Screenplay: Robert W. Lenski
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Robert W. Lenski. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Chiefs (TV Series)
1983 · Series · 200 min. · United States
Direction Jerry London
Cast Charlton Heston · Keith Carradine · Paula Kelly · Stephen Collins
Plot This mini-series tells the story of a southern town's police chiefs and the serial murderer who confounds them. Will Henry Lee is the first chief, an easy going man who...
6.9
319 votes
6.9
319 votes
After the Promise (TV)
1987 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction David Greene
Cast Mark Harmon · Diana Scarwid · Rosemary Dunsmore · Donnelly Rhodes
Plot In a small Californian town in the 1930s. After the tragic loss of his wife carpenter Elmer Jackson finds that he will loose his sons. Despite his efforts, he is...
6.8
61 votes
6.8
61 votes
Kane & Abel (TV Miniseries)
1985 · Movie · 240 min. · United States
Direction Buzz Kulik
Cast Peter Strauss · Sam Neill · Ron Silver · David Dukes
Plot Kane and Abel are born on the same day the same year on each side of the Atlantic. William Kane is born in one of the richest families of Boston...
6.4
23 votes
6.4
23 votes
Planet of the Apes (TV Series)
1974 · Series · 50 min. · United States
Direction Don Weis · Bernard McEveety · Don McDougall · Arnold Laven
Cast Roddy McDowall · Ron Harper · James Naughton · Mark Lenard
Plot Television series about a group of astronauts who travel in time and become marooned on a planet. Unbeknownst to them, they are actually on future Earth. The astronauts encounter an...
6.3
322 votes
6.3
322 votes
Mannix (TV Series)
1967 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Richard Levinson · William Link · Paul Krasny · Sutton Roley
Cast Mike Connors · Gail Fisher · Ward Wood · Ron Nyman
Plot Considered one of the most violent television series of its era, "Mannix" followed the adventures of L.A. private eye Joe Mannix, who first worked for a detective agency known as...
6.2
107 votes
6.2
107 votes
Cannon (TV Series)
1971 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Jimmy Sangster · E. Arthur Kean · George McCowan · Lawrence Dobkin
Cast William Conrad · Patrick Culliton · Tom Pittman · Charles Bateman
Plot The weekly adventures of Frank Cannon, an overweight, balding ex-cop with a deep voice and expensive tastes in culinary pleasures, who becomes a high-priced private investigator. Since Cannon's girth didn't...
5.9
135 votes
5.9
135 votes
Barnaby Jones (TV Series)
1973 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Walter Grauman · Michael Caffey · Kenneth Gilbert · Leslie H. Martinson
Cast Buddy Ebsen · Lee Meriwether · John Carter · Mark Shera
Plot Barnaby comes out of retirement to track down his son's murderer with the help of Betty, his son's widow. They continue the detective agency's work in Los Angeles, with the...
5.5
42 votes
5.5
42 votes
The Return of the Native (TV)
1994 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Jack Gold
Cast Catherine Zeta-Jones · Clive Owen · Joan Plowright · Ray Stevenson
Plot Based on the classic novel written by Thomas Hardy, this is the tragic story of Eustacia Vye, a beautiful young woman who feels trapped by her environment.
5.3
48 votes
5.3
48 votes
What the Deaf Man Heard (TV)
1996 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction John Kent Harrison
Cast Matthew Modine · Claire Bloom · Judith Ivey · James Earl Jones
Plot During the '40s, single mother Helen (Bernadette Peters) boards a bus for Barrington, Georgia, with her 10-year-old son Sammy (Frankie Muniz). She tells him not to say a word. The...
5.0
47 votes
5.0
47 votes
The New Perry Mason (TV Series)
1973 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Michael O'Herlihy · Murray Golden · Arthur Marks · Leo Penn
Cast Monte Markham · Sharon Acker · Albert Stratton · Harry Guardino
Plot Revival of the long-running hit television series of the 1950s and '60s about Erle Stanley Gardner's brilliant defense attorney.
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O Pioneers! (TV)
1992 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Glenn Jordan
Cast Jessica Lange · David Strathairn · Tom Aldredge · Anne Heche
Plot The film centers around a family of Swedish immigrants in Nebraska around the turn of the 20th century. The family's father dies and leaves the family farm to his daughter....
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Bridges to Cross (TV Series)
1985 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Philip Leacock · Sharron Miller · William F. Claxton · Arthur Allan Seidelman
Cast Suzanne Pleshette · Nicolas Surovy · José Ferrer · Roddy McDowall
Plot Tracy Bridges is star reporter at World/Week, a news magazine based in Washington. She competes with ex-husband Peter for stories and answers to Morris. Fashion icon Maria is her closest...
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Who Is the Black Dahlia? (TV)
1975 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Pevney
Cast Efrem Zimbalist Jr. · Ronny Cox · Macdonald Carey · Lucie Arnaz
Plot Dramatization of an actual homicide investigation. In 1947 Los Angeles, a police detective tries to solve the shocking and grisly murder of 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short, whose nude body...
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Decoration Day (TV)
1990 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Robert Markowitz
Cast James Garner · Judith Ivey · Ruby Dee · Bill Cobbs
Plot A cantankerous widower (Garner) who is virtually living the life of a recluse is forced to rejoin his community when his Godchild (Skaggs) gets in trouble and a childhood friend...
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A Death in the Family (TV)
2002 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Gilbert Cates
Cast Annabeth Gish · John Slattery · Austin Wolff · Kathleen Chalfant
Plot A young wife's religious faith is shaken when her husband dies in a car accident.
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The Manhunter (TV Series)
1974 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Leslie H. Martinson · Lawrence Dobkin
Cast Ken Howard · Hilary Thompson · Claudia Bryar · Robert Hogan
Plot The series' premise would have Dave going from parents' farm in Idaho to other parts of the Western and North Central United States to solve crimes, after the death of...
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The Aliens Are Coming (TV)
1980 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Harvey Hart
Cast Tom Mason · Eric Braeden · Melinda O. Fee · Fawne Harriman
Plot An alien mother ship hovering in Earth's atmosphere is the base for an attempted alien invasion of Earth.
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Breathing Lessons (TV)
1994 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction John Erman
Cast James Garner · Joanne Woodward · Kathryn Erbe · Joyce Van Patten
Plot A married couple review their lives and renew their love for one another while driving to a friend's funeral.
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Remember Me (TV)
1995 · Movie · 96 min. · Canada
Direction Michael Switzer
Cast Kelly McGillis · Cotter Smith · Shanna Reed · Michael T. Weiss
Plot Two years after an incident at a level crossing which saw her young son killed, the devastated life of Menly Nichols (Kelly McGillis) is slowly getting back to normal. Menly...
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A Season in Purgatory (TV)
1996 · Movie · 150 min. · United States
Direction David Greene
Cast Patrick Dempsey · Sherilyn Fenn · Craig Sheffer · Edward Herrmann
Plot True story about a kid from rich family with political ties who covers up a suspicious death of a young woman. This comes back to haunt him later.
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