Screenplay: David Shaber

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


The Warriors

1979 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Walter Hill

Cast Michael Beck · David Harris · James Remar · Deborah Van Valkenburgh

Plot Walter Hill's hip, super-stylized action film unfurls in a dystopian near-future, when various gangs control New York City. Each gang sports a unique moniker ('The Warriors,' 'The Baseball Furies,' 'The...

7.0

16K votes

7.0

16K votes

Nighthawks

1981 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Malmuth

Cast Sylvester Stallone · Billy Dee Williams · Rutger Hauer · Lindsay Wagner

Plot Deke DaSilva and Matthew Fox are two New York City cops who get transferred to an elite anti-terrorism squad. About this same time, an infamous international terrorist shows up in...

5.6

2K votes

5.6

2K votes

Last Embrace

1979 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Jonathan Demme

Cast Roy Scheider · Janet Margolin · Charles Napier · Christopher Walken

Plot CIA secret agent Harry Hannan (Roy Scheider) has not been the same since his wife's murder. He suffers a nervous breakdown after the tragedy, which lands him in a sanitarium....

5.5

486 votes

5.5

486 votes

Rollover

1981 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Alan J. Pakula

Cast Jane Fonda · Kris Kristofferson · Hume Cronyn · Bob Gunton

Plot Turgid big-budget drama about Arab undermining of American economy. Kristofferson is lifeless, Fonda is humorless. Supporting players Sommer and Cronyn fare better.

5.1

180 votes

5.1

180 votes

Flight of the Intruder

1991 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction John Milius

Cast Danny Glover · Willem Dafoe · Brad Johnson · Rosanna Arquette

Plot In the last days of the Vietnam War, U.S. navy fighter pilots aboard an aircraft carrier have become disillusioned with the way the war is going and the pointless missions...

4.6

1K votes

4.6

1K votes

Those Lips, Those Eyes

1980 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Michael Pressman

Cast Frank Langella · Tom Hulce · Glynnis O'Connor · Jerry Stiller

Plot A small-town star helps a young apprentice land the girl of his dreams. During the 1950s, pre-med student Artie Shoemaker (Tom Hulce) gets a job as a prop boy at...

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