Best Drama Films of 1964
The Night of the Iguana
Filmed on location in ... co-adapted the screenplay with Anthony Veiller. The film won an Academy Award for Best Costume Design for Dorothy Jeakins. [ best drama films - 1964 ]
Zorba the Greek
If ever there was ... Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek earned Oscars for actress Lila Kedrova, cinematographer Walter Lassally and art director Vassilis Fotopoulos. [ best drama films - 1964 ]
The Moon-Spinners
Disney produced this distilled ... and decide to capture Stratos together. Silent screen vamp Pola Negri makes a luminous appearance as a jewelry aficionado. [ best drama films - 1964 ]
The Secret Invasion
Producer/director Roger Corman briefly ... at generating excitement through quick cutting and careful camera composition is given an exhilarating workout in The Secret Invasion. [ best drama films - 1964 ]
La Ronde
This uneven remake of ... A night of drinking finds the soldier back with the prostitute again in this feature directed by Roger Vadim. [ best drama films - 1964 ]
Girl With Green Eyes
Rita Tushingham was propelled ... another, including an ill-advised reteaming with actress Lynn Redgrave and director Desmond Davis in the resistible Smashing Time (67). [ best drama films - 1964 ]
The Pawnbroker
Critically acclaimed Rod Steiger ... Into Night (1962). The score is composed by Quincy Jones, who would contribute to Lumet's 1978 musical, The Wiz. [ best drama films - 1964 ]
Diary of a Chambermaid
The second screen version ... her way through this minefield carefully, spurning the advances of all of the men until it's convenient for her. [ best drama films - 1964 ]
Loving Couples
In this drama set ... of having babies out of wedlock. Of the three, she is the only one who really wants her child. [ best drama films - 1964 ]
Bande à Part
One of pioneering director ... to Quentin Tarantino's production company (A Band Apart), and several of its scenes are echoed in his Pulp Fiction. [ best drama films - 1964 ]
The Naked Kiss
Kelly (Constance Towers), a ... society. Beneath the veneer of respectability lies an exploitive abuse of power, no different from that of any pimp. [ best drama films - 1964 ]
Séance on a Wet Afternoon
Kim Stanley plays a ... Mark McShane, Seance on a Wet Afternoon is a compelling psychological melodrama made doubly powerful by Stanley's mesmerizing performance. [ best drama films - 1964 ]
Hamlet
This 199-minute Broadway production ... no interruptions. Burton gives one of the best stage performances of his career as the ill-fated prince of Denmark. [ best drama films - 1964 ]
The Soft Skin
Francois Truffaut directed this ... a gun in her bag, is en route to surprise Pierre at his favorite restaurant for a final confrontation. [ best drama films - 1964 ]
Gamlet
Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece ... overpraised 1948 version. Director Grigori Kozintsev would follow Hamlet with an equally radical adaptation of King Lear in 1970. [ best drama films - 1964 ]
Nothing But a Man
A landmark independent film, ... attention by film historians have ensured the status of Nothing but a Man as a pioneering and enduring work. [ best drama films - 1964 ]
Tini Zabutykh Predkiv
Along with Tarkovsky and ... ensues and the remainder of the film concerns Ivanko's private and subtle dissolution as a result of this tragedy. [ best drama films - 1964 ]
Saul e David
This biblical epic chronicles ... whispers of his jealous wife and ultimately loses his life. This is one of a series of Bible tales. [ best drama films - 1964 ]
I Am Cuba
An unabashed exercise in ... proved to be both a time capsule of a fading political movement and a timeless work of cinematic art. [ best drama films - 1964 ]
El Gallo De Oro
Cockfights are an important ... of Mexican tradition as illustrated in this story of two competitors who gamble everything on a big cockfight. [ best drama films - 1964 ]
Gabino Barrera
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Back Door to Hell
In this WW II ... on their own, the two not only succeed with their mission, they also manage to capture a Japanese outpost. [ best drama films - 1964 ]
Gate of Flesh
Gate of Flesh is ... boldly expressionistic use of color, camerawork, and design. The result is a film as thrilling as it is repellant. [ best drama films - 1964 ]
The Yellow Teddybears
In this youthful drama, ... does though, she gives an emotional speech to the school board. Meanwhile the troubled girl, runs away to London. [ best drama films - 1964 ]
It Happened Here
Fledgling filmmaker (and future ... was an 18-year-old editing apprentice, It Happened Here was finally completed in 1964, and released theatrically two years later. [ best drama films - 1964 ]
Black Peter
Czech director Milos Forman ... Pavla Martinkova played the girl. Black Peter was originally released in Czechoslovakia in 1963 under the title Cerny Petr. [ best drama films - 1964 ]
Charulata
This film by Satyajit ... 1965 Berlin Film Festival, the film was curiously and inexplicably rejected by the committee at the Cannes Film Festival. [ best drama films - 1964 ]
Asi Amaron Nuestros Padres
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Yo, El Valiente
Yo, El Valiente tells ... old recriminations and hurts, a situation that is exacerbated when the man falls in love with his brother's girlfriend. [ best drama films - 1964 ]
Yo el Valiente
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