Screenplay: Stewart Stern
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Stewart Stern. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
The Last Movie Stars (TV Series)
2022 · Documentary · 55 min. · United States
Direction Ethan Hawke
Cast Laura Linney · Melanie Griffith · Sam Rockwell · Billy Crudup
Plot 'The Last Movie Stars' chronicles Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward's iconic careers and decades-long partnership. The history of their love, lives, and philanthropy.
7.4
203 votes
7.4
203 votes
Sybil (TV)
1976 · Movie · 187 min. · United States
Direction Daniel Petrie
Cast Joanne Woodward · Sally Field · Brad Davis · Martine Bartlett
Plot The true story of a young woman named Sybil, whose childhood was so harrowing to her that she developed at least 13 different personalities.
7.3
257 votes
7.3
257 votes
Rebel Without a Cause
1955 · Movie · 111 min. · United States
Direction Nicholas Ray
Cast James Dean · Natalie Wood · Sal Mineo · Jim Backus
Plot Jim Stark's family has just moved to the suburbs of Los Angeles. He meets Plato, and Judy, whom he likes. He somehow gets mixed up with some tough guys who...
7.0
18K votes
7.0
18K votes
Rachel, Rachel
1968 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Paul Newman
Cast Joanne Woodward · James Olson · Kate Harrington · Estelle Parsons
Plot Rachel is a 35 year old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks...
6.7
688 votes
6.7
688 votes
The Glass Menagerie (TV)
1973 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Anthony Harvey
Cast Katharine Hepburn · Sam Waterston · Joanna Miles · Michael Moriarty
Plot Amanda Wingfield dominates her children with her faded gentility and exaggerated tales of her Southern belle past. Her son plans escape; her daughter withdraws into a dream world. When a...
6.6
44 votes
6.6
44 votes
Teresa
1951 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Fred Zinnemann
Cast Pier Angeli · John Ericson · Patricia Collinge · Richard Bishop
Plot Teresa (Pier Angeli) is the Italian bride of GI Philip (John Ericson), who is established from the outset as mentally disturbed. Taking Teresa home with him to New York, Philip...
6.2
65 votes
6.2
65 votes
The James Dean Story
1957 · Documentary · 81 min. · United States
Direction Robert Altman · George W. George
Plot This documentary, which was undertaken soon after James Dean's death, looks at Dean's life through the use of still photographs with narration, and interviews with many of the people involved...
6.1
75 votes
6.1
75 votes
The Last Movie
1971 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction Dennis Hopper
Cast Dennis Hopper · Stella Garcia · Julie Adams · Tomas Milian
Plot Kansas (Dennis Hopper) is a stunt coordinator in charge of horses on a western being shot in a small Peruvian village. Following a tragic incident on the set where an...
5.9
192 votes
5.9
192 votes
The Ugly American
1963 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction George Englund
Cast Marlon Brando · Pat Hingle · Eiji Okada · Sandra Church
Plot An intelligent, articulate scholar, Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation hearing at the hands of conservatives to become ambassador to Sarkan, a southeast Asian country where civil war threatens...
5.8
317 votes
5.8
317 votes
The Rack
1956 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Arnold Laven
Cast Paul Newman · Wendell Corey · Walter Pidgeon · Edmond O'Brien
Plot Captain Edward Hall returns to the USA after two years in a prison camp in the korean war. In the camp he was brainwashed and helped the Chinese convince the...
5.8
191 votes
5.8
191 votes
The Outsider
1961 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction Delbert Mann
Cast Tony Curtis · James Franciscus · Bruce Bennett · Gregory Walcott
Plot Tony Curtis plays an Indian (Nicknamed "Chief" by other soldiers) who fights in WWII and helps to raise the flag at Iwo Jima.
5.4
61 votes
5.4
61 votes
Thunder in the Sun
1959 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Russell Rouse
Cast Susan Hayward · Jeff Chandler · Jacques Bergerac · Blanche Yurka
Plot A western about a wagon train of french Basque immigrants -running away from the Napoleonic Wars to America- making its way through Indian territory with a cargo of special vines...
4.8
216 votes
4.8
216 votes
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
1973 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Gilbert Cates
Cast Joanne Woodward · Martin Balsam · Sylvia Sidney · Tresa Hughes
Plot Rita, a middle aged New York City homemaker, finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces her to re-examine her life, as well as her relationships with her mother, her...
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Benjy (S)
1951 · Movie · min. · United States
Direction Fred Zinnemann
Cast Lee Aaker · Neville Brand · Adam Williams · Helen Brown
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