Best movies that are award winners or nominees in writing (screenplay based on material previously produced or published) category

Raggedy Man(1981)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 4

It's 1944 in the small town of Gregory, Texas. Divorcée Nita Longley has been brought into the town by the telephone company to work as its switchboard operator, a job which requires her to...



Making Love(1982)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A successful young L.A. doctor and his equally successful television-producer wife find their happily-ever-after life torn assunder when he suddenly confronts his long-repressed attraction ...



Le bal(1983)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The 50 year story of a ballroom in France, from the 1920s. The people who go there is always the same, even the musicians. You can see all kind of people dancing all the fashion dances (...



It Started in Naples(1960)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Mike Hamilton, a Philadelphia lawyer, comes to Naples to settle the estate of his long estranged "black sheep" brother. Once there, he discovers that the deceased has left an eight-year old...



La vérité(1960)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Dominique Marceau is on trial for the murder of Gilbert Tellier. The counsels duel relentlessly, elaborating explanations for why the pretty, idle and fickle girl killed the talented and ...



Can-Can(1960)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Montmartre, 1896: the Can-Can, the dance in which the women lift their skirts, is forbidden. Nevertheless Simone has it performed every day in her night club. Her employees use their female...



The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond(1960)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 5

Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewellery thieves. After a spell in jail the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from thieves himself...



Town Without Pity(1961)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Four American soldiers stationed near a German village face death in the rape of a local girl and are defended by outside counsel Major Steve Garrett.



Plácido(1961)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In a small spanish town, a group of old ladies decide to celebrate Christmas Eve with a "Sit a poor man at your table" dinner: each wealthy household of the town will have a homeless person...



Phaedra(1962)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 4

The powerful Greek shipowner and constructor Thanos proposes to marry Phaedra during the baptism of a ship with her name. Phaedra, who is the daughter of Thanos'greatest competitor, is a ...



Period of Adjustment(1962)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 5

On December 23rd, Korean War veteran George Haverstick and nurse Isabel Crane - who George lovingly refers to as "Little Bit" - get married in a civil ceremony. They met when George was ...



Summer Magic(1963)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A Bostonian widow moves with her kids to the country.



Dear Heart(1964)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 5

Single and alone, Evie arrives in New York for the annual Postmasters' convention. Staying at her hotel is a womanising salesman newly promoted to his marketing department and trying to ...



The Whisperers(1967)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 5

The title refers to the creatures a very poor addled old lady (Dame Edith Evans) imagines in her paranoid fantasies. They lurk behind every drip, drip, drip of a leaky faucet. They listen ...



Isadora(1968)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free ...



Star!(1968)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A musical biography of Gertrude Lawrence, who led a hustling and bustling life on the stage.



The Subject Was Roses(1968)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 4

A young man returning home from World War II finds himself caught up in his parents' turbulent relationship.



Lovers and Other Strangers(1970)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 5

Mike Vecchio and Susan Henderson are preparing for their upcoming wedding. However, they seem to be the only two people at the wedding that are happy. Mike's brother Richie and his wife ...



The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds(1972)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

From the Pullizer Prize winning play by Paul Zindel, this is the story of Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters, Ruth and Matilda. A middle-aged widowed eccentric, Beatrice is looking for ...



The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea(1976)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 5

After his father dies, a disturbed young boy plots to take revenge on the new man in his mother's life.




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