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

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

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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Not rated