Screenplay: Thomas De Quincey

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Thomas De Quincey. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Suspiria

1977 · Movie · 101 min. · Italy

Direction Dario Argento

Cast Jessica Harper · Stefania Casini · Flavio Bucci · Udo Kier

Synopsis In Suspiria (1977), a young American ballet student, Suzy Bannion, arrives at a prestigious dance academy in Germany. Strange events and unsettling occurrences plague the school, from eerie whispers to gruesome murders. Suzy grows suspicious of the academy's staff and...

6.6

10K votes

6.6

10K votes

Inferno

1980 · Movie · 107 min. · Italy

Direction Dario Argento

Cast Leigh McCloskey · Irene Miracle · Eleonora Giorgi · Daria Nicolodi

Synopsis Young poetess Rose Elliot buys a book from a local antique dealer, a diary in Latin of an architect, E. Varelli. She learns of the Three Mothers, and believes her apartment building is one of their houses. She pleads her...

5.8

2K votes

5.8

2K votes

Confessions of an Opium Eater

1962 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Albert Zugsmith

Cast Vincent Price · Linda Ho · Richard Loo · June Kyoto Lu

Synopsis Thomas de Quincey is an early 19th-century adventurer involved with helping runaway slave girls and victims of a tong war in San Francisco. Garbed in black from head to toe, de Quincey narrates his adventures. At the slave auction where...

4.4

44 votes

4.4

44 votes

Direction Jean Faurez

Cast Fernand Ledoux · Suzy Carrier · Jules Berry · Paul Frankeur

Synopsis A group of policemen look over three murder cases including a cutthroat that prays on young women, a madman that hid his deformed landlord's corpse in the floor, and a wine aficionado who buries his friend alive.

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Drug-Taking and the Arts

1993 · Documentary · 120 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Storm Thorgerson

Cast Bernard Hill · Phil Daniels · Patrick Barlow · John McEnery

Synopsis How drugs have influenced artistic production in the course of the last 200 years, focusing on major European and American literary figures and visual artists.

Not rated

Not rated