Produced Screenplays
Check out our links to FREE downloadable screenplays. Here you will find some of the best of current and classic scripts. Reading produced screenplays is an excellent way to improve your own craft. See what it takes to get your script made into a movie!
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1998 Saving Private Ryan Robert Roday
Genre: Drama, Military & War Dramas, Military & War Action, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Paramount Home Entertainment
Synopsis: As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain Tom Hanks and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home. Steven Spielberg and cinematographer Janusz Kaminski paint a harrowing picture of the price of war and heroism -- one that netted them Oscars for Best Director and Best Cinematography, respectively.
Actors: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Matt Damon, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Adam Goldberg, Vin Diesel, Giovanni Ribisi, Jeremy Davies, Ted Danson, Paul Giamatti, Dennis Farina, Dylan Bruno, Nathan Fillion, Bryan Cranston
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2007 Saw 4 Patrick Melton & Marcus Dunstan
Genre: Horror, Slashers and Serial Killers, Cult Horror, Blu-ray, Lionsgate Home Entertainment
Synopsis: Picking up where its grisly predecessor left off, this Saw finds Jeff Reinhart (Angus Macfadyen) searching for his missing daughter, but a videotape from the dead serial killer Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) is Jeff's only lead in his frantic hunt. The film switches back and forth in time throughout previous Saw films and ties up some lingering -- and bloody -- loose ends. Darren Lynn Bousman, who helmed the film's second and third chapters, directs.
Actors: Tobin Bell, Scott Patterson, Costas Mandylor, Athena Karkanis, Lyriq Bent, Betsy Russell, Donnie Wahlberg, Simon Reynolds, Mark Rolston, Peter Outerbridge, Justin Louis, Bahar Soomekh, Shawnee Smith, Angus Macfadyen, Mike Realba, Dina Meyer, Tanedra Howa
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1993 Schindler's List Steven Zaillian
Genre: Drama, Period Pieces, Military & War Dramas, 20th Century Period Pieces, Political Dramas, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Faith & Spirituality Feature Films, Inspirational Stories, Faith & Spirituality
Synopsis: Steven Spielberg's Holocaust epic won seven Academy Awards (including Best Picture) and is an unforgettable testament to the possibility of human goodness. Greedy factory owner Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson) was exploiting cheap Jewish labor, but in the midst of WWII became an unlikely humanitarian, losing his fortune by helping to save 1,100 Jews from Auschwitz.
Actors: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagall, Embeth Davidtz, Malgoscha Gebel, Shmulik Levy, Mark Ivanir, Beatrice Macola, Friedrich von Thun, Krzysztof Luft, Harry Nehring, Adi Nitzan, Michael Schneider, Miri Fabian, Anna
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2008 Semi-Pro Scot Armstrong
Genre: Comedy, Sports Comedies, Spoofs and Satire, Blu-ray
Synopsis: In this over-the-top sports comedy set in 1976, funnyman Will Ferrell stars as Jackie Moon, owner and coach of the Flint Michigan Tropics -- the team with the worst record in the renegade American Basketball Association. With the franchise on the brink of collapse, can Jackie's squad rebound to salvation in the National Basketball Association? Woody Harrelson, Maura Tierney, André Benjamin and Andy Richter co-star.
Actors: Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson, André Benjamin, Maura Tierney, DeRay Davis, Josh Braaten, Jay Phillips, Peter Cornell, Andy Richter, Andrew Daly, Will Arnett, Kate Luyben, David Koechner, Jackie Earle Haley, Rob Corddry
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1995 Sense and Sensibility Emma Thompson
Genre: Drama, Romantic Dramas, Pre-20th Century Period Pieces, Dramas Based on Classic Literature, Dramas Based on the Book, Tearjerkers, Period Pieces, Foreign Countries, United Kingdom, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Synopsis: This tale of 19th-century etiquette and ethics chronicles the troubles and triumphs of the marriage-minded Dashwood sisters: sensible Elinor (Emma Thompson) and romantic Marianne (Kate Winslet). While Marianne charms two suitors -- the staid Col. Brandon (Alan Rickman) and the dashing but rakish John Willoughby (Greg Wise) -- Elinor must weather a circuitous courtship with aspiring clergyman Edward Ferrars (Hugh Grant).
