Screenplay: Anthony Veiller
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Anthony Veiller. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 34
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
The Soldier and the Lady
1937 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction George Nichols Jr.
Cast Anton Walbrook · Elizabeth Allan · Akim Tamiroff · Margot Grahame
6.3
29 votes
6.3
29 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
Direction Frank Capra · Anatole Litvak
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
Direction Victor Fleming
Cast Clark Gable · Greer Garson · Joan Blondell · Thomas Mitchell
5.4
56 votes
5.4
56 votes