1965 Drama Movies

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Repulsion(1965)

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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The Flight of the Phoenix(1965)

| 2h 22min | Adventure, Drama

3.6/5 (with 160 votes)

A cargo aircraft crashes in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for a replacement aircraft they need to build before their food and water run out.

Directed by Robert Aldrich - With James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Ernest Borgnine, Hardy Krüger, George Kennedy, ...

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Red Beard(1965)

3h 5min | Drama

4.1/5 (with 182 votes)

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.

Directed by Akira Kurosawa - With Toshirō Mifune, Kinuyo Tanaka, Chishū Ryū, Yūzō Kayama, Bokuzen Hidari, Noriko Honma, ...

Happiness(1965)

1h 19min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.7/5 (with 123 votes)

A young husband and father, perfectly content with his life, falls in love with another woman.

Directed by Agnès Varda - With Jean-Claude Drouot, Marie-France Boyer, Marc Eyraud, Paul Vecchiali, Yvonne Dany

Morituri(1965)

2h 3min | Action, Drama, Thriller, War

3.5/5 (with 30 votes)

A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS officer on board a cargo ship leaving Japan for Germany carrying a large supply of rubber for tyres. His mission is to disable the scuttling charges so the captain cannot sink the ship if they are stopped by English warships.

Directed by Bernhard Wicki - With Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Janet Margolin, Trevor Howard, Martin Benrath, Hans Christian Blech, ...

The Cincinnati Kid(1965)

| 1h 42min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 140 votes)

An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.

Directed by Norman Jewison - With Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson, Ann-Margret, Karl Malden, Tuesday Weld, Joan Blondell, ...

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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold(1965)

1h 52min | Drama, Thriller

3.5/5 (with 116 votes)

British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.

Directed by Martin Ritt, Paul Dehn, Guy Trosper - With Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner, Sam Wanamaker, Robert Hardy, Rupert Davies, ...

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The Hill(1965)

| 2h 3min | Drama, War

3.8/5 (with 86 votes)

North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.

Directed by Sidney Lumet - With Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Ossie Davis, Ian Hendry, Roy Kinnear, ...

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Sylvia(1965)

| 1h 55min | Drama, Thriller, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

Sylvia West (Carroll Baker) may not be who she says she is. Her fiancé, the very well-to-do Frederick Summers (Peter Lawford), hires an investigator named Alan Maklin (George Maharis) to do some digging, and what he finds out about her life prior to becoming a writer is quite shocking. Will the newfound knowledge ruin the marriage? Gordon Douglas (Young at Heart) directs this drama, which is based on E.V. Cunningham's book.

Directed by Gordon Douglas - With Carroll Baker, George Maharis, Peter Lawford, Aldo Ray, Ann Sothern, Anthony Caruso, ...

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The Shop on Main Street(1965)

2h 8min | Drama, War

3.6/5 (with 89 votes)

In a small town in Nazi-occupied Slovakia during World War II, decent but timid carpenter Tono is named "Aryan comptroller" of a button store owned by an old Jewish widow, Rozalie. Since the post comes with a salary and standing in the town's corrupt hierarchy, Tono wrestles with greed and guilt as he and Rozalie gradually befriend each other. When the authorities order all Jews in town to be rounded up, Tono faces a moral dilemma unlike any he's known before.

Directed by Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos - With Ida Kamińska, Jozef Kroner, František Zvarík, Martin Hollý, Adam Matejka, Alojz Kramár, ...

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The Sandpiper(1965)

| 1h 57min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 19 votes)

A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wedded headmaster of an Episcopalian boarding school in Monterey, California.

Directed by Vincente Minnelli - With Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Eva Marie Saint, Charles Bronson, Robert Webber, Tom Drake, ...

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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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Time to Love(1965)

1h 29min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.9/5 (with 30 votes)

A poor painter falls in love with a photograph of a woman while at work in one of the massive villas on Istanbul's Princes' Islands.

