Best Drama movies of 1960s

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Oskar Werner, David Janssen, Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier,
Directors : Michael Anderson,

Ukrainian Archbishop Kiril Lakota is set free after two decades as a political prisoner in Siberia. He is brought to Rome by Fr. David Telemond, a troubled young priest who befriends him. ...

Actors : Pearl Bailey, Lee Grant, Beau Bridges, Diana Sands,
Directors : Hal Ashby,

At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially his ...

Actors : Keir Dullea, Howard Da Silva, Janet Margolin, Neva Patterson,
Directors : Frank Perry,

The emotional story of a young man in a mental institution for teens who begins to understand his psychosis in the environment of others with mental and emotional problems. He finds ...

Actors : Diane Varsi, Pat Hingle, Shelley Winters, Don Stroud,
Directors : Roger Corman,

A psychological gangster film based on fact. Machine gun totin' Ma Barker lead her family gang (her sons) on a crime spree in the Depression era. Her loyal brood have every perversion ...

Actors : Michel Simon, Roger Carel, Paul Préboist, Luce Fabiole,
Directors : Claude Berri,

Claude is a Jew. Because of the risks of an arrest (France is occupied by the Nazis), his parents send him away to an elderly couple in the country. Pepe, the husband, is a Petain supporter...

Actors : James Mason, Anne Bancroft, Janine Gray, Peter Finch,
Directors : Jack Clayton,

Film screenwriter Jake Armitage and his wife Jo Armitage live in London with six of Jo's eight children, with the two eldest boys at boarding school. The children are spread over Jo's three...

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Peter Boyle, Dennis Patrick, Patrick McDermott,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

Bill, a wealthy businessman, confronts his junkie daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend; in the ensuing argument, Bill kills him. Panic-stricken, he wanders the streets and eventually stops at ...

Actors : Guy Frangin, Dominique Sanda, Jeanne Lobre, Claude Ollier,
Directors : Robert Bresson,

A young woman kills herself, leaving no explanation to her grief-stricken pawnbroker husband. We learn in flashback about how they met, married, and how she failed to adapt her lifestyle to...

Actors : Robert Mitchum, George Hamilton, George Peppard, Eleanor Parker,
Directors : Vincente Minnelli,

Dramatic story of the influential Hunnicutt family set in Texas during the late 1950s.

Actors : Jean Shrimpton, Mark London, Paul Jones, William Job,
Directors : Peter Watkins,

Steven Shorter is the ultimate British music star. His music is listened to by everyone from pre-teens to grandparents. He has no trace of public bad habits or drug involvement. Everyone in...

Actors : Larisa Kadochnikova, Spartak Bagashvili, Ivan Mykolaichuk, Tatyana Bestayeva,
Directors : Sergei Parajanov,

In a Carpathian village, Ivan falls in love with Marichka, the daughter of his father's killer. When tragedy befalls her, his grief lasts months; finally he rejoins the colorful life around...

Actors : Titos Vandis, Giorgos Foundas, Jules Dassin, Melina Mercouri,
Directors : Jules Dassin,

An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the prostitute with whom he is infatuated.

Actors : Rokkô Toura, Kei Satô, Nobuko Otowa, Kichiemon Nakamura,
Directors : Kaneto Shindô,

Two women are raped and killed by samurai soldiers. Soon they reappear as vengeful ghosts who seduce and brutally murder the passing samurai.

Actors : Helmut Döring, Paul Glauer, Gisela Hertwig, Hertel Minkner,
Directors : Werner Herzog,

The inhabitants of an institution in a remote country rebel against their keepers. Their acts of rebellion are by turns humorous, boring and alarming. An allegory on the problematic nature ...