Screenplay: Mark Peploe
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Mark Peploe. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 10
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...
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
Samson and Delilah (S)
1985 · Movie · 26 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Mark Peploe
Cast Bernard Hill · Lindsay Duncan · Vicki Masson · Patrick Jordan
—
Not rated
—
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