Best Drama movies of 1960s

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 : Hardy Krüger, Patricia Gozzi, Daniel Ivernel, Nicole Courcel,
Directors : Serge Bourguignon,

After killing a child when his plane crashes in a Vietnamese village, Pierre suffers from delayed stress and partial amnesia. Returning to France, he lives like a vegetable until he meets a...

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 : Rosalind Russell, Karl Malden, Paul Wallace, Natalie Wood,
Directors : Mervyn LeRoy,

Based on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose.

Actors : Dustin Hoffman, Michael Tolan, Mia Farrow, Sunny Griffin,
Directors : Peter Yates,

John and Mary meet in a singles bar, sleep together, and spend the next day getting to know each other.

Actors : Janet Margolin, Trevor Howard, Yul Brynner, Marlon Brando,
Directors : Bernhard Wicki,

A war pacifist is blackmailed to pose as an SS officer and to disable the scuttling explosives on freighter carrying rubber cargo to be captured by the Allies.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Jean Dasté, Ingrid Thulin, Geneviève Bujold, Yves Montand,
Directors : Alain Resnais,

Diego is one of the chief of the spanish Communist Party. He is travelling back to Paris (where he lives) from a mission in Madrid. He is arrested at the border for an identity check but ...

Actors : Guy Frangin, Jeanne Lobre, Dominique Sanda, 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 : 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 : 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 : Igor Fomchenko, Marina Adzhubei, Vladimir Zamanskiy, Yuri Brusser,
Directors : Andrei Tarkovsky,

Seven year old Sasha practices violin every day to satisfy the ambition of his parents. Already withdrawn as a result of his routines, Sasha quickly regains confidence when he accidentally ...

Actors : Richard Burton, Peter Ustinov, Alec Guinness, Elizabeth Taylor,
Directors : Peter Glenville,

A cynical Welsh hotel owner secretly romances a diplomat's wife in Haiti under the violent reign of the despot "Papa Doc" Duvalier.

Actors : Peter Fonda, Bruce Dern, Dennis Hopper, Susan Strasberg,
Directors : Roger Corman,

Paul Groves (Peter Fonda), a television commercial director, is in the midst of a personality crisis. His wife Sally (Susan Strasberg) has left him and he seeks the help of his friend John ...

Actors : Masayo Banri, Hajime Mitamura, Ryûzô Shimada, Shintarô Katsu,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur who also happens to be a master swordsman.

Actors : Carmelo Bene, Alida Valli, Franco Citti, Silvana Mangano,
Directors : Pier Paolo Pasolini,

In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and the scene moves to antiquity, where the baby is taken into the desert to be killed. He is ...

Actors : Richard Harris, Ulla Bergryd, Michael Parks, John Huston,
Directors : John Huston,

Extravagant production of the first part of the book of Genesis. Covers Adam and Eve, Noah and the Flood and Abraham and Isaac.