Screenplay: Anatole de Grunwald

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Anatole de Grunwald. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Winslow Boy

1948 · Movie · 117 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Asquith

Cast Robert Donat · Cedric Hardwicke · Basil Radford · Margaret Leighton

Synopsis Autumn 1912, Arthur Winslow has retired from the bank. His wife Grace greets him at home. He scolds his 19-year-old son Dickie, an Oxford student, and complains that his 12-year-old brother Ronnie, accepted for the Royal Naval College at Osborne,...

7.0

99 votes

7.0

99 votes

Pygmalion

1938 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Asquith · Leslie Howard

Cast Leslie Howard · Wendy Hiller · Wilfrid Lawson · Marie Lohr

Synopsis The snobbish & intellectual Professor of languages, Henry Higgins makes a bet with his friend that he can take a London flower seller, Eliza Doolittle, from the gutters and pass her off as a society lady. However he discovers that...

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7.0

844 votes

7.0

844 votes

'Pimpernel' Smith

1941 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Leslie Howard

Cast Leslie Howard · Francis L. Sullivan · Mary Morris · Hugh McDermott

Synopsis It is mid-1939 and both Germany and England are preparing for an inevitable conflict. Professor Horatio Smith, an effete academic, asks his students to come with him to the continent to engage in an archaeological dig. When his students discover...

6.6

66 votes

6.6

66 votes

The Way to the Stars

1945 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Asquith

Cast Michael Redgrave · John Mills · Rosamund John · Douglass Montgomery

Synopsis Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh...

6.6

27 votes

6.6

27 votes

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Libel

1959 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Asquith

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Olivia de Havilland · Paul Massie · Robert Morley

Synopsis A California commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interviews with Sir Mark Lodden at his home. The Canadian is convinced that the baronet is a fraud, that he is actually a look-alike actor named Frank Welney. The...

6.5

86 votes

6.5

86 votes

The First of the Few

1942 · Movie · 118 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Leslie Howard

Cast Leslie Howard · David Niven · Rosamund John · Roland Culver

Synopsis By the late 1920's aircraft designer R.J. Mitchell feels he has achieved all he wants with his revolutionary mono-planes winning trophy after trophy. But a holiday in Germany shortly after Hitler assumes power convinces him that it is vital to...

6.1

95 votes

6.1

95 votes

Major Barbara

1941 · Movie · 131 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gabriel Pascal · David Lean · Harold French

Cast Wendy Hiller · Rex Harrison · Robert Morley · Robert Newton

Synopsis Filmed in London in 1941, during the Blitz, Major Barbara emerged from a troubled production to become a major success for George Bernard Shaw and producer-director Gabriel Pascal. Pygmalion’s Wendy Hiller returns, this time as one of Shaw’s most memorable...

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6.0

85 votes

6.0

85 votes

The Doctor's Dilemma

1958 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Asquith

Cast Leslie Caron · Dirk Bogarde · Alastair Sim · Robert Morley

Synopsis Mrs. Dubedat loves and idolizes her artist husband, Louis, but he is dying of tuberculosis. She goes to a doctor and convinces him to save her husband. The doctor can keep only so many patients, and must choose who is...

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Golden Arrow

1949 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gordon Parry

Cast Burgess Meredith · Jean-Pierre Aumont · Paula Valenska · Kathleen Harrison

Synopsis On a journey from Paris to London, a Briton, a Frenchman and an American bond with each other and indulge in a romantic fantasy about a girl they see.

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Bond Street

1948 · Movie · 109 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gordon Parry

Cast Jean Kent · Roland Young · Kathleen Harrison · Derek Farr

Synopsis A young British woman is getting married, and as she goes through her trousseau we see the stories behind four of the items that were bought on Bond Street in London.

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Cottage to Let

1941 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Asquith

Cast Leslie Banks · Jeanne De Casalis · Carla Lehmann · Alastair Sim

Synopsis A wartime cottage on a Scottish estate becomes a focus of attention when not only the new tenant but a London evacuee and a downed fighter pilot all move in. The interest may not be unconnected with the fact that...

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Secret Mission

1942 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Harold French

Cast James Mason · Hugh Williams · Carla Lehmann · Roland Culver

Synopsis In this World War II suspense thriller, three British spies and a French resistance fighter sneak into occupied France to gather infor- mation about the German forces for a planned invasion.

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Quiet Wedding

1941 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

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French Without Tears

1940 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom

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Jeannie

1941 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Harold French

Cast Barbara Mullen · Wilfrid Lawson · Gus McNaughton · Phyllis Stanley

Synopsis Jeannie McLean (Mullen) is a Scottish girl who finds that she has received an inheritance. The film follows her adventures of finding her family castle and being romanced by different men.

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Women of Twilight

1952 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gordon Parry

Cast Freda Jackson · René Ray · Lois Maxwell · Laurence Harvey

Synopsis An unmarried nightclub singer, Vivanne Bruce, is thrown on her own when her lover, Jerry Nolan, is arrested for murder. Searching for a place to live, she eventually finds a room in a boarding-house ran by "Nellie" Alistair, a ruthless...

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Home at Seven

1952 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Ralph Richardson

Cast Ralph Richardson · Margaret Leighton · Jack Hawkins · Campbell Singer

Synopsis David Preston, a bank official goes missing for 24 hours and has no memory of the lost time, but when he learns that the steward of his local club has implicated him in a robbery, and has been found murdered....

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They Met in the Dark

1943 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Karel Lamac

Cast James Mason · Joyce Howard · Tom Walls · Phyllis Stanley

Synopsis A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court martial. He vows to track her and her accomplices down.

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