Best Drama movies of 1960

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 : 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 : 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 ...

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 : 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 : Aldo Ray, Peter O'Toole, 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 : 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 : John Neville, Robert Morley, Ralph Richardson, Phyllis Calvert,
Directors : Gregory Ratoff,

Oscar Wilde's homosexuality is exposed when he tries to defend himself against his lover's father.

Actors : Hiroshi Akutagawa, Miyuki Kuwano, Fumio Watanabe, Masahiko Tsugawa,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists' movement in Japan.

Actors : Heinz Rühmann, Franz Muxeneder, Ernst Stankovski, Ursula von Borsody,
Directors : Axel von Ambesser,

During World War I, Schweik (played by Heinz Rühmann) is drafted into the Austro-Hungarian Army as soldier, where he is assigned to be an assistent to Lt. Lukas.

Actors : Sergey Bondarchuk, Irina Skobtseva, Boris Barkhatov, Natalya Chechyotkina,

The mother of a 5 years old Seryozha remarries. This man becomes a friend and a confident, an adult who see Seryozha not as a child, but as a person.

Actors : Alan Ladd, Glenn Corbett, Sidney Poitier, James Darren,
Directors : Hall Bartlett,

During the Korean War,a platoon leader dies leaving his inexperienced black sergeant in charge of his squad of belligerent and racist white men.

Actors : Gustaf Gründgens, Will Quadflieg, Elisabeth Flickenschildt, Ella Büchi,

The aging scientist Faust is desperately in search of knowledge and insight, but without success. To escape from this ignorance, he dares the extreme: He joins forces with the devil. ...

Actors : Curd Jürgens, Hansjörg Felmy, Claire Bloom, Mario Adorf,
Directors : Gerd Oswald,

In 1938 Austria shortly after the Nazi occupation, a prominent Viennese intellectual, Werner von Basil, is arrested for smuggling art treatures out of the country and imprisoned by the ...

Actors : Teresa Tuszynska, Zbigniew Cybulski, Barbara Baranowska, Grazyna Muszynska,
Directors : Janusz Morgenstern,

Jacek is a handsome young Pole who belongs to a drama company. One day, in the streets of Gdansk, he meets Marguerite, a beautiful daughter of the French consul, and immediately falls for her.

Actors : Jeanne Moreau, Pascale de Boysson, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Deschamps,
Directors : Peter Brook,

A wealthy and bored woman is witness of a murder in affection and meets another witness. She asks him about the history of the victim and falls in love with him.

Actors : Eiji Gô, Tamio Kawaji, Yuko Chishiro, Noriko Matsumoto,
Directors : Koreyoshi Kurahara,

A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and causes reckless mayhem, mostly directed at the girlfriend of the journalist who helped send him up.

Actors : Totò, Anna Magnani, Ben Gazzara, Fred Clark,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

On New Year's Eve, an insecure, struggling actress (Anna Magnani) has nothing to do. When a colleague invites her to a New Year's party, she jumps at the opportunity. Accidentally she runs ...

Actors : Robert Bean, Georgianna Carter, Carol Bigby, Jack Nicholson,
Directors : Harvey Berman,

A rebellious punk of the beat generation spends his days as an amateur dirt track driver in between partying and troublemaking. He eventually kidnaps his buddy's girlfriend, kills a few ...

Actors : Dana Andrews, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Rhonda Fleming, John Kerr,
Directors : Joseph Pevney,

Disaster movie about a Navy jet and a commercial airliner heading for a mid air collision.