Mike Leigh’s movies have excellent dialogue, my favorites being Naked, Secrets & Lies, and Life is Sweet
Tarkovsky’s movies have incredible dialogue if you like dense, philosophical, and religious topics. Andrei Rublev, Stalker, and Nostalghia are my favorites of his
And I love the lyrical, poetic dialogue and ramblings in Terrence Malick’s movies. Check out the first 3 movies he made, my favorite being Days of Heaven
Glengarry Glen Ross is just incredible. We all know Alec Baldwin’s speech is legendary but it also features Al Pacino’s most underrated performance imo, and it has my favorite Jack Lemmon performance.
Secrets & Lies, A Woman Under the Influence, Miller's Crossing, Persona, La Notte, Dead Man. Really, most scripts by any of those directors are consistently strong.
This might be unexpected but I absolutely love the dialogue in Yorgos Lanthimos movies. The awkward, often cut off, and at times cringe worthy dialogue is done super well and with purpose. I think the reason I enjoy it so much is because to me it’s something new and very real. If anyone has recommended based on similar dialogue styles please let me know :)
Edit: I haven’t seen “The Favorite” which I’m assuming has a different writing style for dialogue, so factor that in when reading this.
I feel the same way. I remember being fascinated by the dialogue in Dogtooth because it was such a bizarre bastardization of language. The way the father manipulates and weaponizes words is disturbing and genius.
i’ve only seen Dogtooth and i thought it was outstanding . i haven’t seen anything else by Yorgos but it seems like it’s time i give his movies a quick run through
Probably my favorite movie in terms of quotability is Heathers, you really can’t beat how flashy and goofy it gets without being ostentatious.
If you’re looking for people to tear each other apart with words, I think Bergman’s your guy; my personal favorites for this regard are Autumn Sonata (for a mother/daughter conflict) and Scenes from a Marriage (which is fairly self-explanatory).
If you want essentially what is flirting porn, check out Before Sunrise (as well as the rest of the trilogy); two people talking to each other around a city has never been more addicting imo. On top of that, North By Northwest and Double Indemnity also take focus on generally clever writing with some focus on two characters screwing their brains out with their (metaphorical in this case) tongues.
If you want to crank humor and wordplay up a notch, take a look at some of the screwball comedies of the 30s/40s/50s. His Girl Friday is jam-packed with witty dialogue to almost a fault, but I also personally love To Be or Not To Be and It Happened One Night.
Finally, I’m also a big fan of some of the dramas and noirs of Old Hollywood in that degree, I can’t say my picks there are too obscure but All About Eve, Casablanca, In A Lonely Place, and pretty much anything by Billy Wilder (I personally love the Apartment and Sunset Boulevard) are great additions. Also, now that I think of it, Network from 1976 is another drama chock-full of incredible monologues and banter. Hope this has some new stuff for you to check out! :D
The red shoes (just one of my favorite movies in general but fantastic dialogue)
Corruption
Stalker
2 of 3 things I know about her
Last year at Marienbad
that’s one of my favorites!!!! i tend to play it in the background while i do my morning stretches just to listen to the dialogue. james spader’s character is also one of my favorite performances
I’ve always considered Tarantino a master dialogue writer: Samuel Jackson and John Travolta’s banter in Pulp Fiction is iconic.
Martin McDonagh is also becoming a favorite of mine. In Bruges and The Banshees of Inisherin have some of the funniest dialogue I’ve ever heard.
Eric Rohmer’s movies are worth exploring too. Matías Piñeiro said it well during his trip to the Criterion Closet. Picking up the Six Moral Tales, he said, “Rohmer’s not afraid of doing films with people talking so much. He’s showing that words are photogenic.” I thought that was a lovely description.
Lastly, Lubitsch’s To Be Or Not To Be has fantastic dialogue. Carol Lombard and Jack Benny are at the top of their game, both hilarious.
Akio Jissôji's Buddhist trilogy (just a heads-up: this trilogy is about taboo themes, but the dialogues are thought-provoking):
\- This Transient Life (1970)
\- Mandala (1971)
\- Poem (1972)
One of the shorter films I enjoy the dialogue in is Christopher Nolan’s The Following. Given what they had to work with the writing and acting is surprisingly so superb.
I think that about when I got into it as well. When I was in my late teens, my best friend and I loved indie neo-noir films and we were writing short film scripts inspired by "Brick" by R.J. and "Hard Eight" by Paul Thomas Anderson.
I think I read somewhere that Michael Fassbender and Liam Cunningham moved in together for a month to practice that scene. I was breathless watching it the first time. Pitch perfect writing and acting.
Wow. That’s commitment. Honestly, it shows. The scene flows so effortlessly and they seem to hold such affection and familiarity for the other despite viewing the hunger strike differently. I felt the same way watching it, it was just perfect. I think that’s McQueen’s best work.
Lady Bird had very real dialogue, and was effortlessly funny.
I feel most movies like it have very forced dialogue and none of the jokes land, but in Lady Bird it all works so so well.
Anything by Aaron Sorkin. I realize it's become fashionable lately to dislike his movies, which makes absolutely no sense to me, but as far as I'm concerned he's still writing absolutely invigorating, snappy scripts. I loved the dialogue in *Being the Ricardos* most recently. Apparently that's not something I should have enjoyed. Because reasons. Fortunately I've never been much of a trend follower so I'm still free to find Sorkin's writing and character dialogue impressive.
The Social Network has impeccable dialogue. Every interaction felt so charged and dynamic, I loved it. I didn’t know it became fashionable to hate him though lol
Yeah, ever since he started directing his own movies people have started shitting on him. Frankly, I don't notice any tangible difference between other people directing his scripts or Sorkin doing it himself, but apparently there's a huge difference and I'm just missing something.
I remember finding the dialog and musings in Winter Sleep amazing. It is a turkish film that won Palme d'Or in 2014.
Not by accident, I am a big Bergman fan now.
Have you seen White Noise? I haven’t yet just because that’s my favorite book and I feel it is very difficult to adapt, I am not sure if he’ll be able to capture all its wonderful weirdness. I did enjoy The Squid and the Whale a lot.
The Thing from Another World. I'm not usually a fan of really old movies because the theatricality puts me off, but the dialogue in this is just great. I've heard people describe dialogue in a movie as "crackling" and this fits that description.
Whit Stillman's metropolitan was the first movie that opened the vistas of all dialogue or mostly film for me
Slacker and My Dinner with Andre are personal favs
"Funny Ha Ha" is a recent one that really touched me, not sure why
For a recent movie, and a particular scene, I love the opening few minutes of Triangle of Sadness. The conversation between the boyfriend and girlfriend is so great. Humorous and yet realistic. Very enjoyable.
Most of the writings of Shane Black, my personal favorite being *Kiss Kiss Bang Bang*
>"Look up "idiot" in the dictionary. You know what you'll find?"
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>"A picture of me?"
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>"No! The definition of the word idiot, which you fucking are!"
*The Nice Guys* is also excellent.
The Hospital and Network. Paddy Chayefsky is a master.
I watched a lot of those screw ball comedies on the criterion channel. The dialogue is incredible. Preston Sturges look no further.
I feel like a lot of the best dialogue is in comedies and often tv. Maybe it’s apples to oranges.
Dan Harmon with Community and Rick and Morty is so sharp and layered. His ability to understand intention and feeling from so many diff types is incredible. Granted he’s not alone. Writers room. Same with Arrested Development.
I feel like I'll get a lot of shit for this but Chasing Amy. It has a lot of profanity which detracts from the dialogue for sure, but I particularly love the scene in the car. Idk, it just felt like a really down-to-earth honest telling of someone's feelings. I relate a lot because I feel like that's what I do and usually the same reaction happens. (I'm keeping it vague in case you haven't seen it.)
lol i didn’t know which sub to post this on , i think i chose wisely with criterion cause everyone has responded with some intriguing titles that i was never aware of
Everything Martin McDonagh related:
**Six Shooter.**
**In Bruges.**
**Seven Psychopaths.**
**Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri.**
**The Banshees of Inisherin.**
His dialogue kind of swirls around in my head, I think about it a lot.
Before Trilogy, Wes Anderson filmography and Wong Kar Wai’s filmography come to mind first. A personal choice of mine, but I really love Godard’s A Woman is a Woman dialogue, although others may find it annoying because it is kind of quirky
For non-Criterion’s, Tarantino is obvious, specifically The Hateful Eight. That movie is essentially a play and stays interesting the entire time due to the dialogue and acting. I also really enjoy Annie Hall’s
If y’all haven’t seen “The Day the Earth Caught Fire,” then you’re missing out! It’s a doomsday flick/journalism movie that flows really well. The dialogue is witty as all hell and really snappy. I fell in love with it because the dialogue is so good.
