Playwright Movies
- 1940
No Time for Comedy
No Time for Comedy5.41940HD
An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.
- 2010
The Arbor
The Arbor7.2322010HD
The lives of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar and Lorraine, one of her daughters, and the community of Bradford, in the 30 years since the...
- 1982
Author! Author!
Author! Author!5.91982HD
A broadway playwright is burning the candle at both ends. He is dealing with pressure from a production nearing premiere, a wife who is leaving him,...
- 2024
Griffin in Summer
Griffin in Summer02024HD
14-year-old aspiring playwright Griffin becomes enamored with a local handyman over the course of summer vacation.
- 1998
Shakespeare in Love
Shakespeare in Love6.8571998HD
Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," before it's even written. When a lovely noblewoman...
- 1933
Morning Glory
Morning Glory6.11933HD
Wildly optimistic chatterbox Eva Lovelace is a would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage. She attracts the interest of a paternal actor, a...
- 1987
The Ten-Year Lunch
The Ten-Year Lunch6.41987HD
The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s. The core of the so-called Round Table...
- 2013
A Common Experience
A Common Experience02013HD
A poetic exploration of the multi-generational affects of Canada's Indian Residential School system, based on the personal trials of Aboriginal...
- 1992
La Vie de Bohème
La Vie de Bohème7.5151992HD
Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with...
- 1956
23 Paces to Baker Street
23 Paces to Baker Street6.71956HD
Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads him into a desperate race, to find a kidnapped...
- 1948
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven61948HD
Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and...
- 1994
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage01994HD
A study of Tennessee Williams's life and work as a whole, ranging from his youth in Mississippi and in St. Louis to success and acclaim, followed by...
- 2000
Chuck & Buck
Chuck & Buck62000HD
Chuck and Buck are childhood best friends whose lives have taken very different paths. While Chuck moved away and now has a real life, Buck stayed...
- 2021
The King of Laughter
The King of Laughter7.4972021HD
In early 20th-century Naples, a theatrical parody lands beloved thespian and playwright Eduardo Scarpetta in court, facing a malicious lawsuit that...
- 1988
King Lear
King Lear6.21988HD
A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human...
- 1932
Merrily We Go to Hell
Merrily We Go to Hell6.4381932HD
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him...
- 1988
Normal Service
Normal Service01988HD
It's General Election day 1964, and the resources of Forth and Clyde Television are under stress. Too many shows want too many things done too...
- 1940
Angels Over Broadway
Angels Over Broadway5.91940HD
Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-spending wife. Deciding on suicide, he scribbles...
- 1970
Move
Move4.61970HD
A young playwright who writes porno novels to overcome a writer's block, lives the fantasies of one of his books, while trying to move with his wife...
- 1986
Shadow Play
Shadow Play6.31986HD
A playwright, who lost her fiance to suicide, is haunted by his spirit while staying on a remote island with his mother.