Screenplay: James Baldwin
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by James Baldwin. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
I Am Not Your Negro
2016 · Documentary · 93 min. · United States
Direction Raoul Peck
Cast James Baldwin
Plot In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, "Remember This House." The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives...
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
Where the Heart Is (À la place du coeur)
1998 · Movie · 112 min. · France
Direction Robert Guédiguian
Cast Ariane Ascaride · Jean-Pierre Darroussin · Gérard Meylan · Jacques Boudet
6.8
381 votes
6.8
381 votes
If Beale Street Could Talk
2018 · Movie · 119 min. · United States
Direction Barry Jenkins
Cast KiKi Layne · Stephan James · Regina King · Diego Luna
Plot Based on the novel by James Baldwin, “If Beale Street Could Talk” follows Tish, a newly engaged Harlem woman who races against the clock to prove her lover’s innocence while...
6.3
4K votes
6.3
4K votes
Freedom from Everything
2022 · Documentary · 87 min. · Canada
Direction Mike Hoolboom
Cast Margaret Thatcher · Guy Fawkes · George Michael · James Baldwin
Plot Personal film essay about two pandemics: AIDS and Coronavirus. Body memorials, survivor stories, remembrances. Both plagues are reframed by neoliberalism and its central mythology of personal freedom, brilliantly laid out...
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
1984 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Stan Lathan
Cast Paul Winfield · James Bond III · Olivia Cole · Roderick Wimberly
Plot This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both salvation and understanding and of a...
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