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

The Happy Ending(1969)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 7

A middle-aged woman walks out on her husband and family in an desperate attempt to find herself.



Ash Wednesday(1973)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 9

Barbara gets secret plastic surgery in Switzerland in an attempt to save her marriage to Mark, but he doesn't seem interested in meeting her. She checks in to a ski resort to wait for Mark,...



Resurrection(1980)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Edna Mae Macaulay experiences the afterlife for a brief time after a car accident that kills her husband. As she begins her long process of physical healing, she discovers that she has the ...



Raggedy Man(1981)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 4

It's 1944 in the small town of Gregory, Texas. Divorcée Nita Longley has been brought into the town by the telephone company to work as its switchboard operator, a job which requires her to...



Dear Heart(1964)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 5

Single and alone, Evie arrives in New York for the annual Postmasters' convention. Staying at her hotel is a womanising salesman newly promoted to his marketing department and trying to ...



The Whisperers(1967)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 5

The title refers to the creatures a very poor addled old lady (Dame Edith Evans) imagines in her paranoid fantasies. They lurk behind every drip, drip, drip of a leaky faucet. They listen ...



Isadora(1968)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free ...



The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds(1972)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

From the Pullizer Prize winning play by Paul Zindel, this is the story of Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters, Ruth and Matilda. A middle-aged widowed eccentric, Beatrice is looking for ...



The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea(1976)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 5

After his father dies, a disturbed young boy plots to take revenge on the new man in his mother's life.



I Never Promised You a Rose Garden(1977)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 4

A disturbed,institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.



'night, Mother(1986)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

What would you do if someone you loved sat down with you one night and calmly told you that they were going to end their life before morning? This is Thelma Cates' dilemma. Her daughter, ...



Toys in the Attic(1963)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Julian Berniers and Lily Prine have just gotten married. They have been in Chicago on business before returning to their home town of New Orleans, where they will meet with Julian's older ...



Country(1984)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Gilbert Ivy and his wife Jewell are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gilbert has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous, but his wife ...





The Incredible Sarah(1976)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 7

The life of the great actress, Sarah Bernhardt.



The Fox(1967)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Based on D.H. Lawrence's novella about two young women - sickly, chattering Jill Banford and quiet, strong Ellen March - who are trying, hopelessly, to run a chicken farm in Canada. A ...



The Other Side of the Mountain(1975)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Young ski champion Jill Kinmont is left paralyzed after a tragic skiing accident. Her best friend suffers the same fate after contracting polio. Jill must slowly put her life back together again with the help of those close to her.



The Caretakers(1963)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

This movie chronicles the trials of the mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded ward of a hospital. Dr. MacLeod (Robert Stack) is a new, optimistic doctor who attempts to ...



Duet for One(1986)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Stephanie, a famous violin player married to a composer becomes ill from multiple sclerosis. Her whole life goes to pieces : her career ends abruptly and her husband betrays her with ...



Gaby: A True Story(1987)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.




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