Great dialogue movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant great dialogue movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, cult classic, realistic, suspense, masterpiece and retro films and TV shows about / with great dialogue, live action, profanity, police, violence, dream, badass, villain, time travel and death plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres shot in USA, UK, Mexico and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as great dialogue: The Big Lebowski (1998), Withnail & I (1987), Pulp Fiction (1994), Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973), The Lion in Winter (1968), In the Heat of the Night (1967), Juno (2007), Closer (2004), El Dorado (1966), A Few Good Men (1992).

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The Big Lebowski (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink white Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events ...
Style: neo noir, dark comedy, surreal, absurd, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: bowling, mistaken identity, weed, dialogue, slacker, hippie, marijuana, great dialogue, dream, drug, stoner, nihilism ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1998, year 1991
Place: los angeles, america, iraq, arizona, usa ...
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 7.5
 48K
Withnail & I (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the ...
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, offbeat, cult classic, art house ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, addiction, poverty, alcohol abuse, great dialogue, drug, great ending, eccentricity, melancholy, dialogue, cat, gay ...
Time: 60s, year 1969, year 1987, 20th century
Place: england, london, britain, northern england, europe
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 8.9
 2.2M
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story: A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
Style: neo noir, cult classic, exciting, witty, black comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, adult
Plot: gangster, dark humor, organized crime, gunfight, violence, hitman, overdose, multiple storylines, violent, killings, drug, redemption ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1994, 70s
Place: los angeles, california, persia, america, peru ...
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Bill Burr: I'm Sorry You Feel That Way (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Fresh, unflinching and devastatingly honest, Bill Burr lets loose in this feature length comedy special. Burr shares his essential tips for surviving the zombie apocalypse, exposes how rom-coms ruin great sex and explains how too many childhood hugs ...
Style: unusual plot structure, funny, light, melancholic, suspense ...
Plot: life philosophy, childhood, suprisingly clever, comedian, philosophy, storytelling, stand up comedian, transformation, violence, parenthood, mentor, beautiful scenery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Western
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 122 min.
Story: An aging Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons--his sole purpose being to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.
Style: bleak, cult classic, realistic, spaghetti western, historical drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: manhunt, gunfight, great dialogue, wild west, great ending, destiny, murder, brutality, death, violence, female nudity, cowboy ...
Time: year 1973, 19th century, 1880s
Place: america, usa, new mexico, mexico
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The Lion in Winter (1968)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: 1183 AD: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him.
Style: suspense, political, factual, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: christmas, king, power struggle, political intrigue, british history, dysfunctional family, infidelity, medieval, royalty, royal family, manipulation, british royal family ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, 12th century, 20th century, year 1968
Place: england, france, britain
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In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An African American detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racist southern town.
Style: detective, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: racism, small town, prejudice, police, murder, racial tension, african american, civil rights, racial slur, deep south, murder mystery, investigation ...
Time: 20th century, year 1967, 60s
Place: mississippi, usa, southern usa, america, north carolina
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 7.4
 547K
Juno (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young girl named Juno gets herself pregnant and tries to stand on her own, but soon learns a few lessons about being grown up.
Style: funny, touching, sweet, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, pregnancy, adoption, teenager, teenage pregnancy, teenage life, high school, love and romance, female protagonist, teenage girl, strong female character, friendship ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: minnesota, usa
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 7.2
 235K
Closer (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A witty, romantic, and very dangerous love story about chance meetings, instant attractions, and casual betrayals. Two couples disintegrate when they begin destructive adulterous affairs with each other.
Style: sexy, erotic, psychological, romantic, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: infidelity, love triangle, adultery, love affair, marriage, love at first sight, passion, sex, stripper, photographer, sexuality, obsession ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, united kingdom, europe, new york, manhattan new york city ...
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 7.5
 30K
El Dorado (1966)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Hara. Together with an old indian fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.
Style: talky, tense, suspense, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: old west, sheriff, friendship, redemption, alcoholic, shootout, vengeance, lone hero, wild west, cowboy, adaptation, righting the wronged ...
