Screenplay: Dennis Shryack

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


Pale Rider

1985 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Clint Eastwood

Cast Clint Eastwood · Sydney Penny · Michael Moriarty · Chris Penn

Plot A cadre of men employed by powerful strip-miner Coy LaHood (Richard Dysart) rides into a small mining encampment and begins shooting up the place. One of the terrorists kills the...

7.4

19K votes

7.4

19K votes

The Gauntlet

1977 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Clint Eastwood

Cast Clint Eastwood · Sondra Locke · Pat Hingle · William Prince

Plot In Phoenix, the alcoholic and mediocre detective Ben Shockley is assigned by the Chief Commissary Blakelock to bring the witness Gus Mally from Las Vegas for a minor trial. Shockley...

6.0

6K votes

6.0

6K votes

Flashpoint

1984 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction William Tannen

Cast Kris Kristofferson · Treat Williams · Rip Torn · Kevin Conway

Plot Two Texas border guards find a jeep buried for 20 years in the desert, with a skeleton, a scoped rifle, and a box with $800,000 in cash. They decide to...

5.7

35 votes

5.7

35 votes

The Car

1977 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Elliot Silverstein

Cast James Brolin · Kathleen Lloyd · John Marley · Ronny Cox

Plot While traveling through the desert nearby the small town of Santa Ynez on their bicycles to camp, two teenage bicyclers are murdered by a mysterious black car. Then the car...

5.7

592 votes

5.7

592 votes

Run

1991 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

5.6

315 votes

5.6

315 votes

The Good Guys and the Bad Guys

1969 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

5.5

261 votes

5.5

261 votes

Cadence

1990 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Martin Sheen

Cast Charlie Sheen · Martin Sheen · Laurence Fishburne · Jay Brazeau

Plot Charlie Sheen plays a rebellious inmate in an Army stockade.

5.4

206 votes

5.4

206 votes

Turner & Hooch

1989 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Roger Spottiswoode

Cast Tom Hanks · Mare Winningham · Reginald Veljohnson · Craig T. Nelson

Plot Scott Turner has 3 days left in the local police department before he moves to a bigger city to get some "real" cases, not just misdemeanors. Then Amos Reed is...

4.8

13K votes

4.8

13K votes

Revenge on the Highway (TV)

1992 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Craig R. Baxley

Cast Stacy Keach · Lisa Banes · Tom Bower · Thomas Wilson Brown

Plot At his wedding Claude Sams has an argument with his son about his life-style; in anger Paul leaves. Together with a friend he sets out for Vegas to search a...

4.7

24 votes

4.7

24 votes

4.7

70 votes

Rent-a-Cop

1987 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Jerry London

Cast Burt Reynolds · Liza Minnelli · James Remar · Richard Masur

Plot When call-girl Della (Liza Minnelli) gets caught in the middle of a drug bust at a hotel where she was meeting a trick, she is held hostage by a robber...

4.2

125 votes

4.2

125 votes

Code of Silence

1985 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

4.0

972 votes

4.0

972 votes

Hero and the Terror

1988 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction William Tannen

Cast Chuck Norris · Brynn Thayer · Steve James · Jack O'Halloran

Plot Danny O'Brien is back in action fighting the notorious Simon Moon, also known as The Terror. Three years earlier O'Brien had single-handedly captured The Terror and was called Hero by...

4.0

518 votes

4.0

518 votes

Aces 'N Eights (TV)

2008 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Craig R. Baxley

Cast Casper Van Dien · Bruce Boxleitner · Ernest Borgnine · Jeff Kober

Plot Already taking a gamble settling in the uncharted west, the peaceful settlers of a town destined for railroad greatness suddenly find themselves being ruthlessly gunned down. With no law and...

2.7

165 votes

2.7

165 votes

Fifty/Fifty

1992 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Charles Martin Smith

Cast Peter Weller · Robert Hays · Charles Martin Smith · Lim Kay Tong

Plot Two bickering mercenaries are hired by the CIA to overthrow a South East Asian dictator.

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Malevolent

2002 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction John Terlesky

Cast Lou Diamond Phillips · Edoardo Ballerini · Kari Wuhrer · Gwen McGee

Plot Detective Jack Lucas, a harried, self-hating, Los Angeles police detective races against the clock to clear his name when he's framed for a series of killings committed by a crafty...

Not rated

Not rated