Screenplay: Norman Wexler

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


Serpico

1973 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Al Pacino · John Randolph · Jack Kehoe · Tony Roberts

Plot Serpico is a cop in the early 1970s. Unlike all his colleagues, he refuses a share of the money that the cops routinely extort from local criminals. Nobody wants to...

7.4

16K votes

7.4

16K votes

Joe

1970 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction John G. Avildsen

Cast Peter Boyle · Dennis Patrick · Susan Sarandon · Audrey Caire

Plot Bill, a wealthy businessman, confronts his junkie daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend; in the ensuing argument, Bill kills him. Panic-stricken, he wanders the streets and eventually stops at a bar. There he...

6.5

165 votes

6.5

165 votes

Saturday Night Fever

1977 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction John Badham

Cast John Travolta · Karen Lynn Gorney · Barry Miller · Joseph Cali

Plot The film that made John Travolta a household name is set in Brooklyn to the popular dance music of the Bee Gees. Tony Manero (Travolta) is a paint-store clerk who...

6.4

35K votes

6.4

35K votes

Mandingo

1975 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction Richard Fleischer

Cast James Mason · Susan George · Perry King · Roy Poole

Plot This overheated melodrama tells the story of a proud slave-owning family in the antebellum South and their eventual descent into adultery, incest, and sexual congress with those of other races....

6.4

757 votes

6.4

757 votes

Drum

1976 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Steve Carver

Cast Ken Norton · Warren Oates · Isela Vega · Pam Grier

Plot The White Men Wanted A Stud To Breed Slaves. The White Women Wanted Much More.

5.6

57 votes

5.6

57 votes

Staying Alive

1983 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Sylvester Stallone

Cast John Travolta · Cynthia Rhodes · Finola Hughes · Steve Inwood

Plot A sequel to Saturday Night Fever. The story finds Tony Manero (Travolta) six years later working as a waiter in a nightclub while he tries to realize his dreams of...

4.2

2K votes

4.2

2K votes

Raw Deal

1986 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction John Irvin

Cast Arnold Schwarzenegger · Kathryn Harrold · Sam Wanamaker · Paul Shenar

Plot Mark Kaminsky is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sheriff of a small town in North Carolina. FBI Chief...

4.1

4K votes

4.1

4K votes