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

The Champ(1979)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Billy Flynn, a former boxing champion, is now horse trainer in Hialeah. He makes just enough money to raise his little boy T.J., over whom he got custody after his wife Annie left him seven...



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 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.



Prince of the City(1981)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A New York City narcotics detective reluctantly agrees to cooperate with a special commission investigating police corruption. However, he soon discovers that he's in over his head, and nobody can be trusted.



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.



Magic(1978)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.



Sunday Bloody Sunday(1971)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 18

Divorced working woman Alex and well-to-do Jewish family doctor Daniel Hirsh share not only the same answering service but also the favours of young Bob Elkin who bed-hops between them as ...



Equus(1977)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A psychiatrist attempts to uncover a troubled stable boy's disturbing obsession with horses.



Hud(1963)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Honest and hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant and egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash.



Missing(1982)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.



Sweet Bird of Youth(1962)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown after many years of trying to make it in the movies. Arriving with him is a faded film star he picked up along the way, Alexandra Del Lago. ...



Save the Tiger(1973)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A disillusioned aging decent man and once proud WWII veteran is dealing with midlife crisis as well as a tough moral dilemma. If he wants his small near-bankrupt clothing company to survive, he has two days to let go of his shaken morals.



'Round Midnight(1986)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 16

In 'Round Midnight, real-life jazz legend Dexter Gordon brilliantly portrays the fictional tenor sax player Dale Turner, a musician slowly losing the battle with alcoholism, estranged from ...



Nobody's Fool(1994)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A stubborn man past his prime reflects his life of strict independence and seeks more out of himself.



Bound for Glory(1976)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 15

The early life of Woody Guthrie as a vagabond folk singer.



Richard III(1995)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The classic Shakespearean play about a murderously scheming king staged in an alternative fascist England setting.



The Boston Strangler(1968)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 9

A series of brutal murders in Boston sparks a seemingly endless and increasingly complex manhunt.



Anne of the Thousand Days(1969)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.



Ship of Fools(1965)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for post-war Germany represents a microcosm of 1930s society.



Star 80(1983)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A successful young model finds trouble when her obsessive manager-turned-husband becomes dangerously jealous. Based on the true story of 1980 Playmate of the Year Dorothy Stratten.




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