Best Drama movies of 1961

Actors : Robert Stephens, Murray Melvin, Rita Tushingham, Dora Bryan,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

A pregnant teenage girl must fend for herself when her mother remarries, leaving the girl with only a new male friend for support.

Actors : Edie Adams, Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall,
Directors : Delbert Mann,

A series of misunderstandings leaves an advertising executive with a campaign for a product which has not yet been invented, while he romances his rival in the guise of its inventor.

Actors : Glenn Ford, Arthur O'Connell, Bette Davis, Hope Lange,
Directors : Frank Capra,

A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.

Actors : Stefania Sandrelli, Daniela Rocca, Marcello Mastroianni, Leopoldo Trieste,
Directors : Pietro Germi,

A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.

Actors : Michael Goodliffe, Janet Munro, Leo McKern, Edward Judd,
Directors : Val Guest,

When the U.S. and Russia unwittingly test atomic bombs at the same time, it alters the nutation (axis of rotation) of the Earth.

Actors : Homer Nish, Yvonne Williams, Tom Reynolds, Rico Rodriguez,
Directors : Kent Mackenzie,

Native Americans in Los Angeles. For 12 hours one Friday night, from late afternoon until dawn, we follow a handful of urban Indians. Yvonne is pregnant, commenting on her life and dreams ...

Actors : Katy Jurado, Arthur Kennedy, Anthony Quinn, Silvana Mangano,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

Barabbas, the criminal that Pontius Pilate induced the populace to vote to set free, so that Christ could be crucified, is haunted by the image of Jesus for the rest of his life.

Actors : James Robertson Justice, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, Margaret Rutherford,
Directors : George Pollock,

When Miss Marple reports witnessing a murder through the window of a passing train, the police dismiss her as a dotty spinster when no trace of the crime can be found.

Actors : Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee,
Directors : Daniel Petrie,

A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.

Actors : Alan Bates, Bernard Lee, Diane Clare, Norman Bird,
Directors : Bryan Forbes,

When an injured wife murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the owners three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.

Actors : Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier, Louis Armstrong,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

During the 1960s, two American ex-pat jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in-love with two American tourist girls.

Actors : Igor Fomchenko, Marina Adzhubei, Vladimir Zamanskiy, Yuri Brusser,
Directors : Andrei Tarkovsky,

Seven year old Sasha practices violin every day to satisfy the ambition of his parents. Already withdrawn as a result of his routines, Sasha quickly regains confidence when he accidentally ...

Actors : Ronald Lewis, Oskar Homolka, Guy Rolfe, Audrey Dalton,
Directors : William Castle,

A search for a winning lottery ticket in his dead father's grave causes Sardonicus' face to freeze in a horrible grimace, until he forces a doctor to treat his affliction--with even more ...

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Edward Andrews, Vivian Nathan, Dina Merrill,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy. He begins to discover that the facts in the case aren't ...

Actors : Tamao Nakamura, Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Yûsuke Kawazu,
Directors : Masaki Kobayashi,

His ideals challenged by life as a conscript in war-time Japan's military, a pacifist faces ever greater tests in his fight for survival.

Actors : Sandro Panseri, Tullio Kezich, Loredana Detto, Mara Revel,
Directors : Ermanno Olmi,

A very young college graduate attempts to obtain a position with a large corporation.

Actors : Allen Baron, Molly McCarthy, Peter Clune, Larry Tucker,
Directors : Allen Baron,

A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York. But a special girl from his past, and a fat gun dealer with pet rats, each gets in his way.

Actors : Christopher Rhodes, Vincent Winter, William Sylvester, Bill Travers,
Directors : Eugène Lourié,

Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus. Then its mother shows up.

Actors : Anil Chatterjee, Chandana Banerjee, Nripati Chatterjee, Sita Mukherjee,
Directors : Satyajit Ray,

Based on popular Indian stories of great writer Rabindra Nath Tagore, these short films reveal definitive moments in the lives of three young girls.

Actors : Emmanuelle Riva, Nicole Mirel, Irène Tunc, Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Directors : Jean-Pierre Melville,

Set during occupied France, a faithless woman finds herself falling in love with a young priest.