Screenplay: Edgar Allan Poe

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Edgar Allan Poe. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Drug-Taking and the Arts

1993 · Documentary · 120 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Storm Thorgerson

Cast Bernard Hill · Phil Daniels · Patrick Barlow · John McEnery

Plot How drugs have influenced artistic production in the course of the last 200 years, focusing on major European and American literary figures and visual artists.

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The Black Cat

1966 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Harold Hoffman

Cast Robert Frost · Robyn Baker · Sadie French · Scotty McKay

Plot A mentally unbalanced man is obsessed with the idea that a black cat is possessed. He tortures and kills it. Later, he comes to believe that the cat has returned...

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The Cask of Amontillado (S)

2014 · Movie · 11 min. · United States

Direction William Joyce · Joe Bluhm

Plot Deep beneath the streets of Italy lie the catacombs of the Montresors, filled with barrels of wine and the bones of the dead. One evening, friends Fortunado and Montresor venture...

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The House of Usher

1989 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Alan Birkinshaw

Cast Oliver Reed · Donald Pleasence · Romy Windsor · Rufus Swart

Plot An updated version of the classic horror tale by Edgar Allen Poe. Ryan and his girlfriend Molly are going to visit Ryan's uncle, Roderick Usher, at his mansion. They find,...

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The Tell-Tale Heart

2016 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction John La Tier

Cast Patrick Flueger · Rose McGowan · Peter Bogdanovich · Jacob Vargas

Plot A haunting account of a tormented man who continually re-admits himself into a medical facility, in a futile attempt to escape from his pending madness. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's,...

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The Fall of the House of Usher

1979 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction James L. Conway

Cast Martin Landau · Charlene Tilton · Ray Walston · Robert Hays

Plot It is the year 1839. Architect Jonathan Criswell receives a letter from his old friend Roderick Usher asking Jonathan to come and see him. Arriving along with his newlywed wife...

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The Fall of the House of Usher (S)

1942 · Movie · 10 min. · United States

Direction Curtis Harrington

Cast Curtis Harrington · Robert Macleay

Plot THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER is the original film (made by Curtis Harrington when he was in high school) from which USHER is based.

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Lady Usher

2020 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction George Adams

Cast Theresa Santiago · Billie D. Merritt · John Tupy · John Ferguson

Plot An updated re-telling based in the Gothic South with the Usher Family, led by Mother. The family has been cursed by madness, unrequited love and when Roderick comes home with...

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