Screenplay: Alan Ayckbourn

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


Private Fears in Public Places

2006 · Movie · 120 min. · France

Direction Alain Resnais

Cast Lambert Wilson · Sabine Azéma · André Dussollier · Laura Morante

Plot Dan, a solider recently discharged from the army, takes refuge in drink to escape from life and other people. Despite everything, his fiancée Nicole still believes in their couple. Gaëlle...

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

Life of Riley

2014 · Movie · 108 min. · France

Direction Alain Resnais

Cast Sabine Azéma · André Dussollier · Michel Vuillermoz · Hippolyte Girardot

Plot In the midst of rehearsals for a new play, amateur dramatics proponents Colin and Kathryn receive the shattering news that their friend George is fatally ill and only has a...

5.6

495 votes

5.6

495 votes

A Chorus of Disapproval

1989 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Winner

Cast Jeremy Irons · Anthony Hopkins · Jenny Seagrove · Richard Briers

Plot A man new to a smallish British town joins an amateur theatre company. Once there, he discovers that the drama on stage is quite often nothing compared to what's happening...

4.8

120 votes

4.8

120 votes

The Revengers' Comedies

1998 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Malcolm Mowbray

Cast Sam Neill · Helena Bonham Carter · Kristin Scott Thomas · Rupert Graves

Plot As Henry Bell (Sam Neill) is preparing to throw himself off the Tower Bridge in London, he hears cries of help, which lead him to Karen Knightly (Helena Bonham Carter),...

4.5

196 votes

4.5

196 votes

Hark at Barker (TV Series)

1969 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

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Way Upstream (TV)

1987 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terry Johnson

Cast Nick Dunning · Joanne Pearce · Barrie Rutter · Marion Bailey

Plot Two couples who go on a boating holiday together, and run into some strange people and events.

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Not rated

BBC Play of the Month (TV Series)

1965 · Series · 120 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Cedric Messina · John Gorrie · Rudolph Cartier · Waris Hussein

Cast Charles Gray · Lally Bowers · Eileen Atkins · Janet Suzman

Plot TV Series (1965-1983). 16 seasons. 120 episodes

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Not rated

The Norman Conquests (TV) (TV Miniseries)

1977 · Series · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Herbert Wise

Cast Tom Conti · Penelope Wilton · Penelope Keith · David Troughton

Plot TV Mini-Series (1977). 3 episodes. The trilogy presents a comically fraught weekend from three different perspectives, as family and in laws gather at the decaying country home of their bedridden...

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Not rated

National Theatre Live: A Small Family Business

2014 · Movie · 210 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Adam Penford

Cast Nigel Lindsay

Plot Jack McCracken: a man of principle in a corrupt world. But not for long. Moments after taking over his father-in-laws business hes approached by a private detective armed with some...

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Not rated