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

Actors : Catherine Burns, Richard Thomas, Barbara Hershey, Bruce Davison,
Directors : Frank Perry,

During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people--a girl and two guys--become so close that they form a sort-of threesome. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly ...

Actors : Eli Wallach, Kirk Calloway, Marsha Mason, James Caan,
Directors : Mark Rydell,

A lonely Navy sailor falls in love with a hooker and becomes a surrogate father figure for her son during an extended liberty due to his service records being lost.

Actors : Clive Revill, Richard Kiley, Steven Warner, Joss Ackland,
Directors : Stanley Donen,

A pilot, stranded in the desert, meets a little boy who is a prince on a planet.

Actors : Mildred Natwick, Cybill Shepherd, Barry Brown, Cloris Leachman,
Directors : Peter Bogdanovich,

In this comedy of manners, Frederick Winterbourne tries to figure out the bright and bubbly Daisy Miller, only to be helped and hindered by false judgments from their fellow friends.

Actors : Candice Bergen, Jill Clayburgh, Charles Durning, Burt Reynolds,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

A divorced man falls in love, but somehow he can't get over his ex-wife. This affects his love life in comic ways. Based on Dan Wakefield's novel.

Actors : Angela Lansbury, George Rose, Linda Ronstadt, Kevin Kline,
Directors : Wilford Leach,

This movie is an adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operetta of the same name, with parts of other of their operettas stirred in. Frederic has fallen in love with sweet innocent ...

Actors : Jason Robards, Winona Ryder, Rob Lowe, Jane Alexander,
Directors : Daniel Petrie,

Gemma is 13 years old lives with her grandpa in the country, she has for many years. One day her mother shows up, and wants to take Gemma to the city. Her mother is married now, and can ...

Actors : Stephanie Lawrence, Phil Collins, Julie Walters, Larry Lamb,
Directors : David Green,

This movie is based on the story of Buster Edwards, one of the thieves involved in "The Great Train Robbery" of 1963.

Actors : Jean-François Balmer, Jean Yanne, Christophe Malavoy, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire (Emma Rouault) marries a dull country doctor (Charles Bovary). To escape boredom, she throws herself into love ...

Actors : Pina Pellicer, Ignacio López Tarso, Mario Alberto Rodríguez, Enrique Lucero,
Directors : Roberto Gavaldón,

Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him...

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Edmon Ryan, Elisabeth Fraser, Shirley MacLaine,
Directors : Robert Wise,

Jerry Ryan is wandering aimlessly around New York, having given up his law career in Nebraska when his wife asked for a divorce. He meets up with Gittel Mosca, an impoverished dancer from ...

Actors : Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, Eddie Albert,
Directors : David Miller,

In 1944, an Army doctor is in charge of a neuropsychiatric ward at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona and he must deal with a variety of tough cases.

Actors : Pat Hingle, Eiji Okada, Sandra Church, Marlon Brando,
Directors : George Englund,

An intelligent, articulate scholar, Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation hearing at the hands of conservatives to become ambassador to Sarkan, a southeast Asian country...

Actors : Dean Jones, Carol Lynley, Edie Adams, Jack Lemmon,
Directors : David Swift,

A love-struck landlord tries to convince a pretty tenant to dump her fiance and give him a chance.

Actors : Richard Boone, Stuart Whitman, Wende Wagner, Anthony Franciosa,
Directors : Gordon Douglas,

A former Confederate officer and a Mexican try to prevent a former Confederate colonel from selling stolen rifles to renegade Apaches in Mexico.

Actors : Henry Fonda, Edie Adams, Margaret Leighton, Cliff Robertson,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

The two front runners for their party's presidential nomination, one principled and the other ruthless, vie for the former President's endorsement.

Actors : Deborah Kerr, John Mills, Edith Evans, Hayley Mills,
Directors : Ronald Neame,

A grandmother seeks a governess for her 16 year old granddaughter, Laurel, who manages to drive away each and every one so far by exposing their past, with a record of three in one week! ...

Actors : Jerry Lewis, Sebastian Cabot, Neil Hamilton, Jay Adler,
Directors : Jerry Lewis,

A young heiress must choose between six uncles, one of which is up to no good and out to harm the girl's beloved bodyguard who practically raised her.

Actors : Anjanette Comer, Emilio Fernández, John Saxon, Marlon Brando,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

Man tries to recover a horse stolen from him by a Mexican bandit.

Actors : Greer Garson, Tommy Steele, Gladys Cooper, Fred MacMurray,
Directors : Norman Tokar,

A happy and unbelievably lucky young Irish immigrant, John Lawless, lands a job as the butler of an unconventional millionaire, Biddle. His daughter, Cordelia Drexel Biddle, tires of the ...