Screenplay: Anthony Veiller

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


Stage Door

1937 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Gregory La Cava

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Ginger Rogers · Adolphe Menjou · Andrea Leeds

Synopsis Terry Randall, rich society beauty, has decided to see if she can break into the Broadway theatre scene without her family connections. She goes to live in a theatrical boarding house and finds her life caught up with those of...

7.5

2K votes

7.5

2K votes

The Night of the Iguana

1964 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Richard Burton · Deborah Kerr · Ava Gardner · Sue Lyon

Synopsis When defrocked American minister Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon is expelled from his Virginia church, he travels to Mexico in search of his destiny and sanity. There he becomes a tour guide for a bus load of spinsters and a teenage...

7.5

6K votes

7.5

6K votes

The Stranger

1946 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Loretta Young · Orson Welles · Philip Merivale

Synopsis Charles Rankin is a professor in a respectable Connecticut town about to marry the daughter of a U.S. Supreme Court justice. But his name is fake and his past is filthy. An earnest convert to Christianity, who once ran a...

7.4

8K votes

7.4

8K votes

Moulin Rouge

1952 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast José Ferrer · Zsa Zsa Gabor · Colette Marchand · Claude Nollier

Synopsis Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec frequently visits the Moulin Rouge, where he drinks cognac and draws sketches of the dancers and singers. Though the son of a French count, Henri's legs were badly deformed by a childhood fall, and his personal life...

7.2

3K votes

7.2

3K votes

Let Us Live

1939 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction John Brahm

Cast Maureen O'Sullivan · Henry Fonda · Ralph Bellamy · Alan Baxter

Synopsis Two innocent men are wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death. The fiance of one of them convinces a police detective of their innocence, and together they try to find the real killer before the men's execution date.

6.7

65 votes

6.7

65 votes

State of the Union

1948 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Spencer Tracy · Katharine Hepburn · Van Johnson · Angela Lansbury

Synopsis Kay Thordyke loves Grant Matthews and helps him become Republican nominee for President. The party machine begins to worry as Grant begins to speak for himself. At an important dinner his wife Mary condemns corrupt politicians and Grant learns to...

6.7

780 votes

6.7

780 votes

Why We Fight 2: The Nazis Strike

1943 · Documentary · 41 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra · Anatole Litvak

Synopsis In this installment of the Why We Fight propaganda film series, we see the events of Nazi Germany's diplomatic and military acts of international aggression. One by one, we learn of the Nazi's consistently underhanded and relenting violation of every...

6.6

91 votes

6.6

91 votes

Disputed Passage

1939 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Dorothy Lamour · Akim Tamiroff · John Howard · Judith Barrett

Synopsis A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs into him in Nanking during a Japanese bombing raid.

6.6

28 votes

6.6

28 votes

Monkey on my Back

1957 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction André De Toth

Cast Cameron Mitchell · Dianne Foster · Paul Richards · Jack Albertson

Synopsis The true story of Barney Ross, a World War II hero and champion professional boxer, who became addicted to morphine.

6.5

124 votes

6.5

124 votes

The List of Adrian Messenger

1963 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast George C. Scott · Kirk Douglas · Jacques Roux · Dana Wynter

Synopsis Messenger asks a friend to check into a list of names before leaving on a trip. When his plane is blown out of the sky, the matter becomes more serious. As his friend checks into the list, each seems to...

6.3

2K votes

6.3

2K votes

A Woman Rebels

1936 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Mark Sandrich

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Herbert Marshall · Elizabeth Allan · Donald Crisp

Synopsis The story revolves around Pamela, as a woman in late-1800's England who has no intention of marriage and wishes to be her own person. After a great deal of difficulty in finding a job, she finally lands a position at...

6.2

199 votes

6.2

199 votes

Solomon and Sheba

1959 · Movie · 139 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor

Cast Yul Brynner · Gina Lollobrigida · George Sanders · Marisa Pavan

Synopsis Shortly before his death in ancient Israel, King David has a vision from God telling him that his younger son Solomon should succeed him as king. His other son Adonijah is unhappy and vows to attain the throne. Meanwhile the...

6.1

1K votes

6.1

1K votes

Tunisian Victory

1944 · Documentary · 75 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra · Hugh Stewart

6.1

46 votes

6.1

46 votes

War comes to America

1945 · Documentary · 70 min. · United States

6.0

38 votes

6.0

38 votes

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

1936 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Stephen Roberts

Cast William Powell · Jean Arthur · James Gleason · Eric Blore

Synopsis Relations between Dr. 'Brad' Bradford and ex-wife Paula are surprisingly romantic. They divorced because Brad hated being dragged into murder mysteries, to which mystery writer Paula is addicted. But through horse trainer Mike North, Brad is embroiled in the case...

5.9

41 votes

5.9

41 votes

Break of Hearts

1935 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Philip Moeller

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Charles Boyer · Jean Hersholt · John Beal

Synopsis This romantic drama traces the relationship between a philandering orchestra conductor, whose career is on the ropes, and a naive young composer.

5.8

174 votes

5.8

174 votes

Star of Midnight

1935 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Stephen Roberts

Cast William Powell · Ginger Rogers · Paul Kelly · Gene Lockhart

Synopsis A dancer disappears from a theather and then William Powell and society beauty Ginger Rogers solve the murder.

5.8

53 votes

5.8

53 votes

Her Cardboard Lover

1942 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Norma Shearer · Robert Taylor · George Sanders · Frank McHugh

Synopsis A wealthy woman, trying to discourage a former boyfriend from pursuing her, hires a young songwriter who needs money to pay off his gambling debts to pretend to be her boyfriend. The problem is that the "phony" boyfriend is actually...

5.7

22 votes

5.7

22 votes

Adventure

1945 · Movie · 135 min. · United States

5.4

56 votes

5.4

56 votes