Screenplay: Lorenzo Semple Jr.

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Lorenzo Semple Jr.. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Papillon

1973 · Movie · 150 min. · United States

Direction Franklin J. Schaffner

Cast Steve McQueen · Dustin Hoffman · Victor Jory · Don Gordon

Plot Based on the true story of Henri Charriere, also known as Papillon, which is French for 'butterfly' (the character even sports a large tattoo of a butterfly. A petty criminal,...

7.7

23K votes

7.7

23K votes

Three Days of the Condor

1975 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Sydney Pollack

Cast Robert Redford · Faye Dunaway · Cliff Robertson · Max von Sydow

Plot A man named Turner works for the CIA reading books and postulating possible scenarios that could be applied to inteliigence work. He goes out to get lunch but when he...

7.0

8K votes

7.0

8K votes

The Drowning Pool

1975 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

The Parallax View

1974 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Alan J. Pakula

Cast Warren Beatty · Hume Cronyn · William Daniels · Paula Prentiss

Plot A reporter uncovers the deadly conspiracy behind a political assassination.

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

Pretty Poison

1968 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Noel Black

Cast Anthony Perkins · Tuesday Weld · Beverly Garland · John Randolph

Plot A formerly institutionalized young man (Anthony Perkins) meets up with a cute, sexy high school cheerleader (Tuesday Weld) and pretends to be a CIA agent to get her interested in...

6.2

128 votes

6.2

128 votes

The Honeymoon Machine

1961 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Steve McQueen · Brigid Bazlen · Jim Hutton · Paula Prentiss

Plot McQueen is an American sailor stationed in Venice who joins forces with scientist Hutton in an elaborate scheme to use a Navy computer to win at the roulette table. In-between...

6.0

345 votes

6.0

345 votes

Never Say Never Again

1983 · Movie · 137 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Irvin Kershner

Cast Sean Connery · Klaus Maria Brandauer · Kim Basinger · Max von Sydow

Plot A Spectre agent has stolen two American nuclear warheads, and James Bond must find their targets before they are detonated.

Max

6.0

7K votes

6.0

7K votes

Shock

1969 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Carol White · Paul Burke · Mala Powers · Scott Hylands

Plot A mentally disturbed man stalks a woman who had once aborted the child he had fathered.

5.8

23 votes

5.8

23 votes

Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders

2016 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Rick Morales

Plot Batman and Robin are back in action to take down their fiendish foes once again with original actors Adam West voicing Batman, Burt Ward voicing Robin, and Julie Newmar voicing...

5.8

402 votes

5.8

402 votes

King Kong

1976 · Movie · 135 min. · United States

Direction John Guillermin

Cast Jeff Bridges · Jessica Lange · Charles Grodin · John Randolph

Plot The owner of the oil company Petrox Corporation, Fred Wilson, invests all his possessions searching oil in an unexplored island. The vessel leaves Surubaya, in Indonesia, with the stowaway Jack...

5.4

6K votes

5.4

6K votes

Batman

1966 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Leslie H. Martinson

Cast Adam West · Burt Ward · Lee Meriwether · Cesar Romero

Plot When the four greatest arch super-criminals ever to plague Gotham City join forces, their only objective can only be the entire world! Armed with Penguin-personalized a pre-atomic submarine, an army...

5.4

3K votes

5.4

3K votes

Flash Gordon

1980 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mike Hodges

Cast Sam J. Jones · Melody Anderson · Max von Sydow · Topol

Plot Flash Gordon is an American football player who along with Dale Arden are returning to New York City after a long vacation, until the plane they are passengers on crashes...

5.3

7K votes

5.3

7K votes

Batman (TV Series)

1966 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Bob Kane · Oscar Rudolph · James B. Clark · George Waggner

Cast Adam West · Burt Ward · Neil Hamilton · Alan Napier

Plot TV Series (1966-1968). 3 Seasons. 120 Episodes. Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. A...

5.0

8K votes

5.0

8K votes

Hurricane

1979 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Jan Troell

Cast Mia Farrow · Jason Robards · Dayton Ka'ne · Max von Sydow

Plot Filmed entirely on location on the remote South Seas island of Bora Bora, Dino De Laurentiis' epic adventure is a touching story of the desperate love affair between a young...

4.6

60 votes

4.6

60 votes

Never Too Young to Die

1986 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Gil Bettman

Cast John Stamos · Vanity · Gene Simmons · George Lazenby

Plot Secret agent Drew Stargrove is brutally murdered by the ruthless Van Ragnar. In this action-packed Bond-style thriller, the murdered secret agent's son, Lance Stargrove is thrust into the dangerous and...

4.5

30 votes

4.5

30 votes

Fathom

1967 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Leslie H. Martinson

Cast Raquel Welch · Anthony Franciosa · Ronald Fraser · Richard Briers

Plot In Málaga (Spain) with a U.S. team, skydiver Fathom Harvill is approached by a Scottish colonel working for a top-secret Western agency. He's after a vital lost atomic device, and...

4.4

48 votes

4.4

48 votes

Sheena

1984 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction John Guillermin

Cast Tanya Roberts · Ted Wass · Donovan Scott · Elizabeth Of Toro

Plot Sheena's white parents are killed while on Safari. She is raised by the mystical witch woman of an African tribe. When her foster mother is framed for the murder of...

3.4

422 votes

3.4

422 votes

Rapture (TV)

1993 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Timothy Bond

Cast Michael Ontkean · Bruce Gray · Natalie Radford · Helen Hughes

Plot A computer software designer becomes obsessed with his now-married high-school crush of 20 years before.

Not rated

Not rated

The Super Cops (TV)

1974 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Parks

Cast Ron Leibman · David Selby · Sheila Frazier · Pat Hingle

Plot The true story of two New York City cops. Greenberg & Hantz fought the system, became detectives and were known on the streets as "Batman & Robin".

Not rated

Not rated

The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker

1971 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Lawrence Turman

Cast Richard Benjamin · Joanna Shimkus · Elizabeth Ashley · Adam West

Plot A stock-broker is stuck in a dreary job and a marriage that's become a dull routine. To cope with the boredom and frustration, he resorts to voyeurism and extramarital love...

Not rated

Not rated