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1. 832 relations: "Master Harold"...and the Boys, 'night, Mother, A Bill of Divorcement (1932 film), A Bronx Tale, A Damsel in Distress (1937 film), A Doll's House, A Few Good Men (play), A Florida Enchantment, A Fool There Was (1915 film), A Free Soul, A Good Woman (film), A Hatful of Rain, A Perfect Murder, A Place in the Sun (1951 film), A Raisin in the Sun (1961 film), A Severa (film), A Shot in the Dark (1964 film), A Slight Case of Murder, A Soldier's Story, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 film), A Thousand Clowns, A View from the Bridge, Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick, Aaron Sorkin, Abe Lincoln in Illinois (film), Abe Lincoln in Illinois (play), Abel Gance, Abie's Irish Rose, About Last Night (1986 film), Accent on Youth (play), Aces High (film), Agnes of God, Ah, Wilderness!, Alain Resnais, Alan Bennett, Alan Crosland, Alan J. Pakula, Aleksis Kivi, Alexander Korda, Alexandre Dumas fils, Alfie (1966 film), Alfie (2004 film), Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred Santell, Alfred Uhry, Alibi (1929 film), Allan Dwan, Allan Scott (American screenwriter), Amadeus (film), ... Expand index (782 more) »

2. Films based on plays
3. Lists of films based on works
4. Lists of plays
5. Lists of works adapted into films
6. Lists of works based on plays
7. Plays adapted into films

"Master Harold"...and the Boys

"Master Harold"...and the boys is a play by Athol Fugard.

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'night, Mother

night, Mother is a play by American playwright Marsha Norman.

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A Bill of Divorcement (1932 film)

A Bill of Divorcement is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by George Cukor and starring John Barrymore and Katharine Hepburn in her film debut.

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A Bronx Tale

A Bronx Tale is a 1993 American coming-of-age crime drama film directed by and starring Robert De Niro in his directorial debut and produced by Jane Rosenthal, adapted from Chazz Palminteri's 1989 play of the same name.

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A Damsel in Distress (1937 film)

A Damsel in Distress is a 1937 American English-themed Hollywood musical comedy film starring Fred Astaire, George Burns, Gracie Allen and Joan Fontaine.

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A Doll's House

A Doll's House (Danish and Et dukkehjem; also translated as A Doll House) is a three-act play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.

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A Few Good Men (play)

A Few Good Men is a play by Aaron Sorkin, first produced on Broadway by David Brown in 1989.

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A Florida Enchantment

A Florida Enchantment (1914) is a silent film directed by Sidney Drew and released by the Vitagraph studio.

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A Fool There Was (1915 film)

A Fool There Was is an American silent drama film produced by William Fox, directed by Frank Powell, and starring Theda Bara.

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A Free Soul

A Free Soul is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Clarence Brown and starringNorma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore and Clark Gable.

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A Good Woman (film)

A Good Woman is a 2004 romantic comedy drama film directed by Mike Barker.

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A Hatful of Rain

A Hatful of Rain is a 1957 American drama film directed by Fred Zinnemannand starring Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray, Anthony Franciosa, Lloyd Nolan and Henry Silva.

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A Perfect Murder

A Perfect Murder is a 1998 American crime thriller film directed by Andrew Davis and starring Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Viggo Mortensen.

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A Place in the Sun (1951 film)

A Place in the Sun is a 1951 American drama film based on the 1925 novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and the 1926 play, also titled An American Tragedy.

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A Raisin in the Sun (1961 film)

A Raisin in the Sun is a 1961 American drama film directed by Daniel Petrie, and starring Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Roy Glenn, and Louis Gossett Jr. (in his film debut), and based on the 1959 play of the same name by Lorraine Hansberry.

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A Severa (film)

A Severa (lit. 'The stern/grave one') is a 1931 Portuguese film directed by Leitão de Barros.

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A Shot in the Dark (1964 film)

A Shot in the Dark is a 1964 comedy film directed by Blake Edwards in Panavision.

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A Slight Case of Murder

A Slight Case of Murder is a 1938 American black comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Edward G. Robinson.

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A Soldier's Story

A Soldier's Story is a 1984 American mystery drama film directed and produced by Norman Jewison, adapted by Charles Fuller from his Pulitzer Prize-winning A Soldier's Play.

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A Streetcar Named Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire is a play written by Tennessee Williams and first performed on Broadway on December 3, 1947.

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A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 film)

A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1951 American Southern Gothic drama film adapted from Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name.

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A Thousand Clowns

A Thousand Clowns is a 1965 American comedy-drama film directed by Fred Coe and starring Jason Robards, Barbara Harris, Martin Balsam, and Barry Gordon.

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A View from the Bridge

A View from the Bridge is a play by American playwright Arthur Miller.

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Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick

Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick (also known as Marshmallow Moon in the U.K. and the Philippines and Härkiä, heiniä ja hakkailua in Finland) is a 1952 Paramount Pictures hillbilly musical film directed by Claude Binyon and produced by William Perlberg and George Seaton.

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Aaron Sorkin

Aaron Benjamin Sorkin (born June 9, 1961) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director.

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Abe Lincoln in Illinois (film)

Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical-drama film that depicts the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as president of the United States.

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Abe Lincoln in Illinois (play)

Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a play written by the American playwright Robert E. Sherwood in 1938, based principally on the 1926 biography Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years by Carl Sandburg.

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Abel Gance

Abel Gance (born Abel Eugène Alexandre Péréthon; 25 October 188910 November 1981) was a French film director, producer, writer and actor.

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Abie's Irish Rose

Abie's Irish Rose is a popular comedy by Anne Nichols, which premiered in 1922.

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About Last Night (1986 film)

About Last Night (stylized as "About Last Night...") is a 1986 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Edward Zwick, and starring Rob Lowe and Demi Moore as Chicago yuppies Danny Martin and Debbie Sullivan, who enter a committed relationship for the first time.

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Accent on Youth (play)

Accent on Youth is a Broadway play written by Samson Raphaelson which debuted on Christmas Day, 1934.

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Aces High (film)

Aces High is a 1976 war film starring Malcolm McDowell, Peter Firth, Christopher Plummer and Simon Ward.

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Agnes of God

Agnes of God is a 1979 play by American playwright John Pielmeier which tells the story of a novice nun who gives birth but does not believe she has.

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Ah, Wilderness!

Ah, Wilderness! is a comedy play by American playwright Eugene O'Neill that premiered on Broadway at the Guild Theatre on October 2, 1933.

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Alain Resnais

Alain Resnais (3 June 19221 March 2014) was a French film director and screenwriter whose career extended over more than six decades.

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Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English playwright, author, actor and screenwriter.

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Alan Crosland

Frederick Alan Crosland (August 10, 1894 – July 16, 1936) was an American stage actor and film director.

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Alan J. Pakula

Alan Jay Pakula (April 7, 1928 – November 19, 1998) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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Aleksis Kivi

Aleksis Kivi (born Alexis Stenvall; 10 October 1834 – 31 December 1872) was a Finnish writer who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language, Seitsemän veljestä ("Seven Brothers"), published in 1870.

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Alexander Korda

Sir Alexander Korda (born Sándor László Kellner; Korda Sándor; 16 September 1893 – 23 January 1956), BFI Screenonline.

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Alexandre Dumas fils

Alexandre Dumas fils (27 July 1824 – 27 November 1895) was a French author and playwright, best known for the romantic novel La Dame aux Camélias (The Lady of the Camellias), published in 1848, which was adapted into Giuseppe Verdi's 1853 opera La traviata (The Fallen Woman), as well as numerous stage and film productions, usually titled Camille in English-language versions.

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Alfie (1966 film)

Alfie is a 1966 British comedy-drama film directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Michael Caine.

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Alfie (2004 film)

Alfie is a 2004 romantic comedy-drama film inspired by the 1966 British film of the same name and its 1975 sequel, starring Jude Law as the title character, originally played by Michael Caine in the 1966 film and Alan Price in the 1975 sequel.

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Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director.

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Alfred Santell

Alfred Allen Santell (1895–1981), was an American film director and film producer.

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Alfred Uhry

Alfred Fox Uhry (born December 3, 1936) is an American playwright and screenwriter.

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Alibi (1929 film)

Alibi (also known as The Perfect Alibi, Nightstick) is a 1929 American crime film directed by Roland West.

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Allan Dwan

Allan Dwan (born Joseph Aloysius Dwan; April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer, and screenwriter.

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Allan Scott (American screenwriter)

Allan Scott (May 23, 1906 – April 13, 1995) was a screenwriter who was nominated for an Academy Award for So Proudly We Hail!.

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Amadeus (film)

Amadeus is a 1984 American period biographical drama film directed by Miloš Forman, and adapted by Peter Shaffer from his 1979 stage play of the same name, in turn inspired by the 1830 play Mozart and Salieri by Alexander Pushkin.

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Amadeus (play)

Amadeus is a play by Peter Shaffer which gives a fictional account of the lives of composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, imagining a rivalry between the two at the court of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor.

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Amen.

Amen. is a 2002 historical war drama film directed and co-written by Costa-Gavras.

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American Buffalo (play)

American Buffalo is a 1975 play by American playwright David Mamet that had its premiere in a showcase production at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago.

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Americathon

Americathon (also known as Americathon 1998) is a 1979 American comedy film directed by Neal Israel and starring John Ritter, Fred Willard, Peter Riegert, Harvey Korman, and Nancy Morgan, with narration by George Carlin.

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An Ideal Husband

An Ideal Husband is a four-act play by Oscar Wilde that revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour.

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An Ideal Husband (1999 film)

An Ideal Husband is a 1999 British film based on the 1895 play An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde.

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Anastasia (1956 film)

Anastasia is a 1956 American period drama film starring Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, and Helen Hayes.

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Anastasia (1997 film)

Anastasia is a 1997 American animated musical historical fantasy film produced and directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman from a screenplay by Susan Gauthier, Bruce Graham, and the writing team of Bob Tzudiker and Noni White, and based on a story adaptation by Eric Tuchman.

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Anatole Litvak

Anatoly Mikhailovich Litvak (Анатолий Михайлович Литвак; 10 May 1902 – 15 December 1974), better known as Anatole Litvak, was a Ukrainian-born American filmmaker who wrote, directed, and produced films in various countries and languages.

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Andrei Konchalovsky

Andrei Sergeyevich Konchalovsky (Андрей Сергеевич Кончаловский; born 20 August 1937) is a Russian filmmaker.

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Angels in America

Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is a 1991 American two-part play by American playwright Tony Kushner.

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Animal Crackers (1930 film)

Animal Crackers is a 1930 American pre-Code Marx Brothers comedy film directed by Victor Heerman.

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Anna Christie

Anna Christie is a play in four acts by Eugene O'Neill.

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Anne Nichols

Anne Nichols (November 26, 1891 – September 15, 1966) was an American playwright best known as the author of Abie's Irish Rose.

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Anne of the Thousand Days

Anne of the Thousand Days is a 1969 British historical drama film based on the life of Anne Boleyn, directed by Charles Jarrott and produced by Hal B. Wallis.

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Another Country (play)

Another Country is a 1981 British play written by English playwright Julian Mitchell.

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Another Man's Poison

Another Man's Poison is a 1951 British drama film directed by Irving Rapper and starring Bette Davis, Gary Merrill and Emlyn Williams.

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Anthony Asquith

Anthony Asquith (9 November 1902 – 20 February 1968) was an English film director.

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Anthony Shaffer (writer)

Anthony Joshua Shaffer (15 May 19266 November 2001) was an English playwright, screenwriter, novelist, barrister, and advertising executive.

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Are You Being Served? (film)

Are You Being Served? is a 1977 British comedy film directed by Bob Kellett and written David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd, based on the 1972–85 BBC sitcom of the same name, which follows the staff of the men's and women's clothing departments of the London Grace Brothers department store.

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Aristophanes

Aristophanes (Ἀριστοφάνης) was an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy.

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Arnold Schulman

Arnold Schulman (August 11, 1925 – February 4, 2023) was an American playwright, screenwriter, producer, songwriter and novelist.

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Arsenic and Old Lace (film)

Arsenic and Old Lace is a 1944 American screwball black comedy crime film directed by Frank Capra and starring Cary Grant.

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Arsenic and Old Lace (play)

Arsenic and Old Lace is a play by American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939.

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Arthur Hiller

Arthur Hiller, (November 22, 1923 – August 17, 2016) was a Canadian television and film director with over 33 films to his credit during a 50-year career.

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Arthur Miller

Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater.

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Arthur Schnitzler

Arthur Schnitzler (15 May 1862 – 21 October 1931) was an Austrian author and dramatist.

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As You Like It (1936 film)

As You Like It is a 1936 British romantic comedy film directed by Paul Czinner and starring Laurence Olivier as Orlando and Elisabeth Bergner as Rosalind.

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As You Like It (2006 film)

As You Like It is a 2006 romance film written and directed by Kenneth Branagh, and based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name.

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Assunta Spina (1915 film)

Assunta Spina is a 1915 Italian silent film.

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Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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August Wilson

August Wilson (né Frederick August Kittel Jr.; April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright.

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Avanti!

Avanti! is a 1972 American/Italian international co-production comedy film produced and directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills.

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Baby Doll

Baby Doll is a 1956 American black comedy film directed by Elia Kazan and starring Carroll Baker, Karl Malden and Eli Wallach.

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Baby the Rain Must Fall

Baby the Rain Must Fall is a 1965 American drama film directed by Robert Mulligan and starring Lee Remick, Steve McQueen and Don Murray.

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Bad Girl (1931 film)

Bad Girl is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Sally Eilers, James Dunn, and Minna Gombell.

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Barefoot in the Park is a romantic comedy stage play by Neil Simon.

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Beautiful Thing (play)

Beautiful Thing is a 1993 British play written by Jonathan Harvey.

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Becket

Becket or The Honour of God (Becket ou l'honneur de Dieu), often shortened to Becket, is a 1959 stage play written in French by Jean Anouilh.

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Becky Sharp (film)

Becky Sharp is a 1935 American Technicolor historical drama film directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Miriam Hopkins who plays the eponymous protagonist.

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Bell, Book and Candle

Bell, Book and Candle is a 1958 American supernatural romantic comedy film directed by Richard Quine from a screenplay by Daniel Taradash, based on the 1950 Broadway play of the same title by John Van Druten and starring James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon and Ernie Kovacs.

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Bellyfruit

Bellyfruit (also spelled Belly Fruit) is a 1999 American independent drama film about teen pregnancy directed and co-written by Kerri Green.

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Ben Hecht

Ben Hecht (February 28, 1894 – April 18, 1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist.

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Berkeley Square (1933 film)

Berkeley Square is a 1933 American pre-Code fantasy drama film produced by Fox Film Corporation, directed by Frank Lloyd, and starring Leslie Howard and Heather Angel.

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Beth Henley

Elizabeth Becker Henley (born May 8, 1952) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actress.

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Between Two Worlds (1944 film)

Between Two Worlds is a 1944 American World War II fantasy drama film starring John Garfield, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, and Eleanor Parker.

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Beware, My Lovely

Beware, My Lovely is a 1952 American crime film noir directed by Harry Horner starring Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan and Taylor Holmes.

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Bill Naughton

William John Francis Naughton (12 June 1910 – 9 January 1992) was an Irish-born British playwright and author, best known for his play Alfie.

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Billy Budd (film)

Billy Budd is a 1962 British historical drama-adventure film produced, directed, and co-written by Peter Ustinov.

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Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder (born Samuel Wilder; June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-born filmmaker and screenwriter.

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Biloxi Blues

Biloxi Blues is a semi-autobiographical play by Neil Simon.