Time: 19th century, year 1966, year 1967, 1800s
Place: texas, usa, sonora, mexico
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 7.7
 285K
A Few Good Men (1992)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: When cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, are assigned to a murder case, they uncover a hazing ritual that could implicate high-ranking officials such as shady Col. Nathan Jessep.
Style: suspense, tense, serious, realistic, tricky ...
Audience: date night
Plot: courtroom drama, courtroom, lawyer, military, trial, army investigation, justice, u.s. navy, court martial, suicide, marines, hotshot lawyer ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1992
Place: washington d.c., cuba, persia
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As Good as It Gets (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: New York City. Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer, finds his life turned upside down when neighboring gay artist Simon is hospitalized and his dog is entrusted to Melvin. In addition, Carol, the only waitress who will ...
Style: feel good, touching, sweet, sentimental, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, family outing
Plot: dog, mental illness, writers, neighbor, friendship, older man younger woman relationship, gay, gender, looking for love, age difference, waitress, misanthrope ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1997
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, maryland, baltimore
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Western
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever and talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion is the laconic dead-shot 'Sundance Kid'. As the west rapidly becomes civilized, the law finally ...
Style: epic, scenic, suspense, entertaining, cult classic ...
Audience: date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: old west, gunfight, cowboy, bank robbery, buddies, robbery, friendship between men, buddy, outlaw, heist, shootout, friendship ...
Time: 20th century, 1900s, 1800s, year 1969, ancient times ...
Place: bolivia, wyoming, new york, latin america, utah ...
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Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Glengarry Glen Ross, follows the lives of four unethical Chicago real estate agents who are prepared to go to any lengths (legal or illegal) to unload undesirable real estate on unwilling prospective buyers.
Style: suspense, neo noir, intense, entirely dialogue, cult classic ...
Plot: office, greed, business, workplace, economics, entrepreneurship, entrepreneur, finance, real estate, real estate agent, rivalry, wall street ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1992
Place: chicago, new york, illinois, arizona, florida ...
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed.
Style: black and white, suspense, atmospheric, serious, melancholic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: politics, cowboy, lawyer, wild west, small town, bully, senator, robbery, showdown, funeral, justice, criminal ...
Time: 19th century, year 1962, 1800s, 20th century
Place: america
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Seven Days in May (1964)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A U.S. Army general alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
Style: political thriller, tense, political, black and white, suspense ...
Plot: cold war, conspiracy, politics, white house, u.s. air force, terrorism, president, secret service, u.s. president, coup d'etat, betrayal, espionage ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, future
Place: austin texas, russia, soviet union, america, el paso texas ...
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 8.4
 705K
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story: At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter ...
Style: bleak, psychological, disturbing, surreal, visual ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: vietnam war, insanity, jungle, mission, anti war, army, military, violence, secret mission, soldier, violent, river ...
Time: 20th century, year 1979, 60s, year 1969
Place: vietnam, cambodia, southeast asia, asia, the philippines
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 7.5
 110K
The Warriors (1979)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' ...
Style: neo noir, grindhouse, futuristic, stylized, suspense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: survival, street gang, gang, violence, gang war, subway, gang member, gangster, chase, murder, graffiti, assassination ...
Time: future, year 1979, 70s, near future
Place: new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, bronx new york city, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
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 8.1
 817K
Blade Runner (1982)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
Style: neo noir, futuristic, tech noir, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience: adult
Plot: cyberpunk, dystopia, artificial intelligence, existentialism, dystopian future, distopia, androids, cyborgs, melancholy, fugitives, police detective, fugitive ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2019, 20th century, near future ...
Place: los angeles, california, bolivia, usa
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 8.2
 463K
The Thing (1982)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people it kills.
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, isolation, alien, survival, creature, fear, body horror, paranoia, snow, supernatural, suspicion, ufo ...
Time: year 1982, 20th century, 80s
Place: antarctica, antarctic, south pole
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The Right Stuff (1983)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 193 min.
Story: A chronicle of the original Mercury astronauts in the formation of America's space program: Alan Shepherd, the first American in space; Gus Grissom, the benighted astronaut for whom nothing works out as planned; John Glenn, the straight-arrow ...
