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

Accident(1967)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

At Oxford, Austrian student Anna is dating fellow student William whom she plans to marry but she ends up sleeping with two unhappily married Oxford professors instead.



Divorce American Style(1967)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 6

After 17 years, things have got too predictable and stale. They argue, they visit a marriage counselor, Richard (drunk) visits a prostitute. They split up. After meeting other people, they ...



The Fixer(1968)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 7

In Czarist Russia, around 1911, a Russian-Jewish handyman, Yakov Bok, is wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime.



Hot Millions(1968)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 5

A paroled London fraudster poses as a computer specialist in order to work for an insurance company that entirely relies on its corporate server.



Goodbye, Mr. Chips(1969)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A shy, withdrawn English schoolteacher falls for a flashy showgirl.



Borsalino(1970)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

During the 1930s, in Marseilles, France, two small time crooks work for local crime bosses until they decide to go into business for themselves.



Darling Lili(1970)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Set during WWI, this movie is a cute spin on the Mata Hari legend.



Travels with My Aunt(1972)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 5

At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure as she ...



Claudine(1974)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 6

In the 1970s Harlem, garbage collector Roop feels intimidated by the idea of dating Claudine who is a single mother of six on welfare.



The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox(1976)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 6

A female hustler is chasing after rich men, but becomes repeatedly mixed up with a suave con man and card shark through a series of misadventures before falling in love with him.



The Boys in Company C(1978)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In 1967, five young men undergo boot camp training before being shipped out to Vietnam. Once they get there, the experience proves worse than they could have imagined.



Zoot Suit(1981)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A kind of musical accompanying the story of the early 1940's and the effect that the "zoot suit" (a man's suit of long jacket and pegged pants, always worn with a long keychain that looped ...



Heart Like a Wheel(1983)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 7

Shirley Muldowney is determined to be a top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them before. Despite the high risks of this kind of racing and the burden it places on her ...



Carmen(1983)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A group of flamenco dancers are rehearsing a very spanish version of the Prosper Merimee's drama. Antonio (the coreographer) falls in love with Carmen (the main dancer). Their story then ...



Mrs. Soffel(1984)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Peter Soffel is the stuffy warden of a remote American prison around the turn of the century. His wife, Kate, finds herself attracted to prisoner Ed Biddle. She abandons her husband and ...



Tango(1998)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Mario Suarez is a forty-something tango artist, whose wife Laura has left him. He leaves his apartment and starts preparing a film about tango.



Yesterday(2004)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school.



Cimarron(1960)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The Oklahoma Land Run of April 1889 sets the stage for an epic saga of a frontier family and its friends.



The Entertainer(1960)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Archie Rice, an old-time British music hall performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.



Sunrise at Campobello(1960)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 6

In 1921, unsuccessful vice-presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt contracts poliomyelitis and, with the help of his wife Eleanor Roosevelt and close friend Louis Howe, battles his newfound disability.




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