Best Drama movies of 1968

Actors : Jean Gaven, André Pousse, Jean Gabin, Dany Carrel,
Directors : Georges Lautner,

Six months before his retirement from the criminal police, inspector Joss finds his colleague Gouvion dead, in a poorly faked suicide attempt. Joss loses his temper, and investigates on his...

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Gabriella Boccardo, Franco Nero, Georges Géret,
Directors : Elio Petri,

A popular painter, plagued by nightmares that he and his lover/sales agent are engaging in bizarre, ritualistic, sadistic sexual acts, seeks to escape the city and rent a house in the country.

Actors : Anatoliy Papanov, Rolan Bykov, Nikolay Kryuchkov, Oleg Yankovskiy,
Directors : Yevgeni Karelov,

Two soldiers become best friends during the Civil War in Russia in the 1920's.

Actors : Mikhail Zimin, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Irina Pechernikova, Nina Menshikova,
Directors : Stanislav Rostotskiy,

Ilya Semenovich Melnikov is a history teacher in an ordinary Soviet high school. He is a very good teacher and his students and colleagues treat him with a great deal of respect. However, ...

Actors : Aleksey Eybozhenko, Jaecki Schwarz, Vasiliy Livanov, Dieter Mann,
Directors : Konrad Wolf,

April 1945: Gregor Hecker, 19 years of age, reaches the outskirts of Berlin as part of the Red Army's scouting team. Having fled Germany with his family when he was eight, he is confronted ...

Actors : Monica Vitti, Anthony Booth, Stanley Baker, Corin Redgrave,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

A Sicilian woman, "dishonored" by her lover, goes to England with a pistol intending to murder him.

Actors : Michael Caine, Vladek Sheybal, Giovanna Ralli, Emilio Rodríguez,
Directors : Bryan Forbes,

Cat burglar Henry Clarke and his accomplices, the Moreaus, attempt to steal diamonds from the château of millionaire Salinas. However, Henry's partners in crime aren't the most emotionally stable people.

Actors : Roger Van Hool, Michel Piccoli, Amidou, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Alain Cavalier,

Lucile, 25, is the beautiful mistress of Charles, a rich, good-hearted businessman. Being a kept woman suits her as she refuses to work. She is grateful to Charles for that but she does not...

Actors : Shintarô Katsu, Kayo Mikimoto, Kyôsuke Machida, Takashi Shimura,
Directors : Kimiyoshi Yasuda,

Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official.

Actors : Buddy Ebsen, Walter Brennan, John Davidson, Lesley Ann Warren,
Directors : Michael O'Herlihy,

The Bower Family Band petitions the Democratic National Committee to sing a Grover Cleveland rally song at the 1888 convention, but decide instead to move to the Dakota territory on the ...

Actors : Brenda Scott, James Caan, Don Stroud, Michael Sarrazin,
Directors : William Hale,

At the beginning of the Civil War, seven friends embark on a cross-country journey in order to join the Confederate army.

Actors : Laurent Terzieff, Bernard Fresson, Elisabeth Wiener, Dany Carrel,
Directors : Henri-Georges Clouzot,

Stanislas Hassler blazes the development of modern art in his gallery, packed with works of surprising shapes, colours and textures, and where exhibitions turn into media events. Gilbert ...

Actors : Titta Karakorpi, Risto Taulo, Anja Pohjola, Aarno Sulkanen,
Directors : Edvin Laine,

Täällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the 1890's and it ends to the Finnish civil war in 1918. Story ...

Actors : Dean Jones, Lloyd Bochner, Fred Clark, Diane Baker,
Directors : Norman Tokar,

Frederick Bolton has to solve two problems. First, his boss has instructed him to come up with a reasonable campaign to promote a new product, a stomach pill named "Aspercel" - by tomorrow....

Actors : Sergio Tofano, Pierre Clémenti, Giulio Cesare Castello, Tina Aumont,
Directors : Bernardo Bertolucci,

Bernardo Bertolucci, along with co-scenarist Gianni Amico, used Dostoievski's 1846, pre-imprisonment novella The Double: A Petersburg Poem, which they moved to Italy and updated to the pro-Vietcong student-protest present,

Actors : Luther Adler, Kirk Douglas, Alex Cord, Irene Papas,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

The son of a powerful Mafia don comes home from his army service in Vietnam and wants to lead his own life, but family tradition, intrigues and powerplays involving his older brother ...

Actors : Shintarô Katsu, Kô Nishimura, Makoto Satô, Yoshiko Mita,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Zatoichi is tricked by a crime gang into killing a man. Realizing his mistake, he sets out to protect the dead man's sister, who is conflicted in accepting his help.

Actors : Kazuko Fukuda, Kuniko Ishii, Haruo Asanu, Ichirô Kimura,
Directors : Susumu Hani,

A teenage goldsmith with a dark past tragically falls in love with a young nude model.

Actors : Stanislav Lyubshin, Alla Demidova, Helga Göring, Lyudmila Chursina,
Directors : Vladimir Basov,

Alexander Belov (Lyubshin) is a Russian spy in the Nazi Germany, working under cover name as Johann Weiss. His perfect German and cool demeanor allows him to make a career in the SS ...

Actors : Lloyd Bridges, Andrew Keir, Sue Lloyd, Mark Eden,
Directors : Paul Wendkos,

Lloyd Bridges plays a WWII commando leader who leads a group of soldiers on a suicide mission to destroy a Nazi naval stronghold on the French coast.