Screenplay: Ted Tally

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


The Silence of the Lambs

1991 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Jonathan Demme

Cast Jodie Foster · Anthony Hopkins · Scott Glenn · Ted Levine

Plot Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster), a young and ambitious FBI agent, enlists the aid of criminally insane ex-psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) to help track down a vicious serial killer...

8.2

171K votes

8.2

171K votes

Red Dragon

2002 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction Brett Ratner

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Edward Norton · Ralph Fiennes · Harvey Keitel

Plot Based on the novel by Thomas Harris, RED DRAGON stars Edward Norton as Will Graham, the intuitive FBI agent who captured the notorious Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter (Anthony Hopkins). When...

6.5

39K votes

6.5

39K votes

White Palace

1990 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Luis Mandoki

Cast Susan Sarandon · James Spader · Jason Alexander · Kathy Bates

Plot A waitress in a White Palace fast-food restaurant meets a young, recently widowed, Jewish advertising executive at a bar. They "tentatively" and "uncertainly" start an affair which turns torrid very...

5.9

809 votes

5.9

809 votes

Before and After

1996 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Barbet Schroeder

Cast Meryl Streep · Liam Neeson · Edward Furlong · Alfred Molina

Plot The idyllic life of Carolyn and Ben Ryan (Meryl Streep and Liam Neeson) is shattered in an instant when the girlfriend of their teenage son, Jacob (Edward Furlong), is found...

5.7

3K votes

5.7

3K votes

12 Strong

2018 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction Nicolai Fuglsig

Cast Chris Hemsworth · Michael Shannon · Navid Negahban · Michael Peña

Plot A team of CIA agents and special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an attempt to dismantle the Taliban.

5.4

4K votes

5.4

4K votes

The Juror

1996 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Brian Gibson

Cast Demi Moore · Alec Baldwin · Anne Heche · Lindsay Crouse

Plot When Annie Laird is selected as a juror in a big Mafia trial, she is forced by someone known as "The Teacher" to persuade the other jurors to vote "not...

4.7

5K votes

4.7

5K votes

All the Pretty Horses

2000 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Billy Bob Thornton

Cast Matt Damon · Penélope Cruz · Henry Thomas · Lucas Black

Plot This story tells the tale of a young Texan named John Grady Cole (Damon) who ventures across the border into 1940s Mexico after his mother sells the ranch where he...

3.7

3K votes

3.7

3K votes