Actors: Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, Gemma Jones, Imogen Stubbs, Greg Wise, Tom Wilkinson, Elizabeth Spriggs, Robert Hardy, Harriet Walter, James Fleet, Imelda Staunton, Hugh Laurie
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2009 A Serious Man Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Genre: Comedy, Dark Humor & Black Comedies, Blu-ray
Synopsis: Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) has hit a "rough patch," according to a colleague, and it would seem so: people are dropping dead all around him, his wife (Sari Lennick) wants a "get" and his whining kids (Aaron Wolff and Jessica McManus) only add to the heavy load. Larry is just looking for some help. Can a few rabbis guide him to life's answers? Richard Kind co-stars in Joel Coen and Ethan Coen's 1960s-set, dark Jewish-culture send-up.
Actors: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick, Aaron Wolff, Jessica McManus, Peter Breitmayer, Adam Arkin
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1995 Seven Andrew Kevin Walker
Genre: Thrillers, Crime Thrillers, Psychological Thrillers, Mystery
Synopsis: Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer (Kevin Spacey) whose crimes are based on the Seven Deadly Sins. The dark and haunting film takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Sommerset (Morgan Freeman) researches the Seven Deadly Sins in an effort to get inside the killer's mind, while his novice hotshot partner, Mills (Brad Pitt), scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case.
Actors: Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey, John C. McGinley, Richard Portnow
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1989 sex, lies and videotape Steven Soderbergh
Genre: Drama, Indie Dramas, Indie Classics, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Blu-ray
Synopsis: Director Steven Soderbergh's voyeuristic indie drama paints an intense, intimate portrait of discord among a frigid housewife (Andie MacDowell), her philandering husband (Peter Gallagher), her adulterous sibling (Laura San Giacomo) and an intriguing out-of-towner (James Spader). When Spader arrives with a trunk load of videotapes featuring women who confess their sexual secrets on camera, he gradually turns the quartet's lives inside out.
Actors: James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher, Laura San Giacomo, Ron Vawter, Steven Brill, Alexandra Root, Earl T. Taylor, David Foil
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1998 Shakespeare in Love Marc Norman & Tom Stoppard
Genre: Romance, Romantic Comedies, Romantic Dramas, Period Pieces, United Kingdom, Foreign Countries, Pre-20th Century Period Pieces, Miramax
Synopsis: What if a penniless William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) fell in love with a noblewoman (Oscar-winner Gwyneth Paltrow) while struggling to write a comedy with the unlikely title "Romeo and Ethel the Sea Pirate's Daughter?" Might the emotional turmoil inspire him to recraft the play into a tragedy with a more familiar-sounding name? You'll have to watch this multiple Oscar-winner to find out!
Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Judi Dench, Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth, Ben Affleck, Imelda Staunton, Tom Wilkinson
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1994 The Shawshank Redemption Frank Darabont
Genre: Drama, Crime Dramas, 20th Century Period Pieces, Period Pieces, Inspirational Stories, Blu-ray, Warner Home Video
Synopsis: Upstanding banker Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is framed for a double murder in the 1940s and begins a life sentence at the Shawshank prison, where he's befriended by an older inmate named Red (Morgan Freeman). During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates for his upstanding moral code and unquenchable sense of hope. Bob Gunton (who's memorable as the amoral prison warden) co-stars in this Oscar nominee for Best Picture.
Actors: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows, Mark Rolston, James Whitmore, Jeffrey DeMunn, Larry Brandenburg, Neil Giuntoli, Brian Libby, David Proval, Joseph Ragno, Jude Ciccolella, Paul McCrane
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