Playwright Movies

  • 1948
    Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven

    Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven

    Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven

    5.81948HD

    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...

    Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
  • 1937
    The Crime Nobody Saw

    The Crime Nobody Saw

    The Crime Nobody Saw

    5.51937HD

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

    The Crime Nobody Saw
  • 2011
    Ring of Curse

    Ring of Curse

    Ring of Curse

    6.52011HD

    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.

    Ring of Curse
  • 1940
    The Girl from Avenue A

    The Girl from Avenue A

    The Girl from Avenue A

    7.51940HD

    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
  • 2020
    Playhouse

    Playhouse

    Playhouse

    4.92020HD

    Reckless Jack Travis is an irreverent horror writer notorious for scaring audiences. But as he obsesses over creating a new theatre show set in a...

    Playhouse
  • 1994
    Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

    Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

    Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

    91994HD

    A study of Tennessee Williams's life and work as a whole, ranging from his youth in Mississippi and in St. Louis to success and acclaim, followed by...

    Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
  • 2023
    What's Left Behind

    What's Left Behind

    What's Left Behind

    02023HD

    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
  • 1986
    Shadow Play

    Shadow Play

    Shadow Play

    5.21986HD

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

    Shadow Play
  • 2015
    Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century

    Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century

    Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century

    7.52015HD

    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...

    Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
  • 1966
    The Face of Genius

    The Face of Genius

    The Face of Genius

    71966HD

    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...

    The Face of Genius
  • 2024
    Eternal Visionary

    Eternal Visionary

    Eternal Visionary

    6.72024HD

    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...

    Eternal Visionary
  • 2018
    Making Love

    Making Love

    Making Love

    02018HD

    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...

    Making Love
  • 2010
    The Arbor

    The Arbor

    The Arbor

    7.32010HD

    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...

    The Arbor
  • 1936
    Snowed Under

    Snowed Under

    Snowed Under

    7.41936HD

    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...

    Snowed Under
  • 1941
    Bedtime Story

    Bedtime Story

    Bedtime Story

    5.81941HD

    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...

    Bedtime Story
  • 2015
    Shakespeare's Mother: The Secret Life of a Tudor Woman

    Shakespeare's Mother: The Secret Life of a Tudor Woman

    Shakespeare's Mother: The Secret Life of a Tudor Woman

    02015HD

    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...

    Shakespeare's Mother: The Secret Life of a Tudor Woman
  • 2010
    Amour de vivre

    Amour de vivre

    Amour de vivre

    5.52010HD

    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...

    Amour de vivre
  • 1940
    Curtain Call

    Curtain Call

    Curtain Call

    7.21940HD

    Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find.

    Curtain Call
  • 1932
    Lovers Courageous

    Lovers Courageous

    Lovers Courageous

    61932HD

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

    Lovers Courageous
  • 2018
    My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw

    My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw

    My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw

    62018HD

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

    My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw