Screenplay: John Waters

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


This Filthy World

2006 · Documentary · 86 min. · United States

Direction Jeff Garlin

Cast John Waters

Synopsis Jeff Garlin's documentary on the work of John Waters.

6.9

46 votes

6.9

46 votes

Female Trouble

1974 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction John Waters

Cast Divine · David Lochary · Mary Vivian Pearce · Mink Stole

Synopsis A spoiled schoolgirl runs away from home, gets pregnant while hitchhiking, and ends up as a fashion model for a pair of beauticians who like to photograph women committing crimes.

6.7

1K votes

6.7

1K votes

6.5

1K votes

Desperate Living

1977 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction John Waters

Cast Liz Renay · Mink Stole · Susan Lowe · Edith Massey

Synopsis A rich housewife enlists her maid's help to murder her husband; they go on the lam and end up in Mortville, a homeless community built into a garbage dump.

6.4

626 votes

6.4

626 votes

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Hairspray

1988 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction John Waters

Cast Sonny Bono · Ruth Brown · Divine · Deborah Harry

Synopsis 'Pleasantly Plump' teenager Tracy Turnblad achieves her dream of becoming a regular on the Corny Collins Dance Show. Now a teen hero, she starts using her fame to speak out...

6.3

2K votes

6.3

2K votes

Pecker

1998 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction John Waters

Cast Edward Furlong · Christina Ricci · Mary Kay Place · Martha Plimpton

Synopsis Writer-director Waters returns to his subversive comedic grabbag for Pecker, a restrained though amusing comedy which combines the director's penchant for shock comedy and a more accessible filmmaking style he...

6.2

3K votes

6.2

3K votes

Multiple Maniacs

1970 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction John Waters

Cast Divine · David Lochary · Mary Vivian Pearce · Mink Stole

Synopsis The travelling sideshow 'Lady Divine's Cavalcade of Perversions' is actually a front for a group of psychotic kidnappers, with Lady Divine herself the most vicious and depraved of all -...

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6.2

269 votes

6.2

269 votes

Cry Baby

1990 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction John Waters

Cast Johnny Depp · Traci Lords · Willem Dafoe · Amy Locane

Synopsis Cult director John Waters goes mainstream -- sort of -- in this send-up of 1950s teen melodramas. Heart-throb Johnny Depp stars in the title role as a glamorous delinquent who...

6.1

8K votes

6.1

8K votes

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Hairspray Live! (TV)

2016 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Kenny Leon · Alex Rudzinski

Cast Garrett Clayton · Dove Cameron · Harvey Fierstein · Maddie Baillio

Synopsis A teenage girl living in Baltimore in the early 1960s dreams of appearing on a popular TV dance show.

6.0

76 votes

6.0

76 votes

Serial Mom

1994 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction John Waters

Cast Kathleen Turner · Sam Waterston · Ricki Lake · Matthew Lillard

Synopsis In John Waters' black comedy, Beverly (Kathleen Turner) certainly seems to have found the perfect balance in her life. Juggling the needs of her family with her own, she manages...

5.9

6K votes

5.9

6K votes

Hairspray

2007 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Adam Shankman

Cast John Travolta · Queen Latifah · Michelle Pfeiffer · Christopher Walken

Synopsis Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with big hair and an even bigger heart, has only one passion--dancing. Her dream is to appear on "The Corny Collins Show," Baltimore's hippest dance...

5.8

18K votes

5.8

18K votes

Cecil B. DeMented

2000 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction John Waters

Cast Melanie Griffith · Stephen Dorff · Alicia Witt · Adrian Grenier

Synopsis An insane independent film director and his renegade group of teenage filmmakers kidnap an A-list Hollywood actress and force her to star in their underground film.

5.8

4K votes

5.8

4K votes

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Pink Flamingos

1972 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction John Waters

Cast Divine · David Lochary · Mink Stole · Danny Mills

Synopsis The filthiest person alive, Divine, is using the codename Babs Johnson and living in a trailer in the woods with her retarded mother Eddie (Edith Massey), who loves eggs; her...

5.7

9K votes

5.7

9K votes

Mondo Trasho

1969 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction John Waters

Cast Mary Vivian Pearce · Divine · David Lochary · Mink Stole

Synopsis After an introductory sequence during which chickens are beheaded on a chopping block, the main action begins. Platinum blond bombshell Mary Vivian Pearce begins her day by riding the bus...

5.5

185 votes

5.5

185 votes

The Diane Linkletter Story (S)

1970 · Movie · 10 min. · United States

Direction John Waters

Cast David Lochary · Mary Vivian Pearce · Divine

Synopsis This improvised film is based on the true-life suicide of TV personality Art Linkletter's daughter, Diane. Mr. and Mrs. Linkletter fret about their daughter's recent behavior, which includes taking drugs...

5.0

67 votes

5.0

67 votes

A Dirty Shame

2004 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction John Waters

Cast Tracey Ullman · Johnny Knoxville · Selma Blair · Chris Isaak

Synopsis Head injuries and sex-addicts in blue-collar Baltimore.

4.0

3K votes

4.0

3K votes

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Kiddie Flamingos

2015 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction John Waters

Cast Madelyn Beckett · Taylor Howard-Goergens · Dexter Shaffer · Alexandra Wald

Synopsis Child actors perform a 'kid-friendly' table read version of John Water's notorious 1972 X-rated cult classic film, Pink Flamingos.

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Eat Your Makeup

1968 · Movie · 45 min. · United States

Direction John Waters

Cast Lizzy Temple Black · Berenica Cipcus · Divine · George Figgs

Synopsis John Waters' first sixteen-millimetre film, about a deranged nanny who kidnaps young girls and forces them to 'model themselves to death' in front of her boyfriend and their crazed friends....

Not rated

Not rated

Liarmouth

2026 · Movie · United States

Direction John Waters

Cast Aubrey Plaza

Synopsis “Liarmouth centers on a scammer and compulsive liar called Marsha Sprinkle who splits from her partner Daryl and steals from both her daughter and her mother.”

Not rated

Not rated

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