Best Drama movies of 1966

Actors : Nadja Tiller, Gert Fröbe, Jean Gabin, George Raft,
Directors : Denys de La Patellière,

In Paris, a gold smuggler is at war with other local gangsters who want piece of the action. Then the mob shows up and makes things worse. Also, an undercover US Treasury Department agent is trying to infiltrate the smuggler's business.

Actors : Julián Mateos, Romy Schneider, Peter Finch, Melina Mercouri,
Directors : Jules Dassin,

Restless married couple Maria and Paul take a road trip through Spain with their friend Claire. While Paul and Claire carry on a clandestine affair, Maria becomes obsessed with a recent ...

Actors : Maria Malicka, Jan Nowicki, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Joanna Szczerbic,
Directors : Jerzy Skolimowski,

A rebellious student wants to get total independence and overcome all the barriers in his life: of money, age, status, cults and conventions. However, he meets a girl with completely different ideals.

Actors : Ryôhei Uchida, Junko Miyazono, Isao Natsuyagi, Tatsuo Endô,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

A charismatic ronin gets snared into a conflict between officials at a waystation, and gains the enmity of a group of thugs.

Actors : Tuncer Necmioglu, Pervin Par, Yilmaz Güney, Erol Tas,
Directors : Lütfi Akad,

In order to keep his ailing son alive, an impoverished man agrees to sneak a herd of sheep across the border.

Actors : Mickey Rooney, Hugh O'Brian, Peter Masterson, James Mitchum,
Directors : Ron Winston,

A Marine unit on a Japanese-held island in the Philippines tries to hook up with local Filipino guerrillas.

Actors : Gogi Kharabadze, Marina Kartsivadze, Ramaz Giorgobiani, Aleksandre Omiadze,
Directors : Otar Iosseliani,

A young idealist takes a job at a local state run winery only to discover and become disillusioned by the corruption of the Soviet State.

Actors : Tina Aumont, Michel Piccoli, Peter McEnery, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Roger Vadim,

Renee Saccard is a pampered, selfish young wife of a middle-aged Parisian businessman who falls in love with her stepson but is driven to the point of madness when her husband tricks the ...

Actors : Jaromír Hanzlík, Iva Janzurová, Vladimír Ptácek, Ludek Munzar,
Directors : Karel Kachyna,

A WW2 story of a young Austrian soldier running from the Russian army and a woman whom he forces to come along in order to save his wounded mate.

Actors : Jean-Louis Barrault, Conrad Rooks, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg,
Directors : Conrad Rooks,

Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in San Fran.

Actors : Doug McClure, Telly Savalas, Guy Stockwell, Leslie Nielsen,
Directors : Douglas Heyes,

Michael "Beau" Geste leaves England in disgrace and joins the infamous French Foreign Legion. He is reunited with his two brothers in North Africa, where they face greater danger from their...

Actors : Kôjirô Hongô, Shiho Fujimura, Tarô Marui, Takashi Kanda,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Giant statue exacts revenge upon those who conquer its worshippers.

Actors : Tamotsu Hayakawa, Keiko Natsu, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Mariko Okada,
Directors : Yoshishige Yoshida,

A married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a man who starts blackmailing the couple.

Actors : Kirsti Wallasvaara, Pekka Autiovuori, Eero Melasniemi, Kristiina Halkola,
Directors : Mikko Niskanen,

Depiction of four urban youths and their excursion to the countryside.

Actors : Tatsuya Mihashi, Michiyo Aratama, Keiju Kobayashi, Mitsuko Kusabue,
Directors : Mikio Naruse,

Two friends meet in a bar. Later that night, one friend's flirtatious wife is reportedly in an accident. The other friend doesn't feel well. What's come over him?

Actors : Kunie Tanaka, Tatsuya Nakadai, Hisashi Igawa, Ichirô Nakatani,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

Fresh out of prison, a broken man reluctantly takes a job to kill three men, but changes his mind when some gangsters target the same men. He then tries to find out why the men are being targeted in the first place.

Actors : Nobuo Nakamura, Akira Yamanouchi, Ruriko Asaoka, Yûko Kusunoki,
Directors : Koreyoshi Kurahara,

Etsuko, after her husbands death, moves in with her in-laws. With ambivalence, she finds herself sexually involved with her father-in-law. She then finds herself desiring young gardener Saburo, who has a relationship with the maid Miyo.

Actors : Monika Hildebrand, Paul Eichbaum, Holger Mahlich, Rolf Römer,
Directors : Jürgen Böttcher,

The only feature film by the painter and documentary filmmaker, Juergen Boettcher. Inspired by the Italian neo-realists, he developed a sensitive style characterized by accurate social ...

Actors : Helena Ignez, Mário Lago, Fauzi Arap, Paulo José,
Directors : Joaquim Pedro de Andrade,

In a small town in Minas Gerais, the arrival of a young priest causes a commotion in the conservative atmosphere of the place, aggravated by the sudden attraction this priest feels for a ...

Actors : Hiroyuki Nagato, Mariko Kaga, Shôichi Ozawa, Fumio Watanabe,
Directors : Kazuo Kuroki,

Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this allegorical and oblique first feature film by Kuroki depicts in exquisite images a series of encounters and life's turning points.