Best Drama movies of 1960s

Actors : Rentarô Mikuni, Hideko Okiyama, Kazuo Kitamura, Chôichirô Kawarasaki,
Directors : Shôhei Imamura,

An engineer from Tokyo arrives on a drought-ridden tropical island to drill a well to power a nearby sugar mill. He meets the inbred Futori family, hated by the locals for breaking religious customs.

Actors : Theano Ioannidou, Aleka Katselli, Irene Papas, Giannis Fertis,
Directors : Mihalis Kakogiannis,

Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.

Actors : Dean Stockwell, Wendy Hiller, Trevor Howard, Mary Ure,
Directors : Jack Cardiff,

Jack Cardiff received a 1960 Oscar Nomination as Best Director for this lush, engaging film starring Trevor Howard, Dean Stockwell and Donald Pleasence, which was adapted from D.H. ...

Actors : Jacqueline Giroux, Erik Estrada, Jo-Ann Robinson, Pat Boone,
Directors : Don Murray,

Crusading minister gets involved in the lives of members of a New York street gang.

Actors : Eiko Taki, Miwa Takada, Kichijirô Ueda, Shintarô Katsu,
Directors : Kimiyoshi Yasuda,

The blind swordsman tries to locate a girl's missing father.

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, Marcello Mastroianni, Pierre Brasseur, Rina Morelli,
Directors : Mauro Bolognini,

Women love handsome Antonio because they think of him as the perfect lover. But he has problems to fullfill this ideal and Barbara only notices his failures when they are married. When the ...

Actors : Ken Goodlet, Clarissa Kaye-Mason, Mark McManus, Mick Jagger,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

Based on a true story, Ned Kelly is unable to support his family in the Australian outback, he turns to stealing horses in order to make money. He gets more deeply drawn into the outlaw ...

Actors : Leslie Caron, Pierre Mondy, Claudia Cardinale, Martine Carol,
Directors : Abel Gance,

Another of Napoleon's adventures in this epic reconstruction of the battle of Austerlitz, where he had the greatest victory of his career, over the Russians.

Actors : Yûsuke Kawazu, Junko Asano, Chikako Miyagi, Hideki Takahashi,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

In Okayama in the mid-1930s, Kiroku attends high school and boards with a Catholic family whose daughter, Michiko, captures his heart. He must, however, hide his ardor and other aspects of ...

Actors : Gabriele Ferzetti, Laura Nucci, Irene Papas, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Elio Petri,

A leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don't want him to learn it.

Actors : Georges Wilson, Milo, Georges Loriot, Jean-Pierre Talbot,
Directors : Jean-Jacques Vierne,

Tintin and Captain Haddock try to discover what is so desirable about their old and apparently worthless ship.

Actors : Tony Curtis, Karl Malden, Arthur O'Connell, Edmond O'Brien,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

Based on a true story, a bright young man who hasn't the patience for the normal way of advancement finds that people rarely question you if your papers are in order. He becomes a marine, a...

Actors : Norma Lazareno, Maricruz Olivier, Alicia Bonet, Marga López,
Directors : Carlos Enrique Taboada,

Girls that were punished to sat at a boarding school during Spring Break have no idea the school is haunted by the restless spirit of a former student seeking revenge.

Actors : Rod Taylor, Maggie Smith, Julie Christie, Michael Redgrave,

Biographical drama based on the early life of playwright Sean O'Casey, depicting his rise from the 1910 Dublin slums to the celebrated openings of his early plays. Johnny Cassidy, an ...

Actors : Donald Crisp, Laurence Naismith, Duncan Macrae, Alex Mackenzie,
Directors : Don Chaffey,

Scotland, 1865. An old shepherd and his little Skye Terrier Bobby go to Edinburgh. But when the shepherd dies of pneumonia, the dog remains faithful to his master, refuses to be adopted by ...

Actors : Franco Fabrizi, Lea Massari, Alberto Sordi, Lina Volonghi,
Directors : Dino Risi,

Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment.

Actors : Valentin Popov, Marianna Vertinskaya, Stanislav Lyubshin, Nikolay Gubenko,
Directors : Marlen Khutsiev,

Following three lifelong friends who return to Moscow after military service, we see their aspirations juxtaposed against everyday life in 1960 Soviet Union.

Actors : Giannis Voglis, Nikos Kourkoulos, Faidon Georgitsis, Mairi Hronopoulou,
Directors : Vasilis Georgiadis,

In Greece, in the early part of the 20th century, two brothers from a wealthy landowning family have opposite views on how the poor workers who work on their land should be treated.

Actors : Kunie Tanaka, Michiyo Ohkusu, Hisashi Igawa, Shintarô Katsu,
Directors : Kazuo Ikehiro,

Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into a village terrorized by a violent yakuza boss.

Actors : Ian McShane, Annette Crosbie, Hayley Mills, Laurence Naismith,
Directors : John Mills,

A young, lonely, emotionally challenged teenage girl finds solace in burying dead animals after the sudden traumatic death of a childhood friend 10 years earlier.