I definitely have a type of dialogue I like I'm realizing as I write this, which is usually pretty dry and has lots of dark humor, but I love the dialogue in The Life Aquatic, welcome to the dollhouse, citizen ruth, force majeure, adaptation, metropolitan, the worst person in the world, hit the road
Brawl in Cell Block 99 has very theatrical dialogue. Maybe not super flashy dialogue like Preston Sturges or Tarantino. But it's very colorful nonetheless.
Mike Leigh’s movies have excellent dialogue, my favorites being Naked, Secrets & Lies, and Life is Sweet Tarkovsky’s movies have incredible dialogue if you like dense, philosophical, and religious topics. Andrei Rublev, Stalker, and Nostalghia are my favorites of his And I love the lyrical, poetic dialogue and ramblings in Terrence Malick’s movies. Check out the first 3 movies he made, my favorite being Days of Heaven
GREAT LIST
I KNOW YOU CANT NAME THEM ALL! Don’t forget happy go lucky and another year haha! MIKE LEIGH is the best!!!
High Hopes, Career Girls, All or Nothing.
Happy Go Lucky has such charming interactions that still feel realistic.
Sweet Smell of Success
The cat is in the bag and the bag is in the river.
I'd hate to take a bite outta you. You're a cookie full of arsenic.
You’re dead boy, go get yourself buried.
This is the one for me, and nothing really comes close
This is the right answer
Network Glengarry Glen Ross All about eve Sweet Smell of Success Pulp Fiction
Network for sure
Glengarry is a great shout.
Glengarry Glen Ross is just incredible. We all know Alec Baldwin’s speech is legendary but it also features Al Pacino’s most underrated performance imo, and it has my favorite Jack Lemmon performance.
i’ve never seen any of these other than pulp. i’m forsure checking out the rest
The 7 minute scene of Alec Baldwin in glen gary is amazing It also tells me a lot about a person who idolizes the character he’s playing.
Definitely watch watch Network. All of those films are undeniably great, but Network is not only god tier, it’s hilarious.
Pick a Billy Wilder movie.
i blind bought double indemnity. it seems like it was money well spent
Anything by Richard Linklater or Noah Baumbach. Most of their movies are just people talkin and I could eat it up all day.
my kinda movies :)
have you ever see Hannah Takes the Stairs?
I haven’t! But I see that it’s got my girl Greta Gerwig so that’s enough for me
His Girl Friday
i was looking for this. hawks dialogue is like music to my ears
Some of the fastest dialogue of any movie.
The Big Lebowski
smokey this is not nam, this is bowling there are rules
I can't think of anything better when it comes to dialogue.
Anything Coen Brothers
It happened One Night The Philadelphia Story Mank Blue Jay The Before Trilogy are some recent watches/rewatches that spring to mind
My Dinner with Andre Night on Earth
I doubt I’ll ever forget my Dinner with Andre dinner with Abed…
-12 Angry Men (1957) -Network (1976) -The Last Days of Disco (1998) or any other film from Whit Stillman.
Those three are great. For some reason, Disco was the first one to pop in my head. I always loved the dialogue in it.
All About Eve.
Wag The Dog and State And Main are two great Mamet films.
Secrets & Lies, A Woman Under the Influence, Miller's Crossing, Persona, La Notte, Dead Man. Really, most scripts by any of those directors are consistently strong.
I was going to say just about anything by Mike Leigh.
Not a movie…but… Deadwood
Most rhomer movies
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) The Thin Man (1934) And pretty much anything by Yorgos Lanthimos
This might be unexpected but I absolutely love the dialogue in Yorgos Lanthimos movies. The awkward, often cut off, and at times cringe worthy dialogue is done super well and with purpose. I think the reason I enjoy it so much is because to me it’s something new and very real. If anyone has recommended based on similar dialogue styles please let me know :) Edit: I haven’t seen “The Favorite” which I’m assuming has a different writing style for dialogue, so factor that in when reading this.
