Playwright Movies

Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-spending wife. Deciding on suicide, he scribbles...

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

A young playwright who writes porno novels to overcome a writer's block, lives the fantasies of one of his books, while trying to move with his wife...

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

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...

In July 1953, at a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote in Portofino, Italy, Tennessee Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo meet Anja...

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

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...

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...

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

A homicide detective suspects a playwright who bases his play on a murder.

The Spanish author Enrique Jardiel Poncela (1901-1952) was one of the best comedy writers of all time, a novelist and newspaper columnist,...

Sarah (Ann Eleonora Jørgensen) and David (Magnus Crepper) meet for the first time in ten years when she arrives at his summer residence. David...

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.

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

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...

Antonio Gracia José (1942-2011), known as “Pierrot,” was a prominent member of the Barcelona art scene, a pioneer in the...

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 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...