Drama Movies of 1960
The Entertainer
Laurence Olivier recreates his stage role of Archie Rice in this in-your-face ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
Exodus
Produced and directed by Otto Preminger, Exodus is a 212-minute screen adaptation of the best-selling novel by Leon Uris. The film is concerned with the emergence of Israel as an independent nation in ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
The Bad Sleep Well
In this engaging drama, acclaimed Japanese director Akira ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
The Iceman Cometh
Sidney Lumet's made-for-television adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh tells the tale of Hickey (Jason Robards), a fun-loving drunk who has had a drastic change in his life. Now sober -- and cynical -- ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
Inherit the Wind
The Evolution vs. Creationism argument is at the center of the Jerome Lawrence-Robert E. Lee ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
The Fugitive Kind
Fugitive Kind began life as Battle of Angels, a never-produced 1939 ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
From the Terrace
This cinemadaptation of John O'Hara's From the Terrace stars Paul Newman as Alfred Eaton, an unhappily married financial adviser, while his real-life wife Joanne Woodward portrays Mary St. John, his promiscuous screen spouse. Mary's ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
Strangers When We Meet
Sexual misconduct in white-collar suburbia is the topic of this routine melodrama involving two neighboring couples. Architect Larry Coe (Kirk Douglas), unhappy with his wife Eve's (Barbara Rush) fixation on their bank balance, ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
Seven Thieves
Discredited professor Edward G. Robinson organizes a seven-person criminal gang. Robinson plans to steal a fortune from the underground vaults of ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
Elmer Gantry
Elmer Gantry (Burt Lancaster), a drunken, dishonest street preacher allegedly patterned on Billy Sunday, wrangles a job with the travelling tent ministry conducted by Sister ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
The Sundowners
Director Fred Zinnemann was riding a crest in the '50s with movies like High Noon, From Here to Eternity, Oklahoma, and his success continues in this western-style drama set in Australia in the 1920s. Ida Carmody (Deborah ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
Home from the Hill
William Humphrey's novel Home From the Hill is compressed into 150 minutes for this MGM ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
Pollyanna
Eleanor H. Porter's story of Pollyanna, "The Glad Girl," was first filmed in 1920 by Mary Pickford. While entertaining, the Pickford version tended to reduce the supporting characters to stereotypes. Disney's 1960 ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
Tunes of Glory
Two excellent actors shine in powerful roles in this drama by Ronald Neame that pits one Scottish army colonel against another. Alec Guinness is Lt. Col. Jock Sinclair, a man who temporarily takes over command of a ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
Butterfield 8
A woman who has long been short on feelings falls in love with a married man in this emotional drama. Gloria Wondrous (Elizabeth Taylor) is a model and party girl ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
Two Women
Normally, an actor or actress in a foreign-language film was not ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
The Last Voyage
Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone are Cliff and Laurie Henderson, a married ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
The Story of Ruth
This Biblical epic stars Elana Eden as Ruth, who serves in the temple where the High Priestess (Viveca Lindfors) leads the worship of the Pagan idols of the people of Moab. When Ruth falls in love with Mahlon (Tom Tryon), a ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
Rocco and His Brothers
Luchino Visconti's operatic masterpiece tells the story of the Parondis, a poor family from a village in southern Italy who come to Milan seeking a better life. Following the ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
Breathless
The first feature film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and one of the seminal films of the French New ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
Hell Is a City
With an award-winning screenplay by director Val Guest, this is a first-rate cops-and-robbers crime drama about a dangerous escaped convict and the police inspector who goes ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
Hell to Eternity
This standard wartime drama is divided into three chronological ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
The World of Suzie Wong
William Holden stars as an American artist who becomes involved with the sordid underworld of prostitution in Hong Kong in The World of Suzie Wong, based on Paul ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
Sergeant Rutledge
The first big budget Western to feature a black ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
L'Avventura
This ground-breaking film won a Special Jury Prize at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and established its director, Michelangelo Antonioni, as a major international talent. The plot concerns a yachting trip by a small group of jaded ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
