Mos Def · John Livingston · Allison Dean

Plot Miguel Ferrer (still probably best known as the weaselly, overambitious executive in RoboCop and as an FBI agent in Twin Peaks) stars as Joe Boone, the subject of a documentary...

5.6

23 votes

5.6

23 votes

Saved (TV Series)

2006 · Series · min. · United States

Direction David Manson · David Nevins · Arvin Brown · Dean White

Cast Tom Everett Scott · Omari Hardwick · Elizabeth Reaser · Tracy Vilar

Plot TV Series (2006). 13 Episodes. Saved follows the trials and tribulations of Wyatt Cole, medical school dropout, compulsive gambler and now paramedic on what is his 24 hour shift. Saved...

5.6

110 votes

5.6

110 votes

Tales from the Crypt: Loved to Death (TV)

1991 · Movie · 30 min. · United States

Direction Tom Mankiewicz

Cast Andrew McCarthy · Mariel Hemingway · David Hemmings · Kathleen Freeman

Plot In Los Angeles, aspiring screenwriter Edward Foster from Indiana has a crush on his neighbor Miranda Singer. However, bimbo Miranda is a gold digger who does not give Edward any...

5.1

60 votes

5.1

60 votes

Vengeance: A Love Story

2017 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Johnny Martin

Cast Nicolas Cage · Don Johnson · Deborah Kara Unger · Anna Hutchison

Plot Walking home with her 12-year-old daughter after midnight on the Fourth of July, Teena crosses paths with some local losers to be brutally gang raped with her daughter Bethie watching....

3.7

701 votes

3.7

701 votes

The Division (TV Series)

2001 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Deborah Joy LeVine · Sarah Pia Anderson · Alan Myerson · Jeffrey Reiner

Cast Nancy McKeon · Bonnie Bedelia · Amy Jo Johnson · Jose Yenque

Plot It's a cop show with a twist. Lifetime's series explores the personal and professional lives of five very different policewomen in San Francisco. "The Division" features action, suspense, crime and...

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La Sangre de la Venganza (TV)

2000 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Aaron Lipstadt

Cast Alan Arkin · Brian Bloom · Jenya Lano · Joseph Gian

Plot A family run business is being forced to become a front for the mob. Ronnie (Brian Bloom) stands up against the Cancino family to save his families life.

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The Return of Desperado (TV)

1988 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction E.W. Swackhamer

Cast Alex McArthur · Vivian Bonnell · Charles Boswell · Vanessa Bell Calloway

Plot This second entry in the "Desperado" film series again follows Duell McCall, a wandering cowboy who's been framed for murder. He hides in a small town run by black folk...

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Tribeca (TV Series)

1993 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction David J. Burke · Michael Dinner · Helaine Head · Melanie Mayron

Cast Philip Bosco · Joe Morton · Antonia Jones · Michael Rogen

Plot TV Series (1993). 7 Episodes. Various stories about various people living in Tribeca - the New York's famous neighborhood.

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Thieves (TV Series)

2001 · Series · 45 min. · United States

Direction James Frawley · Steven Robman · James Steven Sadwith · Steve Gomer

Cast John Stamos · Melissa George · Robert Knepper · Tone Loc

Plot Johnny and his girlfriend Rita, two young and professional career criminals, make a deal with the FBI to work undercover for them to nail several other career thieves in exchange...

Not rated

Not rated