1960s Drama Movies

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Spartacus(1960)

3h 17min | History, War, Drama, Adventure

3.8/5 (with 914 votes)

The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.

Directed by Stanley Kubrick - With Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, Tony Curtis, ...

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Lawrence of Arabia(1962)

| 3h 47min | Adventure, Drama, History, War

4.0/5 (with 1,261 votes)

The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.

Directed by David Lean - With Jack Hawkins, Anthony Quinn, Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Omar Sharif, José Ferrer, ...

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Woman in the Dunes(1964)

2h 27min | Drama, Thriller

4.1/5 (with 183 votes)

An entomologist suffers extreme psychological and sexual torture after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village.

Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara - With Eiji Okada, Kyōko Kishida

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if....(1968)

1h 52min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 152 votes)

In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the Upper Sixth. But three Lower Sixth students, leader Mick Travis, Wallace and Johnny decide on a shocking course of action to redress the balance of privilege once and for all.

Directed by Lindsay Anderson - With Malcolm McDowell, Richard Warwick, David Wood, Peter Jeffrey, Hugh Thomas, Mona Washbourne, ...

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The Married Woman(1964)

1h 35min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 54 votes)

In an exploration of love and adultery, a woman is conflicted between her husband, her lover and herself.

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard - With Macha Méril, Philippe Leroy, Bernard Noël, Bernard Noël, Christophe Bourseiller, Rita Maiden, ...

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?(1966)

| 2h 11min | Drama

3.9/5 (with 341 votes)

A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the middle-aged couple unload onto their guests the full force of the bitterness, dysfunction, and animosity that defines their marriage.

Directed by Mike Nichols - With Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis

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Hud(1963)

| 1h 52min | Western, Drama

3.7/5 (with 121 votes)

Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and his stern and highly principled father, Homer. Hud's nephew Lon admires Hud's cheating ways, though he soon becomes too aware of Hud's reckless amorality to bear him anymore. In the world of the takers and the taken, Hud is a winner. He's a cheat, but, he explains, "I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner.".

Directed by Martin Ritt - With Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon deWilde, Whit Bissell, John Ashley, ...

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Repulsion(1965)

| 1h 45min | Drama, Thriller, Horror

3.7/5 (with 418 votes)

Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.

Directed by Roman Polanski - With Catherine Deneuve, Yvonne Furneaux, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Patrick Wymark, Valerie Taylor, ...

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Bullitt(1968)

| 1h 53min | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

3.6/5 (with 478 votes)

Senator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of testimony from the criminal's hothead brother Johnny, who is in protective custody in San Francisco under the watch of police lieutenant Frank Bullitt. When a pair of mob hitmen enter the scene, Bullitt follows their trail through a maze of complications and double-crosses. This thriller includes one of the most famous car chases ever filmed.

Directed by Peter Yates - With Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon, Robert Duvall, Ed Peck, ...

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Lord of the Flies(1963)

PG-13

| 1h 32min | Thriller, Adventure, Drama

3.4/5 (with 219 votes)

Amidst a nuclear war, a plane carrying a group of schoolboys crash lands on a deserted island. With no adult survivors, the boys are forced to fend for themselves. At first they cooperate, but when they split into two separate camps -- one led by the pragmatic Ralph and the other by militaristic Jack -- their society falls into disarray, leading to a disturbing examination of human nature and a chilling conclusion.

Directed by Peter Brook - With James Aubrey, Tom Chapin, Hugh Edwards, Roger Elwin, Tom Gaman, Roger Allan, ...

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Judgment at Nuremberg(1961)

| 2h 59min | Drama, History, War

4.0/5 (with 322 votes)

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.

Directed by Stanley Kramer - With Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Maximilian Schell, ...

To Sir, with Love(1967)

| 1h 45min | Drama

3.8/5 (with 136 votes)

A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his uninterested and delinquent pupils are in desperate need of attention and care.

Directed by James Clavell - With Sidney Poitier, Christian Roberts, Judy Geeson, Suzy Kendall, Lulu, Patricia Routledge, ...

