Screenplay: Richard Maxwell

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


The Serpent and the Rainbow

1988 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Wes Craven

Cast Bill Pullman · Cathy Tyson · Zakes Mokae · Paul Winfield

Plot Dennis is a Harvard anthropologist and is called up by his old professor with a job for a pharmaceutical company. He is to go to Haiti and investigate the rumors...

5.9

3K votes

5.9

3K votes

The Challenge

1982 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction John Frankenheimer

Cast Scott Glenn · Toshirô Mifune · Donna Kei Benz · Atsuo Nakamura

Plot A down-and-out American boxer becomes involved in a feud between two Japanese brothers.

5.3

302 votes

5.3

302 votes

Shadow of China

1989 · Movie · 131 min. · Japan

Direction Mitsuo Yanagimachi

Cast John Lone · Koichi Sato · Sammi Davis · Vivian Wu

Plot During Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, idealistic anticommunist Henry Wong fled mainland China as a political refugee with his then girlfriend, Moo-Ling. He built himself a new life in Hong Kong...

Not rated

Not rated