Screenplay: Samuel Hoffenstein

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


Laura

1944 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Gene Tierney · Dana Andrews · Clifton Webb · Judith Anderson

Plot Beautiful Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney) is found shot to death in her apartment. Hard nosed Lieutenant Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) is assigned as the lead investigator for the case. As...

8.1

17K votes

8.1

17K votes

Cluny Brown

1946 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Charles Boyer · Jennifer Jones · Peter Lawford · Helen Walker

Plot Czech author Adam Belinski has escaped from the Nazis, taking refuge at the country home of the rich, snobbish English Carmel family. The maid is Cluny Brown, who is also...

7.6

2K votes

7.6

2K votes

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1931 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Fredric March · Miriam Hopkins · Rose Hobart · Holmes Herbert

Plot Henry "Harry" Jekyll is a well respected member of London society. In his personal life, he is pre-engaged to Muriel Carew, the daughter of a brigadier general. In his professional...

7.5

2K votes

7.5

2K votes

Design for Living

1933 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Fredric March · Gary Cooper · Miriam Hopkins · Edward Everett Horton

Plot Painter George Curtis and playwright Tom Chambers, flatmates in a Paris apartment, meet fellow American and commercial artist Gilda Farrell on a train bound for the French capital. While both...

7.3

2K votes

7.3

2K votes

Love Me Tonight

1932 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Maurice Chevalier · Jeanette MacDonald · Myrna Loy · Charles Ruggles

Plot Maurice Courtelin, a Parisian tailor (Maurice Chevalier), is owed a great sum of money by a viscount (Charles Ruggles). Stalling for time, the titled but penniless nobleman moves Maurice into...

7.1

542 votes

7.1

542 votes

Tales of Manhattan

1942 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Charles Boyer · Rita Hayworth · Thomas Mitchell · Ginger Rogers

Plot A formal tailcoat that gets passed from one owner to another affects each life in a significant way.

7.0

536 votes

7.0

536 votes

The Gay Divorcee

1934 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Mark Sandrich

Cast Fred Astaire · Ginger Rogers · Edward Everett Horton · Alice Brady

Plot Mimi Glossop wants a divorce so her Aunt Hortense hires a professional to play the correspondent in apparent infidelity. American dancer Guy Holden meets Mimi while visiting Brightbourne (Brighton) and...

6.9

1K votes

6.9

1K votes

An American Tragedy

1931 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Phillips Holmes · Sylvia Sidney · Frances Dee · Irving Pichel

Plot Though his parents are street evangelists, Clyde Griffiths (Phillips Holmes) grows up in squalor, but not without ambitions. He first works as a bellhop in Kansas City, but when he's...

6.6

125 votes

6.6

125 votes

Conquest

1937 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown · Gustav Machatý

Cast Greta Garbo · Charles Boyer · Reginald Owen · Alan Marshal

Plot A polish countess becomes Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence him to make Poland independent.

6.5

187 votes

6.5

187 votes

The song of songs

1933 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Brian Aherne · Lionel Atwill · Alison Skipworth

Plot Country orphan Lily goes to Berlin to stay with her tippling aunt, and soon meets Richard, handsome sculptor across the street. Persuaded half-reluctantly to pose for Richard, her physical charms...

6.5

177 votes

6.5

177 votes

The Great Waltz

1938 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Julien Duvivier · Victor Fleming · Josef von Sternberg

Cast Fernand Gravey · Luise Rainer · Miliza Korjus · Hugh Herbert

Plot Take the story of a man torn between two women, add the music of Johann Strauss and the scenery of 1840's Vienna and you have The Great Waltz, an irresistible...

6.4

95 votes

6.4

95 votes

Flesh and Fantasy

1943 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Charles Boyer · Barbara Stanwyck · Betty Field

Plot Three speculative stories dealing with the supernatural. In the first, an ugly woman wears a beautiful mask for a night to win a man who never noticed her before. In...

6.4

274 votes

6.4

274 votes

Phantom Of The Opera

1943 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Lubin

Cast Nelson Eddy · Susanna Foster · Claude Rains · Edgar Barrier

Plot Pit violinist Claudin hopelessly loves rising operatic soprano Christine Dubois (as do baritone Anatole and police inspector Raoul) and secretly aids her career. But Claudin loses both his touch and...

6.3

1K votes

6.3

1K votes

His Butler's Sister

1943 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Deanna Durbin · Franchot Tone · Pat O'Brien · Akim Tamiroff

Plot A young girl visits New York for two reasons: to see her half-brother, and to try to start a musical career.

6.0

37 votes

6.0

37 votes

White Woman

1933 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Stuart Walker

Cast Carole Lombard · Charles Laughton · Charles Bickford · Kent Taylor

Plot A nightclub singer marries the rich owner of a rubber plantation. When she returns with him to his estate in Malaysia, she finds out that he is cruel, vicious and...

5.8

21 votes

5.8

21 votes

That Night in Rio

1941 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Irving Cummings

Cast Alice Faye · Don Ameche · Carmen Miranda · S.Z. Sakall

Plot An entertainer in Rio impersonates a wealthy aristocrat. When the aristocrat's wife asks him to carry the impersonation further, complications ensue.

5.6

48 votes

5.6

48 votes

The Fountain

1934 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Ann Harding · Brian Aherne · Paul Lukas · Jean Hersholt

Plot Set during the first World War in neutral, but pro-German, Holland, Lewis Allison, an interned British officer, is paroled to the castle of Baron Von Leyden and finds living there,...

5.4

33 votes

5.4

33 votes

Carnival in Costa Rica

1947 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Gregory Ratoff

Cast Dick Haymes · Vera-Ellen · Cesar Romero · Celeste Holm

Plot Pepe Castro and Luisa Molina return to Costa Rica from U.S. schools to find that their parents have arranged their marriage. Pepe has brought his new sweetheart Celeste with him...

Not rated

Not rated

Give My Regards to Broadway

1948 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Dan Dailey · Charles Winninger · Nancy Guild · Charles Ruggles

Plot The Norwick family has had a successful run on the vaudeville circuit, but now some of the family wants out. Mom is ready to retire on the family's farm, and...

Not rated

Not rated

Bridal Suite

1939 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Wilhelm Thiele

Cast Annabella · Robert Young · Walter Connolly · Reginald Owen

Plot An American playboy dumps his greedy finace and ends up marrying a woman from the alps.

Not rated

Not rated