Screenplay: Robin Estridge

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


Eye of the Devil

1966 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction J. Lee Thompson

Cast Deborah Kerr · David Niven · Donald Pleasence · Edward Mulhare

Synopsis Vineyard owner marquis Philippe de Montfaucon is called back to his castle Bellenac because of another dry season. He asks his wife and children to remain in London, but they still come after him. His wife Catherine de Montfaucon soon...

6.2

180 votes

6.2

180 votes

North West Frontier

1959 · Movie · 129 min. · United Kingdom

Direction J. Lee Thompson

Cast Kenneth More · Lauren Bacall · Herbert Lom · Wilfrid Hyde-White

Synopsis In northwestern India soon after the turn of the 20th Century, Moslem rebels seek to kill a six-year-old Hindu prince to end his family line. Captain Scott of the British Army is ordered to get the prince out of the...

6.1

355 votes

6.1

355 votes

Campbell's Kingdom

1957 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ralph Thomas

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Stanley Baker · Michael Craig · Barbara Murray

Synopsis Adapted from the novel of the same name by Hammond Innes. Bruce Campbell (Dirk Bogarde) inherits "Campbell's Kingdom" in the Canadian Rockies on the death of his grandfather. He has been diagnosed with an unspecified terminal illness and decides to...

5.9

96 votes

5.9

96 votes

Above Us the Waves

1955 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ralph Thomas

Cast John Mills · John Gregson · Donald Sinden · James Robertson Justice

Synopsis The greatest threat to the British navy is the German battleship Tirpitz. Being anchored in a Norwegian fjord, it is impossible to attack it with any chance of success. But the navy trains a special commando to attack it, using...

5.7

116 votes

5.7

116 votes

Escape from Zahrain

1962 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Yul Brynner · Sal Mineo · Jack Warden · Anthony Caruso

Synopsis The film is set in the fictional state of Zahrain located in the Arabian Peninsula. The main characters are part of a group of condemned prisoners who flee across the desert in an attempt to reach the Protectorate of Aden....

5.7

60 votes

5.7

60 votes

Permission to Kill

1975 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Cyril Frankel

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Ava Gardner · Bekim Fehmiu · Timothy Dalton

Synopsis When the exiled leader of a free party decides to return to his own country and attempt to remove the dictator currently in place there, several western governments are determined to stop him. A group is assembled, consisting of old...

5.7

34 votes

5.7

34 votes

Simba

1955 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Brian Desmond Hurst

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Donald Sinden · Virginia McKenna · Basil Sydney

Synopsis When Alan Howard, a young Englishman, arrives in Kenya to visit his older brother on his farm he finds the latter has been brutally murdered by the Mau Mau. He decides to go on exploiting the farm and to fight...

5.5

68 votes

5.5

68 votes

Checkpoint

1956 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ralph Thomas

Cast Anthony Steel · Odile Versois · Stanley Baker · James Robertson Justice

Synopsis Stanley Baker's character is sent to steal the plans from another company of their racing car designs, to ensure his employers win the competition. However when opening a safe containing the plans, he triggers an alarm leading to a gun...

5.1

23 votes

5.1

23 votes

Dangerous Exile

1958 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Brian Desmond Hurst

Cast Louis Jourdan · Belinda Lee · Keith Michell · Richard O'Sullivan

Synopsis It concerns the fate of Louis XVII, who died in 1795 as a boy, yet was popularly believed to have escaped from his French revolutionary captors.

5.1

43 votes

5.1

43 votes

A Day to Remember

1953 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

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Drums of Africa

1963 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction James B. Clark

Cast Frankie Avalon · Lloyd Bochner · Mariette Hartley · Peter Mamakos

Synopsis David Moore is in East Africa to get to his employer's railway construction site. He's accompanied by the owner's son Brian and they've lined up Jack Cuortemayn, reputedly the best guide available, to take them there. Cuortemayn refuses as he...

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Break in the Circle

1955 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Val Guest

Cast Forrest Tucker · Eva Bartok · Marius Goring · Guy Middleton

Synopsis An adventurer is hired by a German millionaire to help a Polish scientist escape to the West.

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The Young Lovers

1954 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Asquith

Cast Odile Versois · David Knight · Joseph Tomelty · Theodore Bikel

Synopsis Two young lovers fought for happiness in a world that would not let them love.

Not rated

Not rated

No Kidding

1960 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gerald Thomas

Cast Leslie Phillips · Geraldine McEwan · Julia Lockwood · Irene Handl

Synopsis A young, married couple inherit an estate and decide to turn it into a summer camp for children.

Not rated

Not rated