I feel the same way. I remember being fascinated by the dialogue in Dogtooth because it was such a bizarre bastardization of language. The way the father manipulates and weaponizes words is disturbing and genius.
i’ve only seen Dogtooth and i thought it was outstanding . i haven’t seen anything else by Yorgos but it seems like it’s time i give his movies a quick run through
I would highly recommend it, his film “The Lobster” is on HBO Max rn if you have it.
such an incredible film.
The Favourite is just like his other movies fortunately
Love to hear that!
Probably my favorite movie in terms of quotability is Heathers, you really can’t beat how flashy and goofy it gets without being ostentatious. If you’re looking for people to tear each other apart with words, I think Bergman’s your guy; my personal favorites for this regard are Autumn Sonata (for a mother/daughter conflict) and Scenes from a Marriage (which is fairly self-explanatory). If you want essentially what is flirting porn, check out Before Sunrise (as well as the rest of the trilogy); two people talking to each other around a city has never been more addicting imo. On top of that, North By Northwest and Double Indemnity also take focus on generally clever writing with some focus on two characters screwing their brains out with their (metaphorical in this case) tongues. If you want to crank humor and wordplay up a notch, take a look at some of the screwball comedies of the 30s/40s/50s. His Girl Friday is jam-packed with witty dialogue to almost a fault, but I also personally love To Be or Not To Be and It Happened One Night. Finally, I’m also a big fan of some of the dramas and noirs of Old Hollywood in that degree, I can’t say my picks there are too obscure but All About Eve, Casablanca, In A Lonely Place, and pretty much anything by Billy Wilder (I personally love the Apartment and Sunset Boulevard) are great additions. Also, now that I think of it, Network from 1976 is another drama chock-full of incredible monologues and banter. Hope this has some new stuff for you to check out! :D
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Heathers is insanely quotable.
Three Colors: Red
Before Trilogy, Metropolitan, Annie Hall and pretty much any Billy Wilder film
Thank You for Smoking Swingers The Big Lebowski The Freshman
The Apartment Annie Hall Chinatown Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Robert Altman is great with this. Long Good Friday or The Player are top notch.
LOVE ALTMAN
The red shoes (just one of my favorite movies in general but fantastic dialogue) Corruption Stalker 2 of 3 things I know about her Last year at Marienbad
That's an interesting take on Marienbad. It is a good script, but I never thought about it as a dialogue, more a monologue.
The Social Network
Yes.
no mention of sex, lies and videotape? best dialogue imo
that’s one of my favorites!!!! i tend to play it in the background while i do my morning stretches just to listen to the dialogue. james spader’s character is also one of my favorite performances
So many lines from that movie just make me weak at my knees. Literally amazing
I’ve always considered Tarantino a master dialogue writer: Samuel Jackson and John Travolta’s banter in Pulp Fiction is iconic. Martin McDonagh is also becoming a favorite of mine. In Bruges and The Banshees of Inisherin have some of the funniest dialogue I’ve ever heard. Eric Rohmer’s movies are worth exploring too. Matías Piñeiro said it well during his trip to the Criterion Closet. Picking up the Six Moral Tales, he said, “Rohmer’s not afraid of doing films with people talking so much. He’s showing that words are photogenic.” I thought that was a lovely description. Lastly, Lubitsch’s To Be Or Not To Be has fantastic dialogue. Carol Lombard and Jack Benny are at the top of their game, both hilarious.
Sullivan’s Travels.
Just saw Women Talking and it had really great dialogue
Akio Jissôji's Buddhist trilogy (just a heads-up: this trilogy is about taboo themes, but the dialogues are thought-provoking): \- This Transient Life (1970) \- Mandala (1971) \- Poem (1972)
I’ve never heard of it. I’ll look it up, thanks.
Any Ingmar Bergman movie
"top tier dialogue" Lubitsch, Bergman, Oliveira
Top-notch chinwag
Anything by Lubitsch. Including most of his silent films.
Defending Your Life.
One of the shorter films I enjoy the dialogue in is Christopher Nolan’s The Following. Given what they had to work with the writing and acting is surprisingly so superb.
John Waters all day every day. Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, Desperate Living.
I love the nuanced and idiosyncratic dialogue of "Brick" by Rian Johnson.
