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 : Alan Bates, Lila Kedrova, Anthony Quinn, Irene Papas,
Directors : Mihalis Kakogiannis,

An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.

Actors : Harriet Andersson, Lars Passgård, Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow,
Directors : Ingmar Bergman,

Recently released from a mental hospital; Karin rejoins her emotionally disconnected family and their island home, only to slip from reality as she begins to believe she is being visited by God.

Actors : Patricia Neal, Kirk Douglas, Tom Tryon, John Wayne,
Directors : Otto Preminger,

A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.

Actors : Anthony Nicholls, Sylvia Syms, 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 : Keiji Sada, Chishû Ryû, Shima Iwashita, Mariko Okada,
Directors : Yasujirô Ozu,

An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.

Actors : Eddie Constantine, Valérie Boisgel, Akim Tamiroff, Anna Karina,
Directors : Jean-Luc Godard,

A U.S. secret agent is sent to the distant space city of Alphaville where he must find a missing person and free the city from its tyrannical ruler.

Actors : Jason Robards, David Warner, Strother Martin, Stella Stevens,
Directors : Sam Peckinpah,

A hobo accidentally stumbles onto a water spring, and creates a profitable way station in the middle of the desert.

Actors : Fritz Weaver, Henry Fonda, Dan O'Herlihy, 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 : 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 : Ingrid Thulin, Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Gunnel Lindblom,
Directors : Ingmar Bergman,

A small town priest struggles with his faith.

Actors : Richard Harris, Judith Anderson, Jean Gascon, Manu Tupou,
Directors : Elliot Silverstein,

In 1825, an English aristocrat is captured by Native Americans. He lives with them and begins to understand their way of life. Eventually, he is accepted as part of the tribe and becomes their leader.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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.

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 : 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.