Best Drama movies of 1960s

Actors : Candice Bergen, Robert F. Lyons, Jeff Corey, Elliott Gould,
Directors : Richard Rush,

A Vietnam vet and former social radical is conflicted by his desire to become a teacher and his sympathy with anti-establishment student protests.

Actors : Ingrid Bergman, Jessie Royce Landis, Anthony Perkins, Yves Montand,
Directors : Anatole Litvak,

In this adaptation of Françoise Sagan's best selling novel, Paula is a beautiful and highly successful 40-year-old businesswoman. She is deeply in love with Roger, her mature consort of ...

Actors : Gustav Opocenský, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Jirina Bohdalová, Miroslav Holub,
Directors : Karel Kachyna,

Husband (senior ministry official) and wife find their house is riddled with listening devices put there by his own ministry. A harrowing night follows (reminiscent of 'Who's Afraid Of ...

Actors : Milton Selzer, Ernest Borgnine, Kim Novak, Peter Finch,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

A dictatorial film director (Finch) hires an unknown actress (Novak) to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.

Actors : Julie Andrews, Richard Crenna, Daniel Massey, Michael Craig,
Directors : Robert Wise,

A musical biography of Gertrude Lawrence, who led a hustling and bustling life on the stage.

Actors : Izzet Günay, Semih Sezerli, Ayfer Feray, Türkan Soray,
Directors : Lütfi Akad,

My Prostitute Love is a 'realist melodrama' that represents the sentiment of 60s' Istanbul in an authentic way. Poetically written and carefully crafted in cinematography, it juxtaposes the...

Actors : Bibi Andersson, Richard Boone, Dean Jagger, Nigel Green,
Directors : John Huston,

During the Cold War a Naval Intelligence officer endowed with a powerful photographic memory is transferred to the CIA to participate in a covert operation in Moscow.

Actors : Nigel Davenport, Jean Wallace, John Hamill, Lynne Frederick,
Directors : Cornel Wilde,

When a deadly virus strikes London, John Custance takes his family to hoped-for safety in Scotland.

Actors : Hiroyuki Nagato, Masao Mishima, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Shôhei Imamura,

A young hoodlum decides to work for a criminal organization that is tearing itself apart.

Actors : Yûnosuke Itô, Michiyo Aratama, Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

February 17 to March 3, 1860, inside Edo castle. A group of assassins wait by Sakurada Gate to kill the lord of the House of Ii, a powerful man in the Tokugawa government, which has ruled ...

Actors : Nan Martin, Sidney Poitier, Beau Bridges, Abbey Lincoln,
Directors : Daniel Mann,

A white family has had the same black maid for many years. When she tells them she wants to go back to school and will be leaving soon, the 20ish year old son decides what she needs is a ...

Actors : Laurence Harvey, Edward G. Robinson, Paul Newman, Claire Bloom,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

Travelers in the 1870s Southwest discuss a recent murder trial in which all the principals told differing stories about the events.

Actors : Sean Connery, Luigi Vannucchi, Mario Adorf, Peter Finch,
Directors : Mikhail Kalatozov,

Torn by personal guilt Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.

Actors : Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Patricia Owens, Vic Damone,
Directors : Phil Karlson,

When his adoptive Japanese-American family is sent to Manzanar after Pearl Harbor, a young Chicano enlists in the marines to become a hero in the Battle of Saipan.

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Gene Hackman, Scott Wilson,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

Three skydivers and their travelling thrill show barnstorm through a small midwestern town one Fourth of July weekend.

Actors : Shizue Kawarazaki, Tokie Hidari, Shima Iwashita, Kichiemon Nakamura,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

A doomed love between a paper merchant and a courtesan.

Actors : Yûsuke Kawazu, Miyuki Kuwano, Fumio Watanabe, Yoshiko Kuga,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class men.

Actors : Didi Perego, Laurent Terzieff, Emmanuelle Riva, Susan Strasberg,
Directors : Gillo Pontecorvo,

A young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.

Actors : Anjanette Comer, Charles Bronson, Anthony Quinn, Sam Jaffe,
Directors : Henri Verneuil,

In 1743, outlaw Leon Alastray is hunted by the Spanish army but is given sanctuary by a priest in a village terrorized by marauding Yaqui Indians.

Actors : Mirjana Bohanec, Franjo Majetic, Relja Basic, Mia Oremovic,
Directors : Kresimir Golik,

The story is seen through the eyes of 6 year old Perica Safranek. On a family picnic Perica's mother starts flirting with Mr Fulir, a Zagreb Dandy. The father at first doesn't notice it, ...