Screenplay: William Boyd

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


Any Human Heart (TV Miniseries)

2010 · Series · 300 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Samuels

Cast Jim Broadbent · Matthew Macfadyen · Sam Claflin · Gillian Anderson

Plot TV Miniseries. 4 episodes. A TV miniseries adaptation of William Boyd's novel. A novelist's life ricochets from 1920s Paris to '50s New York and '80s London. Along the way he...

7.1

106 votes

7.1

106 votes

Chaplin

1992 · Movie · 145 min. · United States

Direction Richard Attenborough

Cast Robert Downey Jr. · Anthony Hopkins · Dan Aykroyd · Geraldine Chaplin

Plot Partly based on Charlie Chaplin's My Autobiography, this humorous and dramatic biopic features an all-star cast including Oscar nominee Robert Downey Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Anthony Hopkins, Kevin Kline, Diane Lane,...

6.7

7K votes

6.7

7K votes

Restless (TV Miniseries)

2012 · Series · 180 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Edward Hall

Cast Hayley Atwell · Rufus Sewell · Michelle Dockery · Michael Gambon

Plot A young woman finds out that her mother worked as a spy for the British Secret Service during World War II and has been on the run ever since.

6.4

94 votes

6.4

94 votes

Man to Man

2005 · Movie · 122 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Régis Wargnier

Cast Joseph Fiennes · Kristin Scott Thomas · Iain Glen · Hugh Bonneville

Plot This historical adventure epic tells the story of a group of anthropologists who have embarked on a research trip to Africa in the 1870s. They searched for the so-called “Missing...

5.6

803 votes

5.6

803 votes

The Trench

1999 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction William Boyd

Cast Paul Nicholls · Daniel Craig · Julian Rhind-Tutt · Cillian Murphy

Plot A low budget World War I film set during the 48 hours before the Battle of the Somme in 1916.

5.4

333 votes

5.4

333 votes

Mister Johnson

1990 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Beresford

Cast Maynard Eziashi · Pierce Brosnan · Edward Woodward · Beatie Edney

Plot In 1923 British Colonial Nigeria, Mister Johnson is an oddity -- an educated black man who doesn't really fit in with the natives or the British. He works for the...

5.3

165 votes

5.3

165 votes

Stars and Bars

1988 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Pat O'Connor

Cast Daniel Day-Lewis · Harry Dean Stanton · Kent Broadhurst · Maury Chaykin

Plot All Henderson Dores dreams of is fitting in. But America, land of the loony millionaire and the subway poet, down-home Bible-basher and sharp-suited hood, of paralysing personal frankness and surreally...

4.6

170 votes

4.6

170 votes

A Good Man in Africa

1994 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Beresford

Cast Sean Connery · Colin Friels · John Lithgow · Diana Rigg

Plot Based on a novel by William Boyd (who also wrote the film's screenplay), this darkly witty drama explores the political, social, and sexual gamesmanship of a group of British and...

4.3

260 votes

4.3

260 votes

Sword of Honour (TV)

2001 · Movie · 191 min. · United Kingdom

4.1

137 votes

4.1

137 votes

Spy City (TV Series)

2020 · Series · 48 min. · United States

Direction Miguel Alexandre

Cast Adrian Lukis · Brian Caspe · Tom Ashley · Seumas F. Sargent

Plot An English spy who is sent to Berlin in 1961 to sift out a traitor in the UK Embassy or among the Allies, shortly before the construction of the Berlin...

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Direction John McKay

Cast Rupert Graves · Tom Sturridge · Indira Varma · Zoe Wanamaker

Plot A mystery in Shakespeare's sonnets is explored.

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Dutch Girls (TV)

1985 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Giles Foster

Cast Bill Paterson · Colin Firth · Timothy Spall · James Wilby

Plot An adolescent British field hockey team goes to Holland, where they find something far more interesting than tulips and windmills - hot, sexy women! Unfortunately, they are so busy chasing...

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