Best Drama movies of 1960s

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 : James Yagi, Carroll Baker, Tetsurô Tanba, James Shigeta,
Directors : Etienne Périer,

Based on a true story, this compelling drama relates the difficulties of a young woman married to a Japanese diplomat during World War II, victim of suspicion and animosity from her husband's government.

Actors : Fredric March, George Kennedy, Jim Brown, Lynn Carlin,
Directors : Ralph Nelson,

Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the Deep South.

Actors : Pierre Zimmer, Richard Leduc, Lorraine Rainer, Catherine Jourdan,
Directors : Alain Robbe-Grillet,

A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious Dutchman. Once they sample his "fear powder" the students experience a series of hallucinations.

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 : Glenn Corbett, Peter Arne, Christopher Lee, Kerwin Mathews,
Directors : John Gilling,

A group of ruthless pirates attack a 17th Century Huguenot settlement on the Isle of Devon in search of treasure and will stop at nothing to obtain it.

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Meg Mazursky, Glenna Sergent, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

Bohemian Alex Morrison has just finished directing his first feature length movie. In its previews, the movie is considered a critical, artistic and surefire commercial success. As such, ...

Actors : Stanislawa Celinska, Daniel Olbrychski, Aleksander Bardini, Tadeusz Janczar,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are...

Actors : Torsten Lilliecrona, Urban Strand, Louise Edlind, Björn Söderbäck,
Directors : Olle Hellbom,

Vesterman has found a young seal in his fishing nets in the outskirts of the archipelago. When he comes back to the Saltkråkan island he gives the seal to Tjorven, who names it Moses. Peter...

Actors : Pamela Mason, Cay Forester, Donald Woods, Johnny Cash,
Directors : Bill Karn,

Originally released in 1961 as Five Minutes to Live, this low-budget crime drama was later re-released as Door-to-Door Maniac. Fred narrates the film in flashback, detailing a suburban bank...

Actors : Laurence Harvey, Robert Morley, Siobhan McKenna, Kim Novak,

A medical student becomes obsessed with his faithless lover.

Actors : Asha Parekh, Rajesh Khanna, Bindu, Prem Chopra,
Directors : Shakti Samanta,

A runaway bride promises her dying widowed friend that she will assume her identity and look after her infant child.

Actors : Milena Dravic, Stojan 'Stole' Arandjelovic, Janez Vrhovec, Eva Ras,
Directors : Dusan Makavejev,

A love romance between older, respectable engineer that came in the industrial town to do some expert job and young hairdresser in whose house he stayed in and the consequences of that ...

Actors : Bob Kanter, Keir Dullea, Jack Warden, James Philbrook,
Directors : Andrew Marton,

In Guadalcanal during World War II, a private and his sergeant clash during the heat of battle with the Japanese.

Actors : Kostas Karras, Dimitris Papamichael, Aliki Vougiouklaki, Spyros Kalogirou,
Directors : Nikos Foskolos,

Dachau in 1965. Natasha Arseni missing over 20 years from Greece. Shortly before returning visits the former concentration camp. On the train to the motherland begins to remember the years ...

Actors : Brenda Scott, Don Stroud, James Caan, 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 : 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 : Manoj Kumar, Saira Banu, Ashok Kumar, Pran,
Directors : Manoj Kumar,

Circa British rule in India, Harnam betrays a freedom fighter, and as a result is rewarded, but the freedom fighter is killed, leaving his wife, and family devastated and destitute. Years ...

Actors : Erwin Geschonneck, Fred Delmare, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Krystyn Wójcik,
Directors : Frank Beyer,

As rumors reach them that the Allied armies are advancing on their concentration camp at Buchenwald, Polish prisoners renew their feeble hope for survival and freedom. When a group of ...

Actors : Bijon Bhattacharya, Madhabi Mukherjee, Indrani Chakrabarty, Abhi Bhattacharya,
Directors : Ritwik Ghatak,

A man (Abhi Bhattacharya) opposes the love between his sister and the orphan (Satindra Bhattacharya) they adopted years earlier.