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

About Schmidt(2002)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 85

A man upon retirement embarks on a journey to his estranged daughter's wedding only to discover more about himself and life than he ever expected.



Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World(2003)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 84

During the Napoleonic Wars, a brash British captain pushes his ship and crew to their limits in pursuit of a formidable French war vessel around South America.



A History of Violence(2005)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 84

A mild-mannered man becomes a local hero through an act of violence, which sets off repercussions that will shake his family to its very core.



Eastern Promises(2007)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 84

A Russian teenager living in London who dies during childbirth leaves clues to a midwife in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.



Michael Clayton(2007)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 84

A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multibillion-dollar class action suit.



Frost/Nixon(2008)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 85

A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon.



The Imitation Game(2014)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 82

During World War II, mathematician Alan Turing tries to crack the enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians.



Foxcatcher(2014)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 85

U.S. Olympic wrestling champions and brothers Mark Schultz and Dave Schultz join "Team Foxcatcher", led by eccentric multi-millionaire John du Pont, as they train for the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, but John's self-destructive behavior threatens to consume them all.



Mank(2020)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 87

1930's Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane (1941).



Promising Young Woman(2020)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 85

A young woman, traumatized by a tragic event in her past, seeks out vengeance against those who crossed her path.



The Trial of the Chicago 7(2020)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 85

The story of 7 people on trial stemming from various charges surrounding the uprising at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.



Pulp Fiction(1994)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 83

The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.



The Truman Show(1998)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 83

An insurance salesman/adjuster discovers his entire life is actually a television show.



The Aviator(2004)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 82

A biopic depicting the early years of legendary Director and aviator Howard Hughes' career from the late 1920s to the mid 1940s.



Hotel Rwanda(2004)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 82

Paul Rusesabagina was a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda.



The Constant Gardener(2005)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A widower is determined to get to the bottom of a potentially explosive secret involving his wife's murder, big business, and corporate corruption.



American Gangster(2007)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 81

In 1970s America, a detective works to bring down the drug empire of Frank Lucas, a heroin kingpin from Manhattan, who is smuggling the drug into the country from the Far East.



Inglourious Basterds(2009)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 81

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.



Rush(2013)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 82

The merciless 1970s rivalry between Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda.



The Theory of Everything(2014)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 81

A look at the relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife.




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