Screenplay: Hans Jacoby

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


It Happened in Broad Daylight

1958 · Movie · 96 min. · Switzerland

Direction Ladislao Vajda

Cast Heinz Rühmann · Sigfrit Steiner · Siegfried Lowitz · Michel Simon

Plot Several young girls were killed. Policeman Matthaei travels to the region where it happened and searches a child that looks similar to the ones that were murdered. He finds one...

7.7

6K votes

7.7

6K votes

There's No Tomorrow

1939 · Movie · 82 min. · France

Direction Max Ophüls

Cast Edwige Feuillère · George Rigaud · Daniel Lecourtois · Mady Berry

Plot Melodrama of the wife of a dissolute man who widowed, earns her living in a nightclub and goes away rather than let her lover take her to Canada with him.

7.2

231 votes

7.2

231 votes

Sirocco

1951 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Curtis Bernhardt

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Märta Torén · Lee J. Cobb · Everett Sloane

Plot A cynical American expatriate gets involved in smuggling and gun-running for the rebels during the 1925 Syrian insurgency against French occupation.

6.3

506 votes

6.3

506 votes

She Wouldn't Say Yes

1945 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast Rosalind Russell · Lee Bowman · Adele Jergens · Charles Winninger

Plot Susan Lane is a gifted psychiatrist, grounded in self-control. Before returning by train to her practice in Chicago, she spends time back East with war veterans, building their self-esteem, but...

6.1

38 votes

6.1

38 votes

Champagne for Caesar

1950 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Richard Whorf

Cast Ronald Colman · Celeste Holm · Vincent Price · Barbara Britton

Plot Beauregard Bottomley is a eccentric but unemployed genius who confidently believes he knows everything and is able to back up his claim. After being rejected in a job interview by...

6.0

26 votes

6.0

26 votes

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

1943 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Manning

Cast Deanna Durbin · Edmond O'Brien · Barry Fitzgerald · Arthur Treacher

Plot A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.

5.5

59 votes

5.5

59 votes

Tarzan and the Amazons

1945 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Kurt Neumann

Cast Johnny Weissmuller · Brenda Joyce · Johnny Sheffield · Henry Stephenson

Plot A group of archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of women. He refuses, but Boy is tricked into doing the job. The...

5.3

563 votes

5.3

563 votes

Carnival Story

1954 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Kurt Neumann

Cast Anne Baxter · Steve Cochran · Lyle Bettger · George Nader

Plot In search of better business, a big American carnival opens in Munich, Germany. Joe the barker befriends attractive pickpocket Willie, finds her a job, and beds her. Then high diver...

5.3

43 votes

5.3

43 votes

Doña Francisquita

1934 · Movie · 80 min. · Spain

Direction Hans Behrendt

Cast Raquel Rodrigo · Antonio Palacios · Matilde Vázquez · Manuel Vico

Plot Francisquita is in love with student and would-be poet, Fernando. He, however, is infatuated with the fiery actress Aurora la Beltrana, who in turn is the lover of Lorenzo Pérez....

5.3

30 votes

5.3

30 votes

Tarzan's Savage Fury

1952 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Cy Endfield

Cast Lex Barker · Dorothy Hart · Patric Knowles · Charles Korvin

Plot Tarzan's cousin comes to Africa in hopes that Tarzan will help him secure a fortune in diamonds essential to England's military security. The cousin is immediately killed off by his...

5.0

74 votes

5.0

74 votes

Tarzan and the Slave Girl

1950 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Lee Sholem

Cast Lex Barker · Vanessa Brown · Robert Alda · Hurd Hatfield

Plot The Lionians are a tribe dying of a mysterious disease. Their Chief decides to kidnap Jane and Lola, a half-breed nurse, in order to help repopulate his civilization. Tarzan must...

4.7

54 votes

4.7

54 votes

A Nearly Decent Girl

1963 · Movie · 89 min. · Spain

4.2

41 votes

4.2

41 votes

A Man Goes Through the Wall

1959 · Movie · 99 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

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Portrait of an Unknown Woman

1954 · Movie · 100 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Helmut Käutner

Cast Ruth Leuwerik · O.W. Fischer · Erich Schellow · Irene von Meyendorff

Plot Keller, a painter, while at the ballet is impressed with the beauty of Nicole and sketches her head on the body of a nude model. When it is shown, it...

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The Liar

1961 · Movie · 90 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Ladislao Vajda

Cast Heinz Rühmann · Giulia Follina · Annemarie Düringer · Blandine Ebinger

Plot Mr. Schumann tells his little daughter a lot of lies about himself, so she can be proud of her father.

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Story of San Michele

1962 · Movie · 134 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

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Happy Go Lucky

1943 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Curtis Bernhardt

Cast Mary Martin · Dick Powell · Betty Hutton · Eddie Bracken

Plot To land a rich husband, golddigger Marjory Stuart goes to Trinidad posing as a debutante. Beach boy Pete promptly unmasks her, but offers to help her catch his enemy, yachtsman...

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Not rated

Reunion in Reno

1951 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Kurt Neumann

Cast Mark Stevens · Peggy Dow · Gigi Perreau · Frances Dee

Plot A little girl enlists the aid of an attorney to obtain a divorce from her parents.

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Judge and Juvenile

1960 · Movie · 94 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

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Circus of Love

1954 · Movie · 93 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Kurt Neumann

Cast Eva Bartok · Curd Jürgens · Bernhard Wicki · Robert Freitag

Plot Lilli is broke. Her friend Toni introduces her into the world of the circus, with which later goes on a trip. During the trip Lilli falls for the daring circus...

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Not rated