Directed by Metin Erksan - With Müşfik Kenter

The Naked Prey(1965)

1h 36min | Action, Drama, Thriller

3.3/5 (with 38 votes)

A group of men are on safari. One of the party refuses to give a gift to a tribe they encounter. The tribe is offended, seizes the party, and one-by-one, kills all but one of the safari members in various creative and horrifying ways. The last surviving member is given "The Lion's Chance" by the tribal leader to be hunted down by a party of tribal warriors.

Directed by Cornel Wilde - With Cornel Wilde, Ken Gampu, Gert van den Bergh, Patrick Mynhardt

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Sword of the Beast(1965)

1h 25min | Action, Drama

3.8/5 (with 27 votes)

Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His former comrades then turn on him, and this betrayal so shakes his sense of honor that he decides to live in the wild, like an animal. There he joins up with a motley group who are illegally mining the shogun’s gold, and, with the aid of another swordsman, gets a chance not just at survival but to recover his name and honor.

Directed by Hideo Gosha - With Gō Katō, Shima Iwashita, Kantarō Suga, Mikijirō Hira, Takeshi Katō, Yōko Mihara, ...

The Slender Thread(1965)

1h 38min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 19 votes)

Alan is a Seattle college student volunteering at a crisis center. One night when at the clinic alone, a woman calls up the number and tells Alan that she needs to talk to someone. She informs Alan she took a load of pills, and he secretly tries to get help. During this time, he learns more about the woman, her family life, and why she wants to die. Can Alan get the cavalry to save her in time before it's too late?

Directed by Sydney Pollack - With Sidney Poitier, Anne Bancroft, Telly Savalas, Steven Hill, Ed Asner, Dabney Coleman, ...

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Fists in the Pocket(1965)

| 1h 45min | Drama

3.9/5 (with 80 votes)

A deeply disturbed and epileptic young man benignly decides to murder other members of his dysfunctional family for altruistic reasons.

Directed by Marco Bellocchio - With Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Masè, Liliana Gerace

A Patch of Blue(1965)

| 1h 45min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.9/5 (with 40 votes)

A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.

Directed by Guy Green - With Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman, Wallace Ford, Ivan Dixon, John Qualen, ...

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The War Lord(1965)

| 2h 3min | History

3.2/5 (with 30 votes)

A knight in the service of a duke goes to a coastal village where an earlier attempt to build a defensive castle has failed. He begins to rebuild the duke's authority in the face of the barbarians at the border and is making progress until he falls in love with one of the local women.

Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner - With Charlton Heston, Richard Boone, Rosemary Forsyth, Maurice Evans, Guy Stockwell, Niall MacGinnis, ...

Baby the Rain Must Fall(1965)

| 1h 40min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 15 votes)

Henry Thomas tries to overcome the horrors of his childhood and start a new life with his wife and kid. However, his abusive step-mother and his dependence on alcohol threaten to ruin his future.

Directed by Robert Mulligan - With Steve McQueen, Lee Remick, Don Murray, Josephine Hutchinson, Paul Fix, Ruth White, ...

Ship of Fools(1965)

| 2h 29min | Drama, Romance / Love, War

3.3/5 (with 36 votes)

Passengers on a ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in the 1930s represent society at large in that era. The crew is German, including the ship's Dr. Schumann, who falls in love with one of the passengers, La Condesa. A young American woman, Jenny, is traveling with the man she loves, David. Jenny is fascinated and puzzled by just who some of the other passengers are.

Directed by Stanley Kramer - With Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, Lee Marvin, José Ferrer, Oskar Werner, George Segal, ...

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Sands of the Kalahari(1965)

| 1h 59min | Action, Adventure

3.0/5 (with 15 votes)

A diverse group of individuals struggle to survive in the Kalahari desert after their passenger plane crashes.

Directed by Cy Endfield - With Stuart Whitman, Stanley Baker, Susannah York, Harry Andrews, Theodore Bikel, Nigel Davenport, ...

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Brainstorm(1965)

| 1h 45min | Thriller

3.4/5 (with 8 votes)

Scientist Jim Grayam saves his boss' wife from suicide but then falls in love with her.

