Best Drama movies of 1960s

Actors : Candice Bergen, Steve McQueen, Richard Crenna, Richard Attenborough,
Directors : Robert Wise,

Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and...

Actors : Richard Burton, Oskar Werner, Sam Wanamaker, Claire Bloom,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.

Actors : Albert Finney, William Daniels, Audrey Hepburn, Eleanor Bron,
Directors : Stanley Donen,

A couple in the south of France non-sequentially spin down the highways of infidelity in their troubled ten-year marriage.

Actors : Harve Presnell, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg, Lee Marvin,
Directors : Joshua Logan,

Two unlikely prospector partners share the same wife in a California gold rush mining town.

Actors : Curd Jürgens, Harry Andrews, Michael Caine, Trevor Howard,
Directors : Guy Hamilton,

In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the UK.

Actors : Anton Diffring, Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack,
Directors : François Truffaut,

In an oppressive future, a fireman whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.

Actors : François Périer, Nathalie Delon, Cathy Rosier, Alain Delon,
Directors : Jean-Pierre Melville,

After Professional hitman Jef Costello is seen by witnesses his efforts to provide himself an alibi drive him further into a corner.

Actors : Gena Rowlands, John Marley, Seymour Cassel, Lynn Carlin,
Directors : John Cassavetes,

A middle-aged man leaves his wife for a younger woman. Shortly after, his ex-wife also begins a relationship with a younger partner. The film follows their struggles to find love amongst each other.

Actors : Corey Allen, Kate Manx, Jerome Cowan, Warren Oates,
Directors : Leslie Stevens,

Duke and Boots, two young thugs, hold up a California gas-station owner. Duke, viral and savage, taunts the slower and psychologically-confused Boots because he has never made a sexual ...

Actors : Michael Anderson Jr., Dorothy McGuire, Max von Sydow, Charlton Heston,

The life of Jesus Christ.

Actors : James Best, Peter Breck, Gene Evans, Constance Towers,
Directors : Samuel Fuller,

Bent on winning a Pulitzer Prize, a journalist commits himself to a mental institution to solve a strange and unclear murder.

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Janice Rule, Tony Bickley, Janet Landgard,

Neddy Merrill has been away for most of the Summer. He reappears at a friend's pool. As they talk, someone notices that there are pools spanning the entire valley. He decided to jog from ...

Actors : Jim Hutton, David Janssen, Aldo Ray, John Wayne,

Col. Mike Kirby picks two teams of crack Green Berets for a mission in South Vietnam. First off is to build and control a camp that is trying to be taken by the enemy the second mission is to kidnap a North Vietnamese General.

Actors : Henri Serre, Oskar Werner, Vanna Urbino, Jeanne Moreau,
Directors : François Truffaut,

Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.

Actors : Peter O'Toole, Anthony Hopkins, Katharine Hepburn, John Castle,
Directors : Anthony Harvey,

1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him.

Actors : Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Elizabeth Taylor, Pamela Brown,

Queen Cleopatra of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.

Actors : Geneviève Page, Raf Vallone, Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Anthony Mann,

The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.

Actors : Tom Edmonston, Carl Einhorn, Wimme Andre, Melvin Clay,

Patients from an insane asylum find refuge at a farmhouse after escaping from a bus.

Actors : Gordon Jackson, Pamela Franklin, Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens,
Directors : Ronald Neame,

A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12 year old charges with her over-romanticized world view.

Actors : Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere, Enrique Rambal, Claudio Brook,
Directors : Luis Buñuel,

The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave.