Best movies that are golden globes winners in best actress - motion picture drama category



The Piano(1993)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A mute woman is sent to 1850s New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, but is soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation.



The Iron Lady(2011)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 71

An elderly Margaret Thatcher talks to the imagined presence of her recently deceased husband as she struggles to come to terms with his death while scenes from her past life, from girlhood to British prime minister, intervene.



Misery(1990)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

After a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse.



Transamerica(2005)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A preoperative transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she fathered a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.



Howards End(1992)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A businessman thwarts his wife's bequest of an estate to another woman.



Secrets & Lies(1996)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A successful black woman discovers that her birth mother is a underprivileged white woman, but the woman denies it. As emotions run high, everyone's secrets are exposed.



The Color Purple(1985)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 59

A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades.



Love Story(1970)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A boy and a girl from different backgrounds fall in love regardless of their upbringing - and then tragedy strikes.



Sophie's Choice(1982)

Combined Rating:
65
Combined Critics Rating: 57

After spending time with his new neighbors, an aspiring writer realizes they are harboring deep secrets that will forever change him.



Casino(1995)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 37

A tale of greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two best friends: a mafia enforcer and a casino executive, compete against each other over a gambling empire and over a fast living and fast loving woman.



Elizabeth(1998)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 38

A film of the early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch.



Norma Rae(1979)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 49

A young single mother and textile worker agrees to help unionize her mill despite the problems and dangers involved.



Klute(1971)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute.





The Fabulous Baker Boys(1989)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 18

The lives of two struggling musicians, who happen to be brothers, inevitably change when they team up with a beautiful, up-and-coming singer.



Children of a Lesser God(1986)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A new speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the janitor, a deaf woman speechless by choice.



Places in the Heart(1984)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 21

In central Texas in the 1930s, a widow, with two small children, tries to run her small 40-acre farm with the help of two disparate people.



Coming Home(1978)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A woman whose husband is fighting in Vietnam falls in love with another man who suffered a paralyzing combat injury there.



The French Lieutenant's Woman(1981)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A film is being made of a story, set in 19th century England, about Charles, a biologist who's engaged to be married, but who falls in love with outcast Sarah, whose melancholy makes her ...




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