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30 Screenplays for Every Screenwriter to Read (Plus 20 of Our Favourites)

Here's a list of essential screenplays for every serious screenwriter to read – screenplays, not films. If you are a budding screenwriter, you can't just watch the film and learn screenwriting from it. You must read the screenplay itself.
Watch the film, but the screenplay is the thing.
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Some Like It Hot (1959)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
2
Casablanca (1942)
Casablanca (1942)
Rotten Tomatoes®   99%
3
Psycho (1960)
Psycho (1960)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
4
Chinatown (1974)
Chinatown (1974)
Rotten Tomatoes®   99%
5
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather (1972)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
6
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Rotten Tomatoes®   89%
7
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
8
American Beauty (1999)
American Beauty (1999)
Rotten Tomatoes®   87%
9
Memento (2000)
Memento (2000)
Rotten Tomatoes®   93%
10
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Rotten Tomatoes®   92%
11
When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Rotten Tomatoes®   91%
12
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Rotten Tomatoes®   93%
13
Carol (2015)
Carol (2015)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
14
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Rotten Tomatoes®   92%
15
Rear Window (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
16
Gone Girl (2014)
Gone Girl (2014)
Rotten Tomatoes®   87%
17
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Rotten Tomatoes®   91%
18
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Rotten Tomatoes®   91%
19
Get Out (2017)
Get Out (2017)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
20
Room (2015)
Room (2015)
Rotten Tomatoes®   93%
21
Annie Hall (1977)
Annie Hall (1977)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
22
The Sting (1973)
The Sting (1973)
Rotten Tomatoes®   93%
23
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
24
The Usual Suspects (1995)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Rotten Tomatoes®   88%
25
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Rotten Tomatoes®   92%
26
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
27
L.A. Confidential (1997)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Rotten Tomatoes®   99%
28
Raging Bull (1980)
Raging Bull (1980)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
29
Life of Brian (1979)
Life of Brian (1979)
Rotten Tomatoes®   95%
30
12 Angry Men (1957)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
31
The French Connection (1971)
The French Connection (1971)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
32
Little Women (2019)
Little Women (2019)
Rotten Tomatoes®   95%
33
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
34
Citizen Kane (1941)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Rotten Tomatoes®   99%
35
Blade Runner (1982)
Blade Runner (1982)
Rotten Tomatoes®   89%
36
High Noon (1952)
High Noon (1952)
Rotten Tomatoes®   95%
37
La La Land (2016)
La La Land (2016)
Rotten Tomatoes®   91%
38
Thelma & Louise (1991)
Thelma & Louise (1991)
Rotten Tomatoes®   85%
39
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Rotten Tomatoes®   85%
40
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Rotten Tomatoes®   95%
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