Best Drama movies of 1964

Actors : Anthony Eisley, Michael Dante, Virginia Grey, Constance Towers,
Directors : Samuel Fuller,

Kelly, a prostitute, traumatised by an experience, referred to as 'The Naked Kiss,' by psychiatrists, leaves her past, and finds solace in the town of Grantville. She meets Griff, the ...

Actors : Kenjirô Ishiyama, Misako Watanabe, Rentarô Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama,
Directors : Masaki Kobayashi,

A collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes.

Actors : Richard Widmark, Sal Mineo, Karl Malden, Carroll Baker,
Directors : John Ford,

The Cheyenne, tired of broken U.S. government promises, head for their ancestral lands but a sympathetic cavalry officer is tasked to bring them back to their reservation.

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 : Carlo Chionetti, Xenia Valderi, Monica Vitti, Richard Harris,
Directors : Michelangelo Antonioni,

In an industrial area, Giuliana, an unstable woman, attempts to cope with life by starting an affair with a co-worker at the plant her husband manages.

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 : 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 : 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 : Françoise Lugagne, Jeanne Moreau, Michel Piccoli, Georges Géret,
Directors : Luis Buñuel,

Celestine, the chambermaid, has new job on the country. The Monteils, who she works for are a group of strange people. The wife is frigid, her husband is always hunting (both animals and ...

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Puglisi, Tecla Scarano, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Vittorio De Sica,

The rich man Domenico and Filumena, a penniless prostitute, share great part of their lives in the immediate post WWII Italy.

Actors : Karl Malden, Peter Lawford, Bette Davis, Philip Carey,
Directors : Paul Henreid,

The working-class twin sister of a callous, wealthy woman impulsively murders her out of revenge and assumes her identity. But impersonating her dead twin is more complicated and risky than she anticipated.

Actors : Salvador Wood, José Gallardo, Raúl García, Sergio Corrieri,
Directors : Mikhail Kalatozov,

Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.

Actors : Paula Prentiss, Tippy Walker, Peter Sellers, Merrie Spaeth,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

A mischievous, adventuresome fourteen-year-old girl and her best friend begin following an eccentric concert pianist around New York City after she develops a crush on him.

Actors : Clu Gulager, Angie Dickinson, Lee Marvin, John Cassavetes,
Directors : Don Siegel,

Surprised that their contract victim didn't try to run away from them, two professional hit men try to find out who hired them and why.

Actors : Rosanna Schiaffino, Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn,
Directors : Jack Cardiff,

A vagabond Viking adventurer and a Moor both compete to find "The Mother of All Voices," a legendary golden bell near the Pillars of Hercules.

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 : Joan Crawford, Howard St. John, Leif Erickson, Diane Baker,
Directors : William Castle,

After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.

Actors : Barbara Stanwyck, Leif Erickson, Elvis Presley, Joan Freeman,
Directors : John Rich,

After a singer loses his job at a coffee shop, he finds employment at a struggling carnival, but his attempted romance with a teenager leads to friction with her father.

Actors : Jennifer Billingsley, Rafael Campos, Olivia de Havilland, James Caan,
Directors : Walter Grauman,

A woman trapped in a home elevator is terrorized by a group of vicious hoodlums.

Actors : Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Lionel Jeffries, Margaret Rutherford, William Mervyn,
Directors : George Pollock,

After Miss Marple is made a trustee of a merchant marine training vessel, a fellow trustee is poisoned, and ship's officers are later murdered after she comes on board.