Screenplay: Mark Peploe

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


The Last Emperor

1987 · Movie · 156 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bernardo Bertolucci

Cast John Lone · Peter O'Toole · Joan Chen · Ruocheng Ying

Synopsis The Last Emperor (1987) follows the life of Pu Yi, who becomes the last Emperor of China at the age of three. The film traces his journey from his sheltered childhood in the Forbidden City, through his abdication and life...

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7.2

49K votes

7.2

49K votes

The Passenger

1975 · Movie · 119 min. · Italy

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast Jack Nicholson · Maria Schneider · Jenny Runacre · Ambroise Bia

Synopsis David Locke (Jack Nicholson) is a frustrated and disillusioned war correspondent and TV journalist who is in Africa to cover a Civil War, unable to find the war he's been asked to cover, takes the risky path of co-opting the...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

The Sheltering Sky

1990 · Movie · 133 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bernardo Bertolucci

Cast Debra Winger · John Malkovich · Campbell Scott · Jill Bennett

Synopsis The American artist couple Port and Kit Moresby travels aimless through Africa, searching for new experiences that could give new sense to their relationship. But the flight to distant regions leads both only deeper into despair. An Adaptation of Paul...

6.4

4K votes

6.4

4K votes

Little Buddha

1993 · Movie · 123 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bernardo Bertolucci

Cast Keanu Reeves · Bridget Fonda · Chris Isaak · Alex Wiesendanger

Synopsis In Little Buddha (1993), a young American boy, Jesse, is visited by Tibetan monks who believe he may be the reincarnation of a revered lama. As Jesse and his family journey to Bhutan, the monks share the ancient story of...

5.8

5K votes

5.8

5K votes

The Pied Piper

1972 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jacques Demy

Cast Donovan · Donald Pleasence · Diana Dors · John Hurt

Synopsis The story of the Pied Piper who gets rid of the town of Hamelin’s rats, reveals a gripping story of evil in the Middle-Ages, a time when millions of people across Europe died of the plague. Demy focuses on the...

5.8

67 votes

5.8

67 votes

Victory

1996 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mark Peploe

Cast Willem Dafoe · Irène Jacob · Sam Neill · Rufus Sewell

Synopsis Axel Heyst lives on a secluded island near the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya. The year is 1913. While on personal business to the port, he visits the hotel owned by racist German Schomberg. An all-woman orchestra plays in...

5.3

31 votes

5.3

31 votes

High Season

1987 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Clare Peploe

Cast Jacqueline Bisset · James Fox · Irene Papas · Kenneth Branagh

Synopsis On the isle of Rhodes, Katherine, an expatriate English photographer, lives with her daughter. A young local wants to encourage tourism, so he commissions a sculpture of the Unknown Tourist for the town square; the sculptor he brings to Rhodes...

5.0

162 votes

5.0

162 votes

Afraid of the Dark

1991 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mark Peploe

Cast James Fox · Fanny Ardant · Paul McGann · Clare Holman

Synopsis A little boy, obsessed with blindness and violence, slowly gets trapped in his own delusions.

4.5

55 votes

4.5

55 votes

Not rated

Scar Tissue

1975 · Movie · 110 min. · France

Direction René Clément

Cast Nadja Tiller · Maria Schneider · Sydne Rome · Vic Morrow

Synopsis A naive young girl is forcefully kidnapped while babysitting the son of a wealthy food mogul. Her and the boy are held hostage by an ex-stuntman and a vengeful movie star.

Not rated

Not rated