Screenplay: Abby Mann

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


Judgment at Nuremberg

1961 · Movie · 186 min. · United States

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Spencer Tracy · Burt Lancaster · Richard Widmark · Marlene Dietrich

Plot It has been three years since the most important Nazi leaders had already been tried. This trial is about four Judges who used their offices to conduct Nazi sterilization and...

8.2

12K votes

8.2

12K votes

A Child is Waiting

1963 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

6.9

1K votes

6.9

1K votes

The Detective

1968 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast Frank Sinatra · Lee Remick · Ralph Meeker · Jack Klugman

Plot Police detective Joe Leland investigates the murder of a homosexual man. While investigating, he discovers links to official corruption in New York City in this drama that delves into a...

6.6

606 votes

6.6

606 votes

The Condemned of Altona

1962 · Movie · 114 min. · Italy

Direction Vittorio De Sica

Cast Sophia Loren · Maximilian Schell · Fredric March · Robert Wagner

Plot After being denounced to the Gestapo by his father, and later becoming a torturer, Franz von Gerlach locks himself in a room for fifteen years, isolated from the world -except...

6.3

70 votes

6.3

70 votes

Indictment: The McMartin Trial (TV)

1995 · Movie · 127 min. · United States

Direction Mick Jackson

Cast James Woods · Henry Thomas · Mercedes Ruehl · Lolita Davidovich

Plot The McMartin family's lives are turned upside down when they are accused of serious child molestation. The family run a school for infants. An unqualified child cruilty "expert" videotapes the...

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6.3

115 votes

6.3

115 votes

Ship of Fools

1965 · Movie · 149 min. · United States

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Vivien Leigh · Simone Signoret · Oskar Werner · José Ferrer

Plot Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, Jose Ferrer and Lee Marvin all give mature and passionate performances in this adaptation of Katherine Anne Porter's 1962 novel recounting the voyage of a German...

6.2

508 votes

6.2

508 votes

Kojak (TV Series)

1973 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Charles S. Dubin · Jeannot Szwarc · Russ Mayberry · Sigmund Neufeld Jr.

Cast Telly Savalas · Dan Frazer · Kevin Dobson · George Savalas

Plot TV Series (1973-1978). 5 Seasons. 118 Episodes. Emmy and Golden Globe winner Telly Savalas is Lieutenant Theo Kojak, television’s greatest detective, in the unforgettable homicide series Kojak. He’s got style,...

6.0

2K votes

6.0

2K votes

6.0

40 votes

Report to the Commissioner

1975 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Milton Katselas

Cast Michael Moriarty · Yaphet Kotto · Susan Blakely · Hector Elizondo

Plot Having accidentally killed a female police officer working undercover, a cop finds himself involved in an elaborate cover-up by the department in this crime drama.

4.5

45 votes

4.5

45 votes

King (TV) (TV Miniseries)

1978 · Series · 271 min. · United States

Direction Abby Mann

Cast Paul Winfield · Cicely Tyson · Tony Bennett · Roscoe Lee Browne

Plot The story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., stretching from his days as a Southern Baptist minister up to his assassination in Memphis in 1968.

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Kojak: Ariana (TV)

1989 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Paul Krasny

Cast Telly Savalas · André Braugher · Shari Headley · Joe Grifasi

Plot One of Kojak's old enemies uses Ariana, a young Greek girl, as bait to trap the legendary New York detective. Meanwhile, Kojak finds himself a brash young associate.

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Skag (TV Series)

1980 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Abby Mann · Frank Perry · Allen Reisner · Bruce Bilson

Cast Karl Malden · Piper Laurie · Craig Wasson · Peter Gallagher

Plot Pete "Skag" Skagska is a 56-year-old union foreman of a Pittsburgh steel mill until a crippling stroke forced him to stay at home and try to put his life back...

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War and Love

1985 · Movie · 108 min. · Israel

Direction Moshé Mizrahi

Cast Sebastian Keneas · Kyra Sedgwick · David Spielberg · Cheryl Gianini

Plot Jacek, who is Jewish, miraculously manages to survive World War II in Nazi-occupied Poland. As a subplot to Jacek's story, which also involves a love affair with Haling ( Kyra...

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Kojak: The Marcus-Nelson Murders (TV)

1973 · Movie · 125 min. · United States

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Medical Story (TV Series)

1975 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction David Gerber · Richard Benedict · Paul Wendkos · Ralph Senensky

Cast Catherine Burns · Tony Musante · Meredith Baxter · Cliff Gorman

Plot TV Series that dealt with the subject of doctors, nurses and patients. It thus brought the old Playhouse 90 anthology format into the arena of medical drama.

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Robert Montgomery Presents (TV Series)

1950 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Norman Felton · John Newland · Perry Lafferty · Vincent J. Donehue

Cast Luther Adler · Brian Aherne · Eddie Albert · Robert Alda

Plot Robert Montgomery Presents is a dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year...

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Kojak: Fatal Flaw (TV)

1989 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Richard Compton

Cast Telly Savalas · André Braugher · Angie Dickinson · Steven Weber

Plot Investigating the murder of a writer responsible for a revelation about the mafia, Kojak discovers that the dead man's wife is an old flame.

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Kojak: None So Blind (TV)

1990 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Alan Metzger

Cast Telly Savalas · André Braugher · Margaret Whitton · Jerry Orbach

Plot After a flighty young woman accidentally witnesses a Mob hit in an Italian restaurant, New York Police Inspector Theo Kojak must both protect her from an unscrupulous Dutch hitman, and...

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Sinatra (TV Miniseries)

1992 · Movie · 250 min. · United States

Direction James Steven Sadwith

Cast Philip Casnoff · Olympia Dukakis · Joe Santos · Gina Gershon

Plot An extensive biopic of one of the most famous entertainers of the 20th century - Frank Sinatra. The only thing that could engage the public more than his songs and...

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The Atlanta Child Murders (TV)

1985 · Movie · 245 min. · United States

Direction John Erman

Cast Calvin Levels · Morgan Freeman · James Earl Jones · Rip Torn

Plot The city of Atlanta, Georgia, is terrorized by a rash of child murders occurring in its black community. When a black photographer is arrested for the crimes, controversy erupts over...

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