Screenplay: Franz Werfel

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


Juarez

1939 · Movie · 132 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Paul Muni · Bette Davis · Brian Aherne · Claude Rains

Plot The newly named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carolotta arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juraez and democracy. He tries to appease the Mexicans but fails. Abraham...

6.6

289 votes

6.6

289 votes

The Song of Bernadette

1943 · Movie · 156 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Jennifer Jones · William Eythe · Charles Bickford · Vincent Price

Plot In 1858 France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anything other than this, but...

6.5

920 votes

6.5

920 votes

Me and the Colonel

1958 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Peter Glenville

Cast Danny Kaye · Curd Jürgens · Nicole Maurey · Françoise Rosay

Plot During the invasion of France by Nazi Germany, a shy, intelligent Jewish refugee tries to flee from the Nazis with the aid of an anti-Semitic, autocratic, brave Polish Colonel who...

6.4

70 votes

6.4

70 votes

Forty Days of Musa Dagh

1982 · Movie · 143 min. · United States

Direction Sarky Mouradian

Cast Kabir Bedi · Ronnie Carol · Guy Stockwell · Peter Haskell

Plot Armenian guerrilla troops fight against the Turkish forces on the mountain of Musa Dagh.

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Embezzled Heaven

1958 · Movie · 105 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Ernst Marischka

Cast Annie Rosar · Hans Holt · Viktor de Kowa · Vilma Degischer

Plot Teta Linek, a cook at a noble Austrian family Argan, thinks primarily of ways to achieve heavens in the afterlife. In the hope of merciful acts, she helps her nephew,...

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