Screenplay: Eugene O'Neill
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Eugene O'Neill. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 22
Long Day's Journey Into Night
1962 · Movie · 174 min. · United States
Direction Sidney Lumet
Cast Katharine Hepburn · Jason Robards · Ralph Richardson · Dean Stockwell
Synopsis Long Day's Journey Into Night is one of the screen's most insightful examinations of lives caught in a downward cycle of co-dependency and despair. Working from the highly autobiographical stage...
7.0
606 votes
7.0
606 votes
The Iceman Cometh
1973 · Movie · 239 min. · United States
Direction John Frankenheimer
Cast Lee Marvin · Fredric March · Robert Ryan · Jeff Bridges
Synopsis Jason Robards burst onto the Broadway scene in 1956 with his performance in Eugene O'Neill's devastating Iceman Cometh, playing the central role of Hickey, a salesman who comes to a...
6.9
397 votes
6.9
397 votes
The Long Voyage Home
1940 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast John Wayne · Thomas Mitchell · Ian Hunter · Ward Bond
Synopsis Aboard the freighter Glencairn, the lives of the crew are lived out in fear, loneliness, suspicion and cameraderie. The men smuggle drink and women aboard, fight with each other, spy...
6.7
1K votes
6.7
1K votes
Anna Christie
1930 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown
Cast Greta Garbo · Charles Bickford · George F. Marion · Marie Dressler
Synopsis In New York, the alcoholic skipper of a coal barge Chris Christofferson receives a letter from his estranged twenty year old daughter Anna "Christie" Christofferson telling that she will leave...
6.6
344 votes
6.6
344 votes
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Anna Christie
1931 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Jacques Feyder
Cast Greta Garbo · Theo Shall · Hans Junkermann · Salka Viertel
Synopsis A young woman reunites with her estranged father and falls in love with a sailor, but struggles to tell them about her dark past.
6.6
60 votes
6.6
60 votes
Desire Under the Elms
1958 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Delbert Mann
Cast Sophia Loren · Anthony Perkins · Burl Ives · Frank Overton
Synopsis n DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS, Anna poses tough competition to Ephraim’s bitter sons from his previous marriages, who believe they, not their new stepmother, should inherit all his land. Things...
6.6
390 votes
6.6
390 votes
Summer Holiday
1948 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Rouben Mamoulian
Cast Mickey Rooney · Gloria DeHaven · Walter Huston · Frank Morgan
Synopsis This version of Eugene O’Neill’s beloved coming-of-age play Ah, Wilderness! boasts Harry Warren/Ralph Blane tunes as spirited as the 4th of July. The cast is headed by Mickey Rooney (who...
5.9
21 votes
5.9
21 votes
Mourning Becomes Electra
1947 · Movie · 173 min. · United States
Direction Dudley Nichols
Cast Rosalind Russell · Michael Redgrave · Raymond Massey · Kirk Douglas
Synopsis Eugene O'Neill's updated version of the Orestaia. In New England, after the American Civil War, a war-weary Agamem--er, Ezra Mannon comes home to his unhappy wife (Christine) and loving daughter...
5.8
74 votes
5.8
74 votes
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Strange Interlude
1932 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Robert Z. Leonard
Cast Norma Shearer · Clark Gable · Alexander Kirkland · Ralph Morgan
Synopsis The thoughts that people think are never the same as the words they speak - and in this movie, we can hear the thoughts. Gordon Shaw was a flyer who...
5.4
28 votes
5.4
28 votes
The Hairy Ape
1944 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Alfred Santell
Cast William Bendix · Susan Hayward · John Loder · Dorothy Comingore
Synopsis Hank Smith, a brutish stoker on board a freighter, is appalled when Mildred Douglas, a society girl forced by circumstance to travel as a passenger, visits the stokehold and recoils...
5.0
64 votes
5.0
64 votes
The Iceman Cometh (TV) (TV Miniseries)
1960 · Series · 240 min. · United States
Direction Sidney Lumet
Cast Jason Robards · Myron McCormick · Tom Pedi · James Broderick
Synopsis The chilling tale of a high-rolling gambler who changes his ways and is determind to help the drifters, alcoholics and prostitutes who have come to depend on his "generosity".
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Long Day's Journey Into Night
2025 · Movie · United Kingdom
Direction Jonathan Kent
Cast Jessica Lange · Ed Harris · Ben Foster · Colin Morgan
Synopsis Over the course of a day, a married couple, Mary and James Tyrone, and their two sons, Jamie and Edmund, grapple with Mary's morphine addiction and confront each other over...
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Ah, Wilderness!
1935 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown
Cast Wallace Beery · Lionel Barrymore · Aline MacMahon · Eric Linden
Synopsis Young idealist Richard Miller is selected as valedictorian for his New England high school commencement class of 1906 and intends to inject modern anti-capitalistic ideas into his speech. His father,...
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The Emperor Jones
1933 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Dudley Murphy
Cast Paul Robeson · Dudley Digges · Frank H. Wilson · Fredi Washington
Synopsis At a Baptist prayer meeting, the preacher leads a prayer for Brutus Jones, who is leaving to become a railway porter. Jones joins the congregation in a spiritual. Once on...
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Misty Harbor (Anna Christie)
1923 · Movie · Japan
Direction Kenji Mizoguchi
Cast Harue Ichikawa · Haruko Sawamura · Eijirô Mori · Kaichi Yamamoto
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Anna Christie
1923 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction John Griffith Wray · Thomas H. Ince
Cast Blanche Sweet · William Russell · George F. Marion · Eugenie Besserer
Synopsis A troubled young woman comes to live with her estranged father on the New York waterfront. A tough sailor falls in love with her, sparking conflict between her father and...
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Long Day's Journey Into Night
1982 · Movie · 146 min. · United States
Direction William Woodman
Cast Thommie Blackwell · Ruby Dee · Rhetta Hughes · Earle Hyman
Synopsis Over the course of one day in August 1912, the family of retired actor James Tyrone grapples with the morphine addiction of his wife Mary, the illness of their youngest...
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A Moon for the Misbegotten (TV)
1975 · Movie · 134 min. · United States
Direction José Quintero · Gordon Rigsby
Cast Jason Robards · Colleen Dewhurst · Ed Flanders · Edwin McDonough
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Celanese Theatre (TV Series)
1951 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Alex Segal · David Alexander
Cast Wendell Corey · Ralph Morgan · Philip Coolidge · Wesley Addy
Synopsis TV Series (1951-1952). 1 season. 20 episodes. This program consisted of adaptations of high-quality plays written by leading playwrights.
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Desire Under the Elms
1928 · Movie · 54 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Giorgi Makarov
Cast Andro Murusidze · Bella Beletskaya · Shalva Gambashidze · Akaki Vasadze
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