Screenplay: Robert Riskin

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


You Can't Take it With You

1938 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast James Stewart · Jean Arthur · Lionel Barrymore · Edward Arnold

Synopsis The stenographer Alice Sycamore is in love with her boss Tony Kirby, who is the vice-president of the powerful company owned by his greedy father...

8.1

8K votes

8.1

8K votes

It Happened One Night

1934 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Clark Gable · Claudette Colbert · Walter Connolly · Roscoe Karns

Synopsis When Ellie Andrews, a millionaire's daughter, marries a man her father dislikes, the resulting family squabble sends the beautiful heiress into hiding. She travels across...

7.9

16K votes

7.9

16K votes

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

1936 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Gary Cooper · Jean Arthur · George Bancroft · Lionel Stander

Synopsis When a small-town idealist (Gary Cooper) goes to New York to collect a twenty million dollar inheritance, he finds romance with wisecracking journalist (Jean Arthur)....

7.7

4K votes

7.7

4K votes

Meet John Doe

1941 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Gary Cooper · Barbara Stanwyck · Edward Arnold · Walter Brennan

Synopsis Gary Cooper stars as a nobody hired by a newspaper as part of a stunt to play a man that says he will commit suicide...

7.6

6K votes

7.6

6K votes

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Pocketful of Miracles

1961 · Movie · 136 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Glenn Ford · Bette Davis · Peter Falk · Hope Lange

Synopsis Apple Annie is a beggar and an apple seller who is part of downtown New York life. Her daughter, Louise, is to marry a Count...

7.6

5K votes

7.6

5K votes

Lost Horizon

1937 · Movie · 132 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Ronald Colman · Jane Wyatt · John Howard · Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis On 1935, the pacifist British diplomat and future Foreign Secretary Robert Conway helps a group of ninety Westerns white people to escape from the Chinese...

7.5

3K votes

7.5

3K votes

Lady for a Day

1933 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Warren William · May Robson · Guy Kibbee · Glenda Farrell

Synopsis Story of a soft-hearted gangster who organizes his entire gang of thugs to help transform an elderly, rather seedy apple vendor into a perfect society...

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

American Madness

1932 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Walter Huston · Pat O'Brien · Kay Johnson · Constance Cummings

Synopsis It's the 1930s, the Depression era, and the Board of Directors of Thomas Dickson's bank want Dickson to merge with New York Trust and resign....

7.1

564 votes

7.1

564 votes

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The Whole Town's Talking

1935 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Jean Arthur · Arthur Hohl · Arthur Byron

Synopsis Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything...

6.8

521 votes

6.8

521 votes

The Miracle Woman

1931 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · David Manners · Sam Hardy · Beryl Mercer

Synopsis Stanwyck's particularly fine as evangelist Florence "Faith" Fallon, who becomes very successful thanks to her way with words, some fake miracles, and the talents of...

6.7

318 votes

6.7

318 votes

Mister 880

1950 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Burt Lancaster · Dorothy McGuire · Edmund Gwenn · Millard Mitchell

Synopsis The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is also Mr. 880, an amateurish...

6.6

289 votes

6.6

289 votes

Broadway Bill

1934 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Warner Baxter · Myrna Loy · Walter Connolly · Helen Vinson

Synopsis This comedy-drama was directed, and then -- over twenty years later -- remade, by Frank Capra. Dan Brooks cares more about his thoroughbred Broadway Bill...

6.5

294 votes

6.5

294 votes

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The Thin Man Goes Home

1944 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast William Powell · Myrna Loy · Gloria DeHaven · Lucile Watson

Synopsis Nick and Nora head to Nick's hometown of Sycamore Springs to spend some time with his parents. His father, a prominent local physician, was always...

6.3

125 votes

6.3

125 votes

Virtue

1932 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Edward Buzzell

Cast Carole Lombard · Pat O'Brien · Ward Bond · Shirley Grey

Synopsis A relationship gradually develops between a savvy New York street girl and a good-hearted cab driver--who first meet when she stiffs him for the fare--but...

6.2

23 votes

6.2

23 votes

Riding High

1950 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Bing Crosby · Coleen Gray · Charles Bickford · Frances Gifford

Synopsis RIDING HIGH is Frank Capra's remake of his own 1934 film Broadway Bill (AKA Strictly Confidential), in which romance and comedy play out against the...

6.1

73 votes

6.1

73 votes

Here Comes the Groom

1951 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Bing Crosby · Jane Wyman · Franchot Tone · Alexis Smith

Synopsis Pete Garvey, foreign correspondent, has been running an impromptu adoption agency for war orphans in Paris, when an ultimatum from his erstwhile fiancée Emmadel Jones...

6.0

247 votes

6.0

247 votes

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Magic Town

1947 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast James Stewart · Jane Wyman · Kent Smith · Ned Sparks

Synopsis Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country. He and his...

6.0

474 votes

6.0

474 votes

5.8

509 votes

Ex-Lady

1933 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Robert Florey

Cast Bette Davis · Gene Raymond · Frank McHugh · Monroe Owsley

Synopsis Commercial artist Helen Bauer believes marriage kills romance. She lives with advertising writer Don Peterson. He convinces her to marry him. He later carries on...

5.8

47 votes

5.8

47 votes

Illicit

1931 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · James Rennie · Ricardo Cortez · Natalie Moorhead

Synopsis Ann, a young lady of scandalously "advanced" ideas, has been living in near-sin with blueblood lover Dick, due to her conviction that marriage will destroy...

5.7

32 votes

5.7

32 votes

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