Screenplay: Friedrich Dürrenmatt

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


It Happened in Broad Daylight

1958 · Movie · 96 min. · Switzerland

Direction Ladislao Vajda

Cast Heinz Rühmann · Sigfrit Steiner · Siegfried Lowitz · Michel Simon

Plot Several young girls were killed. Policeman Matthaei travels to the region where it happened and searches a child that looks similar to the ones that were murdered. He finds one...

7.7

6K votes

7.7

6K votes

The Visit

1964 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Bernhard Wicki

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Anthony Quinn · Irina Demick · Paolo Stoppa

Plot Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she...

7.1

327 votes

7.1

327 votes

Twilight

1990 · Movie · 95 min. · Hungary

7.0

27 votes

7.0

27 votes

Hyenas

1992 · Movie · 110 min. · Senegal

Direction Djibril Diop Mambéty

Cast Ami Diakhate · Djibril Diop Mambéty · Mansour Diouf · Calgou Fall

Plot Dramaan is the most popular man in Colobane, but when a woman from his past, now exorbitantly wealthy, returns to the town, things begin to change.

7.0

108 votes

7.0

108 votes

The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life

1972 · Movie · 106 min. · Italy

6.6

119 votes

6.6

119 votes

The Pledge

2001 · Movie · 125 min. · United States

Direction Sean Penn

Cast Jack Nicholson · Aaron Eckhart · Robin Wright · Helen Mirren

Plot Detective Jarry Black (Nicholson) is just retiring from his long years on duty. But on his final case, he is determined to find the killer of a mother's (Wright-Penn) young...

6.2

9K votes

6.2

9K votes

The Judge and His Hangman

1975 · Movie · 106 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Maximilian Schell

Cast Jon Voight · Jacqueline Bisset · Martin Ritt · Robert Shaw

Plot While investigating a high-profile murder case, a savvy but unorthodox veteran police inspector has to cope with a bad conscience, bad health, an overzealous partner, a timid superior and interference...

5.0

40 votes

5.0

40 votes

La dama regresa

1996 · Movie · 100 min. · Argentina

4.0

49 votes

4.0

49 votes

Grieche sucht Griechin

1966 · Movie · 89 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Rolf Thiele

Cast Heinz Rühmann · Irina Demick · Charles Régnier · Hannes Messemer

Plot It is the story of a middleaged bookkeeper of Greek origin living in an imaginary country, which, however, can be easily described as Switzerland.

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Justiz

1993 · Movie · 106 min. · Germany

Direction Hans W. Geissendörfer

Cast Maximilian Schell · Thomas Heinze · Anna Thalbach · Mathias Gnädinger

Plot Senator Isaak Kohler shoots and kills Professor Winter in a crowded restaurant, while Winter is dining with the struggling idealistic young lawyer, Felix Spat. Kohler puts up no defense and...

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Suspicion (TV Series)

1957 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Don Medford · James Neilson · Robert Stevens · John Brahm

Cast Dennis O'Keefe · Clark Howat · Marian Seldes · Jack Klugman

Plot TV Series (1957-1958). 1 season. 41 episodes. An anthology television mystery drama series. The executive producer was film director Alfred Hitchcock.

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König Johann (TV)

1971 · Movie · 135 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

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Operazione Vega (TV)

1962 · Movie · 74 min. · Italy

Direction Vittorio Cottafavi

Cast Aldo Giuffrè · Ottorino Guerrini · Michele Malaspina · Raoul Consonni

Plot Science fiction story about two federated nations in Earth that are against each other. Story is by noted author Friedrich Dürrenmatt.

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The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi

1961 · Movie · 95 min. · Switzerland

Direction Kurt Hoffmann

Cast O.E. Hasse · Johanna von Koczian · Hansjörg Felmy · Martin Held

Plot Anastasia (Johanna von Koczian) is the woman in the middle. Saint-Claude, a doctor and her lover, has given her the poison she uses to murder her husband.

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Drôle de samedi

1985 · Movie · 80 min. · France

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Die Physiker (TV)

1964 · Movie · 125 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

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The Cold Light of Day

1996 · Movie · 106 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Rudolf van den Berg

Cast Richard E. Grant · Lynsey Baxter · Perdita Weeks · Simon Cadell

Plot A troubled detective befriends a single woman and her daughter with the intention of using them as bait for a serial killer.

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