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

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore(1974)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A recently widowed woman is on the road with her precocious young son, determined to make a new life for herself as a singer.





Outland(1981)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 17

In the distant future, a police marshal stationed at a remote mining colony on the Jupiter moon of Io uncovers a drug-smuggling conspiracy, and gets no help from the populace when he later finds himself marked for murder.



Victor Victoria(1982)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.



Broadway Danny Rose(1984)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 18

In his attempts to reconcile a lounge singer with his mistress, a hapless talent agent is mistaken as her lover by a jealous gangster.



Mask(1985)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A teenager with a massive facial skull deformity and biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.



White Nights(1985)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 33

An expatriate Russian dancer is on a plane forced to land on Soviet territory. He is taken to an apartment in which a black American who has married a Russian woman lives with her. He is to...



Bob Roberts(1992)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A right-wing folk singer becomes a corrupt politician and runs a crooked election campaign. Only one independent muck-raking reporter is trying to stop him.



Six Degrees of Separation(1993)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 19

An affluent New York couple find their lives touched, intruded upon, and compelled by a mysterious young black man who is never quite who he says he is.



Wait Until Dark(1967)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 15

A recently blinded woman is terrorized by a trio of thugs while they search for a heroin-stuffed doll they believe is in her apartment.



A Woman Under the Influence(1974)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 19

Mabel, a wife and mother, is loved by her husband Nick but her mental illness proves to be a problem in the marriage.



Thunderbolt and Lightfoot(1974)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 19

With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organize a daring new heist.



French Connection II(1975)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 21

"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseille to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler who eluded him in New York.



Murder by Death(1976)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 14

Five famous literary detective characters and their sidekicks are invited to a bizarre mansion to solve an even stranger mystery.



The Pink Panther Strikes Again(1976)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.



House of Games(1987)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men.



The Fabulous Baker Boys(1989)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 18

The lives of two struggling musicians, who happen to be brothers, inevitably change when they team up with a beautiful, up-and-coming singer.



Mermaids(1990)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 15

An unconventional single mother relocates with her two daughters to a small Massachusetts town in 1963, where a number of events and relationships both challenge and strengthen their familial bonds.



1492: Conquest of Paradise(1992)

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Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people.



Honeymoon in Vegas(1992)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 20

On her deathbed, a mother makes her son promise never to get married, which scars him with psychological blocks to a commitment with his girlfriend. They finally decide to tie the knot in ...




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