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
Si muero antes de despertar
1952 · Movie · 73 min. · Argentina
Direction Carlos Hugo Christensen
Cast Néstor Zavarce · Blanca del Prado · Florén Delbene · Homero Cárpena
7.1
128 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
Direction Jean Delannoy
Cast Michèle Morgan · Raf Vallone · Marthe Mercadier · Jean Gaven
6.4
22 votes
6.4
22 votes
Alfred Hitchcock presents: The big switch (TV)
1956 · Movie · 24 min. · United States
Direction Don Weis
Cast George Mathews · Beverly Michaels · George E. Stone · Joe Downing
6.3
203 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