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

Sense and Sensibility(1995)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 42

Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the titular opposites.



One True Thing(1998)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 59

A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.



The Others(2001)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 37

A woman who lives in a darkened old house with her two photosensitive children becomes convinced that her family home is haunted.



Silkwood(1983)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 52

A worker at a plutonium processing plant is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing worker safety violations at the plant.



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.



Dead Man Walking(1995)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 40

A nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families.



Rocky(1976)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 35

Rocky Balboa, a small-time boxer, gets a supremely rare chance to fight heavy-weight champion Apollo Creed in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.



The Wings of the Dove(1997)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 56

An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give up and the lover she cannot live without.



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.



Destroyer(2018)

Combined Rating:
54
Combined Critics Rating: 77

A police detective reconnects with people from an undercover assignment in her distant past in order to make peace.



An Officer and a Gentleman(1982)

Combined Rating:
54
Combined Critics Rating: 38

A young man must complete his work at a Navy Flight school to become an aviator, with the help of a tough gunnery sergeant and his new girlfriend.



Changeling(2008)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 32

A grief-stricken mother takes on the LAPD to her own detriment when it tries to pass off an obvious impostor as her missing child.



Interiors(1978)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 45

Three sisters find their lives spinning out of control in the wake of their parents' sudden, unexpected divorce.



Absence of Malice(1981)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 49

When a prosecutor leaks a false story that a liquor warehouse owner is involved in the murder of a union head, the man's life begins to unravel.



Out of Africa(1985)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 33

In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.



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.



Iris(2001)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 38

True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.



Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle(1994)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 52

Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.



The End of the Affair(1999)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 33

On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before. ...



The Contender(2000)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 30

Senator Laine Hanson is a contender for US Vice President, but information and disinformation about her past surfaces that threatens to de-rail her confirmation.




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