
July 3, 1937 · 89 years old
Sir Tom Stoppard OM CBE FRSL Hon FBA (born Tomáš Sträussler, 3 July 1937 — 29 November 2025) was a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter. He has written for film, radio, stage, and television, finding prominence with plays. His work covered the themes of human rights, censorship, and politi…

History's greatest playwright is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.

A bureaucrat in a dystopic society becomes an enemy of the state as he pursues the woman of his dreams.

A teenage English boy struggles to survive with his fellow captives under Japanese occupation of China during World War II.

In late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky.

Two minor characters from the play 'Hamlet' stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them.

An artist falls for a young married woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait during the Tulip mania of seventeenth century Amsterdam.

A young genius frantically races against time to crack an enemy code and solve the mystery surrounding the woman he loves.

In the year 1935, a teen named Billy Bathgate finds first love while becoming the protégé of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz.

Revolves around a love triangle between a conservative English aristocrat, his mean socialite wife and a young suffragette.

In early-1930s Berlin, an elegant Russian émigré and eccentric chocolatier convinces himself that he has seen his doppelgänger, and hatches a murderous plan to trade his existence for an entirely new one. Will he get over the deep...

When a leak of information in the African section of British Intelligence is discovered, security man Daintry is brought in to investigate.

A marriage crisis between a writer and his wife leads her to flee to Germany and eventually return with another man, through whom the writer is going to overcome his writer's block.