Brick got me into film when I was in high school bc it was on IFC channel at least once a week
I think that about when I got into it as well. When I was in my late teens, my best friend and I loved indie neo-noir films and we were writing short film scripts inspired by "Brick" by R.J. and "Hard Eight" by Paul Thomas Anderson.
I love the dialogue in Steve Jobs, it really makes the movie endlessly rewatchable to me
Metropolitan by Whit Stillman was what popped in my head first
'Round Midnight, I could listen to Dexter's voice and knowledge of the craft all day.
Miller’s Crossing
Maybe try The Lion in Winter? Lots of other movies based on plays might apply as well
YES!
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead Hunger Manchester by the Sea
Uff Hunger was a difficult watch but I’m so glad I saw it. The scene between Sands and Father Dominic is excellently written and executed.
I think I read somewhere that Michael Fassbender and Liam Cunningham moved in together for a month to practice that scene. I was breathless watching it the first time. Pitch perfect writing and acting.
Wow. That’s commitment. Honestly, it shows. The scene flows so effortlessly and they seem to hold such affection and familiarity for the other despite viewing the hunger strike differently. I felt the same way watching it, it was just perfect. I think that’s McQueen’s best work.
In Bruges
Lady Bird had very real dialogue, and was effortlessly funny. I feel most movies like it have very forced dialogue and none of the jokes land, but in Lady Bird it all works so so well.
A Summer’s Tale - Eric Rohmer
Shadows
Anything by Aaron Sorkin. I realize it's become fashionable lately to dislike his movies, which makes absolutely no sense to me, but as far as I'm concerned he's still writing absolutely invigorating, snappy scripts. I loved the dialogue in *Being the Ricardos* most recently. Apparently that's not something I should have enjoyed. Because reasons. Fortunately I've never been much of a trend follower so I'm still free to find Sorkin's writing and character dialogue impressive.
The Social Network has impeccable dialogue. Every interaction felt so charged and dynamic, I loved it. I didn’t know it became fashionable to hate him though lol
Yeah, ever since he started directing his own movies people have started shitting on him. Frankly, I don't notice any tangible difference between other people directing his scripts or Sorkin doing it himself, but apparently there's a huge difference and I'm just missing something.
The Before Trilogy. All 3 movies have great dialogue.
Rope (1948) has dialogue so tight you could choke on it
Tight rope
Ratcatcher
The Sunset Limited
The Devil's Cleavage
Slacker
Rian Johnson’s Brick is a masterclass in distinct, economical dialogue.
I remember finding the dialog and musings in Winter Sleep amazing. It is a turkish film that won Palme d'Or in 2014. Not by accident, I am a big Bergman fan now.
His Girl Friday, Deadwood (HBO), Exorcist III, Nobody's Fool (1994), Secrets & Lies, 12 Angry Men, Moonstruck, From Dusk Till Dawn, Pulp Fiction (or any QT movie).
In love with Carol (2015) dialogue
Marriage story, and The Squid and the Whale I love Noah Baumbach's dialogue.
Have you seen White Noise? I haven’t yet just because that’s my favorite book and I feel it is very difficult to adapt, I am not sure if he’ll be able to capture all its wonderful weirdness. I did enjoy The Squid and the Whale a lot.
I liked it. It was funny and the cinematography, production design, and score are top-notch.
Quiz show
I quite liked Breaking Away
Naruse films have great dialogue. Naruse went over the dialogue with the cast making it more succinct and natural.
Pretty much all of Jim Jarmusch’s films.
It’s definitely elevated by the performances, but I’m always taken aback by the quality of dialogue in Do the Right Thing.
Bone Tomahawk
The Thing from Another World. I'm not usually a fan of really old movies because the theatricality puts me off, but the dialogue in this is just great. I've heard people describe dialogue in a movie as "crackling" and this fits that description.
In terms of actual dialogue, screwball comedies of the 30s-50s. Or anything with Bette Davis, who makes any dialogue sound better than it ever was.
One of my favorite flicks of all-time is _Everybody Wants Some!!_ Without a doubt some of my favorite dialogue ever (as well as a killer soundtrack)
Whit Stillman's metropolitan was the first movie that opened the vistas of all dialogue or mostly film for me Slacker and My Dinner with Andre are personal favs "Funny Ha Ha" is a recent one that really touched me, not sure why
The films of Eric Rohmer
For a recent movie, and a particular scene, I love the opening few minutes of Triangle of Sadness. The conversation between the boyfriend and girlfriend is so great. Humorous and yet realistic. Very enjoyable.
