Screenplay: Eugene O'Neill

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Eugene O'Neill. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Long Day's Journey Into Night

1962 · Movie · 174 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Jason Robards · Ralph Richardson · Dean Stockwell

Plot 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

Plot 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

Plot 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

Plot 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

Anna Christie

1931 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Jacques Feyder

Cast Greta Garbo · Theo Shall · Hans Junkermann · Salka Viertel

Plot 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

Plot 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

Plot 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

Plot 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

Strange Interlude

1932 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Norma Shearer · Clark Gable · Alexander Kirkland · Ralph Morgan

Plot 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

Plot 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

Plot 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

2024 · Movie · min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jonathan Kent

Cast Jessica Lange · Ed Harris · Ben Foster · Colin Morgan

Plot 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

Plot 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

Plot 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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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

Plot 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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A Moon for the Misbegotten (TV)

1975 · Movie · 134 min. · United States

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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

Plot 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)

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