1961 Romantic Drama Movies

31 movies found (page 1/2):

The Misfits(1961)

2h 4min | Western, Drama, Action, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 156 votes)

While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland and former World War II aviator Guido Racanelli. The two men instantly become infatuated with Roslyn and, on a whim, the three decide to move into Guido's half-finished desert home together. When grizzled ex-rodeo rider Perce Howland arrives, the unlikely foursome strike up a business capturing wild horses.

Directed by John Huston - With Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter, Eli Wallach, Estelle Winwood, ...

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West Side Story(1961)

2h 32min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love

3.7/5 (with 799 votes)

In the slums of the upper West Side of Manhattan, New York, a gang of Polish-American teenagers called the Jets compete with a rival gang of recently immigrated Puerto Ricans, the Sharks, to "own" the neighborhood streets. Tensions are high between the gangs but two romantics, one from each gang, fall in love leading to tragedy.

Directed by Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins - With Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, Simon Oakland, ...

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Splendor in the Grass(1961)

2h 4min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.8/5 (with 107 votes)

A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.

Directed by Elia Kazan - With Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle, Zohra Lampert, Gary Lockwood, William Inge, ...

Lola(1961)

1h 30min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 104 votes)

A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.

Directed by Jacques Demy - With Anouk Aimée, Marc Michel, Alan Scott, Carlo Nell, Corinne Marchand, Dorothée Blanck, ...

Paris Blues(1961)

1h 38min | Romance / Love, Drama, Music

3.3/5 (with 24 votes)

During the 1960s, two American jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls and must decide between music and love.

Directed by Martin Ritt - With Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Sidney Poitier, Louis Armstrong, Diahann Carroll, Moustache, ...

Girl with a Suitcase(1961)

2h 1min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 36 votes)

Lorenzo, who's 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgirl, Aida, whom his older brother has mistreated. In extending kindness and standing up for her, he comes of age. But, is there anything he can do that will alter Aida's situation or her prospects?

Directed by Valerio Zurlini - With Claudia Cardinale, Jacques Perrin, Luciana Angiolillo, Renato Baldini, Riccardo Garrone, Elsa Albani, ...

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone(1961)

1h 43min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 14 votes)

Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play she is about to take to Broadway. Her businessman husband, 20 years her senior, has been the angel for the play and gives her a way out: They are off to a holiday in Rome for his health. He suffers a fatal heart attack on the plane. Mrs. Stone stays in Rome. She leases a magnificent apartment with a view of the seven hills from the terrace. Then the contessa comes calling to introduce a young man named Paola to her. The contessa knows many presentable young men and lonely American widows.

Directed by José Quintero - With Vivien Leigh, Warren Beatty, Lotte Lenya, Jill St. John, Coral Browne

A Taste of Honey(1961)

1h 40min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 40 votes)

A working class girl struggles to create a life for herself with her gay co-worker after becoming pregnant from a one-night stand with a black sailor.

Directed by Tony Richardson - With Robert Stephens, Rita Tushingham, Murray Melvin, Dora Bryan, Michael Bilton, Eunice Black, ...

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Goodbye Again(1961)

2h | Drama, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 14 votes)

Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier resists the advances of Philip Van der Besh, the 24-year-old son of one of her clients. But when her longtime paramour, Roger Demarest, begins yet another casual affair with a younger woman, Paula decides that two can play that game. However, it seems that society looks differently at May-December romances when the woman is the older partner.

Directed by Anatole Litvak - With Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Perkins, Yves Montand, Jessie Royce Landis, Pierre Dux, Michèle Mercier, ...

Fanny(1961)

2h 14min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 15 votes)

Almost 19-year-old Marius feels himself in a rut in Marseille, his life planned for him by his cafe'-owning father, and he longs for the sea. The night before he is to leave on a 5-year voyage, Fanny, a girl he grew up with, reveals that she is in love with him, and he discovers that he is in love with her. He must choose between an exciting life at sea, and a boring life with the woman he loves. And Fanny must choose between keeping the man she loves, and letting him live the life he seems to want.

Directed by Joshua Logan - With Leslie Caron, Horst Buchholz, Maurice Chevalier, Charles Boyer, Lionel Jeffries, Clément Harari, ...

Susan Slade(1961)

1h 56min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 5 votes)

A pregnant teen allows her mother to pass the baby off as her own.

Directed by Delmer Daves - With Connie Stevens, Troy Donahue, Brian Aherne, Dorothy McGuire, Grant Williams, Kent Smith, ...

