Best Drama movies of 1961

Actors : Dana Andrews, Eddie Albert, Jeanne Crain, Eleanor Parker,
Directors : H. Bruce Humberstone,

An adman and an ad woman put a dangerous milk tycoon in line for the White House.

Actors : Elzbieta Kepinska, Serge Merlin, Jan Ciecierski, Alina Janowska,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

During the Nazi occupation, Jewish prisoner Jakub Gold is released from jail and works as a gravedigger in the Warsaw ghetto. Although he manages to escape and keeps hiding in private apartments, he tries to get back to the ghetto.

Actors : Diana Dors, Dianne Foster, David Janssen, Jack Carson,
Directors : Joseph M. Newman,

The story of flamboyant Prohibition-era gangster, gambler and bootlegger Arnold Rothstein.

Actors : Alberto Lupo, Ed Fury, Moira Orfei, Giacomo Furia,
Directors : Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia,

Actors : Alida Valli, Joseph Wiseman, Rita Hayworth, Rex Harrison,
Directors : George Marshall,

A suave art thief romances a wealthy duchess, only to enable him to steal a priceless painting from her collection. Complications ensue.

Actors : Teruyo Yamagami, Michiko Saga, Masahiko Tsugawa, Sumiko Hidaka,
Directors : Yoshishige Yoshida,

An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.

Actors : Natalya Kuzmina, Nina Drobysheva, Vitaliy Konyaev, Evgeniy Urbanskiy,
Directors : Grigoriy Chukhray,

During the 1950s Sasha Lvova reminisces about the WW2 years when she fell in love with Soviet fighter pilot Aleksei Astakhov.

Actors : Tatyana Chanturia, Akakiy Chikvaidze, Gia Chiraqadze, V. Maisuradze,
Directors : Otar Iosseliani,

A young happy couple moves from a poor district to a new housing estate. Their relationship gets progressively worse as their comfort and possessions increase.

Actors : Wedad Hamdy, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Soad Hosny, Adli Kasab,
Directors : Tolba Radwan,

Ahmed who work as a teacher rent an apartment in Abbas the vicious butcher Building in Al-Hussein district in Cairo who lives with his pregnant wife and beautiful sister, soon Ahmed falls ...

Actors : Hannjo Hasse, Wolfgang Kalweit, Christoph Beyertt, Georg Leopold,
Directors : Gerhard Klein,

Re-enacted true story of successful assault by Nazis, posing as Poles, on a German border radio station so that Hitler could "justify" thereby his invasion of Poland.

Actors : Uttam Kumar, Panchanan Bhattacharya, Khitish Acharya, Suchitra Sen,
Directors : Ajoy Kar,

Set in World War II, the reverend Krishnendu runs a military hospital in Bankura. A drunken Anglo-Indian woman soldier is brought to him for treatment and he recognized her as his former love Rina Brown.

Actors : Anita Page, Roger Mobley, Lewis Martin, Cesar Romero,
Directors : Claudio Guzmán,

A young Mexican boy runs away from an orphanage in California to search for his father in Mexico. On the way he takes a greyhound pup from a kennel in which he spent the night, and meets up...

Actors : Monique Mélinand, Alexandra Stewart, Jean Desailly, Yvette Etiévant,
Directors : Édouard Molinaro,

Stéphane Blanchon, who teaches at the International College, lives a quiet comfortable life in Geneva. He is married to Christine, a cold, dry-hearted woman, and his sentimental life is ...

Actors : Henry Corden, James Brown, Roy Barcroft, Merry Anders,
Directors : Edward L. Cahn,

A condemned criminal's acquaintances gather at a remote lodge on the eve of his execution to search for hidden money.

Actors : Nadja Tiller, Walter Giller, Charles Regnier, Pierre Brasseur,
Directors : Robert Siodmak,

Businessman who lives from blackmailing begins to be blackmailed by his own wife who hates him.

Actors : Robert Stephens, Daniel Massey, Jack Watson, Raymond Massey,
Directors : Michael Powell,

Grenadier Guards Captain John Fellowes prepares for the Trooping the Colour ceremony and reminisces about his years at Sandhurst Military Academy as well as his family's dramatic life.

Actors : Susanne Korda, Christian Doermer, Gerda Blisse, Narziß Sokatscheff,
Directors : Will Tremper,

An East German farmer is being harassed by SED (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands) superiors since he is no longer willing to submit to the forced collectivization. He plans to flee to the West.

Actors : Laurent Terzieff, Mica Orlovic, Marijan Lovric, Horst Frank,
Directors : Claude Autant-Lara,

At the end of World War II, a French pacifist is arrested for refusing to fight. In prison, he befriends a German priest arrested for murder of a French Resistance fighter. They discuss morality, obedience, and religion.

Actors : Virginia McKenna, Alf Kjellin, Patrick McGoohan, Bill Travers,
Directors : Anthony Asquith,

Three Post Office employees are at work when the facility is held up. The robber kills the supervisor and knocks out another employee. The third one offers no resistance and survives ...

Actors : Michèle Morgan, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Abdoulaye Faye, Buchard,
Directors : François Reichenbach,

Semi-documentary about a young black boxer named Abdoullah Faye and his life in Paris.