Best movies that are golden globes winners in best screenplay motion picture category

Network(1976)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit.



Thelma & Louise(1991)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 75

Two best friends set out on an adventure but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the American police as these two girls escape for the crimes they committed!



The Graduate(1967)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.



Kramer vs. Kramer(1979)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 73

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.



The Last Emperor(1987)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 75

The story of the final Emperor of China.





Dances with Wolves(1990)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

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



The People vs. Larry Flynt(1996)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A partially idealized film of the controversial pornography publisher and how he became a defender of free speech for all people.



The Purple Rose of Cairo(1985)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 60

In New Jersey in 1935, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world.



Scent of a Woman(1992)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 53

A prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated.



Love Story(1970)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A boy and a girl from different backgrounds fall in love regardless of their upbringing - and then tragedy strikes.



Traffic(2000)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 43

A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife attempts to carry on the family business.



Conan the Barbarian(1982)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 44

A barbarian warrior sets off to avenge his parents and his tribe whom were slain by an evil sorcerer and his henchmen when he was a boy.



Sense and Sensibility(1995)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 42

Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the titular opposites.



In the Heat of the Night(1967)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 33

An African American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.



The Rose(1979)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 48

The tragic life of a self-destructive female rock star who struggles to deal with the constant pressures of her career and the demands of her ruthless business manager.



Doctor Zhivago(1965)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 25

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during the First World War and then the October Revolution.



Paper Moon(1973)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 23

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.



The Towering Inferno(1974)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 20

At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.



Midnight Express(1978)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.




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