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

Actors : Lorraine Gary, Kathleen Quinlan, Bibi Andersson, Ben Piazza,
Directors : Anthony Page,

A disturbed,institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.

Actors : Jeff Corey, Tom Berenger, William Katt, John Schuck,
Directors : Richard Lester,

A prequel of sorts to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) which chronicles the two outlaws' lives in the years before the events portrayed in the 1969 movie.

Actors : Gena Rowlands, Susan Sarandon, John Cassavetes, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in for a spiritual exile on a remote Greek ...

Actors : Teri Garr, Mac Davis, Karl Malden, Jackie Gleason,
Directors : Jeremy Kagan,

Lonnegan is planning to get back at Gondorff and Hooker for bilking him out of half a million. At the same time Gondorff and Hooker are planning their next caper. And their mark is a man ...

Actors : Roberts Blossom, Kelly McGillis, Tom Conti, Joel Fabiani,
Directors : Robert Ellis Miller,

A drunken Scottish poet, who has not written a word in years, feels compelled to regain control of his life and work after meeting a beautiful young woman.

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Sissy Spacek, Ed Berke, Carol Robbins,
Directors : Tom Moore,

What would you do if someone you loved sat down with you one night and calmly told you that they were going to end their life before morning? This is Thelma Cates' dilemma. Her daughter, ...

Actors : Joanne Woodward, John Malkovich, James Naughton, Karen Allen,
Directors : Paul Newman,

A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.

Actors : Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Patricia Owens, Vic Damone,
Directors : Phil Karlson,

When his adoptive Japanese-American family is sent to Manzanar after Pearl Harbor, a young Chicano enlists in the marines to become a hero in the Battle of Saipan.

Actors : Didi Perego, Laurent Terzieff, Emmanuelle Riva, Susan Strasberg,
Directors : Gillo Pontecorvo,

A young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.

Actors : Bernard Lee, Pier Angeli, Richard Attenborough, Michael Craig,
Directors : Guy Green,

A young factory worker decides to stand up against his work-mates and fellow union members when they want to hold a wildcat strike.

Actors : Leslie Caron, Horst Buchholz, Charles Boyer, Maurice Chevalier,
Directors : Joshua Logan,

A love triangle between a young woman, a rich 60-something man and an aspiring sailor set in early 20th century Marseilles.

Actors : Geraldine Page, Una Merkel, Rita Moreno, Laurence Harvey,
Directors : Peter Glenville,

Plain, repressed spinster falls for a dashing young medical student, but he prefers the wilder life, until it's too late.

Actors : Alec Guinness, Madlyn Rhue, Rosalind Russell, Ray Danton,
Directors : Mervyn LeRoy,

A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the lessons of tolerance, kindness and forgiveness.

Actors : Geraldine Page, Dean Martin, Yvette Mimieux, Wendy Hiller,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

Julian Berniers and Lily Prine have just gotten married. They have been in Chicago on business before returning to their home town of New Orleans, where they will meet with Julian's older ...

Actors : Nan Martin, Sidney Poitier, Abbey Lincoln, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Daniel Mann,

A white family has had the same black maid for many years. When she tells them she wants to go back to school and will be leaving soon, the 20ish year old son decides what she needs is a ...

Actors : Harry Andrews, Timothy Dalton, Anna Calder-Marshall, Pamela Brown,
Directors : Robert Fuest,

Doomed lovers Catherine and Heathcliff are torn apart by their own selfishness and hate.

Actors : Dustin Hoffman, David Burns, Jack Warden, Barbara Harris,
Directors : Ulu Grosbard,

Georgie Soloway, a pop hit love song writer who cannot love, himself, or others. He spends his days with various women flying his plane, and dropping in to the world around him.

Actors : Johnny Whitaker, Celeste Holm, Jeff East, Warren Oates,
Directors : Don Taylor,

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral, and witnessing a murder.

Actors : Roger Moore, Bradford Dillman, Ray Milland, Susannah York,
Directors : Peter R. Hunt,

Rod Slater is the newly appointed general manager of the Sonderditch gold mine, but he stumbles across an ingenious plot to flood the mine, by drilling into an underground lake, so the ...

Actors : Jeannette Clift, Robert Rietty, Arthur O'Connell, Julie Harris,
Directors : James F. Collier,

Corrie and Betsie ten Boom are middle-aged sisters working in their father's watchmaker shop in pre-WWII Holland. Their uneventful lives are disrupted with the coming of the Nazis. ...