1960 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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Two Women(1960)

| 1h 40min | Drama, War

3.9/5 (with 238 votes)

Widowed shopkeeper Cesira and her 13-year-old daughter Rosetta flee from the allied bombs in Rome during the second World War; they travel to the remote village where Cesira was born. During their journey and in the village and onward, the mother does everything she can to protect Rosetta. Meanwhile, a sensitive young intellectual, Michele, falls in love with Cesira.

Directed by Vittorio De Sica - With Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eleonora Brown, Carlo Ninchi, Raf Vallone, Emma Baron, ...

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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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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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Late Autumn(1960)

2h 8min | Drama

3.9/5 (with 54 votes)

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.

Directed by Yasujirō Ozu - With Setsuko Hara, Mariko Okada, Chishū Ryū, Fumio Watanabe, Keiji Sada, Sadako Sawamura, ...

Inherit the Wind(1960)

| 2h 8min | Drama, History

3.9/5 (with 169 votes)

Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond to defend Cates. The prosecutor, Matthew Brady is a former presidential candidate, famous evangelist, and old adversary of Drummond.

Directed by Stanley Kramer - With Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Dick York, Donna Anderson, Harry Morgan, ...

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Pollyanna(1960)

| 2h 14min | Comedy, Drama, Kids & Family

3.5/5 (with 78 votes)

A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.

Directed by David Swift - With Hayley Mills, Jane Wyman, Karl Malden, Richard Egan, Adolphe Menjou, Agnes Moorehead, ...

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Elmer Gantry(1960)

2h 26min | Drama

3.7/5 (with 63 votes)

When hedonistic but charming con man Elmer Gantry meets the beautiful Sister Sharon Falconer, a roadside revivalist, he feigns piousness to join her act as a passionate preacher. The two make a successful onstage pair, and their chemistry extends to romance. Both the show and their relationship are threatened, however, when one of Gantry's ex-lovers decides that she has a score to settle with the charismatic performer.

Directed by Richard Brooks - With Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley Jones, Dean Jagger, Patti Page, ...

Midnight Lace(1960)

| 1h 50min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror

3.4/5 (with 48 votes)

Kit Preston begins to unravel when she receives threatening telephone calls informing her she's soon to be murdered.

Directed by David Miller - With Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin, Myrna Loy, Roddy McDowall, Anthony Dawson, ...

The Story of Ruth(1960)

2h 12min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 14 votes)

Ruth is an unusual character in the Bible. First she's a female protagonist, one of a select few there. Secondly her story gets its own book in the Old Testament, a short item of only four chapters. Lastly she's the first non-Hebrew protagonist in the Bible since Abraham sired the Hebrew people. It's a simple story in the Old Testament. Ruth is one of two Moabite women who marry the sons of Elimelech and Naomi. When Elimelech and sons Mahlon and Chillion die, leaving Naomi a widow with two widowed daughters-in-law, Naomi decides to return to Israel. One daughter-in-law, Orpah, bids her goodbye. Daughter-in-law Ruth however says she will not desert her. She's going to give up the life and culture of Moab and her people will be Naomi's people in the most famous line from the Book of Ruth.

Directed by Henry Koster - With Stuart Whitman, Tom Tryon, Peggy Wood, Viveca Lindfors, Jeff Morrow, Elana Eden, ...

Macario(1960)

1h 31min | Drama, Fantasy

4.3/5 (with 79 votes)

Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, Death gives him a bottle of water which will heal any illness. Soon, Macario is more wealthy than the village doctor, which draws the attention of the feared Inquisition.

Directed by Roberto Gavaldón - With Ignacio López Tarso, Pina Pellicer, Enrique García Álvarez, Eduardo Fajardo, Enrique Lucero

The Naked Island(1960)

1h 37min | Drama

4.0/5 (with 53 votes)

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.

Directed by Kaneto Shindō - With Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama

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Letter Never Sent(1960)

1h 37min | Drama, Adventure

3.6/5 (with 42 votes)

Four geologists are searching for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia. After a long and tiresome journey they manage to find their luck and put the diamond mine on the map. The map must be delivered back to Moscow. But on the day of their departure a terrible forest fire wreaks havoc, and the geologists get trapped in the woods.

Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov - With Tatiana Samoilova, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Vasily Livanov, Yevgeni Urbansky, Galina Kozhakina

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning(1960)

| 1h 30min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 54 votes)

A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married.

Directed by Karel Reisz - With Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts, Hylda Baker, Norman Rossington, Bryan Pringle, ...

Flaming Star(1960)

| 1h 41min | Western, Drama

3.3/5 (with 36 votes)

Sam Burton's second wife is a Kiowa, and their son is therefore born mixed-race. When a struggle starts between the whites and the native Kiowas, the Burton family is split between loyalties.

Directed by Don Siegel - With Elvis Presley, Barbara Eden, Steve Forrest, Dolores del Rio, John McIntire, L. Q. Jones, ...

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Home from the Hill(1960)

| 2h 30min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 25 votes)

The wealthiest man in a Texas town decides to teach his teenage son how to hunt to make a man out of him.

Directed by Vincente Minnelli - With Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard, George Hamilton, Everett Sloane, Luana Patten, ...

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Handsome Antonio(1960)

1h 39min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 40 votes)

Problems arise for Antonio Magnano when he is unable to consummate his marriage to the beautiful Barbara Puglisi and his virility is called into question. Despite the fact that he loves his beautiful wife and they have otherwise been happily married for a year, his problem becomes a source of contention for all concerned.

Directed by Mauro Bolognini - With Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Pierre Brasseur, Rina Morelli, Tomas Milian, Fulvia Mammi, ...

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs(1960)

1h 51min | Drama

4.0/5 (with 42 votes)

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older. She's of an age when she must choose: to seek marriage (difficult given her tarnished occupation), to be a kept woman, or to borrow money to buy a bar of her own. Each route has dangers, including investors demanding a return on their loans. Keiko has a quiet dignity that attracts men, but are they what they seem? Does she actually have choices?

Directed by Mikio Naruse - With Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Daisuke Katō, Eitarō Ozawa, Nakamura Ganjirō II, Keiko Awaji, ...

BUtterfield 8(1960)

| 1h 49min | Drama

3.2/5 (with 33 votes)

The story about Gloria Wandrous, a promiscuous fashion model, who falls in love with Weston Liggett, the hard drinking son of a working class family who has married into money.

Directed by Daniel Mann - With Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Eddie Fisher, Dina Merrill, Mildred Dunnock, Betty Field, ...

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Wild River(1960)

1h 50min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.7/5 (with 33 votes)

A young field administrator for the TVA comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of an elderly woman from her home on an island in the River, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter.

Directed by Elia Kazan - With Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet, Albert Salmi, Jay C. Flippen, Barbara Loden, ...

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The Last Voyage(1960)

| 1h 31min | Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller

3.3/5 (with 14 votes)

The S. S. Claridon is scheduled for her five last voyages after thirty-eight years of service. After an explosion in the boiler room, Captain Robert Adams is reluctant to evacuate the steamship. While the crew fights to hold a bulkhead between the flooded boiler room and the engine room and avoid the sinking of the vessel, the passenger Cliff Henderson struggles against time trying to save his beloved wife Laurie Henderson, who is trapped under a steel beam in her cabin, with the support of the crew member Hank Lawson.

Directed by Andrew L. Stone - With Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, George Sanders, Edmond O'Brien, Woody Strode, Jack Kruschen, ...

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The Fugitive Kind(1960)

| 1h 59min | Romance / Love, Drama

3.6/5 (with 42 votes)

Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying of cancer. Val is pursued by Carol Cutere, the enigmatic local tramp-of-good-family.

Directed by Sidney Lumet - With Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward, Maureen Stapleton, Victor Jory, R. G. Armstrong, ...

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The Entertainer(1960)

1h 36min | Drama, Music

3.1/5 (with 19 votes)

Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

Directed by Tony Richardson - With Laurence Olivier, Brenda De Banzie, Roger Livesey, Joan Plowright, Daniel Massey, Alan Bates, ...