Girl with a Suitcase
The title character, played by Claudia Cardinale, is a young woman who heads out alone to the big city after being dumped by her lover. She is befriended and protected by her ex-suitor's ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
Lullaby
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Beat Girl
A rebellious teenager runs away from home and joins the SoHo beatniks when her widowed father remarries a much younger woman. But beatnik life isn't all it seems and she ends up hanging out ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
Les Bonnes Femmes
The four young women work at the same place and each has to put up with a lecherous supervisor who talks out of one side of his mouth about good morals while the other side has the opposite message. One of the ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Filmmaker Mikio Naruse takes a characteristic dour look at life in ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
Ballad of a Soldier
The award-winning Ballad of a Soldier was the first Russian film to score an American success during the Cold War era. It is a relatively simple, ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
Pretty Boy Floyd
The short but bloody career of one of the most ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
La Estrella Vacia
The life of a powerful actress is examined in this tragedy. The film begins with her demise during a plane crash. Later, the men who loved her try to figure out why she was always so unhappy. Her ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
I Passed for White
In this romantic melodrama, a light-skinned black woman abandons her ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
Le Petit Soldat
This controversial spy-romance tale by Jean-Luc Godard was banned from release in France for three years because it refers to the use of torture on both the French and Algerian sides during the Algerian struggle ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
Le Trou
Marc Michel plays an imprisoned man awaiting trial for the attempted murder of his wife. He is transferred to another cell, where his fellow prisoners are ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
Steamroller and the Violin
Katok i Skripka (The Steamroller and the Violin) was the last short Andrei Tarkovsky directed before moving on to his first feature. The film tells a very simply story of friendship between an artistic, sensitive seven-year-old ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
The Beatniks
Learn the grim truth about the lifestyles of those colorful ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
The Girl in Lover's Lane
TV star Brett Halsey is the lead in The Girl in Lover's Lane. While ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
The Last Woman on Earth
This weak sci-fi, post-disaster drama is about three people left alive after everyone else has been killed on earth. The trio is comprised of Harold (Antony Carbone), Martin (Edward Wain), and Evelyn (Betsy Jones-Moreland) ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
Thousand Mile Escort
Featuring Pak Ying, Thousand Mile Escort chronicles the corruption and murder that once ran rampant during the South Sung Dynasty. Refusing to give up his ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
Tormented
In this low-budget, campy horror film, a murderous pianist pays for his crime when body parts from the lover he pushed from a lighthouse come back to haunt him just before he is to marry a prominent socialite. ~ Sandra ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
The Wild Ride
When an immoral hot-rodder, Johnny Varron (Jack Nicholson), is embittered by his friend Dave's (Robert Bean) betrayal of their wild and reckless life, he kidnaps Dave's girlfriend ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
Get Outta Town
In this slightly muddled crime drama, a young man, Kelly (Doug Wilson), comes back to Los Angeles once he learns his brother has been murdered, and then he has to ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
Niewinni Czarodzieje
Award-winning Polish director Andrzej Wajda guides this effective tale about a young doctor and the woman he finds when he did not know he was looking. The doctor is attractive enough to have women after him all of the time, which may seem ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
La Sombra del Caudillo
When a retiring military leader is forced to choose his successor, his selection clashes with popular opinion ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
La Hermana Blanca
There have been several movie versions of this tale written by Marion Crawford in 1909, including this standard Mexican drama directed by Tito Davison. The setting is ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
Peligros de Juventud
Popular Mexican director Benito Alazraki has put together an effective cinematic version of a drama by Hector Mendoza which involved the participation ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
Coronation Street [TV Series]
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El Siete de Copas
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Road to the West
As the last shots of World War II echo across the globe, an ... [ Drama movie - 1960 ]