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Black Orpheus

Black Orpheus (Portuguese: Orfeu Negro) is a 1959 romantic tragedy film directed by French filmmaker Marcel Camus and starring Marpessa Dawn and Breno Mello.

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Blackmail (1929 film)

Blackmail is a 1929 British thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Anny Ondra, John Longden, and Cyril Ritchard.

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Blackrock (film)

Blackrock is a 1997 Australian teen drama thriller film produced by David Elfick and Catherine Knapman, directed by Steven Vidler with the screenplay by Nick Enright.

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Blake Edwards

Blake Edwards (born William Blake Crump; July 26, 1922 – December 15, 2010) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor.

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Blithe Spirit (play)

Blithe Spirit is a comic play by Noël Coward, described by the author as "an improbable farce in three acts".

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Blue Denim

Blue Denim is a 1959 American drama film based on a Broadway play by writer James Leo Herlihy.

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Blues in the Night (film)

Blues in the Night is a 1941 American musical film noir directed by Anatole Litvak and starring Priscilla Lane, Richard Whorf, Betty Field, Lloyd Nolan, Elia Kazan, and Jack Carson.

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Bob Fosse

Robert Louis Fosse (June 23, 1927 – September 23, 1987) was an American actor, choreographer, dancer, and film and stage director.

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Boeing Boeing (1965 film)

Boeing Boeing is a 1965 American bedroom farce comedy film based on the 1960 French play Boeing-Boeing and starring Tony Curtis and Jerry Lewis.

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Bombshell (1933 film)

Bombshell is a 1933 American pre-Code romantic screwball comedy film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, Frank Morgan, C. Aubrey Smith, Mary Forbes and Franchot Tone.

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Born Yesterday (1950 film)

Born Yesterday is a 1950 American comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor, based on the 1946 stage play of the same name by Garson Kanin.

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Born Yesterday (play)

Born Yesterday is a play written by Garson Kanin which premiered on Broadway in 1946, starring Judy Holliday as Billie Dawn.

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Boudu Saved from Drowning

Boudu Saved from Drowning (Boudu sauvé des eaux, "Boudu saved from the waters") is a 1932 French social satire comedy of manners film directed by Jean Renoir.

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Boulting brothers

John Edward Boulting (21 December 1913 – 17 June 1985) and Roy Alfred Clarence Boulting (21 December 1913 – 5 November 2001), known collectively as the Boulting brothers, were English filmmakers and identical twins who became known for their series of satirical comedies in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Breaker Morant (film)

Breaker Morant is a 1980 Australian war drama film directed by Bruce Beresford, who co-wrote the screenplay based on Kenneth G. Ross's 1978 play of the same name.

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Brief Encounter

Brief Encounter is a 1945 British romantic tragedy film directed by David Lean from a screenplay by Noël Coward, based on his 1936 one-act play Still Life.

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Brighton Beach Memoirs

Brighton Beach Memoirs is a semi-autobiographical play by Neil Simon.

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Broadway (1942 film)

Broadway is a 1942 crime drama musical film directed by William A. Seiter and starring George Raft as himself and Pat O'Brien as a detective.

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Broadway Bound

Broadway Bound is a semi-autobiographical play by Neil Simon.

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Bruce Beresford

Bruce Beresford (born 16 August 1940) is an Australian film director, opera director, screenwriter, and producer.

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Bud Yorkin

Alan David "Bud" Yorkin (February 22, 1926 – August 18, 2015) was an American film and television producer, director, screenwriter, and actor.

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Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson is a 1976 revisionist Western film directed by Robert Altman and based on the 1968 play Indians by Arthur Kopit.

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Bug (2006 film)

Bug is a 2006 psychological horror film directed by William Friedkin and written by Tracy Letts, based on his 1996 play of the same name.

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Bulldog Drummond (1922 film)

Bulldog Drummond (1922) was the first film adaptation of the Bulldog Drummond fictional character, starring Carlyle Blackwell Sr. and Evelyn Greeley, and directed by Oscar Apfel.

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Bulldog Drummond (1929 film)

Bulldog Drummond is a 1929 American pre-Code crime film in which Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond helps a beautiful young woman in distress.

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Bunker Bean

Bunker Bean is a 1936 American black-and-white comedy film adapted from a novel by Harry Leon Wilson and the subsequent play adapted by Lee Wilson Dodd.

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Bus Stop (1956 film)

Bus Stop is a 1956 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Joshua Logan for 20th Century Fox, starring Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell, Betty Field, Eileen Heckart, Robert Bray, and Hope Lange.

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Butterflies Are Free

Butterflies Are Free is a 1972 American comedy-drama film based on the 1969 play by Leonard Gershe.

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Cabaret (1972 film)

Cabaret is a 1972 American musical period drama film directed by Bob Fosse from a screenplay by Jay Allen, based on the stage musical of the same name by John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Joe Masteroff, which in turn was based on the 1951 play I Am a Camera by John Van Druten and the 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood.

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Cabin in the Sky (film)

Cabin in the Sky is a 1943 American musical film based on the 1940 Broadway musical of the same name.

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Caesar and Cleopatra (film)

Caesar and Cleopatra is a 1945 British Technicolor film directed by Gabriel Pascal and starring Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains.

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Cain XVIII

Cain XVIII (Каин XVIII) is a 1963 film from the Soviet Union, adapted from Evgeny Shvarts' play, Two friends.

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California Suite

California Suite is a 1976 play by Neil Simon.

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Camille (1921 film)

Camille is a 1921 American silent drama film starring Alla Nazimova as Marguerite and Rudolph Valentino as her lover, Armand.

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Casablanca (film)

Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid.

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Cast a Dark Shadow

Cast a Dark Shadow is a 1955 British suspense film noir directed by Lewis Gilbert and written by John Cresswell, based on the 1952 play Murder Mistaken by Janet Green.

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a 1955 American three-act play written by Tennessee Williams.

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958 film)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a 1958 American drama film directed by Richard Brooks, who co-wrote the screenplay with James Poe, based on the 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name by Tennessee Williams.

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Cavalcade (1933 film)

Cavalcade is a 1933 American epic pre-Code drama film directed by Frank Lloyd.

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Cecil B. DeMille

Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881January 21, 1959) was an American filmmaker and actor.

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Chapter Two (play)

Chapter Two is a semi-autobiographical play by Neil Simon.

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Charles MacArthur

Charles Gordon MacArthur (November 5, 1895 – April 21, 1956) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and 1935 winner of the Academy Award for Best Story.

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Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter; October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008) was an American actor and political activist.

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Chazz Palminteri

Calogero Lorenzo "Chazz" Palminteri (born May 15, 1952).

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Chicago (1927 film)

Chicago is a 1927 American silent crime comedy-drama film produced by Cecil B. DeMille and directed by Frank Urson.

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Chicago (2002 film)

Chicago is a 2002 American musical crime comedy film based on the 1975 stage musical of the same name which in turn originated in the 1926 play of the same name.

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Chicago Sun-Times

The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily nonprofit newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Children of a Lesser God (film)

Children of a Lesser God is a 1986 American romantic drama film directed by Randa Haines from a screenplay written by Hesper Anderson and Mark Medoff and based on Medoff's 1979 play of the same name.

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Chinese Coffee

Chinese Coffee is a 2000 American independent drama film, starring Al Pacino and Jerry Orbach.

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Cinderella (Rodgers and Hammerstein musical)

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella is a musical written for television, but later played on stage, with music by Richard Rodgers and a book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.

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Circle of Love (film)

Circle of Love (La ronde) is a 1964 French drama film directed by Roger Vadim and based on Arthur Schnitzler's 1897 play Reigen.

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Clarence Brown

Clarence Leon Brown (May 10, 1890 – August 17, 1987) was an American film director.

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Clash by Night

Clash by Night is a 1952 American film noir drama directed by Fritz Lang and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe and Keith Andes.

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Clifford Odets

Clifford Odets (July 18, 1906 – August 14, 1963) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor.

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Closer (film)

Closer is a 2004 American romantic drama directed and produced by Mike Nichols and written by Patrick Marber, based on his award-winning 1997 play of the same name.

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Closer (play)

Closer (1997) is a dramatic play by British playwright Patrick Marber.

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Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (film)

Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean is a 1982 comedy-drama film and an adaptation of Ed Graczyk's 1976 play.

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Come Back, Little Sheba (1952 film)

Come Back, Little Sheba is a 1952 American drama film directed by Daniel Mann in his directorial debut and produced by Paramount Pictures.

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Come Blow Your Horn

Come Blow Your Horn is Neil Simon's first play, which premiered on Broadway in 1961 and had a London production in 1962 at the Prince of Wales Theatre.

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Compton Bennett

Herbert William Compton Bennett (15 January 1900 – 11 August 1974), better known as Compton Bennett, was an English film director, writer and producer.

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Coquette (film)

Coquette is a 1929 American pre-Code drama film, starring Mary Pickford.

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Craig Lucas

Craig Lucas (born April 30, 1951) is an American playwright, screenwriter, theatre director, musical actor, and film director.

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Crimes of the Heart

Crimes of the Heart is a play by American playwright Beth Henley.

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Crossing Delancey

Crossing Delancey is a 1988 American romantic comedy film adapted by Susan Sandler from her play of the same name, and directed by Joan Micklin Silver.

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Cyrano de Bergerac (1950 film)

Cyrano de Bergerac is a 1950 American adventure comedy film based on the 1897 French Alexandrin verse drama Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand.

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Cyrano de Bergerac (1990 film)

Cyrano de Bergerac is a 1990 French period comedy-drama film directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau and based on the 1897 play of the same name by Edmond Rostand, adapted by Jean-Claude Carrière and Rappeneau.

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Dance of Death (1969 film)

The Dance of Death is a 1969 film version of the 1900 play The Dance of Death by August Strindberg as presented by the National Theatre Company.

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Dangerous Liaisons

Dangerous Liaisons is a 1988 American period romantic drama film directed by Stephen Frears from a screenplay by Christopher Hampton, based on his 1985 play Les Liaisons dangereuses, itself adapted from the 1782 French novel of the same name by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.

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Daniel Auteuil

Daniel Auteuil (born 24 January 1950) is a French actor and director who has appeared in a wide range of film genres, including period dramas, romantic comedies, and crime thrillers.

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Daniel Petrie

Daniel Mannix Petrie (November 26, 1920 – August 22, 2004) was a Canadian film, television, and stage director who worked in Canada, Hollywood, and the United Kingdom; known for directing grounded human dramas often dealing with taboo subject matter.

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Daphne du Maurier

Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, (13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English novelist, biographer and playwright.

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Dark Victory

Dark Victory is a 1939 American melodrama film directed by Edmund Goulding, starring Bette Davis, and featuring George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ronald Reagan, Henry Travers, and Cora Witherspoon.

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Darkness Falls (1999 film)

Darkness Falls is a 1999 British drama film by John Howlett, very loosely adapted from N. J. Crisp's psychological thriller Dangerous Obsession and directed by Gerry Lively.

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Daughters Courageous

Daughters Courageous is a 1939 American drama film starring John Garfield, Claude Rains, Jeffrey Lynn and featuring the Lane Sisters: Lola Lane, Rosemary Lane and Priscilla Lane.

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David Ives

David Ives (born July 11, 1950) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist.

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David Lean

Sir David Lean (25 March 190816 April 1991) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor, widely considered one of the most important figures of British cinema.

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David Lindsay-Abaire

David Lindsay-Abaire (né Abaire; born November 14, 1969) is an American playwright, lyricist and screenwriter.

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David Mamet

David Alan Mamet (born November 30, 1947) is an American playwright, filmmaker, and author.

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Day of Wrath

Day of Wrath (Vredens dag) is a 1943 Danish drama film directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer and starring Lisbeth Movin, Thorkild Roose and Preben Lerdorff Rye.

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Days of Wine and Roses (film)

Days of Wine and Roses is a 1962 American romantic drama film directed by Blake Edwards with a screenplay by JP Miller adapted from his own 1958 Playhouse 90 teleplay of the same name.

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Dead End (1937 film)

Dead End is a 1937 American crime drama film directed by William Wyler.

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Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman is a 1949 stage play written by the American playwright Arthur Miller.

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Death Takes a Holiday

Death Takes a Holiday is a 1934 American pre-Code romantic drama starring Fredric March, Evelyn Venable and Guy Standing.

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Deathtrap (film)

Deathtrap is a 1982 American black comedy suspense film based on the 1978 play of the same name by Ira Levin.

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Delbert Mann

Delbert Martin Mann Jr. (January 30, 1920 – November 11, 2007) was an American television and film director.

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Denis Villeneuve

Denis Villeneuve (born October 3, 1967) is a Canadian filmmaker.

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Denzel Washington

Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, producer, and director.

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Desk Set

Desk Set (released as His Other Woman in the UK) is a 1957 American romantic comedy film directed by Walter Lang and starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn.

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Desperate Hours

Desperate Hours is a 1990 American neo-noir action thriller film directed by Michael Cimino.

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Detective Story (1951 film)

Detective Story is a 1951 American crime drama directed by William Wyler and starring Kirk Douglas that tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad.

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Dial M for Murder

Dial M for Murder is a 1954 American crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, Anthony Dawson, and John Williams.

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Diary of a Mad Black Woman

Diary of a Mad Black Woman is a 2005 American romantic comedy drama film directed by Darren Grant and written by Tyler Perry.

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Dinner at Eight (1933 film)

Dinner at Eight is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor from a screenplay by Frances Marion and Herman J. Mankiewicz, based on George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's 1932 play of the same title.

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Disco Pigs

Disco Pigs is a 2001 Irish coming of age romantic crime film directed by Kirsten Sheridan and written by Enda Walsh, who adapted it from his 1996 play of the same name.

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Disraeli (1929 film)

Disraeli is a 1929 American pre-Code historical film directed by Alfred E. Green, released by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., and adapted by Julien Josephson (screenplay) and De Leon Anthony (titles) from the 1911 play Disraeli by Louis N. Parker.

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Doctor Faustus (1967 film)

Doctor Faustus is a 1967 British horror film adaptation of the 1588 Christopher Marlowe play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus directed by Richard Burton and Nevill Coghill.

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Don Bluth

Donald Virgil Bluth (born September 13, 1937) is an American filmmaker, animator, and author.

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Don's Party

Don's Party is a 1971 play by David Williamson set during the 1969 Australian federal election.

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Don't Drink the Water (1994 film)

Don't Drink the Water is a 1994 American made-for-television comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen, based on his 1966 play.

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Dore Schary

Isadore "Dore" Schary (August 31, 1905 – July 7, 1980) was an American playwright, director, and producer for the stage and a prolific screenwriter and producer of motion pictures.

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Double Suicide (1969 film)

is a 1969 Japanese historical drama film directed by Masahiro Shinoda.

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Double Wedding (1937 film)

Double Wedding is a 1937 American screwball romantic comedy film starring William Powell and Myrna Loy, and featuring Florence Rice, John Beal, Jessie Ralph, and Edgar Kennedy.

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Doubt: A Parable

Doubt, A Parable is a dramatic stage play written by American playwright John Patrick Shanley.

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Down and Out in Beverly Hills

Down and Out in Beverly Hills is a 1986 American comedy film co-written and directed by Paul Mazursky, based on the 1919 French play Boudu sauvé des eaux, which was later adapted into the 1932 film Boudu sauvé des eaux by Jean Renoir.

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Downhill (1927 film)

Downhill is a 1927 British silent drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ivor Novello, Robin Irvine and Isabel Jeans, and based on the play Down Hill by Novello and Constance Collier.

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Dracula (1931 English-language film)

Dracula is a 1931 American pre-Code supernatural horror film directed and co-produced by Tod Browning from a screenplay written by Garrett Fort and starring Bela Lugosi in the title role.

