Screenplay: Lillian Hellman
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Lillian Hellman. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
The Little Foxes
1941 · Movie · 116 min. · United States
Direction William Wyler
Cast Bette Davis · Teresa Wright · Herbert Marshall · Patricia Collinge
Plot An ambitious woman takes on her corrupt brothers and honest husband in her drive for wealth. In the deep South at the turn of the 20th century, shrewish Regina Giddens...
8.1
6K votes
8.1
6K votes
The Chase
1966 · Movie · 135 min. · United States
Direction Arthur Penn
Cast Marlon Brando · Robert Redford · Angie Dickinson · Jane Fonda
Plot Tense drama unfolds in a small town after a local bad guy escapes prison, causing everyone to fear what will happen when secret lives come to light.
8.0
12K votes
8.0
12K votes
The Children's Hour
1961 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction William Wyler
Cast Audrey Hepburn · Shirley MacLaine · James Garner · Miriam Hopkins
Plot Karen (Hepburn) and Martha (MacLaine) are the headmistresses of an exclusive school for girls. When they discipline a malicious little girl, the vindictive child twists an overheard comment into slander...
7.8
7K votes
7.8
7K votes
Another Part of the Forest
1948 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Michael Gordon
Cast Fredric March · Dan Duryea · Edmond O'Brien · Ann Blyth
Plot This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way
7.3
78 votes
7.3
78 votes
These Three
1936 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction William Wyler
Cast Miriam Hopkins · Merle Oberon · Joel McCrea · Catherine Doucet
Plot Karen and Martha, college roommates, graduate and face the future with no place and no money. Karen, however, has inherited a farmhouse from her grandmother, and gets the idea that...
7.1
578 votes
7.1
578 votes
Dead End
1937 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction William Wyler
Cast Sylvia Sidney · Joel McCrea · Humphrey Bogart · Wendy Barrie
Plot Dead End is the prototypical social-problem drama about a Manhattan slum in the 1930s. Lillian Hellman's engaging script, based on Sidney Kingsley's hit play, finds the neighborhood residents struggling to...
7.1
2K votes
7.1
2K votes
Julia
1977 · Movie · 118 min. · United States
Direction Fred Zinnemann
Cast Jane Fonda · Vanessa Redgrave · Jason Robards · Maximilian Schell
Plot The story of a friendship between two women and their anti-Nazi efforts during World War II. Though purportedly a true story about Lillian Hellman, her involvement was proved to be...
7.0
2K votes
7.0
2K votes
The Spanish Earth
1937 · Documentary · 54 min. · United States
Direction Joris Ivens
Plot A documentary showing the struggle of the Spanish Republican government against a rebellion by ultra-right-wing forces led by Gen. Francisco Franco and backed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
6.5
471 votes
6.5
471 votes
Watch on the Rhine
1943 · Movie · 114 min. · United States
Direction Herman Shumlin
Cast Bette Davis · Paul Lukas · Geraldine Fitzgerald · Lucile Watson
Plot Sara and Kurt Muller and their three children are returning to her mother's home in Washington DC after 18 years in Europe. A Romanian Count living there discovers Kurt's attache...
6.4
199 votes
6.4
199 votes
The Dark Angel
1935 · Movie · 106 min. · United States
Direction Sidney Franklin
Cast Fredric March · Merle Oberon · Herbert Marshall · Janet Beecher
Plot Kitty Vane, Alan Trent, and Gerald Shannon have been inseparable friends since childhood. Kitty has always known she would marry one of them, but has waited until the beginning of...
6.2
78 votes
6.2
78 votes
Toys in the Attic
1963 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction George Roy Hill
Cast Dean Martin · Geraldine Page · Yvette Mimieux · Wendy Hiller
Plot Julian Berniers (Dean Martin ) return from Illinois with his young bride Lily (Yvette Mimieux) to the family in New Orleans. Sisters Carrie (Geraldine Page) and Anne (Wendy Hiller) welcome...
6.1
97 votes
6.1
97 votes
The North Star
1943 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Lewis Milestone
Cast Anne Baxter · Dana Andrews · Walter Huston · Walter Brennan
Plot Russian efforts to bravely hold off the invading Nazi army during World War II are graphically portrayed as Russians survive the brutalities. During the Cold War, this film was altered...
5.9
386 votes
5.9
386 votes
The Searching Wind
1946 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction William Dieterle
Cast Robert Young · Sylvia Sidney · Ann Richards · Dudley Digges
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