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

Dillinger(1973)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

John Dillinger and his gang go on a bank robbing spree across the midwest, but one G-Man is determined to bring him down.



The Island at the Top of the World(1974)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 8

In 1907, four explorers discover a lost colony of Vikings in the Arctic.



Lipstick(1976)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A top fashion model seeks justice after she is brutally raped by her teenaged sister's music teacher.



The Seven-Per-Cent Solution(1976)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

To treat his friend's cocaine induced delusions, Watson lures Sherlock Holmes to Sigmund Freud.



The Ritz(1976)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 8

On his deathbed Carmine Vespucci's father tells him to "get Proclo". With "the hit" on, Gaetano tells a cab driver to take him where Carmine can't find him. He arrives at the Ritz, a gay ...



An Unmarried Woman(1978)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.



Thank God It's Friday(1978)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 8

It's Friday and everyone is going to the hot new disco. The Commodores are scheduled to play if Floyd shows up with the instruments and Nicole dreams of becoming a disco star. Other ...



The Brink's Job(1978)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 6

Crime story based on the real armed robbery of the Brink's Building in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 17th, 1950.



Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?(1978)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that...



The Europeans(1979)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 14

It's the mid-nineteenth century. Adult siblings Felix Young and Eugenia Munster were born and raised in Europe and have a somewhat bohemian lifestyle reflective of their travels throughout ...



Mon oncle d'Amérique(1980)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The intersecting stories of three people who face difficult choices in life-changing situations are used to illustrate the theories espoused by Henri Laborit about human behavior and the relationship between the self and society.



Tex(1982)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 9

After their mother dies and their father leaves them, teenage brothers Tex and Mason McCormick struggle to make it on their own.



That's Life!(1986)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 11

Harvey and Gillian Fairchild face a very difficult weekend. Harvey, celebrating his 60th birthday, is stressed and depressed. Gillian is awaiting the results of a throat biopsy. Their lives...



Tom & Viv(1994)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 10

In 1915, T.S. (Tom) Eliot and Vivienne Haigh-Wood elope, but her longstanding gynecological and emotional problems disrupt their planned honeymoon. Her father is angry because Tom's poetry ...



The World of Suzie Wong(1960)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 6

Robert Lomax, tired of working in an office, wants to be an artist. So he moves to Hong Kong to try his hand at painting. Finding a cheap hotel, he checks in, only to find it's used by ...



The Sundowners(1960)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In Australia's Outback during the early 20th century the impoverished Carmody family lives a nomadic life out of their wagon but the mom and son want to settle while the dad is against it.



Billy Budd(1962)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.



The Carpetbaggers(1964)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 7

Jonas Cord is a disagreeable rich young tycoon on the corporate make, with some subplots about booze, broads and Hollywood in the 1930's.



Lilith(1964)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 5

Lilith is a about a mysterious young woman in an elite sanitarium in Maryland, who seems to weave a magical spell all around her. A restless, but sincere young man with an equally obscure ...



Elvira Madigan(1967)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 4

The Danish tightrope dancer Elvira Madigan meets Lieutenant Sixten Sparre, a Swedish officer who is married and has two children. They both decide to run away.




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