Screenplay: Arthur Kopit

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


The Phantom of the Opera (TV Miniseries)

1990 · Series · 168 min. · United States

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Charles Dance · Burt Lancaster · Teri Polo · Adam Storke

Plot Tony Richardson's version of Leroux's oft-filmed novel about a disfigured hermit and his tortured love for a gifted young singer stars Charles Dance as the maimed Erik Destler, aka the...

6.4

296 votes

6.4

296 votes

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson

1976 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Paul Newman · Burt Lancaster · Geraldine Chaplin · Harvey Keitel

Plot Buffalo Bill (Paul Newman) plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow, and Chief Sitting Bull has agreed to appear in it. However, Sitting Bull has his own hidden...

5.4

819 votes

5.4

819 votes

Roswell (TV)

1994 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Jeremy Kagan

Cast Kyle MacLachlan · Martin Sheen · Dwight Yoakam · Xander Berkeley

Plot In July 1947 an alien craft allegedly crashed in Roswell, New Mexico. For the first time we see filmed evidence of the crashed spacecraft and supposedly the actual autopsy of...

5.4

96 votes

5.4

96 votes

Nine

2009 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Rob Marshall

Cast Daniel Day-Lewis · Marion Cotillard · Penélope Cruz · Kate Hudson

Plot Famous film director Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis) struggles to find harmony in his professional and personal lives, as he engages in dramatic relationships with his wife (Marion Cotillard), his mistress...

5.1

13K votes

5.1

13K votes

Direction Richard Quine · Alexander Mackendrick

Cast Rosalind Russell · Robert Morse · Barbara Harris · Hugh Griffith

Plot A mother drops her son and husband off at a tropical vacation spot for a little rest and relaxation. The only problem is that the husband has been dead for...

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Hands of a Stranger (TV)

1987 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction Larry Elikann

Cast Armand Assante · Blair Brown · Beverly D'Angelo · Michael Lerner

Plot A New York cop becomes obsessed with finding his wife's rapist.

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Not rated