Best Drama movies of 1961

Actors : Luana Patten, Linda Hutchings, Chill Wills, Jimmie Rodgers,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

An orphan fights for the north in the civil war, then returns to his girlfriend in Kentucky.

Actors : Boris Kralj, Olga Palinka, Jelena Zigon, Mica Orlovic,
Directors : Joze Babic,

Suspicious husband follows his wife and her male boss on their business trip.

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.

Actors : Jeong-suk Moon, Jin Kyu Kim, Ye-chun Lee,
Directors : Hwa-lang Kim,

Forced to work in a coal mine by the Japanese occupying forces, a man blinds a foreman with a stone and makes his escape. After national liberation from Japan, the foreman spends the next ...

Actors : Gerard Heinz, Ferdy Mayne, Dawn Beret, Margaret Tyzack,
Directors : Ernest Morris,

Months before the out break of WWII, suspicion falls on a German ambassador when one of his envoys fails to return to Berlin. The arrival of two Gestapo agents searching for the missing man...

Actors : Nino Castelnuovo, Tomas Milian, Madeleine Robinson, Tino Carraro,
Directors : Alfredo Giannetti,

The mental illness that struck young Dario, one of the two children of the Dominici family who lives in a magnificent Roman palace, disrupts the life of all its members.

Actors : Susy Castell, Vicente Ariño, Carlos Dorrego, Lucas Demare,
Directors : Lucas Demare,

Story set at the Chaco war between Bolivia and Paraguay.

Actors : Christine Kaufmann, Michael Hinz, William Bendix, Ron Randell,
Directors : Ákos Ráthonyi,

Helmut, a war orphan, is charged with theft at the time of the Berlin Airlift and faces a jail sentence of up to six years behind bars. The unfairness raises the anger of numerous people who decide to fight it.

Actors : Shashikala, Kishore Kumar, Kumkum, K.N. Singh,
Directors : Mohan Segal,

A movie stunt-man is recruited to impersonate a look-alike mentally unstable heir to a vast estate.

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 : Geneviève Grad, John Drew Barrymore, Jacques Sernas, Gianna Maria Canale,
Directors : Mario Costa,

Protests break out in Corinth against Roman domination, injuring Caius Vinicius, a Roman centurion. He's rescued by Hebe -- daughter of the anti-Roman governor, Critolaus -- who's being ...

Actors : Martha Vourtsi, Giannis Fertis, Xenia Kalogeropoulou, Stefanos Linaios,
Directors : Sokrates Kapsaskis,

Melodramatic treatment of "love in the time of war". Two soldiers, friends, return to Athens from the Albanian front. They meet a girl whom one of them had known and corresponded with some ...

Actors : Geraldo Del Rey, Luiza Maranhão, Helena Ignez, Antonio Pitanga,
Directors : Roberto Pires,

Made in the famous "Água de Meninos" market, the greatest popular market in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Salvador is revealed without prejudices, from the world of high finance up to the sordid...

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 : Myrna Delgado, Van De Leon, Eddie Mesa, Cesar Ramirez,
Directors : Danilo Santiago,

ACTION - at its greatest. A bandit - A Police Officer - Gunning down each other in a TENSION-PACKED STORY.

Actors : Mickey Curtis, Sessue Hayakawa, Kôji Shitara, Jûzô Itami,
Directors : Tad Danielewski,

Yukio, a farm boy, and Toru, a fisherboy, live in a small Japanese village that is periodically threatened by a volcano on one side and tidal waves on the other. Yukio's younger sister ...

Actors : Zhong Huang, Aerkesai,
Directors : Fan Ou,

Biography of Uighur poet and Communist Party activist Li Mutelifu.

Actors : Hideko Takamine, Michiko Araki, Sen Hara, Keiju Kobayashi,
Directors : Zenzô Matsuyama,

A sympathetic portrayal of the suffering of a deaf couple at the hands of a shell shocked postwar society that treats them like wayward children to be at turns pitied or exploited.

Actors : Sigge Fürst, Edvin Adolphson, Inga Tidblad, Isa Quensel,
Directors : Torgny Anderberg,

Set in th 1930's depression times. A wealthy industrialist suffers a stroke. His wife takes over both family and business. The son worships his mother, but is forced to choose sides when he falls in love with the poor Aina.

Actors : Ignacio López Tarso, Jorge Mistral, María Félix, Luis Aguilar,
Directors : Miguel Zacarías,

The true life's story of Juana Gallo. A woman who rose to become one of the leaders of the Mexican revolution.