Best Drama movies of 1961

Actors : Totò, Gianni Agus, Arturo Bragaglia, Vittorio De Sica,
Directors : Sergio Corbucci,

Seconda Guerra Mondiale. Antonio Capurro, un ladruncolo travestito da prete, viene arrestato dal maresciallo Cottone. In seguito, durante un bombardamento il lestofante riesce a ...

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.

Actors : David Janssen, Frank Gorshin, Joel Marston, Joyce Taylor,
Directors : Andrew L. Stone,

In the 1960s Oregon, two sheriff deputies arrest three teenagers for robbery but are overpowered and taken hostage while forest fires rage all around them.

Actors : Lana Turner, Jason Robards, George Hamilton, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.,
Directors : John Sturges,

Neurotic woman engages in an affair with the law partner of her impotent husband.

Actors : Georges Wilson, Amédée, Alida Valli, Charles Blavette,
Directors : Henri Colpi,

Thérèse Langlois, who runs a small café in the suburbs of Paris, lives alone, awaiting her long lost husband. One day she thinks she recognizes him in a tramp walking past her establishment...

Actors : Aleksandr Lupenko, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Yelena Cheremshanova, Vasiliy Lanovoy,
Directors : Aleksandr Ptushko,

A little girl Assol met a wizard and it has been foretold: "... it will be a fine sunny day when a beautiful ship under scarlet sail comes and the noble prince will take you away from here....

Actors : Sean Connery, John Gregson, Herbert Lom, Alfred Marks,
Directors : John Lemont,

A small time thief is recruited by a mobster to help with the racketeering. He doesn't like the job, but with the mob on his back, a femme fatale in his bed and a sick friend to care for, he will have to keep all his wits about him.

Actors : Hugh Burden, Haya Harareet, Bernard Lee, Stewart Granger,
Directors : Basil Dearden,

A wealthy London-based shipping magnate is blackmailed by an evil dentist which threatens to reveal an old case of fraud, while the dentist himself is threaten by a mysterious masked man.

Actors : Dirk Bogarde, John Mills, Mylène Demongeot, Laurence Naismith,
Directors : Roy Ward Baker,

In a small Mexican town, a Catholic priest and a local bandit clash, but the brave priest ultimately wins the outlaw's respect.

Actors : Spyros Mousouris, Manos Katrakis, Alekos Alexandrakis, Aliki Georgouli,
Directors : Alekos Alexandrakis,

The stories of poor people living in a neighborhood in Athens and their difficulties.

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 : Virna Lisi, Franco Volpi, Gordon Scott, Steve Reeves,
Directors : Sergio Corbucci,

Twin brothers revolt against tyranny in pre-Roman Italy and then come to a parting of the ways as they lead their people toward the founding of a new city.

Actors : Ae-ja Seo, Jin Kyu Kim, Jeong-suk Moon, Mu-ryong Choi,
Directors : Hyun-mok Yoo,

A pressured accountant, his war veteran brother and their dysfunctional family struggle with integrating into post-War Korean society.

Actors : Warren Finnerty, Jerome Raphael, Garry Goodrow, Jim Anderson,
Directors : Shirley Clarke,

A director tries to film a group of junkies in Leach's room while they are waiting for Cowboy to bring their heroin connection.

Actors : Hizuru Takachiho, Yoshiko Kuga, Ineko Arima, Kôji Nanbara,
Directors : Yoshitarô Nomura,

Teiko's new husband disappears on a business trip. She discovers a pair of mysterious postcards hidden away in a book that may be clues to his fate.

Actors : William Lucas, Billie Whitelaw, Françoise Prévost, Michael Craig,
Directors : Sidney Hayers,

A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ...

Actors : Dolores Michaels, Audie Murphy, Alejandro Rey, Gary Crosby,
Directors : Herbert Coleman,

In 1941, after the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, American civilian Craig Benson helps organizing the Philippine guerrilla fighters, delivering supplies and evacuating stranded civilians.

Actors : Juliette Mayniel, John Drew Barrymore, Edy Vessel, Steve Reeves,
Directors : Giorgio Ferroni,

A retelling of the events leading to the use of the Trojan Horse, to bring down the great city of Troy.

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 : Gregory Walcott, Bruce Bennett, Tony Curtis, James Franciscus,
Directors : Delbert Mann,

Tony Curtis plays an Indian (Nicknamed "Chief" by other soldiers) who fights in WWII and helps to raise the flag at Iwo Jima.