Best Drama movies of 1960s

Actors : Nan Martin, Sidney Poitier, Abbey Lincoln, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Daniel Mann,

A white family has had the same black maid for many years. When she tells them she wants to go back to school and will be leaving soon, the 20ish year old son decides what she needs is a ...

Actors : Julie Andrews, Richard Crenna, Daniel Massey, Michael Craig,
Directors : Robert Wise,

A musical biography of Gertrude Lawrence, who led a hustling and bustling life on the stage.

Actors : Jack Lemmon, John Lund, Ricky Nelson, Chips Rafferty,
Directors : Richard Murphy,

Lieutenant Rip Crandall is hoodwinked into taking command of the "Wackiest Ship in the Navy" - a real garbage scow with a crew of misfits who don't know a jib from a jigger. What none of ...

Actors : Milton Selzer, Ernest Borgnine, Kim Novak, Peter Finch,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

A dictatorial film director (Finch) hires an unknown actress (Novak) to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.

Actors : Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Patricia Owens, Vic Damone,
Directors : Phil Karlson,

When his adoptive Japanese-American family is sent to Manzanar after Pearl Harbor, a young Chicano enlists in the marines to become a hero in the Battle of Saipan.

Actors : Edward G. Robinson, Laurence Harvey, Paul Newman, Claire Bloom,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

Travelers in the 1870s Southwest discuss a recent murder trial in which all the principals told differing stories about the events.

Actors : Izzet Günay, Semih Sezerli, Ayfer Feray, Türkan Soray,
Directors : Lütfi Akad,

My Prostitute Love is a 'realist melodrama' that represents the sentiment of 60s' Istanbul in an authentic way. Poetically written and carefully crafted in cinematography, it juxtaposes the...

Actors : Yûsuke Kawazu, Miyuki Kuwano, Fumio Watanabe, Yoshiko Kuga,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class men.

Actors : Yûnosuke Itô, Michiyo Aratama, Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

February 17 to March 3, 1860, inside Edo castle. A group of assassins wait by Sakurada Gate to kill the lord of the House of Ii, a powerful man in the Tokugawa government, which has ruled ...

Actors : Shizue Kawarazaki, Shima Iwashita, Tokie Hidari, Kichiemon Nakamura,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

A doomed love between a paper merchant and a courtesan.

Actors : Anjanette Comer, Charles Bronson, Anthony Quinn, Sam Jaffe,
Directors : Henri Verneuil,

In 1743, outlaw Leon Alastray is hunted by the Spanish army but is given sanctuary by a priest in a village terrorized by marauding Yaqui Indians.

Actors : Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Kazuko Inano, Mariko Okada, Yûko Kusunoki,
Directors : Yoshishige Yoshida,

Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers around two 1960s' students researching Osugi's theories.

Actors : Hiroyuki Nagato, Masao Mishima, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Shôhei Imamura,

A young hoodlum decides to work for a criminal organization that is tearing itself apart.

Actors : Suzanna Leigh, Frank Finlay, Guy Doleman, Catherine Finn,
Directors : Freddie Francis,

Trouble strikes when an exhausted pop singer, sent on a vacation to a farm, realizes that the farm's owner grows deadly bees.

Actors : Bibi Andersson, Richard Boone, Dean Jagger, Nigel Green,
Directors : John Huston,

During the Cold War a Naval Intelligence officer endowed with a powerful photographic memory is transferred to the CIA to participate in a covert operation in Moscow.

Actors : Mirjana Bohanec, Franjo Majetic, Relja Basic, Mia Oremovic,
Directors : Kresimir Golik,

The story is seen through the eyes of 6 year old Perica Safranek. On a family picnic Perica's mother starts flirting with Mr Fulir, a Zagreb Dandy. The father at first doesn't notice it, ...

Actors : Vincent Price, Michael Pate, Robert Brown, Joan Freeman,
Directors : Roger Corman,

The twisted Richard III is haunted by the ghosts of those he has murdered in his attempt to become the King of England.

Actors : James Mason, Eli Wallach, Stephen Boyd, Omar Sharif,
Directors : Henry Levin,

During the 13th century the shy Mongol boy Temujin becomes the fearless leader Genghis Khan who unites all Mongol tribes and conquers most of Asia, Europe and the Middle-East.

Actors : Didi Perego, Laurent Terzieff, Emmanuelle Riva, Susan Strasberg,
Directors : Gillo Pontecorvo,

A young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.

Actors : James Mason, Charles Bronson, Liv Ullmann, Jill Ireland,
Directors : Terence Young,

A brutal drug trader takes his violent revenge after his wife is captured by a drug boss.