Best Drama movies of 1960s

Actors : Paul Lynde, Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

A hypochondriac believes he is dying, and makes plans for his wife which she discovers and misunderstands.

Actors : Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, James Broderick, Patricia Quinn,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

A cinematic adaption of Arlo Guthrie's classic song story.

Actors : Michael Higgins, Barbara Loden, Dorothy Shupenes, Peter Shupenes,
Directors : Barbara Loden,

In the coal mining region of Pennsylvania, Wanda Goronski is constantly drinking to shut out the problems in her life. Having deserted her husband and infant children, Wanda sleeps on her ...

Actors : Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Alfred Lynch,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

In a North African military prison during World War II, five new prisoners struggle to survive in the face of brutal punishment and sadistic guards.

Actors : Jaya Bhaduri, Anil Chatterjee, Haren Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee,
Directors : Satyajit Ray,

Life at home changes when a house-wife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a saleswoman.

Actors : Maureen Stapleton, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward, Marlon Brando,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

Valentine "Snakeskin" Xavier, a trouble-prone drifter trying to go straight, wanders into a small Mississippi town looking for a simple and honest life but finds himself embroiled with problem-filled women.

Actors : Cornel Wilde, Ken Gampu, Gert van den Bergh, Patrick Mynhardt,
Directors : Cornel Wilde,

A group of men are on safari. One of the party refuses to give a gift to a tribe they encounter. The tribe is offended, seizes the party, and one-by-one, kills all but one of the safari ...

Actors : Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, Susanna Pasolini, Marcello Morante,
Directors : Pier Paolo Pasolini,

The life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew. Pasolini shows Christ as a marxist avant-la-lettre and therefore uses half of the text of Matthew.

Actors : Jean Yanne, Pascal Ferone, Stéphane Audran, Antonio Passalia,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.

Actors : Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Charlton Heston, Richard Johnson,

In the Sudan, in 1884-85, Egyptian forces led by a British general defend Khartoum against an invading Muslim army led by a religious fanatic, the Mahdi.

Actors : Melvyn Douglas, James Garner, Julie Andrews, James Coburn,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

An American naval officer's talent for living the good life in wartime is challenged when he falls in love and is sent on a dangerous mission.

Actors : Stefania Sandrelli, Daniela Rocca, Marcello Mastroianni, Leopoldo Trieste,
Directors : Pietro Germi,

A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.

Actors : Vincent Price, Derek Francis, Elizabeth Shepherd, John Westbrook,
Directors : Roger Corman,

A man's obsession with his dead wife drives a wedge between him and his new bride.

Actors : Charles Bronson, Robert Redford, Natalie Wood, Kate Reid,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

A railroad official, Owen Legate comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down much of the town's railway (town's main income). Owen unexpectedly finds love with Dodson's flirt and main ...

Actors : Vincent Price, Myrna Fahey, Mark Damon, Harry Ellerbe,
Directors : Roger Corman,

Upon entering his fiancée's family mansion, a man discovers a savage family curse and fears that his future brother-in-law has entombed his bride-to-be prematurely.

Actors : Antoine Bourseiller, Corinne Marchand, Dorothée Blanck, Dominique Davray,
Directors : Agnès Varda,

Cleo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor.

Actors : Donald Pleasence, Jack MacGowran, Lionel Stander, Françoise Dorléac,
Directors : Roman Polanski,

Two wounded gangsters on the run find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife in search of help, however, under the point of a gun nothing is what it seems.

Actors : Václav Neckár, Vladimír Valenta, Josef Somr, Vlastimil Brodský,
Directors : Jirí Menzel,

An apprentice train dispatcher at a village station seeks his first sexual encounter and becomes despondent when he is unable to perform.

Actors : Peter White, Leonard Frey, Kenneth Nelson, Frederick Combs,
Directors : William Friedkin,

Tempers fray and true selves are revealed when a heterosexual is accidentally invited to a homosexual party.

Actors : Jean-Pierre Léaud, Michael Lonsdale, Claude Jade, Delphine Seyrig,
Directors : François Truffaut,

After being discharged from the army, Antoine Doinel centers a screwball comedy where he applies for different jobs and tries to make sense of his relationships with women.