Screenplay: Wolfgang Wilhelm
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Wolfgang Wilhelm. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Yoshiwara
1937 · Movie · 102 min. · France
Direction Max Ophüls
Cast Michiko Tanaka · Roland Toutain · Lucienne Le Marchand · André Gabriello
Plot The daughter of a Japanese nobleman sells herself as a geisha in order to save her family from poverty and dishonour when her father dies leaving debts. She meets and...
6.8
83 votes
6.8
83 votes
A Dispatch from Reuter's
1940 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction William Dieterle
Cast Edward G. Robinson · Edna Best · Eddie Albert · Albert Basserman
Plot An entrepreneur builds an international news agency.
6.8
53 votes
6.8
53 votes
'Pimpernel' Smith
1941 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Leslie Howard
Cast Leslie Howard · Francis L. Sullivan · Mary Morris · Hugh McDermott
Plot It is mid-1939 and both Germany and England are preparing for an inevitable conflict. Professor Horatio Smith, an effete academic, asks his students to come with him to the continent...
6.6
66 votes
6.6
66 votes
I See a Dark Stranger
1946 · Movie · 112 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Frank Launder
Cast Deborah Kerr · Trevor Howard · Raymond Huntley · Liam Redmond
Plot Determined, independent Bridie Quilty comes of age in 1944 Ireland thinking all Englishmen are devils. Her desire to join the IRA meets no encouragement, but a German spy finds her...
6.4
67 votes
6.4
67 votes
Secret People
1952 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Thorold Dickinson
Cast Valentina Cortese · Serge Reggiani · Charles Goldner · Audrey Hepburn
Plot In 1930, Maria Brentano and her younger sister Nora flee to London after their father is murdered by a European dictator. Seven years later, during a weekend trip to Paris,...
5.9
51 votes
5.9
51 votes
Don't Blame the Stork
1954 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ákos Ráthonyi
Cast Veronica Hurst · Ian Hunter · Reginald Beckwith · Patricia Laffan
Plot When Sir George Redway, a famous actor, makes the public boast that he loves babies, a baby is promptly abandoned on his doorstep, and he is forced to take it...
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Uncensored
1942 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Asquith
Cast Eric Portman · Phyllis Calvert · Griffith Jones · Raymond Lovell
Plot During the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter Nazi propaganda efforts to deceive the...
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Escape to Danger
1943 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Lance Comfort · Victor Hanbury Productions
Cast Eric Portman · Ann Dvorak · Karel Stepanek · Ronald Ward
Plot During the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the Germans invade.
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The Great Game
1953 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Maurice Elvey
Cast James Hayter · Thora Hird · Diana Dors · Sheila Shand Gibbs
Plot The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical approach to a star player of another club, and the ensuing scandal costs him his job.
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The Saint Meets the Tiger
1943 · Movie · 79 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Paul L. Stein
Cast Hugh Sinclair · Jean Gillie · Gordon McLeod · Clifford Evans
Plot A man murdered at the Saint's doorstep manages to utter a few words to Simon Templar before he dies, sending him off to the quaint resort village of Baycombe where...
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Farewell Again
1937 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Tim Whelan
Cast Leslie Banks · Flora Robson · Sebastian Shaw · Patricia Hilliard
Plot Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty in India, several British Tommies try to unravel their domestic tribulations before having to ship out again.
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There Goes the Bride
1932 · Movie · 79 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Albert de Courville
Cast Jessie Matthews · Owen Nares · Carol Goodner · Jerry Verno
Plot A businessman's daughter runs away from an arranged marriage, only to find herself penniless and suspected of theft after she becomes the victim of a bag thief in the train....
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The Silent Battle
1939 · Movie · 73 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Herbert Mason
Cast Rex Harrison · Valerie Hobson · John Loder · Muriel Aked
Plot Aboard a continental express train, Draguisha is the instrument of a terrorist revolutionary party which seeks to kill the prime minister of Bosnia, free its political prisoners, among whom is...
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Een koninkrijk voor een huis
1949 · Movie · 96 min. · Netherlands
Direction Jaap Speyer
Cast Heintje Davids · Johan Kaart · Annie Van Duyn · Rob de Vries
Plot Shortly after the end of World War II, Amsterdam is coping with a lack of living quarters. Market vendor Heintje Davids gets a tip from her sister that a couple...
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Great Day
1945 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Lance Comfort
Cast Eric Portman · Flora Robson · Sheila Sim · Isabel Jeans
Plot In the English village of Denley, the Women's Institute (a wartime program channeling village products to the troops) is electrified to hear that they'll be visited by Eleanor Roosevelt. As...
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The End of the River
1947 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Derek N. Twist
Cast Sabu · Bibi Ferreira · Esmond Knight · Antoinette Cellier
Plot A South American Indian is taken from his jungle home into the world of the White Man where he is forced to stand trial for murder. The story of how...
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Captain Boycott
1947 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Frank Launder
Cast Stewart Granger · Kathleen Ryan · Alastair Sim · Robert Donat
Plot Set in early 19th-century Ireland, this fact-based drama chronicles the peasant uprising of peasants who finally tire of the brutality of Captain Boycott, the rent collector for the Earl of...
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Brewster's Millions
1935 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Thornton Freeland
Cast Jack Buchanan · Lili Damita · Nancy O'Neil · Sydeny Fairbrother
Plot Jack Brewster is a pennyless English lad who learns that he has inherited 6 million pounds sterling from a recently deceased relative. But soon learns that he must spend 500,000...
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Squadron Leader X
1943 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Lance Comfort
Cast Eric Portman · Ann Dvorak · Walter Fitzgerald · Martin Miller
Plot Equipped with an RAF uniform, an English accent, a photograph of his "wife" and a packet of Players (cigarettes), a German agent is parachuted into occupied Belgium to create anti-British...
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