Best 1960s Drama Movies

Looking for the best 1960s Drama movies? These are the 48 highest-rated 1960s Drama titles in our catalogue, led by Farewell Kiss, Kadın Berberi and Hero of the Red Light District. The list is ranked by audience score; open any title for its cast, trailer and legal places to watch.

1. Farewell Kiss (1965)

★ 9.0/10

Ekrem who lost his wife on his wedding day, He meets a woman who looks like his dead wife. However, she does not like him and finds him ugly. He tries every way to make her like him.
2. Kadın Berberi (1964)

★ 9.0/10

Lale is the only daughter of a wealthy family and inherits all her parents' money and property. On a boat tour, she meets Erol the hair dresser. In the beginning they feel attracted to each other but all this ends as…
3. Hero of the Red Light District (1960)

★ 8.7/10

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…
4. The Scapular (1968)

★ 8.3/10

A woman who is about to die calls the town's priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not believe in them will end up dead.
5. The Dog Lover (1962)

★ 8.0/10

Jack is the fastidious manager of a local supermarket. The harmless but disruptive actions of his customers frequently give him headaches, which he remedies by holding a can of frozen juice against his forehead. At…
6. The Bogus Policeman (1967)

★ 8.0/10

Toramatsu is a very enthusiastic policeman. Believing that the police should help others he is dismissed the force when his pistol is stolen while doing one of his good deeds. He saves a child from drowning, restores…
7. The Morning (1967)

★ 7.5/10

In the first days after the Second World War, as collaborators are being taken care of, a former partisan finds out that war never truly ends — not even in time of peace.
8. Wall Engravings (1968)

★ 7.5/10

Jeanne looks back on her love for Jean. The melancholic young man wouldn't accept the world as it was, always wishing to depart. She doesn't know that he's dead.
9. Long Live the Republic (1965)

★ 7.5/10

Oldrich is the runt of his village, beaten by his father, bullied by the other boys. But he has imagination on his side, and a wiry toughness they can’t defeat. The village is in turmoil, because the Nazi occupiers…
10. Yeh Raat Phir Na Aaygi (1966)

★ 7.5/10

After discovery of skeletal remains at an excavation site, a woman known to be deceased for over 2 centuries mysteriously re-surfaces to claim her lover.
11. Eleven Samurai (1967)

★ 7.5/10

The lord of the Oshi fief is killed by his trespassing neighbour, the cruel and despotic Nariatsu, son of the former Shogun. After an investigation, the Oshi clan is blamed for what happened and sentenced to be…
12. The Great Killing (1964)

★ 7.5/10

A cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfill a plot to assassinate the puppet of a villain intent on usurping the shogunate in the 17th century. A Shogunate Elder connives to rule Japan by making his…
13. Romeo e Giulietta (1964)

★ 7.3/10

Two teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy.
14. This Man Must Die (1969)

★ 7.3/10

When his young son is killed in a hit and run accident, Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and murder the killer. By chance, Thenier makes the acquaintance of an actress, Helène Lanson, who was in the car at the…
15. Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro (1965)

★ 7.3/10

The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi. With all the familiar characters making appearances: Otsu (Musashi's great love), Akemi, Matahachi (his…
16. Dirkie (1969)

★ 7.2/10

An 8-year-old boy and his dog are left to face a vast desert wasteland alone after a plane crash, while an army of men and machines penetrate the desert searching for them. Based on true events.
17. Professor Mamlock (1961)

★ 7.2/10

A Jewish chief of surgery in 1933 Germany remains blind to the rising Nazi threat, dismissing political dissent from his son and a patient, until his family faces increasing anti-Semitic persecution.
18. The White Dove (1960)

★ 7.1/10

A poetic film about a dove getting lost on its way to Prague getting shot down by a paralyzed boy. An artist who finds the dove becomes friends with the boy. Together they take care of it bringing it back to recovery.
19. A Mountain Tale (1967)

★ 7.0/10

When a young woman learns that her fiancé is cheating on her, she leaves her school and goes to remote village as a teacher. In the village where she goes, her unprecedented behavior disturbs some villagers. Complained…
20. Dağlar Kızı Reyhan (1969)

★ 7.0/10

The film tells the love story of Reyhan, who works as a sales assistant at a record company, and Mehmet, a driver. Mehmet is going to Germany to buy a car. His fiancée Reyhan does not want him to go. Ekrem, the King of…
21. Adieu Philippine (1962)

★ 6.9/10

Michel is a young technician in the fledgling TV industry and is due for military service in two months at the time of the Algerian War. Juliette and Liliane are inseparable best friends, and aspiring actresses, who…
22. All the Way Home (1963)

★ 6.9/10

In the early 1900's Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father's sudden, accidental death. The widow and her young son must endure the heartache of life following the tragedy, but slowly rise up from…
23. All the Women in the World (1966)

