Best Drama movies of 1965

Actors : John Furlong, Hal Hopper, Antoinette Cristiani, Rena Horten,
Directors : Russ Meyer,

It's 1933, in the midst of the Depression and Prohibition. Calif, a stranger with a past walks into Spooner, Missouri on his way from Michigan to California. He hires on with Lute Wade to ...

Actors : Shashi Kapoor, Sadhana, Raaj Kumar, Sunil Dutt,
Directors : Yash Chopra,

Members of a family are separated in a natural disaster. Several years down the line, they aren't united but their lives are strangely interconnected.

Actors : Catherine Allégret, Simone Signoret, Michel Piccoli, Jacques Perrin,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

Six people travel in a railroad sleeping car from Marseilles to Paris. Upon their arrival, a woman is found dead in one of the berths. The police investigate the other five passengers, ...

Actors : Isao Tamagawa, Yumiko Nogawa, Tamio Kawaji, Shôichi Ozawa,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

In WW2 Manchuria, a prostitute grows to resent an abusive adjutant and falls in love with his aide.

Actors : Jean Simmons, Laurence Harvey, Honor Blackman, Michael Craig,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

Joe Lampton thought he had really made it by marrying the boss's daughter in his northern mill town. But he finds he is being sidelined at work and his private life manipulated by his ...

Actors : Zdenek Bezusek, Vera Kresadlová, Karel Blazek, Miroslav Cvrk,
Directors : Ivan Passer,

One of the most important images of the Czech New Wave 60s, which was ranked among the top ten domestic films of all time. Feature debut screenwriter and director Ivan Passer is currently ...

Actors : Haradhan Bannerjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Soumitra Chatterjee, Santi Chatterjee,
Directors : Satyajit Ray,

Calcutta based screenwriter Amitabha Roy is traveling to Hashimara in north Bengal partly to visit his brother-in-law and partly to do research for what will be his third film. En route ...

Actors : Giuliano Gemma, Fernando Sancho, Nieves Navarro, Lorella De Luca,
Directors : Duccio Tessari,

A returning Union Officer discovers that his home has been overrun by Mexican bandits, and infiltrates the gang to restore order and determine if his wife has been faithful to him.

Actors : Manoj Kumar, Helen, Nanda, Pran,
Directors : Raja Nawathe,

Eight people are trapped on an island when their plane abandons them. They find a large mansion whose butler is expecting them. Then one by one, they die...

Actors : Giuliano Gemma, Fernando Sancho, Nieves Navarro, Lorella De Luca,
Directors : Duccio Tessari,

An 'angel-faced' gunfighter is tasked with infiltrating a ranch overrun by Mexican bandits and saving their hostages, including the fiancée of the local sheriff.

Actors : Rod Taylor, Maggie Smith, Julie Christie, Michael Redgrave,

Biographical drama based on the early life of playwright Sean O'Casey, depicting his rise from the 1910 Dublin slums to the celebrated openings of his early plays. Johnny Cassidy, an ...

Actors : Stefan Ciubotarasu, Victor Rebengiuc, György Kovács, Liviu Ciulei,
Directors : Liviu Ciulei,

In 1916 as an officer in the Habsburg Army ethnic Romanian Apostol Bologa is torn between remaining loyal to the Habsburgs or deserting to the Romanian Army across enemy lines.

Actors : Kaneko Iwasaki, Shintarô Katsu, Mikio Narita, Chizu Hayashi,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

A samurai with a high skill in chess makes friends with Zatoichi, who finds that things become peculiar in his presence.

Actors : Pauline Murray, Sebastian Shaw, Bart Allison, Reginald Marsh,

In 1940, the Nazis invade Britain and transform it into a fascist state where some Britons collaborate and others resist.

Actors : Claudine Auger, Philippe Dionnet, Luce Klein, Pierre Étaix,
Directors : Pierre Étaix,

A man has everything: dozens of servants, a palace, vast woods, gardens, a lake, mechanical toys, private entertainment troupes of musicians and dancers. He has it all - but love. When ...

Actors : Harry Andrews, Stanley Baker, Stuart Whitman, Susannah York,
Directors : Cy Endfield,

After a small aircraft crashes in the Kalahari Desert, one of the seven passengers decides that his survival chances would increase if he would eliminate the other men in the group.

Actors : Nadine Ballot, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Pierre Andréani, Stéphane Audran,

Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are ...

Actors : Takeshi Katô, Mikiko Tsubouchi, Shintarô Katsu, Norihei Miki,
Directors : Akira Inoue,

After Zatoichi learns of his sensei's murder he uncovers a horrible conspiracy involving the local government and crime family.

Actors : Van Heflin, Jack Palance, Ann-Margret, Alain Delon,
Directors : Ralph Nelson,

Eddie Pedak, a convicted criminal, has a steady job, a wife and daughter and he puts a down payment on a boat. He also has a police detective and brother after him, the first believes Eddie...

Actors : Valentin Popov, Marianna Vertinskaya, Stanislav Lyubshin, Nikolay Gubenko,
Directors : Marlen Khutsiev,

Following three lifelong friends who return to Moscow after military service, we see their aspirations juxtaposed against everyday life in 1960 Soviet Union.