Screenplay: Penelope Mortimer

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


Bunny Lake is Missing

1965 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Carol Lynley · Keir Dullea · Laurence Olivier · Noël Coward

Synopsis Ann Lake has recently settled in England with her daughter, Bunny. When she goes to retrieve her daughter after the girl's first day at school, no one has any record of Bunny having been registered. When even the police can...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

The Pumpkin Eater

1964 · Movie · 118 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Clayton

Cast Anne Bancroft · Peter Finch · James Mason · Cedric Hardwicke

Synopsis The study of a marriage. Jo has five children and husband number two when she meets writer Jake Armitage. She leaves this husband to marry Jake, and his career takes off. A few years and at least one child later,...

6.6

245 votes

6.6

245 votes

Direction Stephen Whittaker

Cast Janet McTeer · David Haig · Cathryn Harrison · Diana Fairfax

Synopsis 4 episodes. Melodrama detailing the real-life love affair between feminist writer Vita Sackville-West and novelist Violet Keppel against the backdrop of post-World War I England and opposition by Vita's politician husband Harold Nicolson.

Not rated

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