Feature - Top 15 Screenplays

The following are, in my opinion, the top 15 screenplays in no particular order. Some are comedies, some dramas, some psychological thrillers but all of them are genius screenplays and none are as overrated as The Godfather and Casablanca. Of course, there are hundreds of fantastic screenplays that didn't make it on to the list and probably hundreds more that I have never read but these 15 are the cream of the crop. Disagree? Leave a comment.

1. Silence of the Lambs (1991) -written by Ted Tally, based on the novel by Thomas Harris

2. Stranger than Fiction (2006) -written by Zach Helm

3. Do the Right Thing (1989) -written by Spike Lee

4. Vertigo (1958) -written by Alec Coppel and Samuel Taylor, based on the novel Suers froides: d'entre les mort by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac

5. American Beauty (1999) -written by Alan Ball

6. Dr. Strangelove (1964)- written by Stanely Kubrick, based on the novel Red Alert, aka Two Hours to Doom by Peter George

7. Annie Hall (1977)- written by Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman

8. The Graduate (1967)- written by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry, based on the novel by Charles Webb

9. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)- written by Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman

10. Memento (2000)- written by Christopher Nolan, based on the short story Momento Mori by Jonathan Nolan

11. All About Eve (1950)- written by Joseph Mankiewicz

12. Twelve Angry Men (1957)- written by Reginald Rose, based on the novel by Reginald Rose

13. Young Frankenstein (1974)- written by Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder

14. Wizard of Oz (1939)- written by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf, based on the novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

15. V for Vendetta (2005)- written by Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski, based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore