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

Actors : Stuart Whitman, Peter Falk, Henry Morgan, May Britt,

The rise and fall of a 1930's Brooklyn crime syndicate, known as Murder Incorporated, led by mobster Lepke Buchalter.

Actors : Suzanne Pleshette, Rossano Brazzi, Angie Dickinson, Troy Donahue,
Directors : Delmer Daves,

Prudence resigns from her teaching position after being criticized for giving a student her copy of a romance novel. She sails for Italy, takes a job at a small bookstore in Rome, and meets...

Actors : Micheline Presle, Sandra Dee, John Lund, Bobby Darin,
Directors : Henry Levin,

Rich socialite Chantal marries Eugene, a photographer, and everything seems blissful until her envious friend attempts to break them up. In desperation, she turns to her mother, but the advice she receives may do more harm than good.

Actors : Sidney Poitier, Peter Falk, Carl Benton Reid, Bobby Darin,

A black prison psychiatrist is assigned the distasteful task of helping a paranoid American Nazi charged with sedition.

Actors : Gabrielle Dorziat, Jackie Gleason, Jean Lefebvre, Katherine Kath,
Directors : Gene Kelly,

Jackie Gleason plays a mute janitor who befriends Nicole, the little daughter of a prostitute.

Actors : Nick Adams, Michael Callan, James MacArthur, Cliff Robertson,
Directors : David Swift,

During their first year of internship at New North Hospital, a group of aspiring doctors undergo both personal and professional upheavals. John Paul Otis destroys his medical career when he...

Actors : Chill Wills, Phil Harris, Lee Remick, James Garner,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

Big time Texas Wheeler Dealer (Ivy league educated, but plays dumb) runs out of money and goes to NYC to raise 1.5 million.

Actors : Peter Brocco, Lee Grant, Shelley Winters, Peter Falk,
Directors : Joseph Strick,

In a fictional country, the Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is sweeping the nation.

Actors : Suzanne Pleshette, Rod Taylor, Nancy Kwan, Glenn Ford,
Directors : Ralph Nelson,

A man refuses to believe that pilot error caused a fatal crash, and persists in looking for another reason.

Actors : Susan Hayward, Joey Heatherton, Mike Connors, Bette Davis,
Directors : Edward Dmytryk,

A divorced couple's teen-age daughter stands trial for stabbing her mother's latest lover.

Actors : Elizabeth Hartman, Candice Bergen, Joan Hackett, Shirley Knight,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

In June 1933, eight young women, who are close friends and members of the upper-class group at South Tower College, to graduate and start their adult lives. The film documents the years ...

Actors : Greer Garson, Debbie Reynolds, Agnes Moorehead, Ricardo Montalban,
Directors : Henry Koster,

Young and inexperienced Sister Ann has just arrived at her next posting at Samaritan House, a Dominican order located in a disreputable neighborhood of Ghent, Belgium. Sister Ann is ...

Actors : Nina Wayne, Aldo Ray, James Coburn, Camilla Sparv,
Directors : Bernard Girard,

A paroled conman co-ordinates the robbery of an L. A. Airport bank with the arrival of the Soviet premier.

Actors : Elke Sommer, Stephen Boyd, Milton Berle, Eleanor Parker,
Directors : Russell Rouse,

Snotty Hollywood actor becomes even more full of himself after he's nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Actors : Jean Simmons, Suzanne Pleshette, Katharine Ross, James Garner,
Directors : Delbert Mann,

An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is.

Actors : Glynne Morris, Keir Dullea, Anne Heywood, Sandy Dennis,
Directors : Mark Rydell,

Based on D.H. Lawrence's novella about two young women - sickly, chattering Jill Banford and quiet, strong Ellen March - who are trying, hopelessly, to run a chicken farm in Canada. A ...

Actors : Rossano Brazzi, Shirley MacLaine, Elspeth March, Peter Sellers,
Directors : Vittorio De Sica,

Seven mini-stories of adultery: "Funeral Possession," a wayward widow at her husband's funeral; "Amateur Night," angry wife becomes streetwalker out of revenge; "Two Against One," seemingly...

Actors : Cornel Wilde, Burr DeBenning, Patrick Wolfe, Rip Torn,
Directors : Cornel Wilde,

As a US marine unit fight against the defenders of a Japanese held island, both sides are haunted by their own thoughts and memories.

Actors : Lynn Redgrave, Anna Quayle, Rita Tushingham, Michael York,
Directors : Desmond Davis,

Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.

Actors : Alex Karras, Lauren Hutton, Joe Schmidt, Alan Alda,
Directors : Alex March,

Sportswriter George Plimpton poses as a rookie quarterback for the Detroit Lions for a "Sports Illustrated" article.