Movie & TV Screenplays — Page 5
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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It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Frank Capra · 169 pages
A selfless family man on the brink of suicide is shown by a guardian angel what life would be like if he had never existed.
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Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Betty Comden, Adolph Green · 98 pages
A silent film star must navigate the chaotic switch to talkies while hiding his true love from a studio-imposed romance.
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Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson · 268 pages
A British officer unites Arab tribes against the Ottomans in WWI, but his growing messianic delusions risk destroying his mission and himself.
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To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Harper Lee, Horton Foote · 147 pages
In 1930s Alabama, lawyer Atticus Finch defends a wrongly accused Black man while raising his children amid deep-seated racial prejudice.
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The Graduate (1967)
Calder Willingham, Buck Henry · 124 pages
A directionless recent grad drifts into an affair with his parents' friend, then falls for her daughter, risking everything.
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Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Donn Pearce, Frank Pierson · 156 pages
A defiant convict challenges prison authority and inspires fellow inmates, but his unbreakable spirit faces its ultimate test in a brutal Southern work camp.
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Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Waldo Salt, James Leo Herlihy · 120 pages
A naive Texas hustler chases his fortune in New York City, but his dreams unravel as he forges an unlikely bond with a sickly con man yearning for Florida.
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The French Connection (1971)
Ernest Tidyman · 115 pages
A gritty New York narcotics detective risks everything to bust a sophisticated French smuggler behind a massive heroin pipeline.
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The Last Picture Show (1971)
Larry McMurtry, Peter Bogdanovich · 120 pages
In a fading 1950s Texas town, restless teen Sonny seeks meaning and connection as the local cinema closes, forcing him to confront adulthood's harsh truths.
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The Conversation (1974)
Francis Ford Coppola · 158 pages
A surveillance expert, haunted by a past mistake, becomes obsessed with a recording he made of a young couple, fearing his work may lead to their murder.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman · 138 pages
A charismatic convict fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward, where he rallies the patients to defy the oppressive head nurse, risking everything to restore their humanity.
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Rocky (1976)
Sylvester Stallone · 118 pages
A small-time Philadelphia boxer seizes a once-in-a-lifetime shot at the heavyweight title, training to prove he's more than a club fighter.
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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
George Lucas · 156 pages
A farm boy joins a rogue pilot and two droids to rescue a princess from an imperial warlord and bring down a planet-destroying battle station.
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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Leigh Brackett, Lawrence Kasdan · 126 pages
Luke Skywalker trains with Yoda to master the Force, while Han and Leia are hunted by Darth Vader, who aims to capture Luke and crush the Rebellion.
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Steven Spielberg · 132 pages
An ordinary man, haunted by visions after a UFO encounter, risks his family and sanity to reach the first contact site with alien visitors.
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The Deer Hunter (1978)
Deric Washburn · 128 pages
Working-class friends enlist for Vietnam, expecting honor, but face brutal chaos that transforms them forever, testing bonds of love and survival.
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Halloween (1978)
John Carpenter, Debra Hill · 107 pages
After 15 years in a mental hospital, escaped killer Michael Myers stalks babysitter Laurie Strode through Haddonfield on Halloween night.
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Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Avery Corman, Robert Benton · 147 pages
A workaholic father must master parenting after his wife abandons him, but her return threatens their new life.
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Ordinary People (1980)
Judith Guest, Alvin Sargent · 125 pages
A grieving teenager struggles with guilt and his mother's coldness while his father tries to keep their fractured family together.
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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Lawrence Kasdan · 105 pages
An archaeologist races Nazis to find the biblical Ark of the Covenant before they unleash its power.
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E.T. the Extra Terrestrial (1982)
Melissa Mathison · 117 pages
A lonely boy befriends a stranded alien and must protect him from government agents while helping him find a way home.
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The Thing (1982)
Bill Lancaster · 124 pages
In an isolated Antarctic research station, a scientist must convince his paranoid crew to unite against a shape-shifting alien that can mimic any human, before their mistrust destroys them all.
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Tootsie (1982)
Larry Gelbart, Murray Schisgal · 155 pages
A desperate actor reinvents himself as a woman to land a soap opera role, but his new identity spirals into fame, activism, and tangled love.
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Scarface (1983)
Oliver Stone · 183 pages
Granted a green card for killing a Cuban official, Tony Montana claws his way to the top of Miami's cocaine empire, only to be consumed by paranoia and enemies.