Screenplay: Woody Allen

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


Manhattan

1979 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Woody Allen · Diane Keaton · Mariel Hemingway · Michael Murphy

Plot Isaac’s sentimental life isn’t perfect. His ex-wife is writing a book revealing the couple’s intimacies. Although he’s dating Tracy, a student much younger than himself, he has started to really...

8.1

53K votes

8.1

53K votes

Annie Hall

1977 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Woody Allen · Diane Keaton · Tony Roberts · Carol Kane

Plot Alvy Singer (Woody Allen), a neurotic comedian from New York, falls in love with Annie (Diane Keaton). The movie explores the ups and downs of modern relationships.

8.0

71K votes

8.0

71K votes

Crimes and Misdemeanors

1989 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Woody Allen · Alan Alda · Claire Bloom · Anjelica Huston

Plot Judah and Clifford are each faced with their own dilemma and its gravity. Judah, a reputed eye specialist, plans to end his relationship with his mistress Dolores, who threatens to...

7.9

24K votes

7.9

24K votes

Hannah and Her Sisters

1986 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Woody Allen · Mia Farrow · Michael Caine · Barbara Hershey

Plot Hannah seems to have a balanced, perfect life. A successful actress, exemplary wife and mother, she has become the centre of gravity and reference for her entire family. Her sisters,...

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7.8

33K votes

7.8

33K votes

Manhattan Murder Mystery

1993 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Diane Keaton · Woody Allen · Alan Alda · Anjelica Huston

Plot Carol Lipton (Diane Keaton) suspects that her aged neighbor Paul House (Jerry Adler) has murdered his wife, found dead seemingly due to a heart attack. Her husband Larry (Woody Allen)...

7.8

44K votes

7.8

44K votes

Play It Again, Sam

1972 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Herbert Ross

Cast Woody Allen · Diane Keaton · Tony Roberts · Jerry Lacy

Plot Allan Felix would like to be Bogart, to be able to drink like Bogart and to seduce like Bogart. But he’s nothing but a neurotic film reviewer recently dumped by...

7.7

14K votes

7.7

14K votes

Match Point

2005 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Jonathan Rhys Meyers · Scarlett Johansson · Emily Mortimer · Matthew Goode

Plot Match Point is a drama about a young man's rise in society and the terrible consequences of his ambition. The protagonist is torn between two women and finding no way...

7.7

118K votes

7.7

118K votes

Husbands and Wives

1992 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Woody Allen · Mia Farrow · Sydney Pollack · Juliette Lewis

Plot The announcement that Jack (Sydney Pollack) and Sally (Judy Davis), two of their best friends, are separating, sparks off a crisis between Gabe (Woody Allen) and his wife, Judy (Mia...

7.6

15K votes

7.6

15K votes

The Purple Rose of Cairo

1985 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Mia Farrow · Jeff Daniels · Danny Aiello · Dianne Wiest

Plot It’s the Depression and Cecilia works herself into the ground as a waitress in New Jersey while her husband does nothing. Her only outlet is the cinema, to which she...

7.6

28K votes

7.6

28K votes

Deconstructing Harry

1997 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Woody Allen · Elisabeth Shue · Robin Williams · Demi Moore

Plot Harry Block (Woody Allen), despite the onset of middle age, has never really grown up. He has established a reputation as a novelist but has already spent his latest advance...

7.6

35K votes

7.6

35K votes

Zelig

1983 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Woody Allen · Mia Farrow · Gale Hansen · Stephanie Farrow

Plot Mock documentary on the figure of Leonard Zelig, a chameleon of a man who astounded the American society of the “jazz era”. His story starts the day he tells a...

7.6

17K votes

7.6

17K votes

Bullets over Broadway

1994 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen

Cast John Cusack · Dianne Wiest · Chazz Palminteri · Jim Broadbent

Plot The 20s. David Shayne, a down-and-out playwright, has finally obtained funding for one of his plays. On one condition: one of the parts is to be played by Olive, useless...

7.5

28K votes

7.5

28K votes

Another Woman

1988 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Gena Rowlands · Gene Hackman · Mia Farrow · Ian Holm

Plot Brilliant philosophy lecturer Marion Post has asked for sabbatical leave to write a book. One day she discovers that while working in her studio she can hear the psychoanalysis sessions...

7.4

7K votes

7.4

7K votes

Love and Death

1975 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Woody Allen · Diane Keaton · Olga Georges-Picot · James Tolkan

Plot Early 19th Century. Boris Grushenko lives in a small Russian village obsessed with death and his cousin Sonia, who is about to marry a herring trader. Obliged by his family,...

7.4

16K votes

7.4

16K votes

Radio Days

1987 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Mia Farrow · Dianne Wiest · Seth Green · Julie Kavner

Plot These are the 40s, the golden age of radio, when the peculiar members of a working-class New York family live with the set on all day long. The music, tear-jerking...

7.4

16K votes

7.4

16K votes

Broadway Danny Rose

1984 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Woody Allen · Mia Farrow · Nick Apollo Forte · Sandy Baron

Plot In a Broadway restaurant a group of comedians exchange old stories about the world of showbiz. As the conversation progresses, they recall Danny Rose, an agent who took on some...

7.4

9K votes

7.4

9K votes

Midnight in Paris

2011 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Owen Wilson · Marion Cotillard · Rachel McAdams · Corey Stoll

Plot A slightly bohemian american writer (Owen Wilson) arrives with his fiancee (Rachel McAdams) and her parents to Paris. As he wanders the streets dreaming of the 1920s, he falls under...

7.3

77K votes

7.3

77K votes

Mighty Aphrodite

1995 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Mira Sorvino · Woody Allen · F. Murray Abraham · Helena Bonham Carter

Plot In New York, Amanda (Helena Bonham Carter) convinces his husband Lenny (Woody Allen) to adopt a child. Years later, after he proves to be extremely intelligent, the adoptive father sets...

7.2

21K votes

7.2

21K votes

Take the Money and Run

1969 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Woody Allen · Janet Margolin · Marcel Hillaire · Jacqueline Hyde

Plot Based on a series of interviews with those who knew him, the movie takes us through the life of incompetent petty criminal Virgil Starkwell, who was destined to delinquency from...

7.2

20K votes

7.2

20K votes

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

2001 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Woody Allen · Helen Hunt · Dan Aykroyd · Charlize Theron

Plot In 1940, CW Briggs is the top insurance investigator in New York--or so he keeps telling the firm's new efficiency expert, Betty Ann Fitzgerald. Briggs prides himself on being able...

7.2

36K votes

7.2

36K votes