Screenplay: Charles A. Kaufman
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Charles A. Kaufman. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Freud
1962 · Movie · 139 min. · United States
Direction John Huston
Cast Montgomery Clift · Susannah York · Larry Parks · Susan Kohner
Plot This pseudo-biographical movie depicts 5 years from 1885 on in the live of the Viennan psychologist Freud (1856-1939). At this time, most of his colleagues refuse to cure hysteric patients,...
6.8
1K votes
6.8
1K votes
Let There Be Light
1946 · Documentary · 58 min. · United States
Direction John Huston
Plot The final entry in a trilogy of films produced for the U.S. government by John Huston. This documentary film follows 75 U.S. soldiers who have sustained debilitating emotional trauma and...
6.8
237 votes
6.8
237 votes
The Story of Esther Costello
1957 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David Miller
Cast Joan Crawford · Rossano Brazzi · Heather Sears · Lee Patterson
Plot Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is talked into helping to educate...
6.6
33 votes
6.6
33 votes
Bridge to the Sun
1961 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Etienne Périer
Cast Carroll Baker · James Shigeta · James Yagi · Tetsurô Tanba
Plot An American woman marries a Japanese diplomat on the eve of World War II... In 1930, while vacationing in Washington, D. C., Tennessee-born Gwen Harold falls in love with and...
6.3
53 votes
6.3
53 votes
Breakfast for Two
1937 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Alfred Santell
Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Herbert Marshall · Glenda Farrell · Eric Blore
Plot Texas socialite Valentine Ransome sets out to reform playboy Jonathan Blair and also to break up his engagement with actress Carol Wallace. Happy-go-lucky Blair has inherited a big steamship company...
5.9
98 votes
5.9
98 votes
The Saint in New York
1938 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Ben Holmes
Cast Louis Hayward · Kay Sutton · Sig Ruman · Jonathan Hale
Plot The Saint is a cold-blooded murderer, redeemed by the fact that all of his victims are notorious gangsters who'd otherwise elude the clutches of the law. Hired by a coterie...
5.7
30 votes
5.7
30 votes
The Racers
1955 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Henry Hathaway
Cast Kirk Douglas · Bella Darvi · Gilbert Roland · Cesar Romero
5.5
57 votes
5.5
57 votes
Return to Paradise
1953 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Mark Robson
Cast Gary Cooper · Barry Jones · Roberta Haynes · Moira Walker
Plot Based on the short story "Mr. Morgan" from "Return To Paradise" (James Michener's sequel to "Tales of the South Pacific"). Morgan (Gary Cooper), a drifter and soldier-of-fortune washes up on...
5.5
367 votes
5.5
367 votes
Blond Cheat
1938 · Movie · 62 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Santley
Cast Joan Fontaine · Derrick De Marney · Cecil Kellaway · Cecil Cunningham
Plot Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, is the chief assistant to Rufus Trent, wealthy London loan broker. He has allowed himself to become engaged to the Rufus' daughter, Roberta, the match engineered...
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Exposed
1938 · Movie · 63 min. · United States
Direction Harold D. Schuster
Cast Glenda Farrell · Otto Kruger · Herbert Mundin · Charles D. Brown
Plot A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted.
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Model Wife
1941 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Leigh Jason
Cast Dick Powell · Joan Blondell · Charles Ruggles · Lee Bowman
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Cynthia
1947 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Robert Z. Leonard
Cast Elizabeth Taylor · George Murphy · S.Z. Sakall · Mary Astor
Plot Sickly girl finds an outlet in music.
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Maid's Night Out
1938 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction Ben Holmes
Cast Joan Fontaine · Allan Lane · Billy Gilbert · Cecil Kellaway
Plot A millionaire's son works as a milkman for a month to win a bet with his father. While delivering milk he falls in love with a young debutante whom he...
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Paris Calling
1941 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Edwin L. Marin
Cast Elisabeth Bergner · Randolph Scott · Basil Rathbone · Gale Sondergaard
Plot Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government official, flees the city when the goose-stepping Nazi storm-troopers arrive. When her mother dies on the road to...
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