Best Drama movies of 1961

Actors : Shashikala, Anoop Kumar, Saira Banu, Shammi Kapoor,
Directors : Subodh Mukherji,

A humorless and pompous businessman goes wild when he falls in love. Now if only his domineering mother could understand his new lease on life.

Actors : Kenneth More, Danielle Darrieux, Claude Nollier, Susannah York,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

Sensitive story of a British girl's awakening from childhood into life and love on vacation in France.

Actors : Manos Katrakis, Irene Papas, Nikos Kazis, Maro Kodou,
Directors : Yorgos Tzavellas,

Antigone defies her uncle's decree that her traitorous brother should go unburied and therefore find no rest in the afterlife; however, her actions have tragic consequences.

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 : Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Elaine Devry, Stella Stevens,
Directors : Edmond O'Brien,

Two Korean War veterans re-unite to pull off a heist at a San Francisco airport but find themselves running for their lives.

Actors : Robert Hossein, Léa Gray, Renaud Mary, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Christian-Jaque,

Catherine, an out-spoken Parisian laundress follows Napoleon's army to the battlefront to be near her Sergeant Lefevre. The couple perform a deed of heroism which abets Napoleon's victory, ...

Actors : Keiji Sada, Tatsuya Nakadai, Hideko Takamine, Nobuko Otowa,
Directors : Keisuke Kinoshita,

The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowners son(Nakadai)... See full synopsis »

Actors : Nancy Walters, Ed Begley, Sidney James, Bill Travers,
Directors : Michael Forlong,

A racing driver loses his nerves after several crashes

Actors : Arch Hall Jr., Rex Holman, Burr Middleton, Robert Paget,
Directors : Leigh Jason,

A gang of teenage delinquents terrorize a small community by stealing cars and stripping them for parts, then selling the parts to a crooked junkyard owner. The police and an insurance company investigator set out to break up the gang.

Actors : Isao Kimura, Akiko Kazami, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Wakaba Irie,
Directors : Tomu Uchida,

The film begins when the legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi is still named Shinmen Takezo. After being on the losing side of the Battle of Sekigahara, Takezo and his friend manage to escape and come across a young woman and her mother.

Actors : Vincent Price, Liana Orfei, Giulia Rubini, Ricardo Montalban,
Directors : Mario Costa,

Actors : Christine Kaufmann, Cornel Wilde, Belinda Lee, Massimo Serato,
Directors : Lionello De Felice,

Biopic of Constantine the Great, set between 293-312 AD, from his days as Tribune to his accession as Roman Emperor of Gaul under the tetrarchy system and ending with his battle against the usurper Roman Emperor Maxentius in Rome.

Actors : Gunvor Sandkvist, Tauno Palo, Matti Oravisto, Helen Elde,
Directors : Matti Kassila,

Doctor Aitamaa is spending holiday with his family at their summer villa. He accidentally reads a letter that was meant to his wife. The letter is from another man. Aitamaa fallows his wife...

Actors : Paul Wynter, Moira Orfei, Gianni Garko, Mark Forest,
Directors : Antonio Leonviola,

Maciste arranges for himself and his new friend Bangor to be captured by a mysterious band of white-clad marauders and taken to an underground city. There the two are forced to turn an ...

Actors : Pyotr Glebov, Mikhail Ulyanov, Rolan Bykov, Vsevolod Platov,
Directors : Vladimir Vengerov,

Actors : Michele Cossu, Vittorina Pisano, Peppeddu Cuccu,
Directors : Vittorio De Seta,

In the harsh granite mountains of the center of the island of Sardinia in the Mediterranean Sea, an old people live at the town of Orgòsolo. Between the rocks and the oak woods, shepherds ...

Actors : Miha Baloh, Dusa Pockaj, Ali Raner, Rado Nakrst,
Directors : Bostjan Hladnik,

Peter is the dark brooding type. Leading a vacuous, shapeless life, he longs for the ideal woman, while at the same time, half heartedly continuing with his habitual girlfriend, Marusa , ...

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, Pietro Germi, Romolo Valli, Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Directors : Mauro Bolognini,

The original Italian is La Viaccia (the name of the family farm which motivates the plot). The death of a wealthy patriarch in 1885 sets off an interfamily power struggle. Son Ferdinando ...

Actors : Michael Forest, Walter Maslow, Frank Wolff, Barboura Morris,
Directors : Roger Corman,

Evil king Praximedes convinces superhero Atlas to fight for him, but Atlas eventually sees the king's true nature and turns against him.

Actors : Sylvia Syms, John Mills, Earl Cameron, Brenda de Banzie,
Directors : Roy Ward Baker,

During the 1960s in Britain, tense race relations between whites and blacks are affecting the workplace, the family, the dating scene and the society at large.