Screenplay: Stanley Shapiro

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


Operation Petticoat

1959 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Blake Edwards

Cast Cary Grant · Tony Curtis · Joan O'Brien · Dina Merrill

Plot A submarine newly commissioned is damaged in the opening days of WW II. A captain, looking for a command insists he can get it to a dockyard and captain it....

7.1

3K votes

7.1

3K votes

Lover Come Back

1961 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast Rock Hudson · Doris Day · Tony Randall · Edie Adams

Plot Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are both in the advertising business, but for different agencies. Annoyed by Jerry's methods of using alcohol and women to ensure contracts for his agency,...

7.1

10K votes

7.1

10K votes

Pillow Talk

1959 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Michael Gordon

Cast Rock Hudson · Doris Day · Tony Randall · Thelma Ritter

Plot Brad Allen, a song writer, is being financed by Jonathan Forbes, millionaire Broadway producer who would like Jan Morrow to be his third wife. Brad doesn't know that the woman...

6.7

3K votes

6.7

3K votes

Bedtime Story

1964 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Ralph Levy

Cast Marlon Brando · David Niven · Shirley Jones · Dody Goodman

Plot In this 1960s comedy, Freddy Benson (Marlon Brando) and Lawrence 'The Prince' Jameson (David Niven) are two charming scoundrel confidence trickster gigolos who prey on wealthy women taking holidays on...

6.3

596 votes

6.3

596 votes

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

1988 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Frank Oz

Cast Michael Caine · Steve Martin · Glenne Headly · Anton Rodgers

Plot Freddy Benson, a con(fidence) man, lives off women by waking their compassion with shocking stories about his fake fate. One day in beautiful Beaumont sur Mer, he meets Lawrence Jamieson,...

6.3

5K votes

6.3

5K votes

Come September

1961 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

Me, Natalie

1969 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Fred Coe

Cast Patty Duke · James Farentino · Martin Balsam · Al Pacino

Plot A plain girl, living in New York, tries to come to terms with the fact that she'll never be beautiful.

6.1

48 votes

6.1

48 votes

The Perfect Furlough

1958 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Blake Edwards

Cast Tony Curtis · Janet Leigh · Linda Cristal · Keenan Wynn

Plot To pacify 104 sex-starved male soldiers building an Arctic radar base, Army psychologist Vicki Loren suggests choosing one by lot to have a "perfect furlough" as selected by the men:...

5.9

333 votes

5.9

333 votes

That Touch of Mink

1962 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast Doris Day · Cary Grant · Gig Young · Audrey Meadows

Plot Love arrives with a splash when a handsome and eligible tycoon (Cary Grant) and a beautiful working woman (Doris Day) meet over a curbside mud puddle. He’s enchanted by her...

5.9

1K votes

5.9

1K votes

South Sea Woman

1953 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Lubin

Cast Burt Lancaster · Virginia Mayo · Chuck Connors · Arthur Shields

Plot Marine Sergeant James O'Hearn is being tried at the San Diego Marine base for desertion, theft, scandalous conduct and destruction of property in time of war. He refuses to testify...

5.6

81 votes

5.6

81 votes

A Very Special Favor

1965 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

5.4

157 votes

5.4

157 votes

For Pete's Sake

1974 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Peter Yates

Cast Barbra Streisand · Michael Sarrazin · Estelle Parsons · Molly Picon

Plot Henrietta Robins works out of her home and her husband Pete drives a cab to try to support her. When Pete gets a tip from one of his fellow drivers...

5.3

49 votes

5.3

49 votes

Carbon Copy

1981 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Michael Schultz

Cast George Segal · Denzel Washington · Susan Saint James · Jack Warden

Plot A white corporate executive is surprised to discover that he has a black teen-age son who can't wait to be adopted into the, almost-exclusively-white community of, San Marino, California.

5.2

38 votes

5.2

38 votes

The Hustle

2019 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Chris Addison

Cast Anne Hathaway · Rebel Wilson · Alex Sharp · Sarah-Stephanie

Plot Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson star as female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, who team up to take down the dirty rotten men who have...

4.4

4K votes

4.4

4K votes

Running Against Time (TV)

1990 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Seth Green

Cast Robert Hays · Catherine Hicks · Sam Wanamaker · Wayne Tippit

Plot History professor David Rhodes never has got over the death of his older brother, 1966 in Vietnam. When he hears the rumor that a famous professor is working on a...

Not rated

Not rated

The Seniors

1978 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Rod Amateau

Cast Tim Stafford · Gary Imhoff · Dennis Quaid · Lou Richards

Plot Four students open a bogus sex clinic for cheap thrills and then are amazed to see it blossom into a profitable business.

Not rated

Not rated

How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life

1968 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Fielder Cook

Cast Dean Martin · Stella Stevens · Eli Wallach · Anne Jackson

Plot Battle of the sexes comedy about a free-wheeling bachelor who decides to save his friend's marriage by proving that all mistresses are incapable of fidelity. The plot gets complicated when...

Not rated

Not rated