Screenplay: Ákos Tolnay

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


Elephant Boy

1937 · Movie · 79 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert J. Flaherty · Zoltan Korda

Cast Sabu · W.E. Holloway · Walter Hudd · Allan Jeayes

Plot This black and white movie is based on Rudyard Kipling's "Toomai, of the Elephants", in which a small native lad claims he knows the congregating place of the elephant hordes.

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The Golden Madonna

1949 · Movie · 88 min. · Italy

Direction Ladislao Vajda · Luigi Carpentieri

Cast Phyllis Calvert · Michael Rennie · Tullio Carminati · David Greene

Plot Plucky Brit Patricia Chandler (Phyllis Calvert) goes to visit the large Italian estate she just inherited from a distant relative. In tidying the mansion, she accidentally throws out an unattractive...

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Una parigina a Roma

1954 · Movie · 94 min. · Italy

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The White Warrior

1959 · Movie · 91 min. · Italy

Direction Riccardo Freda

Cast Steve Reeves · Georgia Moll · Scilla Gabel · Renato Baldini

Plot The story of Hadji Murad, a 19th-century Chechen chieftain who led his warriors in a fight against the invading forces of the Russian Czar.

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The Plot to Kill Roosevelt

1946 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Giacomo Gentilomo · William Freshman

Cast Derek Farr · Marta Labarr · Manning Whiley · Pamela Stirling

Plot A British intelligence officer discovers a plot to assassinate the President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Tehran Conference during World War II.

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Voice of Silence

1953 · Movie · 110 min. · Italy

Direction Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Cast Aldo Fabrizi · Jean Marais · Daniel Gélin · Cosetta Greco

Plot group of men of differing circumstances and personalities gather at a monastery to undergo a course of spiritual reappraisal. They comprise of a candle-maker, a politician, an ex-prisoner, a novelist...

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Madrid de mis sueños

1942 · Movie · 88 min. · Spain

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Wings Over Africa

1936 · Movie · 63 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ladislao Vajda

Cast Joan Gardner · Ian Colin · James Harcourt · James Carew

Plot The plot concerns a British expedition that searches for a cache of buried diamonds in Africa.

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Le scandale

1934 · Movie · 106 min. · France

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Lascia cantare il cuore

1943 · Movie · 84 min. · Italy

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O sole mio

1946 · Movie · 92 min. · Italy

Direction Giacomo Gentilomo

Cast Tito Gobbi · Adriana Benetti · Vera Carmi · Ernesto Almirante

Plot Giovanni, a young Italian is sent to Naples during World War II to establish a resistance network.

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Brute Force

1941 · Movie · 80 min. · Italy

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The Wife of General Ling

1937 · Movie · 72 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ladislao Vajda

Cast Griffith Jones · Valery Inkijinoff · Adrienne Renn · Alan Napier

Plot John Fenton, a British secret-service agent in China, is given the assignment of learning how smugglers go undetected while delivering guns into the interior for General Ling, a ruthless war...

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Call of the Blood

1948 · Movie · 88 min. · Italy

Direction Ladislao Vajda · John Clements

Cast Kay Hammond · John Clements · John Justin · Hilton Edwards

Plot In the Edwardian era a British family move to Sicily where the husband has an affair with a local woman.

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Thunder in the City

1937 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Marion Gering

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Luli Deste · Nigel Bruce · Constance Collier

Plot Dan comes to England to learn more sedate business practices. While there he becomes involved in a scheme to exploit mangalite mines in Rhodesia. He and Manningdale become rivals for...

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Dubrowsky

1959 · Movie · 113 min. · Italy

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Rosanna Schiaffino · Paul Dahlke · John Forsythe · William Dieterle

Plot The story of a young officer whose father was despoiled of his valuable properties by a wealthy neighbor ;so he becomes the leader of the rebellion of the moujiks spending...

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Altura

1949 · Movie · 88 min. · Italy

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