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

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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...

Not rated

Not rated

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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Not rated

Not rated