Scarlet Sails(1961)

1h 28min | Romance / Love, Drama, Fantasy

3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

A little girl Assol met a wizard and it has been foretold: "... it will be a fine sunny day when a beautiful ship under scarlet sail comes and the noble prince will take you away from here. He'll take you to the world of your dreams, where you will be loved and happy." The neighbours told jokes about her, children teased her, but she waited for her prince. She trusted in the miracles and waited. Arthur Gray's rule was "if you can make a miracle, do it!". And he made a miracle for the wonderful romantic girl.

Directed by Aleksandr Ptushko - With Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Vasily Lanovoy, Yevgeny Morgunov, Dzhemma Firsova, Sergey Martinson

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Go Naked in the World(1961)

1h 43min | Drama

2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

A domineering San Francisco businessman is determined to put an end to his son's romance with a high-priced hooker.

Directed by Ranald MacDougall, Charles Walters - With Gina Lollobrigida, Anthony Franciosa, Ernest Borgnine, Luana Patten, Philip Ober, Harold Goodwin, ...

When the Trees Were Tall(1961)

1h 35min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 12 votes)

The story of a man who routinely dodges all responsibility, bemoans fate, spends his days boozing, and refuses to work. The act of playing long-lost father to a pretty teenager spurs him to turn over a new leaf.

Directed by Lev Kulidzhanov - With Leonid Kuravlyov, Vasily Shukshin, Vera Georgiyevna Orlova, Yuri Nikulin, Inna Gulaya, Yekaterina Mazurova, ...

Clear Skies(1961)

1h 50min | War, Drama, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 7 votes)

For many years, Sasha Lvova has been waiting for the return of her lover, pilot Aleksei Astakhov, refusing to believe in his death at the front. And he really returns to her and his son after captivity, but this is a completely different person, rejected by society, expelled from the profession. It is difficult to say how Aleksei’s fate would have been if it hadn’t for Sasha’s love, her ability to survive in the most difficult circumstances.

Directed by Grigori Chukhrai - With Yevgeni Urbansky, Nina Drobysheva, Oleg Tabakov, Vitali Konyayev

Back Street(1961)

1h 47min | Drama, Romance / Love

2.9/5 (with 6 votes)

Ambitious but thwarted, Rae Smith meets handsome Marine Paul Saxon, (of the Saxon department store chain), as he passes through Lincoln, Nebraska, on his way home from World War II. There's a definite spark between them but circumstances intervene and he leaves town without her. Later she learns he's married. Determined to make it as a fashion designer, Rae moves to New York and becomes a great success. One day she happens to meet Paul again and again there's that spark but he's still married so, as a form of escape, Rae moves to Rome to set up shop. Once again she meets Paul and finally they begin an actual affair since Paul's shrewish, drunken wife, Liz, won't give him a divorce. Time passes, the affair continues whenever time and place permit, but then, Paul's young son finds out about Rae and Rae's back-street world begins to crumble.

Directed by David Miller - With Susan Hayward, John Gavin, Vera Miles, Virginia Grey, Natalie Schafer, Alex Gerry, ...

Black Silk(1961)

1h 59min | Crime, Drama

2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Seni, a club owner, is under pressure by a rival, Wan, to pay an outstanding loan. Upon hearing that he has a long-lost brother named Sema, Seni sends his loyal lieutenants, Tom and Pon, to visit Sema, only to find that Sema has died. Seni decides that he can use the situation to his advantage, and buries Sema's body in a forest.

Directed by Rattana Pestonji

By Love Possessed(1961)

1h 55min | Drama

2.6/5 (with 4 votes)

An unhappily married woman engages in an affair with her husband's law partner.

Directed by John Sturges - With Lana Turner, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Jason Robards, George Hamilton, Barbara Bel Geddes, Carroll O'Connor, ...

Two Loves(1961)

1h 36min | Drama

2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

American-born Anna Vorontosov teaches school in a remote, primitive section of northern New Zealand. Her experimental teaching methods have won her the love and affection of her pupils and their parents and the admiration of the unhappily married school inspector, Abercrombie. Her personal life, however, is less secure; frightened of love and sexually inhibited, she has always been aloof with men. Eager to break down this barrier is Englishman Paul Lathrope, a somewhat irrational and immature fellow teacher who aspires to be a singer. Though Anna is attracted to him, she refuses to submit to his advances.

Directed by Charles Walters - With Shirley MacLaine, Laurence Harvey, Jack Hawkins, Juano Hernández

A Cold Wind in August(1961)

1h 20min | Drama

2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

An older woman gets involved with her young neighbor.

Directed by Alexander Singer - With Lola Albright, Scott Marlowe

Saptapadi(1961)

2h 43min | Romance / Love

During WWII an army doctor is brought a drunken Anglo-Indian woman, whom he'd once loved, for treatment.

Directed by Ajoy Kar - With Roma Dasgupta, Arun Kumar Chatterjee, Chhabi Biswas, Chaya Devi, Jennifer Kendal, Tarun Kumar, ...

