Screenplay: Donald E. Westlake

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Donald E. Westlake. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


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

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

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

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