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

Love Field(1992)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Dallas housewife Lurene Hallett's life revolves around the doings of Jacqueline Kennedy. She is devastated when President Kennedy is shot a few hours after she sees him arrive at Love Field...



Extremities(1986)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A woman takes revenge on the man who invades her home and tries to rape her.



Music Box(1989)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.



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 Killing of Sister George(1968)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 11

George lives with her lover, Childie and plays a cheerful district nurse in a BBC soap opera. However, her character is to be killed off, and George realises that the only other job she can...



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 Pumpkin Eater(1964)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 11

Film screenwriter Jake Armitage and his wife Jo Armitage live in London with six of Jo's eight children, with the two eldest boys at boarding school. The children are spread over Jo's three...



Rachel, Rachel(1968)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 6

Rachel is a 35 year old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she begins to have to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go.



Madame Sousatzka(1988)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 12

Renowned Russian piano teacher Irina Sousatzka gets a new student - Bengali piano prodigy Manek. They are both immigrants in the UK and bond quickly. When Manek's single mother's business fails, he must make a career decision.



An Unmarried Woman(1978)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.



Tom & Viv(1994)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 10

In 1915, T.S. (Tom) Eliot and Vivienne Haigh-Wood elope, but her longstanding gynecological and emotional problems disrupt their planned honeymoon. Her father is angry because Tom's poetry ...



Lilith(1964)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 5

Lilith is a about a mysterious young woman in an elite sanitarium in Maryland, who seems to weave a magical spell all around her. A restless, but sincere young man with an equally obscure ...



Mary, Queen of Scots(1971)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 0

During the sixteenth century, the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots engages in over two decades of religious and political conflict with her cousin, the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I of England, amidst political intrigue in her native land.





Circus World(1964)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 5

When circus proprietor Matt Masters decides to take his show on a European tour, it is beset by problems, while he searches for Lili, the mother of his adopted daughter, who disappeared years before.



The Sterile Cuckoo(1969)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 6

Two students from neighboring colleges in upstate New York are swept up in a tragic romantic interlude calling for a maturity of vision beyond their experience of capabilities. Pookie Adams...



Cinderella Liberty(1973)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 6

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.



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 ...



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 ...




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