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King of Kings(1961)

PG-13

| 2h 48min | Drama, History

3.6/5 (with 80 votes)

Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused, beloved, betrayed, and finally crucified. Yet that terrible fate would not be the end of the story.

Directed by Nicholas Ray - With Jeffrey Hunter, Robert Ryan, Ron Randell, Hurd Hatfield, Viveca Lindfors, Rita Gam, ...

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The Bible: In the Beginning...(1966)

2h 54min | Drama, Kids & Family

3.6/5 (with 105 votes)

Extravagant production of the first part of the book of Genesis. Covers Adam and Eve, Noah and the Flood and Abraham and Isaac.

Directed by John Huston - With Michael Parks, Richard Harris, Franco Nero, John Huston, Pupella Maggio, Gabriella Pallotta, ...

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Vivre Sa Vie(1962)

1h 24min | Drama

3.9/5 (with 265 votes)

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard - With Anna Karina, Brice Parain, Sady Rebbot, André S. Labarthe, Peter Kassovitz, Alfred Adam, ...

Cléo from 5 to 7(1962)

| 1h 30min | Drama

3.9/5 (with 265 votes)

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.

Directed by Agnès Varda - With Corinne Marchand, Dominique Davray, Michel Legrand, Dorothée Blanck, Antoine Bourseiller, José Luis de Vilallonga, ...

Rocco and His Brothers(1960)

| 2h 58min | Crime, Drama

4.0/5 (with 235 votes)

When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.

Directed by Luchino Visconti - With Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Katina Paxinou, Alessandra Panaro, Spiros Focás, ...

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An Autumn Afternoon(1962)

1h 54min | Drama

3.9/5 (with 110 votes)

Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.

Directed by Yasujirō Ozu - With Chishū Ryū, Mariko Okada, Daisuke Katō, Eijirō Tōno, Sugimura Haruko, Keiji Sada, ...

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Fahrenheit 451(1966)

| 1h 53min | Drama, Science Fiction

3.6/5 (with 405 votes)

In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as “firemen,” to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of his vocation….

Directed by François Truffaut - With Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack, Mark Lester, Yvonne Blake, John Rae, ...

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Faces(1968)

PG-13

| 2h 10min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 81 votes)

Middle-aged suburban husband Richard abruptly tells his wife, Maria, that he wants a divorce. As Richard takes up with a younger woman, Maria enjoys a night on the town with her friends and meets a younger man. As the couple and those around them confront a seemingly futile search for what they've lost -- love, excitement, passion -- this classic American independent film explores themes of aging and alienation.

Directed by John Cassavetes - With John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel, Darlene Conley, Fred Draper, Lynn Carlin, ...

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Barabbas(1961)

| 2h 17min | Adventure, Drama, History

3.5/5 (with 64 votes)

Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was pardoned for his crimes and spared crucifixion when Pilate offered the Israelites a choice to pardon Barabbas or Jesus. Struggling with his spirituality, Barabbas goes through many ordeals leading him to the gladiatorial arena, where he tries to win his freedom and confront his inner demons, ultimately becoming a follower of the man who was crucified in his place.

Directed by Richard Fleischer - With Anthony Quinn, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Palance, Silvana Mangano, Harry Andrews, Ernest Borgnine, ...

The Battle of Algiers(1966)

2h 1min | Drama, War, History

4.0/5 (with 299 votes)

Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in 1957. The film traces the rebels' struggle and the increasingly extreme measures taken by the French government to quell the revolt.

Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo - With Jean Martin, Saadi Yacef, Brahim Hadjadj, Larbi Zekkal, Fusia El Kader, Mohamed Ben Kassen, ...

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The Leopard(1963)

3h 6min | Drama

3.9/5 (with 329 votes)

As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout.

Directed by Luchino Visconti - With Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon, Paolo Stoppa, Rina Morelli, Romolo Valli, ...

