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

Joanna(1968)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 4

A provincial girl is entangled in the mod morality of London.



The Hawaiians(1970)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The intertwined lives of two kindred souls with ambition begins when Captain Whip Hoxworth discovers that Nyuk Tsin has been smuggled aboard as part of cargo on The Carthaginian, which he ...



Kansas City Bomber(1972)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Roller-derby skater K. C. Carr tries to balance her desire for a happy personal life and her dreams of stardom.



The Other Side of the Mountain(1975)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Young ski champion Jill Kinmont is left paralyzed after a tragic skiing accident. Her best friend suffers the same fate after contracting polio. Jill must slowly put her life back together again with the help of those close to her.



The Man in the Glass Booth(1975)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Arthur Goldman is a rich Jewish industrialist, living in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise. He banters with his assistant Charlie, often shocking Charlie with his outrageousness and ...



Lucky Lady(1975)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A trio of rum-runners during prohibition in the 1930s engage in a menage-a-trois after business hours.



Only When I Laugh(1981)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the terrors of returning to work with the ...



Camila(1984)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In 1840's Buenos Aires, Argentina, a beautiful young socialite named Camila falls in love with Ladislao, a Jesuit priest. After several failed attempts at fighting his own feelings, he ...



Maxie(1985)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A 1920s flapper who haunts her old house possesses a dull housewife who just moved in. Hilarity ensues.



Brotherhood(2019)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 4

In 1926, a band of teenage boys arrive at Long Point Camp for the adventure of their lives. When their canoe capsizes in a freak summer storm, their holiday descends into a soul-shuddering fight for survival.



Pepe(1960)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The young Mexican Pepe's beloved horse is sold to Hollywood star Ted Holt, leading to Pepe's journey to Hollywood to get the horse back, and Pepe's encounter with half the stars working in Hollywood at the time.



The Dark at the Top of the Stairs(1960)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Ruben Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman, when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora is frigid because of trying to ...



Back Street(1961)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Ambitious but thwarted, Rae Smith meets handsome Marine Paul Saxon, (of the Saxon department store chain), as he passes through Lincoln, Nebraska, on his way home from World War II. There's...



The Pleasure of His Company(1961)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

San Francisco debutante, Jessica Poole, is marrying Napa Valley cattle rancher, Roger Henderson, and hopes her peripatetic father, "Pogo" Poole, whom she hasn't seen for years, comes to the...



Bridge to the Sun(1961)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Based on a true story, this compelling drama relates the difficulties of a young woman married to a Japanese diplomat during World War II, victim of suspicion and animosity from her husband's government.



The Mark(1961)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist.



The Chapman Report(1962)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Based on the best-selling novel by Irving Wallace that was inspired by the Kinsey Report on the sexual mores of suburban women, the film follows the personal (read sexual) lives of four ...



A Gathering of Eagles(1963)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

During the Cold War, Air Force Colonel Jim Caldwell shapes up his Strategic Air Command B-52 wing to pass a nuclear war readiness test.



The Caretakers(1963)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

This movie chronicles the trials of the mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded ward of a hospital. Dr. MacLeod (Robert Stack) is a new, optimistic doctor who attempts to ...



That Funny Feeling(1965)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Joan Howell, a young and pretty maid-for-hire, meets and begins dating wealthy New York City businessman Tom Milford. Embarrassed about bringing him back to her tiny apartment that she ...




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