Ron Nyswaner

The Celluloid Closet

Exuberant, eye-opening movie that serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men and lesbians have had on the silver screen. Film contains fabulous footage from 120 films showing the changing face of cinema sexuality, from cruel stereotypes to covert love to the activist triumphs of the 1990s.

Release Date1996-03-15

Charactersd Self

Vote Count109

Live to Tell: The First Gay and Lesbian Prom in America

Documentary about the first gay prom in America, that took place in West Hollywood, promoted by students of the EAGLES center, an alternative high school.

Release Date1995-01-01

Charactersd Self - Screenwriter, "Philadelphia"

Vote Count2

People Like Us: Making 'Philadelphia'

10 years after the release of "Philadelphia," director Jonathan Demme, Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington and others discuss about the making of that film and it's important legacy through the years of being the first mainstream Hollywood film about dealing with the topic of Aids, revealing its impact on culture and society. Cast and crew talk about the inception of the project, the making of it and curious stories about one of the greatest hits of 1993.

Release Date2004-07-19

Charactersd Self

Vote Count4

Homeland

CIA officer Carrie Mathison is tops in her field despite being bipolar, which makes her volatile and unpredictable. With the help of her long-time mentor Saul Berenson, Carrie fearlessly risks everything, including her personal well-being and even sanity, at every turn.

Release Date2011-10-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count9

Vote Count2430

Ray Donovan

Set in the sprawling mecca of the rich and famous, Ray Donovan does the dirty work for LA's top power players, and makes their problems disappear. His father's unexpected release from prison sets off a chain of events that shakes the Donovan family to its core.

Release Date2013-06-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Vote Count803

Swing Shift

In 1941 America, Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, she takes a job at the local aircraft plant where she meets Hazel, the singer from across the way. The two soon become firm friends and with the other girls become increasingly expert workers. As the war drags on, Kay finally dates her trumpet-playing foreman and life gets more complicated.

Release Date1984-04-13

DepartmentCrew

JobAdditional Writing

Vote Count83

Fellow Travelers

A chronicle of a decades-long volatile romance between two men — from their first meeting during the height of the 1950s Lavender Scare to the AIDS crises of the 1980s.

Release Date2023-10-29

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count8

Vote Count171

Soldier's Girl

This true story, which takes place in Fort Campbell, KY, tells the heart-wrenching story of the life and tragic death of soldier Barry Winchell. His love for Calpernia Addams, a transgender nightclub performer, was misunderstood by his fellow soldiers and eventually led to his murder.

Release Date2003-05-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count93

Gross Anatomy

Joe Slovak is a brilliant first-year med student whose casual, nonconforming approach to life gets tested when he enrolls in Gross Anatomy, the toughest course in med school.

Release Date1989-10-20

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count55

The Painted Veil

A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.

Release Date2006-12-09

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1230

Loan Wolves

Blake Zeff is an investigative journalist who gets to the root of the student debt crisis. Following the stories of those most affected, Zeff ultimately zeroes in on the unexpected heart of the problem and exposes the rotten core of the country’s policymaking. Confronting powerful enablers and challenging lies, Loan Wolves is a humorous and eye-opening documentary that demystifies this national crisis that prevents countless Americans from reaching their full potential.

Release Date2022-11-13

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Philadelphia

Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.

Release Date1993-12-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count4483

Mrs. Soffel

Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. Ed Biddle is a convicted murderer awaiting execution on death row with his brother Jack. When Kate meets Eddie through her Bible readings to the prisoners, she is drawn to him, and they pursue a clandestine relationship. She agrees to help the brothers escape, and begins a treacherous journey with them to freedom in Canada.

Release Date1984-12-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count56

Love Hurts

The story of Paul Weaver and his strained relationships with women and his family.

Release Date1990-04-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count8

Star Maps

Carlos wants to be an actor. But his father, Pepe, wants him to work in the family business, that is, male prostitution. Carlos decides that he will be one of his father's boys until he can get his foot in the door in Hollywood.

Release Date1997-07-23

DepartmentProduction

JobCo-Producer

Vote Count19

My Policeman

In the late 1990s, the arrival of elderly invalid Patrick into Marion and Tom’s home triggers the exploration of seismic events from 40 years previous: the passionate relationship between Tom and Patrick at a time when homosexuality was illegal.

Release Date2022-10-20

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count746

Murder on Middle Beach

A four-part documentary series revolving around the case of single mother Barbara Hamburg, who was brutally murdered in 2010 near her home in the upper-middle class enclave of Madison, Connecticut. The series presents first-time filmmaker Madison Hamburg’s complicated journey as a young man determined to solve an unspeakable crime and absolve the people he loves, while looking for answers within his fractured family and community.

Release Date2020-11-15

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count4

Vote Count28

The Prince of Pennsylvania

Set in a remote Pennsylvania coal-mining town, this off-beat comedy follows the relationship between Carla, a hippie woman, and Rupert, a young punk rocker who feels like a pariah. Hoping to leave their current lives behind, the two conspire to kidnap Rupert's father and hold him for ransom.

Release Date1988-10-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count38

Freeheld

New Jersey car mechanic Stacie Andree and her police detective girlfriend Laurel Hester both battle to secure Hester's pension benefits after she was diagnosed with a terminal illness.

Release Date2015-10-02

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count670

Smithereens

A narcissistic runaway engages in a number of parasitic relationships amongst members of New York's waning punk scene.

Release Date1982-09-11

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count46

American Wife

"American Wife" is a film based on Curtis Sittenfeld's novel.

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Why Stop Now?

When a college piano prodigy tries to check his mother into rehab, he is taken hostage by her drug dealer and swept along on a wild adventure.

Release Date2012-08-17

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count108

Filthy Gorgeous

This original comedy-drama from Oscar-nominated writer Ron Nyswaner ("Philadelphia") and director Robert Allan Ackerman ("The Reagans") charts the lives of male and female employees, as well as their chic clients, at New York City's most exclusive and expensive escort service.

Release Date2007-07-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count3

Casting Pearls

A short film that illustrates the difficulties transsexual women face in Hollywood via a hectic series of auditions endured by a transsexual actress.

Release Date2007-04-13

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count2

She's The Best Thing in It

Mary Louise Wilson is the most accomplished character actor you've never heard of. While teaching skeptical young students, she examines whether her life has been successful.

Release Date2015-03-16

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1