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Born Free(1966)

1h 35min | Adventure

3.4/5 (with 50 votes)

At a national park in Kenya, English game warden George Adamson and his wife, Joy, care for three orphaned lion cubs. After the two larger lions are shipped off to a zoo in the Netherlands, the smallest of the three, Elsa, stays with the couple. When Elsa is blamed for causing an elephant stampede in the nearby village, head warden John Kendall demands the young lion either be trained to survive in the wilds of the Serengeti or be sent to a zoo.

Directed by James Hill - With Virginia Anne McKenna, Bill Travers, Geoffrey Keen

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A Man for All Seasons(1966)

| 2h | Drama, History

3.7/5 (with 172 votes)

A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, who refuses to swear the Oath of Supremacy declaring Henry Supreme Head of the Church in England.

Directed by Fred Zinnemann - With Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern, Orson Welles, Robert Shaw, Susannah York, ...

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The Trial(1962)

1h 58min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

3.7/5 (with 193 votes)

Josef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused of. In order to find out about the reason for this accusation and to protest his innocence, he tries to look behind the façade of the judicial system. But since this remains fruitless, there seems to be no chance for him to escape from this Kafkaesque nightmare.

Directed by Orson Welles - With Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, Akim Tamiroff, Elsa Martinelli, Orson Welles, ...

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Exodus(1960)

3h 28min | War, Drama

3.3/5 (with 90 votes)

Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.

Directed by Otto Preminger - With Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Sal Mineo, Jill Haworth, ...

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The Swimmer(1968)

1h 35min | Drama

3.7/5 (with 100 votes)

Well-off ad man Ned Merrill is visiting a friend when he notices the abundance of backyard pools that populate their upscale suburb. Ned suddenly decides that he'd like to travel the eight miles back to his own home by simply swimming across every pool in town. Soon, Ned's journey becomes harrowing; at each house, he is somehow confronted with a reminder of his romantic, domestic and economic failures.

Directed by Frank Perry, Sydney Pollack - With Burt Lancaster, Janice Rule, Kim Hunter, David Garfield, Bernie Hamilton, Michael Kearney, ...

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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors(1965)

1h 31min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.8/5 (with 64 votes)

In a Carpathian village, Ivan falls in love with Marichka, the daughter of his father's killer. When tragedy befalls her, his grief lasts months; finally he rejoins the colorful life around him, marrying Palagna. She wants children but his mind stays on his lost love. To recapture his attention, Palagna tries sorcery, and in the process comes under the spell of the sorcerer, publicly humiliating Ivan, who then fights the sorcerer. The lively rhythms of village life, the work and the holidays, the pageant and revelry of weddings and funerals, the change of seasons, and nature's beauty give proportion to Ivan's tragedy.

Directed by Sergei Parajanov - With Ivan Mykolaichuk, Nikolai Grinko, Leonid Yengibarov, Nina Alisova, Larisa Kadochnikova, Tatyana Bestayeva, ...

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The Hustler(1961)

| 2h 14min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.9/5 (with 403 votes)

Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary Minnesota Fats to a high-stakes match.

Directed by Robert Rossen - With Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie, George C. Scott, Vincent Gardenia, Jake LaMotta, ...

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1960s Drama Movies

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Spartacus(1960)

Lawrence of Arabia(1962)

Woman in the Dunes(1964)

if....(1968)

The Married Woman(1964)

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?(1966)

Hud(1963)

Repulsion(1965)

Bullitt(1968)

Lord of the Flies(1963)

Judgment at Nuremberg(1961)

To Sir, with Love(1967)

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King of Kings(1961)

The Bible: In the Beginning...(1966)

Vivre Sa Vie(1962)

Cléo from 5 to 7(1962)

Rocco and His Brothers(1960)

An Autumn Afternoon(1962)

Fahrenheit 451(1966)

Faces(1968)

Barabbas(1961)

The Battle of Algiers(1966)

The Leopard(1963)

Born Free(1966)

A Man for All Seasons(1966)

The Trial(1962)

Exodus(1960)

The Swimmer(1968)

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors(1965)

The Hustler(1961)

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