Screenplay: Chris Bryant
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Chris Bryant. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Lady Jane
1986 · Movie · 142 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Trevor Nunn
Cast Helena Bonham Carter · Cary Elwes · John Wood · Michael Hordern
Plot After the death of King Henry and his young son and heir Edward VI, Henry's 15-year-old great-niece, Lady Jane Grey (Helena Bonham Carter), is chosen to rule by a group...
6.5
709 votes
6.5
709 votes
Don't Look Now
1973 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Nicolas Roeg
Cast Donald Sutherland · Julie Christie · Hilary Mason · Renato Scarpa
Plot Architect John Baxter is moments too late to save his daughter Christine as she accidentally drowns in a stream on his English country estate. Afterwards, John takes up a restoration...
6.4
4K votes
6.4
4K votes
Stealing Heaven
1988 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction Clive Donner
Cast Derek de Lint · Kim Thomson · Denholm Elliott · Kenneth Cranham
Plot Pierre Abelard (1079-1142), a respected philosopher and teacher in 12th-century Paris, is hired to tutor the intelligent and beautiful Heloise (1101-1162). They soon fall in love, but must hide their...
6.2
23 votes
6.2
23 votes
Sword of Gideon (TV)
1986 · Movie · 173 min. · Canada
Direction Michael Anderson
Cast Steven Bauer · Michael York · Robert Joy · Lino Ventura
Plot Chronicles a Mossad team hand picked to hunt down the terrorists involved in the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre of Israeli athletes.
6.1
66 votes
6.1
66 votes
One Against the Wind (TV)
1991 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Larry Elikann
Cast Judy Davis · Sam Neill · Anthony Higgins · Christien Anholt
Plot Mary Linden works for the French Red Cross in Occupied France during World War II and helps allied soldiers who have been shot down to escape to the unoccupied side....
5.5
43 votes
5.5
43 votes
The Awakening
1980 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Mike Newell
Cast Charlton Heston · Susannah York · Jill Townsend · Stephanie Zimbalist
Plot An American archaeologist is in Egypt with his pregnant wife, searching for the tomb of a long-lost Egyptian queen. At the same moment he discovers the tomb and opens it's...
5.3
375 votes
5.3
375 votes
Joseph Andrews
1977 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Tony Richardson
Cast Ann-Margret · Michael Hordern · Jim Dale · Peter Bull
Plot Peter Firth stars in this picaresque tale as Joseph Andrews, a young servant switched at birth who undergoes a series of romantic escapades. Joseph even has the fortune of becoming...
5.3
95 votes
5.3
95 votes
The Spiral Staircase
1975 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Collinson
Cast Jacqueline Bisset · Christopher Plummer · John Phillip Law · Sam Wanamaker
5.2
273 votes
5.2
273 votes
Martin’s Day
1985 · Movie · 98 min. · Canada
Direction Alan Gibson
Cast Richard Harris · Lindsay Wagner · James Coburn · Justin Henry
Plot Threatened with recapture after a prison escape, Martin Steckert grabs a 12-year-old kid as hostage. He proves to be named Martin, too - a quiet "good little boy" always obeying...
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The Man Who Had Power Over Women
1970 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Krish
Cast Rod Taylor · Carol White · James Booth · Penelope Horner
Plot A successful talent agent enjoys the good life until his wife leaves him. He moves in with his friend and begins an affair with the man's wife. He also gets...
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Golden Rendezvous
1977 · Movie · 109 min. · South Africa
Direction Ashley Lazarus · Freddie Francis
Cast Richard Harris · Ann Turkel · Gordon Jackson · John Vernon
Plot The action of "The Guns of Navarone." The suspense of "Ice Station Zebra." The drama of "Where Eagles Dare."
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Foreign Affairs (TV)
1993 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Jim O'Brien
Cast Joanne Woodward · Brian Dennehy · Eric Stoltz · Stephanie Beacham
Plot Two couples find love and comfort in London. A reserved, but lonely aging American female college professor meets a self-confident, married, but disillusioned aging American and aging English actress meets...
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Young Catherine (TV)
1991 · Movie · 150 min. · United States
Direction Michael Anderson
Cast Julia Ormond · Franco Nero · Christopher Plummer · Vanessa Redgrave
Plot A German princess is chosen to marry the heir to the Russian Throne, but faces plots and intrigues against her.
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Miracle at Midnight (TV)
1998 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Ken Cameron
Cast Sam Waterston · Mia Farrow · Justin Whalin · Patrick Malahide
Plot Set in September, 1945, (five years after the German occupation of Denmark began) word gets out that the Nazis will begin arresting Danish Jews, which ignites a citizens resistance movement....
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The House That Mary Bought (TV)
1995 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Simon MacCorkindale
Cast Susan George · Ben Cross · Charlotte Valandrey · Maurice Thorogood
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