Screenplay: Hugh Wheeler
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Hugh Wheeler. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (TV)
1982 · Movie · 141 min. · United States
Direction Terry Hughes · Harold Prince
Cast Angela Lansbury · George Hearn · Cris Groenendaal · Sara Woods
Plot Benjamin Barker alias Sweeney Todd, returns to London after being deported to find out what happened to his wife and child at the hands of Judge Turpin. When he learns...
7.1
256 votes
7.1
256 votes
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007 · Movie · 117 min. · United States
Direction Tim Burton
Cast Johnny Depp · Helena Bonham Carter · Alan Rickman · Sacha Baron Cohen
Plot Based on the hit Broadway musical which tells the infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis...
6.8
67K votes
6.8
67K votes
Black Widow
1954 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Nunnally Johnson
Cast Ginger Rogers · Van Heflin · Gene Tierney · George Raft
Plot A young stage hopeful (Peggy Ann Gardner), is murdered and suspicion falls on her mentor, a Broadway producer(Van Heflin).
6.6
192 votes
6.6
192 votes
Nijinsky
1980 · Movie · 129 min. · United States
Direction Herbert Ross
Cast George de la Peña · Alan Bates · Jeremy Irons · Leslie Browne
Plot Set in the early 1910s at a time of passionate artistic experimentalism, and based on biographical fact, this is the story of Vaslav Nijinsky, the young and brilliant but headstrong...
6.3
98 votes
6.3
98 votes
Something for Everyone
1970 · Movie · 122 min. · United States
Direction Harold Prince
Cast Angela Lansbury · Michael York · Anthony Higgins · Heidelinde Weis
Plot Konrad, a handsome country boy in post-war Austria, charms his way into a butler position at the castle of a widowed countess that lost her fortune. Before long the opportunistic...
6.0
64 votes
6.0
64 votes
Travels with My Aunt
1972 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Maggie Smith · Alec McCowen · Louis Gossett Jr. · Robert Stephens
Plot At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings, who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure, as she attempts...
6.0
307 votes
6.0
307 votes
Five Miles to Midnight
1962 · Movie · 104 min. · France
Direction Anatole Litvak
Cast Sophia Loren · Anthony Perkins · Gig Young · Jean-Pierre Aumont
Plot Lisa Macklin, an Italian woman, has a fight with her American husband Robert in a Paris night club. He leaves the next day for a business trip and Lisa says...
5.8
159 votes
5.8
159 votes
The Man in the Net
1959 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast Alan Ladd · Carolyn Jones · Diane Brewster · John Lupton
Plot An artist falsely accused of ransacking his own house is proved innocent by the children of the neighborhood.
5.3
105 votes
5.3
105 votes
A Little Night Music
1977 · Movie · 124 min. · United States
Direction Harold Prince
Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Diana Rigg · Len Cariou · Lesley-Anne Down
Plot Fredrik Egerman is very happy in his marriage to a seventeen-year-old virgin, Anne. Only she's been a virgin for the whole eleven months of the marriage, and being a bit...
5.1
42 votes
5.1
42 votes
Murder by Two
1960 · Movie · 95 min. · France
Direction Jacques-Gérard Cornu
Cast Danielle Darrieux · Mel Ferrer · Catherine Deneuve · Pierre Brice
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The Strange Awakening
1958 · Movie · 69 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Montgomery Tully
Cast Lex Barker · Carole Mathews · Lisa Gastoni · Nora Swinburne
Plot Peter Chance, a motorist, is stopped and attacked by a hitchhiker somewhere in the south of France. He is left unconscious by the roadside with no identification. He regains his...
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Two wives
1967 · Movie · 94 min. · Japan
Direction Yasuzô Masumura
Cast Ayako Wakao · Mariko Okada · Koji Takahashi · Takao Ito
Plot After a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-hate drama that threatens to engulf them. The sexual anxiety between the interwoven...
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Homicide for Three
1948 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction George Blair
Cast Warren Douglas · Audrey Long · Grant Withers · Lloyd Corrigan
Plot On their honeymoon,a young navy officer and his wife are having difficulties in finding a hotel room in Los Angeles until a lady lends them her suite. There, they receive...
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Story Parade (TV Series)
1964 · Series · min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alan Gibson · Peter Sasdy · Silvio Narizzano · Bryan Stonehouse
Cast Norman Rodway · Noel Hood · Roland Culver · Jane Eccles
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