Best Drama movies of 1960

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 : Edward G. Robinson, Eli Wallach, Joan Collins, Rod Steiger,
Directors : Henry Hathaway,

A motley crew of professional thieves plans the robbery of a Monte Carlo casino vault.

Actors : Stuart Whitman, Peter Falk, Henry Morgan, May Britt,

The rise and fall of a 1930's Brooklyn crime syndicate, known as Murder Incorporated, led by mobster Lepke Buchalter.

Actors : John Laurie, Bernard Lee, James MacArthur, Peter Finch,
Directors : Robert Stevenson,

In Scotland in 1751, young David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship where he meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart with whom he escapes to the Scottish Highlands, dodging the redcoats.

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 : 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 : Elsa Martinelli, Mel Ferrer, Alberto Bonucci, Annette Stroyberg,
Directors : Roger Vadim,

A lonely and bitter young heiress - jealous of her cousin's engagement to another woman - becomes dangerously obsessed with legends surrounding a vampire ancestor, who supposedly murdered the young brides of the man she loved.

Actors : Nina Foch, Natalie Wood, Dean Jagger, James Garner,
Directors : Joseph Pevney,

Cash McCall is a young and slick business man who buys failing businesses and resells them. Grant Austen's Plastics is even more of a prize to Cash, for Cash is also making a bid for ...

Actors : Frank Gorshin, Christopher Knight, Carolyn Craig, Venetia Stevenson,
Directors : Irving Lerner,

A young man tries to escape the South Side of 1920s Chicago.

Actors : Kevin Corcoran, Gene Sheldon, Henry Calvin, Bob Sweeney,
Directors : Charles Barton,

Taken in by distant members of his family after being orphaned, Toby Tyler runs away to join the circus.

Actors : Tom Tryon, Stuart Whitman, Viveca Lindfors, Peggy Wood,
Directors : Henry Koster,

Inspired by the scriptural tale. Moabitess priestess Ruth is drawn both to a Judean man and to his talk of a forgiving God. After tragedy strikes, she begins a new life in Bethlehem.

Actors : George Hamilton, Natalie Wood, Susan Kohner, Robert Wagner,

The minister of the town has died and his son Chad has no tears for him. Sarah, who now calls herself Salome, is pregnant with Chad's baby, but Chad has no future, no job and no money. ...

Actors : Martin Balsam, Alberto Sordi, Carla Gravina, Serge Reggiani,
Directors : Luigi Comencini,

When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.

Actors : Angela Lansbury, Eve Arden, Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire,
Directors : Delbert Mann,

In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Ruben Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman, when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora is frigid because of trying to ...

Actors : Yvonne Mitchell, James Mason, Nigel Patrick, Peter Finch,
Directors : Ken Hughes,

At the height of his fame (his plays being much celebrated in London in the 1890's), Oscar Wilde angers the Marquis of Queensberry by having what is whispered and gossiped as a romantic ...

Actors : Dimitris Papamichael, Aliki Vougiouklaki, Thodoros Moridis, Pantelis Zervos,
Directors : Dinos Dimopoulos,

A young and brave girl after her father's death decides to continue her father's trade, carrying people and things with his boat. Thus she will be able to feed her 6 brothers/sisters. ...

Actors : Peter O'Toole, Aldo Ray, Kieron Moore, Elizabeth Sellars,
Directors : John Guillermin,

In 1901, a group of IRA members decides to rob the Bank of England in order to finance their movement and to embarrass the British government.

Actors : Patrick Allen, Gwen Watford, Niall MacGinnis, Felix Aylmer,
Directors : Cyril Frankel,

Peter Carter meets official resistance when he finds his 9 year old daughter has been the victim of the pedophile patriarch of the town's most powerful family.

Actors : Adam Faith, Elizabeth Sellars, Richard Todd, Peter Sellers,
Directors : John Guillermin,

A cosmetic salesman sets out to prove to himself and his wife that he is not a failure.

Actors : Krystyna Stypulkowska, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Kalina Jedrusik, Wanda Koczeska,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

A young doctor is tired of being sought by women. One night he meets a young girl who all but forces herself into his room where they talk of morals and love. But he loses her when he goes ...