Best Drama movies of 1960

Actors : Yvonne Mitchell, Nigel Patrick, James Mason, Peter Finch,
Directors : Ken Hughes,

At the height of his fame (his plays being much celebrated in London in the 1890's), Oscar Wilde angers the Marquis of Queensberry by having what is whispered and gossiped as a romantic ...

Actors : Frank Gorshin, Christopher Knight, Carolyn Craig, Venetia Stevenson,
Directors : Irving Lerner,

A young man tries to escape the South Side of 1920s Chicago.

Actors : George Hamilton, Natalie Wood, Susan Kohner, Robert Wagner,

The minister of the town has died and his son Chad has no tears for him. Sarah, who now calls herself Salome, is pregnant with Chad's baby, but Chad has no future, no job and no money. ...

Actors : Krystyna Stypulkowska, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Kalina Jedrusik, Wanda Koczeska,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

A young doctor is tired of being sought by women. One night he meets a young girl who all but forces herself into his room where they talk of morals and love. But he loses her when he goes ...

Actors : Kevin Corcoran, Gene Sheldon, Henry Calvin, Bob Sweeney,
Directors : Charles Barton,

Taken in by distant members of his family after being orphaned, Toby Tyler runs away to join the circus.

Actors : Peter O'Toole, Aldo Ray, Kieron Moore, Elizabeth Sellars,
Directors : John Guillermin,

In 1901, a group of IRA members decides to rob the Bank of England in order to finance their movement and to embarrass the British government.

Actors : Patrick Allen, Gwen Watford, Niall MacGinnis, Felix Aylmer,
Directors : Cyril Frankel,

Peter Carter meets official resistance when he finds his 9 year old daughter has been the victim of the pedophile patriarch of the town's most powerful family.

Actors : Eiji Gô, Tamio Kawaji, Yuko Chishiro, Noriko Matsumoto,
Directors : Koreyoshi Kurahara,

A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and causes reckless mayhem, mostly directed at the girlfriend of the journalist who helped send him up.

Actors : Curd Jürgens, Hansjörg Felmy, Claire Bloom, Mario Adorf,
Directors : Gerd Oswald,

In 1938 Austria shortly after the Nazi occupation, a prominent Viennese intellectual, Werner von Basil, is arrested for smuggling art treatures out of the country and imprisoned by the ...

Actors : Jeanne Moreau, Pascale de Boysson, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Deschamps,
Directors : Peter Brook,

A wealthy and bored woman is witness of a murder in affection and meets another witness. She asks him about the history of the victim and falls in love with him.

Actors : John Neville, Robert Morley, Ralph Richardson, Phyllis Calvert,
Directors : Gregory Ratoff,

Oscar Wilde's homosexuality is exposed when he tries to defend himself against his lover's father.

Actors : Sergey Bondarchuk, Irina Skobtseva, Boris Barkhatov, Natalya Chechyotkina,

The mother of a 5 years old Seryozha remarries. This man becomes a friend and a confident, an adult who see Seryozha not as a child, but as a person.

Actors : Robert Bean, Georgianna Carter, Carol Bigby, Jack Nicholson,
Directors : Harvey Berman,

A rebellious punk of the beat generation spends his days as an amateur dirt track driver in between partying and troublemaking. He eventually kidnaps his buddy's girlfriend, kills a few ...

Actors : Hiroshi Akutagawa, Miyuki Kuwano, Fumio Watanabe, Masahiko Tsugawa,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists' movement in Japan.

Actors : Ayako Wakao, Yukio Mishima, Eiji Funakoshi, Keizô Kawasaki,
Directors : Yasuzô Masumura,

Takeo is a young yakuza who renounces his former criminal activities after being released from prison. But sometimes escaping the past is not so easy.

Actors : Lisa Lu, Glenn Corbett, Harry Morgan, James Stewart,
Directors : Daniel Mann,

A US Army Major stationed in East China in 1944 is ordered to blow up military installations in order to slow down the advancing Japanese Army.

Actors : Ava Gardner, Joseph Cotten, Dirk Bogarde, Vittorio De Sica,
Directors : Nunnally Johnson,

A clergyman leaves the priesthood over the church's indifferent position during the Spanish Civil War but finds himself attracted to a beautiful entertainer.

Actors : Norikatsu Hanamura, Tomio Aoki, Jun Hamamura, Reiko Arai,
Directors : Koreyoshi Kurahara,

A bank manager is blackmailed into robbing his own bank.

Actors : Simone Signoret, Marcello Mastroianni, Emmanuelle Riva, Sandra Milo,
Directors : Antonio Pietrangeli,

When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant. They discover they cannot escape their past.

Actors : Alan Ladd, Glenn Corbett, Sidney Poitier, James Darren,
Directors : Hall Bartlett,

During the Korean War,a platoon leader dies leaving his inexperienced black sergeant in charge of his squad of belligerent and racist white men.