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

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