Screenplay: Nicholas Monsarrat

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


The Cruel Sea

1953 · Movie · 126 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Frend

Cast Jack Hawkins · Donald Sinden · John Stratton · Denholm Elliott

Plot At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make...

6.9

102 votes

6.9

102 votes

The Story of Esther Costello

1957 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Miller

Cast Joan Crawford · Rossano Brazzi · Heather Sears · Lee Patterson

Plot Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is talked into helping to educate...

6.6

33 votes

6.6

33 votes

Something to Hide

1972 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alastair Reid

Cast Peter Finch · Shelley Winters · Colin Blakely · John Stride

Plot A man having marital problems with his shrewish wife picks up a young, pretty and pregnant hitchhiker. Before he knows it, he's in over his head and mixed up in...

Not rated

Not rated

The Ship That Died of Shame (PT Raiders)

1955 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast Richard Attenborough · George Baker · Bill Owen · Virginia McKenna

Plot After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme,...

Not rated

Not rated