Screenplay: Cornell Woolrich

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


Rear Window

1954 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast James Stewart · Grace Kelly · Thelma Ritter · Raymond Burr

Plot A professional photographer, L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries (Stewart), is obliged to stay at home because he broke a leg. Despite the company of his girlfriend (Kelly) and his nurse (Ritter), he...

8.2

75K votes

8.2

75K votes

Martha (TV)

1974 · Movie · 116 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Margit Carstensen · Karlheinz Böhm · Gisela Fackeldey · Ingrid Caven

Plot A single woman in her early thirties, Martha (Margit Carstensen) is on vacation with her father in Europe when he has a heart attack and falls down dead. She reacts...

7.5

172 votes

7.5

172 votes

No Man of Her Own

1950 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · John Lund · Jane Cowl · Phyllis Thaxter

Plot Helen Ferguson (Stanwyck) is a pregnant girl who assumes a new identity and whose past catches up with her in blackmail and murder.

7.2

519 votes

7.2

519 votes

Four O'Clock (TV)

1957 · Movie · 48 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Nancy Kelly · E.G. Marshall · Richard Long · Tom Pittman

Plot Paul Steppe, a watch repairman, suspects his wife is cheating on him while he tends to his store every afternoon. Consumed with jealousy, he devises a time bomb set to...

7.1

153 votes

7.1

153 votes

7.1

128 votes

The Bride Wore Black

1968 · Movie · 107 min. · France

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jeanne Moreau · Claude Rich · Jean-Claude Brialy · Michel Bouquet

Plot Julie Kohler, whose husband is inexplicably shot dead on the church steps after their wedding, is prevented from suicide by his mother. She leaves the town. She will track down,...

7.0

3K votes

7.0

3K votes

Never Open That Door

1952 · Movie · 85 min. · Argentina

Direction Carlos Hugo Christensen

Cast Ángel Magaña · Roberto Escalada · Ilde Pirovano · Nicolás Fregues

Plot Two separate episodes that have in common the door which separates good from evil. In the first segment, "Alguien al teléfono" ("Somebody on the Phone"), Ángel Magaña tries to avenge...

7.0

126 votes

7.0

126 votes

Phantom Lady

1944 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Franchot Tone · Ella Raines · Alan Curtis · Aurora Miranda

Plot This noir thriller follows an innocent man blamed for the murder of his wife and unable to find the woman with whom he passed the evening in question. When he's...

7.0

945 votes

7.0

945 votes

Mississippi Mermaid

1969 · Movie · 123 min. · France

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Catherine Deneuve · Michel Bouquet · Nelly Borgeaud

Plot Adapted from the 1947 novel Waltz into Darkness by Cornell Woolrich, the film is about a tobacco planter on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean who becomes engaged through correspondence...

6.9

2K votes

6.9

2K votes

The Window

1949 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Ted Tetzlaff

Cast Barbara Hale · Bobby Driscoll · Arthur Kennedy · Paul Stewart

Plot Young Tommy Woodry gets used to telling fantastic but harmless lies to his family and friends because he's bored. They get used to it. That's unfortunate for Tommy, because almost...

6.9

658 votes

6.9

658 votes

Black Angel

1946 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Roy William Neill

Cast Dan Duryea · June Vincent · Peter Lorre · Broderick Crawford

Plot Singing star Mavis Marlowe is murdered just after receiving a heart shaped ruby brooch. Before Kirk Bennett, who discovers the body, can call the police, the brooch is taken by...

6.8

260 votes

6.8

260 votes

The Leopard Man

1943 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Jacques Tourneur

Cast Dennis O'Keefe · Margo · Jean Brooks · Isabel Jewell

Plot At the encouragement of her manager, a nightclub performer in New Mexico (Kiki Walker) takes a leashed leopard into the club as a publicity gimmick. But her rival, angered by...

6.7

1K votes

6.7

1K votes

Night Has a Thousand Eyes

1948 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction John Farrow

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Gail Russell · John Lund · Virginia Bruce

Plot When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship to John Triton. In flashback, we see how stage mentalist Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true...

6.6

185 votes

6.6

185 votes

Nightmare

1956 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Maxwell Shane

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Kevin McCarthy · Connie Russell · Virginia Christine

Plot A musician was hypnotised in order to commit a crime. When he wakes up he tries to find the truth with the help of his brother-in-law who is a police...

6.5

171 votes

6.5

171 votes

Obsession

1954 · Movie · 100 min. · France

6.4

22 votes

6.4

22 votes

6.3

203 votes

El ojo de cristal

1956 · Movie · 92 min. · Spain

Direction Antonio Santillán

Cast Carlos López Moctezuma · Armando Moreno · Beatriz Aguirre · Jesús Colomer

Plot Enrique kills a man for stealing him a check he has received due to an accident. However, things get complicated because it had not yet been cashed. This will force...

6.3

287 votes

6.3

287 votes

Fear in the Night

1947 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Maxwell Shane

Cast Paul Kelly · DeForest Kelley · Ann Doran · Kay Scott

Plot One man wakes up in his room after a terrible nightmare in which he kills a woman. He immediatly realizes that he possibly has committed such a horrible crime.

6.2

41 votes

6.2

41 votes

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Momentum (TV)

1956 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevens

Cast Skip Homeier · Joanne Woodward · Ken Christy · Henry Hunter

Plot Richard Paine decides to steal money from his boss that he owes him anyway, and it turns to a unnecessary and ironic murder.

6.1

66 votes

6.1

66 votes

The Chase

1946 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Ripley

Cast Robert Cummings · Michèle Morgan · Steve Cochran · Peter Lorre

Plot War vet Chuck Scott (Robert Cummings) gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman (Steve Cochran); but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife (Michèle Morgan) becomes a nightmare.

6.1

157 votes

6.1

157 votes