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

Under the Volcano(1984)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 13

The last 24 hours in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a lonely, depressed English consul who retreats to alcohol for solace.



The Hospital(1971)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 9

An over-burdened doctor struggles to find meaning in his life while a murderer stalks the halls of his hospital.



The Agony and the Ecstasy(1965)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 5

The biographical story of Michelangelo's troubles while painting the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius II.



Electra Glide in Blue(1973)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Bored with his highway traffic duties, Arizona motorcycle patrolman John Wintergreen is assigned to Homicide where his polite investigative style irks his macho boss.



Bobby Deerfield(1977)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 11

Bobby Deerfield, a famous American race car driver on the European circuit, falls in love with the enigmatic Lillian Morelli, who is terminally ill.



The Onion Field(1979)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Greg Powell is a disturbed ex-con who recruits Jimmy Smith (aka Jimmy Youngblood), a petty thief, as his partner in crime. Powell panics one night when the two of them are pulled over by a ...



Dad(1989)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A busy, "always-on-the-run" executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him ...



Lilies of the Field(1963)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A traveling handyman becomes the answer to the prayers of nuns who wish to build a chapel in the desert.



MacArthur(1977)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Biopic of General Douglas MacArthur covering his war exploits during WW2 and the Korean War.



Love with the Proper Stranger(1963)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Angie Rossini is an innocent Italian Catholic Macy's salesgirl, who discovers she's pregnant from a fling with Rocky, a musician. Angie finds Rocky (who doesn't remember her at first) to ...



Charly(1968)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 0

An intellectually disabled man undergoes an experiment that gives him the intelligence of a genius.



The Cardinal(1963)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 10

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Naziism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.



The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter(1968)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 6

When deaf mute Singer moves to a small city to be near his only friend confined in a hospital, he grows attached to his landlady's sensitive 16-year-old daughter.



Shoot the Moon(1982)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 9

A fifteen year marriage dissolves, leaving both the husband and wife, and their four children, devastated. He's preoccupied with a career and a mistress, she with a career and caring for ...



The Field(1990)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 0

"Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing endlessly for the sake of the land, and when the widow, who owns the field, decides to sell the field in a public ...



Heroes(1977)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A Vietnam veteran suffering from post traumatic stress disorder breaks out of a VA hospital and goes on a road trip with a sympathetic traveler to find out what became of the other men in his unit.



The Great White Hope(1970)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 6

A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.



I Never Sang for My Father(1970)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 6

A man who wants to move on with his life by moving to California and marry his girlfriend, finds it difficult as he still lives in the towering shadow of his aging father.



The Gambler(1974)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Axel Freed is a literature professor. He has the gambling vice. When he has lost all his money, he borrows from his girlfriend, then his mother and finally some bad guys that chase him. Despite all of this he cannot stop gambling.



Captain Newman, M.D.(1963)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 4

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.




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