Screenplay: Scott Frank

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


The Queen's Gambit (TV Miniseries)

2020 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Scott Frank · Allan Scott

Cast Anya Taylor-Joy · Isla Johnston · Annabeth Kelly · Bill Camp

Plot TV Miniseries. 7 one-hour episodios. Kentucky in the 50s. Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game...

7.6

31K votes

7.6

31K votes

Godless (TV Miniseries)

2017 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Scott Frank

Cast Jack O'Connell · Michelle Dockery · Jeff Daniels · Sam Waterston

Plot TV Miniseries (2017). 7 Episodes. Frank Griffin, an outlaw terrorizing the 1880s American West, hunts down Roy Goode, his partner turned enemy. Roy hides out at a ranch as Frank's...

7.5

9K votes

7.5

9K votes

Minority Report

2002 · Movie · 144 min. · United States

Direction Steven Spielberg

Cast Tom Cruise · Colin Farrell · Samantha Morton · Max von Sydow

Plot In the year 2054 A.D. crime is virtually eliminated from Washington D.C. thanks to an elite law enforcing squad "Precrime". They use three genetically altered humans (called "Pre-Cogs") with special...

6.9

84K votes

6.9

84K votes

Logan

2017 · Movie · 135 min. · United States

Direction James Mangold

Cast Hugh Jackman · Patrick Stewart · Dafne Keen · Boyd Holbrook

Plot In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hide out on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and...

6.9

34K votes

6.9

34K votes

Dead Again

1991 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Kenneth Branagh

Cast Emma Thompson · Kenneth Branagh · Andy García · Robin Williams

Plot Branagh stars as Mike Church, a Los Angeles detective who is drawn into the life of Grace (Emma Thompson), a woman with amnesia who is plagued by disturbing nightmares. Attempts...

6.2

3K votes

6.2

3K votes

Marley & Me

2008 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction David Frankel

Cast Owen Wilson · Jennifer Aniston · Alan Arkin · Eric Dane

Plot As the snow falls on their wedding night, newlyweds John and Jenny Grogan decide to leave behind the harsh winters of Michigan and head south to begin their new lives...

6.0

14K votes

6.0

14K votes

Get Shorty

1995 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Barry Sonnenfeld

Cast John Travolta · Gene Hackman · René Russo · Danny DeVito

Plot Chili Palmer, a Miami mobster, loan-sharks for Ray Bones, a violent thug with a big chip on his shoulder. Ray sends Chili to Vegas after a bad debt, and a...

Max

6.0

15K votes

6.0

15K votes

The Interpreter

2005 · Movie · 128 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sydney Pollack

Cast Nicole Kidman · Sean Penn · Catherine Keener · Sydney Pollack

Plot In this suspense thriller Ms. Kidman plays a United Nations interpreter who overhears a death threat against an African head of state about to address the General Assembly, and Mr....

6.0

25K votes

6.0

25K votes

Monsieur Spade

2024 · Series · 93 min. · United States

Direction Tom Fontana · Scott Frank

Cast Clive Owen · Rebecca Root · Cara Bossom · Denis Menochet

Plot 6 Episodes. The year is 1963, and the legendary Detective Sam Spade is enjoying his retirement in the South of France. By contrast to his days as a private eye...

6.0

62 votes

6.0

62 votes

The Lookout

2007 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Scott Frank

Cast Joseph Gordon-Levitt · Jeff Daniels · Matthew Goode · Isla Fisher

Plot Chris Pratt (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a former high school star athlete, crashes his car one night due to reckless driving. The accident kills his best friend and his best friend’s girlfriend,...

6.0

3K votes

6.0

3K votes

Little Man Tate

1991 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Jodie Foster

Cast Jodie Foster · Adam Hann-Byrd · Dianne Wiest · Harry Connick Jr.

Plot Seven-year-old genius Fred is desperate to fit in with other kids. Recognizing his talents, his mom (and best friend) Dede enrolls him in a school for gifted children, where Fred...

6.0

3K votes

6.0

3K votes

A Walk Among the Tombstones

2014 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Scott Frank

Cast Liam Neeson · Dan Stevens · Marina Squerciati · Sebastian Roché

Plot Matt Scudder (Liam Neeson) is an ex-NYPD cop who now works as an unlicensed private investigator operating just outside the law. When Scudder reluctantly agrees to help a heroin trafficker...

5.8

13K votes

5.8

13K votes

Malice

1993 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Harold Becker

Cast Alec Baldwin · Nicole Kidman · Bill Pullman · Bebe Neuwirth

Plot A tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches infants, Andy's a college professor. Things are never the same after she is taken to...

5.7

4K votes

5.7

4K votes

No Exit

2022 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Damien Power

Cast Havana Rose Liu · Dennis Haysbert · Dale Dickey · David Rysdahl

Plot During a blizzard and stranded at an isolated highway rest stop in the mountains, a college student discovers a kidnapped child hidden in a car belonging to one of the...

5.4

2K votes

5.4

2K votes

Heaven's Prisoners

1995 · Movie · 132 min. · United States

Direction Phil Joanou

Cast Alec Baldwin · Mary Stuart Masterson · Kelly Lynch · Teri Hatcher

Plot Ex-detective Dave Robicheaux (Alec Baldwin) has made a new life for himself and his wife (Kelly Lynch) running a bait shop in the outskirts of New Orleans. When they save...

5.3

2K votes

5.3

2K votes

The Wolverine

2013 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction James Mangold

Cast Hugh Jackman · Tao Okamoto · Rila Fukushima · Hiroyuki Sanada

Plot Summoned to Japan by an old acquaintance, Wolverine becomes embroiled in a conflict that forces him to confront his own demons.

5.3

33K votes

5.3

33K votes

Plain Clothes

1988 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Martha Coolidge

Cast Arliss Howard · Suzy Amis · George Wendt · Diane Ladd

Plot Trying to get his brother out of jail, Nick has to bump his way out again from high school, find the murderer, keep his job as a policeman and run...

5.3

23 votes

5.3

23 votes

Flight of the Phoenix

2004 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction John Moore

Cast Dennis Quaid · Giovanni Ribisi · Tyrese Gibson · Miranda Otto

Plot An action-adventure in which a group of air crash survivors - cast-offs from society who will never be missed - are stranded in the Mongolian desert with no hope of...

5.2

10K votes

5.2

10K votes

Out of Sight

1998 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Steven Soderbergh

Cast George Clooney · Jennifer Lopez · Ving Rhames · Don Cheadle

Plot After Jack Foley (George Clooney) escapes from jail with the help of his partner, Buddy Bragg (Ving Rhames), he takes Karen Sisco (Jennifer Lopez), a sexy federal agent, hostage. Immediately...

5.2

9K votes

5.2

9K votes