Patricia Highsmith

Patricia Highsmith

1921-01-19 Forth Worth, Texas, USA 30 Credits

Biography

Patricia Highsmith (January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer best known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley. She wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories throughout her career spanning nearly five decades, and her work has led to more than two dozen film adaptations.

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Do Revenge

Do Revenge

2022

Original Film Writer

6.4
Writing

A dethroned queen bee at a posh private high school strikes a secret deal with an unassuming new student to enact revenge on one another’s enemies.

Loving Highsmith

Loving Highsmith

2022

as Self - Writer (archive footage)

6.1
Acting

The story of the life, loves and work of US writer Patricia Highsmith (1921-95), told through her unpublished diaries, her own voice and that of those...

Deep Water

Deep Water

2022

Novel

5.8

A well-to-do husband who allows his wife to have affairs in order to avoid a divorce becomes a prime suspect in the disappearance of her lovers.

A Kind of Murder

A Kind of Murder

2016

Novel

5.3

In 1960s New York, Walter Stackhouse is a rich, successful architect and unhappily married to the beautiful but damaged Clara. His desire to be free o...

Carol

Carol

2015

Novel

7.5

In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.

A Mighty Nice Man

A Mighty Nice Man

2015

Short Story

6.8
Writing

Patricia Highsmith's haunting story of a day in a young girl's life when a kind stranger comes to town.

The Two Faces of January

The Two Faces of January

2014

Novel

5.8

1962. A con artist, his wife, and a dangerous stranger are caught up in the murder of a private detective and are forced to try and escape Athens.

The Cry of the Owl

The Cry of the Owl

2009

Novel

5.7

Fleeing New York City, a failed marriage and a fragile mental history, artist Robert Forrester moves to small-town Pennsylvania. There he becomes fasc...

Vishaka Express

Vishaka Express

2008

Original Concept

Visakha Express is a Suspense Thriller Movie. The basic plot of the story is taken from Strangers On A Train, which is about the two strangers and exc...

Ripley Under Ground

Ripley Under Ground

2005

Novel

5.7

After his friend, a hot young artist, is killed, a resourceful American man living in London covers up the crime and tries to keep the friend's name a...

Ripley's Game

Ripley's Game

2002

Novel

6.4

Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business a...

The Talented Mr. Ripley

The Talented Mr. Ripley

1999

Novel

7.2

Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U...

Once You Meet a Stranger

Once You Meet a Stranger

1996

Novel

3.0

This television remake of Alfred Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train" (1951) follows the same story, but has changed the genders of the lead characters ...

The Day of Reckoning

The Day of Reckoning

1990

Story

Writing

A young man begins to have terrifying nightmares after visiting his obsessive uncle's automated chicken farm.

Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders

Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders

1990

as Self

Acting

Though very polite and British, this feature-length documentary about German filmmaker Wim Wenders offers the most penetrating insights and the best o...

The Story Teller

1989

Novel

In this mystery/thriller based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith, Nico Thomkins (Udo Schenk), a writer, and his wife Helen (Anke Sevenich) are in the h...

The Cry of the Owl

The Cry of the Owl

1987

Novel

Robert is magically attracted to Johanna. He observes and stalks her. Finally, the two get to know each other. But Johanna's relationship with Karl is...

Throw Momma from the Train

Throw Momma from the Train

1987

Original Film Writer

6.2
Writing

Larry Donner, an author with a cruel ex-wife, teaches a writing workshop in which one of his students, Owen, is fed up with his domineering mother. Wh...

The Cry of the Owl

The Cry of the Owl

1987

Novel

5.3

Robert is an architect and artist, in Vichy after separating from his Parisian wife. Robert finds it calms him to stand in the shadows of the home of ...

Die Zwei Gesichter Des Januar

1986

Novel

The psychological suspense story was based on Patricia Highsmith's novel Two Faces of January. A young man named Chester MacFarland (Charles Brauer) h...

Edith's Diary

Edith's Diary

1983

Novel

5.0

When Edith Howland's husband abandons her for a younger woman, leaving her with their alcoholic son and his senile uncle, she begins recording details...

Deep Water

Deep Water

1981

Novel

6.2

On the island of Jersey, off the French coast, Mélanie, a beautiful woman gifted with a captivating personality, enjoys having unimportant love affair...

The Glass Cell

The Glass Cell

1978

Novel

6.9

A man is wrongfully imprisoned for five years. Once out, he hears about his wife's supposed adventures outside of their marriage and becomes increasin...

A Dog's Ransom

1978

Story

Writing

A quiet, middle-aged couple living in Chelsea start to receive threatening letters through the post - and then things take a sinister turn as their be...

Tell Her That I Love Her

Tell Her That I Love Her

1977

Novel

6.6

Industrious accountant David Martinaud claims to be visiting his parents every weekend, but it's merely a cover for the labor-intensive refurbishing o...

The American Friend

The American Friend

1977

Novel

7.1

Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by ga...

Once You Kiss a Stranger...

Once You Kiss a Stranger...

1969

Novel

4.4

A woman seduces a professional golfer, then offers to kill his opponent if the golfer will kill her psychiatrist, who wants her committed.

Enough Rope

Enough Rope

1963

Novel

5.6

Two total strangers suspect each other of murdering their own wives. Based on Patricia Highsmith's 1954 novel The Blunderer.

Purple Noon

Purple Noon

1960

Novel

7.6

Tom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess.

Strangers on a Train

Strangers on a Train

1951

Novel

7.7

Having met on a train, a smooth-talking psychotic socialite shares his theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder to an amateur ten...