The Vault
Tragedy
2025 ★ 10.0A depressed playwright grapples with the mounting pressures of life, including his mother’s declining health and his failing career. The film Tragedy is a cinem
Girl Most Likely
2012 ★ 5.6A failed New York playwright stages a suicide in an attempt to win back her ex, only to wind up in the custody of her gambling-addict mother. Girl Most Likely i
Dance First
2023 ★ 6.9Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband and recluse…Samuel Beckett lived a life of many parts
Don't Forget to Write!
1977 ★ 6.2Once a successful playwright, George Maple is now procrastinating, lacking self-confidence and suffering from writer's block. He is seen at home with his suppor
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
2002 ★ 6.0In a sleepy Louisiana parish, a group of lifelong friends stage a rather unorthodox intervention to help a young playwright unravel the truth about her complica
The Master Builder
1960 ★ 10.0Famed playwright Henrik Ibsen tells the tale of a master builder in the twilight of his career who reaches for love in response to his work's demise. Topic: Fil
Affair with a Stranger
1953 ★ 4.8Depicts the rocky marriage of a young model and her Broadway playwright-husband. Affair with a Stranger is a 1953 American comedy-drama directed by Roy Rowland.
Author! Author!
1982 ★ 5.9A 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, and 5 child
Act One
1963 ★ 6.3This autobiographical story traces the career of playwright Moss Hart. Moss struggles as a dramatic writer until he concentrates his efforts on writing comedy.
The Wine of Summer
2013 ★ 5.8A frustrated actor travels to Spain in search of a playwright, a trip that unexpectedly binds him to a group of five previously unconnected people. Topic: Film
A Magnificent Life
2025 ★ 7.2In 1955, 60-year-old Marcel Pagnol is a well-known and acclaimed playwright and filmmaker. When the editor-in-chief of ELLE magazine commissions a weekly column
Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You
1970 ★ 4.3An American playwright living in Rome consults a quack psychiatrist to combat his fears of balding and save his failing marriage. Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You
Will Shakespeare
1978 ★ 10.0A dramatisation of the life of famed playwright William Shakespeare from 1590 to 1607. Will Shakespeare is a 1978 British historical drama television series cre
ITV Play of the Week
1955 ★ 4.0A UK anthology series of single plays from major playwrights old and new. It ran from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute episodes from Gra
Julia
1977 ★ 6.5At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany. Drama Romance Thriller dr
Deathtrap
1982 ★ 6.7A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script. Comedy Crime Thriller Drama comedy crime drama twisty dark-humor murder pla
Bullets Over Broadway
1994 ★ 7.1After young playwright, David Shayne obtains funding for his play from gangster Nick Valenti, Nick's girlfriend Olive miraculously lands the role of a psychiatr
588 rue Paradis
1992 ★ 7.2A successful playwright reflects on his journey from his Armenian roots to adapting in France, forty years after his family's move to Marseilles. He now goes by
Hot Mess
2018 ★ 4.5Stuck in the angst of wondering who she is and what she is meant to be doing with her life, Loz, a 25 year-old aspiring playwright, finally thinks she's found t
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
2002 ★ 5.9The story of Peter McGowan, a chain-smoking, impotent, insomniac playwright who lives in Los Angeles. Once very successful, he is now in the tenth year of a dec
The Leading Man
1996 ★ 5.0A successful playwright's plan to leave his wife for his mistress – who is also one of the stars of his new play – is complicated by the arrival of a charismati
Humor Me
2017 ★ 5.7With an interminable case of writer's block and a personal family crisis, playwright Nate is forced to move into his father's retirement community. Humor Me is
These Foolish Things
2006 ★ 5.8The world's on the brink of World War II, but a young actress is caught in a sentimental contest between a playwright and a director. Task: Write a factual, ori
Respect
1994 ★ 3.0Young journalist has an interview with a succesfull gay playwright who likes to write frankly about sex. At first the interviewee responds cynical and distant,