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Screenwriting

This list includes recommended movies, books, periodicals, and web sites.

Movies
Action/Adventure
48 Hours
Batman Begins
Beverly Hills Cop
Dark Knight
Die Hard
Dirty Harry
Gunga Din
In the Line of Fire
James Bond series
Jaws
Jurassic Park
King Kong (2005)
King Kong (original)
Lethal Weapon
Mad Max
Midnight Run
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
Raiders of the Last Ark
Speed
Spiderman
Superman
The Hunt for Red October
The Poseidon Adventure (original)
The Towering Inferno
The Untouchables
Top Gun
True Lies
Under Seige
X-Men
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Crime
Badlands
Bonnie and Clyde
Catch Me If You Can
Cool Hand Luke
Dead Man Walking
Dog Day Afternoon
Fargo
Get Shorty
Goodfellas
No Country For Old Men
Out of Sight
Papillon
Prizzi's Honor
Reservoir Dogs
Scarface (remake)
The French Connection
The Godfather
The Godfather: Part II
The Shawshank Redemption
The Thomas Crown Affair (original)
The Usual Suspects
Thuderbolt and Lightfoot
Topkapi
White Heat
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Comedy
A Fish Called Wanda
A Shot in the Dark
Adaptation
Adventures in Babysitting
After Hours
Airplane
Animal House
Being John Malkovich
Being There
Big
Blazing Saddles
Broadcast News
Caddyshack
Clueless
Desperately Seeking Susan
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Dr. Strangelove
Dumb and Dumber
Election
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Flirting With Disaster
Fried Green Tomatoes
Galaxy Quest
Ghostbusters
Groundhog Day
Harold and Maude
High Fidelity
Knocked Up
Meet the Parents
Melvin and Howard
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
My Favorite Year
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Postcards From the Edge
Raising Arizona
Risky Business
Shampoo
Slap Shot
Spinal Tap
The Fortune Cookie
The Graduate
The In-Laws (original)
The Producers
The Ruling Class
The War of the Roses
Tootsie
Waiting for Guffman
What's Up Doc?
White Men Can't Jump
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Withnail and I
Working Girl
Young Frankenstein
Zoolander
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Comedy - Classic
A Night at the Opera
Arsenic and Old Lace
Duck Soup
Father of the Bride (original)
His Girl Friday
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Miracle of Morgan's Creek
My Man Godfrey
Some Like It Hot
Sullivan's Travels
The Great Dictator
The Ladykillers (original)
To Be Or Not To Be (original)
Twentieth Century
Unfaithfully Yours (original)
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Drama
A Beautiful Mind
A River Runs Through It
All the President's Men
American Beauty
An Officer and a Gentleman
An Unmarried Woman
Apollo 13
Atlantic City
Betrayal
Billy Elliot
Boogie Nights
Breaking Away
Brokeback Mountain
Coal Miner's Daughter
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Dirty Dancing
Do the Right Thing
Driving Miss Daisy
Erin Brockovich
Field of Dreams
Fight Club
Five Easy Pieces
Forest Gump
Friday Night Lights
Glengarry Glen Ross
Gorillas in the Mist
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Hud
In Cold Blood
In the Heat of the Night
Jerry Maguire
JFK
Kramer vs. Kramer
Leaving Las Vegas
Local Hero
Lolita (original)
Lone Star
Marty
Matewan
Midnight Cowboy
Milk
Million Dollar Baby
My Left Foot
Mystic River
Network
On Golden Pond
One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest
Ordinary People
Quiz Show
Raging Bull
Rain Man
Rebel Without a Cause
Rocky
Saturday Night Fever
Serpico
Slumdog Millionaire
Stand and Deliver
Stand By Me
Taxi Driver
Tender Mercies
Terms of Endearment
The Apartment
The Black Stallion
The China Syndrome
The Conversation
The Days of Wine and Roses
The Fabulous Baker Boys
The Fisher King
The Great Santini
The Ice Storm
The Insider
The Karate Kid
The Killing Fields
The Last Picture Show
The Misfits
The Piano
The Player
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Quiet American
The Red Shoes
The Trip to Bountiful
The Turning Point