David and Goliath(1960)

| 1h 32min | Drama, Action, History

1.9/5 (with 6 votes)

When the Philistines attack, the Israelites are hopeless against the fierce giant Goliath and don't know what to do. King Saul takes the advice of the prophets and sends an adolescent shepherd, David, into battle to conquer the oversized Philistine. David is victorious and becomes the King of Israel.

Directed by Ferdinando Baldi, Richard Pottier - With Orson Welles, Massimo Serato, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Giulia Rubini, Pierre Cressoy, Furio Meniconi, ...

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The Crooks(1960)

1h 28min | Drama, Crime

3.0/5 (with 6 votes)

Three restless slum boys are turned to a life of petty thievery, but when one of them expresses a hopeful desire to become a bullfighter, the others pool their energies to pull one big heist in order to finance their pal's dream.

Directed by Carlos Saura - With Manuel Zarzo, Luis Marín, Antonio Giménez Escribano, Francisco Bernal

Seven Days… Seven Nights(1960)

1h 31min | Drama

3.1/5 (with 15 votes)

Anne Desbarèdes is a young woman who is married to a wealthy businessman and lives a monotonous existence in the small commune town of Blaye. After indirectly witnessing a murder in a café, she returns to the scene of the crime the next day and meets Chauvin, who informs her in more detail about the events that took place. Mentally unbalanced, Anne begins to believe that Chauvin intends to kill her.

Directed by Peter Brook - With Jeanne Moreau, Colette Régis, Didier Haudepin, Jean Deschamps, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Pascale de Boysson, ...

Hero of the Red Light District(1960)

1h 49min | Drama, History

4.3/5 (with 5 votes)

A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring birthmark on his face. Even the courtesans in Yoshiwara refuse to entertain him, until an indentured peasant prostitute, Tamarazu, takes the unsavoury assignment and treats him with brash tenderness.

Directed by Tomu Uchida - With Isao Kimura

Devi(1960)

| 1h 33min | Drama

3.8/5 (with 22 votes)

The life of a woman happily married to the son of an upper-class family in 19th century Bengal is turned upside down when her father-in-law has a vision that she is the Goddess Kali returned to earth. He convinces her to fulfill her role as a living deity and transform her house into a temple.

Directed by Satyajit Ray - With Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Chhabi Biswas, Anil Chatterjee, Karuna Banerjee, Purnendu Mukherjee, ...

The Angry Silence(1960)

| 1h 35min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 13 votes)

A young factory worker stands alone against a proposed strike.

Directed by Guy Green - With Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, Michael Craig, Bernard Lee, Alfred Burke, Bernard Horsfall, ...

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The Loves of Salammbo(1960)

1h 50min | Adventure

2.1/5 (with 2 votes)

During the 3rd century B.C. a horde of barbarians are hired by the Phoenian city of Carthage to fight against the Roman empire, but when the city's ruler is unable to fulfill the promised payment made to the mercenaries, they attack the African settlement, where Salammbô --the king's daughter and high priestess of goddess Tanit- tries to settle the matter when the Barbarian leader who has fallen for her steals the sacred veil of Carthage from the temple, without taking into account the evil schemes of a powerful member of the council of wise men.

Directed by Sergio Grieco - With Jacques Sernas, Edmund Purdom, Riccardo Garrone, Arnoldo Foà, Ivano Staccioli, Charles Fernley Fawcett, ...

1960 Drama Movies

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Spartacus(1960)

Two Women(1960)

Rocco and His Brothers(1960)

Exodus(1960)

Late Autumn(1960)

Inherit the Wind(1960)

Pollyanna(1960)

Elmer Gantry(1960)

Midnight Lace(1960)

The Story of Ruth(1960)

Macario(1960)

The Naked Island(1960)

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Letter Never Sent(1960)

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning(1960)

Flaming Star(1960)

Home from the Hill(1960)

Handsome Antonio(1960)

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs(1960)

BUtterfield 8(1960)

Wild River(1960)

The Last Voyage(1960)

The Fugitive Kind(1960)

The Entertainer(1960)

David and Goliath(1960)

The Crooks(1960)

Seven Days… Seven Nights(1960)

Hero of the Red Light District(1960)

Devi(1960)

The Angry Silence(1960)

The Loves of Salammbo(1960)

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