Best Drama movies of 1966

Actors : Walter Green, François Lafarge, Anne Wiazemsky, Jean-Claude Guilbert,
Directors : Robert Bresson,

The story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him. A study on saintliness and a sister piece to Bresson's Mouchette.

Actors : Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Brahim Hadjadj, Tommaso Neri,
Directors : Gillo Pontecorvo,

In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.

Actors : Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya, Marlène Jobert, Michel Debord,
Directors : Jean-Luc Godard,

A romance between young Parisians, shown through a series of vignettes.

Actors : Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson, Margaretha Krook, Gunnar Björnstrand,
Directors : Ingmar Bergman,

A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personas are melding together.

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, John Castle, David Hemmings,
Directors : Michelangelo Antonioni,

A mod London photographer finds something very suspicious in the shots he has taken of a mysterious beauty in a desolate park.

Actors : Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis, Elizabeth Taylor,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use a young couple to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other.

Actors : Ivan Lapikov, Nikolay Grinko, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Nikolay Sergeev,
Directors : Andrei Tarkovsky,

The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer.

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Charlene Holt, James Caan, John Wayne,
Directors : Howard Hawks,

Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Hara. Together with an old Indian fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.

Actors : Anne-Marie Jelinek, Momar Nar Sene, Robert Fontaine, Mbissine Thérèse Diop,
Directors : Ousmane Sembene,

A black girl from Senegal becomes a servant in France.

Actors : Candice Bergen, Steve McQueen, Richard Crenna, Richard Attenborough,
Directors : Robert Wise,

Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and...

Actors : Oskar Werner, Anton Diffring, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack,
Directors : François Truffaut,

In an oppressive future, a fireman whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.

Actors : Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw, Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern,
Directors : Fred Zinnemann,

The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage.

Actors : Tom Edmonston, Carl Einhorn, Wimme Andre, Melvin Clay,

Patients from an insane asylum find refuge at a farmhouse after escaping from a bus.

Actors : Lauren Bacall, Paul Newman, Arthur Hill, Julie Harris,
Directors : Jack Smight,

Lew Harper, a cool private investigator, is hired by a wealthy California matron to locate her kidnapped husband.

Actors : Toshirô Mifune, Eva Marie Saint, James Garner, Yves Montand,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

American Grand Prix driver Pete Aron is fired by his Jordan-BRM racing team after a crash at Monaco that injures his British teammate, Scott Stoddard. While Stoddard struggles to recover, ...

Actors : Julia Foster, Millicent Martin, Michael Caine, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

An unrepentant ladies' man gradually begins to understand the consequences of his lifestyle.

Actors : Peter Lukoye, Virginia McKenna, Geoffrey Keen, Bill Travers,

Married couple George Adamson and Joy Adamson have long lived in northern Kenya for George's work as the senior game warden of the region. One of George's primary responsibilities is to ...

Actors : Charles Bronson, Robert Redford, Natalie Wood, Kate Reid,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

A railroad official, Owen Legate comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down much of the town's railway (town's main income). Owen unexpectedly finds love with Dodson's flirt and main ...

Actors : Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Charlton Heston, Richard Johnson,

In the Sudan, in 1884-85, Egyptian forces led by a British general defend Khartoum against an invading Muslim army led by a religious fanatic, the Mahdi.

Actors : Donald Pleasence, Jack MacGowran, Lionel Stander, Françoise Dorléac,
Directors : Roman Polanski,

Two wounded gangsters on the run find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife in search of help, however, under the point of a gun nothing is what it seems.