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

Airport(1970)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 32

A bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.



Marathon Man(1976)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A graduate history student is unwittingly caught in the middle of an international conspiracy involving stolen diamonds, an exiled Nazi war criminal, and a rogue government agent.



Sorcerer(1977)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 34

Four unfortunate men from different parts of the globe agree to risk their lives transporting gallons of nitroglycerin across dangerous South American jungle.



Ragtime(1981)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 41

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.



The Killing Fields(1984)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.



Casualties of War(1989)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 24

During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.





Grand Canyon(1991)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 32

Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in modern-day Los Angeles. At the center of the film is the unlikely friendship of two men from ...



Living(2022)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 65

An English-language adaptation of the script of "Ikiru" (1952), set in London in the 1950s.



Les Misérables(2019)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 39

A cop from the provinces moves to Paris to join the Anti-Crime Brigade of Montfermeil, discovering an underworld where the tensions between the different groups mark the rhythm.



Frenzy(1972)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man.



Papillon(1973)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.



Murder on the Orient Express(1974)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 22

In December 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.



The Amityville Horror(1979)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 24

Newlyweds move into a large house where a mass murder was committed, and experience strange manifestations which drive them away.



Poltergeist II: The Other Side(1986)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 27

The Freeling family have a new house, but their troubles with supernatural forces don't seem to be over.



Roxanne(1987)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 22

The large-nosed C.D. Bales is in love with the beautiful Roxanne; she falls for his personality but another man's looks.



Harlem Nights(1989)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 29

During the 1930s, a New York illegal gambling house owner and his associates must deal with strong competition, gangsters and corrupt cops in order to stay in business.



Unstrung Heroes(1995)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 51

Steven Lidz, unhappy with his home life since his mother got sick, goes and lives with his two crazy Uncles. There he changes and gets closer to his Uncles, but his parents want him home ...



DragonHeart(1996)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 19

The last dragon and a disillusioned dragonslaying knight must cooperate to stop an evil king who was given partial immortality.



Everyone Says I Love You(1996)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a troubled marriage while her stepsister gets engaged.




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