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 interesting, visually appealing, clever, realistic, thought provoking and weird films and TV shows about / with great dialogue, storytelling, dialogue, mentor, runaway, suprisingly clever, greed, redemption, drinking and loneliness plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres shot in USA, UK, Mexico and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as great dialogue: 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), As Good as It Gets (1997).

List of great dialogue movies

 7.5
 52K
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, cult classic, offbeat, dark comedy, funny ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, homoerotic friendship, poverty, alcohol abuse, addiction, great dialogue, homosexuality, road trip, pub, drug, great ending, dark humor ...
Time: 60s, year 1969, year 1987, 20th century
Place: england, london, britain, northern england, europe
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 8.8
 2.4M
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, witty, exciting, clever ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, adult
Plot: dark humor, gunfight, violence, hitman, gangster, organized crime, overdose, storytelling, violent, professional killer, multiple storylines, foul language ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1994, 70s
Place: los angeles, california, southern california, america, britain ...
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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, humorous, witty, suspense, melancholic ...
Plot: comedian, life philosophy, childhood, philosophy, stand up comedian, storytelling, parenthood, transformation, violence, beautiful scenery, life & death, mentor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
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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, retro, realistic, spaghetti western ...
Audience: boys' night, kids
Plot: manhunt, gunfight, destiny, female nudity, death, brutality, violence, murder, bounty hunter, wild west, great ending, great dialogue ...
Time: year 1973, 1900s, 19th century, 1880s, 70s
Place: america, usa, new mexico, mexico, california
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The Lion in Winter (1968)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
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: costume drama, suspense, political, factual, atmospheric ...
Plot: power struggle, political intrigue, king, christmas, british history, dysfunctional family, royalty, medieval, infidelity, monarch, british royal family, monarchy ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, 12th century, year 1968, 20th century
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: suspenseful, thought provoking, suspense, detective, intense ...
Plot: racism, small town, prejudice, african american, murder mystery, racial tension, police officer, police procedural, civil rights, false accusation, police, murder ...
Time: 20th century, year 1967, 60s, 1930s
Place: mississippi, southern usa, usa, north carolina, america ...
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 7.4
 570K
Juno (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
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: touching, sweet, funny, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: pregnancy, coming of age, adoption, high school, friendship, teenage pregnancy, teenage life, teenager, pregnant teenager, teenage girl, love and romance, female protagonist ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: minnesota, usa, seattle, california
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 7.1
 250K
Closer (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
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, psychological, erotic, cynical, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: infidelity, love triangle, adultery, love affair, lovers, passion, marriage, sex, stripper, couples, photographer, desire ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, united kingdom, europe, new york, manhattan new york city ...
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 7.5
 33K
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, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: old west, sheriff, redemption, wild west, alcoholic, friendship, shootout, lone hero, vengeance, cowboy, showdown, tough guy ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, year 1966, year 1967, 60s
Place: texas, usa, sonora, mexico, california
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 7.7
 314K
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, intense, tricky, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: courtroom drama, courtroom, lawyer, justice, army investigation, trial, military, suicide, u.s. navy, court martial, destiny, hotshot lawyer ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1992
Place: washington d.c., cuba, persia, caribbean, usa
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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, sentimental, sweet, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, family outing
Plot: dog, mental illness, neighbor, friendship, writers, gender, artist, love story, depression, gay, single mother, waitress ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1997
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, maryland, baltimore ...
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Genre: Adventure, 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: homoerotic, epic, period piece, freeze frame, scenic ...
Audience: date night, boys' night, kids, adult
Plot: buddy, friendship, shootout, old west, bank robbery, cowboy, friendship between men, last stand, gunfight, fugitive, heist, robbery ...
Time: 1900s, 1890s, 20th century, ancient times, year 1969 ...
Place: bolivia, south america, wyoming, new york, latin america ...
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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: cult classic, suspense, neo noir, dark comedy, intense ...
Plot: office, manipulation, business, closeted homosexual, greed, workplace, career, real estate agent, dialogue, entrepreneurship, rain, entrepreneur ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1992
Place: chicago, brooklyn new york city, new york, illinois, arizona ...
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The Big Lebowski (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
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: black comedy, absurd, funny, neo noir, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: bowling, dialogue, mistaken identity, slacker, hippie, weed, marijuana, great dialogue, laziness, dream, twists and turns, heart attack ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1998, year 1991
Place: los angeles, iraq, america, arizona, usa ...
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 8.1
 875K
Blade Runner (1982)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Hong Kong
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: artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, dystopia, existentialism, dystopian future, distopia, androids, cyborgs, fugitive, police detective, fugitives, flying car ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2019, 20th century, near future ...
Place: los angeles, california, bolivia, usa
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 8.2
 520K
The Thing (1982)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
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, cult classic, suspenseful, bloody ...
Audience: manly, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, isolation, survival, creature, body horror, alien, fear, paranoia, snow, ufo, suspicion, supernatural ...
Time: year 1982, 80s, 20th century
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: epic, inspirational, sincere, factual, captivating ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: cold war, astronaut, nasa, u.s. air force, aviation, test pilot, space travel, space exploration, space race, politics, space program, spacecraft ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s, 20th century, year 1953, year 1960 ...
