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

Actors : Slim Pickens, Amy Irving, Dyan Cannon, Willie Nelson,
Directors : Jerry Schatzberg,

Willie Nelson is a country singer on the road caught in a romantic triangle with Dyan Cannon and Amy Irving, the daughter of one of his longtime musical sidekick.

Actors : Sally Field, Paul Dooley, Jeff Bridges, James Caan,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

Not until three years after the death of her husband Jolly, Kay dares to move back into their former home, persuaded by her new fiancé Rupert. But soon her worst expectations come true, ...

Actors : Wilford Brimley, Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange, Matt Clark,
Directors : Richard Pearce,

Gilbert Ivy and his wife Jewell are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gilbert has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous, but his wife ...

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Gene Hackman, Ann-Margret, Amy Madigan,
Directors : Bud Yorkin,

A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate....

Actors : Nick Nolte, Rita Taggart, Ernie Hudson, Mark Rolston,
Directors : John D. Hancock,

A San Quentin inmate, sentenced to life without parole, writes a play that catches the interest of a reporter.

Actors : Kristin Scott Thomas, James Wilby, Richard Beale, Jackson Kyle,
Directors : Charles Sturridge,

The wife's affair and a death in the family hasten the demise of an upper-class English marriage.

Actors : Capucine, Patricia Morison, Dirk Bogarde, Geneviève Page,

The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt (Dirk Bogarde), whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences.

Actors : Yvonne Mitchell, Lilli Palmer, Sylvia Syms, Ronald Lewis,
Directors : Ralph Thomas,

Catholic nuns risk their lives to help Jewish children in an Italian internment camp escape to Palestine during World War II.

Actors : Jim Hutton, Lana Turner, Janis Paige, Bob Hope,
Directors : Jack Arnold,

A. J. Niles is the author of a series of 'Bachelor Books'. These books describe the romantic life of a bachelor in various cities of the world. But when he runs into trouble with the I.R.S....

Actors : Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante, Doris Day, Martha Raye,
Directors : Charles Walters,

A debt-ridden circus is saved by a well-meaning but inept publicity man.

Actors : Shirley MacLaine, Edward G. Robinson, Robert Cummings, Yves Montand,
Directors : Jack Cardiff,

An actress disguises herself as a geisha in order to land the lead role in her director husband's film version of 'Madam Butterfly'.

Actors : Karlheinz Böhm, Walter Slezak, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom,

The story of Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, and three of their stories...

Actors : Jack Hawkins, Flora Robson, John Leyton, Richard Attenborough,
Directors : John Guillermin,

An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat must use his experience to defend those in his care.

Actors : Ingrid Bergman, Paolo Stoppa, Irina Demick, Anthony Quinn,
Directors : Bernhard Wicki,

Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a ...

Actors : Lynn Redgrave, Marie Kean, Rita Tushingham, Peter Finch,
Directors : Desmond Davis,

In 1960s Dublin a young girl becomes involved with an older man, a much-travelled and still married land-owner.

Actors : Bernie Hamilton, Richard Mulligan, Barbara Barrie, Harry Bellaver,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

Study of interracial marriage in the 1960's. A white divorcée falls in love with and marries an African-American man. When her ex-husband sues for custody of her child, arguing that a mixed...

Actors : Robert Lang, Anthony Nicholls, Laurence Olivier, Frank Finlay,
Directors : Stuart Burge,

A general's marriage is destroyed when a vengeful lieutenant convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful.

Actors : Harve Presnell, Senta Berger, Tom Tryon, James Caan,
Directors : Arnold Laven,

What could be worse for two cavalry officers than to battle with native tribes? To battle each other for the same woman.

Actors : Hermione Baddeley, Sergio Fantoni, Rod Taylor, Doris Day,
Directors : Ralph Levy,

American couple Janet and Mike move to England for his business. She soon becomes paranoid that he is having an affair with his attractive secretary, and decides to get back at him by pretending she herself has been unfaithful.

Actors : Phil Silvers, Shelley Winters, Peter Lawford, Gina Lollobrigida,
Directors : Melvin Frank,

Carla Campbell receives maintenance payment by three former GIs who all believe to be the father of her daughter Gia.