Screenplay: James Lee

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


Roots (TV Miniseries)

1977 · Series · 573 min. · United States

Direction Marvin J. Chomsky · John Erman · David Greene · Gilbert Moses

Cast Todd Bridges · Robert Reed · John Amos · Madge Sinclair

Plot From the moment the young Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton) is stolen from his life and ancestral home in 18th-century Africa and brought under inhumane conditions to be auctioned as a...

7.3

3K votes

7.3

3K votes

Before We Fall in Love Again

2006 · Movie · 99 min. · Malaysia

Direction James Lee

Cast Len Siew Mee · Pete Teo · Amy Len · Chye Chee Keong

Plot It has been a month Chang's wife Ling Yue has been missing. With no reasons one fine day she went to work as usual and then never returns. No one...

6.4

34 votes

6.4

34 votes

The Beautiful Washing Machine

2004 · Movie · 118 min. · Malaysia

Direction James Lee

Cast Loh Bok Lai · Patrick Teoh · Amy Len · Berg Lee

Plot When young Teoh is dumped by his live-in girlfriend, she takes most of her possessions including the washing machine, leaving him unable to cope with life and the laundry. He...

6.3

55 votes

6.3

55 votes

6.1

768 votes

Counterpoint

1967 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Ralph Nelson

Cast Charlton Heston · Maximilian Schell · Kathryn Hays · Leslie Nielsen

Plot Famous orchestra conductor is captured by the Germans in WW2, is forced to put on private concerts for the Nazi generals.

6.0

411 votes

6.0

411 votes

Things We Do When We Fall in Love

2007 · Movie · 89 min. · Malaysia

Direction James Lee

Cast Loh Bok Lai · Len Siew Mee

Plot The movie follows two unfortunate secret lovers who are constantly looking for a solution to their situation. Both of them are always arguing over their relationship. One day they went...

5.8

23 votes

5.8

23 votes

Career

1959 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Anthony

Cast Dean Martin · Anthony Franciosa · Shirley MacLaine · Carolyn Jones

Plot More than anything in the world, Sam Lawson wants to be a successful actor. Is he willing to sacrifice his wife, happiness and personal reputation to achieve his goal?

5.3

38 votes

5.3

38 votes

Waiting for Love

2007 · Movie · 70 min. · Malaysia

Direction James Lee

Cast Loh Bok Lai · Bernice Chauly · Len Siew Mee · Pete Teo

Plot Three scenes about three couples with each portraying maybe the turning point of their relationship. First scene, Lim & Amelia are a couple who had been together for almost five...

5.2

22 votes

5.2

22 votes

Change of Habit

1969 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction William A. Graham

Cast Elvis Presley · Mary Tyler Moore · Barbara McNair · Jane Elliot

Plot Elvis Presley plays a young doctor who helps the poor by working in an inner-city clinic. When a Catholic group sends in a trio of nurses--who are really nuns in...

4.9

56 votes

4.9

56 votes

If It's Not Now, Then When?

2012 · Movie · 82 min. · Malaysia

4.6

29 votes

4.6

29 votes

Call If You Need Me

2009 · Movie · 104 min. · Malaysia

Direction James Lee

Cast Thian See Chua · Sunny Pang · Pete Teo

Plot Gentle, easy-going Or Kia moves from the countryside to Kuala Lumpur to work for his cousin and best friend Ah Soon, a mid-level gangster and enforcer. While Or Kia works...

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Invincible Mr. Disraeli (TV)

1963 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction George Schaefer

Cast Trevor Howard · Greer Garson · Eric Berry · Norman Barrs

Plot Trevor Howard stars as British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli.

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Kill-Fist

2019 · Movie · 97 min. · Malaysia

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Lights Out (TV Series)

1946 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction William Corrigan · Laurence Schwab Jr. · Kingman T. Moore · Grey Lockwood

Cast Frank Gallop · Jack La Rue · Mercer McLeod · Leslie Nielsen

Plot Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a network series devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum. Versions...

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Two Sisters

2019 · Movie · 87 min. · Malaysia

Direction James Lee

Cast Emily Lim · Mei Fen Lim · William Boo · Paige Chan

Plot Following a girl’s release from an asylum, she is reunited with her older sister and together they return to their abandoned family home. However, the two sisters harbour a dark...

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KL24: Zombies

2017 · Movie · 77 min. · Malaysia

Direction James Lee · Shamaine Othman · Gavin Yap

Cast Sharifah Amani · Pete Teo · Fatimah Abu Bakar · Azman Hassan

Plot A flu infection has taken over KL city which turns into a zombie outbreak, the movie follows threes intersecting stories of the survivors fleeing for safety as KL has fallen.

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Banning

1967 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Ron Winston

Cast Robert Wagner · Anjanette Comer · Jill St. John · Guy Stockwell

Plot A playboy golf pro down is on his luck. Kicked off the circuit for alleged cheating he is forced to hustle for a living. Moving from one Country Club to...

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The Holy Terror (TV)

1965 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction George Schaefer

Cast Julie Harris · Denholm Elliott · Torin Thatcher · Brian Bedford

Plot The tv-movie depicts the life and career of Florence Nightingale (Julie Harris), who pioneered the field of nursing in the 19th century.

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Scruples (TV Miniseries)

1980 · Movie · 280 min. · United States

Direction Alan J. Levi

Cast Lindsay Wagner · Barry Bostwick · Marie-France Pisier · Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Plot The soap-operatic story follows the fortunes of three ambitious youngish people: Billy, secretary and then wife to an older zillionaire, whose death frees Billy to start up a Beverly Hills...

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This Year's Blonde (TV Miniseries)

1980 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction John Erman

Cast Lloyd Bridges · Constance Forslund · Norman Fell · Vic Tayback

Plot First of two 1980 TV movies about Marilyn Monroe which this one details her days as an aspiring actress through her love affair with high-powered agent Johnny Hyde to the...

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