Playwright Movies

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

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...

A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.

In observing a solitary classmate, a student begins to suspect that the loner has the ability to write words that will kill those who read them.

In search of inspiration and new topics, the famous metropolitan writer Kim Yesenin goes to the province. Unexpectedly for himself, he discovers that...

Award-winning Irish actor Gabriel Byrne explores the life, works and passions of George Bernard Shaw, a giant of world literature, and - like Byrne -...

In 1934, while traveling to Stockholm, where he is about to receive the Nobel Prize, the Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello recalls his life and his...

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...

It's the start of the 20th century, and Tuccio, resident playwright of a theatre repertory company offers the owners of the company his new play,...

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

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

Alan Tanner's new play opens in a week, but he just can't finish the third act. He's retreated to a snowbound cottage to work, but blonde neighbor...

An unparalleled portrait of Arthur Miller (1915-2005), a major writer who left an indelible mark on the world. Miller's life is intimately connected...

The lives of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar and Lorraine, one of her daughters, and the community of Bradford, in the 30 years since the...

Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and...

Michael Wood tells the extraordinary story of an ordinary woman in a time of revolution. Born during the reign of Henry VIII, Mary Arden is the...

An account of the brief life of the writer Albert Camus (1913-1960), a Frenchman born in Algeria: his Spanish origin on the isle of Menorca, his...

A Broadway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few...

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...

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