Screenplay: Charlotte Armstrong

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


The Unsuspected

1947 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Joan Caulfield · Claude Rains · Audrey Totter · Constance Bennett

Plot A girl has been murdered. A woman cannot remember a man who claims to be her husband. Her uncle hosts a radio murder mystery show called "The Unsuspected". Who killed...

6.9

331 votes

6.9

331 votes

Incident at a Corner (TV)

1960 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Vera Miles · Philip Ober · Jerry Paris · George Peppard

Plot A school crossing guard reprimands the PTA president for careless driving. He is later dismissed from his job on the basis of an anonymous note accusing him of being too...

6.6

285 votes

6.6

285 votes

Merci pour le chocolat (Nightcap)

2000 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Isabelle Huppert · Jacques Dutronc · Anna Mouglalis · Rodolphe Pauly

Plot Huppert plays Mika, wife of celebrated pianist Andre Polonski (Jacques Dutronc) and stepmother to his son, Guillaume, whose mother died in a car wreck on his sixth birthday. Their lives...

6.5

2K votes

6.5

2K votes

Don't Bother to Knock

1952 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

6.5

945 votes

6.5

945 votes

The Breach

1970 · Movie · 124 min. · France

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Stéphane Audran · Jean-Pierre Cassel · Michel Bouquet · Annie Cordy

Plot Hélène Régnier walks out on her drug-addicted husband Charles after he brutally attacks their son. She stays in a run-down hotel whilst her injured son convalesces in hospital and files...

6.4

326 votes

6.4

326 votes

Talk About a Stranger

1952 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction David Bradley

Cast George Murphy · Nancy Reagan · Billy Gray · Lewis Stone

Plot When his dog dies, apparently from being poisoned, the young son of the owner of a small, orange orchid in California, immediately suspects an unfriendly, mysterious stranger who has just...

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Suspense (TV Series)

1949 · Series · 25 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevens · Robert Mulligan · John Peyser · Byron Paul

Cast Rex Marshall · Robert Emhardt · Robert H. Harris · John Baragrey

Plot Suspense is an American television anthology series that ran on CBS Television from 1949 to 1954. It was adapted from the radio program of the same name which ran from...

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The Three Weird Sisters

1948 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Daniel Birt

Cast Nancy Price · Mary Clare · Mary Merrall · Nova Pilbeam

Plot A secretary suspects that her employer's three elderly sisters are plotting to kill him after he announces he'll no longer finance their philanthropic endeavors.

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Studio 57 (TV Series)

1954 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Herschel Daugherty · Richard Irving · John English · Don Weis

Cast Tim Graham · Jean Byron · Marguerite Chapman · Robert Armstrong

Plot This dramatic anthology series went into open syndication when the DuMont Television Network ceased operations.

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Across the Threshold (TV)

1960 · Movie · 30 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Hiller

Cast Patricia Collinge · George Grizzard · Barbara Baxley · Alfred Hitchcock

Plot Sofie Winter hires mediums in an attempt to contact her late husband, who died six years previously.

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