Movies: Playwright

  • 1986
    Shadow Play

    Shadow Play (1986)

    Shadow Play

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    A playwright, who lost her fiance to suicide, is haunted by his spirit while staying on a remote island with his mother....

    Shadow Play
  • 1935
    Accent on Youth

    Accent on Youth (1935)

    Accent on Youth

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    A young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when her boss' son falls for her....

    Accent on Youth
  • 1988
    Normal Service

    Normal Service (1988)

    Normal Service

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    It's General Election day 1964, and the resources of Forth and Clyde Television are under stress. Too many shows want too many things done too quickly. Some of the design and graphics staff are intent on not getting involved. Others won't survive the...

    Normal Service
  • 1935
    A Feather in Her Hat

    A Feather in Her Hat (1935)

    A Feather in Her Hat

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    After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identity. Urged on by his mentor, Capt. Randolph Courtney, Richard focuses on Julia Trent Anders, a middle-aged actress who just might be his real mother. Bu...

    A Feather in Her Hat
  • 2018
    My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw

    My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw (2018)

    My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw

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    Award-winning Irish actor Gabriel Byrne explores the life, works and passions of George Bernard Shaw, a giant of world literature, and - like Byrne - an emigrant Irishman with the outsider's ability to observe, needle and puncture....

    My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
  • 1932
    Lovers Courageous

    Lovers Courageous (1932)

    Lovers Courageous

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    A daydreaming dramatist and his beloved persevere through hard times in the hope that one of his plays will be a hit....

    Lovers Courageous
  • 1937
    The Crime Nobody Saw

    The Crime Nobody Saw (1937)

    The Crime Nobody Saw

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    Three playwrights develop a plot around a drunk who gets killed in their apartment....

    The Crime Nobody Saw
  • 1940
    The Girl from Avenue A

    The Girl from Avenue A (1940)

    The Girl from Avenue A

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    A tough girl raised in the streets finds that her dialect and manners are helpful as source material for a playwright....

    The Girl from Avenue A
  • 1969
    Monstrous Beauty

    Monstrous Beauty (1969)

    Monstrous Beauty

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    Barbara Field, born into poverty with a rare condition that means she is entirely covered in hair. Given the precious gift of an education, she is offered the opportunity of a place in the luxurious and decadent court of King Charles II, as a “Natura...

    Monstrous Beauty
  • 1966
    The Face of Genius

    The Face of Genius (1966)

    The Face of Genius

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    The Face of a Genius is a 1966 American documentary film about Eugene O’Neill, produced by Alfred R. Kelman for WBZ-TV Boston. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, the first time that a film originally produced for tele...

    The Face of Genius
  • 2018
    Making Love

    Making Love (2018)

    Making Love

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    A playwright with a dark past risks his life in returning to his home city to find out if a woman with whom he once had a passionate and illicit affair ever truly loved him, only to learn that it was only ever the unknowing and distance that kept the...

    Making Love
  • 1989
    Fear, Anxiety and Depression

    Fear, Anxiety and Depression (1989)

    Fear, Anxiety and Depression

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    An unsuccessful playwright faces trials and tribulations as he seeks to find himself in New York City....

    Fear, Anxiety and Depression
  • 2013
    A Common Experience

    A Common Experience (2013)

    A Common Experience

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    A poetic exploration of the multi-generational affects of Canada's Indian Residential School system, based on the personal trials of Aboriginal playwright Yvette Nolan....

    A Common Experience
  • 2016
    All the Beauty

    All the Beauty (2016)

    All the Beauty

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    Sarah (Ann Eleonora Jørgensen) and David (Magnus Crepper) meet for the first time in ten years when she arrives at his summer residence. David needs help finishing a play, which turns out to be a dramatization of their long, troublesome relationship....

    All the Beauty
  • 2023
    What's Left Behind

    What's Left Behind (2023)

    What's Left Behind

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    After Ali suddenly leaves home, he and Simin separately try to find the reason for this separation before their memories are permanently faded....

    What's Left Behind
  • 2014
    Inverosímil Jardiel Poncela

    Inverosímil Jardiel Poncela (2014)

    Inverosímil Jardiel Poncela

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    The Spanish author Enrique Jardiel Poncela (1901-1952) was one of the best comedy writers of all time, a novelist and newspaper columnist, misunderstood, even censored, both by the Second Republic government and Francoism, an outsider ahead of his ti...

    Inverosímil Jardiel Poncela
  • 1930
    Matinee Idle

    Matinee Idle (1930)

    Matinee Idle

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    A Broadway star visits his playwright friend who's working out a scene for his new play....

    Matinee Idle
  • 1969
    Leading Men

    Leading Men (1969)

    Leading Men

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    In July 1953, at a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote in Portofino, Italy, Tennessee Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo meet Anja Blomgren, a mysteriously taciturn young Swedish beauty and aspiring actress. Their encounter will go on t...

    Leading Men
  • 1969
    Oltre il sipario

    Oltre il sipario (1969)

    Oltre il sipario

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    A rough and seasoned playwright and his young, bright and good-looking companion are the opposite sides of the same mirror....

    Oltre il sipario
  • 2010
    Like Father, Like Son

    Like Father, Like Son (2010)

    Like Father, Like Son

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    Like Father Like Son is a hilarious play that looks at issues such as fatherhood (or the lack of it) double infidelity and the unprofessional conduct of some music producers....

    Like Father, Like Son