Critically acclaimed movies that are golden globes winners or nominees in new star of the year - actor category

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.



Johnny Got His Gun(1971)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A World War I soldier, rendered blind, deaf, limbless, and mute by a horrific artillery shell attack, finds a unique way of communicating with his doctors.



Sounder(1972)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 14

The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.



Murder by Death(1976)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 14

Five famous literary detective characters and their sidekicks are invited to a bizarre mansion to solve an even stranger mystery.



Shock Corridor(1963)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Bent on winning a Pulitzer Prize, a journalist commits himself to a mental institution to solve a strange and unclear murder.



The Boys in the Band(1970)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Tempers fray and true selves are revealed when a heterosexual is accidentally invited to a homosexual party.



Inside Daisy Clover(1965)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A tomboy turned movie star deals with the cruelty of Hollywood.



Diary of a Mad Housewife(1970)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A housewife with an abusive husband has an affair with a writer.



Next Stop, Greenwich Village(1976)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 12

The portrayal of pretentiously bohemian youth.



Born Free(1966)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 11

Married couple George Adamson and Joy Adamson have long lived in northern Kenya for George's work as the senior game warden of the region. One of George's primary responsibilities is to ...



Funny Lady(1975)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 11

Story of singer Fanny Brice's stormy relationship with showman Billy Rose.



Stay Hungry(1976)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A syndicate wants to buy a whole district to rebuild it. They've bought every house except the small gym "Olympic", where Mr. Austria Joe Santo prepares for the Mr. Universum championships ...



Butterflies Are Free(1972)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 10

A blind man moves into his own apartment against the wishes of his overprotective mother, and befriends the freethinking young woman next door.



David and Lisa(1962)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 9

The emotional story of a young man in a mental institution for teens who begins to understand his psychosis in the environment of others with mental and emotional problems. He finds ...



Thoroughly Modern Millie(1967)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 9

Millie comes to town in the roaring twenties to encounter flappers, sexuality and white slavers.



Goodbye, Columbus(1969)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 9

A Jewish man and a Jewish woman meet and while attracted to each other, find that their worlds are very different. She is the archtypical Jewish American Princess, very emotionally involved...



Grand Prix(1966)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 8

American Grand Prix driver Pete Aron is fired by his Jordan-BRM racing team after a crash at Monaco that injures his British teammate, Scott Stoddard. While Stoddard struggles to recover, ...



Georgy Girl(1966)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employer while striving to capture some of the glamorous life of her swinging London roommate.



Ben(1972)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A lonely boy befriends Ben, the leader of a violent pack of killer rats.



Young Winston(1972)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 8

This historical drama is an account of the early life of the future British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Simon Ward), including his childhood, his time as a war correspondent in South ...




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