Screenplay: Donald E. Westlake
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Donald E. Westlake. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 32
The Ax
2005 · Movie · 122 min. · France
Direction Costa-Gavras
Cast José García · Karin Viard · Geordy Monfils · Christa Theret
Plot A chemist (Garcia) loses his job to outsourcing. Two years later and still jobless, he hits on a solution: to genuinely eliminate his competition.
7.0
6K votes
7.0
6K votes
Point Blank
1967 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction John Boorman
Cast Lee Marvin · Angie Dickinson · Keenan Wynn · John Vernon
Plot "Point Blank" is an expertly made, fast-moving film, based on the theme of the individual pitted against the large, impersonal organization. Here the central character is an old-fashioned loner of...
6.9
4K votes
6.9
4K votes
The Grifters
1990 · Movie · 119 min. · United States
Direction Stephen Frears
Cast Anjelica Huston · Annette Bening · John Cusack · Pat Hingle
Plot When con artist Roy Dillon (John Cusack) is visited by his Mother, Lilly (Anjelica Huston), who is also a con artist, she sends Roy off to the hospital because of...
6.6
5K votes
6.6
5K votes
The Outfit
1973 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction John Flynn
Cast Robert Duvall · Karen Black · Joe Don Baker · Robert Ryan
6.6
240 votes
6.6
240 votes
Payback: Straight Up
2006 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Brian Helgeland
Cast Mel Gibson · Maria Bello · James Coburn · Jack Conley
Plot Seven years after seeing his original vision butchered under studio interference as well as his star's, director Brian Helgeland finally was given the chance to piece together his director's cut...
6.4
784 votes
6.4
784 votes
Made in U.S.A.
1966 · Movie · 90 min. · France
Direction Jean-Luc Godard
Cast Anna Karina · Jean-Pierre Léaud · Laszlo Szabo · Marianne Faithfull
Plot A journalist, Paula Nelson, arrives in Atlantic City, France, at an unknown point in the near future, to look for her missing ex-boyfriend Richard Politzer. Her enquiries soon reveal that...
6.3
700 votes
6.3
700 votes
The Hot Rock
1972 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Peter Yates
Cast Robert Redford · George Segal · Ron Leibman · Paul Sand
Plot Dr. Amusa approaches Dortmunder about a valuable gem in a museum that is of great signifigance to his people in Africa, stolen during colonial times. Dortmunder assembles a crack team...
6.3
1K votes
6.3
1K votes
Payback
1999 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Brian Helgeland
Cast Mel Gibson · Gregg Henry · Maria Bello · David Paymer
Plot Porter (Mel Gibson) is pulled into a heist by his old friend, Val (Brian De Palma regular, Gregg Henry). As they're stealing $130,000 in laundered drug money from Chinese Triads,...
6.1
12K votes
6.1
12K votes
The Split
1968 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Gordon Flemyng
Cast Jim Brown · Diahann Carroll · Ernest Borgnine · Julie Harris
Plot Thieves fall out when over a half million dollars goes missing after the daring and carefully planned robbery of the Los Angeles Coliseum during a football game, each one accusing...
5.7
58 votes
5.7
58 votes
The Stepfather
1987 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Joseph Ruben
Cast Terry O'Quinn · Jill Schoelen · Shelley Hack · Charles Lanyer
Plot All about a "family values" man Jerry Blake who marries widows and divorcées with children in search of the perfect family. As soon as his new family members show signs...
5.6
1K votes
5.6
1K votes
The Twin
1984 · Movie · 108 min. · France
Direction Yves Robert
Cast Pierre Richard · Jean-Pierre Kalfon · Camilla More · Carey More
Plot Matthias Duval is in love, but he can't choose between the two twin sisters Betty and Liz Kerner. To pick up the two sisters, he invents his own twin brother...
5.6
42 votes
5.6
42 votes
Parker
2013 · Movie · 118 min. · United States
Direction Taylor Hackford
Cast Jason Statham · Jennifer Lopez · Michael Chiklis · Wendell Pierce
Plot When Parker turns down a job offer to pull off a jewel heist, he narrowly escapes with his life. He then teams up with a female real estate agent who...
5.2
10K votes
5.2
10K votes
Ripley Under Ground
2005 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Roger Spottiswoode
Cast Barry Pepper · Alan Cumming · Jacinda Barrett · Claire Forlani
Plot After his friend, a hot young artist, is killed, a resourceful American man living in London covers up the crime and tries to keep the friend's name alive in order...
5.2
72 votes
5.2
72 votes
Two Much
1995 · Movie · 118 min. · Spain
Direction Fernando Trueba
Cast Antonio Banderas · Melanie Griffith · Daryl Hannah · Danny Aiello
Plot A young gallerist is in love with two sisters at the same time. In order to solve the problem he decides to invent his own twin-brother.
5.0
15K votes
5.0
15K votes
Bank Shot
1974 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Gower Champion
Cast George C. Scott · Joanna Cassidy · Sorrell Booke · George Wood
Plot This crime-caper film from director Gower Champion stars George C. Scott as a visionary thief, who doesn't merely intend to rob a bank. He plans to steal the whole bank....
4.8
88 votes
4.8
88 votes
The Hook
2004 · Movie · 107 min. · France
Direction Thomas Vincent
Cast François Cluzet · Karin Viard · Bernard Giraudeau · Anne Brochet
4.8
25 votes
4.8
25 votes
Stepfather II
1989 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Jeff Burr
Cast Terry O'Quinn · Meg Foster · Caroline Williams · Jonathan Brandis
Plot The Stepfather escapes an insane asylum and winds up in another town, this time impersonating a marriage counselor. Now he seems to have found the perfect future wife, with a...
4.6
234 votes
4.6
234 votes
The Stepfather
2009 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Nelson McCormick
Cast Dylan Walsh · Sela Ward · Penn Badgley · Amber Heard
Plot A seemingly normal guy named Michael Harding (Penn Badgley) wants the perfect family, but when his new wife (Sela Ward) and stepchild Michael Harding (Penn Badgley) don't measure up, he...
4.5
3K votes
4.5
3K votes
Why Me?
1990 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Gene Quintano
Cast Christopher Lambert · Kim Greist · Christopher Lloyd · J.T. Walsh
4.3
101 votes
4.3
101 votes
What's the Worst that Could Happen?
2001 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Sam Weisman
Cast Martin Lawrence · Danny DeVito · John Leguizamo · Glenne Headly
Plot The story of two seemingly very different men, caught up in a stupendous battle of egos. Max Fairbanks (DeVito) is a very wealthy, powerful man who has built an incredibly...
4.3
2K votes
4.3
2K votes