Best movies that are golden globes winners or nominees in writing (screenplay written directly for the screen) category

Green Card(1990)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 48

A man wanting to stay in the US enters into a marriage of convenience, but it turns into more than that.



Fame(1980)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 48

A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.



Witness(1985)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 38

A young Amish boy is sole witness to a murder; policeman John Book goes into hiding in Amish country to protect him until the trial.



Braveheart(1995)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 34

When his secret bride is executed for assaulting an English soldier who tried to rape her, Sir William Wallace begins a revolt against King Edward I of England.



An Officer and a Gentleman(1982)

Combined Rating:
54
Combined Critics Rating: 38

A young man must complete his work at a Navy Flight school to become an aviator, with the help of a tough gunnery sergeant and his new girlfriend.



Arthur(1981)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 35

Arthur he does as he pleases. All of his life, his master's toys. Deep in his heart, he's just, he's just a boy.



Ghost(1990)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 26

After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.



Bullets Over Broadway(1994)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 28

In New York in 1928, a struggling playwright is forced to cast a mobster's talentless girlfriend in his latest drama in order to get it produced.





Places in the Heart(1984)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 21

In central Texas in the 1930s, a widow, with two small children, tries to run her small 40-acre farm with the help of two disparate people.



Running on Empty(1988)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 19

The eldest son of a fugitive family comes of age and wants to live a life of his own.



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.



Hope and Glory(1987)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A semi-autobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War 2. For a young boy, this time in history was ...



Tender Mercies(1983)

Combined Rating:
29
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.



Melvin and Howard(1980)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 15

The story of hard-luck Melvin E. Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.




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