Screenplay: David Goodis

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


Dark Passage

1947 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Delmer Daves

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Lauren Bacall · Bruce Bennett · Agnes Moorehead

Plot Bogart plays a man convicted of murdering his wife who escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence. Bogart finds that his features are too well known, and is...

7.4

5K votes

7.4

5K votes

Shoot the Piano Player

1960 · Movie · 80 min. · France

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Charles Aznavour · Marie Dubois · Nicole Berger · Albert Rémy

Plot Charlie Kohler, formerly a great concert pianist, now works as a piano player in a popular town bar. He has managed to keep his past a secret, until, unexpectedly, one...

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6.9

4K votes

6.9

4K votes

The Unfaithful

1947 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast Ann Sheridan · Lew Ayres · Zachary Scott · Eve Arden

Plot Chris Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed...

6.9

86 votes

6.9

86 votes

Nightfall

1956 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Jacques Tourneur

Cast Aldo Ray · Brian Keith · Anne Bancroft · Jocelyn Brando

Plot There is money missing from a bank job, an attractive model, an insurance investigator, and two extremely dangerous thugs. James Vanning (Aldo Ray) portrays an innocent man on the run,...

6.9

1K votes

6.9

1K votes

The Burglar

1957 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Paul Wendkos

Cast Dan Duryea · Jayne Mansfield · Martha Vickers · Peter Capell

Plot Nat Harbin (Dan Duryea) and his cronies rob a fake spiritualist and then take it on the lam to Atlantic City.

6.0

105 votes

6.0

105 votes

And Hope to Die

1972 · Movie · 122 min. · France

5.9

55 votes

5.9

55 votes

The Burglars

1971 · Movie · 120 min. · France

Direction Henri Verneuil

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Omar Sharif · Robert Hossein · Renato Salvatori

Plot A band of crooks led by ace safecracker Azad break into a mansion on the outskirts of Athens to steal a near-priceless collection of emeralds. The robbery is a success,...

5.6

176 votes

5.6

176 votes

The Moon in the Gutter

1983 · Movie · 137 min. · France

Direction Jean-Jacques Beineix

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Nastassja Kinski · Victoria Abril · Bertice Reading

Plot In Marseilles, a woman commits suicide after she is raped in an alley. Nightly, her brother Gerard broods at the scene hoping to catch the rapist. He lives with his...

5.5

64 votes

5.5

64 votes

Street of No Return

1989 · Movie · 88 min. · France

Direction Samuel Fuller

Cast Keith Carradine · Valentina Vargas · Bill Duke · Andrea Ferréol

Plot Sam Fuller's last film as a director, made during his self-imposed European exile, stars Keith Carradine as once glamorous pop singer Michael, who has been reduced to a grizzled street...

5.4

84 votes

5.4

84 votes

4.8

28 votes

Descent Into Hell

1986 · Movie · 88 min. · France

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The Edge (TV)

1989 · Movie · min. · United States

Direction Nicholas Kazan · Luis Mandoki · Carl Schenkel

Cast Patricia Arquette · Brad Davis · Christine Elise · Dann Florek

Plot A three-part anthology suspense program in which men and women face life's ultimate danger zone. Each episode is introduced by a mysterious figure known as The Watcher, who arrives on...

Not rated

Not rated

Section des disparus

1956 · Movie · 85 min. · France

Not rated

Not rated