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Dracula (1979 film)

Dracula is a 1979 gothic horror film directed by John Badham.

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Driving Miss Daisy

Driving Miss Daisy is a 1989 American comedy-drama film directed by Bruce Beresford and written by Alfred Uhry, based on his 1987 play of the same name.

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Drums O' Voodoo

Drums O' Voodoo (also known as Louisiana and She Devil) is a 1934 film about voodoo.

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Dudley Nichols

Dudley Nichols (April 6, 1895 – January 4, 1960) was an American screenwriter and film director.

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Duet for One

Duet for One is a 1986 British drama film adapted from the play, a two-hander by Tom Kempinski, about a world-famous concert violinist named Stephanie Anderson who is suddenly struck with multiple sclerosis.

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Dustin Hoffman

Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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East Is East (1999 film)

East Is East is a 1999 British comedy-drama film written by Ayub Khan-Din and directed by Damien O'Donnell.

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Easy Virtue (1928 film)

Easy Virtue is a 1928 British silent romance film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Isabel Jeans, Franklin Dyall and Ian Hunter.

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Education of a Prince

Education of a Prince (French: Éducation de Prince) is a 1927 French silent comedy film directed by Henri Diamant-Berger and starring Edna Purviance, Pierre Batcheff and Flora le Breton.

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Edward Albee

Edward Franklin Albee III (March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), A Delicate Balance (1966), and Three Tall Women (1994).

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Edward Dmytryk

Edward Dmytryk (September 4, 1908 – July 1, 1999) was a Canadian-born American film director and editor.

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Edward II (film)

Edward II is a 1991 British romantic historical drama film directed by Derek Jarman and starring Steven Waddington, Tilda Swinton and Andrew Tiernan.

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Edward Zwick

Edward M. Zwick (born October 8, 1952) is an American filmmaker.

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Edward, My Son

Edward, My Son is a 1949 British drama film directed by George Cukor for MGM-British Studios that stars Spencer Tracy and Deborah Kerr.

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Edwin S. Porter

Edwin Stanton Porter (April 21, 1870 – April 30, 1941) was an American film pioneer, most famous as a producer, director, studio manager and cinematographer with the Edison Manufacturing Company and the Famous Players Film Company.

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Electra (1962 film)

Electra (Ηλέκτρα Ilektra) is a 1962 Greek film based on the play Electra, written by Euripides.

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Elia Kazan

Elias Kazantzoglou (Ηλίας Καζαντζόγλου,; September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003), known as Elia Kazan, was an American film and theatre director, producer, screenwriter and actor, described by The New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history".

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Emerald City (film)

Emerald City is a 1988 Australian comedy-drama film directed by Michael Jenkins, based on the 1987 play of the same name by David Williamson.

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Equus (play)

Equus is a 1973 play by Peter Shaffer, about a child psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses.

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Ernst Lubitsch

Ernst Lubitsch (January 29, 1892November 30, 1947) was a German-born American film director, producer, writer, and actor.

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Eugene O'Neill

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright.

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Everybody Wins (1990 film)

Everybody Wins is a 1990 mystery thriller film directed by Karel Reisz, starring Debra Winger and Nick Nolte.

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Everynight ... Everynight

Everynight...

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Extremities (film)

Extremities is a 1986 American drama film directed by Robert M. Young and written by William Mastrosimone, based on his 1982 off-Broadway play of the same name.

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Fanny (1961 film)

Fanny is a 1961 American Technicolor romantic drama film directed by Joshua Logan.

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Faust (1926 film)

Faust – A German Folktale (German: Faust – Eine deutsche Volkssage) is a 1926 silent fantasy film, produced by Ufa, directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Gösta Ekman as Faust, Emil Jannings as Mephisto, Camilla Horn as Gretchen/Marguerite, Frida Richard as her mother, Wilhelm Dieterle as her brother, and Yvette Guilbert as Marthe Schwerdtlein, her aunt.

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Faust (1994 film)

Faust (lit) is a 1994 live-action/animated film directed and written by Jan Švankmajer.

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Feature film

A feature film or feature-length film (often abbreviated to feature), also called a theatrical film, is a narrative film (motion picture or "movie") with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole presentation in a commercial entertainment program.

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Federico García Lorca

Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936), known as Federico García Lorca, was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director.

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Fences (play)

Fences is a 1985 play by the American playwright August Wilson.

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Ferenc Molnár

Ferenc Molnár (born Ferenc Neumann; January 12, 1878April 1, 1952), often anglicized as Franz Molnar, was a Hungarian-born author, stage director, dramatist, and poet.

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Film adaptation

A film adaptation is the transfer of a work or story, in whole or in part, to a feature film.

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Filomena Marturano

Filomena Marturano is a 1950 Spanish language Argentine musical film.

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Finding Neverland (film)

Finding Neverland is a 2004 biographical film directed by Marc Forster and written by David Magee, based on the 1998 play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee.

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Flamingo Road (film)

Flamingo Road is a 1949 American film noir drama directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet and David Brian.

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Flying Down to Rio

Flying Down to Rio is a 1933 American pre-Code RKO musical film famous for being the first screen pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, although lead actors Dolores del Río and Gene Raymond received top billing.

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Follow the Fleet

Follow the Fleet is a 1936 American RKO musical comedy film with a nautical theme starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in their fifth collaboration as dance partners.

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Fool for Love (1985 film)

Fool for Love is a 1985 American psychological drama film directed by Robert Altman, and starring Sam Shepard, Kim Basinger, Harry Dean Stanton, Randy Quaid, and Martha Crawford.

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François Ozon

François Ozon (born 15 November 1967) is a French film director and screenwriter.

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Francis Swann

Francis Swann (July 16, 1913 – August 27, 1983) was a playwright, novelist, and a film and television writer.

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Frank Borzage

Frank Borzage (né Borzaga; April 23, 1894 – June 19, 1962) was an American film director and actor.

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Frank Capra

Frank Russell Capra (born Francesco Rosario Capra; May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was an Italian-American film director, producer, and screenwriter who was the creative force behind several major award-winning films of the 1930s and 1940s.

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Frank Tashlin

Frank Tashlin (born Francis Fredrick von Taschlein, February 19, 1913 – May 5, 1972), also known as Tish Tash and Frank Tash, was an American animator and filmmaker.

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Frankenstein (1931 film)

Frankenstein is a 1931 American pre-Code science fiction horror film directed by James Whale, produced by Carl Laemmle Jr., and adapted from a 1927 play by Peggy Webling, which in turn was based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.

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Frankie and Johnny (1991 film)

Frankie and Johnny is a 1991 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Garry Marshall and starring Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer in their first film together since Scarface (1983).

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Franklin J. Schaffner

Franklin James Schaffner (May 30, 1920July 2, 1989) was an American film, television, and stage director.

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Fred Niblo

Fred Niblo (born Frederick Liedtke; January 6, 1874 – November 11, 1948) was an American pioneer film actor, director and producer.

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Fred Schepisi

Frederic Alan Schepisi (Kael, Pauline (1984). Taking It All In. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. p. 55. born 26 December 1939) is an Australian film director, producer and screenwriter.

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Fred Zinnemann

Alfred Zinnemann (April 29, 1907 – March 14, 1997) was an Austrian-American film director and producer.

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Gabriel Pascal

Gabriel Pascal (born Gábor Lehel; 4 June 1894 – 6 July 1954) was a Hungarian film producer and director whose best-known films were made in the United Kingdom.

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Garry Marshall

Garry Kent Marshall (November 13, 1934 – July 19, 2016) was an American screenwriter, film director, producer and actor.

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Garson Kanin

Garson Kanin (November 24, 1912 – March 13, 1999) was an American writer and director of plays and films.

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Gary Goldman

Gary Wayne Goldman (born November 17, 1944) is an American film producer, director, animator, writer and voice actor.

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Gas Light

Gas Light is a 1938 thriller play, set in 1880s London, written by the British novelist and playwright Patrick Hamilton.

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Gaslight (1940 film)

Gaslight (released in the United States as Angel Street) is a 1940 British psychological thriller directed by Thorold Dickinson starring Anton Walbrook and Diana Wynyard, and features Frank Pettingell.

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Gaslight (1944 film)

Gaslight is a 1944 American psychological thriller film directed by George Cukor, and starring Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten and Angela Lansbury in her film debut.

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Gene Kelly

Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer.

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Gene Saks

Gene Saks (born Jean Michael Saks; November 8, 1921 – March 28, 2015) was an American director and actor.

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George Abbott

George Francis Abbott (June 25, 1887January 31, 1995) was an American theatre producer, director, playwright, screenwriter, film director and producer whose career spanned eight decades.

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George Axelrod

George Axelrod (June 9, 1922 – June 21, 2003) was an American screenwriter, producer, playwright and film director, best known for his play The Seven Year Itch (1952), which was adapted into a film of the same name starring Marilyn Monroe.

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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist.

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George C. Wolfe

George Costello Wolfe (born September 23, 1954) is an American playwright and director of theater and film.

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George Cukor

George Dewey Cukor (July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was an American film director and producer.

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George Marshall (director)

George E. Marshall (December 29, 1891 – February 17, 1975) was an American actor, screenwriter, producer, film and television director, active through the first six decades of film history.

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George Melford

George H. Melford (born George Henry Knauff, February 19, 1877 – April 25, 1961) was an American stage and film actor and director.

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George S. Kaufman

George Simon Kaufman (November 16, 1889June 2, 1961) was an American playwright, theater director and producer, humorist, and drama critic.

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George Sidney

George Sidney (October 4, 1916May 5, 2002) was an American film director and producer who worked primarily at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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George Stevens

George Cooper Stevens (December 18, 1904 – March 8, 1975) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer.

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Gertrud (film)

Gertrud is a 1964 Danish drama film written and directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer; it is based on the 1906 play of the same name by Hjalmar Söderberg.

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Get Real (film)

Get Real is a 1998 British romantic comedy-drama film directed by Simon Shore, based on the play What's Wrong with Angry? by screenwriter Patrick Wilde.

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Gigi (1958 film)

Gigi is a 1958 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli and processed using Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Eastmancolor film process Metrocolor.

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Glengarry Glen Ross

Glengarry Glen Ross is a play by David Mamet that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984.

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Glengarry Glen Ross (film)

Glengarry Glen Ross is a 1992 American tragedy film directed by James Foley and written by David Mamet, based on his 1984 Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name.

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Glorious Betsy

Glorious Betsy is a 1928 sound part-talkie drama film.

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Gold Diggers of 1933

Gold Diggers of 1933 is an American pre-Code musical film directed by Mervyn LeRoy with songs by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics).

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Grand Hotel (1932 film)

Grand Hotel is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Edmund Goulding and produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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Grande École (film)

Grande École is a 2004 French erotic drama film directed by, based on the stage play The Best of Schools by Jean-Marie Besset.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Hamlet (1948 film)

Hamlet is a 1948 British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same name, adapted and directed by and starring Laurence Olivier.

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Hamlet (1964 film)

Hamlet (Gamlet) is a 1964 film adaptation in Russian of William Shakespeare's play of the same title, based on a translation by Boris Pasternak.

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Hamlet (1990 film)

Hamlet is a 1990 drama film based on the Shakespearean tragedy of the same name, directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starring Mel Gibson as the eponymous character.

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Hamlet (1996 film)

Hamlet is a 1996 British epic historical drama film and an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, adapted and directed by Kenneth Branagh, who also stars as Prince Hamlet.

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Happy Birthday, Wanda June

Happy Birthday, Wanda June is a 1971 American comedy-drama film directed by Mark Robson, based on a 1970 play by Kurt Vonnegut.

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Harry Brown (writer)

Harry Peter McNab Brown Jr. (April 30, 1917 – November 2, 1986) was an American poet, novelist and screenwriter.

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Harvey (1950 film)

Harvey is a 1950 American comedy-drama film based on Mary Chase's 1944 play of the same name, directed by Henry Koster, and starring James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Charles Drake, Cecil Kellaway, Jesse White, Victoria Horne, Wallace Ford and Peggy Dow.

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Harvey (play)

Harvey is a 1944 play by the American playwright Mary Chase.

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He Who Gets Slapped (film)

He Who Gets Slapped is a 1924 American silent psychological thriller film starring Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, and John Gilbert, and directed by Victor Sjöström (credited as Victor Seastrom).

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Heaven Can Wait (1943 film)

Heaven Can Wait is a 1943 Technicolor American supernatural comedy film produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch.

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Heaven Can Wait (1978 film)

Heaven Can Wait is a 1978 American sports fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Warren Beatty and Buck Henry about a young man (played by Beatty) being mistakenly taken to heaven by his guardian angel, and the resulting complications of how this mistake can be undone, given that his earthly body has been cremated.

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Hedda (1975 film)

Hedda is a 1975 film adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's 1891 play Hedda Gabler, written for the screen and directed by Trevor Nunn, and starring Glenda Jackson, Timothy West, Peter Eyre, Patrick Stewart (in his screen debut), and Jennie Linden.

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Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Johan Ibsen (20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director.

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Henry Koster

Henry Koster (born Hermann Kosterlitz, May 1, 1905 – September 21, 1988) was a German-born film director.

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Herb Gardner

Herbert George Gardner (December 28, 1934 – September 24, 2003) was an American commercial artist, cartoonist, playwright and screenwriter.

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Herbert Brenon

Herbert Brenon (born Alexander Herbert Reginald St. John Brenon; 13 January 1880 – 21 June 1958) was an Irish-born U.S. film director, actor and screenwriter during the era of silent films through 1940.

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Herbert Ross

Herbert David Ross (May 13, 1927 – October 9, 2001) was an American actor, choreographer, director and producer who worked predominantly in theater and film.

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Hercules Unchained

Hercules Unchained (Ercole e la regina di Lidia, "Hercules and the Queen of Lydia") is a 1959 Italian-French epic fantasy feature film starring Steve Reeves and Sylva Koscina in a story about two warring brothers and Hercules' tribulations in the court of Queen Omphale.

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Here Comes Mr. Jordan

Here Comes Mr.

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High Society (1956 film)

High Society is a 1956 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Charles Walters and starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and Frank Sinatra.

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High Tor (play)

High Tor is a 1936 play by Maxwell Anderson.

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High Wall

High Wall is a 1947 American film noir starring Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter and Herbert Marshall.

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His Girl Friday

His Girl Friday is a 1940 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell and featuring Ralph Bellamy and Gene Lockhart.

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His Wife's Lover

His Wife's Lover (1931, original Yiddish title Zayn Vaybs Lubovnik) was billed as the "first Jewish musical comedy talking picture".

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Holiday (1930 film)

Holiday is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic comedy film which tells the story of a young man who is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.

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Holiday (1938 film)

Holiday (released in the United Kingdom as Free to Live) is a 1938 American romantic comedy film directed by George Cukor, a remake of the 1930 film of the same name.

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How to Marry a Millionaire

How to Marry a Millionaire is a 1953 American screwball comedy film directed by Jean Negulesco and written and produced by Nunnally Johnson.

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Howard Hawks

Howard Winchester Hawks (May 30, 1896December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era.

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Howard Morris

Howard Jerome Morris (September 4, 1919 – May 21, 2005) was an American actor, comedian, and director.

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Hugh Williams

Hugh Anthony Glanmor Williams (6 March 1904 – 7 December 1969) was a British actor and dramatist of Welsh descent.

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I Am a Camera

I Am a Camera is a 1951 Broadway play by John Van Druten adapted from Christopher Isherwood's 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin, which is part of The Berlin Stories. List of plays adapted into feature films and i Am a Camera are plays adapted into films.

