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

Mona Lisa(1986)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 19

A man recently released from prison manages to get a job driving a call girl from customer to customer.



Running on Empty(1988)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 19

The eldest son of a fugitive family comes of age and wants to live a life of his own.



The Elephant Man(1980)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity.



The Stunt Man(1980)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 22

A fugitive stumbles on a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out, and falls for the leading lady.



Elmer Gantry(1960)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 19

A fast-talking traveling salesman with a charming, loquacious manner convinces a sincere evangelist that he can be an effective preacher for her cause.



Far from the Madding Crowd(1967)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 28

Bathsheba Everdene, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and is romantically pursued by three very different men.



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 ...



Glory(1989)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.



The Sand Pebbles(1966)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 12

Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and...



The Professionals(1966)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 12

An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.



Sleuth(1972)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.



Tender Mercies(1983)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together.



El Cid(1961)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 9

The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.



Days of Wine and Roses(1962)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 10

An alcoholic marries a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.



Cleopatra(1963)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Queen Cleopatra of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.



The Night of the Iguana(1964)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.



The Lion in Winter(1968)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him.



The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie(1969)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12 year old charges with her over-romanticized world view.



Summer of '42(1971)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 16

During his summer vacation on Nantucket Island in 1942, a youth eagerly awaiting his first sexual encounter finds himself developing an innocent love for a young woman awaiting news on her soldier husband's fate in WWII.




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