David Koepp — Playwright (31)

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The Paper (1994)
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other title: Cronisti d'assalto / The Paper - Primeira Página …
Henry Hackett is the workaholic editor of a New York City tabloid. He loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. Also, publisher Bernie White faces financial straits, and has hatchet-man Alicia Clark—Henry's nemesis—impose unpopular cutbacks.

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Bad Influence (1990)
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other title: Cattive compagnie / Ingen udvej …
Wimpy young executive Michael is about to get pulverized by a jealous boyfriend in a bar when a handsome, mysterious stranger steps in—and then disappears. Later that night, Michael runs into a stranger on a pier, who wheedles his way into Michael's life and turns it upside down.

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Cold Storage (2026)
Cold Storage
★ 6.1 9 ratings
Jonny Campbell actor: Joe Keery / Georgina Campbell …
other title: Cold Storage: Ameaça Mortal / Turno de noche …
When a mutating, highly contagious fungus escapes a sealed facility, two young employees — joined by a grizzled bioterror operative — must survive the wildest night shift ever to save humanity from extinction.

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Toy Soldiers (1991)
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Daniel Petrie Jr. actor: Sean Astin / Wil Wheaton …
other title: Scuola di eroi / Boy Soldiers …
After federal agents arrest a drug czar and put him on trial, the cartel leader's vicious son storms a prep school and takes its students hostage. They rebel against the armed intruders and try to take back their academy by any means necessary.

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The Shadow (1994)
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other title: L'uomo ombra / O Sombra …
Based on the 1930s comic strip, The Shadow is put up against his archenemy Shiwan Khan, who plans to take over the world by holding a city to ransom using an atom bomb. Using his powers of invisibility and "the power to cloud men's minds", The Shadow comes blazing to the rescue with explosive results.

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You Should Have Left (2020)
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other title: Ve ne dovevate andare / Deviam Ter Saído …
In an effort to repair their relationship, a couple books a vacation in the countryside for themselves and their daughter. What starts as a perfect retreat begins to fall apart as one loses their grip on reality, and a sinister force tries to tear them apart.

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Snake Eyes (1998)
Snake Eyes
other title: Omicidio in diretta / Os Olhos da Serpente …
All bets are off when shady homicide cop Rick Santoro witnesses a murder during a boxing match. It's up to him and lifelong friend, Naval intelligence agent Kevin Dunne to uncover the conspiracy behind the killing. At every turn, Santoro makes increasingly shocking discoveries that even he can't turn a blind eye to.

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Secret Window (2004)
Secret Window
★ 6.3 6 ratings
other title: A Janela Secreta / Das geheime Fenster …
Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.

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Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005)
Zathura: A Space Adventure
★ 6.2 5 ratings
Jon Favreau actor: Josh Hutcherson / Jonah Bobo …
other title: Zathura - Un'avventura spaziale / Zathura - et eventyr i rummet …
After their father is called into work, two young boys, Walter and Danny, are left in the care of their teenage sister, Lisa, and told they must stay inside. Walter and Danny, who anticipate a boring day, are shocked when they begin playing Zathura, a space-themed board game, which they realize has mystical powers when their house is shot into space. With the help of an astronaut, the boys attempt to return home.

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Stir of Echoes (1999)
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David Koepp actor: Kevin Bacon / Kathryn Erbe …
other title: Echi mortali / The Secret Sense …
After being hypnotized by his sister-in-law, Tom Witzky begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around her.

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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
★ 5.6 11 ratings
other title: Indiana Jones e il regno del teschio di cristallo / Indiana Jones og krystalkraniets kongerige …
Set during the Cold War, the Soviets—led by sword-wielding Irina Spalko—are in search of a crystal skull which has supernatural powers related to a mystical Lost City of Gold. Indy is coerced to head to Peru at the behest of a young man whose friend—and Indy's colleague—Professor Oxley has been captured for his knowledge of the skull's whereabouts.

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Jurassic World Rebirth (2025)
Jurassic World Rebirth
★ 5.3 44 ratings
other title: Jurassic World - La rinascita / Mundo Jurássico: Renascimento …
Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, covert operations expert Zora Bennett is contracted to lead a skilled team on a top-secret mission to secure genetic material from the world's three most massive dinosaurs. When Zora's operation intersects with a civilian family whose boating expedition was capsized, they all find themselves stranded on an island where they come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that's been hidden from the world for decades.

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Ghost Town (2008)
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David Koepp actor: Ricky Gervais / Greg Kinnear …
other title: Fantasmas na Cidade / Wen die Geister lieben …
Bertram Pincus, a cranky, people-hating Manhattan dentist, develops the unwelcome ability to see dead people. Really annoying dead people. Even worse, they all want something from him, particularly Frank Herlihy, a smooth-talking ghost, who pesters him into a romantic scheme involving his widow Gwen. They are soon entangled in a hilarious predicament between the now and the hereafter!

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Panic Room (2002)
Panic Room
★ 6.3 6 ratings
other title: Sala de Pânico / La habitación del pánico …
Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul and Junior - during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.