Screenplay: Walter Reisch
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Walter Reisch. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 57
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...
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
Direction Géza von Bolváry
Cast Willi Forst · Fay Wall · Paul Otto · Oscar Karlweis
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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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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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Colonel Redl
1925 · Movie · 112 min. · Austria
Direction Hans Otto
Cast Robert Valberg · Eugen Neufeld · Harry Norbert · Albert Kersten
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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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