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

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

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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...

Not rated

Not rated