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
Direction Bill Anderson
Cast Daniel Craig · Nicholas Boulton · Selina Cadell · Megan Dodds
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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A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets (TV)
2005 · Movie · min. · United Kingdom
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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