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Verdict
The Year of Living Dangerously
Thelma and Louise
There Will Be Blood
To Kill a Mockingbird
Twelve Angry Men
Two for the Road
Ulee's Gold
Wall Street
Waterland
Witness
Wonder Boys
Zorba the Greek
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Drama - Classic
A Face in the Crowd
A Place in the Sun
A Streetcar Named Desire
All About Eve
An Affair to Remember
Bad Day at Black Rock
Brief Encounter
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
East of Eden
It's a Wonderful Life
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
On the Waterfront
Sunset Boulevard
The African Queen
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Grapes of Wrath
The Heiress
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
To Have and Have Not
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Epic
A Passage to India
Around the World in Eighty Days
Ben-Hur
Braveheart
Dr. Zhivago
Gandhi
Gladiator
Gone With the Wind
Lawrence of Arabia
Reds
Spartacus
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Ensemble
American Graffiti
Choose Me
Diner
Gosford Park
Love Actually
M*A*S*H
Magnolia
Nashville
Short Cuts
Smoke
The Big Chill
Traffic
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Film Noir
Body Heat
Double Indemnity
Night and the City
Out of the Past
The Big Sleep
The Lady from Shanghai
The Last Seduction
The Postman Always Rings Twice (original)
The Sweet Smell of Success
Touch of Evil
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Foreign
8 1/2
Amelie
Beauty and the Beast
Black Orpheus
Breaking the Waves
Breathless
Children of Paradise
City of God
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Das Boot
Death in Venice
Diabolique
Fitzcarraldo
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Jean de Florette
Jules and Jim
King of Hearts
Knife in the Water
Kolya
La Cage Aux Folles
La Dolce Vita
La Strada
Life is Beautiful
Like Water for Chocolate
M
Manon of the Spring
Motorcycle Diaries
Nights of Cabiria
Persona
Rashomon
Rules of the Game
Run Lola Run
Shoot the Piano Player
Smiles of a Summer Night
Solaris
Soldier of Orange
The 400 Blows
The Celebration
The Dinner Game
The Gods Must Be Crazy
The Last Emperor
The Leopard
The Postman
The Return of Martin Guerre
The Seven Samurai
The Seventh Seal
The Tall Blonde Man with One Black Shoe
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
The Vanishing
The Wedding Banquet
Three Colors: Blue
Three Colors: Red
Three Colors: White
Wages of Fear
War and Peace
Wild Strawberries
Wings of Desire
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Z
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Fantasy
Excalibur
Harry Potter series
Jason and the Argonauts
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Lost Horizon (original)
The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
The Princess Bride
Time Bandits
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Horror
28 Days Later
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein
An American Werewolf in London
Beetlejuice
Bride of Frankenstein
Carrie
Cat People (original)
Dead Ringers
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
Dracula (original)
Eraserhead
Frankenstein (original)
Freaks
Fright Night
Halloween
Interview With the Vampire
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (original)
Night of the Living Dead (original)
Nightmare on Elm Street
Poltergeist
Psycho
Rosemary's Baby
Scream
The Birds
The Exorcist
The Innocents
The Mummy
The Omen (original)
The Ring
The Shining
The Sixth Sense
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)
The Thing (original)
The Thing (remake)
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Indie
American Splendor
Away From Her
Before Sunrise
Big Night
Bound
Boys Don't Cry
Broken Flowers
Clerks
Donnie Darko
El Mariachi
Ghost World
Gods and Monsters
Hairspray
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
In the Bedroom
Juno
Kissing Jessica Stein
Little Miss Sunshine
Living in Oblivion
Lost in Translation
Mean Streets
Napoleon Dynamite
Owning Mahowny
