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

The Boys from Brazil(1978)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A Nazi hunter in Paraguay discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.



Runaway Train(1985)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 20

Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a train with no brakes and nobody driving.



French Connection II(1975)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 21

"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseille to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler who eluded him in New York.



Children of a Lesser God(1986)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A new speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the janitor, a deaf woman speechless by choice.



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.



Splendor in the Grass(1961)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 15

A fragile Kansas girl's love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.



Birdman of Alcatraz(1962)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 15

A surly convicted murderer held in permanent isolation redeems himself when he becomes a renowned bird expert.



Lenny(1974)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 17

The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the Establishment as too obscene for the public.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



Lolita(1962)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a fourteen-year-old nymphet.



Carnal Knowledge(1971)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 18

The concurrent sexual lives of best friends Jonathan and Sandy are presented, those lives which are affected by the sexual mores of the time and their own temperament, especially in ...



Seven Days in May(1964)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 15

United States military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack.



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.



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...



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.



Ironweed(1987)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 16

An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his home town of Albany, NY after returning there for the first time in decades.




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