Just for fun, I recently listed 10 movies that had an impact on me, posting just one image per film on social media, with no explanations. Of course there are many, many more films that I could have chosen, but these ones came instinctively at this time and so they made this particular top ten list.

Using the hashtag #creditwriters, there is currently an important campaign to credit the writers of films, who are very often omitted from not just film posters and advertising, but also from film festival, award, review and media coverage.

Hence this post. So here are the films I listed, with all due credit to the amazing writers who conjured these incredible stories. Without them, we would not have such extraordinary movies to watch, which in my case means several times over!

THE BABADOOK 

Written and Directed by Jennifer Kent.

 

THE OTHERS

Written and Directed by Alejandro Amenábar

 

THE APARTMENT

Written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond

 

THE INNOCENTS

Based on The Turn of The Screw by Henry James.

Screenplay by William Archibold, Truman Capote and John Mortimer

 

THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER

Based on the novel by Davis Grubb

Screenplay written by James Agee

 

THE SIXTH SENSE

Written and Directed by M. Night. Shyamalan

 

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE

Based on the novel by Henry Farrell. Screenplay by Lukas Heller

 

PAN’S LABYRINTH

Written and Directed by Guillermo Del Toro

 

SUNSET BOULEVARD

Written by Charles Brackett, S.M. Marshman and Billy Wilder

 

ANGEL HEART

Based on the novel by William Hjortsberg. Screenplay by Alan Parker

 

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About Caroline: Writer and Director of FRAMED (2018). Author of the novel, LADY BETH (2017), winner of the Carousel Aware Prize. Writer of the short films ADAM (2013) and the award-winning IN RIBBONS (2015).