Pi
Rachel Getting Married
Repo Man
Rushmore
Secretary
Secrets & Lies
sex, lies, and videotape
Sideways
Sling Blade
Spanking the Monkey
Stranger Than Paradise
Swimming with the Sharks
Swingers
The Blair Witch Project
The Cooler
The Station Agent
The Sweet Hereafter
The Truth About Cats and Dogs
The Wrestler
Trainspotting
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
You Can Count on Me
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Musical
A Hard Day's Night
All That Jazz
An American in Paris
Cabaret
Chicago
Funny Girl
Gigi
Grease
Little Shop of Horrors
My Fair Lady
Pennies From Heaven
Purple Rain
Singin' in the Rain
Sweeny Todd
The Sound of Music
The Wizard of Oz
Top Hat
Victor/Victoria
West Side Story
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Yankee Doodle Dandy
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Period
A Room With a View
Amadeus
Chariots of Fire
Dangerous Liasons
Elizabeth
Enchanted April
Great Expectations (original)
Hope and Glory
Julia
Master and Commander
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Out of Africa
Paper Moon
Places in the Heart
Quest for Fire
Schindler's List
Sense and Sensibility
Shakespeare in Love
Sophie's Choice
Sounder
The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Elephant Man
The English Patient
The French Lieutenant's Woman
The Last of the Mohicans
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Lion in Winter
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Man Who Would Be King
The Mission
The Passion of the Christ
The Remains of the Day
The Sting
The Three Musketeers (1973)
Tom Jones
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Romantic Comedy
A Touch of Class
Adam's Rib
Annie Hall
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Bringing Up Baby
Bull Durham
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Hannah and Her Sisters
Heaven Can Wait
It Happened One Night
Manhattan
Moonstruck
My Best Friend's Wedding
Pretty Woman
Roman Holiday
Sabrina (original)
Say Anything
Sleepless in Seattle
Sliding Doors
Something Wild
Splash
The Awful Truth
The Goodbye Girl
The Lady Eve
The Palm Beach Story
The Philadelphia Story
The Purple Rose of Cairo
There's Something About Mary
Tin Cup
Trouble in Paradise
Truly, Madly, Deeply
When Harry Met Sally
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Science Fiction
2001: A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
Alien
Aliens
Back to the Future
Blade Runner
Brazil
Children of Men
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Cocoon
E.T.
Forbidden Planet
Independence Day
Men in Black
Pan's Labyrinth
Planet of the Apes (original)
Return of the Jedi
Star Wars
Terminator 2
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Empire Strikes Back
The Fly (original)
The Matrix
The Terminator
The Time Machine (original)
Total Recall
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Silent
Battleship Potemkin
Birth of a Nation
City Lights
Greed
Intolerance
Metropolis
Modern Times
Napoleon
Nosferatu
Safety Last
Sherlock Jr.
Sunrise
The General
The Gold Rush
The Navigator
The Passion of Joan of Arc
The Phantom of the Opera
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Thriller
A Simple Plan
Angel Heart
Basic Instinct
Blue Velvet
Cape Fear (original)
Cape Fear (remake)
Charade
Chinatown
Day of the Jackal
Dead Calm
Deliverance
Don't Look Now
Duel
Fail-Safe
Fatal Attraction
House of Games
Klute
L.A. Confidential
Laura
Marathon Man
Memento
Night of the Hunter
North by Northwest
Play Misty for Me
Rear Window
Sea of Love
Seven
Shadow of a Doubt
Strangers on a Train
The 39 Steps
The Bourne Identity
The Firm
The Fugitive
The Game
The Maltese Falcon
The Manchurian Candidate
The Parallax View
The Silence of the Lambs
The Third Man
Three Days of the Condor
Tightrope
Vertigo
Wait Until Dark
WarGames
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Young Sherlock Holmes
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Unclassifiable
Barton Fink
Carnal Knowledge
Ed Wood
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Mulholland Dr.
