What are the best movies that are heavy on dialogue?

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What movies do you like that feature mostly talking, and not much more? Maybe there was something about the conversing that held your interest: thought-provoking, funny, intellectual, snappy, witty? Hurly Burly is one I can think of to get things started. Perhaps not an example of a top one in this category.



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There is more, but these are dialogue-heavy, and the dialogue is terrific.

Elmer Gantry
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Casablanca
One, Two, Three
Sunset Blvd.
Heaven Can Wait (1943)
The Front Page/His Girl Friday
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Pygmalion
Some Like It Hot

I could list hundreds more, but that makes it no fun for everybody else.
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12 Angry Men......Glengarry..........Virginia Woolf, etc.. Excellent textbook examples. Thanks for the listing. You now, it really says something when a straight-dialogue film leaves you just as fresh at the end of the movie.

His Girl Friday is my top choice for 'snappy' dialogue-driven film.



Clerks
Pulp Fiction
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I still have not seen Pulp Fiction. Is is a must see?



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Semper Fooey
Long Day's Journey Into the Night
Sleuth
All About Eve
The Lady Eve
The Four Poster
A Streetcar Named Desire
Come Back Little Sheba
Little Murderers
The Iceman Cometh
The Best Man
Waltz of the Toreadors
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One of my favorites of late is In the Loop. It's witty and non-stop and one of those rare treats where paying attention leads to more laughs. Just a fun film in general.
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Have you ever seen Yes, Minister/Yes, Prime Minister? I guess it's an 80's version but funnier... Scrap that, funny. Either way, my guess is that you'd like it.

It also illustrate brilliantly the old saying; "The more things change, the more they stay the same."



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Could come up with a lot if I thought about it, but off the top of my head I'd say 12 Angry Men and The Breakfast Club.



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Any Woody Allen movie, duh!
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