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

Actors : Frances Fisher, Jennifer Connelly, Ron Eldard, Ben Kingsley,
Directors : Vadim Perelman,

An abandoned wife is evicted from her house and starts a tragic conflict with her home's new owners.

Actors : Armie Hammer, Leonardo DiCaprio, Josh Hamilton, Naomi Watts,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

J. Edgar Hoover, powerful head of the F.B.I. for nearly 50 years, looks back on his professional and personal life.

Actors : Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy,
Directors : Bryan Singer,

A chronicle of the years leading up to Queen's legendary appearance at the Live Aid (1985) concert.

Actors : Billy Connolly, Tom Cruise, William Atherton, Ken Watanabe,
Directors : Edward Zwick,

An American military advisor embraces the Samurai culture he was hired to destroy after he is captured in battle.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Brit Marling, Tim Roth, Richard Gere,
Directors : Nicholas Jarecki,

A troubled hedge fund magnate desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help.

Actors : Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Justin Henry, Jane Alexander,
Directors : Robert Benton,

Ted Kramer's wife leaves her husband, allowing for a lost bond to be rediscovered between Ted and his son, Billy. But a heated custody battle ensues over the divorced couple's son, deepening the wounds left by the separation.

Actors : Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Timothy Hutton, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Robert Redford,

The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son.

Actors : Peter O'Toole, John Lone, Joan Chen, Ruocheng Ying,
Directors : Bernardo Bertolucci,

The story of the final Emperor of China.

Actors : Tom Cruise, Gerald R. Molen, Dustin Hoffman, Valeria Golino,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.

Actors : Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Robert Downey Jr., Michael Douglas,
Directors : Curtis Hanson,

An English Professor tries to deal with his wife leaving him, the arrival of his editor who has been waiting for his book for seven years, and the various problems that his friends and associates involve him in.

Actors : Mario Van Peebles, Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight,
Directors : Michael Mann,

A biography of sports legend Muhammad Ali, focusing on his triumphs and controversies between 1964 and 1974.

Actors : J.D. Cannon, Strother Martin, Paul Newman, George Kennedy,
Directors : Stuart Rosenberg,

A laid back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.

Actors : Frederic Forrest, Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.

Actors : Bryan Cranston, Helen Mirren, Diane Lane, Louis C.K.,
Directors : Jay Roach,

In 1947, Dalton Trumbo was Hollywood's top screenwriter, until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs.

Actors : Michael Strong, Karl Malden, Stephen Young, George C. Scott,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

The World War II phase of the career of the controversial American general, George S. Patton.

Actors : David Morse, Will Smith, Albert Brooks, Alec Baldwin,
Directors : Peter Landesman,

In Pittsburgh, accomplished pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu uncovers the truth about brain damage in football players who suffer repeated concussions in the course of normal play.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Warren Beatty,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

Bonnie Parker, a bored waitress falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, robbing cars and banks.

Actors : Josh Charles, Robin Williams, Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard,
Directors : Peter Weir,

English teacher John Keating inspires his students to look at poetry with a different perspective of authentic knowledge and feelings.

Actors : Rodney A. Grant, Graham Greene, Mary McDonnell, Kevin Costner,
Directors : Kevin Costner,

Lt. John Dunbar, exiled to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.

Actors : Robin Williams, Stellan Skarsgård, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon,
Directors : Gus Van Sant,

Will Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.