Best Drama movies of 1961

Actors : Christine Kaufmann, Michael Hinz, Ron Randell, William Bendix,
Directors : Ákos Ráthonyi,

Helmut, a war orphan, is charged with theft at the time of the Berlin Airlift and faces a jail sentence of up to six years behind bars. The unfairness raises the anger of numerous people who decide to fight it.

Actors : Myrna Delgado, Van De Leon, Eddie Mesa, Cesar Ramirez,
Directors : Danilo Santiago,

ACTION - at its greatest. A bandit - A Police Officer - Gunning down each other in a TENSION-PACKED STORY.

Actors : Henry Corden, James Brown, Roy Barcroft, Merry Anders,
Directors : Edward L. Cahn,

A condemned criminal's acquaintances gather at a remote lodge on the eve of his execution to search for hidden money.

Actors : Gerard Heinz, Dawn Beret, Ferdy Mayne, Margaret Tyzack,
Directors : Ernest Morris,

Months before the out break of WWII, suspicion falls on a German ambassador when one of his envoys fails to return to Berlin. The arrival of two Gestapo agents searching for the missing man...

Actors : Mickey Curtis, Sessue Hayakawa, Kôji Shitara, Jûzô Itami,
Directors : Tad Danielewski,

Yukio, a farm boy, and Toru, a fisherboy, live in a small Japanese village that is periodically threatened by a volcano on one side and tidal waves on the other. Yukio's younger sister ...

Actors : Zhong Huang, Aerkesai,
Directors : Fan Ou,

Biography of Uighur poet and Communist Party activist Li Mutelifu.

Actors : Boris Kralj, Olga Palinka, Jelena Zigon, Mica Orlovic,
Directors : Joze Babic,

Suspicious husband follows his wife and her male boss on their business trip.

Actors : Monique Mélinand, Alexandra Stewart, Jean Desailly, Yvette Etiévant,
Directors : Édouard Molinaro,

Stéphane Blanchon, who teaches at the International College, lives a quiet comfortable life in Geneva. He is married to Christine, a cold, dry-hearted woman, and his sentimental life is ...

Actors : Luana Patten, Chill Wills, Linda Hutchings, Jimmie Rodgers,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

An orphan fights for the north in the civil war, then returns to his girlfriend in Kentucky.

Actors : Laurent Terzieff, Mica Orlovic, Marijan Lovric, Horst Frank,
Directors : Claude Autant-Lara,

At the end of World War II, a French pacifist is arrested for refusing to fight. In prison, he befriends a German priest arrested for murder of a French Resistance fighter. They discuss morality, obedience, and religion.

Actors : Michèle Morgan, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Abdoulaye Faye, Buchard,
Directors : François Reichenbach,

Semi-documentary about a young black boxer named Abdoullah Faye and his life in Paris.

Actors : Geneviève Grad, Jacques Sernas, John Drew Barrymore, Gianna Maria Canale,
Directors : Mario Costa,

Protests break out in Corinth against Roman domination, injuring Caius Vinicius, a Roman centurion. He's rescued by Hebe -- daughter of the anti-Roman governor, Critolaus -- who's being ...

Actors : Sigge Fürst, Edvin Adolphson, Inga Tidblad, Isa Quensel,
Directors : Torgny Anderberg,

Set in th 1930's depression times. A wealthy industrialist suffers a stroke. His wife takes over both family and business. The son worships his mother, but is forced to choose sides when he falls in love with the poor Aina.

Actors : Nadja Tiller, Walter Giller, Pierre Brasseur, Charles Regnier,
Directors : Robert Siodmak,

Businessman who lives from blackmailing begins to be blackmailed by his own wife who hates him.

Actors : Shashikala, Kishore Kumar, Kumkum, K.N. Singh,
Directors : Mohan Segal,

A movie stunt-man is recruited to impersonate a look-alike mentally unstable heir to a vast estate.

Actors : Martha Vourtsi, Giannis Fertis, Xenia Kalogeropoulou, Stefanos Linaios,
Directors : Sokrates Kapsaskis,

Melodramatic treatment of "love in the time of war". Two soldiers, friends, return to Athens from the Albanian front. They meet a girl whom one of them had known and corresponded with some ...

Actors : Anita Page, Roger Mobley, Lewis Martin, Cesar Romero,
Directors : Claudio Guzmán,

A young Mexican boy runs away from an orphanage in California to search for his father in Mexico. On the way he takes a greyhound pup from a kennel in which he spent the night, and meets up...

Actors : Susanne Korda, Christian Doermer, Gerda Blisse, Narziß Sokatscheff,
Directors : Will Tremper,

An East German farmer is being harassed by SED (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands) superiors since he is no longer willing to submit to the forced collectivization. He plans to flee to the West.

Actors : Geraldo Del Rey, Luiza Maranhão, Helena Ignez, Antonio Pitanga,
Directors : Roberto Pires,

Made in the famous "Água de Meninos" market, the greatest popular market in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Salvador is revealed without prejudices, from the world of high finance up to the sordid...

Actors : Jeong-suk Moon, Jin Kyu Kim, Ye-chun Lee,
Directors : Hwa-lang Kim,

Forced to work in a coal mine by the Japanese occupying forces, a man blinds a foreman with a stone and makes his escape. After national liberation from Japan, the foreman spends the next ...