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Films with the greatest dialog


This film has some great dialog. Others great films with great dialog, in no particular order:

Chinatown
The Thin Man
The Third Man (mainly the ferris wheel scene)
Casablanca
Airplane
The Godfather I and II
Touch of Evil

These are some of the films I can think of right now. Please add more.

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I thought of some more I could add:

The Princess Bride
Glengarry Glenross
Pulp Fiction
The Maltese Falcon
The Big Sleep
Dr. Strangelove

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Network

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The Heiress

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Pump Up The Volume
Apocolypse Now
Being There
Dead Poets Society
Stand By Me
Fight Club

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The Lion In Winter
Network
The Little Foxes
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
The Philadelphia Story
Sunset Blvd.
All About Eve
Chinatown
The Women


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stage door (ginger rogers and katherine hepburn have amazing snap-comedic timing as well as ginger rogers and everyone else she is in a scene in)

the women (roselind russell is just wonderful...)

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Kevin Smith movies

Clerks
Mallrats
Chasing Amy
Dogma
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

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I'm going to have to go with:
Charade
Sweet Smell of Success
The Big Sleep
Fletch
(and I just watched Glengarry for the fifth time...still sharp as a tack that one is)

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Big Lebowski
Wall Street
Adaptation
Pride and Prejudice (A&E)
Before Sunset
Charade
Two for the Road
Manhattan
Manhattan Murder Mystery
Mean Streets

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Marnie

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Duck Soup

cinefreak

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Alfred Hitchcock movies have some of the greatest dialogue.
Rear Window
North by Northwest
Notorious

I would also add:
Judgment at Nuremberg
Some Like It Hot
To Kill a Mockingbird

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I just mentioned this one in a different thread:

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead

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his girl friday
a few good men
butch cassidy and the sundance kid
the maltese falcon
the third man
lawrence of arabia
citizen kane
ocean's eleven
catch 22
gosford park
sideways

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Gosford Park is great. Miller's Crossing greater still.

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Down With Love

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Big Lebowski
The Man Who Wasn't There
Reservoir Dogs
Bound
Scent of a Woman
Trainspotting
Kingpin
Dogma
Good Will Hunting
Collateral
Donnie Brasco
Last Samurai
Office Space
Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead
12 Monkeys
Fight Club
True Romance

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