Best Drama movies that are golden globes winners or nominees

Wonder Boys(2000)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 74

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.



Ali(2001)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 72

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



Monster's Ball(2001)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 73

After a family tragedy, a racist prison guard reexamines his attitudes while falling in love with the African American wife of the last prisoner he executed.



Hedwig and the Angry Inch(2001)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 79

A transgender punk-rock girl from East Berlin tours the U.S. with her band as she tells her life story and follows the former lover/band-mate who stole her songs.



Shattered Glass(2003)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 77

The story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was discovered he fabricated over half of his articles from the publication The New Republic magazine.



Defiance(2008)

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Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe escape into the Belarussian forests, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavor to build a village in order to protect themselves and about 1,000 Jewish non-combatants.



The Blind Side(2009)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 69

The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.



Big Eyes(2014)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A drama about the awakening of painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.



The Graduate(1967)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

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



Cool Hand Luke(1967)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

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



The Conversation(1974)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 72

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



Manhattan(1979)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.





The Untouchables(1987)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop Al Capone; because of rampant corruption, he assembles a small, hand-picked team.



The Last Temptation of Christ(1988)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 75

The life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross.



The Piano(1993)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A mute woman is sent to 1850s New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, but is soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation.



The Usual Suspects(1995)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A sole survivor tells of the twisty events leading up to a horrific gun battle on a boat, which began when five criminals met at a seemingly random police lineup.



The Green Mile(1999)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 69

The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift.



Chocolat(2000)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community.



North Country(2005)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States -- Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.




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