Screenplay: Anthony Minghella

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


The Storyteller (TV Series)

1988 · Series · 25 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jim Henson · Steve Barron · Jon Amiel · Peter Smith

Cast John Hurt · Brian Henson · Frederick Warder · David Greenaway

Plot TV Series (1987-1988). 9 Episodes. A variety of European folk tales are retold in nine new stories. A woman bears a hedgehog-child who grows up to live alone in a...

7.6

4K votes

7.6

4K votes

Inspector Morse (TV Series)

1987 · Series · 120 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Madden · Peter Hammond · Herbert Wise · Adrian Shergold

Cast John Thaw · Kevin Whately · James Grout · Peter Woodthorpe

Plot TV Series (1987-2000). 33 episodes. A grouchy but cultured police detective (John Thaw) and his easy going partner (Kevin Whately) investigate crimes around the British community of Oxford. Twenty one...

7.2

128 votes

7.2

128 votes

The English Patient

1996 · Movie · 162 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Minghella

Cast Ralph Fiennes · Kristin Scott Thomas · Juliette Binoche · Willem Dafoe

Plot At the close of WWII, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.

7.1

69K votes

7.1

69K votes

The Talented Mr. Ripley

1999 · Movie · 139 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Minghella

Cast Matt Damon · Gwyneth Paltrow · Jude Law · Cate Blanchett

Plot Set in Italy in the late 1950s, Tom Ripley (Matt Damon) craves the life led by Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law). When Dickie's father, a wealthy ship builder, asks Tom to...

6.8

29K votes

6.8

29K votes

Truly, Madly, Deeply

1990 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Minghella

Cast Alan Rickman · Juliet Stevenson · Bill Paterson · Michael Maloney

Plot Unable to get over the death of her musician lover, a young women gets the shock of her life when he turns up in her apartment--seemingly alive--and helps her back...

6.8

317 votes

6.8

317 votes

The Storyteller: Greek Myths (TV Series)

1990 · Series · 24 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Garfath · John Madden · Tony Smith · Paul Weiland

Cast Michael Gambon · Brian Henson · Mark Ashman · Frances Barber

Plot A storyteller in a labyrinth tells his dog the stories of Perseus and Medusa, Icarus and Daedalus, Theseus and the Minotaur, and Orpheus & Euridyce.

6.7

494 votes

6.7

494 votes

The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency - Pilot Episode (TV)

2008 · Movie · 109 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Minghella

Cast Jill Scott · Lucian Msamati · Anika Noni Rose · Idris Elba

Plot Based on the best-selling novel series by Alexander McCall Smith, "Detective Agency" chronicles the adventures of Precious Ramotswe, the proprietor of the only female-owned detective agency in Botswana. As a...

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6.6

74 votes

6.6

74 votes

Cold Mountain

2003 · Movie · 155 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Minghella

Cast Jude Law · Nicole Kidman · Renée Zellweger · Brendan Gleeson

Plot In the final days of the Civil War, Inman (Jude Law), a wounded Confederate soldier, begins a long journey home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with his pre-war...

6.6

42K votes

6.6

42K votes

Breaking and Entering

2006 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Minghella

Cast Jude Law · Juliette Binoche · Robin Wright · Vera Farmiga

Plot A story about theft, both criminal and emotional, “Breaking & Entering” follows three people whose lives intersect in the inner-city area of King’s Cross. When a landscape architect’s (Jude Law)...

6.1

4K votes

6.1

4K votes

New York, I Love You

2009 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Fatih Akin · Yvan Attal · Randall Balsmeyer · Allen Hughes

Cast Bradley Cooper · Hayden Christensen · Andy García · Rachel Bilson

Plot An anthology film joining several love stories set in one of the most loved cities of the world, New York.

5.5

6K votes

5.5

6K votes

Nine

2009 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Rob Marshall

Cast Daniel Day-Lewis · Marion Cotillard · Penélope Cruz · Kate Hudson

Plot Famous film director Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis) struggles to find harmony in his professional and personal lives, as he engages in dramatic relationships with his wife (Marion Cotillard), his mistress...

5.1

13K votes

5.1

13K votes

Mr. Wonderful

1993 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Minghella

Cast Matt Dillon · Annabella Sciorra · William Hurt · Mary-Louise Parker

Plot Electrician Gus gets the chance to fulfill a childhood dream by buying an old bowling-alley with some of his friends. Unfortunately, due to the alimony payments he has to make...

5.0

688 votes

5.0

688 votes