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

Nuts(1987)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.



Young Guns II(1990)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In 1881, cattle baron John Chisum pays a bounty to Patrick Floyd Garrett to kill outlaw Billy the Kid.



Husbands and Wives(1992)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their own marriage.



Indochine(1992)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 13

This story is set in 1930, at the time when French colonial rule in Indochina is ending. A widowed French woman who works in the rubber fields, raises a Vietnamese princess as if she was ...



Blue Sky(1994)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Jessica Lange stars in a period drama about a family moving to a military base, and she quickly becomes part of a cover-up involving nuclear bomb tests.



The Children's Hour(1961)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 7

A troublemaking student at a girls' school accuses two teachers of being lesbians.



Father Goose(1964)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 11

During World War II, a man persuaded to live on an isolated island and spot aircraft finds himself responsible for a teacher and several students, all female.



Battle of the Bulge(1965)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 5

A dramatization of Nazi Germany's final Western Front counterattack of World War II.



Ice Station Zebra(1968)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 11

USN nuclear sub USS Tigerfish must rush to the North Pole to rescue the staff of Drift Ice Station Zebra weather station.



Ryan's Daughter(1970)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.



Sunday Bloody Sunday(1971)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 18

Divorced working woman Alex and well-to-do Jewish family doctor Daniel Hirsh share not only the same answering service but also the favours of young Bob Elkin who bed-hops between them as ...



1776(1972)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A musical retelling of the American Revolution's political struggle in the Continental Congress to declare independence.



Jesus Christ Superstar(1973)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Film version of the musical stage play, presenting the last few weeks of Christ's life, told in an anachronistic manner.



O Lucky Man!(1973)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 14

This sprawling, surrealist musical serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in Europe. Many actors play multiple roles, giving the film a stagy tone.



Harry and Tonto(1974)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 19

When his apartment building is torn down, a retired lifelong New Yorker goes on a cross country odyssey with his beloved cat Tonto.



The Day of the Locust(1975)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 19

An art director in the 1930s falls in love and attempts to make a young woman an actress despite Hollywood who wants nothing to do with her because of her problems with an estranged man and her alcoholic father.



The Electric Horseman(1979)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Sonny Steele used to be a rodeo star, but his next appearance is to be on a Las Vegas stage, wearing a suit covered in lights, advertising a breakfast cereal. When he finds out they are ...



The Black Hole(1979)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A research vessel finds a missing ship, commanded by a mysterious scientist, on the edge of a black hole.



A Little Romance(1979)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A French boy (Daniel) and an American girl (Lauren), who goes to school in Paris, meet and begin a little romance. They befriend Julius who enchants them with his storytelling. In an ...



Endless Love(1981)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A high school student's love for a 15-year-old girl is thwarted by parental disapproval, circumstance and accident.




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