Best movies that are golden globes winners or nominees in best actor - motion picture drama category

Ironweed(1987)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 16

An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his home town of Albany, NY after returning there for the first time in decades.



Days of Wine and Roses(1962)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 10

An alcoholic marries a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.



Cleopatra(1963)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Queen Cleopatra of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.



The Lion in Winter(1968)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him.



Equus(1977)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A psychiatrist attempts to uncover a troubled stable boy's disturbing obsession with horses.



Magic(1978)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.



Prince of the City(1981)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A New York City narcotics detective reluctantly agrees to cooperate with a special commission investigating police corruption. However, he soon discovers that he's in over his head, and nobody can be trusted.



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 ...



Sweet Bird of Youth(1962)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown after many years of trying to make it in the movies. Arriving with him is a faded film star he picked up along the way, Alexandra Del Lago. ...



Hud(1963)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Honest and hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant and egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash.



Save the Tiger(1973)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A disillusioned aging decent man and once proud WWII veteran is dealing with midlife crisis as well as a tough moral dilemma. If he wants his small near-bankrupt clothing company to survive, he has two days to let go of his shaken morals.



Bound for Glory(1976)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 16

The early life of Woody Guthrie as a vagabond folk singer.



Missing(1982)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.



'Round Midnight(1986)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 16

In 'Round Midnight, real-life jazz legend Dexter Gordon brilliantly portrays the fictional tenor sax player Dale Turner, a musician slowly losing the battle with alcoholism, estranged from ...



Nobody's Fool(1994)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A stubborn man past his prime reflects his life of strict independence and seeks more out of himself.



Ship of Fools(1965)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for post-war Germany represents a microcosm of 1930s society.



The Boston Strangler(1968)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 9

A series of brutal murders in Boston sparks a seemingly endless and increasingly complex manhunt.



Anne of the Thousand Days(1969)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.



Richard III(1995)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The classic Shakespearean play about a murderously scheming king staged in an alternative fascist England setting.



Star 80(1983)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A successful young model finds trouble when her obsessive manager-turned-husband becomes dangerously jealous. Based on the true story of 1980 Playmate of the Year Dorothy Stratten.




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