Best Drama movies of 1960s

Actors : Richard Burton, Alec Guinness, Peter Ustinov, Elizabeth Taylor,
Directors : Peter Glenville,

A cynical Welsh hotel owner secretly romances a diplomat's wife in Haiti under the violent reign of the despot "Papa Doc" Duvalier.

Actors : Paul Meurisse, Lino Ventura, Raymond Pellegrin, Christine Fabréga,
Directors : Jean-Pierre Melville,

Gustave Minda, better known as Gu, a dangerous gangster, escapes from jail. He goes to Paris to join Manouche and other friends, and get involved in a gangland killing. Before leaving the ...

Actors : Carmelo Bene, Alida Valli, Franco Citti, Silvana Mangano,
Directors : Pier Paolo Pasolini,

In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and the scene moves to antiquity, where the baby is taken into the desert to be killed. He is ...

Actors : Richard Harris, Michael Parks, Ulla Bergryd, John Huston,
Directors : John Huston,

Extravagant production of the first part of the book of Genesis. Covers Adam and Eve, Noah and the Flood and Abraham and Isaac.

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 Already withdrawn as a result of his routines, Sasha quickly regains confidence when he accidentally ...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 : Masayo Banri, Hajime Mitamura, Ryûzô Shimada, Shintarô Katsu,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur who also happens to be a master swordsman.

Actors : Peter Fonda, Bruce Dern, Dennis Hopper, Susan Strasberg,
Directors : Roger Corman,

Paul Groves (Peter Fonda), a television commercial director, is in the midst of a personality crisis. His wife Sally (Susan Strasberg) has left him and he seeks the help of his friend John ...

Actors : Jennifer Billingsley, Rafael Campos, Olivia de Havilland, James Caan,
Directors : Walter Grauman,

A woman trapped in a home elevator is terrorized by a group of vicious hoodlums.

Actors : James Earl Jones, Lou Gilbert, Joel Fluellen, Jane Alexander,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.

Actors : Nigel Davenport, Harry Andrews, Michael Caine, Nigel Green,
Directors : André De Toth,

During the Desert War in North Africa, a group of British commandos disguised in Italian soldiers must travel behind enemy lines and destroy a vital Nazi oil depot.

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 : Jean-Claude Fourneau, Florence Delay, Marc Jacquier, Roger Honorat,
Directors : Robert Bresson,

A reconstruction of the trial of Joan of Arc (based entirely on the transcripts of the real-life trial), concerning Joan's imprisonment, interrogation and final execution at the hands of ...

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud, Harry Andrews, Trevor Howard,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

A chronicle of events that led to the British involvement in the Crimean War against Russia and which led to the siege of Sevastopol and the fierce Battle of Balaclava on October 25, 1854 ...

Actors : Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Lionel Jeffries, Margaret Rutherford, William Mervyn,
Directors : George Pollock,

After Miss Marple is made a trustee of a merchant marine training vessel, a fellow trustee is poisoned, and ship's officers are later murdered after she comes on board.

Actors : Doris Roberts, Shirley Stoler, Mary Jane Higby, Tony Lo Bianco,

An obese, embittered nurse doesn't mind if her toupee-wearing boyfriend romances and fleeces other women, as long as he takes her along on his con jobs.

Actors : Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Chhabi Biswas, Karuna Bannerjee,
Directors : Satyajit Ray,

A young woman is deemed a goddess when her father-in-law, a rich feudal land-lord, has a dream envisioning her as an avatar of Kali.

Actors : Mickey Rooney, Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Julie Harris,
Directors : Ralph Nelson,

Mountain Rivera, a punchy has-been managed by the unprincipled Maish, is mauled in a fight and forced to quit boxing. Can his devoted cutman and a sympathetic social worker help him find a ...

Actors : Raquel Welch, Richard Conte, Frank Sinatra, Martin Gabel,
Directors : Gordon Douglas,

During an ocean dive, Miami gumshoe Tony Rome finds a woman's body with its feet encased in a concrete block and sets-out to solve the murder case.

Actors : Alan Bates, June Ritchie, Bert Palmer, Thora Hird,
Directors : John Schlesinger,

After his girlfriend's pregnancy forces him to marry her, a young man must adjust to his new life and contend with his domineering mother-in-law.

Actors : Bernard Cribbins, Dinah Sheridan, Iain Cuthbertson, William Mervyn,
Directors : Lionel Jeffries,

After the enforced absence of their father, three children move with their mother to Yorkshire, where during their adventures they attempt to discover the reason for his disappearance.