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I Confess (film)

I Confess is a 1953 American film noir directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Montgomery Clift as Catholic priest Father Michael William Logan, Anne Baxter as Ruth Grandfort, and Karl Malden as Inspector Larrue.

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I Never Sang for My Father

I Never Sang for My Father is a 1970 American drama film, based on the 1968 play of the same name.

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I Remember Mama (film)

I Remember Mama is a 1948 American drama film directed by George Stevens from a screenplay by DeWitt Bodeen, whose work was adapted from John Van Druten's stage play.

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I'm Not Rappaport

I'm Not Rappaport is a play by Herb Gardner, which originally ran on Broadway in 1985.

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Idiot's Delight (film)

Idiot's Delight is a 1939 MGM comedy drama with a screenplay adapted by Robert E. Sherwood from his 1936 Pulitzer-Prize-winning play of the same name.

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If I Were King

If I Were King is a 1938 American biographical and historical film starring Ronald Colman as medieval poet François Villon, and featuring Basil Rathbone and Frances Dee.

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IMDb

IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.

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In the Company of Men

In the Company of Men is a 1997 American black comedy film, written and directed by Neil LaBute and starring Aaron Eckhart, Matt Malloy, and Stacy Edwards.

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In the Good Old Summertime

In the Good Old Summertime is a 1949 American Technicolor musical romantic comedy film directed by Robert Z. Leonard.

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Indiscreet (1958 film)

Indiscreet is a 1958 British romantic comedy film produced and directed by Stanley Donen, and starring Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant.

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Insignificance (film)

Insignificance is a 1985 British alternate history drama film directed by Nicolas Roeg, and starring Gary Busey, Michael Emil, Theresa Russell, Tony Curtis, and Will Sampson.

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It Happened Tomorrow

It Happened Tomorrow is a 1944 American fantasy film directed by René Clair, starring Dick Powell, Linda Darnell and Jack Oakie, and featuring Edgar Kennedy and John Philliber.

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It's the Rage (film)

It's the Rage is a 1999 film version of Keith Reddin's play "All The Rage" about three interconnected stories and how handguns affect each of the nine people involved.

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Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future

Ivan Vasilievich Changes His Profession (Ivan Vasilyevich menyaet professiyu) is a Soviet comic science fiction film directed by Leonid Gaidai in June 1973.

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J. B. Priestley

John Boynton Priestley (13 September 1894 – 14 August 1984) was an English novelist, playwright, screenwriter, broadcaster and social commentator.

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J. Gordon Edwards (director)

James Gordon Edwards (June 24, 1867 – December 31, 1925) was a Canadian-born film director, producer, and writer who began his career as a stage actor and stage director.

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J. M. Barrie

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, (9 May 1860 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan.

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Jacques Feyder

Jacques Feyder (21 July 1885 – 24 May 1948) was a Belgian film director, screenwriter and actor who worked principally in France, but also in the US, Britain and Germany.

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Jake's Women

Jake's Women is a 1992 play by Neil Simon.

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James Bridie

James Bridie (3 January 1888 in Glasgow – 29 January 1951 in Edinburgh) was the pseudonym of a Scottish playwright, screenwriter and physician whose real name was Osborne Henry Mavor.

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James Goldman

James Goldman (June 30, 1927 – October 28, 1998) was an American playwright and screenwriter.

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James Leo Herlihy

James Leo Herlihy (February 27, 1927 – October 21, 1993) was an American novelist, playwright and actor.

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James Whale

James Whale (22 July 1889 – 29 May 1957) was an English film director, theatre director and actor, who spent the greater part of his career in Hollywood.

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Jason Miller (playwright)

Jason Miller (born John Anthony Miller Jr.; April 22, 1939May 13, 2001) was an American playwright and actor.

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Jean Anouilh

Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh (23 June 1910 – 3 October 1987) was a French dramatist and screenwriter whose career spanned five decades.

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Jean Boyer (director)

Jean Boyer (26 June 1901 – 10 March 1965) was a French film director and songwriter.

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Jean Genet

Jean Genet (–) was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist.

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Jean Negulesco

Jean Negulesco (born Ioan Negulescu; – 18 July 1993) was a Romanian-American film director and screenwriter.

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Jeffrey (1995 film)

Jeffrey is a 1995 American romantic comedy film directed by Christopher Ashley, based on the play of the same name by Paul Rudnick, who also wrote the screenplay adaptation.

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Jerome Lawrence

Jerome Lawrence (born Jerome Lawrence Schwartz; July 14, 1915 – February 29, 2004) was an American playwright and author.

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Jezebel (1938 film)

Jezebel is a 1938 American romantic-drama film released by Warner Bros. and directed by William Wyler.

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Joan of Arc (1948 film)

Joan of Arc is a 1948 American hagiographic epic film directed by Victor Fleming, and starring Ingrid Bergman as the eponymous French religious icon and war heroine.

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Joe Butterfly

Joe Butterfly is a 1957 American comedy film directed by Jesse Hibbs starring Audie Murphy, George Nader and Keenan Wynn, with Burgess Meredith in the title role as a Japanese man.

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Joe Mantello

Joseph Mantello (born December 27, 1962) is an American actor and director known for his work on stage and screen.

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John Badham

John MacDonald Badham (born August 25, 1939) is an American film and television director.

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John Cromwell (director)

John Cromwell (born Elwood Dager; December 23, 1886 – September 26, 1979) was an American film and stage director and actor.

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John Ford

John Martin Feeney (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973), known professionally as John Ford, was an American film director and producer.

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John Frankenheimer

John Michael Frankenheimer (February 19, 1930 – July 6, 2002) was an American film and television director known for social dramas and action/suspense films.

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John Guare

John Guare (born February 5, 1938) is an American playwright and screenwriter.

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John Osborne

John James Osborne (12 December 1929 – 24 December 1994) was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, and entrepreneur, who is regarded as one of the most influential figures in post-war theatre.

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John Patrick Shanley

John Patrick Shanley (born October 13, 1950) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and director.

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John Van Druten

John William Van Druten (1 June 190119 December 1957) was an English playwright and theatre director.

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Johnny Belinda (1948 film)

Johnny Belinda is a 1948 American drama film, directed by Jean Negulesco, based on the 1940 Broadway stage hit of the same name by Elmer Blaney Harris.

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Johnny Belinda (1967 film)

Johnny Belinda is a 1967 television film directed by Paul Bogart.

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Josefina López

Josefina López (born 1969, San Luis Potosí, Mexico) is a Chicana playwright, perhaps best known as the author of the play (and co-author of the screenplay) Real Women Have Curves.

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Joseph Anthony

Joseph Anthony (born Joseph Deuster; May 24, 1912 – January 20, 1993) was an American playwright, actor, and director.

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Joseph Kesselring

Joseph Otto Kesselring (June 21, 1902 – November 5, 1967) was an American playwright who was best known for writing Arsenic and Old Lace, a hit on Broadway from 1939 to 1944 and in other countries as well.

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Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (February 11, 1909 – February 5, 1993) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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Joseph Losey

Joseph Walton Losey III (January 14, 1909 – June 22, 1984) was an American theatre and film director, producer, and screenwriter.

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Joshua Logan

Joshua Lockwood Logan III (October 5, 1908 – July 12, 1988) was an American theatre and film director, playwright and screenwriter, and actor.

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Juarez (film)

Juarez is a 1939 American historical drama film directed by William Dieterle.

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Judgment at Nuremberg

Judgment at Nuremberg is a 1961 American epic legal drama film directed and produced by Stanley Kramer, and written by Abby Mann.

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Judith of Bethulia

Judith of Bethulia (1914) is an American film starring Blanche Sweet and Henry B. Walthall, and produced and directed by D. W. Griffith, based on the play "Judith and the Holofernes" (1896) by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, which itself was an adaptation of the Book of Judith.

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Julian Mitchell

Charles Julian Humphrey Mitchell, FRSL (born 1 May 1935) is an English playwright, screenwriter and occasional novelist.

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Kenneth Branagh

Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (born 10 December 1960) is a British actor and filmmaker.

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Key Largo (film)

Key Largo is a 1948 American film noir crime drama directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson and Lauren Bacall.

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Kismet (musical)

Kismet is a musical adapted by Charles Lederer and Luther Davis from the 1911 play of the same name by Edward Knoblock, with lyrics and musical adaptation (as well as some original music) by Robert Wright and George Forrest.

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Kiss Me, Stupid

Kiss Me, Stupid is a 1964 American sex comedy film produced and directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Dean Martin, Kim Novak and Ray Walston.

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Kissing Jessica Stein

Kissing Jessica Stein is a 2001 American independent romantic comedy film, written and co-produced by the film's stars, Jennifer Westfeldt and Heather Juergensen.

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Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American author known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels.

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La Chienne

La Chienne (The Bitch) is a 1931 French film by director Jean Renoir.

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La Ronde (1950 film)

La Ronde is a 1950 French anthology film directed by Max Ophüls and based on the French translation of Arthur Schnitzler's 1897 play Reigen.

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La Ronde (play)

La Ronde (also known by its original German title, Reigen) is a play in which ten people form an unwitting interpersonal circle with their secret sexual relationships.

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Lakeboat

Lakeboat is a semi-autobiographical play by David Mamet, written in 1970 and first produced in 1980 (revised version, with the help of John Dillion of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater).

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Lantana (film)

Lantana is a 2001 Australian-German drama film, directed by Ray Lawrence and starring Anthony LaPaglia, Kerry Armstrong, Geoffrey Rush and Barbara Hershey.

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Laurence Housman

Laurence Housman (18 July 1865 – 20 February 1959) was an English playwright, writer and illustrator whose career stretched from the 1890s to the 1950s.

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László Benedek

László Benedek (March 5, 1905 – March 11, 1992; sometimes Laslo Benedek) was a Hungarian-born film director and cinematographer, most notable for directing The Wild One (1953).

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Le Million

Le Million is a 1931 French musical comedy film directed by René Clair.

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Leaving Metropolis

Leaving Metropolis is a 2002 Canadian drama film, written and directed by Brad Fraser as an adaptation of his theatrical play Poor Super Man.

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Lenny (film)

Lenny is a 1974 American biographical drama film about the comedian Lenny Bruce, starring Dustin Hoffman and directed by Bob Fosse.

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Leslie Howard

Leslie Howard Steiner (3 April 18931 June 1943) was an English actor, director, producer and writer.

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Leslie Stevens

Leslie Clark Stevens IV (February 3, 1924 – April 24, 1998) was an American producer, writer, and director.

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Let's Do It Again (1953 film)

Let's Do It Again is a 1953 American Technicolor musical film set in 1950 New York, and released by Columbia Pictures.

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Lewis E. Lawes

Lewis Edward Lawes (September 13, 1883 – April 23, 1947) was a prison warden and a proponent of prison reform.

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Lewis Gilbert

Lewis Gilbert (6 March 1920 – 23 February 2018) was an English film director, producer and screenwriter who directed more than 40 films during six decades; among them such varied titles as Reach for the Sky (1956), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), Alfie (1966), Educating Rita (1983) and Shirley Valentine (1989), as well as three James Bond films: You Only Live Twice (1967), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979).

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Lewis Milestone

Lewis Milestone (born Leib Milstein (Russian: Лейб Мильштейн); September 30, 1895 – September 25, 1980) was an American film director.

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Libahunt

Libahunt (the Estonian name for a werewolf) is the name of a 1912 play (a tragedy) by August Kitzberg, and a 1968 film of the same name based on the play.

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Lilies (film)

Lilies (French title: Les Feluettes) is a 1996 Canadian film directed by John Greyson.

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Lists of films

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Little Nellie Kelly

Little Nellie Kelly is a 1940 American musical-comedy film based on the stage musical of the same title by George M. Cohan which was a hit on Broadway in 1922 and 1923.

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Little Voice (film)

Little Voice is a 1998 British musical film written and directed by Mark Herman and made in Scarborough, North Yorkshire.

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Lonelyhearts

Lonelyhearts, also known as Miss Lonelyhearts, is a 1958 American drama film directed by Vincent J. Donehue.

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Long Day's Journey into Night

Long Day's Journey into Night is a play in four acts written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill in 1939–1941 and first published posthumously in 1956.

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Look Back in Anger

Look Back in Anger (1956) is a realist play written by John Osborne.

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Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an American playwright and writer.

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Lost in Yonkers

Lost in Yonkers is a play by Neil Simon.

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Love and Human Remains

Love and Human Remains is a 1993 Canadian film directed by Denys Arcand and based on Brad Fraser's stage play Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love.

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Love and Kisses (film)

Love and Kisses is a 1965 American comedy film starring Rick Nelson (formerly "Ricky Nelson") as a young man who tries to grow up and emancipate himself from his middle-class parents by getting married.

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Love Is All There Is

Love Is All There Is is a 1996 romantic comedy film written and directed by Joseph Bologna and Renée Taylor, who also both star in the film.

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Love Me Tonight

Love Me Tonight is a 1932 American pre-Code musical comedy film produced and directed by Rouben Mamoulian, with music by Rodgers and Hart.

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Love! Valour! Compassion!

Love! Valour! Compassion! is a play by Terrence McNally.

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Lovers and Other Strangers

Lovers and Other Strangers is a 1970 American romantic comedy film directed by Cy Howard, adapted from the 1968 Broadway play of the same name by Renée Taylor and Joseph Bologna.

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Luis Mandoki

Luis Mandoki (born August 17, 1954) is a Mexican film director, working in Mexico and Hollywood.

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Luis Valdez

Luis Miguel Valdez (born June 26, 1940) is an American playwright, screenwriter, film director and actor.

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Lynn Riggs

Rollie Lynn Riggs (August 31, 1899 – June 30, 1954) was an American author, poet, playwright and screenwriter.

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Lysistrata

Lysistrata (or; Attic Greek: Λυσιστράτη, Lysistrátē) is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BCE.

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M. Butterfly (film)

M.

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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a 1982 play – one of the ten-play Century Cycle by August Wilson – that chronicles the 20th-century African-American experience.

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Madea's Family Reunion

Madea's Family Reunion is a 2006 American comedy-drama film and an adaptation of the stage production of the same name written by Tyler Perry.

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Major Barbara

Major Barbara is a three-act English play by George Bernard Shaw, written and premiered in 1905 and first published in 1907.

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Major Barbara (film)

Major Barbara is a 1941 British film starring Wendy Hiller and Rex Harrison.

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Make Way for Tomorrow

Make Way for Tomorrow is a 1937 American tragedy film directed by Leo McCarey.

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Male and Female

Male and Female is a 1919 American silent adventure/drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Gloria Swanson and Thomas Meighan.

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Mandingo (film)

Mandingo is a 1975 American historical melodrama film that focuses on the Atlantic slave trade in the Antebellum South.

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Marc Allégret

Marc Allégret (22 December 1900 – 3 November 1973) was a French screenwriter, photographer and film director.

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Marcel Pagnol

Marcel Paul Pagnol (also;; 28 February 1895 – 18 April 1974) was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker.

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Mark Robson (film director)

Mark Robson (4 December 1913 – 20 June 1978) was a Canadian-American film director, producer, and editor.

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Marriage Italian Style

Marriage Italian Style (Matrimonio all'italiana) is a 1964 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni.

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Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman (born September 21, 1947) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist.

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Martha Coolidge

Martha Coolidge (born August 17, 1946)is an American film director and former President of the Directors Guild of America.

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Martin Ritt

Martin Ritt (March 2, 1914 – December 8, 1990) was an American director, producer, and actor, active in film, theatre and television.

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Marvin's Room (film)

Marvin's Room is a 1996 American drama film directed by Jerry Zaks.

