Screenplay: Christopher Wicking

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


The Professionals (TV Series)

1977 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Brian Clemens · William Brayne · Martin Campbell · Dennis C. Lewiston

Cast Gordon Jackson · Martin Shaw · Lewis Collins · Bridget Brice

Plot This TV Series (1977-1983) chronicled the lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to...

6.9

79 votes

6.9

79 votes

Absolute Beginners

1986 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Julien Temple

Cast Eddie O'Connell · Patsy Kensit · David Bowie · James Fox

Plot A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model Crepe Suzette, but her relationships are strictly connected...

5.6

469 votes

5.6

469 votes

The Oblong Box

1969 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gordon Hessler

Cast Vincent Price · Christopher Lee · Alister Williamson · Hilary Dwyer

Plot When Sir Edward is horribly disfigured, he is kept chained and out of sight by his aristocratic brother. But Sir Edward escapes and goes on a killing spree in a...

5.4

438 votes

5.4

438 votes

Blood from the Mummy's Tomb

1971 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Seth Holt · Michael Carreras

Cast Andrew Keir · Valerie Leon · James Villiers · Hugh Burden

Plot An archaelogical expedition brings back the coffin of an Egyptian queen known for her magic powers to London. Her spirit takes on the shape of a young girl and strange...

5.2

191 votes

5.2

191 votes

To the Devil a Daughter

1976 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

5.2

356 votes

5.2

356 votes

Demons of the Mind

1972 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Sykes

Cast Robert Hardy · Shane Briant · Gillian Hills · Patrick Magee

Plot Baron Friedrich Zorn (Robert Hardy) calls Dr. Falkenberg (Patrick Magee), a radical psychologist whose theories have had him evicted from Vienna, to him, and asks Falkenberg to cure the madness...

5.0

94 votes

5.0

94 votes

Murders in the Rue Morgue

1971 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

5.0

81 votes

5.0

81 votes

Cry of the Banshee

1970 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gordon Hessler

Cast Vincent Price · Hilary Dwyer · Carl Rigg · Patrick Mower

Plot The puritanical magistrate Edward Whitman puts the followers of the witch Oona to the death, although deliberately spares her. She swears vengeance for this and calls up a manifestation of...

4.8

136 votes

4.8

136 votes

Lady Chatterley's Lover

1981 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Just Jaeckin

Cast Sylvia Kristel · Shane Briant · Nicholas Clay · Ann Mitchell

Plot A film adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel. After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With...

4.5

178 votes

4.5

178 votes

Scream and Scream Again

1970 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gordon Hessler

Cast Vincent Price · Christopher Lee · Peter Cushing · Alfred Marks

Plot A serial killer, who drains his victims for blood is on the loose in London, the Police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.

4.5

255 votes

4.5

255 votes

On Dangerous Ground (TV)

1996 · Movie · 100 min. · Canada

Direction Lawrence Gordon Clark

Cast Rob Lowe · Kenneth Cranham · Deborah Moore · Jürgen Prochnow

Plot When they learn of a secret covenant on the status of Hong Kong signed by Mao in 1944, Chinese factions, the British government, Hong Kong businessmen, AND the Mafia all...

Not rated

Not rated

Medusa

1973 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gordon Hessler

Cast George Hamilton · Luciana Paluzzi · Cameron Mitchell · Thodoros Roubanis

Plot After a boat is discovered with two bodies on it, the story of Jeffrey and Sarah, a brother and sister living in Greece, unfolds. Sarah has just become engaged to...

Not rated

Not rated

Venom

1971 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Sykes

Cast Simon Brent · Neda Arneric · Sheila Allen · Derek Newark

Plot A Nazi scientist and a woman known as a "spider goddess" attempt to develop a nerve gas made from spider venom.

Not rated

Not rated