Screenplay: Peter Barnes

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


The Ruling Class

1972 · Movie · 154 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Medak

Cast Peter O'Toole · Alastair Sim · Arthur Lowe · Harry Andrews

Plot A member of the House of Lords dies in a shockingly silly way, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son is insane: he thinks he is Jesus Christ....

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6.6

212 votes

6.6

212 votes

Enchanted April

1992 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mike Newell

Cast Joan Plowright · Miranda Richardson · Polly Walker · Alfred Molina

Plot This slow-paced gem is about the civilizing influence of Italy on beleaguered Londoners both male and female and has it's own civilizing influence on the viewer. It's almost like taking...

6.2

382 votes

6.2

382 votes

Merlin (TV Miniseries)

1998 · Series · 182 min. · United States

Direction Steve Barron

Cast Sam Neill · Helena Bonham Carter · Miranda Richardson · John Gielgud

Plot In a time long past, when magic was fading from the world of men, the malevolent sorceress Mab (Miranda Richardson) summoned forth a mighty wizard to keep the power of...

5.8

3K votes

5.8

3K votes

A Christmas Carol (TV)

1999 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction David Hugh Jones

Cast Patrick Stewart · Richard E. Grant · Joel Grey · Ian McNeice

Plot Adaptation of Charles Dickens' story "A Christmas Carol." A crotchety, old misanthrope, Ebenezer Scrooge, experiences an epiphany on Christmas Eve when he revisits his wretched past and is permitted to...

5.7

312 votes

5.7

312 votes

Arabian Nights (TV Miniseries)

2000 · Series · 175 min. · United States

Direction Steve Barron

Cast Jason Scott Lee · John Leguizamo · Mili Avital · Alan Bates

Plot To cure a prince's murderous madness, Scheherezade tells him a series of wonderous stories.

5.6

346 votes

5.6

346 votes

The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns (TV Miniseries)

1999 · Series · 172 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Henderson

Cast Randy Quaid · Whoopi Goldberg · Roger Daltrey · Colm Meaney

Plot American businessman Jack Woods rents a cottage on the enchanted Emerald Isle which is occupied by a family of leprechauns. Leprechaun Seamus Muldoon's son and son's friends crash the fairies'...

5.5

919 votes

5.5

919 votes

Not with My Wife, You Don't!

1966 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction Norman Panama

Cast Tony Curtis · Virna Lisi · George C. Scott · Carroll O'Connor

Plot During the Korean War, Italian nurse Virna Lisi falls in love with two American fliers, Tony Curtis and George C. Scott. Lisi marries Curtis after he convinces her that Scott...

5.1

53 votes

5.1

53 votes

Noah's Ark (TV Miniseries)

1999 · Series · 160 min. · United States

Direction John Irvin

Cast Jon Voight · Mary Steenburgen · F. Murray Abraham · Carol Kane

Plot Noah is an ordinary laborer who one day begins receiving messages from God. It seems the Lord has a special assignment for him: since God is planning on destroying the...

4.2

979 votes

4.2

979 votes

Hard Times (TV Miniseries)

1994 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

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Violent Moment

1959 · Movie · 61 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sidney Hayers

Cast Lyndon Brook · Jane Hylton · Jill Browne · John Paul

Plot Douglas Baines, a wartime army deserter, is lying low in a shabby flat with his girlfriend Daisy and the couple's small son, Jiffy. Returning home with a toy for Jiffy's...

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Spaghetti House

1982 · Movie · 103 min. · Italy

Direction Giulio Paradisi

Cast Nino Manfredi · Rita Tushingham · Rudolph Walker · Leo Gullotta

Plot Three black militants kidnap the waiters in an Italian restaurant in London. Soon the victims befriend their kidnappers.

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The White Trap

1959 · Movie · 58 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sidney Hayers

Cast Lee Patterson · Conrad Phillips · Michael Goodliffe · Jack Allen

Plot Serving a jail sentence for a crime he didn't commit, Paul Langley makes several attempts to escape from prison, in order to clear his name. He also has other problems,...

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Not rated

Offbeat

1961 · Movie · 71 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Cliff Owen

Cast William Sylvester · Mai Zetterling · John Meillon · Anthony Dawson

Plot An MI5 officer goes undercover to catch a criminal gang.

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The Professionals

1960 · Movie · 61 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Don Sharp

Cast William Lucas · Andrew Faulds · Colette Wilde · Stratford Johns

Plot A renowned safecracker and his crew try to rob a bank by entering the vault through the sewer system.

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The Moon and the Stars

2007 · Movie · 98 min. · Italy

Direction John Irvin

Cast Jonathan Pryce · Alfred Molina · Catherine McCormack · András Bálint

Plot 1939: Rome stands on the brink of World War II. In the midst of this political and social tension famed producer Davide Rieta (Alfred Molina) is making a major film....

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Breakout

1959 · Movie · 62 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Graham Scott

Cast Lee Patterson · Hazel Court · William Lucas · John Paul

Plot A government official arranges prison breaks as a sideline, but the police steps in and his gang is caught.

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Voices

1995 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Malcolm Clarke

Cast Jeremy Northam · Tushka Bergen · Allan Corduner · Hilton McRae

Plot A story about real life early 20th century British composer and music critic Philip Arnold Heseltine.

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Ring of Treason

1964 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Tronson

Cast Bernard Lee · William Sylvester · Margaret Tyzack · David Kossoff

Plot During the Cold War, a RN warrant officer stationed in the British Embassy in Warsaw leaks secrets to his Polish girlfriend who's a Soviet agent and after his transfer to...

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Not rated