Best Drama movies of 1960s

Actors : José Luis de Vilallonga, Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey,
Directors : John Schlesinger,

A beautiful but amoral model sleeps her way to the top of the London fashion scene at the height of the Swinging Sixties.

Actors : Sondra Locke, Alan Arkin, Peter Mamakos, Chuck McCann,
Directors : Robert Ellis Miller,

When deaf mute Singer moves to a small city to be near his only friend confined in a hospital, he grows attached to his landlady's sensitive 16-year-old daughter.

Actors : Carol Lynley, John Huston, Romy Schneider, Tom Tryon,
Directors : Otto Preminger,

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Naziism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.

Actors : Nelly Borgeaud, Martine Ferrière, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : François Truffaut,

A wealthy plantation owner is captivated by a mysterious woman with a shady past.

Actors : Micheline Presle, Liselotte Pulver, Francine Bergé, Anna Karina,
Directors : Jacques Rivette,

In eighteenth-century France a girl (Suzanne Simonin) is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior (Madame de Moni, Sister Sainte-Christine, and Madame de ...

Actors : Hazel Court, Heather Angel, Richard Ney, Ray Milland,
Directors : Roger Corman,

An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational horror of premature burial consumes him.

Actors : Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman, Ina Balin, Myrna Loy,
Directors : Mark Robson,

An ambitious young executive chooses a loveless marriage and an unfulfilling personal life in exchange for a successful Wall Street career.

Actors : Dean Martin, Raquel Welch, George Kennedy, James Stewart,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

Mace Bishop masquerades as a hangman in order to save his outlaw brother from the gallows, runs to Mexico chased by the sheriff's posse and fights against Mexican bandits.

Actors : Anwar Hussain, Dev Anand, Leela Chitnis, Waheeda Rehman,
Directors : Vijay Anand,

A tour guide falls in love with a married woman, and helps her rediscover her love for dance.

Actors : Deborah Kerr, Faye Dunaway, Richard Boone, Kirk Douglas,
Directors : Elia Kazan,

A suicidal advertising executive is forced to re-evaluate his life while dealing with his unhappy marriage, his mistress, and his aging father.

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Gena Rowlands, Steven Hill, Judy Garland,
Directors : John Cassavetes,

Psychologist Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of the Crawthorne State Training Institute, one of the first boarding schools for developmentally challenged children. Dr. Clark is sympathetic ...

Actors : Sean Connery, Samantha Eggar, Richard Harris, Frank Finlay,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

Life is rough in the coal mines of 1876 Pennsylvania. A secret group of Irish immigrant miners, known as the Molly Maguires, fights against the cruelty of the mining company with sabotage ...

Actors : Kin Sugai, Yoshitaka Zushi, Toshiyuki Tonomura, Shinsuke Minami,
Directors : Akira Kurosawa,

Various tales in the lives of Tokyo slum dwellers, including a mentally deficient young man obsessed with driving his own commuter trolley.

Actors : Sergey Bondarchuk, Boris Zakhava, Lyudmila Saveleva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov,
Directors : Sergey Bondarchuk,

A Russian Prince experiences battle against Napoleon and a troubled relationship with his father and wife. Finds acceptance of her death and eventually his chance of true love. A spoiled, ...

Actors : Fabio Testi, Dominique Sanda, Helmut Berger, Lino Capolicchio,
Directors : Vittorio De Sica,

In the late 1930s, in Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Contini are one of the leading families, wealthy, aristocratic, urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather...

Actors : Marina Vlady, Raoul Lévy, Roger Montsoret, Anny Duperey,
Directors : Jean-Luc Godard,

A day in the life of a Parisian housewife/prostitute, interspersed with musings on the Vietnam War and other contemporary issues.

Actors : Ian Richardson, Patrick Magee, Clifford Rose, Glenda Jackson,
Directors : Peter Brook,

In an insane asylum, Marquis de Sade directs Jean Paul Marat's last days through a theater play. The actors are the patients.

Actors : Zoltán Fábri, Lajos Öze, Béla Both, Ferenc Kállai,
Directors : Péter Bacsó,

Banned for over a decade for its outspoken criticism of the post-WWII communist regime in Hungary, Péter Bacsó's 'The Witness' has since then achieved unparalleled cult status in its native...

Actors : Rolf Sohlman, Bertil Norström, Ann-Sofie Kylin, Anita Lindblom,
Directors : Roy Andersson,

Two teenagers fall in love over the summer, in spite of cynical and disapproving adults who dismiss their relationship as being nothing but young love.

Actors : Miki Irie, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyôko Kishida, Mikijirô Hira,
Directors : Hiroshi Teshigahara,

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.