Best Drama movies of 1963

Actors : Luke Halpin, Jane Rose, Connie Scott, Chuck Connors,
Directors : James B. Clark,

Sandy is distraught when, having saved Flipper by pulling out a spear, his father insists the dolphin be released. A grateful Flipper, however, returns the favor when Sandy is threatened by Sharks.

Actors : Henry Fonda, James MacArthur, Maureen O'Hara, Donald Crisp,
Directors : Delmer Daves,

Clay Spencer is a hard-working man who loves his wife and large family. He is respected by his neighbors and always ready to give them a helping hand. Although not a churchgoer, he even ...

Actors : Claude Cerval, Jean Gabin, Viviane Romance, Alain Delon,
Directors : Henri Verneuil,

Charles (Jean Gabin), a sixtyish career criminal fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cellmate, Francis (Alain Delon)...

Actors : Delphine Seyrig, Nita Klein, Jean-Pierre Kérien, Jean-Baptiste Thiérrée,
Directors : Alain Resnais,

In the seacoast town of Boulogne, Hélène sells antique furniture, living with her step-son, Bernard, who's back from military duty in Algiers. An old lover of Hélène's comes to visit - ...

Actors : Jean Anderson, Patrick McGoohan, Laurence Naismith, Susan Hampshire,
Directors : Don Chaffey,

Thomasina the cat brings a family together, through her mysterious death and reappearance.

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Gabriella Giorgelli, Folco Lulli, Renato Salvatori,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

A former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a late 19th Century textile factory.

Actors : Edith Scob, Francine Bergé, Channing Pollock, Théo Sarapo,
Directors : Georges Franju,

Favraux, an unscrupulous banker, receives a threatening note, signed by "Judex", demanding that he pay back the people he has swindled. He refuses, and apparently dies after a midnight ...

Actors : Albert Finney, George Hamilton, Vince Edwards, Melina Mercouri,
Directors : Carl Foreman,

Intelligent, sprawling saga of a squad of American soldiers, following them through Europe during World War II.

Actors : Guido Alberti, Salvo Randone, Marcello Cannavale, Rod Steiger,
Directors : Francesco Rosi,

Prior to a city council election, the collapse of a building leaves a land developer and his political backers defending themselves against a scandal.

Actors : Átila Iório, Joffre Soares, Orlando Macedo, Maria Ribeiro,
Directors : Nelson Pereira dos Santos,

A poor family in the Northeast of Brazil (Fabiano, the father; Sinhá Vitória, the mother; their 2 children and a dog called Baleia) wander about the barren land searching for a better place...

Actors : Hiroshi Koizumi, Kenji Sahara, Akira Kubo, Kumi Mizuno,
Directors : Ishirô Honda,

Shipwrecked survivors slowly transform into mushrooms.

Actors : Anna Canzi, Carlo Cabrini,
Directors : Ermanno Olmi,

In the industrial North, Giovanni is a skilled factory worker offered a promotion if he'll go to Sicily for 18 months to assist in a new department. His impending absence strains his ...

Actors : Yvette Mimieux, Geraldine Page, Wendy Hiller, Dean Martin,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

Julian Berniers and Lily Prine have just gotten married. They have been in Chicago on business before returning to their home town of New Orleans, where they will meet with Julian's older ...

Actors : Tomio Aoki, Emiko Aizawa, Tomoko Aoyagi, Setsuko Amamiya,
Directors : Shôhei Imamura,

Life story of a woman born in poverty trying to succeed. Through her many schemes, she faces her ups and downs in a cyclical nature, fueled mostly by self-interest.

Actors : Fujiko Yamamoto, Kazuo Hasegawa, Ayako Wakao, Eiji Funakoshi,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

Yukinojo, a Kabuki actor, seeks revenge by destroying the three men who caused the deaths of his parents. Also involved are the daughter of one of Yukinojo's targets, two master thieves, and a swordsman who himself is out to kill Yukinojo.

Actors : Ahmed Mazhar, Tawfik El Deken, Mohamed Abdel Gawad, Omar El-Hariri,
Directors : Youssef Chahine,

Saladin, ruler of the kingdoms surrounding the Latin state of Jerusalem, is brought to attack the Christians in the Holy Land by the sacking of a convoy of Muslim pilgrims, a group which ...

Actors : Jim Backus, Henry Silva, Richard Anderson, Elizabeth Montgomery,
Directors : William Asher,

Exiled American gangster Colini sends his protégé-killer Giordano to the USA to eliminate Colini's mob enemies.

Actors : Masayo Banri, Miwa Takada, Shintarô Katsu, Jun'ichirô Narita,
Directors : Tokuzô Tanaka,

A yakuza gang targets the blind masseur Zatoichi after he defeats their group in a wrestling match. Meanwhile a long lost love of Zatoichi's returns to his life.

Actors : Rosanna Schiaffino, Bruce Balaban, Jean-Marc Bory, Maria Pia Schiaffino,

This consists of four short films by different directors. Rosselini's 'Chastity' ('Illibatezza') deals with an attractive air hostess who receives the unwelcome attentions of a middle aged ...

Actors : Ryûzô Shimada, Reiko Fujiwara, Shiho Fujimura, Shintarô Katsu,
Directors : Kimiyoshi Yasuda,

Zatoichi promises to deliver a maiden safely home but finds two dangerous gangs have a mysterious interest in the young girl.