Writers A–Z
All credited writers with at least one title.
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) A.K. Lohithadas
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) A.R. Murugadoss
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Aaron Sorkin
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Abbas Kiarostami
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Abrar Alvi
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Aditya Chopra
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Agatha Christie
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Agenore Incrocci
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Agnes Varda
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Akhtar-Ul-Iman
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Aki Kaurismaki
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Akira Kurosawa
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Akiva Goldsman
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Albert Hackett
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Alex Kurtzman
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Allan Scott
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Anders Thomas Jensen
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Andrei Tarkovsky
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Andrew Stanton
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Anthony Shaffer
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Anurag Kashyap
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Arunabh Kumar
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Asghar Farhadi
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Astrid Lindgren
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Balakumaran
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Ben Hecht
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Billy Wilder
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Blake Edwards
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Bob Kane
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Bong Joon Ho
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Bram Stoker
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Bruce Geller
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Buster Keaton
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Cagan Irmak
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Carl Mayer
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Carl Theodor Dreyer
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Cem Yilmaz
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Cesare Zavattini
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Charles Bennett
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Charles Brackett
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Charles Chaplin
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Charles Dickens
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Charles Lederer
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Chi Udayashankar
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Chris Sanders
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Christopher Markus
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Christopher Mcquarrie
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Christopher Nolan
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Claude Chabrol
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Clyde Bruckman
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Crazy Mohan
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) D.N. Mukherjee
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Damon Lindelof
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Dario Argento
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Dashiell Hammett
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) David Koepp
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) David Lynch
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) David S. Goyer
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Derek Kolstad
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Dudley Nichols
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Ebru Ceylan
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Edgar Wright
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Edward F. Cline
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Eldar Ryazanov
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Emeric Pressburger
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Emil Braginskiy
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Ennio Flaiano
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Erdman Penner
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Eric Rohmer
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Eric Roth
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Ernest Lehman
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Ernst Lubitsch
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Ethan Coen
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Farhan Akhtar
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Fatih Akin
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Federico Fellini
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Fran Walsh
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Frances Goodrich
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Francis Ford Coppola
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Francois Truffaut
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Frank S. Nugent
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Fritz Lang
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Furio Scarpelli
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Gautam Siddharth
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Gautham Vasudev Menon
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Gene Roddenberry
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) George Froeschel
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) George Lucas
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) George Miller
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) George S. Kaufman
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Georges Melies
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Gerard Brach
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Giuseppe Tornatore
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Graham Greene
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Guillermo Del Toro
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Gulzar
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Guy Ritchie
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) H. Banerjee
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) H.G. Wells
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Hans Christian Andersen
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Harold Ramis
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Hayao Miyazaki
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Henri-Georges Clouzot
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Hideaki Anno
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Hideo Oguni
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Hirokazu Koreeda
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Howard Koch
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Hriday Lani
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Hrishikesh Mukherjee
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) I.A.L. Diamond
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Ian Fleming
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Inder Raj Anand
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Ingmar Bergman
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) J.K. Rowling
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Jacques Audiard
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Jacques Prevert
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Jacques Tati
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Jainendra Jain
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) James Cameron
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) James Gunn
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) James L. Brooks
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) James Poe
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Jan Svankmajer
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Jandhyala
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Jane Goldman
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Javed Akhtar
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Javed Siddiqui
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Jean Cocteau
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Jean Gruault
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Jean Renoir
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Jean-Claude Carriere
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Jean-Luc Godard
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Jean-Pierre Dardenne
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Jean-Pierre Melville
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Jeethu Joseph
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Jeffrey Boam
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Jim Jarmusch
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Jo Swerling
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Joel Coen
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) John Cleese
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) John Hughes
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) John Huston
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) John L. Balderston
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) John Lasseter
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) John Lee Mahin
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) John Logan
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) John Michael Hayes
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) John Steinbeck
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) John Woo
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Jonathan Nolan
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Joss Whedon
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Jules Furthman
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Jules Verne
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) K. Balachander
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) K. Viswanath
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Kader Khan
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Kamal Haasan
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Kaneto Shindo
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Kogo Noda
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Krzysztof Kieslowski
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Krzysztof Piesiewicz
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Lal
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Lana Wachowski
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Larry Clemmons
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Lars Von Trier
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Lawrence Kasdan
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Leonardo Benvenuti
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Leonid Gaidai
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Lev Tolstoy
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Louis Malle
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Luc Besson
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Luc Dardenne
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Luchino Visconti
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Luciano Vincenzoni
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Luis Bunuel
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Mani Ratnam
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Manoj Kumar
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Marcel Pagnol
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Mario Puzo
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Max Ophuls
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Mel Brooks
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Michael Haneke
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Michael Maltese
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Michael Powell
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Michael Wilson
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Michelangelo Antonioni
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Morrie Ryskind
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Nabendu Ghosh
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Nasir Hussain
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Neeraj Pandey
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Nick Park
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Nuri Bilge Ceylan
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Oliver Stone
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Orson Welles
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) P. Padmarajan
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Park Chan-Wook
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Paul Thomas Anderson
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Pedro Almodovar
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Pete Docter
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Peter Morgan
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Philippa Boyens
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Piero De Bernardi
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Preston Sturges
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Priyadarshan
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Quentin Tarantino
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) R.C. Sherriff
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Rabindranath Tagore
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Rahi Masoom Reza
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Rajinder Singh Bedi
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Rajkumar Hirani
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Ramanand Sagar
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Ramesh Pant
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Ranjit Kapoor
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Richard Brooks
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Richard Curtis
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Richard Linklater
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Richard Maibaum
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Richard Matheson
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Rick Jaffa
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Rifat Ilgaz
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Ritwik Ghatak
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Roald Dahl
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Robert Bresson
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Robert Louis Stevenson
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Robert Riskin
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Rod Serling
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Roman Polanski
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Roy Huggins
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Ryuzo Kikushima
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) S. Shankar
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) S.S. Rajamouli
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Sachin Bhowmick
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Sadik Sendil
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Salim Khan
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Sam Raimi
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Samudrala Raghavacharya
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Samuel Hoffenstein
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Sanjay Leela Bhansali
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Satyadev Dubey
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Satyajit Ray
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Sergei Eisenstein
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Sergey Bondarchuk
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Sergio Leone
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Seton I. Miller
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Shane Black
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Shinobu Hashimoto
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Shyam Benegal
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Siddique
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Sidney Buchman
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Sreenivasan
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Stan Lee
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Stanley Kubrick
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Stephen King
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Steve Ditko
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Steve Kloves
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Steven Spielberg
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Steven Zaillian
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Sujatha
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Suso Cecchi D'Amico
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Suzanne Schiffman
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Sylvester Stallone
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Takeshi Kitano
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Tapan Sinha
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Taylor Sheridan
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Ted Elliott
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Ted Sears
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Terry Gilliam
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Terry Rossio
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Thea Von Harbou
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Tom Tykwer
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Tonino Guerra
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Tony Gilroy
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Tullio Pinelli
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Vasiliy Solovyov
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Vetrimaaran
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Vidhu Vinod Chopra
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Vijay Anand
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Vijayendra Prasad
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) W.R. Burnett
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Walter Reisch
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Werner Herzog
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Wes Anderson
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) William Goldman
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) William Shakespeare
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Wim Wenders
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Wong Kar-Wai
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Woody Allen
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Yasujiro Ozu
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Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Yavuz Turgul