Screenplay: Walter Reisch

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


Ninotchka

1939 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Greta Garbo · Melvyn Douglas · Bela Lugosi · Ina Claire

Synopsis Ninotchka is a stern, straightlaced Communist Party member sent to Paris to finish the sale of Grand Duchess Swana's jewels for the Soviet government. But, while studying the frivolous materialism of Paris, Ninotchka meets Leon, Swana's lawyer and sometime lover,...

8.0

15K votes

8.0

15K votes

Gaslight

1944 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Charles Boyer · Ingrid Bergman · Joseph Cotten · Dame May Whitty

Synopsis In Gaslight (1944), a young woman named Paula moves into her late aunt's London home with her charming new husband, Gregory. As time passes, Paula begins to experience strange occurrences: missing items, mysterious footsteps, and flickering gaslights. Gregory insists she's...

8.0

8K votes

8.0

8K votes

Niagara

1953 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Marilyn Monroe · Joseph Cotten · Jean Peters · Denis O'Dea

Synopsis George and Rose Loomis are honeymooning at a Niagara Falls motel. She plots with Ted Patrick to do him in, but all does not go smoothly. For one thing, after Loomis is reported missing Polly Cutler spies him at the...

7.0

5K votes

7.0

5K votes

Masquerade in Vienna

1934 · Movie · 90 min. · Austria

Direction Willi Forst

Cast Paula Wessely · Anton Walbrook · Peter Petersen · Walter Janssen

Synopsis Vienna 1905: After a carnival party the famous painter Heidenick draws his otherwise engaged girlfriend Anita Helfer with very few clothes on, only blurs her face. The image makes it into the newspaper the next day - but since he...

7.0

57 votes

7.0

57 votes

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing

1955 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Richard Fleischer

Cast Ray Milland · Farley Granger · Joan Collins · Glenda Farrell

Synopsis Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, is given the full biopic treatment in 20th Century Fox's The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing. Since the real Mrs. Thaw served as technical advisor for the film, it isn't surprising that the controversial Evelyn comes...

6.7

282 votes

6.7

282 votes

The Fan

1949 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Jeanne Crain · Madeleine Carroll · George Sanders · Richard Greene

Synopsis Lord Windermere appears to all -including to his young wife Margaret - as the perfect husband. But their happy marriage is placed at risk when Lord Windermere starts spending his afternoons with an adventuress who is working her way through...

6.6

308 votes

6.6

308 votes

Journey to the Center of the Earth

1959 · Movie · 127 min. · United States

Direction Henry Levin

Cast Pat Boone · James Mason · Diane Baker · Arlene Dahl

Synopsis Prof. Lindenbrook leads his intrepid party on an expedition to the centre of the earth, via a volcano in Iceland, encountering all manner of prehistoric monsters and life-threatening hazards on the way.

6.6

4K votes

6.6

4K votes

That Hamilton Woman

1941 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alexander Korda

Cast Vivien Leigh · Laurence Olivier · Alan Mowbray · Sara Allgood

Synopsis Sir William Hamilton, a widower of mature years, is British ambassador to the Court of Naples. Emma who comes for a visit with her mother wouldn't cut the grade with London society but she gets along well with the Queen...

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6.6

430 votes

6.6

430 votes

The Great Waltz

1938 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Julien Duvivier · Victor Fleming · Josef von Sternberg

Cast Fernand Gravey · Luise Rainer · Miliza Korjus · Hugh Herbert

Synopsis Take the story of a man torn between two women, add the music of Johann Strauss and the scenery of 1840's Vienna and you have The Great Waltz, an irresistible cream puff of a movie. Miliza Korjus-rhymes with gorgeous and...

6.4

95 votes

6.4

95 votes

Titanic

1953 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Clifton Webb · Barbara Stanwyck · Robert Wagner · Audrey Dalton

Synopsis Unhappily married and uncomfortable with life among the British upper crust, Julia Sturges takes her two children and boards the Titanic for America. Her husband Richard also arranges passage on the doomed luxury liner in order to let him have...

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

The Model and the Marriage Broker

1951 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Jeanne Crain · Scott Brady · Thelma Ritter · Zero Mostel

Synopsis Marriage broker Mae Swasey, who somewhat cynically arranges her loser clients' affairs, meets model Kitty Bennett and can't resist meddling in her life, by disentangling her from a married man and fixing her up with a nice radiologist. Of course...

6.2

39 votes

6.2

39 votes

The Heavenly Body

1944 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall · Vincente Minnelli

Cast William Powell · Hedy Lamarr · James Craig · Fay Bainter

Synopsis Astronomer Powell, pre-occupied with recent developments in his work, doesn't devote sufficient time to his marriage, so wife Hedy seeks guidance from the neighborhood astrologer.

4.9

51 votes

4.9

51 votes

A Tango for You

1930 · Movie · 102 min. · Germany

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The Prince from Arcadien

1932 · Movie · 89 min. · Germany

Direction Karl Hartl

Cast Willi Forst · Liane Haid · Hedwig Bleibtreu · Ingeborg Grahn

Synopsis Both the King and his son have been deposed by popular demand. The now Prinz of Arkadia certainly enjoys his new role, which without much changing his lifestyle leaves him free to concentrate on his main interest -women. Including an...

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F.P.1 Doesn't Answer

1932 · Movie · 114 min. · Germany

Direction Karl Hartl

Cast Hans Albers · Sybille Schmitz · Paul Hartmann · Peter Lorre

Synopsis Urged by famous airman Ellissen the Lennartz Company puts into reality the project proposed by his friend Droste: F.P.1, a huge floating platform in the Atlantic that makes long-distance flights viable. Ellissen is in love with company heiress Claire, but...

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The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker

1959 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Henry Levin

Cast Clifton Webb · Dorothy McGuire · Charles Coburn · Jill St. John

Synopsis In early 1900s' Pennsylvania, Mr. Pennypacker has two company offices and two families with a combined total of 17 children. With an office in Harrisburg and an office in Philadelphia, he has successfully kept two separate homes. However, when an...

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Not rated

F. P. 1 Doesn't Answer

1933 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Karl Hartl

Cast Conrad Veidt · Jill Esmond · Leslie Fenton · George Merritt

Synopsis A gigantic floating platform is built in the mid-Atlantic for use as a oceanic airport. However, its destruction seems imminent at the hands of foreign saboteurs.

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Escapade

1935 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast William Powell · Luise Rainer · Frank Morgan · Virginia Bruce

Synopsis Set somewhere in Vienna in the 1900s (decade), the film opens with a successful surgeon (Morgan), feeing[clarification needed] for the affection of his wife (Bruce). As does his brother, a concert conductor (Owen), for his flirtatious gal (Christians). Both women...

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Stopover Tokyo

1957 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Richard L. Breen

Cast Robert Wagner · Joan Collins · Edmond O'Brien · Ken Scott

Synopsis An American intelligence agent is sent to Tokyo to track down a Communist spy ring.

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Not rated