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

Ghosts of Mississippi(1996)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 19

A Mississippi district attorney and the widow of Medgar Evers struggle to finally bring a white racist to justice for the 1963 murder of the civil rights leader.



Beaufort(2007)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 26

The story of a group of Israeli soldiers stationed in an outpost prior to the withdrawal of forces of 2000.



Charade(1963)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Romance and suspense ensue in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Who can she trust?



Seven Days in May(1964)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 15

United States military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack.



Von Ryan's Express(1965)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 14

An American POW leads a group of mainly British prisoners to escape from the Germans in WWII.



Valley of the Dolls(1967)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 22

Film version of Jacqueline Susann's best-selling novel chronicling the rise and fall of three young women in show business.



A Star Is Born(1976)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A has-been rock star falls in love with a young, up-and-coming songstress.



The Goodbye Girl(1977)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 16

After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.



Pretty Baby(1978)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A teenage girl lives as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917.



Testament(1983)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 24

The life of a suburban American family is scarred after a nuclear attack.



The Woman in Red(1984)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 13

On his way to work, Teddy spots Charlotte - an incredibly beautiful Woman in Red. He really wants to meet her - but what would his wife say?



Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes(1984)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A shipping disaster in the nineteenth century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. The mother dies soon ...



The Karate Kid Part II(1986)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Daniel accompanies his mentor, Mr. Miyagi, to Miyagi's childhood home in Okinawa. Miyagi visits his dying father and confronts his old rival, while Daniel falls in love and inadvertently makes a new rival of his own.



Dick Tracy(1990)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.



Henry & June(1990)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 15

In 1931 Paris, Anais Nin meets Henry Miller and his wife June. Intrigued by them both, she begins expanding her sexual horizons with her husband Hugo as well as with Henry and others. June ...



The Russia House(1990)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 13

An expatriate British publisher unexpectedly finds himself working for British intelligence to investigate people in Russia.



The Sheltering Sky(1990)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 17

The American artist couple Port and Kit Moresby travel aimlessly through Africa, searching for new experiences that could give sense to their relationship. But the flight to distant regions only leads both deeper into despair.



Heaven & Earth(1993)

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Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 14

The final movie in Oliver Stone's Vietnam trilogy follows the true story of a Vietnamese village girl who survives a life of suffering and hardship during and after the Vietnam war. As a ...



Junior(1994)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 0

As part of a fertility research project, a male scientist agrees to carry a pregnancy in his own body.



A Thousand Acres(1997)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 26

"King Lear" set on a farm in Iowa.




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