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Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay

Quentin Tarantino · 159 pages

Screenplay FormatDark ComedyCrimeViolent
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Chinatown

Robert Towne · 146 pages

Screenplay FormatCrimeNoir
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Monster

Walter Dean Myers · 281 pages

While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.

Screenplay FormatCrimeTense and SuspensefulViolent
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Taxi Driver

Paul Schrader · 105 pages

Screenplay FormatCrimeViolent
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Withnail and I: the Original Screenplay

Bruce Robinson · 160 pages

Screenplay FormatDark Comedy
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Storm of the Century: An Original Screenplay

Stephen King · 376 pages

For the first time in #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s remarkable publishing history, the Master of Horror presents an all-new, original tale written expressly for the television screen. They’re calling it the Storm of the Century, and it’s coming hard. The residents of Little Tall Island have seen their share of nasty Maine Nor’easters, but this one is different. Not only is

Screenplay FormatSnow and IceViolentTense and Suspenseful
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Misery

William Goldman, Stephen King · 368 pages

Screenplay FormatSnow and IceTense and SuspensefulViolent
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The Third Man

Graham Greene · 134 pages

Initially written as a screenplay Greene later transferred the film treatment to novel form as a novella, published together with The Fallen Idol. Set in post-war Vienna The Third Man concerns the mysterious Harry Lime, a black market trader thought by the authorities to be dead.

Screenplay FormatCrimeNoirThriller
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Interior Chinatown

Charles Yu · 288 pages

Screenplay FormatDark Comedy
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The Making of Zombie Wars

Aleksandar Hemon · 307 pages

"The seriously, seriously funny roller-coaster ride of sex and violence that Aleksandar Hemon has long promised Script idea #142: Aliens undercover as cabbies abduct the fiance;e of the main character, who has to find a way to a remote planet to save her. Title: Love Trek. Script idea #185: Teenager discovers his girlfriend's beloved grandfather was a guard in a Nazi death camp. The boy's grandpar

Screenplay FormatDark ComedyViolent
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The Ice Harvest

Scott Phillips · 217 pages

On Christmas Eve [in Wichita], a mob lawyer is skipping town with the cash. But in this boozy, neo-noir world–James M. Cain meets George V. Higgins–the best-laid plans of bagmen turn brutal.” –The Dallas Morning News

Dark ComedyCrimeSnow and IceNoir
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Freezer Burn

Joe R. Lansdale · 250 pages

Hideously disfigured during a bungled firecracker stand hold-up, Bill joins a traveling freak show to evade police. He doesn't stand out too much among the dogmen, bearded women, hermaphrodites, and the mysterious frozen man whose sinister aura seems to link them all.

Dark ComedyCrimeNoirViolent
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The Max

Ken Bruen, Jason Starr · 220 pages

"When last we saw Max Fisher and Angela Petrakos, Max was being arrested by the NYPD for drug trafficking and Angela was fleeing the country in the wake of a brutal murder. Now both are headed for eye-opening encounters with the law--Max in the cell blocks of Attica, Angela in a quaint little prison on the Greek island of Lesbos"--Publisher.

Dark ComedyCrimeNoirViolent
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The Pistol Poets

Victor Gischler · 336 pages

Dark ComedyCrimeNoirViolent
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The Green Mile: The Screenplay

Frank Darabont · 182 pages

The Green Mile screenplay, written by Frank Darabont, is an adaptation of Stephen King’s novel. It tells the poignant story of John Coffey, a death row inmate who possesses supernatural powers. These abilities force the guards and fellow prisoners to reexamine their lives. The screenplay remains remarkably faithful to the novel, capturing nearly every character and major scene, often with verbatim

Screenplay FormatViolent
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Frank Sinatra in a Blender

Matthew McBride · 218 pages

Dark ComedyCrimeNoirViolent
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God's Pocket

Pete Dexter · 274 pages

Young Leon Hubbard was arrogant and near psychotic. So when he was killed on a South Philadelphia construction site, everyone who knew him wanted to bury the bad news with the body. All, that is, except two--Leon's mother and the local columnist for the common man.

CrimeDark ComedyNoirViolent
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Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Jeff Lindsay · 304 pages

Kriminalroman. Miamipolitiet og politiofficer Deborah Morgan prøver at finde en seriemorder. Deborah håber sagen vil fremme hendes karrieremuligheder, og hun får hjælp af sin bror Dexter, der arbejder for politiet. Han er også seriemorder - men det er ikke ham, sagen drejer sig om

Dark ComedyCrimeTense and SuspensefulViolent
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Inception: The Shooting Script

Christopher J. Nolan

Screenplay FormatThriller
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A Man Named Doll

Jonathan Ames · 224 pages

Dark ComedyCrimeNoirViolent
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Cotton Comes to Harlem

Chester Himes · 207 pages

Dark ComedyCrimeNoirViolent
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A Hell of a Woman

Jim Thompson · 288 pages

Dark ComedyCrimeNoirViolent
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Gorky Park

Martin Cruz Smith · 384 pages

A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI and New York police as he pursues a rich, ruthless, and well-connected American fu

CrimeNoirSnow and IceTense and Suspenseful

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