Best Drama movies of 1966

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 : Sadhana, Jagdish Sethi, Sunil Dutt, K.N. Singh,
Directors : Raj Khosla,

A lawyer's wife dies in his arms. Yet, another woman - identical in appearance and accused of aiding a gang of bandits - claims to be the lawyer's wife. A courtroom drama ensues.

Actors : Hector Camerlynck, Hilde Uitterlinden, Senne Rouffaer, Beata Tyszkiewicz,
Directors : André Delvaux,

A schoolteacher (Miereveld or "field of ants") is entranced by one of his students (Fran). Not being able to have his love fulfilled he tries to escape it and moves house and job. Working ...

Actors : Saeda Kawaguchi, Hideo Kanze, Narumi Kayashima, Hideko Kawaguchi,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.

Actors : Akio Hasegawa, Gaku Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao, Kei Satô,
Directors : Yasuzô Masumura,

A seductive woman gets kidnapped into prostitution. After getting a spider tattoo made on her back, she grows vengeful, leaving several men in her path.

Actors : Yuliya Burygina, Pavel Luspekayev, Aleksandr Melnikov, Sergey Yurskiy,
Directors : Gennadi Poloka,

Gang boys from the streets of St. Petersburg, Russia are being tamed and educated at SHKID - Dostoevsky School.

Actors : Hans Korte, Günter Mack, Eva Maria Meineke, Alexandra Kluge,
Directors : Alexander Kluge,

The film tells the story of Anita G., a young East German migrant to West Germany and her struggle to adjust to her new life.

Actors : Gen Kimura, Shintarô Katsu, Shigeru Amachi, Jun Hamamura,
Directors : Tokuzô Tanaka,

Promising to make a delivery for a dying man, the blind swordsman Zatoichi comes across the usual crime gangs but also meets a blind monk who brings into question his use of violence.

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.

Actors : Ulla Akselson, Bo Wahlström, Eddie Axberg, Gudrun Brost,
Directors : Jan Troell,

A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving from job to job and meeting a variety of individuals who gradually shape his future.

Actors : Miklós Gábor, Kati Sólyom, András Bálint, Dániel Erdély,
Directors : István Szabó,

A boy in Budapest lost his father in 1945, when he was the age of six. He does not remember much of the father but fantasize that he performed various heroic feats.

Actors : Jeanne Moreau, Keith Skinner, Ettore Manni, Umberto Orsini,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

In a French village, Manou is an Italian logger, virile, with a broad laugh. He can't say no to women's sexual invitations, and jealous villagers blame him for recent fires and a flood. He ...

Actors : Sergey Bondarchuk, Viktor Stanitsyn, Lyudmila Saveleva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov,
Directors : Sergey Bondarchuk,

Actors : Jutta Hoffmann, Eberhard Esche, Krystyna Stypulkowska, Manfred Krug,
Directors : Frank Beyer,

A film about living and working conditions in the GDR of the 60's. Includes a little love story of course.

Actors : Dulari, Iftekhar, Raj Kapoor, Waheeda Rehman,
Directors : Basu Bhattacharya,

A naive bullock-cart driver falls for a traveling courtesan.

Actors : Miharu Shima, Hatsuo Yamaya,
Directors : Kôji Wakamatsu,

A man keeps his girlfriend tied up in his small apartment and tortures her. She is undressed, subjected to various types of bondage, whipped, and tortured with a razor blade.

Actors : Yul Brynner, Senta Berger, Stephen Boyd, Angie Dickinson,
Directors : Terence Young,

United Nations narcotics agents attempt to trace heroin shipments from the Afghanistan-Iran border to the main European distributor.

Actors : Tuncer Necmioglu, Pervin Par, Yilmaz Güney, Erol Tas,
Directors : Lütfi Akad,

In order to keep his ailing son alive, an impoverished man agrees to sneak a herd of sheep across the border.

Actors : Jean-Louis Barrault, Conrad Rooks, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg,
Directors : Conrad Rooks,

Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in San Fran.

Actors : Kôjirô Hongô, Shiho Fujimura, Tarô Marui, Takashi Kanda,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Giant statue exacts revenge upon those who conquer its worshippers.