Casablanca (1942)
Screenplay by Julius J. & Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch. Based on the play "Everybody Comes to Rick's" by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison
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The Godfather (1972)
Screenplay by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola. Based on the novel by Mario Puzo -
Chinatown (1974)
Written by Robert Towne -
Citizen Kane (1941)
Written by Herman Mankiewicz and Orson Welles -
All About Eve (1950)
Screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Based on "The Wisdom of Eve," a short story and radio play by Mary Orr -
Annie Hall (1977)
Written by Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman -
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Written by Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder and D.M. Marshman, Jr. -
Network (1976)
Written by Paddy Chayefsky -
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Screenplay by Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond. Based on "Fanfare of Love," a German film written by Robert Thoeren and M. Logan -
The Godfather Part II (1974)
Screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo. Based on Mario Puzo's novel "The Godfather" -
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Written by William Goldman -
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Peter George and Terry Southern. Based on novel "Red Alert" by Peter George -
The Graduate (1967)
Screenplay by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry. Based on the novel by Charles Webb -
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Screenplay by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson. Based on the life and writings of Col. T.E. Lawrence -
The Apartment (1960)
Written by Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond -
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Written by Quentin Tarantino. Stories by Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avary -
Tootsie (1982)
Screenplay by Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal. Story by Don McGuire and Larry Gelbart -
On the Waterfront (1954)
Screen Story and Screenplay by Budd Schulberg. Based on "Crime on the Waterfront" articles by Malcolm Johnson -
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Screenplay by Horton Foote. Based on the novel by Harper Lee -
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Screenplay by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett & Frank Capra. Based on short story "The Greatest Gift" by Philip Van Doren Stern. Contributions to screenplay Michael Wilson and Jo Swerling -
North by Northwest (1959)
Written by Ernest Lehman -
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Screenplay by Frank Darabont. Based on the short story "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" by Stephen King -
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Screenplay by Sidney Howard. Based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell -
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Screenplay by Charlie Kaufman. Story by Charlie Kaufman & Michel Gondry & Pierre Bismuth -
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Screenplay by Noel Langley and Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf Adaptation by Noel Langley. Based on the novel by L. Frank Baum -
Double Indemnity (1944)
Screenplay by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler. Based on the novel by James M. Cain -
Groundhog Day (1993)
Screenplay by Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis. Story by Danny Rubin -
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Written by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard -
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Written by Preston Sturges -
Unforgiven (1992)
Written by David Webb Peoples -
His Girl Friday (1940)
Screenplay by Charles Lederer. Based on the play "The Front Page" by Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur -
Fargo (1996)
Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen -
The Third Man (1949)
Screenplay by Graham Greene. Story by Graham Greene. Based on the short story by Graham Greene -
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Screenplay by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman. From a novelette by Ernest Lehman -
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Written by Christopher McQuarrie
