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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