Screenplay: Brendan Behan

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


Borstal Boy

2000 · Movie · 93 min. · Ireland

Direction Peter Sheridan

Cast Shawn Hatosy · Danny Dyer · Lee Ingleby · Robin Laing

Plot The teen years of Irish writer and political activist Brendan Behan. At the age of sixteen, while on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the Second World War,...

6.6

145 votes

6.6

145 votes

Obesenjak (TV)

1974 · Movie · 65 min. · Yugoslavia

Direction Boro Draskovic

Cast Dragomir 'Gidra' Bojanic · Rade Markovic · Tasko Nacic · Branko Plesa

Plot Adaptation of the drama The Quare Fellow by Irish writer Brendan Behan. The action takes place in a prison where an inmate must be hanged and, through black humour, tells...

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The Quare Fellow

1962 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Arthur Dreifuss

Cast Patrick McGoohan · Sylvia Syms · Walter Macken · Dermot Kelly

Plot Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, determined to serve his country by his part in meting out justice...

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Un otage (TV)

1970 · Movie · 111 min. · France

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