Best Drama movies of 1960s

Actors : Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Geneviève Page, Raf Vallone,
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 : Robert Shaw, Wendy Hiller, Paul Scofield, Leo McKern,
Directors : Fred Zinnemann,

The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage.

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 : Katharine Hepburn, John Castle, Anthony Hopkins, Peter O'Toole,
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 : Gordon Jackson, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin, Maggie Smith,
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 : Birgitta Pettersson, Birgitta Valberg, Max von Sydow, Gunnel Lindblom,
Directors : Ingmar Bergman,

An innocent yet pampered young virgin and her family's pregnant and jealous servant set out to deliver candles to church, but only one returns from events that transpire in the woods along the way.

Actors : Shirley MacLaine, Audrey Hepburn, James Garner, Miriam Hopkins,
Directors : William Wyler,

A troublemaking student at a girls' school accuses two teachers of being lesbians.

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Shima Iwashita, Tetsurô Tanba, Akira Ishihama,
Directors : Masaki Kobayashi,

An elder ronin samurai arrives at a feudal lord's home and requests an honorable place to commit suicide. But when the ronin inquires about a younger samurai who arrived before him things take an unexpected turn.

Actors : Guylaine Schlumberger, Anna Karina, André S. Labarthe, Sady Rebbot,
Directors : Jean-Luc Godard,

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

Actors : Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yutaka Sada, Toshirô Mifune,
Directors : Akira Kurosawa,

An executive of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.

Actors : Brock Peters, Jaime Sánchez, Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

A Jewish pawnbroker, victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions.

Actors : Robert Ryan, Dana Andrews, Robert Shaw, Henry Fonda,
Directors : Ken Annakin,

A dramatization of Nazi Germany's final Western Front counterattack of World War II.

Actors : Alan Bates, Glenda Jackson, Jennie Linden, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Ken Russell,

Two best friends fall in love with a pair of women, but the relationships soon go in very different directions.

Actors : Trevor Howard, Robert Mitchum, Christopher Jones, John Mills,
Directors : David Lean,

Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.

Actors : Jenny Runacre, Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk, John Cassavetes,
Directors : John Cassavetes,

A common friend's sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives and ultimately leave together. But mindless enthusiasm for regained freedom will be ...

Actors : Harriet Andersson, Lars Passgård, Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand,
Directors : Ingmar Bergman,

Recently released from a mental hospital; Karin rejoins her emotionally disconnected family and their island home, only to slip from reality as she begins to believe she is being visited by God.

Actors : Keiji Sada, Chishû Ryû, Shima Iwashita, Mariko Okada,
Directors : Yasujirô Ozu,

An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.

Actors : Alan Bates, Lila Kedrova, Anthony Quinn, Irene Papas,
Directors : Mihalis Kakogiannis,

An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.

Actors : Fritz Weaver, Dan O'Herlihy, Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

American planes are sent to deliver a nuclear attack on Moscow, but it's a mistake due to an electrical malfunction. Can all-out war be averted?

Actors : Patricia Neal, Kirk Douglas, Tom Tryon, John Wayne,
Directors : Otto Preminger,

A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.