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Mary Chase (playwright)

Mary Chase (Mary Agnes McDonough Coyle; February 25, 1906 – October 20, 1981) was an American journalist, playwright and children's novelist, known primarily for writing the 1944 Broadway play Harvey, which was adapted into the 1950 film starring James Stewart.

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Mary of Scotland (film)

Mary of Scotland is a 1936 American historical drama film starring Katharine Hepburn as the 16th-century ruler Mary, Queen of Scots.

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Maurice Maeterlinck

Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count (or Comte) Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French.

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Maurice Tourneur

Maurice Félix Thomas (2 February 1876 – 4 August 1961), known as Maurice Tourneur, was a French film director and screenwriter.

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Maurine Dallas Watkins

Maurine Dallas Watkins (July 27, 1896 – August 10, 1969) was an American playwright and screenwriter.

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Mauro Bolognini

Mauro Bolognini (28 June 1922 – 14 May 2001) was an Italian film and stage director.

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Max Ophüls

Maximillian Oppenheimer (6 May 1902 – 26 March 1957), known as Max Ophüls or simply Ophuls, was a German-born film director who worked in Germany (1931–1933), France (1933–1940 and 1950–1957), and the United States (1947–1950).

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Maxim Gorky

Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (Алексей Максимович Пешков; – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (Максим Горький), was a Russian and Soviet writer and socialism proponent.

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Maxwell Anderson

James Maxwell Anderson (December 15, 1888 – February 28, 1959) was an American playwright, author, poet, journalist, and lyricist.

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Mädchen in Uniform

("Girls in Uniform") is a 1931 German romantic drama film based on the play (Yesterday and Today) by Christa Winsloe and directed by Leontine Sagan with artistic direction from Carl Froelich, who also funded the film.

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Meet Joe Black

Meet Joe Black is a 1998 American romantic fantasy drama film directed and produced by Martin Brest, starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, and Claire Forlani.

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Melvin Frank

Melvin Frank (13 August 1913 – 13 October 1988) was an American screenwriter, film producer and film director.

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Melvin Goes to Dinner

Melvin Goes to Dinner is a 2003 American film adaptation of Michael Blieden's stage play Phyro-Giants!, directed by Bob Odenkirk in his directorial debut.

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Memories of Murder

Memories of Murder is a 2003 South Korean neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Bong Joon-ho, from a screenplay by Bong and Shim Sung-bo, and based on the 1996 play Come to See Me by Kim Kwang-rim.

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Merrily We Live

Merrily We Live is a 1938 American comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and written by Eddie Moran and Jack Jevne.

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Mervyn LeRoy

Mervyn LeRoy (October 15, 1900 – September 13, 1987) was an American film director, producer and actor.

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Michael Apted

Michael David Apted (10 February 1941 – 7 January 2021) was an English television and film director and producer.

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Michael Curtiz

Michael Curtiz (born Manó Kaminer; from 1905 Mihály Kertész; Kertész Mihály; December 24, 1886 April 10, 1962) was a Hungarian-American film director, recognized as one of the most prolific directors in history.

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Midnight Lace

Midnight Lace is a 1960 American psychological thriller film directed by David Miller and starring Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin, Myrna Loy, and Roddy McDowall.

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Mike Figgis

Michael Figgis (born 28 February 1948) is an English film director, screenwriter, and composer.

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Mike Nichols

Mike Nichols (born Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky; November 6, 1931 – November 19, 2014) was an American film and theatre director.

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Miloš Forman

Jan Tomáš "Miloš" Forman (18 February 1932 – 13 April 2018) was a Czech-American film director, screenwriter, actor, and professor who rose to fame in his native Czechoslovakia before emigrating to the United States in 1968.

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Miranda (1948 film)

Miranda is a 1948 black and white British comedy film, directed by Ken Annakin and written by Peter Blackmore, who also wrote the play of the same name from which the film was adapted.

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Miss Julie (1999 film)

Miss Julie is a 1999 film directed by Mike Figgis based on the 1888 play of the same name by August Strindberg, starring Saffron Burrows in the role of Miss Julie and Peter Mullan in the role of Jean.

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Mogambo

Mogambo is a 1953 Technicolor adventure/romantic drama film directed by John Ford and starring Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, and Grace Kelly, and featuring Donald Sinden.

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Monster in a Box

Monster in a Box is a monologue originally performed live on stage by the writer Spalding Gray then subsequently made into a 1992 film starring Gray and directed by Nick Broomfield.

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Monty Banks

Montague (Monty) Banks (born Mario Bianchi; 18 July 1897 – 7 January 1950) was a 20th century Italian-born American comedian, film actor, director and producer who achieved success in the United States and United Kingdom.

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Moon Over Miami (film)

Moon Over Miami is a 1941 American musical comedy film directed by Walter Lang with Betty Grable and Don Ameche in leading roles and co-starring Robert Cummings, Carole Landis, Jack Haley and Charlotte Greenwood.

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Morning Glory (1933 film)

Morning Glory is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film which tells the story of an eager would-be actress and her journey to stardom, and her gains and losses.

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Morocco (film)

Morocco is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, and Adolphe Menjou.

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Moss Hart

Moss Hart (October 24, 1904 – December 20, 1961) was an American playwright, librettist, and theater director.

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Mother Courage and Her Children

Mother Courage and Her Children (Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder) is a play written in 1939 by the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), with significant contributions from Margarete Steffin.

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Mourning Becomes Electra

Mourning Becomes Electra is a play cycle written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill.

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Mr. Sycamore

Mr.

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Mr. Topaze

Mr.

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My Wild Irish Rose

My Wild Irish Rose is a 1947 American musical film directed by David Butler.

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Naughty Marietta (film)

Naughty Marietta is a 1935 American romantic musical film based on the 1910 operetta of the same name by Victor Herbert.

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Neil Simon

Marvin Neil Simon (July 4, 1927 – August 26, 2018) was an American playwright, screenwriter and author.

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Nell (film)

Nell is a 1994 American drama film directed by Michael Apted from a screenplay written by William Nicholson.

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New Faces of 1952

New Faces of 1952, also known as Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1952, is a 1952 musical revue with songs and comedy skits, produced and conceived by Leonard Sillman.

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Nicholas Hytner

Sir Nicholas Robert Hytner (born 7 May 1956) is an English theatre director, film director, and film producer.

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Night Watch (1973 film)

Night Watch is a 1973 mystery thriller film directed by Brian G. Hutton from a screenplay by Tony Williamson, based on the 1972 play of the same name by Lucille Fletcher.

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Noises Off (film)

Noises Off is a 1992 American comedy film directed by Peter Bogdanovich, with a screenplay by Marty Kaplan based on the 1982 play of the same name by Michael Frayn.

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Nora Ephron

Nora Ephron (May 19, 1941 – June 26, 2012) was an American journalist, writer, and filmmaker.

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Normal (2003 film)

Normal is a 2003 American made-for-television drama film produced by HBO Films, which became an official selection at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival.

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Norman Jewison

Norman Frederick Jewison (July 21, 1926 – January 20, 2024) was a Canadian filmmaker.

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Norman Taurog

Norman Rae Taurog (February 23, 1899 – April 7, 1981) was an American film director and screenwriter.

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North to Alaska

North to Alaska is a 1960 American comedy Western/Northern film directed by Henry Hathaway and John Wayne (uncredited).

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Number Seventeen

Number Seventeen is a 1932 British comedy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring John Stuart, Anne Grey and Leon M. Lion.

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Nuts (1987 film)

Nuts is a 1987 American legal drama film directed by Martin Ritt, starring Barbra Streisand and Richard Dreyfuss.

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O Pagador de Promessas

O Pagador de Promessas (Keeper of Promises) is a 1962 Brazilian drama film written and directed by Anselmo Duarte, based on the famous stage play of the same name by Dias Gomes.

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Of Mice and Men (1939 film)

Of Mice and Men is a 1939 American drama film based on the 1937 play of the same name, which itself was based on the novella of the same name by author John Steinbeck.

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Oh, Mr Porter!

Oh, Mr Porter! is a 1937 British comedy film starring Will Hay with Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt and directed by Marcel Varnel.

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Oliver Parker

Oliver Parker (born 6 September 1960) is a British film director, screenwriter, and former actor.

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One Hour with You

One Hour with You is a 1932 American pre-Code musical comedy film about a married couple who are attracted to other people.

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One, Two, Three

One, Two, Three is a 1961 American political comedy film directed by Billy Wilder, and written by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond.

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Only When I Laugh (film)

Only When I Laugh is a 1981 American comedy-drama film based on Neil Simon's 1970 play The Gingerbread Lady.

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Ordet

Ordet (meaning "The Word" and originally released as The Word in English), is a 1955 Danish drama film,written and directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer.

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Oscar (1967 film)

Oscar is a 1967 French comedy of errors directed by Édouard Molinaro and starring Louis de Funès.

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Oscar (1991 film)

Oscar is a 1991 American comedy film directed by John Landis.

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.

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Other People's Money

Other People's Money is a 1991 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Norman Jewison, starring Danny DeVito, Gregory Peck and Penelope Ann Miller.

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Otto Preminger

Otto Ludwig Preminger (5 December 1905 – 23 April 1986) was an Austrian-American theatre and film director, film producer, and actor.

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Our Town (1940 film)

Our Town is a 1940 American drama romance film adaptation of the 1938 play of the same name by Thornton Wilder, starring Martha Scott as Emily Webb, and William Holden as George Gibbs.

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P. J. Hogan

Paul John Hogan (born 30 November 1962) is an Australian film director and screenwriter.

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Painting the Clouds with Sunshine (film)

Painting the Clouds with Sunshine is a 1951 Technicolor musical film directed by David Butler and starring Dennis Morgan and Virginia Mayo (whose singing voice was dubbed by Bonnie Lou Williams).

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Pandora's Box (1929 film)

Pandora's Box (Die Büchse der Pandora) is a 1929 German silent drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, and starring Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, and Francis Lederer.

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Patricia Rozema

Patricia Rozema (born 20 August 1958) is a Canadian film director, writer and producer.

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Patrick Garland

Patrick Ewart Garland (10 April 1935 – 19 April 2013) was a British director, writer and actor.

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Patrick Hamilton (writer)

Anthony Walter Patrick Hamilton (17 March 1904 – 23 September 1962) was an English playwright and novelist.

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Patrick Marber

Patrick Albert Crispin Marber (born 19 September 1964) is an English comedian, playwright, director, actor, and screenwriter.

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Patterns (film)

Patterns, also known as Patterns of Power, is a 1956 American "boardroom drama" film starring Van Heflin, Everett Sloane, and Ed Begley; and directed by Fielder Cook.

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Paul de Kruif

Paul Henry de Kruif (rhyming with "life") (March 2, 1890 – February 28, 1971) was an American microbiologist and writer.

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Paul Newman

Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, race car driver, philanthropist, and entrepreneur.

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Paul Zindel

Paul Zindel Jr. (May 15, 1936 – March 27, 2003) was an American playwright, young adult novelist, and educator.

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People Will Talk

People Will Talk is a 1951 American romantic comedy/drama film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck from a screenplay by Mankiewicz, based on the German play by Curt Goetz, which was made into a movie in Germany (Doctor Praetorius, 1950).

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Pepe (1960 film)

Pepe is a 1960 American musical comedy film starring Cantinflas in the title role, directed by George Sidney.

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Perfect Pie

Perfect Pie is a play written by Judith Thompson, and first staged at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre in 2000, with Judith Thompson also directing.

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Perfect Strangers (1950 film)

Perfect Strangers, also released as Too Dangerous to Love in some territories, is a 1950 American comedy-drama film directed by Bretaigne Windust.

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Peter Pan (1924 film)

Peter Pan is a 1924 American silent adventure film released by Paramount Pictures, the first film adaptation of the 1904 play by J. M. Barrie.

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Peter Pan (1953 film)

Peter Pan is a 1953 American animated adventure fantasy film produced in 1952 by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures.

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Peter Pan (2003 film)

Peter Pan is a 2003 fantasy adventure film directed by P. J. Hogan and written by Hogan and Michael Goldenberg.

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Peter Shaffer

Sir Peter Levin Shaffer (15 May 1926 – 6 June 2016) was an English playwright, screenwriter, and novelist.

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Peter Yates

Peter James Yates (24 July 1929 – 9 January 2011) was an English film director and producer, known for his versatility and “attention to detail” across a variety of genres.

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Phaedra (film)

Phaedra (Φαίδρα) is a 1962 American-Greek drama film directed by Jules Dassin as a vehicle for his partner (and future wife) Melina Mercouri, after her worldwide hit Never on Sunday.

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Philadelphia, Here I Come!

Philadelphia, Here I Come! is a 1964 play by Irish dramatist Brian Friel.

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Philip Barry

Philip Jerome Quinn Barry (June 18, 1896 – December 3, 1949) was an American dramatist best known for his plays Holiday (1928) and The Philadelphia Story (1939), which were both made into films starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant.

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Philip Dunne (writer)

Philip Ives Dunne (February 11, 1908 – June 2, 1992) was an American screenwriter, film director and producer, who worked prolifically from 1932 until 1965.

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Picnic (1955 film)

Picnic is a 1955 American Technicolor romantic comedy-drama film filmed in CinemaScope.

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Play It Again, Sam (film)

Play It Again, Sam is a 1972 American comedy film written by and starring Woody Allen, based on his 1969 Broadway play of the same title.

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Plaza Suite

Plaza Suite is a comedy play by Neil Simon.

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Plenty (film)

Plenty is a 1985 American drama film directed by Fred Schepisi and starring Meryl Streep.

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Porgy and Bess (film)

Porgy and Bess is a 1959 American musical drama film directed by Otto Preminger, and starring Sidney Poitier and Dorothy Dandridge in the titular roles.

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Prelude to a Kiss (play)

Prelude to a Kiss is a 1988 play by Craig Lucas.

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Private Lives

Private Lives is a 1930 comedy of manners in three acts by Noël Coward.

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Proof (2005 film)

Proof is a 2005 American drama film directed by John Madden and starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Hope Davis.

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Psycho Beach Party

Psycho Beach Party is a 2000 comedy horror film based on the off-Broadway play of the same name, directed by Robert Lee King.

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Pygmalion (play)

Pygmalion is a play by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, named after the Greek mythological figure.

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Quills (film)

Quills is a 2000 period film directed by Philip Kaufman and adapted from the Obie award-winning 1995 play by Doug Wright, who also wrote the original screenplay.

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Rabbit Hole (play)

Rabbit Hole is a play written by David Lindsay-Abaire.

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Radu Mihăileanu

Radu Mihăileanu (born 23 April 1958) is a Romanian-born French film director and screenwriter.

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Rain (1932 film)

Rain is a 1932 pre-Code drama film that stars Joan Crawford as prostitute Sadie Thompson.

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Raoul Walsh

Raoul Walsh (born Albert Edward Walsh; March 11, 1887December 31, 1980) was an American film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), and the brother of silent screen actor George Walsh.

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Raymond Hubbell

John Raymond Hubbell (June 1, 1879 – December 13, 1954) was an American writer, composer and lyricist.

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Real Women Have Curves

Real Women Have Curves is a 2002 American comedy-drama film directed by Patricia Cardoso, based on the play of the same name by Josefina López, who co-authored the screenplay for the film with George LaVoo.

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Red Dust (1932 film)

Red Dust is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Victor Fleming, and starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, and Mary Astor.

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Regeneration (1915 film)

Regeneration (alternately called The Regeneration) is a 1915 American silent biographical crime drama co-written and directed by Raoul Walsh.

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Reginald Rose

Reginald Rose (December 10, 1920 – April 19, 2002) was an American screenwriter.

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Requiem for a Heavyweight

"Requiem for a Heavyweight" is a teleplay written by Rod Serling and produced for the live television show Playhouse 90 on 11 October 1956.

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Reuben, Reuben

Reuben, Reuben is a 1983 comedy-drama film directed by Robert Ellis Miller and starring Tom Conti, Kelly McGillis (in her film debut), Roberts Blossom, Cynthia Harris, and Joel Fabiani.

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Richard Brooks

Richard Brooks (May 18, 1912 – March 11, 1992) was an American screenwriter, film director, novelist and film producer.

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Richard Fleischer

Richard Owen Fleischer (December 8, 1916 – March 25, 2006) was an American film director whose career spanned more than four decades, beginning at the height of the Golden Age of Hollywood and lasting through the American New Wave.

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Richard Haydn

Richard Haydn (born George Richard Haydon, 10 March 1905 – 25 April 1985) was a British-American comedy actor.

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Richard Lester

Richard Lester Liebman (born January 19, 1932) is a retired American film director based in the United Kingdom, famous for his comedic and campy style of shooting movies and for his work in both US and UK cinema. He is best known for directing the Beatles' films A Hard Day's Night (1964) and Help! (1965), and the superhero films Superman II (1980) and Superman III (1983).

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Richard Oswald

Richard Oswald (5 November 1880 – 11 September 1963) was an Austrian film director, producer, screenwriter, and father of German-American film director Gerd Oswald.

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Richard Wallace (director)

Richard Wallace (August 26, 1894 – November 3, 1951) was an American film director.

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Rita, Sue and Bob Too

Rita, Sue and Bob Too is a 1987 British comedy-drama film directed by Alan Clarke, set in Bradford, West Yorkshire about two teenage schoolgirls who have a sexual affair with and are seduced by a married man.

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Rob Marshall

Robert Doyle Marshall Jr.http://www.alumni.cmu.edu/s/1410/images/editor_documents/alumnirelations/getinvolved/alumniawards/all_honorees_2018june1.pdf (born October 17, 1960) is an American film and theater director, producer, and choreographer.

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Rob Reiner

Robert Reiner (born March 6, 1947) is an American actor, film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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Robert Aldrich

Robert Burgess Aldrich (August 9, 1918 – December 5, 1983) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.

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Robert Ardrey

Robert Ardrey (October 16, 1908 – January 14, 1980) was an American playwright, screenwriter and science writer perhaps best known for The Territorial Imperative (1966).

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Robert E. Lee

Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, toward the end of which he was appointed the overall commander of the Confederate States Army.

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Robert E. Sherwood

Robert Emmet Sherwood (April 4, 1896 – November 14, 1955) was an American playwright and screenwriter.

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Robert Moore (director)

Robert Moore (February 1, 1927 – May 10, 1984) was an American stage, film and television director and actor.

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Robert Thomas (director)

Robert Thomas (28 September 1927 in Gap, Hautes-Alpes – 3 January 1989) was a French writer, actor and film director.

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Robert Wise

Robert Earl Wise (September 10, 1914 – September 14, 2005) was an American filmmaker.

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Robert Z. Leonard

Robert Zigler Leonard (October 7, 1889 – August 27, 1968) was an American film director, actor, producer, and screenwriter.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and author.

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Roger Vadim

Roger Vadim Plemiannikov (26 January 1928 – 11 February 2000) was a French screenwriter, film director and producer, as well as an author, artist and occasional actor.

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Roman Polanski

Raymond Roman Thierry Polański (born 18 August 1933) is a French and Polish film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and convicted sex offender.

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Romance (1930 film)

Romance is a 1930 American Pre-Code film directed by Clarence Brown, and starring Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone, and Gavin Gordon.

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Romeo + Juliet

William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (often shortened to Romeo + Juliet) is a 1996 romantic crime film directed, produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann.

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Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about the romance between two Italian youths from feuding families.

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Romy and Michele's High School Reunion

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion is a 1997 American comedy film directed by David Mirkin and starring Mira Sorvino, Lisa Kudrow, and Janeane Garofalo.

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Ronald Harwood

Sir Ronald Harwood (né Horwitz; 9 November 1934 – 8 September 2020) was a South African-born British author, playwright, and screenwriter, best known for his plays for the British stage as well as the screenplays for The Dresser (for which he was nominated for an Oscar) and The Pianist, for which he won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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Room Service (1938 film)

Room Service is a 1938 American comedy film directed by William A. Seiter, based on the 1937 play of the same name by Allen Boretz and John Murray.

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is an absurdist, existential tragicomedy by Tom Stoppard, first staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1966.

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Rouben Mamoulian

Rouben Zachary Mamoulian (Ռուբէն Մամուլեան; October 8, 1897 – December 4, 1987) was an American film and theater director.

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Roxanne (film)

Roxanne is a 1987 American romantic comedy film directed by Fred Schepisi and starring Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah.

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Roy William Neill

Roy William Neill (born Roland de Gostrie, 4 September 1887 – 14 December 1946) was an Irish-born American film director best known for producing and directing almost all of the Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, made between 1943 and 1946 and released by Universal Pictures.

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Sabrina (1954 film)

Sabrina (Sabrina Fair/La Vie en Rose in the United Kingdom) is a 1954 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Billy Wilder, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Samuel A. Taylor and Ernest Lehman, based on Taylor's 1953 play Sabrina Fair.

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Sabrina (1995 film)

Sabrina is a 1995 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Sydney Pollack from a screenplay by Barbara Benedek and David Rayfiel.

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Sadie Thompson (film)

Sadie Thompson is a 1928 American silent drama film that tells the story of a "fallen woman" who comes to Pago Pago to start a new life, but encounters a zealous missionary who wants to force her back to her former life in San Francisco.

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Saint Joan (1957 film)

Saint Joan (also called Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan) is a 1957 historical drama film adapted from the 1923 George Bernard Shaw play of the same title about the life of Joan of Arc.

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Salomé (1922 film)

Salomé is a 1922-23 American silent drama film directed by Charles Bryant and Alla Nazimova, who also stars.

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Salvatore Di Giacomo

Salvatore Di Giacomo (12 March 1860 – 5 April 1934) was an Italian poet, songwriter, playwright and fascist, one of the signatories to the Manifesto of the Fascist Intellectuals.

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Sam Taylor (director)

Sam Taylor (August 13, 1895 – March 6, 1958) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer, most active in the silent film era.

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Samson Raphaelson

Samson Raphaelson (March 30, 1894 – July 16, 1983) was an American playwright, screenwriter and fiction writer.

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Samuel Beckett

Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator.

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Scared Stiff (1953 film)

Scared Stiff is a 1953 American supernatural fiction-themed comedy horror semi-musical film, directed by George Marshall and starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.

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Scarlet Street

Scarlet Street is a 1945 American film noir directed by Fritz Lang.

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Scorchers

Scorchers is a 1991 ensemble drama written and directed by David Beaird with a cast of Faye Dunaway, James Earl Jones, Denholm Elliott, Leland Crooke and Emily Lloyd.

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Score (1974 film)

Score is a 1974 erotic romance film directed by Radley Metzger.

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Screenonline

Screenonline is a website about the history of British film, television and social history as documented by film and television.

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Scum (film)

Scum is a 1979 British prison drama film directed by Alan Clarke and starring Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, Julian Firth and John Blundell.

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Secret Agent (1936 film)

Secret Agent is a 1936 British espionage thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, adapted from the play by Campbell Dixon, which in turn is loosely based on two stories in the 1927 collection Ashenden: Or the British Agent by W. Somerset Maugham.

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Secrets (1933 film)

Secrets is a 1933 American pre-Code Western film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Mary Pickford in her last film role.

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Sextette

Sextette is a 1978 American musical comedy film directed by Ken Hughes, and starring Mae West in her final film, alongside an ensemble cast including Timothy Dalton, Dom DeLuise, Tony Curtis, Ringo Starr, Keith Moon, George Hamilton, Alice Cooper and Walter Pidgeon.

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Sexual Perversity in Chicago

Sexual Perversity in Chicago is a play written by David Mamet that examines the sex lives of two men and two women in the 1970s.

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Shadowlands (1993 film)

Shadowlands is a 1993 British biographical drama film about the relationship between academic C. S. Lewis (played by Anthony Hopkins) and Jewish American poet Joy Davidman (played by Debra Winger), her death from cancer, and how this challenged his Christianity.

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Shirley Clarke

Shirley Clarke (née Brimberg; October 2, 1919 – September 23, 1997) was an American filmmaker.

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Shirley Valentine

Shirley Valentine is a one-character play by Willy Russell.

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Sidney Howard

Sidney Coe Howard (June 26, 1891 – August 23, 1939) was an American playwright, dramatist and screenwriter.

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Sidney Lumet

Sidney Arthur Lumet (June 25, 1924 – April 9, 2011) was an American film director.

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Six Degrees of Separation (play)

Six Degrees of Separation is a play written by American playwright John Guare that premiered in 1990.

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Sleuth (1972 film)

Sleuth is a 1972 mystery thriller film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine.

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Snow White (1916 film)

Snow White is a 1916 American silent romantic fantasy film directed by J. Searle Dawley.

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Sordid Lives

Sordid Lives is a 2000 American comedy film written and directed by Del Shores, in his directorial debut.

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Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure

Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure is a 1987 filming of a monologue written and performed by Spalding Gray.

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Spike Lee

Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and author.

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Stage Beauty

Stage Beauty is a 2004 romantic period drama directed by Richard Eyre.

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Stage Door

Stage Door is a 1937 American tragicomedy film directed by Gregory La Cava.

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Stalag 17

Stalag 17 is a 1953 American war film directed by Billy Wilder.

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Stanley Donen

Stanley Donen (April 13, 1924 – February 21, 2019) was an American film director and choreographer.

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Stanley Kramer

Stanley Earl Kramer (September 29, 1913February 19, 2001) was an American film director and producer, responsible for making many of Hollywood's most famous "message films" (he called his movies heavy dramas) and a liberal movie icon.

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State of the Union (film)

State of the Union is a 1948 American drama film directed by Frank Capra about a man's desire to run for the nomination as the Republican candidate for President, and the machinations of those around him.

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Steaming (film)

Steaming is a British drama film directed by Joseph Losey, released in 1985, the year after his death. The last film that Losey directed, it was adapted by Nell Dunn and Patricia Losey from Dunn's play of the same name. The film was screened out of competition at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival. The story is about the women who meet regularly in a Russian-style Steam bath and decide to fight its closure.

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Steel Magnolias

Steel Magnolias is a 1989 American comedy-drama film directed by Herbert Ross and starring Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis, and Julia Roberts.

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Straight-Jacket

Straight-Jacket is a 2004 comedy film written and directed by Richard Day, based on his play.

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Strictly Ballroom

Strictly Ballroom is a 1992 Australian romantic comedy film directed and co-written by Baz Luhrmann in his feature directorial debut.

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SubUrbia (film)

SubUrbia is a 1996 American comedy drama film directed by Richard Linklater from a screenplay by Eric Bogosian, based on his play of the same name.

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Summertime (1955 film)

Summertime is a 1955 romantic comedy drama film directed by David Lean, and starring Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Darren McGavin, and Isa Miranda.

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Sunrise at Campobello

Sunrise at Campobello is a 1960 American biographical film telling the story of the struggles of future President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his family when Roosevelt was stricken with paralysis at the age of 39 in August 1921.

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Swimming to Cambodia

Swimming to Cambodia, also known as Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia, is a 1987 American concert film written by and starring Spalding Gray, and directed by Jonathan Demme.

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Switching Channels

Switching Channels is a 1988 American comedy film remake of the 1928 play The Front Page, the 1931 film of the same name, and the 1940 film His Girl Friday.

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Talk Radio (film)

Talk Radio is a 1988 American drama thriller film directed by Oliver Stone and starring Eric Bogosian, Alec Baldwin, Ellen Greene, and Leslie Hope.

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Tape (2001 film)

Tape is a 2001 American camcorder drama film directed by Richard Linklater and written by Stephen Belber, based on his play of the same name.

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Ted Kotcheff

William Theodore Kotcheff (born April 7, 1931) is a Canadian director and producer of film and television.

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Tennessee Williams

Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter.

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Terence Rattigan

Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan (10 June 191130 November 1977) was a British dramatist and screenwriter.

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Terrence McNally

Terrence McNally (November 3, 1938 – March 24, 2020) was an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter.

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That Championship Season

That Championship Season is a 1972 play by Jason Miller.

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The Admirable Crichton

The Admirable Crichton is a comic stage play written in 1902 by J. M. Barrie.

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The Architect (2006 film)

The Architect is a 2006 American drama film directed by Matt Tauber.

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The Awful Truth

The Awful Truth is a 1937 American screwball comedy film directed by Leo McCarey, and starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant.

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The Barker

The Barker is a 1928 American part-talkie pre-Code romantic drama film produced and released by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Bros., acquired in September 1928.

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The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934 film)

The Barretts of Wimpole Street is a 1934 American romantic drama film directed by Sidney Franklin based on the 1930 play of the same title by Rudolf Besier.

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The Bat (1926 film)

The Bat is a 1926 American silent comedy mystery film directed by Roland West and starring Jack Pickford and Louise Fazenda.

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The Bat (1959 film)

The Bat is a 1959 American crime-mystery thriller starring Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead.

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The Beast (1988 film)

The Beast (also known as The Beast of War) is a 1988 American war film directed by Kevin Reynolds and written by William Mastrosimone, based on his play Nənawā́te.

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The Best Man (1964 film)

The Best Man is a 1964 American political drama film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner with a screenplay by Gore Vidal based on his 1960 play of the same title.

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The Big Kahuna (film)

The Big Kahuna is a 1999 American business comedy-drama film directed by John Swanbeck, and produced by Kevin Spacey, who also starred in the lead role.

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The Big Knife

The Big Knife is a 1955 American melodrama film directed and produced by Robert Aldrich from a screenplay by James Poe based on the 1949 play by Clifford Odets.

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The Big Pond

The Big Pond is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic comedy film based on a 1928 play of the same name by George Middleton and A. E. Thomas.

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The Birdcage

The Birdcage is a 1996 American comedy film produced and directed by Mike Nichols.

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The Birth of a Nation

The Birth of a Nation, originally called The Clansman, is a 1915 American silent epic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish.

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The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant) is a 1972 West German New Wave psychological romantic drama film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, based on his own play.

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The Blue Bird (1910 film)

The Blue Bird is a 1910 silent film, based on the 1908 play by Maurice Maeterlinck and starring Pauline Gilmer as Mytyl and Olive Walter as Tytyl.

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The Blue Bird (1918 film)

The Blue Bird is a 1918 American silent fantasy film based upon the 1908 play by Maurice Maeterlinck and directed by Maurice Tourneur in the United States, under the auspices of producer Adolph Zukor.

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The Blue Bird (play)

The Blue Bird (L'Oiseau bleu) is a 1908 play by Belgian playwright and poet Maurice Maeterlinck.

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The Boys in the Band (1970 film)

The Boys in the Band is a 1970 American drama film directed by William Friedkin from a screenplay by Mart Crowley, based on Crowley's 1968 Off-Broadway play of the same name.

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The Boys in the Band (play)

The Boys in the Band is a 1968 American play by Mart Crowley.

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The Boys Next Door (1996 film)

The Boys Next Door is a 1996 American made-for-television drama film based on a play by Tom Griffin which was published in 1983 under the title Damaged Hearts, Broken Flowers and again in 1988 under the title The Boys Next Door.

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The Browning Version (play)

The Browning Version is a play by Terence Rattigan, seen by many as his best work, and first performed on 8 September 1948 at the Phoenix Theatre, London.

