Best Drama movies that are golden globes winners or nominees

Ed Wood(1994)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 63

Ambitious but troubled movie director, Edward D. Wood Jr, tries his best to fulfill his dream, despite his lack of support.



The Age of Innocence(1993)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A tale of nineteenth-century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.



Sex, Lies, and Videotape(1989)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 68

A sexually repressed woman's husband is having an affair with her sister. The arrival of a visitor with a rather unusual fetish changes everything.



Pieces of April(2003)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A wayward daughter invites her dying mother and the rest of her estranged family to her apartment for Thanksgiving dinner.



The People vs. Larry Flynt(1996)

Combined Rating:
74
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.



Parenthood(1989)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 68

The Buckmans are a midwestern family all dealing with their lives: estranged relatives, raising children, pressures of the job, and learning to be a good parent and spouse.



Scarface(1983)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 62

In Miami in 1980, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.



Burlesque(2010)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 65

A small-town girl ventures to Los Angeles and finds her place in a neo-burlesque club run by a former dancer.



Barney's Version(2010)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 72

The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.



Gattaca(1997)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.



Shine(1996)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 66

Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.



Girl, Interrupted(1999)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 62

Based on writer Susanna Kaysen's account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the 1960s.



What's Eating Gilbert Grape(1993)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 62

After his father's death, Gilbert has to care for his mentally disabled brother, Arnie, and his morbidly obese mother, which is suddenly challenged when love walks into his life.



Secrets & Lies(1996)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 68

A successful black woman discovers that her birth mother is a underprivileged white woman, but the woman denies it. As emotions run high, everyone's secrets are exposed.



Malcolm X(1992)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 64

Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam.



Barton Fink(1991)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.



You've Got Mail(1998)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 61

Two business rivals who despise each other in real life unwittingly fall in love over the Internet.



The Prom(2020)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A troupe of hilariously self-obsessed theater stars swarm into a small conservative Indiana town in support of a high school girl who wants to take her girlfriend to the prom.



Spanglish(2004)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 65

A woman and her daughter emigrate from Mexico for a better life in America, where they start working for a family where the patriarch is a newly celebrated chef with an insecure wife.



The Ice Storm(1997)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 65

In suburban New Canaan, Connecticut , 1973, middle class families experimenting with casual sex and substance abuse find their lives beyond their control.




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