Movie & TV Screenplays — Page 4
Browse 2,258 movie and TV screenplays in PDF: Titanic, The Godfather, Pulp Fiction, Oppenheimer and more. Read the original scripts online, download free PDFs, and study Hollywood format, dialogue and structure scene by scene.
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The Irishman (2019)
Charles Brandt, Steven Zaillian · 136 pages
A truck driver's chance encounter with a mob boss pulls him into a decades-long life of crime and a friendship with union leader Jimmy Hoffa that ends in tragedy.
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Heat (1995)
Michael Mann · 157 pages
A master thief and a relentless detective in Los Angeles play a dangerous cat-and-mouse game, each respecting the other's skill while knowing their confrontation may end in violence.
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L.A. Confidential (1997)
James Ellroy, Brian Helgeland, Curtis Hanson · 163 pages
In 1950s Los Angeles, three rival cops with clashing methods must unite to expose a conspiracy behind a mass shooting at a diner, risking their lives and careers.
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The Usual Suspects (1995)
Christopher McQuarrie · 140 pages
A small-time con man spins a wild tale for federal agents, claiming a mythical crime lord is behind a deadly heist that left few survivors.
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The Sixth Sense (1999)
M. Night Shyamalan · 127 pages
A child psychologist tries to help a young boy who claims he sees ghosts, only to discover the truth about his own reality.
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Gone Girl (2014)
Gillian Flynn · 177 pages
Flynn adapting her own novel — a midpoint structural detonation and alternating dual unreliable narrators.
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Zodiac (2007)
James Vanderbilt, Robert Graysmith · 207 pages
A San Francisco cartoonist and a reporter risk their careers and sanity to unmask the Zodiac Killer, a cipher-taunting serial murderer who eludes them for decades.
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The Sting (1973)
David S. Ward · 134 pages
In 1930s Chicago, a small-time grifter and a veteran con artist plot an elaborate revenge scheme against the crime lord who murdered their friend.
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
William Goldman · 185 pages
In 1890s Wyoming, an affable outlaw leader and his deadly partner flee a relentless posse, hoping to escape to South America as the West modernizes around them.
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All the President's Men (1976)
William Goldman, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward · 121 pages
Two rookie reporters chase a seemingly minor burglary, uncovering a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of the U.S. government.
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The Princess Bride (1987)
William Goldman · 123 pages
A young woman must rescue her true love from a wicked prince with the help of a pirate, a giant, and a swordsman, battling fantasy obstacles to reunite.
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George · 148 pages
An unhinged general triggers a nuclear attack on the USSR, forcing frantic officials to avert global annihilation.
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke · 65 pages
After a mysterious monolith is found on the Moon, an astronaut must outwit the rogue supercomputer HAL 9000 to uncover its origins and survive the journey to Jupiter.
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A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Burgess · 70 pages
A sadistic teenage gang leader is captured and subjected to a brutal state experiment that conditions him against violence, leaving him defenseless in a society that once feared him.
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The Shining (1980)
Stanley Kubrick, Diane Johnson, Stephen King · 148 pages
A struggling writer takes a winter caretaker job at an isolated hotel, where his sanity unravels as his psychic son perceives the building's sinister forces.
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Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford · 119 pages
A pragmatic Marine endures brutal boot camp and the chaos of Vietnam, fighting to keep his humanity amid dehumanizing war.
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Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Stanley Kubrick, Frederic Raphael · 164 pages
A doctor, shaken by his wife's confession of desire, infiltrates a secretive sex cult and finds himself in mortal danger.
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Psycho (1960)
Joseph Stefano · 138 pages
The blueprint for Hitchcock's shocker — killing the protagonist midway and weaponizing audience expectation.
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Vertigo (1958)
Alec Coppel, Samuel A. Taylor · 148 pages
Hitchcock's obsession masterpiece — suspense spiraling into psychological ruin, with its unconventional early reveal.
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Rear Window (1954)
Cornell Woolrich, John Michael Hayes · 165 pages
A photographer, confined to his apartment with a broken leg, suspects a neighbor of murder and convinces his girlfriend and nurse to help prove it.
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North by Northwest (1959)
Ernest Lehman · 181 pages
A slick adman is mistaken for a government agent and must outrun assassins while clearing his name.
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Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Billy Wilder, Harry Kurnitz · 146 pages
Wilder's courtroom pinnacle from Agatha Christie — triple-twist setup and payoff, and information control that defines suspense writing.
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The Third Man (1949)
Graham Greene · 223 pages
A pulp writer in postwar Vienna investigates the mysterious death of his friend and uncovers a conspiracy involving a third man.
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The Maltese Falcon (1941)
John Huston · 161 pages
A San Francisco private eye tangles with three eccentric criminals and a femme fatale, all hunting a legendary jeweled falcon statuette.