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The Canadian Press

The Canadian Press (CP; La Presse canadienne, PC) is a Canadian national news agency headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.

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The Changeling (play)

The Changeling is a Jacobean tragedy written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.

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The Club (1980 film)

The Club is a satirical film based on the play of the same name by the Australian playwright and dramatist David Williamson.

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The Cranes Are Flying

The Cranes Are Flying (Летят журавли, translit. Letyat zhuravli) is a 1957 Soviet film about the Second World War.

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The Crucible

The Crucible is a 1953 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller.

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The Crucible (1957 film)

The Crucible (Les Sorcières de Salem, Die Hexen von Salem or Hexenjagd) is a 1957 French-language historical drama film directed by Raymond Rouleau with a screenplay adapted by Jean-Paul Sartre from the 1953 play The Crucible, by Arthur Miller.

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The Crucible (1996 film)

The Crucible is a 1996 American historical drama film directed by Nicholas Hytner and written by Arthur Miller, based on his 1953 play of the same title.

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The Dark Angel (1935 film)

The Dark Angel is a 1935 film that tells the story of three childhood friends, Kitty (Merle Oberon), Alan (Fredric March), and Gerald (Herbert Marshall) who come of age in England during the First World War.

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The Dark Past

The Dark Past is a 1948 American film noir psychological thriller film starring William Holden, Nina Foch, and Lee J. Cobb.

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The Designated Mourner

The Designated Mourner is a play written by Wallace Shawn in 1996, which was adapted into a film and was directed by David Hare in 1997.

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The Desperate Hours (1955 film)

The Desperate Hours is a 1955 film noir starring Humphrey Bogart and Fredric March.

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The Devils (film)

The Devils is a 1971 historical drama horror film written, produced and directed by Ken Russell, and starring Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed.

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The Diary of Anne Frank (1959 film)

The Diary of Anne Frank is a 1959 American biographical drama film based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1955 play of the same name, which was in turn based on the posthumously published diary of Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl who lived in hiding in Amsterdam with her family during World War II.

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The Dinner Game

The Dinner Game (Le Dîner de Cons,; literally Dinner of Fools) is a 1998 French comedy film written and directed by Francis Veber, adapted from his play Le Dîner de Cons.

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The Divorce of Lady X

The Divorce of Lady X is a 1938 British Technicolor romantic comedy film produced by London Films; it stars Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson and Binnie Barnes.

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The Divorcee

The Divorcee is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film written by Nick Grindé, John Meehan, and Zelda Sears, based on the 1929 novel Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott.

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The Dove (1927 film)

The Dove is a 1927 American silent romantic drama film directed by Roland West based on a 1925 Broadway play by Willard Mack and starring Norma Talmadge, Noah Beery, and Gilbert Roland.

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The Dresser (1983 film)

The Dresser is a 1983 British drama film directed by Peter Yates and adapted by Ronald Harwood from his 1980 play The Dresser.

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The Dying Gaul (film)

The Dying Gaul is a 2005 American drama film written and directed by Craig Lucas, his feature directorial debut.

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The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds is a play written by Paul Zindel, a playwright and science teacher.

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The Elephant Man (film)

The Elephant Man is a 1980 biographical drama film based on the life of Joseph Merrick (referred to as "John" in the film), a severely deformed man who lived in London in the late 19th century.

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The Emperor Jones

The Emperor Jones is a 1920 tragic play by American dramatist Eugene O'Neill that tells the tale of Brutus Jones, a resourceful, self-assured African American and a former Pullman porter, who kills another black man in a dice game, is jailed, and later escapes to a small, backward Caribbean island where he sets himself up as emperor.

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The Enchanted Cottage (1945 film)

The Enchanted Cottage is a 1945 American supernatural romance film starring Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, and Herbert Marshall, with Mildred Natwick.

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The Entertainer (film)

The Entertainer is a 1960 British kitchen sink drama film directed by Tony Richardson, produced by Harry Saltzman and adapted by John Osborne and Nigel Kneale from Osborne’s stage play of the same name.

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The Face Behind the Mask (1941 film)

The Face Behind the Mask is a 1941 American film noir crime film directed by Robert Florey and starring Peter Lorre, Evelyn Keyes and Don Beddoe.

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The Farmer's Daughter (1947 film)

The Farmer's Daughter is a 1947 American comedy film directed by H.C. Potter that tells the story of a farmgirl who ends up working as a maid for a Congressman and his politically powerful mother.

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The Farmer's Wife

The Farmer's Wife is a 1928 British silent romantic comedy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Jameson Thomas, Lillian Hall-Davis and Gordon Harker.

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The Front Page

The Front Page is a Broadway comedy about newspaper reporters on the police beat.

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The Ghoul (1933 film)

The Ghoul is a 1933 British horror film directed by T. Hayes Hunter and starring Boris Karloff.

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The Good Earth (film)

The Good Earth is a 1937 American drama film about Chinese farmers who struggle to survive.

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The Goodbye Girl

The Goodbye Girl is a 1977 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Herbert Ross, written by Neil Simon and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings and Paul Benedict.

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The Gorilla (1939 film)

The Gorilla is a 1939 American comedy horror film starring the Ritz Brothers, Anita Louise, Art Miles, Lionel Atwill, Bela Lugosi, and Patsy Kelly.

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The Grass Is Greener

The Grass Is Greener is a 1960 British romantic comedy film starring Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Jean Simmons.

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The Great White Hope

The Great White Hope is a 1967 play written by Howard Sackler, later adapted in 1970 for a film of the same name.

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The Green Goddess (1930 film)

The Green Goddess is a 1930 American pre-Code film directed by Alfred E. Green.

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The Guardsman

The Guardsman is a 1931 American pre-Code film based on the play Testőr by Ferenc Molnár.

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The Guinea Pig (film)

The Guinea Pig is a 1948 British film directed and produced by the Boulting brothers, known as The Outsider in the United States.

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The Happiest Days of Your Life (film)

The Happiest Days of Your Life is a 1950 British comedy film directed by Frank Launder, based on the 1947 play of the same name by John Dighton.

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The Happiest Millionaire

The Happiest Millionaire is a 1967 American musical film starring Fred MacMurray, based upon the true story of Philadelphia millionaire Anthony Drexel Biddle.

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The Hasty Heart

The Hasty Heart is a 1949 war drama film, an Anglo-American co-production starring Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, and Richard Todd and directed by Vincent Sherman.

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The Hatchet Man

The Hatchet Man (1932) is a pre-Code film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Edward G. Robinson.

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The Heidi Chronicles (film)

The Heidi Chronicles is a 1995 made-for-television drama film by Wendy Wasserstein adapted from her play of the same name.

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The Heiress

The Heiress is a 1949 American romantic drama film directed and produced by William Wyler, from a screenplay written by Ruth and Augustus Goetz, adapted from their 1947 stage play of the same title, which was itself adapted from Henry James' 1880 novel Washington Square.

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The Hill (1965 film)

The Hill is a 1965 British prison drama war film directed by Sidney Lumet, set in an army prison in North Africa during the Second World War.

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The History Boys

The History Boys is a play by British playwright Alan Bennett.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.

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The Honey Pot

The Honey Pot, also known as The Honeypot, is a 1967 American crime comedy-drama film written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

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The Honeymoon Machine

The Honeymoon Machine is a 1961 American comedy film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Steve McQueen, Brigid Bazlen, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Jack Mullaney and Dean Jagger, based on the 1959 Broadway play The Golden Fleecing by Lorenzo Semple Jr. In the film, three men devise a plan to win at roulette with a United States Navy computer.

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The House of Rothschild

The House of Rothschild is a 1934 American pre-Code historical drama film directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring George Arliss, Loretta Young and Boris Karloff.

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The House of Yes

The House of Yes is a 1997 American dark comedy film adapted from the play of the same name by Wendy MacLeod.

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The Iceman Cometh

The Iceman Cometh is a play written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill in 1939.

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The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest, a Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde.

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The Innocents (1961 film)

The Innocents is a 1961 gothic psychological horror film directed and produced by Jack Clayton, and starring Deborah Kerr, Michael Redgrave, and Megs Jenkins.

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The Jazz Singer

The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American part-talkie musical drama film directed by Alan Crosland and produced by Warner Bros.

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The Jazz Singer (1980 film)

The Jazz Singer is a 1980 American musical drama film directed by Richard Fleischer and produced by Jerry Leider.

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The King and the Clown

The King and the Clown is a 2005 South Korean historical drama film starring Kam Woo-sung, Jung Jin-young, and Lee Joon-gi.

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The Lady of the Camellias

The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias), sometimes called Camille in English, is a novel by Alexandre Dumas ''fils''.

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The Legend of 1900

The Legend of 1900 (La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano, "The Legend of the Pianist on the Ocean") is a 1998 Italian English-language drama film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, and starring Tim Roth, Pruitt Taylor Vince and Mélanie Thierry.

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The Letter (1929 film)

The Letter is an American pre-Code dramatic film directed by Jean de Limur and released by Paramount Pictures.

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The Letter (1940 film)

The Letter is a 1940 American crime film noir melodrama directed by William Wyler, and starring Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall and James Stephenson.

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The Libertine (2005 film)

The Libertine is a 2005 period drama film, the first film directed by Laurence Dunmore.

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The Lion in Winter

The Lion in Winter is a 1966 play by James Goldman, depicting the personal and political conflicts of Henry II of England, his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, their children and their guests during Christmas 1183.

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The Little Foxes

The Little Foxes is a 1939 play by Lillian Hellman, considered a classic of 20th century drama.

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The Long and the Short and the Tall (film)

The Long and the Short and the Tall (released as Jungle Fighters in the US and Canada) is a 1961 British war film directed by Leslie Norman and starring Richard Todd, Laurence Harvey and Richard Harris.

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The Long Voyage Home

The Long Voyage Home is a 1940 American drama film directed by John Ford.

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The Madness of King George

The Madness of King George is a 1994 British biographical comedy drama film directed by Nicholas Hytner and adapted by Alan Bennett from his own 1991 play The Madness of George III.

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The Magnificent Yankee (1950 film)

The Magnificent Yankee is a 1950 American biographical film adapted by Emmet Lavery from his 1946 play of the same title, which was in turn adapted from the 1942 book Mr.

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The Major and the Minor

The Major and the Minor is a 1942 American romantic comedy film starring Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland.

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The Man in the Glass Booth

The Man in the Glass Booth is a 1975 American drama film directed by Arthur Hiller.

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The Matchmaker

The Matchmaker is a 1954 Broadway play by Thornton Wilder, a rewritten version of his 1938 play The Merchant of Yonkers.

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The Mating Season (film)

The Mating Season is a 1951 American comedy-drama romance film directed by Mitchell Leisen, and produced by Charles Brackett from a screenplay by Charles Brackett, Richard Breen, and Walter Reisch, based on the play Maggie by Caesar Dunn.

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The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail

is a 1945 Japanese period drama film written and directed by Akira Kurosawa, based on the kabuki play Kanjinchō, which is in turn based on the Noh play Ataka.

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The Merchant of Venice (2004 film)

The Merchant of Venice is a 2004 romantic drama film based on Shakespeare's play of the same name.

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The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963) is a play in a prologue and six scenes, written by Tennessee Williams.

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The Millionairess

The Millionairess is a 1960 British romantic comedy film directed by Anthony Asquith, and starring Sophia Loren and Peter Sellers.

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The Monster (1925 film)

The Monster is a 1925 American silent horror comedy film directed by Roland West, based on the stage play of the same name by Crane Wilbur, and starring Lon Chaney and comedian Johnny Arthur.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Odd Couple (play)

The Odd Couple is a play by Neil Simon.

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The Opposite Sex

The Opposite Sex is a 1956 American musical romantic comedy film shot in Metrocolor and CinemaScope.

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The Outrage

The Outrage is a 1964 American Western film directed by Martin Ritt and starring Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Edward G. Robinson and William Shatner.

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The Patriot (1928 film)

The Patriot is a 1928 semi-biographical film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and released by Paramount Pictures.

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The Petrified Forest

The Petrified Forest is a 1936 American crime drama film directed by Archie Mayo and based on Robert E. Sherwood's 1934 drama of the same name.

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The Philadelphia Story (film)

The Philadelphia Story is a 1940 American romantic comedy film starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart and Ruth Hussey.

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The Pirate (1948 film)

The Pirate is a 1948 American musical film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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The Poor Little Rich Girl

The Poor Little Rich Girl is a 1917 American comedy-drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur.

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The Prince and the Showgirl

The Prince and the Showgirl (originally titled The Sleeping Prince) is a 1957 British romantic comedy film starring Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier, who also served as director and producer.

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The Prisoner of Second Avenue

The Prisoner of Second Avenue is a 1975 American black comedy film written by Neil Simon, directed and produced by Melvin Frank and starring Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft.

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The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, for a time also entitled Elizabeth the Queen, is a 1939 American historical romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, and Olivia de Havilland.

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The Quare Fellow

The Quare Fellow is Brendan Behan's first play, first produced in 1954.

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The Racket (1928 film)

The Racket is a 1928 American silent crime drama film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Thomas Meighan, Marie Prevost, Louis Wolheim, and George E. Stone.

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The Racket (1951 film)

The Racket is a 1951 black-and-white film noir drama directed by John Cromwell with uncredited directing help from Nicholas Ray, Tay Garnett, and Mel Ferrer.

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The Rainmaker (1956 film)

The Rainmaker is a 1956 American western romance film directed by Joseph Anthony and adapted by N. Richard Nash from his 1954 play The Rainmaker.

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The Rat Race

The Rat Race is a 1960 American drama film adapted from the play of the same name by Garson Kanin.

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The Removalists

The Removalists is a play written by Australian playwright David Williamson in 1971.

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The Respectful Prostitute

The Respectful Prostitute (La Putain respectueuse) is a French play by Jean-Paul Sartre, written in 1946, which observes a white woman, a prostitute, caught up in a racially tense period of American history.

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The Revenge (film)

The Revenge is the English title for Zemsta, a film released in 2002, directed by Andrzej Wajda.

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The Royal Family of Broadway

The Royal Family of Broadway is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy film directed by George Cukor and Cyril Gardner and released by Paramount Pictures.

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The Ruling Class (film)

The Ruling Class is a 1972 British black comedy film.

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The Seven Year Itch

The Seven Year Itch is a 1955 American romantic comedy film directed by Billy Wilder, from a screenplay he co-wrote with George Axelrod from the 1952 three-act play.

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The Seventh Seal

The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet) is a 1957 Swedish historical fantasy film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman.

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The Shanghai Gesture

The Shanghai Gesture is a 1941 American film noir directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Victor Mature, and Ona Munson.

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The Shop Around the Corner

The Shop Around the Corner is a 1940 American romantic comedy-drama film produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart and Frank Morgan.

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The Sin of Madelon Claudet

The Sin of Madelon Claudet is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Edgar Selwyn and starring Helen Hayes.

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The Skin Game (1931 film)

The Skin Game is a 1931 British drama film by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the 1920 play by John Galsworthy and produced by British International Pictures.

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The Smiling Lieutenant

The Smiling Lieutenant is a 1931 American pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert and Miriam Hopkins, and released by Paramount Pictures.

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The Solid Gold Cadillac

The Solid Gold Cadillac is a 1956 American comedy film directed by Richard Quine and written by Abe Burrows, Howard Teichmann, and George S. Kaufman.

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The Squaw Man (1914 film)

The Squaw Man (known as The White Man in the United Kingdom) is a 1914 American silent Western film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar C. Apfel, and starring Dustin Farnum.

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The Strange One

The Strange One is a 1957 American film noir about students faced with an ethical dilemma in a military college in the Southern United States.