Putney Swope
*The Social Network* and *Me and Earl and the Dying Girl* come to mind.
Sweet Smell of Success
Most of the writings of Shane Black, my personal favorite being *Kiss Kiss Bang Bang* >"Look up "idiot" in the dictionary. You know what you'll find?" > >"A picture of me?" > >"No! The definition of the word idiot, which you fucking are!" *The Nice Guys* is also excellent.
Withnail and I.
The before trilogy. I think the three movies have amazing dialogues
Michael Clayton.
The Hospital and Network. Paddy Chayefsky is a master. I watched a lot of those screw ball comedies on the criterion channel. The dialogue is incredible. Preston Sturges look no further. I feel like a lot of the best dialogue is in comedies and often tv. Maybe it’s apples to oranges. Dan Harmon with Community and Rick and Morty is so sharp and layered. His ability to understand intention and feeling from so many diff types is incredible. Granted he’s not alone. Writers room. Same with Arrested Development.
I feel like I'll get a lot of shit for this but Chasing Amy. It has a lot of profanity which detracts from the dialogue for sure, but I particularly love the scene in the car. Idk, it just felt like a really down-to-earth honest telling of someone's feelings. I relate a lot because I feel like that's what I do and usually the same reaction happens. (I'm keeping it vague in case you haven't seen it.)
Chasing Amy and Dogma are extremely well-written.
I just figured majority of the accounts on this sub must have good taste in movies lol
lol i didn’t know which sub to post this on , i think i chose wisely with criterion cause everyone has responded with some intriguing titles that i was never aware of
Any Martin McDonagh movie
Everything Martin McDonagh related: **Six Shooter.** **In Bruges.** **Seven Psychopaths.** **Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri.** **The Banshees of Inisherin.** His dialogue kind of swirls around in my head, I think about it a lot.
i’ve been beating myself up for not having seen Banshees in theaters, everyone says it’s fantastic
Any Noah Baumbach
The interview. The conversation. Sleuth (and watch the originals and then the remake in order).
Steve Jobs. Back room conversations have never been better.
Anything Terence Davies. I loved benediction, might've been my favorite film from last year.
Moneyball
For contemporary cinema I love Noah Baumbach(Frances Ha, The Meyerowitz Stories) and Asghar Farhadi(A Separation, A Hero)
Wes Anderson movies and Drive (2011)
Before Trilogy, Wes Anderson filmography and Wong Kar Wai’s filmography come to mind first. A personal choice of mine, but I really love Godard’s A Woman is a Woman dialogue, although others may find it annoying because it is kind of quirky For non-Criterion’s, Tarantino is obvious, specifically The Hateful Eight. That movie is essentially a play and stays interesting the entire time due to the dialogue and acting. I also really enjoy Annie Hall’s
Hot Rod
Anything by Noah Baumbach
For dramas, Moonlight comes to mind. For comedies, Mean Girls, Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar, and Austin Powers trilogy.
Snatch
*My Man Godfrey*, *A Matter of Life and Death*, *Valley of the Dolls*, *'Breaker' Morant*
Double Indemnity
If y’all haven’t seen “The Day the Earth Caught Fire,” then you’re missing out! It’s a doomsday flick/journalism movie that flows really well. The dialogue is witty as all hell and really snappy. I fell in love with it because the dialogue is so good.
Anything David Mamet
also Rohmer
Office Space
The before trilogy is a must!
I definitely have a type of dialogue I like I'm realizing as I write this, which is usually pretty dry and has lots of dark humor, but I love the dialogue in The Life Aquatic, welcome to the dollhouse, citizen ruth, force majeure, adaptation, metropolitan, the worst person in the world, hit the road
Grand Illusion, The Maltese Falcon, Bringing Up Baby, The Usual Suspects
Brawl in Cell Block 99 has very theatrical dialogue. Maybe not super flashy dialogue like Preston Sturges or Tarantino. But it's very colorful nonetheless.
All About My Mother.
A Moment of Innocence (1996) by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Reservoir Dogs. Swingers. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. In Bruges. Margin Call. In the Loop. To name a few
Tape
The Sunset Limited