Place: washington d.c., florida, australia, houston texas, usa ...
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 6.6
 52K
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, harsh, exciting, intense, tense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: rape and revenge, vigilante, vigilantism, female killer, revenge, rape, murder, police investigation, vengeance, police detective, sexualized violence, violent ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: san francisco, california, usa, pacific ocean, las vegas
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Star Trek: Generations (1994)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D find themselves at odds with the renegade scientist Soran who is destroying entire star systems. Only one man can help Picard stop Soran's scheme...and he's been dead for ...
Style: futuristic, saga, exciting, anamorphic, epic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: star trek, space opera, space, space and aliens, androids, space battle, crossover, robot, desert, death, time, sacrifice ...
Time: future, 24th century, 23rd century
Place: idaho
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 8.2
 1.4M
The Truman Show (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Truman Burbank is the star of "The Truman Show", a 24-hour-a-day "reality" TV show that broadcasts every aspect of his life -- live and in color -- without his knowledge. His entire life has been an unending soap opera for ...
Style: philosophical, thought provoking, psychological, surreal, touching ...
Audience: teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: self discovery, simulated reality, video surveillance, alternate reality, fictional reality show, dystopia, freedom, hidden camera, utopia, paranoia, consciousness, loneliness ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 90s, future
Place: florida, persia, america, usa, los angeles
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 7.6
 374K
True Grit (2010)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. ...
Style: suspense, costume drama, visually appealing, suspenseful, period piece ...
Audience: manly, date night, family outing, boys' night, teen drama
Plot: old west, vengeance, cowboy, bounty hunter, revenge, wild west, violence, gunfight, kick-butt women, dialogue, teenage girl, shooting ...
Time: 19th century, year 2010, 2010s, 20th century, 1900s ...
Place: texas, oklahoma, usa, arkansas, california
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, 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, visually stunning, light, surreal, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, family outing, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: chocolate, children, teacher, overweight child, tour guide, mischievous children, inventor, child protagonist, childhood, surrealism, child, river ...
Time: 20th century, 1900s, 90s, 70s, year 1971
Place: germany, europe, west germany, paraguay, 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, serious, thought provoking, dramatic, emotional ...
Audience: family friendly, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: mental institution, mental illness, fighting the system, freedom, human spirit, insanity, society, mental patient, mental disorder, nurse, psychiatrist, schizophrenia ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1975, year 1963
Place: oregon, eastern europe, america, persia
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The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, 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: psychological, suspenseful, suspense, scary, psychological thriller ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, investigation, murder, psychology, cannibalism, kidnapping, maniac, murder investigation, mind game, fbi, cannibal ...
Time: year 1991, 20th century, 90s
Place: pittsburgh, baltimore, persia, usa, memphis ...
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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, dark, scary, sexy ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: vampire, supernatural, immortality, goth, loneliness, dark hero, vampirism, monster as victim, blood, bonding, vampire bite, child vampire ...
Time: 19th century, 18th century, georgian era, 20th century, 1870s ...
Place: new orleans, louisiana, paris france, san francisco, france ...
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 7.5
 121K
Little Children (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.
Style: erotic, sexy, sexual, melancholic, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: love affair, adultery, infidelity, passion, housewife, child abuse, small town, unfaithful wife, dysfunctional family, perversion, temptation, sexual pleasure ...
Time: y2k, year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: boston, usa, california
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Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Pride & Prejudice is a humorous story of love and life among English gentility during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters. If Mr. Bennet dies their house will ...
Style: romantic, costume drama, sweet, sexy, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, family friendly ...
Plot: prejudice, love, fall in love, happy ending, women, strong female character, love and romance, opposites attract, aristocracy, initially antagonists, wooing, social differences ...
Time: 19th century, 18th century, victorian era, 1790s, georgian era ...
Place: england, britain, united kingdom, europe, london ...
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 6.4
 23K
Factory Girl (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous Factory and becomes his muse. Although she seems to have it all, Edie cannot have the love she craves from Andy, and she has an affair with a ...
Style: sexy, factual, sentimental, melancholic, erotic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: art, fashion, artist, biopic, bare butt, addiction, destiny, drug addiction, couple relations, painter, cowboy, mentor ...
Time: y2k, year 2006, 60s, 70s, 20th century ...
Place: empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, usa, paris france, london ...
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Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
Style: road movie, feel good, melancholic, funny, sweet ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot: road trip, dysfunctional family, on the road, nothing goes right, loser, gay, honest, obsessive quest, escapades, coming of age, suicide attempt, journey ...
Time: 2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place: california, arizona, los angeles, nebraska, north america ...
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500 Days of Summer (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Tom, greeting-card writer and hopeless romantic, is caught completely off-guard when his girlfriend, Summer, suddenly dumps him. He reflects on their 500 days together to try to figure out where their love affair went sour, and in doing so, Tom ...
Style: touching, romantic, sentimental, sweet, romantic comedy ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens, teen drama
Plot: breakup, love, relationships, couples, love story, unrequited love, love and romance, couple relations, manic pixie dream girl, unfulfilled love, life philosophy, heartache ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 20th century, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, new york, usa
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