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

Actors : George Clooney, Amara Miller, Shailene Woodley, Nick Krause,
Directors : Alexander Payne,

A land baron tries to reconnect with his two daughters after his wife is seriously injured in a boating accident.

Actors : Barkhad Abdirahman, Catherine Keener, Barkhad Abdi, Tom Hanks,
Directors : Paul Greengrass,

The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the U.S.-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

Actors : Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy,
Directors : Alejandro González Iñárritu,

A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.

Actors : Kate Winslet, Michael Fassbender, Seth Rogen, Jeff Daniels,
Directors : Danny Boyle,

Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution, to paint a portrait of the man at its epicenter. The story unfolds backstage at three iconic product launches, ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac.

Actors : Laura Harrier, John David Washington, Topher Grace, Adam Driver,
Directors : Spike Lee,

Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, CO, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan branch with the help of a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events.

Actors : Thomas Kretschmann, Emilia Fox, Adrien Brody, Frank Finlay,
Directors : Roman Polanski,

A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.

Actors : Kevin Bacon, Tim Robbins, Emmy Rossum, Sean Penn,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

With a childhood tragedy that overshadowed their lives, three men are reunited by circumstance when one has a family tragedy.

Actors : Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Brenda Blethyn, Saoirse Ronan,
Directors : Joe Wright,

Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a thirteen-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.

Actors : Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Mark Margolis, Evan Rachel Wood,
Directors : Darren Aronofsky,

A faded professional wrestler must retire, but finds his quest for a new life outside the ring a dispiriting struggle.

Actors : Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Sean Penn, Diego Luna,
Directors : Gus Van Sant,

The story of Harvey Milk, and his struggles as an American gay activist who fought for gay rights and became California's first openly gay elected official.

Actors : Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Mark Wahlberg, Melissa Leo,
Directors : David O. Russell,

A look at the early years of boxer "Irish" Micky Ward and his brother who helped train him before going pro in the mid 1980s.

Actors : Amber Tamblyn, James Franco, Sean Bott, Kate Mara,
Directors : Danny Boyle,

An adventurous mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive.

Actors : Ralph Fiennes, Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

In German-occupied Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazi Germans.

Actors : Tom Sizemore, Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Matt Damon,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.

Actors : Allen Leech, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Benedict Cumberbatch,
Directors : Morten Tyldum,

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

Actors : Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed, Bill Paxton,
Directors : Dan Gilroy,

When Louis Bloom, a con man desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story.

Actors : Channing Tatum, Vanessa Redgrave, Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo,
Directors : Bennett Miller,

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.

Actors : Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Tom Pelphrey, Lily Collins,
Directors : David Fincher,

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).

Actors : Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, John Travolta,
Directors : Quentin Tarantino,

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.

Actors : Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Jim Carrey,
Directors : Peter Weir,

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