My Dinner With Andre
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and her Lover
The Crying Game
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War
A Few Good Men
All Quiet on the Western Front
Apocalypse Now
Black Hawk Down
Breaker Morant
Coming Home
From Here to Eternity
Full Metal Jacket
Gallipoli
Glory
Paths of Glory
Patton
Platoon
Saving Private Ryan
Stalag 17
The Big Red One
The Deer Hunter
The Dirty Dozen
The Great Escape
The Thin Red Line
Three Kings
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Western
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Dances With Wolves
High Noon
Little Big Man
Red River
Shane
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Silverado
Stagecoach
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
The Magnificent Seven
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Searchers
The Wild Bunch
True Grit
Unforgiven
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Periodicals
Movies
Premiere
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Industry News
Filmmaker
Hollywood Reporter
Variety
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Scriptwriting
Creative Screenwriting
Hollywood Scriptwriter
Script
Written By
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Reference
Business Books
Adams, Max. The Screenwriter's Survival Guide
Breimer, Stephen F. The Screenwriter's Legal Guide 
De Abreu, Carlos and Smith, Howard Jay. Opening the Doors to Hollywood
Press, Skip. The Ultimate Writer's Guide to Hollywood
Scheer, Laurie. Creative Careers in Hollywood
Suppa, Ron and Healy, Janna Wong. This Business of Screenwriting
Whitcomb, Cynthia. Selling Your Screenplay
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Craft Books
The Dialogue
Aristotle. Poetics
Cole, Hillis and Haag, Judith. The Complete Guide to Standard Script Formats: Screenplays
Egri, Lajos. The Art of Dramatic Writing
Field, Syd. Four Screenplays
Field, Syd. Screenplay
Flinn, Denny Martin. How Not to Write a Screenplay
Goldman, William. Adventures in the Screen Trade
Goldman, William. Which Lie Did I Tell?
Gotham Writers' Workshop. Writing Movies
Hitchcock, Alfred and Truffaut, Francois. Hitchcock/Truffaut
McKee, Robert. Story
Seger, Linda. Making a Good Script Great
Singleton, Ralph S. and Conrad, James A. The Filmmaker's Dictionary
Snyder, Blake. Save the Cat
Trottier, David. The Screenwriter's Bible
Vogler, Christopher. Writer's Journey
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Directories
Hollywood Creative Directory
Hollywood Representation Directory
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Movies
All Movie Guide
Baseline Studio Systems
Box Office Mojo
Done Deal
Film Festivals
Film Underground
Filmmaking Net
Hollywood Literary Sales
IMDbPro
IndieWire
Internet Movie Database
John August
Movie Reviews
MovieBytes
ScreenwritersUtopia
They Shoot Pictures. Don't They?
Who Represents
Wordplay
Writer's Store
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Organizations
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
American Film Institute
Directors Guild
Producers Guild
Writers Guild of America
Writers Guild of America, East
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Online Script Marketing
Inktip
ScriptShark
TriggerStreet
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Scripts
Daily Script
Drew's Script-O-Rama
Internet Movie Script Database
Script City
Script Shack
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General Resources
Link List
Gotham Reading/Resources Lists
New York Times Navigator
Ref Desk
University of Texas Reference
Yahoo Reference
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Reference
Bartleby
Encyclopedia Britannica
First Chapters
Google
Google Earth
Google Maps
Lexis/Nexis
Library of Congress
National Geographic Atlas
Poets & Writers Tools for Writers
Shaw Guides
US Copyright Office
Wikipedia
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Words/Usage
American Heritage Dictionary
Associated Press Stylebook
Chicago Manual of Style
Elements of Style
Merriam-Webster Dictionary/Thesaurus (online)
Oxford English Dictionary (2 volume)
Oxford English Dictionary (20 volume)
Oxford English Dictionary (online)
Roget's II Thesaurus (alphabetized)
Roget's International Thesaurus (categorized)
University of Calgary Grammar Guide
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