The Greengage Summer(1961)

1h 40min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 5 votes)

Sensitive story of a British girl's awakening from childhood into life and love on vacation in France.

Directed by Lewis Gilbert - With Kenneth More, Danielle Darrieux, Susannah York, André Maranne, Bessie Love, Claude Nollier, ...

Like Father, Like Son(1965)

1h 30min | Drama

1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The story of a small-town football star, who defies society, morals and his God and gets into so much trouble that he is expelled from school. Told in flashbacks, usually in confession to the priest, Chris sets the tone early in the opening scene where he screams oaths before the altar and smashes a religious statue in a blind rage. Whether this is before or after a 14-year-old sexpot, Joan Meyers, corners him in the church choir-loft or when the parents of a pleasure-seeking rich girl, Tury by name, catch him in bed with Tury.

Directed by Tom Laughlin

Seviştiğimiz Günler(1961)

1h 32min | Romance / Love, Comedy

Sevistigimiz Gunler is a typical socio-economic story of three roommate girls in their early 20s' who are hoping to find their Prince Charmings. With a lot of references to Billy Wilder romance flicks, Things go crazy and wild when they both fall in love with three men. So their lives change dramatically as they forget about the bet, and come on the edge of marriage and pregnancy. But are the men whom they fell in love with, really worth considering as Prince Charmings, or are they just cheaters slickers?

Directed by Halit Refiğ

Girl from Hong Kong(1961)

1h 46min | Drama

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Unusual race relations melodrama from West Germany follows a German sailor who meets and weds a Chinese woman while on leave in Hong Kong, only to meet with disapproval from his family and friends when the couple returns to Europe.

Directed by Franz Peter Wirth - With Hanns Lothar, Helmut Griem, Carla Hagen, Ursula Lillig, Carl Lange, Peter Carsten, ...

Bridge to the Sun(1961)

1h 53min | Drama, Romance / Love, War

3.5/5 (with 5 votes)

Tells the true story of Gwen Terasaki, who falls in love with, then marries a Japanese diplomat. When war breaks out they find animosity and trouble from both sides.

Directed by Étienne Périer - With Carroll Baker, James Shigeta, Tetsurō Tamba

The Cossacks(1961)

1h 37min | Drama

2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

Historical drama based on the eponymous novel by Leo Tolstoy. Junker Olenin, a representative of St.Petersburg's golden youth, is traveling from St.Petersburg to the Caucasus in search of romance. His regiment is stationed in the Cossack village. Here he falls in love with the beautiful Maryana and is ready to marry her, but she loves the Cossack Lukashka and is not going to exchange him for the master...

Directed by Vasili Pronin - With Boris Andreyev, Zinaida Kiriyenko, Leonid Gubanov, Eduard Bredun, Boris Novikov, Anatoli Papanov, ...

Madison Avenue(1961)

1h 30min | Drama

3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

An adman and an adwoman put a dangerous milk tycoon in line for the White House.

Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone - With Dana Andrews, Eleanor Parker, Jeanne Crain, Eddie Albert

The Sun Will Never Set(1962)

2h 18min | Romance / Love

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

An aristocratic family is torn down after the death of its patriarch. He leaves alone his widow wife and five of his daughters and sons. His eldest son, Ahmed (Shukry Sarhan), takes the role of the man in the house and helps his mother take care of his brother and sisters. Mamdouh (Ahmed Ramzy), his brother, is a self-centered man who refuses to follow his brother’s step and decides to make his own decisions in his life.

Directed by Salah Abu Seif - With Shoukry Sarhan

Forbidden Love(1961)

Romance / Love

The story of a love-triangle with a middle-aged husband, a young wife and a young man.

Directed by Halit Refiğ

1961 Romantic Drama Movies

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The Misfits(1961)

West Side Story(1961)

Splendor in the Grass(1961)

Lola(1961)

Paris Blues(1961)

Girl with a Suitcase(1961)

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone(1961)

A Taste of Honey(1961)

Goodbye Again(1961)

Fanny(1961)

Susan Slade(1961)

Scarlet Sails(1961)

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Go Naked in the World(1961)

When the Trees Were Tall(1961)

Clear Skies(1961)

Back Street(1961)

Black Silk(1961)

By Love Possessed(1961)

Two Loves(1961)

A Cold Wind in August(1961)

Saptapadi(1961)

The Greengage Summer(1961)

Like Father, Like Son(1965)

Seviştiğimiz Günler(1961)

Girl from Hong Kong(1961)

Bridge to the Sun(1961)

The Cossacks(1961)

Madison Avenue(1961)

The Sun Will Never Set(1962)

Forbidden Love(1961)

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