The Daily Script : movie scripts - find your favorite movie and use its script to learn English: listen and repeat, read and then watch without reading, etc.
The Weekly Script : with comments
Actors and actresses with a little webpage here:
Audrey Hepburn
Vanessa Redgrave
Movies to work with throughout the year
Bewitched (USA, 2005) - Suggested Movie
High Fidelity (USA, 2000) - Suggested Movie and Reading
The Day the Earth Stood Still (USA, 1951) - Suggested Reading for all
Better than Sex (Australia, 2000)
Casablanca (USA, 1942) - Suggested Movie/Reading
Breakfast at Tiffany's (USA, 1961)
To Kill a Mockingbird (USA, 1962) - under construction
The Vagina Monologues (International, updated every year)
Grease (USA, 1978) - plus script by scenes Suggested Movie/Reading
Favorite Scenes (send in yours with your comment!)
Singing in the Rain
Pulp Fiction: the Dancing scene
More suggested scripts/movies (not printer-friendly like the ones above. If you wish to prepare a printer-friendly version, please get in touch):
Shrek
Suggested Movie/Reading (easier than others)
From The Weekly Script (brief comment before script):
The African Queen, All About Eve, All the President's Men, American Beauty, American Graffiti, Annie Hall.
From The Daily Script:
2001 - A Space Odyssey
(Kubrick, 1968)
The Fifth Element
(1997)
The Addams Family
(156 pages) Suggested Movie/Reading
American Beauty
(1999) Suggested Movie/Reading
Antz
(1998)
The Apartment
(Billy Wilder, 1960)
Blade Runner
(1981)
The Big Sleep
(1946) (
173 pages) (on Raymond Chandler's novel, script by Faulkner et al!)
Dances with Wolves
(1990) (
133 pages) Suggested Movie/Reading
Dead Poets Society (1989)
The Flinstones (1987) (
125 pages)
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
(1981)(
105 pages)
Kiss of the Spider Woman
(1985) (Manuel Puig's novel into English!) (
116 pages)
The Matrix
(1999) (
133 pages)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
(1975)
The Planet of Apes
(1967)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
(Billy Wilder, 1970)(
140 pages) Suggested Movie/Reading
Rebel without a Cause
(1955)
Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves
(1991) (
133 pages)
Sex, Lies and Videotapes
(1989)
Spanglish
(2004) (
129 pages)
Strangers on a Train
(1951) (
148 pages; with bookmarks)
The Talented Mr Ripley
(1999) (Patricia Highsmith)
Thelma & Louise
(1991)
Trainspotting
(1996)
Vertigo
(1958)
You've Got Mail
(1998)
Audios from movies to listen & repeat!
Scripts to read aloud and listen and repeat!
Free Movies Here is a selection:
The Phantom of the Opera
(1925; 1h46')
The Time Machine
(1960, 1h45')
Yellow Submarine
(1968, 1h25')
4 Buster Keaton Shorts
(2h10')
Chaplin: Modern Times
(1936, 1h20')
Educational Movies
(For learning activities, more ideas...)
Musicals: Hair, My Fair Lady, West Side Story, The Worst Witch
SciFi: Blade Runner
Movies based on books: Fried Green Tomatoes (check out the Workshop on Writers at our Literature section), Hamlet, To Kill a Mockingbird
More: Barefoot in the Park, Shrek, Life of Brian, Little Women (classic and modern versions)