Best Drama movies of 1961

Actors : Tatyana Chanturia, Akakiy Chikvaidze, Gia Chiraqadze, V. Maisuradze,
Directors : Otar Iosseliani,

A young happy couple moves from a poor district to a new housing estate. Their relationship gets progressively worse as their comfort and possessions increase.

Actors : Siegfried Lowitz, Karin Dor, Mady Rahl, Hellmut Lange,
Directors : Harald Reinl,

A ring of counterfeiters is flooding the country with phony money, and suspicion falls upon a wealthy playboy who may--or may not--have amnesia.

Actors : Natalya Kuzmina, Nina Drobysheva, Vitaliy Konyaev, Evgeniy Urbanskiy,
Directors : Grigoriy Chukhray,

During the 1950s Sasha Lvova reminisces about the WW2 years when she fell in love with Soviet fighter pilot Aleksei Astakhov.

Actors : Teruyo Yamagami, Michiko Saga, Masahiko Tsugawa, Sumiko Hidaka,
Directors : Yoshishige Yoshida,

An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.

Actors : Christine Kaufmann, Béatrice Altariba, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Pierre Vaneck,
Directors : Jean Becker,

(1961) Jean Paul Belmondo, Christine Kaufman. In this fine thriller, JP's friend ends up in prison. JP then tracks down the man responsible.

Actors : Hannjo Hasse, Wolfgang Kalweit, Christoph Beyertt, Georg Leopold,
Directors : Gerhard Klein,

Re-enacted true story of successful assault by Nazis, posing as Poles, on a German border radio station so that Hitler could "justify" thereby his invasion of Poland.

Actors : Arthur O'Connell, Anne Seymour, Pam Smith, David Ladd,
Directors : James B. Clark,

Every year the Chincoteague fire department rounds up the wild ponies of Assateague. island, and then auctions off the colts and yearlings to thin out the herd. A young brother and sister, ...

Actors : Paolo Stoppa, Martine Carol, Laurent Terzieff, Sandra Milo,
Directors : Roberto Rossellini,

Vanina Vanini, a bored, spoiled Roman countess, falls in love with a dedicated young patriot who is in Rome to assassinate a traitor to the brotherhood of the Free Masons.

Actors : Vincent Price, Edmund Purdom, Jeanne Crain, Amedeo Nazzari,
Directors : Fernando Cerchio,

Chronicles the rise and fall of the woman who eventually became known as Queen Nefertiti.

Actors : Diane McBain, Constance Ford, Will Hutchins, Arthur Kennedy,
Directors : Gordon Douglas,

In this tale of a good girl who goes very bad, a beautiful young Southern lady remains faithful to the man she loves while he is away in the military . . . until she gets a letter that he ...

Actors : Sylvia Syms, Jean Chevrier, Louis Jourdan, Nicole Courcel,

A warrior chieftain dashes between his barbaric allies and a beleaguered city that's being defended by embattled women warriors.

Actors : Diana Dors, Dianne Foster, David Janssen, Jack Carson,
Directors : Joseph M. Newman,

The story of flamboyant Prohibition-era gangster, gambler and bootlegger Arnold Rothstein.

Actors : Elzbieta Kepinska, Serge Merlin, Jan Ciecierski, Alina Janowska,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

During the Nazi occupation, Jewish prisoner Jakub Gold is released from jail and works as a gravedigger in the Warsaw ghetto. Although he manages to escape and keeps hiding in private apartments, he tries to get back to the ghetto.

Actors : Alida Valli, Joseph Wiseman, Rita Hayworth, Rex Harrison,
Directors : George Marshall,

A suave art thief romances a wealthy duchess, only to enable him to steal a priceless painting from her collection. Complications ensue.

Actors : Uttam Kumar, Panchanan Bhattacharya, Khitish Acharya, Suchitra Sen,
Directors : Ajoy Kar,

Set in World War II, the reverend Krishnendu runs a military hospital in Bankura. A drunken Anglo-Indian woman soldier is brought to him for treatment and he recognized her as his former love Rina Brown.

Actors : Dana Andrews, Eddie Albert, Jeanne Crain, Eleanor Parker,
Directors : H. Bruce Humberstone,

An adman and an ad woman put a dangerous milk tycoon in line for the White House.

Actors : Wedad Hamdy, Soad Hosny, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Adli Kasab,
Directors : Tolba Radwan,

Ahmed who work as a teacher rent an apartment in Abbas the vicious butcher Building in Al-Hussein district in Cairo who lives with his pregnant wife and beautiful sister, soon Ahmed falls ...

Actors : Moira Shearer, Cyd Charisse, Roland Petit, Zizi Jeanmaire,
Directors : Terence Young,

Live scenes of Paris and a continuity Narrator link together four dramatic choreographies, all by Roland Petit: Carmen (1949), La croqueuse de diamants (1950), Deuil en 24 heures (1953), and Cyrano de Bergerac (1959).

Actors : Alberto Lupo, Ed Fury, Moira Orfei, Giacomo Furia,
Directors : Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia,

Actors : Paul Massie, James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams,
Directors : Gerald Thomas,

A group of students at an elite music school decide to share a flat in order to cut their living costs and have somewhere to practice together. They get into quite a few scraps and ...