Best Drama movies of 1960s

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Farida Jalal, Sharmila Tagore, Sujit Kumar,
Directors : Shakti Samanta,

Dashing pilot Arun romances Vandana Tripathi, and both in love with each other, become very intimate, and as a result Vandana gets pregnant. Arun and Vandana have a quiet temple wedding ...

Actors : Masayo Banri, Miwa Takada, Shintarô Katsu, Jun'ichirô Narita,
Directors : Tokuzô Tanaka,

A yakuza gang targets the blind masseur Zatoichi after he defeats their group in a wrestling match. Meanwhile a long lost love of Zatoichi's returns to his life.

Actors : Yvonne Mitchell, Lilli Palmer, Sylvia Syms, Ronald Lewis,
Directors : Ralph Thomas,

Catholic nuns risk their lives to help Jewish children in an Italian internment camp escape to Palestine during World War II.

Actors : Ivan Asic, Antonín Kumbera, Ilse Bischofova, Ladislav Jánsky,
Directors : Jan Nemec,

Diamonds in the night is the tense, brutal story of two Jewish boys who escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. Ultimately, they are hunted down by a ...

Actors : Rosanna Schiaffino, Bruce Balaban, Jean-Marc Bory, Maria Pia Schiaffino,

This consists of four short films by different directors. Rosselini's 'Chastity' ('Illibatezza') deals with an attractive air hostess who receives the unwelcome attentions of a middle aged ...

Actors : Maurício do Valle, Hugo Carvana, Othon Bastos, Odete Lara,
Directors : Glauber Rocha,

Period piece about a Brazil that is no more. This movie is the sequel to "God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun" (Deus e o diabo na terra do sol), and takes place 29 years after Antonio ...

Actors : Jason Robards, John Gielgud, Charlton Heston, Richard Johnson,
Directors : Stuart Burge,

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both ...

Actors : Jim Backus, Henry Silva, Richard Anderson, Elizabeth Montgomery,
Directors : William Asher,

Exiled American gangster Colini sends his protégé-killer Giordano to the USA to eliminate Colini's mob enemies.

Actors : Ian Hendry, Jack Watson, Helmut Griem, Brian Keith,
Directors : Lamont Johnson,

During WW2, German POWs in Britain plot to escape from their prison camp in Scotland.

Actors : Mualla Sürer, Çolpan Ilhan, Sadri Alisik, Vahi Öz,
Directors : Hulki Saner,

Turist Ömer is a poor man. He finds a job in bank to distribute fake money for advertisement. He accidentally takes the bag full of real money from the burglars. He spends the money for his friends' needs while the burglars search for him.

Actors : Frimann Falck Clausen, Tom Courtenay, Alf Malland, Espen Skjønberg,
Directors : Caspar Wrede,

Fly-on-the-wall treatment of an ordinary day in the life of a prisoner in Stalin's Gulag. Closely adapted from Solzhenitsyn's classic novel based on his own experiences. Shot entirely on ...

Actors : Tatsuya Mihashi, Takeshi Katô, Clint Walker, Frank Sinatra,
Directors : Frank Sinatra,

During WW2, a platoon of Marines crash-lands on a tiny Pacific island occupied by a small Japanese unit.

Actors : Despo Diamantidou, Maro Kodou, Stavros Xenidis, Giorgos Konstadinou,
Directors : Yorgos Tzavellas,

An unmarried couple in the strict Greek society of the 60s.

Actors : Ava Gardner, James Mason, Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Terence Young,

Based on real life events that led to tragic deaths of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his lover Baroness Mary Vetsera.

Actors : Lilli Palmer, Dirk Bogarde, John Gielgud, Susannah York,
Directors : David Greene,

A British mathematician, working on code decryption, unexpectedly falls in love with another decrypter. This leads them to a complicated intrigue within the codebreakers.

Actors : Erika Remberg, Anton Diffring, Donald Pleasence, Yvonne Monlaur,
Directors : Sidney Hayers,

In 1947 England, a plastic surgeon must beat a hasty retreat to France when one of his patients has ghastly problems with her surgery. Once there, he operates on a circus owner's daughter, ...

Actors : Ingrid Bergman, Paolo Stoppa, Irina Demick, Anthony Quinn,
Directors : Bernhard Wicki,

Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a ...

Actors : Bud Cort, Bruce Davison, Kim Darby, Murray MacLeod,
Directors : Stuart Hagmann,

An apolitical college student joins a group of campus protesters to meet girls but gets swept up in their cause and involved in a violent confrontation with police.

Actors : Ryûzô Shimada, Shiho Fujimura, Reiko Fujiwara, Shintarô Katsu,
Directors : Kimiyoshi Yasuda,

Zatoichi promises to deliver a maiden safely home but finds two dangerous gangs have a mysterious interest in the young girl.

Actors : Lena Nyman, Börje Ahlstedt, Vilgot Sjöman, Maj Hultén,
Directors : Vilgot Sjöman,

The same movie with the same characters, cast and crew as I am Curious (Yellow), but with some different scenes and a different political slant. The political focus in Blue is personal ...