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The Strawberry Blonde

The Strawberry Blonde is a 1941 American romantic comedy film directed by Raoul Walsh, starring James Cagney and Olivia de Havilland, and featuring Rita Hayworth, Alan Hale, Jack Carson, and George Tobias.

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The Streets of London (1929 film)

The Streets of London is a 1929 British silent crime film directed by Norman Lee and starring David Dunbar, Wera Engels and Jack Rutherford.

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The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg

The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg, also known as The Student Prince and Old Heidelberg, is a 1927 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer silent drama film based on the 1901 play Old Heidelberg by Wilhelm Meyer-Förster.

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The Subject Was Roses

The Subject Was Roses is a Pulitzer Prize-winning 1964 play written by Frank D. Gilroy, who also adapted the work in 1968 for a film with the same title.

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The Sunshine Boys

The Sunshine Boys is an original two-act play written by Neil Simon that premiered December 20, 1972 on Broadway starring Jack Albertson as Willie Clark and Sam Levene as Al Lewis and later adapted for film and television.

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The Swan (1956 film)

The Swan is a 1956 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Charles Vidor from a screenplay by John Dighton.

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The Teahouse of the August Moon (film)

The Teahouse of the August Moon is a 1956 American comedy film directed by Daniel Mann and starring Marlon Brando.

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The Trip to Bountiful

The Trip to Bountiful is a 1985 American road drama film directed by Peter Masterson and starring Geraldine Page, John Heard, Carlin Glynn, Richard Bradford and Rebecca De Mornay.

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The Unfaithful (1947 film)

The Unfaithful is a 1947 American murder mystery film noir directed by Vincent Sherman and starring Ann Sheridan, Lew Ayres and Zachary Scott.

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The Visit (1964 film)

The Visit is a 1964 drama film directed by Bernhard Wicki, adapted by Ben Barzman and Maurice Valency from Friedrich Dürrenmatt's 1956 play of the same name.

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The War Lord

The War Lord is a 1965 American drama historical film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and starring Charlton Heston.

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The Way to the Stars

The Way to the Stars is a 1945 Anglo-American black-and-white Second World War drama film made by Two Cities Films.

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The Whales of August

The Whales of August is a 1987 American drama film directed by Lindsay Anderson and starring Bette Davis and Lillian Gish (in her final film appearance) as elderly sisters.

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The Winner (1996 film)

The Winner is a 1996 film directed by Alex Cox and written by Wendy Riss based on her play A Darker Purpose.

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The Woodsman (film)

The Woodsman is a 2004 American drama film directed by Nicole Kassell in her feature directorial debut, from a screenplay by Kassell and Steven Fechter, and based on the play of the same name by Fechter.

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There Goes the Bride (1980 film)

There Goes the Bride is a 1980 British comedy film directed by Terry Marcel and starring Tom Smothers, Twiggy, Phil Silvers, Broderick Crawford, Sylvia Syms and Martin Balsam.

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These Three

These Three is a 1936 American drama film directed by William Wyler and starring Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea, and Bonita Granville.

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They Knew What They Wanted (film)

They Knew What They Wanted is a 1940 film directed by Garson Kanin, written by Robert Ardrey, and starring Carole Lombard, Charles Laughton and William Gargan.

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They Might Be Giants (film)

They Might Be Giants is a 1971 American comedy mystery film based on the 1961 play of the same name (both written by James Goldman) starring George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward.

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This Is the Night (1932 film)

This Is the Night is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Frank Tuttle, and starring Lili Damita, Charles Ruggles, Roland Young, Thelma Todd, and Cary Grant in his film debut.

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Thomas Schlamme

Thomas David Schlamme (born) is an American television director, known particularly for his collaborations with Aaron Sorkin.

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Thornton Wilder

Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist.

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Three Sisters (1970 film)

Three Sisters is a 1970 British drama film starring Alan Bates, Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright, based on the 1901 play by Anton Chekhov.

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Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914 film)

Tillie's Punctured Romance is a 1914 American silent comedy film directed by Mack Sennett and starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, Charlie Chaplin, and the Keystone Cops.

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To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday

To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday is a 1996 American romantic fantasy drama film directed by Michael Pressman and adapted by David E. Kelley from the play of the same name by Michael Brady.

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Tod Browning

Tod Browning (born Charles Albert Browning Jr.; July 12, 1880 – October 6, 1962) was an American film director, film actor, screenwriter, vaudeville performer, and carnival sideshow and circus entertainer.

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Tom & Viv

Tom & Viv is a 1994 historical drama film directed by Brian Gilbert, based on the 1984 play of the same name by British playwright Michael Hastings about the early love life of American poet T. S. Eliot.

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Tom Stoppard

Sir Tom Stoppard (born italic, 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter.

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Tonight and Every Night

Tonight and Every Night is a 1945 American musical film directed by Victor Saville and starring Rita Hayworth, Lee Bowman and Janet Blair.

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Tony Richardson

Cecil Antonio Richardson (5 June 1928 – 14 November 1991) was an English theatre and film director, producer and screenwriter, whose career spanned five decades.

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Too Much Johnson (1938 film)

Too Much Johnson is a 1938 American silent comedy film written and directed by Orson Welles.

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Toronto Star

The Toronto Star is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper.

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Toys in the Attic (1963 film)

Toys in the Attic is a 1963 American drama film directed by George Roy Hill and starring Dean Martin, Geraldine Page, Yvette Mimieux, Gene Tierney and Wendy Hiller.

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Traveller's Joy

Traveller's Joy is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Googie Withers, John McCallum and Maurice Denham.

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Trouble in Paradise (1932 film)

Trouble in Paradise is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, and Herbert Marshall.

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Turner Broadcasting System

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. was an American television and media conglomerate founded by Ted Turner in 1965.

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Turner Classic Movies

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Twentieth Century (film)

Twentieth Century is a 1934 American pre-Code screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, and Roscoe Karns.

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Two for the Seesaw (film)

Two for the Seesaw is a 1962 American romantic-drama film directed by Robert Wise and starring Robert Mitchum and Shirley MacLaine.

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Two Small Bodies

Two Small Bodies is a 1993 thriller directed by Beth B and starring Fred Ward and Suzy Amis.

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Under Capricorn

Under Capricorn is a 1949 British historical drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock about a couple in Australia who started out as lady and stable boy in Ireland, and who are now bound together by a horrible secret.

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Vanya on 42nd Street

Vanya on 42nd Street is a 1994 American comedy-drama film directed by Louis Malle, written by Andre Gregory, and starring Wallace Shawn and Julianne Moore.

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Vasily Livanov

Vasily Borisovich Livanov (Василий Борисович Ливанов; born 19 July 1935), MBE, is a Soviet and Russian film actor, animation and film director, screenwriter and writer most famous for portraying Sherlock Holmes in the Soviet TV series.

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Vic Morrow

Victor Morrow (born Victor Morozoff; February 14, 1929 – July 23, 1982) was an American actor.

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Victor Fleming

Victor Lonzo Fleming (February 23, 1889 – January 6, 1949) was an American film director, cinematographer, and producer.

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Vincente Minnelli

Vincente Minnelli (born Lester Anthony Minnelli; February 28, 1903 – July 25, 1986) was an American stage director and film director.

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Walter Lang

Walter Lang (August 10, 1896 – February 7, 1972) was an American film director.

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Warner Media, LLC (doing business as WarnerMedia) was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate owned by AT&T.

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Watch on the Rhine

Watch on the Rhine is a 1943 American drama film directed by Herman Shumlin and starring Bette Davis and Paul Lukas.

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Waterloo Bridge (1931 film)

Waterloo Bridge is a 1931 American pre-Code drama romance war film directed by James Whale and starring Mae Clarke and Kent Douglass.

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Waterloo Bridge (1940 film)

Waterloo Bridge is a 1940 American drama film and the remake of the 1931 film also called Waterloo Bridge, adapted from the 1930 play Waterloo Bridge.

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Way Down East

Way Down East is a 1920 American silent romantic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish.

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We're No Angels (1955 film)

We're No Angels is a 1955 Christmas comedy film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Aldo Ray, Joan Bennett, Basil Rathbone, Leo G. Carroll, and Gloria Talbott.

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Wesley Ruggles

Wesley Ruggles (June 11, 1889 – January 8, 1972) was an American film director.

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What a Girl Wants (film)

What a Girl Wants is a 2003 American teen comedy film directed by Dennie Gordon and written by Jenny Bicks and Elizabeth Chandler.

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What Price Glory? (1926 film)

What Price Glory? is a 1926 American synchronized sound comedy drama war film produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation and directed by Raoul Walsh.

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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a play by Edward Albee first staged in October 1962.

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Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? is a 1957 American satirical comedy film starring Jayne Mansfield and Tony Randall, with Betsy Drake, Joan Blondell, John Williams, Henry Jones, Lili Gentle, and Mickey Hargitay, and with a cameo by Groucho Marx.

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William A. Wellman

William Augustus Wellman (February 29, 1896 – December 9, 1975) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and military pilot.

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William C. deMille

William Churchill deMille (July 25, 1878 – March 5, 1955), also spelled de Mille or De Mille, was an American screenwriter and film director from the silent film era through the early 1930s.

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William Friedkin

William David Friedkin (August 29, 1935 – August 7, 2023) was an American film, television and opera director, producer, and screenwriter who was closely identified with the "New Hollywood" movement of the 1970s.

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William Gibson (playwright)

William Gibson (November 13, 1914 – November 25, 2008) was an American playwright and novelist.

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William Inge

William Motter Inge (May 3, 1913 – June 10, 1973) was an American playwright and novelist, whose works typically feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual relations.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.

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William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar (billed on-screen as William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar) is a 1953 American film adaptation of the Shakespearean play, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and produced by John Houseman for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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Willy Russell

William Russell (born 23 August 1946) is an English dramatist, lyricist and composer.

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Wit (film)

Wit is a 2001 American television drama film directed by Mike Nichols.

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Without You I'm Nothing (film)

Without You I'm Nothing is a 1990 American musical comedy film directed by John Boskovich and starring and written by comedian and singer Sandra Bernhard, based on material from her award-winning one-woman show of the same name, which was produced by Terry Danuser.

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Witness for the Prosecution (1957 film)

Witness for the Prosecution is a 1957 American legal mystery thriller film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, and Elsa Lanchester.

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Woody Allen

Heywood Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American filmmaker, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades.

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Yasmina Reza

Yasmina Reza (born 1 May 1959) is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter best known for her plays 'Art' and God of Carnage.

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Yerma

Yerma is a play by the Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca.

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You Can't Take It with You (play)

You Can't Take It with You is a comedic play in three acts by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.

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You've Got Mail

You've Got Mail is a 1998 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Nora Ephron, and starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.

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Zaza (play)

Zaza is a French-language play written by playwrights Pierre Berton and, and staged for the first time at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in Paris, in May 1898.

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Zoe Akins

Zoe Byrd Akins (October 30, 1886 – October 29, 1958) was an American playwright, poet, and author.

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Zoot Suit (film)

Zoot Suit is a 1981 American independent drama musical film of the Broadway play Zoot Suit.

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Zoot Suit (play)

Zoot Suit is a play written by Luis Valdez, featuring incidental music by Daniel Valdez and Lalo Guerrero.

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10 Things I Hate About You

10 Things I Hate About You is a 1999 American teen romantic comedy film directed by Gil Junger in his film directorial debut and starring Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Larisa Oleynik.

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12 Angry Men (1957 film)

12 Angry Men is a 1957 American independent legal drama film directed by Sidney Lumet in his feature film debut, adapted from a 1954 teleplay of the same name by Reginald Rose.

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7th Heaven (1927 film)

7th Heaven (also known as Seventh Heaven) is a 1927 American synchronized sound romantic drama directed by Frank Borzage, and starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell.

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8 Women

8 Women (8 femmes) is a 2002 dark comedy musical film written and directed by François Ozon.

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See also

Films based on plays

• El Dorado (1963 film)
• List of films based on operas
• List of plays adapted into feature films
• Roshni (film)
• Screen adaptations of plays by Georges Feydeau
• The Halfway House
• Vimazoluleka

Lists of films based on works

• Adaptations and portrayals of F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Films based on works by Edgar Wallace
• List of adaptations of works by Astrid Lindgren
• List of adaptations of works by Stephen King
• List of fiction works made into feature films (0–9, A–C)
• List of fiction works made into feature films (D–J)
• List of fiction works made into feature films (K–R)
• List of fiction works made into feature films (S–Z)
• List of films based on British television series
• List of films based on Greek drama
• List of films based on Hanna-Barbera cartoons
• List of films based on Hasbro properties
• List of films based on magazine articles
• List of films based on operas
• List of films based on poems
• List of films based on radio series
• List of films based on television programs
• List of films based on video games
• List of films based on western fiction
• List of highest-grossing films based on video games
• List of musicals adapted into feature films
• List of plays adapted into feature films
• List of unproduced Dark Horse Comics projects
• Lists of films based on books
• Lists of works of fiction made into feature films
• Remakes of films by Akira Kurosawa
• Remakes of films by Alfred Hitchcock

Lists of plays

• Astrid Lindgren's plays
• Bahram Beyzai bibliography
• Blake's 7 (audio drama)
• Chronology of Shakespeare's plays
• Ekin Cheng radio dramas
• Judge Dredd audio dramas
• List of American plays
• List of Calderón's plays in English translation
• List of Canadian plays
• List of Canadian plays (A–F)
• List of Canadian plays (G–O)
• List of Canadian plays (P–Z)
• List of Doctor Who audio plays by Big Finish
• List of Doctor Who spin off audio plays by Big Finish
• List of Estonian plays
• List of German plays
• List of Grove Plays
• List of Holberg's plays in English translation
• List of Lope de Vega's plays in English translation
• List of Noh plays
• List of Romanian plays
• List of Sanskrit plays in English translation
• List of Shakespeare plays in quarto
• List of Shakespearean scenes
• List of TheatreWorks (Silicon Valley) New Works
• List of TheatreWorks (Silicon Valley) productions
• List of Tony Award- and Olivier Award-winning plays
• List of one-act plays by Tennessee Williams
• List of plays adapted into feature films
• List of plays and musicals about the American Revolution
• List of plays and musicals set in New York City
• List of plays by Dorothy L. Sayers
• List of plays by Nestroy
• List of plays with anti-war themes
• List of theatrical comedies
• N-Town Plays
• Plays of L. Frank Baum
• Plays with incidental music
• Shakespeare's plays

Lists of works adapted into films

• List of children's books made into feature films
• List of fiction works made into feature films (0–9, A–C)
• List of fiction works made into feature films (D–J)
• List of fiction works made into feature films (K–R)
• List of fiction works made into feature films (S–Z)
• List of non-fiction works made into feature films
• List of plays adapted into feature films
• List of short fiction made into feature films
• Lists of works of fiction made into feature films

Lists of works based on plays

• List of William Shakespeare screen adaptations
• List of film adaptations of Cyrano de Bergerac
• List of films based on Greek drama
• List of plays adapted into feature films
• List of works based on Peter Pan

Plays adapted into films

• Émilie Jolie
• A Parisian Romance (play)
• A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino
• Any Wednesday (play)
• Are You a Mason?
• Captain Sabertooth
• Freedom (play)
• Goodbye Charlie (play)
• Holiday for Lovers (play)
• I Am a Camera
• List of plays adapted into feature films
• Over Night
• Pictures from the Insects' Life
• Sevil (1928 play)
• The Forest Song
• The Princess with the Golden Star
• The Road (play)
• The Royal Hunt of the Sun

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_plays_adapted_into_feature_films

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