Playwright Movies

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

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

In Dublin circa 1911, John Cassidy (Rod Taylor), an impoverished idealist, whose ambitions are restricted by the demands of looking after his family,...

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...

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

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

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

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...

Barbara Field, born into poverty with a rare condition that means she is entirely covered in hair. Given the precious gift of an education, she is...

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

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

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

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...

A playwright with a dark past risks his life in returning to his home city to find out if a woman with whom he once had a passionate and illicit...

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

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

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

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

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

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