Style: inspirational, exciting, epic, factual, sincere ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: cold war, astronaut, space travel, nasa, test pilot, aviation, u.s. air force, space exploration, politics, space program, space race, outer space ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 60s, 1950s, year 1983 ...
Place: florida, washington d.c., houston texas, usa, australia ...
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 6.6
 48K
Sudden Impact (1983)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: When a young rape victim takes justice into her own hands and becomes a serial killer, it's up to Dirty Harry Callahan, on suspension from the SFPD, to bring her to justice.
Style: neo noir, intense, exciting, tense, serious ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: rape and revenge, vigilante, rape, murder, chase, police investigation, revenge, female killer, justice, car chase, police, violence ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: san francisco, california, usa, las vegas, pacific ocean
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Eccentric candy man Willy Wonka prompts a worldwide frenzy when he announces that golden tickets hidden inside five of his delicious candy bars will admit their lucky holders into his top-secret confectionary. But does Wonka have an agenda hidden ...
Style: feel good, entertaining, light, surreal, visual ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: chocolate, children, teacher, overweight child, mischievous children, childhood, tour guide, child protagonist, surrealism, factory, grandfather grandson relationship, inventor ...
Time: year 1971, 20th century, 1900s, 90s, 70s
Place: germany, west germany, paraguay, europe, arizona ...
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: While serving time for insanity at a state mental hospital, implacable rabble-rouser, Randle Patrick McMurphy inspires his fellow patients to rebel against the authoritarian rule of head nurse, Mildred Ratched.
Style: psychological, thought provoking, dramatic, serious, surprise ending ...
Audience: date night, family friendly, teen drama, adult
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, fighting the system, human spirit, insanity, freedom, psychiatrist, unlikely friendships, psychopath, society, nurse, escaped mental patient ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1975
Place: oregon, eastern europe, america, persia
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The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: FBI trainee, Clarice Starling ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist turned homicidal cannibal. Starling needs clues to help her capture a serial killer. But her Faustian relationship ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, scary, psychological thriller ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, investigation, murder, psychology, cannibalism, kidnapping, maniac, twists and turns, murder investigation, cannibal, mind game ...
Time: year 1991, 20th century, 90s
Place: pittsburgh, baltimore, madagascar, persia, maryland ...
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Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
Style: gothic, gothic horror, visually appealing, scary, melancholic ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: vampire, supernatural, immortality, goth, loneliness, vampirism, dark hero, bonding, child vampire, life & death, vampire human love, monster as victim ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, georgian era, 1870s, 20th century ...
Place: new orleans, san francisco, paris france, louisiana, america ...
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The Devil's Advocate (1997)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: A hotshot lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he learns his new boss is Lucifer himself.
Style: psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, surprise ending, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: lawyer, devil, supernatural, satan, deal with the devil, law firm, courtroom, greed, demon, law, courtroom drama, ambition ...
Time: year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, florida, southern usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city ...
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 8.8
 2.3M
Fight Club (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the ...
Style: surprise ending, psychological, twist ending, cerebral, philosophical ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: twists and turns, psychology, fight, plot twist, schizophrenia, self destructing, insanity, fighting the system, split personality, losing-it hero, against the rules, nihilism ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999, year 2013
Place: delaware, america, los angeles, iran, seattle ...
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 7.2
 33K
Runaway Train (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find themselves on an out-of-control train with a female railway worker while being pursued by the vengeful head of security.
Style: road movie, suspense, intense, realistic, rough ...
Plot: train, survival, runaway train, prison, prisoner, wilderness, snow, chases and races, violence, winter, fugitives, train crash ...
Time: 20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place: alaska, usa
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 8.1
 655K
Jaws (1975)
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: An insatiable great white shark terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island, The police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to destroy the bloodthirsty beast.
Style: scary, suspense, natural horror, suspenseful, entertaining ...
Audience: manly, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: shark, beach, ocean, shark attack, animal attack, creature feature, fear, monster, killer shark, underwater, survival, dangerous animal ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place: oceania, persia, fictional island, boston, long island ...
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