Best Drama movies of 1960s

Actors : Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde, Melvyn Douglas,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

Honest and hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant and egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash.

Actors : Rachel Roberts, William Hartnell, Richard Harris, Alan Badel,
Directors : Lindsay Anderson,

Despite success on the field, a rising rugby star senses the emerging emptiness of his life as his inner angst begins to materialize through aggression and brutality, so he attempts to woo his landlady in hopes of finding reason to live.

Actors : Fritz Weaver, Dan O'Herlihy, Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

American planes are sent to deliver a nuclear attack on Moscow, but it's a mistake due to an electrical malfunction. Can all-out war be averted?

Actors : Hardy Krüger, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, James Stewart,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

After a plane crash in the Sahara, one of the survivors says he's an airplane designer and they can make a flyable plane from the wreckage.

Actors : Keiji Sada, Chishû Ryû, Shima Iwashita, Mariko Okada,
Directors : Yasujirô Ozu,

An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.

Actors : Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Julie Harris, Brian Keith,
Directors : John Huston,

Bizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post.

Actors : Lauren Bacall, Paul Newman, Arthur Hill, Julie Harris,
Directors : Jack Smight,

Lew Harper, a cool private investigator, is hired by a wealthy California matron to locate her kidnapped husband.

Actors : Sylvia Syms, Anthony Nicholls, Dirk Bogarde, Dennis Price,
Directors : Basil Dearden,

The death of a young man leads to the discovery of a blackmail plot against a number of gay men in 1960s London.

Actors : Anna Magnani, Franco Citti, Ettore Garofolo, Silvana Corsini,
Directors : Pier Paolo Pasolini,

After many years working in the streets of Roma, the middle-age whore Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani) saves money to buy an upper class apartment, a fruit stand and retires from the prostitution....

Actors : Terence Stamp, Maurice Dallimore, Samantha Eggar, Mona Washbourne,
Directors : William Wyler,

A man kidnaps a woman and holds her hostage just for the pleasure of having her there.

Actors : Shirley Knight, Ed Begley, Paul Newman, Geraldine Page,
Directors : Richard Brooks,

Drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown after many years of trying to make it in the movies. Arriving with him is a faded film star he picked up along the way, Alexandra Del Lago. ...

Actors : Hana Brejchová, Vladimír Pucholt, Vladimír Mensík, Josef Sebánek,
Directors : Milos Forman,

A factory manager in rural Czechoslovakia bargains with the army to send men to the area, to boost the morale of his young female workers, deprived of male company since the local boys have...

Actors : Françoise Bertin, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff, Delphine Seyrig,
Directors : Alain Resnais,

In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.

Actors : Billy Kearns, Jess Hahn, Anthony Perkins, Arnoldo Foà,
Directors : Orson Welles,

An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.

Actors : Hana Slivková, Martin Hollý, Ida Kaminska, Jozef Kroner,

Slovakia during WW2. Tono lives a poor life, but the authorities offer him to take over the Jewish widow Lautman's little shop for sewing material. She is old and confused and thinks that ...

Actors : Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow, Gunnel Lindblom,
Directors : Ingmar Bergman,

A small town priest struggles with his faith.

Actors : Madhabi Mukherjee, Soumitra Chatterjee, Shailen Mukherjee, Shyamal Ghoshal,
Directors : Satyajit Ray,

The lonely wife of a newspaper editor falls in love with her visiting cousin-in-law, who shares her love for literature.

Actors : Jeffrey Hunter, Hurd Hatfield, Siobhan McKenna, Ron Randell,
Directors : Nicholas Ray,

The temporary physical life of everyone's Savior, Jesus Christ.

Actors : Charles Aznavour, Nicole Berger, Marie Dubois, Michèle Mercier,
Directors : François Truffaut,

Charlie Kohler is a piano player in a bar. The waitress Lena is in love with him. One of Charlie's brother, Chico, a crook, takes refuge in the bar because he is chased by two gangsters, ...

Actors : Gena Rowlands, Michael Kane, Kirk Douglas, Walter Matthau,
Directors : David Miller,

A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.