Screenplay: John Goldsmith
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by John Goldsmith. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
The Gospel of John
2003 · Movie · 180 min. · Canada
Direction Philip Saville
Cast Henry Ian Cusick · Stuart Bunce · Daniel Kash · Stephen Russell
Plot The story of Jesus' life as told by the apostle John, narrated by Christopher Plummer. The Gospel of John was written two generations after the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. It...
6.6
22 votes
6.6
22 votes
The Island on Bird Street
1997 · Movie · 107 min. · Denmark
Direction Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
Cast Patrick Bergin · Jordan Kiziuk · Sian Nicola Liquorish · Jack Warden
6.4
88 votes
6.4
88 votes
Agnes Browne
1999 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Anjelica Huston
Cast Anjelica Huston · Marion O'Dwyer · Ray Winstone · Arno Chevrier
Plot Set in 1967 Dublin, Agnes Browne (Anjelica Huston) and her seven children, ages 2-14, are sent into emotional turmoil and financial problems soon after the death of her husband. Agnes...
6.3
570 votes
6.3
570 votes
Great Expectations (TV Miniseries)
1989 · Movie · 303 min. · United States
Direction Kevin Connor
Cast Jean Simmons · John Rhys-Davies · Ray McAnally · Anthony Calf
Plot Phillip Pirrup, known as Pip, meets a convict or two in a graveyard and sets into motion a series of events that lead him from a comfortable life in his...
5.9
24 votes
5.9
24 votes
Kidnapped (TV)
1995 · Movie · 142 min. · United States
Direction Ivan Passer
Cast Armand Assante · Brian McCardie · Patrick Malahide · Michael Kitchen
Plot Year 1751. When Scottish young gentleman David Balfour's father dies, he leaves school to collect his inheritance from uncle Ebenezer, who in turn sells the boy as a future slave...
5.5
30 votes
5.5
30 votes
The New Avengers (TV Series)
1976 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ray Austin · Sidney Hayers · Robert Fuest · James Hill
Cast Patrick MacNee · Gareth Hunt · Joanna Lumley · Maurice Marsac
Plot John Steed and his new accomplices Purdey and Gambit find themselves facing new and deadly dangers in the bizarre world of espionage.
5.5
144 votes
5.5
144 votes
David Copperfield (TV)
2000 · Movie · 180 min. · Ireland
Direction Peter Medak
Cast Sally Field · Paul Bettany · Hugh Dancy · Michael Richards
Plot A new adaptation of the classic novel by Charles Dickens. When David Copperfield reaches the age of nine his sickly mother passes away and his spiteful stepfather sends him away...
5.4
255 votes
5.4
255 votes
Paradise Found
2003 · Movie · 89 min. · Australia
Direction Mario Andreacchio
Cast Kiefer Sutherland · Nastassja Kinski · Alun Armstrong · Thomas Heinze
Plot Set in Paris and Tahiti in the late 19th century, PARADISE FOUND examines a slice of life of French painter Paul Gauguin in his attempt to create a revolution in...
5.3
68 votes
5.3
68 votes
Danny, the Champion of the World
1989 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Gavin Millar
Cast Jeremy Irons · Samuel Irons · Robbie Coltrane · Lionel Jeffries
Plot Somewhere in England, in the Autumn of 1955, a widowed father and his son live an idyllic life together. Only their gas station happens to sit on a piece of...
5.3
99 votes
5.3
99 votes
Return of the Saint (TV Series)
1978 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Leslie Norman · Peter Sasdy · Jeremy Summers · Charles Crichton
Cast Ian Ogilvy · Norman Eshley · Edward Brayshaw · John Hallam
Plot Simon Templar is a modern day Robin Hood of sorts. He steals from rich criminals and keeps the loot for himself (usually in such a way as to put the...
5.2
52 votes
5.2
52 votes
A Bear Named Winnie (TV)
2004 · Movie · 90 min. · Canada
Direction John Kent Harrison
Cast Michael Fassbender · Gil Bellows · David Suchet · Stephen Fry
5.2
31 votes
5.2
31 votes
Catherine the Great (TV)
1995 · Movie · 180 min. · Germany
Direction Marvin J. Chomsky · John Goldsmith
Cast Catherine Zeta-Jones · Craig McLachlan · Hannes Jaenicke · Paul McGann
Plot In this romanticized biography, a small German principality's unexperienced princess, Catherine, becomes the bride of czarevitch Peter, the mad and abusive son and heir of the Russian czarina Elisabeth, from...
5.1
141 votes
5.1
141 votes
In the Beginning (TV)
2000 · Movie · 172 min. · United States
Direction Kevin Connor
Cast Martin Landau · Jacqueline Bisset · Bill Campbell · Christopher Lee
Plot Set around the year 2000 B.C., the narrative opens with "Genesis 12," wherein the Lord has kicked Abraham and company out of their country to a land of milk and...
4.7
142 votes
4.7
142 votes
La bella Otero (TV Miniseries)
2008 · Series · 180 min. · Argentina
Direction Jordi Frades
Cast Natalia Verbeke · Giorgio Lupano · Matthieu Rozé · Paolo Gasparini
Plot TV Miniseries (2008). 2 Episodes. Born into a humble family of Galician peasants, Carolina Otero, at the age of ten, decides to run away from home after being sexually assaulted....
4.6
105 votes
4.6
105 votes
Nancherrow (TV Miniseries)
1999 · Series · 100 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Simon Langton
Cast Joanna Lumley · Katie Ryder Richardson · Lara-Joy Körner · George Asprey
Plot A colonel's daughter is the new caretaker of the house. She fights to keep the house and deals with her love problems.
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A Waltz Through the Hills
1988 · Movie · 122 min. · Australia
Direction Frank Arnold
Cast Dan O'Herlihy · Ernie Dingo · Andre Jansen · Tina Kemp
Plot Two Australian orphans stow away on a ship bound for England-and their only surviving relatives.
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The Apocalypse Watch (TV)
1997 · Movie · 240 min. · United States
Direction Kevin Connor
Cast Patrick Bergin · Virginia Madsen · John Shea · Benedick Blythe
Plot When Drew's brother, a CIA field agent, is killed on one of his missions, he sets out to pursue the assignment himself in order to get to the killers. Only...
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Summer Solstice
2005 · Movie · 132 min. · Germany
Direction Giles Foster
Cast Jason Durr · Lara-Joy Körner · Jacqueline Bisset · Franco Nero
Plot Summer Solstice continues the story from Winter Solstice three years later, in the summertime. As then, the story is set in the Scottish Highlands. Sam and Carrie's newly formed business...
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Singapore Sling (TV)
1994 · Movie · 90 min. · Australia
Direction Robert Marchand
Cast John Waters · Burkhard Heyl · Deborra-Lee Furness · Jan-Michael Vincent
Plot John Stamford, an expatriate Australian, now a private detective in Singapore, becomes involved in a fake pharmaceuticals case and a dangerous love triangle.
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Coming Home (TV Miniseries)
1998 · Movie · 199 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Giles Foster
Cast Peter O'Toole · Joanna Lumley · Penelope Keith · Anneliese Uhlig
Plot Young Judith Dunbar is a quiet, gentle voiced teenager in the 1930s, relegated to a life at boarding school thanks to her colonial parents. Judith becomes adopted into the family...
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