Best Drama movies of 1961

Actors : Tony Curtis, Karl Malden, Arthur O'Connell, Edmond O'Brien,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

Based on a true story, a bright young man who hasn't the patience for the normal way of advancement finds that people rarely question you if your papers are in order. He becomes a marine, a...

Actors : Franco Fabrizi, Lea Massari, Alberto Sordi, Lina Volonghi,
Directors : Dino Risi,

Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment.

Actors : Karl Malden, Claudette Colbert, Dean Jagger, Troy Donahue,
Directors : Delmer Daves,

Parrish McLean lives with his mother Ellen on Sala Post's tobacco plantation in the Connecticut River Valley. His mother winds up marrying Sala's rival Judd Raike, ruthless planter who ...

Actors : Georges Wilson, Milo, Georges Loriot, Jean-Pierre Talbot,
Directors : Jean-Jacques Vierne,

Tintin and Captain Haddock try to discover what is so desirable about their old and apparently worthless ship.

Actors : Donald Crisp, Duncan Macrae, Laurence Naismith, Alex Mackenzie,
Directors : Don Chaffey,

Scotland, 1865. An old shepherd and his little Skye Terrier Bobby go to Edinburgh. But when the shepherd dies of pneumonia, the dog remains faithful to his master, refuses to be adopted by ...

Actors : István Velenczei, Imre Sinkovits, József Szendrõ, Dezsö Garas,
Directors : Zoltán Fábri,

On Hitler's birthday, the Germans decide to organize a soccer match between prisoners of war and Germans. They assign the task of organizing the team to a well known Olympics football ...

Actors : Pamela Mason, Cay Forester, Donald Woods, Johnny Cash,
Directors : Bill Karn,

Originally released in 1961 as Five Minutes to Live, this low-budget crime drama was later re-released as Door-to-Door Maniac. Fred narrates the film in flashback, detailing a suburban bank...

Actors : Dolores Hart, Cecil Kellaway, Bradford Dillman, Stuart Whitman,
Directors : Michael Curtiz,

Francis Bernardone (Bradford Dillman) is the son of a wealthy cloth merchant in Assisi, who gives up all his worldly goods to dedicate himself to God. Clare (Dolores Hart) is a young ...

Actors : James Yagi, Carroll Baker, James Shigeta, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Etienne Périer,

Based on a true story, this compelling drama relates the difficulties of a young woman married to a Japanese diplomat during World War II, victim of suspicion and animosity from her husband's government.

Actors : Maria Schell, Rod Steiger, Stuart Whitman, Brenda de Banzie,
Directors : Guy Green,

A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist.

Actors : Richard Harris, David McCallum, Ronald Fraser, Richard Todd,
Directors : Leslie Norman,

In 1942, a group of British soldiers is sent on a mission in the Malaysian jungle and gets lost into the Japanese controlled zone.

Actors : Susan Hayward, Charles Drake, John Gavin, Vera Miles,
Directors : David Miller,

Ambitious but thwarted, Rae Smith meets handsome Marine Paul Saxon, (of the Saxon department store chain), as he passes through Lincoln, Nebraska, on his way home from World War II. There's...

Actors : Mokhtar Al Sayed, Rushdy Abaza, Umran Bahar, Aziza Badr,
Directors : Henry Barakat,

Based in British occupied Egypt, Ibrahim (Omar Sharif), a member of the resistance, seeks refuge in the house of a politically passive family after killing the prime minister for his acts of treason.

Actors : Peter Cushing, Richard Vernon, André Morell, Norman Bird,
Directors : Quentin Lawrence,

A charming but ruthless criminal holds the family of a bank manager hostage as part of a cold-blooded plan to steal 97,000 pounds.

Actors : Lloyd Nolan, Connie Stevens, Dorothy McGuire, Troy Donahue,
Directors : Delmer Daves,

Premarital sex, secrets, and society. At 17, shy Susan Slade is on her way to California after a ten-year stay at a remote Chilean mine where her father was chief engineer. Onboard ship, ...

Actors : Susan Hayward, Dean Martin, Ralph Meeker, Wilfrid Hyde-White,
Directors : Daniel Mann,

Bo Gillis is running for Governor. Steve writes the speeches, Sylvester runs the campaign and Bo plays the guitar. Everything is going according to the plan until a hooker named Ada is ...

Actors : Carol Lynley, Mary Astor, Jeff Chandler, Eleanor Parker,
Directors : José Ferrer,

The residents of Peyton Place, New Hampshire, are not happy when its most famous resident, Alison Mackenzie, writes a "shocking" novel detailing the sinful secrets of the town. Most ...

Actors : Sabine Sesselmann, Penelope Horner, William Lucas, Joachim Fuchsberger,
Directors : Ákos Ráthonyi,

A Chinese detective breaks up a drug smuggling ring and tries to find the "Daffodil Killer." The drug smugglers had devised the ingenious method of smuggling heroin from Hong Kong in the stems of daffodils.

Actors : Klausjürgen Wussow, Harry Wüstenhagen, Eddi Arent, Karin Dor,
Directors : Jürgen Roland,

An English businessman comes home to London, only to find visitors to his home being killed by arrows from "the Green Archer."

Actors : Roger Moore, Angie Dickinson, Peter Finch, Errol John,
Directors : Gordon Douglas,

While the Nazi regime subjugates European Nations, in the Belgian Congo, Doctor Rachel Cade tries to cure those troubled people. Colonel Derode falls in love with her, but a young American injured pilot upsets his plans.