Screenplay: Frank Pierson

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


Cool Hand Luke

1967 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction Stuart Rosenberg

Cast Paul Newman · George Kennedy · Dennis Hopper · Harry Dean Stanton

Plot Lucas Jackson, natural born world shaker, someone with more guts than brains, a man who refuses to conform to the rules he has been given. Sent to a prison camp...

7.9

19K votes

7.9

19K votes

Mad Men (TV Series)

2007 · Series · 45 min. · United States

Direction Matthew Weiner · Phil Abraham · Michael Uppendahl · Jennifer Getzinger

Cast Jon Hamm · Elisabeth Moss · Vincent Kartheiser · January Jones

Plot TV Series (2007-2015). 7 Seasons. 92 Episodios. The lives of the men and women who work in an advertising agency in New York in the 1960s. The agency is enjoying...

7.9

33K votes

7.9

33K votes

Dog Day Afternoon

1975 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Al Pacino · John Cazale · Charles Durning · Carol Kane

Plot Based upon a real-life story that happened in the early seventies in which the Chase Manhattan Bank in Flatbush, Brooklyn, was held siege by a gay bank robber determined to...

7.4

19K votes

7.4

19K votes

Presumed Innocent

1990 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Alan J. Pakula

Cast Harrison Ford · Greta Scacchi · Bonnie Bedelia · Brian Dennehy

Plot When a female D.A. is killed, the D.A. assigns his assistant to handle the investigation. Only problem is that he was having an affair with her. And the evidence reveals...

6.7

20K votes

6.7

20K votes

A Star Is Born

2018 · Movie · 135 min. · United States

Direction Bradley Cooper

Cast Bradley Cooper · Lady Gaga · Sam Elliott · Rafi Gavron

Plot Music star Jackson Maine discovers—and falls in love with—struggling artist Ally. She has just about given up on her dream to make it big as a singer… until Jack coaxes...

Max

6.6

27K votes

6.6

27K votes

King of the Gypsies

1978 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

6.1

73 votes

6.1

73 votes

Cat Ballou

1965 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Elliot Silverstein

Cast Lee Marvin · Jane Fonda · Michael Callan · Dwayne Hickman

Plot Cat(herine) Ballou's family farm is being threatened by the Rail Road. She sends for Kid Shelleen, finding him to be the drunkest gunfighter in the west. When her father is...

5.7

905 votes

5.7

905 votes

The Anderson Tapes

1971 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Sean Connery · Dyan Cannon · Martin Balsam · Christopher Walken

Plot A thief (Duke Anderson) just released from ten years in jail, takes up with his old girlfriend (Ingrid) in her posh apartment. He makes plans to rob the entire building....

5.6

795 votes

5.6

795 votes

A Star Is Born

1976 · Movie · 139 min. · United States

Direction Frank Pierson

Cast Barbra Streisand · Kris Kristofferson · Gary Busey · Oliver Clark

Plot Rock star John Norman (Kris Kristofferson) has seen his popularity dwindle and he has difficulties keeping promises to his agent or journalists. He meets the young singer Esther (Barbra Streisand)...

5.6

952 votes

5.6

952 votes

The Looking Glass War

1969 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Frank Pierson

Cast Christopher Jones · Pia Degermark · Ralph Richardson · Paul Rogers

Plot At the height of the Cold War, British Intellegence discovers evidence that suggests Soviet missiles are being positioned close to the German border. With no active agents available to investigate,...

5.4

53 votes

5.4

53 votes

In Country

1989 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Norman Jewison

Cast Bruce Willis · Emily Lloyd · Joan Allen · Kevin Anderson

Plot Samantha Hughes, a teenaged Kentucky girl, never knew her father, who died in Vietnam before her birth. Samantha lives with her uncle Emmett, who also served in Vietnam. Emmett hangs...

5.2

256 votes

5.2

256 votes

The Happening

1967 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Elliot Silverstein

Cast Anthony Quinn · Michael Parks · George Maharis · Robert Walker Jr.

Plot A group of young drifters kidnap wealthy businessman Roc Delmonico just for kicks. They keep him captive, demanding a ransom for his safe release. However there is no one -...

Not rated

Not rated

Have Gun - Will Travel (TV Series)

1957 · Series · 25 min. · United States

Direction Herb Meadow · Sam Rolfe · Andrew V. McLaglen · Richard Boone

Cast Richard Boone · Kam Tong · Hal Needham · Stewart East

Plot Professional gunfighter Paladin was a West Point graduate who, after the Civil War, settled into San Francisco's Hotel Carlton were he awaited responses to his business card: over the picture...

Not rated

Not rated

Empire (TV Series)

1962 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Kathleen Hite · Bernard McEveety · Abner Biberman · John Farrow

Cast Richard Egan · Ryan O'Neal · Anne Seymour · Terry Moore

Plot TV Series (1962-1964). 33 Episodes. Jim Redigo is foreman for the enormous Garrett Ranch owned by matriarch Lucia with her children Tal and Constance. Redigo had his hands full managing...

Not rated

Not rated

Nichols (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Frank Pierson · Ivan Dixon · William Wiard

Cast James Garner · Margot Kidder · Neva Patterson · John Beck

Plot In 1914, Nichols, a soldier, sick of killing, returns to his Arizona hometown, named after his family, and is strong-armed into serving as Sheriff by the Ketcham clan, who run...

Not rated

Not rated

Haywire (TV)

1980 · Movie · 200 min. · United States

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Not rated