Best Drama movies of 1960s

Actors : Shôichi Ozawa, Ganjirô Nakamura, Sumiko Sakamoto, Chôchô Miyako,
Directors : Shôhei Imamura,

Life of a pornographer who tries to stay under the radar of the mob. He has a mistress, a step-son, a step-daughter (whom he's attracted to) and a wife who believes her first husband was reincarnated as a restless carp.

Actors : Edith Scob, Francine Bergé, Channing Pollock, Théo Sarapo,
Directors : Georges Franju,

Favraux, an unscrupulous banker, receives a threatening note, signed by "Judex", demanding that he pay back the people he has swindled. He refuses, and apparently dies after a midnight ...

Actors : George Hamilton, Albert Finney, Vince Edwards, Melina Mercouri,
Directors : Carl Foreman,

Intelligent, sprawling saga of a squad of American soldiers, following them through Europe during World War II.

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Gabriella Giorgelli, Folco Lulli, Renato Salvatori,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

A former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a late 19th Century textile factory.

Actors : Michel Chanderli, Mimsy Farmer, Klaus Grünberg, Heinz Engelmann,
Directors : Barbet Schroeder,

In the late 1960s, after graduating in Mathematics, the German Stefan Brückner hitchhikes from Lübeck to Paris to see the world without any money. He befriends Charlie in an arcade and they...

Actors : Peter Jeffrey, Virginia McKenna, Jameson Clark, Bill Travers,
Directors : Jack Couffer,

Whoever said dog is man's best friend never met Mij! Mij is a cute, cuddly pet shop otter who captures the heart of Graham Merill (Bill Travers). It doesn't take Graham long to realize that...

Actors : Supriya Choudhury, Anil Chatterjee, Bijon Bhattacharya, Gyanesh Mukherjee,
Directors : Ritwik Ghatak,

A selfless young woman (Supriya Choudhury) sacrifices her own happiness for her unappreciative family.

Actors : Kurt Raab, Lilo Pempeit, Franz Maron, Lilith Ungerer,

With slicked-down hair and three-piece suits, dependable Herr Raab is a technical draftsman. He gets along with his colleagues although his boss wants him to go beyond technical cleanliness...

Actors : Átila Iório, Joffre Soares, Orlando Macedo, Maria Ribeiro,
Directors : Nelson Pereira dos Santos,

A poor family in the Northeast of Brazil (Fabiano, the father; Sinhá Vitória, the mother; their 2 children and a dog called Baleia) wander about the barren land searching for a better place...

Actors : Steve McQueen, Paul Fix, Don Murray, Lee Remick,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

With her infant daughter Margaret Rose in tow, Georgette Thomas pulls up stakes from Tyler, Texas to head to Columbus, Texas to be reunited with her husband, Henry Thomas, who has just been...

Actors : Lilli Palmer, William Holden, Hugh Griffith, Carl Raddatz,
Directors : George Seaton,

Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.

Actors : Toshie Kimura, Shima Iwashita, Mikijirô Hira, Gô Katô,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

After killing a counselor of his clan, a fugitive samurai befriends a couple poaching the shogun's gold in the mountains.

Actors : Tatsuya Mihashi, Chûsha Ichikawa, Akira Takarada, Yûzô Kayama,
Directors : Hiroshi Inagaki,

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.

Actors : Lillian Gish, Charles Ruggles, Fred MacMurray, Vera Miles,
Directors : Norman Tokar,

Lem Siddons is part of a traveling band who has a dream of becoming a lawyer. Deciding to settle down, he finds a job as a stockboy in the general store of a small town. Trying to fit in, ...

Actors : Jean Anderson, Patrick McGoohan, Laurence Naismith, Susan Hampshire,
Directors : Don Chaffey,

Thomasina the cat brings a family together, through her mysterious death and reappearance.

Actors : Marian Seidowsky, Bernd Tischer, Mathieu Carrière, Fred Dietz,
Directors : Volker Schlöndorff,

At a boarding school in the pre-war Austro-Hungarian Empire, a pair of students torture one of their fellow classmates, Basini, who has been caught stealing money from one of the two. The ...

Actors : Charles Vanel, Paul Meurisse, Brigitte Bardot, Sami Frey,
Directors : Henri-Georges Clouzot,

Dominique Marceau is on trial for the murder of Gilbert Tellier. The counsels duel relentlessly, elaborating explanations for why the pretty, idle and fickle girl killed the talented and ...

Actors : Morando Morandini, Francesco Barilli, Allen Midgette, Adriana Asti,
Directors : Bernardo Bertolucci,

The study of a youth on the edge of adulthood and his aunt, ten years older. Fabrizio is passionate, idealistic, influenced by Cesare, a teacher and Marxist, engaged to the lovely but ...

Actors : Monica Zetterlund, Lars Ekborg, Gösta Ekman, Birgitta Andersson,
Directors : Tage Danielsson,

A group of party goers have trouble getting their boat ashore on a small island. The inhabitants of the island try to help, often with the help of an old sailor, and the results are absurd and hilarious.

Actors : Hiroshi Koizumi, Kenji Sahara, Akira Kubo, Kumi Mizuno,
Directors : Ishirô Honda,

Shipwrecked survivors slowly transform into mushrooms.