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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)

NR
| 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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The Sound of Music(1965)

G
| 2h 55min | Drama, Kids & Family, Music, Romance / Love
3.9/5 (with 1,506 votes)

In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home.

Directed by Robert Wise - With Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Bill Lee, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn, Nicholas Hammond, ...
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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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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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Barabbas(1961)

NR
| 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, ...

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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Yojimbo(1961)

NR
| 1h 50min | Drama, Thriller
4.1/5 (with 592 votes)

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.

Directed by Akira Kurosawa - With Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yōko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Daisuke Katō, ...
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The Silence(1963)

1h 35min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 158 votes)

Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.

Directed by Ingmar Bergman - With Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Birger Malmsten, Eduardo Gutiérrez, Håkan Jahnberg, Jörgen Lindström, ...
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Bullitt(1968)

PG
| 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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Andrei Rublev(1966)

R
| 3h 25min | Drama, History
4.1/5 (with 328 votes)

An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses a brutal battle and unintentionally becomes involved, he takes a vow of silence and spends time away from his work. As he begins to ease his troubled soul, he takes steps towards becoming a painter once again.

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky - With Anatoly Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko, Nikolai Burlyayev, Irma Raush, Yuri Nikulin, ...
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Repulsion(1965)

NR
| 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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Blow-Up(1966)

NR
| 1h 51min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 535 votes)

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.

Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni - With David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, Peter Bowles, Jane Birkin, Veruschka von Lehndorff, ...
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Ivan's Childhood(1962)

1h 35min | Drama, War
3.9/5 (with 290 votes)

In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky - With Andrei Konchalovsky, Nikolai Burlyayev, Valentin Zubkov, Nikolai Grinko, Irma Raush, Yevgeny Zharikov, ...
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The Hustler(1961)

NR
| 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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The Face of Another(1966)

NR
| 2h 4min | Drama, Science Fiction
3.9/5 (with 100 votes)

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.

Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara - With Tatsuya Nakadai, Machiko Kyō, Eiji Okada, Kyōko Kishida, Minoru Chiaki, Hideo Kanze, ...

A Man for All Seasons(1966)

G
| 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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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?(1966)

NR
| 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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Belle de Jour(1967)

1h 41min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 355 votes)

Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.

Directed by Luis Buñuel - With Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Francisco Rabal, Pierre Clémenti, Françoise Fabian, ...
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Zorba the Greek(1964)

NR
| 2h 22min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 147 votes)

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

Directed by Michalis Cacoyannis - With Anthony Quinn, Irene Papas, Lila Kedrova, Alan Bates, Sotiris Moustakas, Yorgo Voyagis, ...
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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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The Sand Pebbles(1966)

PG-13
| 3h 2min | Adventure, War
3.6/5 (with 97 votes)

Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the 'rice-bowl' system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.

Directed by Robert Wise - With Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen, Mako, Emmanuelle Arsan, ...
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Two Women(1960)

NR
| 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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Judgment at Nuremberg(1961)

NR
| 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, ...

Persona(1966)

1h 24min | Drama
4.1/5 (with 975 votes)

A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer. The time they spend together only strengthens the crushing realization that one does not exist.

Directed by Ingmar Bergman - With Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Gunnar Björnstrand, Margaretha Krook
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Isadora(1968)

PG
| 2h 11min | Drama, History, Music, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.

Directed by Karel Reisz - With Vanessa Redgrave, John Fraser, James Fox, Zvonimir Črnko, Bessie Love, Jason Robards, ...

The Flight of the Phoenix(1965)

NR
| 2h 22min | Adventure
3.6/5 (with 130 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 will build to escape 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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La Notte(1961)

2h 2min | Drama, Romance / Love
4.0/5 (with 275 votes)

A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship in Milan.

Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni - With Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki, Rosy Mazzacurati, Gitt Magrini, ...
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The Servant(1963)

1h 56min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 133 votes)

Hugo Barrett is a servant in the Chelsea home of indolent aristocrat Tony. All seems to go well until the playboy’s girlfriend Susan takes a dislike to the efficient employee. Then Barrett persuades Tony to hire his sister Vera as a live-in maid, and matters take another turn for the worse….

Directed by Joseph Losey - With Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, James Fox, Wendy Craig, Patrick Magee, Harold Pinter, ...
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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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