Best Drama movies of 1961

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

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

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 : 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 : 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 ...

Actors : Lola Albright, Clarke Gordon, Joe De Santis, Scott Marlowe,
Directors : Alexander Singer,

An older woman seduces an impressionable working-class boy who falls deeply in love with her. Disillusionment sets in when the boy discovers that she is a stripper.

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 : Donald Pleasence, Mary Peach, Stanley Holloway, Peter Finch,
Directors : Ralph Thomas,

Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional problems tower up over him. His desires to ...

Actors : Carlos Larrañaga, Isabel Garcés, José Marco Davó, Marisol,
Directors : Luis Lucia,

Marisol's parents are dead, and she decides to sell everything she has and go to Madrid with her uncle's Ramon family. Leonor, her aunt, is a very bad woman that doesn't like Marisol and ...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Barbara Turner, Werner Klemperer, Donald Buka, Ruta Lee,
Directors : R.G. Springsteen,

Werner Kelmperer stars as one of the most infamous mass murderers in all history in this true story. With the defeat of Germany that ends World War II in Europe, the Allies discover the ...

Actors : Uttam Kumar, Panchanan Bhattacharya, Suchitra Sen, Khitish Acharya,
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 : Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Soad Hosny, Wedad Hamdy, 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 : 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 : Sylvia Syms, Jean Chevrier, Nicole Courcel, Louis Jourdan,

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

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 : Ronnie Burns, Darrell Howe, Pamela Lincoln, Judy Howard,
Directors : Boris Petroff,

The crazed brother of a condemned killer sent to the gas chamber swears vengeance on those he holds responsible for his brother's execution.

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.