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

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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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Not rated