Best Drama movies of 1960s

Actors : Keir Dullea, Howard Da Silva, Janet Margolin, Neva Patterson,
Directors : Frank Perry,

The emotional story of a young man in a mental institution for teens who begins to understand his psychosis in the environment of others with mental and emotional problems. He finds ...

Actors : Pearl Bailey, Lee Grant, Beau Bridges, Diana Sands,
Directors : Hal Ashby,

At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially his ...

Actors : Titos Vandis, Giorgos Foundas, Jules Dassin, Melina Mercouri,
Directors : Jules Dassin,

An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the prostitute with whom he is infatuated.

Actors : Jean Dasté, Ingrid Thulin, Geneviève Bujold, Yves Montand,
Directors : Alain Resnais,

Diego is one of the chief of the spanish Communist Party. He is travelling back to Paris (where he lives) from a mission in Madrid. He is arrested at the border for an identity check but ...

Actors : Michel Simon, Roger Carel, Paul Préboist, Luce Fabiole,
Directors : Claude Berri,

Claude is a Jew. Because of the risks of an arrest (France is occupied by the Nazis), his parents send him away to an elderly couple in the country. Pepe, the husband, is a Petain supporter...

Actors : Diane Varsi, Pat Hingle, Shelley Winters, Don Stroud,
Directors : Roger Corman,

A psychological gangster film based on fact. Machine gun totin' Ma Barker lead her family gang (her sons) on a crime spree in the Depression era. Her loyal brood have every perversion ...

Actors : Jean Shrimpton, Mark London, Paul Jones, William Job,
Directors : Peter Watkins,

Steven Shorter is the ultimate British music star. His music is listened to by everyone from pre-teens to grandparents. He has no trace of public bad habits or drug involvement. Everyone in...

Actors : Rokkô Toura, Kei Satô, Nobuko Otowa, Kichiemon Nakamura,
Directors : Kaneto Shindô,

Two women are raped and killed by samurai soldiers. Soon they reappear as vengeful ghosts who seduce and brutally murder the passing samurai.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Peter Boyle, Dennis Patrick, Patrick McDermott,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

Bill, a wealthy businessman, confronts his junkie daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend; in the ensuing argument, Bill kills him. Panic-stricken, he wanders the streets and eventually stops at ...

Actors : Guy Frangin, Jeanne Lobre, Dominique Sanda, Claude Ollier,
Directors : Robert Bresson,

A young woman kills herself, leaving no explanation to her grief-stricken pawnbroker husband. We learn in flashback about how they met, married, and how she failed to adapt her lifestyle to...

Actors : James Mason, Anne Bancroft, Janine Gray, Peter Finch,
Directors : Jack Clayton,

Film screenwriter Jake Armitage and his wife Jo Armitage live in London with six of Jo's eight children, with the two eldest boys at boarding school. The children are spread over Jo's three...

Actors : Robert Mitchum, George Hamilton, George Peppard, Eleanor Parker,
Directors : Vincente Minnelli,

Dramatic story of the influential Hunnicutt family set in Texas during the late 1950s.

Actors : Larisa Kadochnikova, Spartak Bagashvili, Ivan Mykolaichuk, Tatyana Bestayeva,
Directors : Sergei Parajanov,

In a Carpathian village, Ivan falls in love with Marichka, the daughter of his father's killer. When tragedy befalls her, his grief lasts months; finally he rejoins the colorful life around...

Actors : Helmut Döring, Paul Glauer, Gisela Hertwig, Hertel Minkner,
Directors : Werner Herzog,

The inhabitants of an institution in a remote country rebel against their keepers. Their acts of rebellion are by turns humorous, boring and alarming. An allegory on the problematic nature ...

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Patrick O'Neal, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Peter Falk,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

During the Battle of the Bulge, an anachronistic count shelters a ragtag squad of Americans in his isolated castle hoping they will defend it against the advancing Germans.

Actors : Frank Langella, Lorraine Cullen, Richard Benjamin, Carrie Snodgress,
Directors : Frank Perry,

A housewife with an abusive husband has an affair with a writer.

Actors : Barbara Stanwyck, Leif Erickson, Elvis Presley, Joan Freeman,
Directors : John Rich,

After a singer loses his job at a coffee shop, he finds employment at a struggling carnival, but his attempted romance with a teenager leads to friction with her father.

Actors : Iga Cembrzynska, Gustaw Holoubek, Elzbieta Czyzewska, Zbigniew Cybulski,
Directors : Wojciech Has,

Upon finding a book that relates his grandfather's story, an officer ventures through Spain meeting a wide array of characters, most of whom have a story of their own to tell.

Actors : Tom Beck, Sally Main, Gerard Broulard, Kathy Hilton,

Carla has a birthday party for her pimp Troy and invites Brenda, Chi-Chi, Wild Willie and Big John. They all have softcore sex.

Actors : Jane Asher, Christopher Sandford, Karl Michael Vogler, John Moulder-Brown,
Directors : Jerzy Skolimowski,

15-year-old Mike takes a job at the local swimming baths, where he becomes obsessed with an attractive young woman, Susan, who works there as an attendant. Although Susan has a fiancé, Mike...