Best Drama movies that are golden globes winners or nominees

The Sheltering Sky(1990)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 17

The American artist couple Port and Kit Moresby travel aimlessly through Africa, searching for new experiences that could give sense to their relationship. But the flight to distant regions only leads both deeper into despair.



Billy Bathgate(1991)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 16

In the year 1935, a teen named Billy Bathgate finds first love while becoming the protégé of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz.



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...



Two for the Road(1967)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A couple in the south of France non-sequentially spin down the highways of infidelity in their troubled ten-year marriage.



Year of the Dragon(1985)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A police detective cracks down on organized crime in Chinatown after the murders of Triad and Mafia leaders.



The Spy Who Came in from the Cold(1965)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 12

British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.



Testament(1983)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 23

The life of a suburban American family is scarred after a nuclear attack.



Much Ado About Nothing(1993)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well.



Yentl(1983)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training.



Prick Up Your Ears(1987)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 21

This film is the story of the spectacular life and violent death of British playwright Joe Orton. In his teens, Orton is befriended by the older, more reserved Kenneth Halliwell, and while ...



Paint Your Wagon(1969)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Two unlikely prospector partners share the same wife in a California gold rush mining town.



Tender Mercies(1983)

Combined Rating:
28
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.



The Paper Chase(1973)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A first-year law student at Harvard Law School struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of his sternest professor.



The Heartbreak Kid(1972)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 27

Three days into his Miami honeymoon, New York Jewish Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly. This confirms him in his opinion that he has made a serious mistake and he decides he wants Kelly ...



Agnes of God(1985)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 19

When a naive novice nun is discovered with a dead newborn in her convent quarters, a court-appointed psychiatrist investigates her case.



The Buddy Holly Story(1978)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 18

The story of the life and career of the early rock and roll singer, from his meteoric rise to stardom, to his marriage and untimely death.



Looking for Mr. Goodbar(1977)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively violent sexual encounters.



The Crucible(1996)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.



The Accused(1988)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 0

After a young woman suffers a brutal gang rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack.



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.




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