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Tarantino and Stone movies are bad choices. They are not dialogue-driven at all. Pulp Fiction has long passages of no dialogue, and the editing in JFK and Nixon frantically illustrates or counterpoints the dialogue. Talk Radio is as dialogue-driven as Stone gets, so maybe that one......

Duck Soup not good either, since we have Harpo doing classic bits, and two of the funniest scenes (the mirror gag, and the safe that's actually a radio) have no dialogue.

Glengarry Glen Ross is a great choice, as are His Girl Friday and All About Eve. You can "watch" these movies without looking at them and get the point. Frost/Nixon absolutely.

Of course, most dialogue-based movies are based on plays. So toss in most Shakespeare adaptations, Deathtrap, Doubt, Equus, The Lion in Winter, etc.

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Good ones listed already. Another that springs to mind is Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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Conspiracy

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At risk of having to turn in my man card, I'll say When Harry Met Sally. Glengarry Glen Ross was my first thought though.

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Glengarry Glen Ross
Oleanna
Tape
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
Greenberg
Kicking and Screaming
Equus (Sydney Lumet)
12 Angry Men
Network
Talk Radio
Love in the Afternoon (Eric Rohmer)
La Collectionneuse (Eric Rohmer)
My Dinner With Andre
Tales of Ordinary Madness (Marco Ferreri)
The Most Important Thing is to Love (Andrzej Zulawski)
Possession (Andrzej Zulawski)
On the Waterfront
A Streetcar Named Desire
Zodiac (David Fincher)
The Social Network (David Fincher)
Barton Fink (The Coen Brothers)
Naked (Mike Leigh)
Secrets and Lies (Mike Leigh)

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How could I forget Vanya on 42nd St.?

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MILDRED PIERCE (1945) - Joan Crawford won her only Oscar for this. "If you don't get out of this house right now, I'll kill you!" (That's her talking to her daughter!) I urge everyone to see this for the Academy Awards Challenge.

THE BIG SLEEP (1946)
Bacall: I don't like your manners.
Bogart: And I'm not crazy about yours. I didn't ask to see you. I don't mind if you don't like my manners, I don't like them myself. They are pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. I don't mind your ritzing me drinking your lunch out of a bottle. But don't waste your time trying to cross-examine me.

John Ridgely (as Eddie Mars): Convenient, the door being open when you didn't have a key, eh?
Bogart (as Philip Marlowe): Yeah, wasn't it. By the way, how'd you happen to have one?
Ridgely: Is that any of your business?
Bogart: I could make it my business.
Ridgely: I could make your business mine.
Bogart: Oh, you wouldn't like it. The pay's too small.

OUT OF THE PAST (1947) - Classic film noir with Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer.
Rhonda Fleming (making small talk in a San Francisco apartment): "I love these old tenement buildings, they're so charming."
Mitchum: "I grew up in a tenement in New York, only it wasn't very charming."
(Later)
Greer: "You're going to get yourself killed" (paraphrase)
Mitchum: "Well, if I gotta die, I wanna die last."

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Pontypool

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Quest for Fire.

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A thread subject thoroughly misunderstood and totally spinning out of control? I love this place! :lol:

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Also, Caveman w/ Ringo Starr.

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Not great imo but quite decent. All this thing has is dialogue.

Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020773/

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV...0,214,317_.jpg


If memory serves me correctly, it's been ages since I saw this one but i remember it being dialogue driven and pretty entertaining.

A pure formality (Giuseppe Tornatore)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110917/

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV...0,199,295_.jpg

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Can't believe nobody has mentioned this gem

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
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nobody likes Michael Clayton?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1Kg9hzMkim...el_clayton.jpg

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Love it, as it happens. There is some amount of action in it. I would not have described it as a "dialogue driven film."

For "dialogue driven", I think more of films like Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Big Kahuna, Two Girls and a Guy, heck even The Breakfast Club.

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Mentioned a couple times, but I'd also go with (Liev Schreiber did a great stage version of it):

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g3...8KL_SS500_.jpg

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:lol:

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