Directed by William Conrad - With Jeffrey Hunter, Anne Francis, Dana Andrews, Viveca Lindfors

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Rapture(1965)

1h 45min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 12 votes)

Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farm in Brittany, France. When Joseph develops an attraction to Agnes, her father threatens to break up the union.

Directed by John Guillermin - With Melvyn Douglas, Dean Stockwell, Gunnel Lindblom, Patricia Gozzi, Peter Sallis, Ellen Pollock, ...

Synanon(1965)

1h 47min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A dramatization of the goings on at a drug rehabilitation home. Filmed at the original Synanon House in Santa Monica, California.

Directed by Richard Quine - With Edmond O'Brien

Sandra(1965)

1h 45min | Drama, Mystery

3.5/5 (with 30 votes)

Sandra returns to her childhood village to take care of family business, but childhood memories and secrets soon overcome her.

Directed by Luchino Visconti - With Michael Craig, Claudia Cardinale, Jean Sorel, Renzo Ricci, Fred Williams, Renato Moretti, ...

Young Cassidy(1965)

| 1h 50min | Drama

3.2/5 (with 8 votes)

In Dublin circa 1911, John Cassidy (Rod Taylor), an impoverished idealist, whose ambitions are restricted by the demands of looking after his family, journeys through the social injustices of Dublin life, involving himself with the rowdy tramway-men strike, dawdling with prostitute Daisy Battles (Julie Christie), and seeking a better life. He falls in love with bookshop assistant Nora (Dame Maggie Smith) who encourages him toward a life of writing. Finding success at the Abbey Theatre, his unorthodox views estrange him from family, friends, and his own past.

Directed by Jack Cardiff - With Rod Taylor, Julie Christie, Maggie Smith, Michael Redgrave, Edith Evans, Jack MacGowran, ...

Mudhoney(1965)

1h 32min | Drama

3.1/5 (with 19 votes)

In this Depression-era tale, Calef is traveling from Michigan to California and stops in Spooner, Missouri, where Lute hires him for odd jobs. Calef gets involved with Lute's niece, Hannah. But she is married to Sidney, a wife-beating drunk who hopes to inherit his uncle-in-law's money. Sidney and an eccentric preacher plot against Calef, who finds it difficult to conceal his mysterious past and his growing affection for Sidney's wife.

Directed by Russ Meyer - With Stuart Lancaster, Lorna Maitland, John Furlong, Hal Hopper

With Beauty and Sorrow(1965)

1h 46min | Romance / Love, Drama

2.4/5 (with 4 votes)

When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager--and then wrote a bestselling novel about it--reappears in her life, her pupil--and lesbian lover--hatches a plot to destroy the man and his family.

Directed by Masahiro Shinoda - With Kaoru Yachigusa, Sō Yamamura, Sugimura Haruko, Kei Yamamoto, Misako Watanabe

Harlow(1965)

2h 5min | Drama

2.7/5 (with 9 votes)

Hollywood drama loosely based on the life of film actress Jean Harlow, with Carroll Baker in the title role. One of two feature film biographies, both released in 1965 and both with the same title, about the '30s platinum blonde movie star.

Directed by Gordon Douglas - With Carroll Baker, Red Buttons, Raf Vallone, Angela Lansbury, Peter Lawford, Mike Connors, ...

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1965 Drama Movies

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Repulsion(1965)

The Flight of the Phoenix(1965)

Red Beard(1965)

Happiness(1965)

Morituri(1965)

The Cincinnati Kid(1965)

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold(1965)

The Hill(1965)

Sylvia(1965)

The Shop on Main Street(1965)

The Sandpiper(1965)

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors(1965)

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Time to Love(1965)

The Naked Prey(1965)

Sword of the Beast(1965)

The Slender Thread(1965)

Fists in the Pocket(1965)

A Patch of Blue(1965)

The War Lord(1965)

Baby the Rain Must Fall(1965)

Ship of Fools(1965)

Sands of the Kalahari(1965)

Brainstorm(1965)

Rapture(1965)

Synanon(1965)

Sandra(1965)

Young Cassidy(1965)

Mudhoney(1965)

With Beauty and Sorrow(1965)

Harlow(1965)

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