Screenplay: Nora Ephron

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


When Harry Met Sally

1989 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Rob Reiner

Cast Meg Ryan · Billy Crystal · Carrie Fisher · Bruno Kirby

Plot Does sex make it impossible for men and women to be true friends? The film chronicles this dilemma through the eleven year relationship between Harry Burns (Billy Cristal) and Sally...

6.9

49K votes

6.9

49K votes

Silkwood

1983 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction Mike Nichols

Cast Meryl Streep · Kurt Russell · Cher · Craig T. Nelson

Plot Fairly accurate recounting of the story of Karen Silkwood (played by Meryl Streep), the Oklahoma nuclear-plant worker who blew the whistle on dangerous practices at the Kerr-McGee plant and who...

6.5

2K votes

6.5

2K votes

Sleepless in Seattle

1993 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Nora Ephron

Cast Tom Hanks · Meg Ryan · Bill Pullman · Ross Malinger

Plot It's Christmas Eve and radio talk show psychologist Marcia Fieldstone has asked her listening audience what they are wishing and dreaming of during this season of hope. A little boy,...

Max

6.0

41K votes

6.0

41K votes

Heartburn

1986 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

5.9

6K votes

5.9

6K votes

Julie & Julia

2009 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Nora Ephron

Cast Amy Adams · Meryl Streep · Stanley Tucci · Chris Messina

Plot Meryl Streep is Julia Child and Amy Adams is Julie Powell in writer-director Nora Ephron's adaptation of two bestselling memoirs: Powell's "Julie & Julia" and "My Life in France," by...

5.7

11K votes

5.7

11K votes

This is My Life

1992 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Nora Ephron

Cast Julie Kavner · Samantha Mathis · Gaby Hoffmann · Carrie Fisher

Plot From Macy's cosmetics counter to stand-up comic, salesgirl Dottie Ingels becomes an overnight sensation and her whole life suddenly changes. Sent off to stardom by her agents, Dottie finds her...

5.3

57 votes

5.3

57 votes

You've Got Mail

1998 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction Nora Ephron

Cast Tom Hanks · Meg Ryan · Greg Kinnear · Parker Posey

Plot Based on the classic film The Shop Around the Corner, this tale of pen-pal romance has been updated for the internet age. Hanks plays a book mega-store owner who falls...

5.2

69K votes

5.2

69K votes

Cookie

1989 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

4.7

212 votes

4.7

212 votes

Michael

1996 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Nora Ephron

Cast John Travolta · William Hurt · Andie MacDowell · Bob Hoskins

Plot Frank Quinlan and Huey Driscoll, two reporters from a Chicago-based tabloid, along with Dorothy Winters, an 'angel expert', are asked to travel to rural Iowa to investigate a claim from...

4.5

5K votes

4.5

5K votes

My Blue Heaven

1990 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Herbert Ross

Cast Steve Martin · Rick Moranis · Joan Cusack · Melanie Mayron

Plot FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is supposed to keep a low profile, but that...

4.3

178 votes

4.3

178 votes

Mixed Nuts

1994 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Nora Ephron

Cast Steve Martin · Rita Wilson · Madeline Kahn · Juliette Lewis

Plot Christmas is only hours away, and Philip and his dedicated staff are about to go just a little crazy. Philip is a clumsy do-gooder who runs Lifesavers, a suicide prevention...

4.3

646 votes

4.3

646 votes

Hanging Up

2000 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

4.2

4K votes

4.2

4K votes

Bewitched

2005 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Nora Ephron

Cast Nicole Kidman · Will Ferrell · Michael Caine · Shirley MacLaine

Plot Based on the classic TV show which aired from 1964-72. In Columbia Pictures' beguiling romantic comedy, Bewitched, an all-stall cast led by Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell, Shirley MacLaine and Michael...

3.5

11K votes

3.5

11K votes

Perfect Gentlemen (TV)

1978 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Jackie Cooper

Cast Lauren Bacall · Ruth Gordon · Sandy Dennis · Lisa Pelikan

Plot Women whose husbands are incarcerated decide to band together to rob a hotel safe, posing as male robbers.

Not rated

Not rated