★ 6.9/10

When womanizer Paulo meets a friend’s fiancée, she changes the way he looks at the opposite sex. He falls in love, and believes she is in fact all women in one. Because of that, he has to face an important decision: to…
24. A Gentle Woman (1969)

★ 6.8/10

When his young wife commits suicide with no explanation, an introspective pawnbroker looks back on their life together.
25. The Felling of the Forest (1963)

★ 6.8/10

In the forested slopes surrounding the rural Tuscan village of Tirli, a group of lumberjacks work long hours felling trees in the hopes of making an ample profit. Amongst them, a recently widowed father struggles to…
26. Kezban (1968)

★ 6.7/10

Kezban is a beautiful young girl who lives with her mother in a village. After her mother dies, her father learns that she is his daughter and comes to the village to take her with him, but Kezban does not know that…
27. Our Lady of the Turks (1968)

★ 6.6/10

To the protagonist, an intellectual so feverish that he seems pathologically unrecoverable, a confused memory resurfaces of a massacre carried out by the Turks in Otranto. Immersing himself in one of the victims, in…
28. Acı Hayat (1962)

★ 6.5/10

Poor welder Mehmet and manicurist Nermin, who works in a high society hair salon, fall in love. When Nermin is obsessively haunted by a spoiled rich guy, their unadulterated love is disrupted.
29. Man in the Middle (1964)

★ 6.5/10

In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood. Stalwart American Lt. Colonel Barney Adams (Mitchum) is dispatched…
30. The Beauty (1969)

★ 6.4/10

Little Inga considers herself pretty and is pampered by her mother and other children in her housing block, until a new boy with questionable habits arrives and calls her ugly to her face.
31. Clash of Steel (1962)

★ 6.3/10

In 16th-century France, the Chevalier de Pardaillan rescues the beautiful gypsy "Violetta", in reality Isabelle, daughter of the Comte d'Entraigues and prey of his sworn enemy, the Duke Henri de Guise. Pardaillan and…
32. Last Summer (1969)

★ 6.1/10

During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.
33. Trace of Stones (1966)

★ 6.1/10

Bad planning and shortages prevail on an East German construction site. Foreman Hannes Balla uses unconventional methods to overcome the problems. New Socialist Unity Party secretary Werner Horrath is charged with…
34. Naked Autumn (1961)

★ 6.1/10

Milan is an ex Formula One driver and now he lives with his wife Roberte in a small country town. But Milan is not satisfied, so Roberte encourages a love-story between Milan and Helene, a young woman. Milan can't…
35. Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence (1969)

★ 6.0/10

Through the childhood and adolescence of Signor Giacomo Casanova (from his memoirs), this is a description of how people lived in 18th-century Venice: their customs, habits, medicine, religion, and--most of all--the…
36. Concerto for an Exile (1968)

★ 6.0/10

Young Africans in Paris face insecurity and vague future. Should they stay in France, or return to their homes?
37. The Wild Eye (1967)

★ 6.0/10

A film documentarian stops at nothing to record unusual and supposedly true-to-life situations.
38. Tramway (1966)

★ 6.0/10

A boy leaves a party and gets on a passenger tram. Aboard, he shyly watches a girl, who soon falls asleep.
39. Showdown of Men 3 (1967)

★ 6.0/10

After being bailed out of trouble by a member of the Kaijima Clan, Ryuhei dedicates himself to saving the Kajima’s lucrative lumber business.
40. La Porteuse de pain (1963)

★ 5.8/10

A young woman by the name of Jeanne Fortier finds herself the victim of a terrible miscarriage of justice.
41. Detective Belli (1969)

★ 5.4/10

A crooked detective begins investigating a situation on behalf of a friend and gets involved in murder, deception and double-cross.
42. Crime Thief (1969)

★ 5.3/10

A man witnesses a suicide and starts imagining that it was a murder committed by himself.
43. Wanted (1967) (1967)

★ 5.2/10

A local sheriff is unjustly accused of murder in a small town and forced to flee. He gets rid of his enemies one by one and tries to prove his innocence.
44. Girl from La Mancha (1963)

★ 5.2/10

The story of Dulcinea, the love of Don Quixote, who was only a normal girl named Aldonza that is suddenly involved by the legend of the brave and ingenous gentleman.
45. The George Raft Story (1961)

★ 5.2/10

The 1961 film biography of the nightclub dancer-turned-movie star George Raft.
46. A Very Private Affair (1962)

★ 5.1/10

After achieving fame as a movie star, a woman finds her private life invaded by relentless fans, leading her mother’s ex-lover to intervene and offer protection.
47. You'll See Me Returning (1966)

★ 4.9/10

A young Italian sailor enrolled in the Italian Navy meets in Rome the Princess Liu, betrothed to a nobleman in Tokyo.
48. The New Interns (1964)

★ 4.8/10

Young doctors mix romance with their careers in a big-city hospital.