Screenplay: Benjamin Glazer
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Benjamin Glazer. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Seventh Heaven (7th Heaven)
1927 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Frank Borzage
Cast Janet Gaynor · Charles Farrell · Gladys Brockwell · David Butler
Plot Chico (Charles Farrell) is a street cleaner who works in Paris. Diane (Janet Gaynor) is an unlucky woman who is abused by her elder sister. One day, Chico saves her...
7.8
1K votes
7.8
1K votes
Flesh and the Devil
1926 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown
Cast Greta Garbo · John Gilbert · Lars Hanson · William Orlamond
Plot This silent film is a romantic melodrama about two childhood friends, Leo and Ulrich, who grow up to be soldiers in Germany. Leo becomes infatuated with Felicitas, the wife of...
7.5
590 votes
7.5
590 votes
Beggars of Life
1928 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction William A. Wellman
Cast Wallace Beery · Louise Brooks · Richard Arlen · Bob Perry
Plot After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of...
7.2
145 votes
7.2
145 votes
The Merry Widow
1925 · Movie · 137 min. · United States
Direction Erich von Stroheim
Cast John Gilbert · Mae Murray · Roy D'Arcy · Tully Marshall
Plot Prince Danilo falls in love with dancer Sally O'Hara. His uncle, King Nikita I of Monteblanco forbids the marriage because she is a commoner. Thinking she has been jilted by...
7.1
363 votes
7.1
363 votes
A Farewell to Arms
1932 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Frank Borzage
Cast Helen Hayes · Gary Cooper · Adolphe Menjou · Mary Philips
Plot A tale of the love between ambulance driver Lt. Henry and Nurse Catherine Barkley during World War I. The action takes place in Italy and the two fall in love...
6.6
2K votes
6.6
2K votes
Arise, My Love
1940 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Claudette Colbert · Ray Milland · Dennis O'Keefe · George Zucco
Plot In 1939, American Tom Martin, who fought in the Spanish Civil War, awaits execution at the hands of the Fascist victors when reporter Augusta 'Gusto' Nash, for a scoop, aids...
6.6
432 votes
6.6
432 votes
Mata Hari
1931 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction George Fitzmaurice
Cast Greta Garbo · Ramon Novarro · Lionel Barrymore · Lewis Stone
Plot 1917. Mata Hari is a German spy, working in Paris. She has already seduced the Russian general Shubin, and has now set her eyes on lieutenant Rosanov, a a young...
6.4
751 votes
6.4
751 votes
Tortilla Flat
1942 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Victor Fleming
Cast Spencer Tracy · Hedy Lamarr · John Garfield · Frank Morgan
Plot Danny inherits two houses so Pilon and his lazy, impoverished friends move in. One of them, Pirate, is saving money which Pilon hopes to steal till he learns it is...
6.4
332 votes
6.4
332 votes
The Devil To Pay
1930 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction George Fitzmaurice
Cast Ronald Colman · Frederick Kerr · Loretta Young · David Torrence
Plot Spendthrift Willie Leyland again returns to the family home in London penniless. His father is none too pleased but Willie smooth-talks him into letting him stay. At the same time...
6.2
26 votes
6.2
26 votes
This Is the Night
1932 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Frank Tuttle
Cast Lili Damita · Charles Ruggles · Roland Young · Cary Grant
Plot Stephen (Cary Grant) plays the Olympic-athlete husband of Claire (Thelma Todd), who in turn is the object of desire for Parisian millionaire Gerald Grey (Roland Young). To keep Stephen from...
6.1
36 votes
6.1
36 votes
No Man of Her Own
1932 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Wesley Ruggles
Cast Clark Gable · Carole Lombard · Dorothy Mackaill · Grant Mitchell
Plot Clark Gable plays a card cheat who has to go on the lam to avoid a pesky cop. He meets a lonely, but slightly wild, librarian, Carole Lombard, while he...
6.0
103 votes
6.0
103 votes
The Trail of '98
1928 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown
Cast Dolores del Rio · Ralph Forbes · Karl Dane · Harry Carey
Plot The Klondike gold strike of 1897 inspires fortune-seekers to head for Alaska. Joe and Jim, brothers from South Carolina; Lars, escaping a shrewish wife in Michigan; a poor farmer from...
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Two Kinds of Women
1932 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction William C. de Mille
Cast Miriam Hopkins · Phillips Holmes · Irving Pichel · Wynne Gibson
Plot The daughter of a senator from South Dakota visits Manhattan for the first time, eager to see the sights of the big city. While there, she finds herself caught up...
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You Never Know Women
1926 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction William A. Wellman
Cast Florence Vidor · Lowell Sherman · Clive Brook · El Brendel
Plot Lost until a print was found in the Library of Congress in 2001, this highly entertaining comedy concerns a love triangle amongst a troupe of Russian acrobats, clowns, and magicians.
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The Boudoir Diplomat
1930 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Malcolm St. Clair
Cast Betty Compson · Ian Keith · Mary Duncan · Jeannette Loff
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She Loves Me Not
1934 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Elliott Nugent
Cast Bing Crosby · Miriam Hopkins · Kitty Carlisle · Edward J. Nugent
Plot Curly Flagg, Philadelphia nightclub dancer, witnesses a murder and runs away to avoid being held as material witness. Landing in Princeton, she hides out in a college dorm, decked out...
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Memory Lane
1926 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction John M. Stahl
Cast Eleanor Boardman · Conrad Nagel · William Haines · John Steppling
Plot Mary, on the day of her wedding to Jimmie, finds she has not lost her affection for another sweetheart, Joe. A confrontation arises when Jimmie discovers that Joe has come...
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A Bedtime Story
1933 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog
Cast Maurice Chevalier · Helen Twelvetrees · Edward Everett Horton · Adrienne Ames
Plot Parisian playboy plays father to an abandoned baby who interferes with his womanizing.
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The Pagan Lady
1931 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction John Francis Dillon
Cast Evelyn Brent · Conrad Nagel · Charles Bickford · Roland Young
Plot A free-spirited bartender on a tropical island has a reputation as a "pagan lady", who hops from man to man and bed to bed. The young son of the island's...
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The Barker
1928 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction George Fitzmaurice
Cast Milton Sills · Dorothy Mackaill · Betty Compson · Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Plot A successful carnival barker deals with the arrival of his eager son, who he'd hoped would stay far from the carnival world, his son's entanglement with a showgirl, and his...
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