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Top Films from Selected Screenwriters

The lists below include films based on work previous written by the screenwriter in question.

Tonino Guerra

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 L'Avventura 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni 196
2 Blow-Up 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni 266
3 Amarcord 1973 Federico Fellini 365
4 The Eclipse 1962 Michelangelo Antonioni 967
5 The Red Desert 1964 Michelangelo Antonioni 1101
6 La Notte 1961 Michelangelo Antonioni 1299
7 Nostalgia 1983 Andrei Tarkovsky 1675
8 The Night of the Shooting Stars 1982 Paolo and Vittorio Taviani 2190
9 Landscape in the Mist 1988 Theodoros Angelopoulos 2262
10 Zabriskie Point 1970 Michelangelo Antonioni 2321

Ben Hecht

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 17
2 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 72
3 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 104
4 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 106
5 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock 235
6 Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma 239
7 Scarface 1932 Howard Hawks 328
8 Wuthering Heights 1939 William Wyler 412
9 The Shop around the Corner 1940 Ernst Lubitsch 472
10 The Thing from Another World 1951 Christian Nyby 513
11 Gunga Din 1939 George Stevens 623
12 Gilda 1946 Charles Vidor 643
13 Queen Christina 1933 Rouben Mamoulian 800
14 Foreign Correspondent 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 1054
15 Rope 1948 Alfred Hitchcock 1055
16 Guys and Dolls 1955 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1076
17 Twentieth Century 1934 Howard Hawks 1116
18 Angels with Dirty Faces 1938 Michael Curtiz 1145
19 Duel in the Sun 1946 King Vidor 1146
20 Spellbound 1945 Alfred Hitchcock 1289
21 Kiss of Death 1947 Henry Hathaway 1312
22 Cleopatra 1963 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1397
23 The Man with the Golden Arm 1955 Otto Preminger 1480
24 The Prisoner of Zenda 1937 John Cromwell 1519
25 Monkey Business 1931 Norman Z. McLeod 1754
26 The Front Page 1931 Lewis Milestone 1844
27 Nothing Sacred 1937 William A. Wellman 1880
28 Million Dollar Legs 1932 Edward F. Cline 2006
29 A Star Is Born 1937 William A. Wellman 2159
30 Portrait of Jennie 1948 William Dieterle 2196
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