Screenplay: Woody Allen

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


Café Society

2016 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Jesse Eisenberg · Kristen Stewart · Steve Carell · Blake Lively

Plot LA, in the 30s. Young Bobby Dorfman (Jesse Eisenberg) arrives in Hollywood looking to get a job in the office of his uncle, Phil (Steve Carell), a veteran and powerful...

6.4

23K votes

6.4

23K votes

Celebrity

1998 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Kenneth Branagh · Melanie Griffith · Winona Ryder · Leonardo DiCaprio

Plot At 40, Lee Simon feels that he’s not made the most of life. He writes travel features and interviews people from the world of showbiz, but dreams of selling a...

6.4

13K votes

6.4

13K votes

Irrational Man

2015 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Joaquin Phoenix · Emma Stone · Jamie Blackley · Parker Posey

Plot On a small town college campus, a philosophy professor in existential crisis gives his life new purpose when he enters into a relationship with his student.

6.4

22K votes

6.4

22K votes

Coup de chance

2023 · Movie · 96 min. · France

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Lou de Laâge · Niels Schneider · Melvil Poupaud · Valerie Lemercier

Plot Fanny and Jean look like the ideal married couple —they're both professionally accomplished, they live in a gorgeous apartment in an exclusive neighborhood of Paris, and they seem to be...

6.3

6K votes

6.3

6K votes

Crisis in Six Scenes (TV Miniseries)

2016 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Woody Allen · Miley Cyrus · Elaine May · John Magaro

Plot The six half-hour episodes is a comedy that takes place in the 1960s during turbulent times in the United States, when a middle class suburban family is visited by a...

6.3

3K votes

6.3

3K votes

Cassandra's Dream

2007 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Ewan McGregor · Colin Farrell · Tom Wilkinson · Hayley Atwell

Plot Cassandra’s Dream is the story of two brothers, their problems (blind ambition and compulsive gambling), their family, their women, their romance, passion and their chasing of dreams which end in...

6.2

19K votes

6.2

19K votes

Wonder Wheel

2017 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Kate Winslet · Justin Timberlake · Juno Temple · James Belushi

Plot A drama set in New York City in the late 1950s. 'Wonder Wheel' tells the story of four characters whose lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney...

6.2

9K votes

6.2

9K votes

Don't Drink the Water (TV)

1994 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Woody Allen · Julie Kavner · Mayim Bialik · Michael J. Fox

Plot Mid-Cold War. An American family on holiday in the Eastern Europe of the 60s, the Hollanders find themselves in deep water when Walter, the father, takes a photograph of a...

6.1

2K votes

6.1

2K votes

Magic in the Moonlight

2014 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Emma Stone · Colin Firth · Marcia Gay Harden · Jacki Weaver

Plot Set in the south of France in the 1920s during the glamorous Jazz Age, it’s a romantic comedy about a master magician (Colin Firth) trying to expose a psychic medium...

6.1

18K votes

6.1

18K votes

What's New, Pussycat?

1965 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Clive Donner

Cast Woody Allen · Peter O'Toole · Romy Schneider · Howard Vernon

Plot Reputed playboy Michael James is incapable of staying faithful to his fiancée, partly because all of the women he knows find him irresistibly attractive. Concerned, he seeks the help of...

6.0

2K votes

6.0

2K votes

6.0

149 votes

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

2010 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Josh Brolin · Anthony Hopkins · Naomi Watts · Freida Pinto

Plot A little romance, some sex, some treachery and apart from that, a few laughs. The lives of a group of people whose passions, ambitions and anxieties force them all into...

5.9

21K votes

5.9

21K votes

Don't Drink the Water

1969 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Howard Morris

Cast Jackie Gleason · Estelle Parsons · Ted Bessel · Joan Delaney

Plot The Hollander family's European vacation is interrupted when their plane is forced to land in Vulgaria. The Hollanders leave the plane to take pictures which results in accusations of spying....

5.8

24 votes

5.8

24 votes

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

2008 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Rebecca Hall · Scarlett Johansson · Javier Bardem · Penélope Cruz

Plot Two young American women, Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson) come to Barcelona for a summer holiday. Vicky is sensible and engaged to be married; Cristina is emotionally and...

5.8

64K votes

5.8

64K votes

Meeting Woody Allen

1986 · Documentary · 26 min. · France

5.8

340 votes

5.8

340 votes

To Rome With Love

2012 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Woody Allen · Roberto Benigni · Judy Davis · Alec Baldwin

Plot It will consist of four vignettes, in one of which a husband (Woody Allen) and his wife (Judy Davis) travel to Rome and meet the family of the Italian man...

5.8

27K votes

5.8

27K votes

Sounds from a Town I Love (TV) (S)

2001 · Movie · 3 min. · United States

5.7

813 votes

5.7

813 votes

Cupid's Shaft (TV) (S)

1969 · Movie · 8 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Woody Allen · Tamara Love · Chester Ford

Plot Woody Allen directs and stars in this 1969 made-for-television silent comedy parody "Cupid's Shaft." Made before "Take the Money and Run."

5.7

291 votes

5.7

291 votes

Rifkin's Festival

2020 · Movie · 92 min. · Spain

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Wallace Shawn · Gina Gershon · Elena Anaya · Louis Garrel

Plot A married American couple go to the San Sebastian Film Festival and get caught up in the magic of the event, the beauty and charm of Spain and the fantasy...

5.5

4K votes

5.5

4K votes

What's Up, Tiger Lily?

1966 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen · Senkichi Taniguchi

Cast Tatsuya Mihashi · Mie Hama · Akiko Wakabayashi · Tadao Nakamaru

Plot Woody Allen took a Japanese spy movie entitled Kagi no Kagi, replacing the original voice track with a completely different plot. This new version narrates the adventures of agent Phil...

4.8

2K votes

4.8

2K votes