Screenplay: Frederick Forsyth

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


The Day of the Jackal

1973 · Movie · 141 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Edward Fox · Michael Lonsdale · Derek Jacobi · Alan Badel

Plot Year 1963. President De Gaulle decides to grant independence to French Algeria, several of the soldiers, who fought in that campaign, feel that De Gaulle is belittling the lives of...

7.5

9K votes

7.5

9K votes

Love Never Dies

2012 · Movie · 121 min. · Australia

Direction Brett Sullivan · Simon Phillips

Cast Ben Lewis · Anna O'Byrne · Simon Gleeson · María Mercedes

Plot Love Never Dies is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Glenn Slater and later Charles Hart, and book by Lloyd Webber, Slater and Ben Elton. It...

7.0

100 votes

7.0

100 votes

The Odessa File

1974 · Movie · 123 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Jon Voight · Maximilian Schell · Maria Schell · Mary Tamm

Plot After reading the diary of an eldery Jewish man who commited suicide, freelance journalist Peter Miller begins to investigate the alleged sighting of a former SS-Captain who commanded a concentration...

6.8

3K votes

6.8

3K votes

The Fourth Protocol

1987 · Movie · 119 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Mackenzie

Cast Pierce Brosnan · Michael Caine · Joanna Cassidy · Ned Beatty

Plot Caine plays a senior British administrator who is part of the intelligence establishment. When his findings offend his superiors he is reassigned to a customs post. While there he finds...

6.4

4K votes

6.4

4K votes

The Dogs of War

1980 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction John Irvin

Cast Christopher Walken · Tom Berenger · Colin Blakely · Hugh Millais

Plot Mercenary James Shannon, on a reconnaissance job to the African nation of Zangaro, is tortured and deported. He returns to lead a coup.

5.7

1K votes

5.7

1K votes

The Shepherd

2023 · Movie · 38 min. · United States

Direction Iain Softley

Cast Ben Radcliffe · John Travolta · Steven Mackintosh · Luca Slade

Plot On Christmas Eve, a fighter pilot on his way home gets lost mid-flight over water and needs a miracle to land safely.

5.5

293 votes

5.5

293 votes

Frederick Forsyth's Icon (TV)

2005 · Movie · 160 min. · United States

Direction Charles Martin Smith

Cast Patrick Swayze · Annika Peterson · Patrick Bergin · Ben Cross

Plot In this taut political thriller, Patrick Swayze is a former CIA operative called back into service to stop a sinister Russian presidential candidate whose manifesto outlines plans to put the...

4.5

188 votes

4.5

188 votes

Avenger (TV)

2006 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Robert Markowitz

Cast Sam Elliott · Timothy Hutton · Jamie Bartlett · David Hayman

Plot AVENGER tells the story of Cal Dexter (Sam Elliott), whose duty during the Vietnam War was to locate and destroy the jungle hideouts of the enemy. But today he's nothing...

4.2

101 votes

4.2

101 votes

Cry of the Innocent (TV)

1980 · Movie · 93 min. · Ireland

Direction Michael O'Herlihy

Cast Rod Taylor · Joanna Pettet · Nigel Davenport · Cyril Cusack

Plot A Green Beret-veteran businessman investigates the plane crash in Ireland that killed his family.

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Frederick Forsyth Presents (TV Series)

1989 · Series · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lawrence Gordon Clark · Tom Clegg

Cast Alan Howard · Richard Hope · David Threlfall · Mike Farrell

Plot Frederick Forsyth, the internationally acclaimed author of Day of the Jackal, The Fourth Protocol and The Negotiator, is the creator and presenter of this series of six original and exciting...

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Code Name: Wolverine (TV)

1996 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction David Jackson

Cast Antonio Sabato Jr. · Traci Lind · Danny Quinn · Richard Brooks

Plot Harry Gordini, college professor and ex-Navy Seal, becomes caught in a war between a ruthless drug cartel and the United States government when a group of international terrorists kidnaps his...

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A Little Piece of Sunshine (TV)

1990 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction James Cellan Jones

Cast Larry Lamb · Chris Cooper · Philip Michael Thomas · Kitty Aldridge

Plot Sunshine, an idyllic and almost forgotten island under British rule, is shortly to become independent. But a few days before this event is to take place, the British governor of...

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