Drama Movies of 1964
Lilith
Vincent Bruce (Warren Beatty) is a Korean War veteran who becomes an occupational therapist in a private mental hospital that cares for wealthy, schizophrenic ... [ Drama movie - 1964 ]
Behold a Pale Horse
By 1964, it was possible for a major studio to make a film touching upon the Spanish Civil War without having to answer to some senate investigating committee or other. Based on ... [ Drama movie - 1964 ]
Man in the Middle
Based on Howard Fast's novel The Winston Affair, this WW II-era crime drama is set in India and chronicles the attempts of an American military attorney to defend a lieutenant who ... [ Drama movie - 1964 ]
The Carpetbaggers
Edward Dmytryk brings Harold Robbins' trashy, dirt-dishing Hollywood best-seller ... [ Drama movie - 1964 ]
Guns at Batasi
Richard Attenborough stars as a stalwart sergeant-major, stationed in British colony in Africa. When the colony declares its independence, Attenborough is assigned to keep the peace during the governmental transition. Trouble ... [ Drama movie - 1964 ]
The Night of the Iguana
Filmed on location in Mexico by John Huston, Night of the Iguana stars Richard Burton as Rev. Shannon, an alcoholic defrocked minister, who scratches out ... [ Drama movie - 1964 ]
Zorba the Greek
If ever there was a role that Anthony Quinn was born to play, it was the ... [ Drama movie - 1964 ]
The Moon-Spinners
Disney produced this distilled Hitchcockian suspense yarn, diluted for the consumption of children. Hayley Mills stars as Nikky Ferris who is ... [ Drama movie - 1964 ]
The Secret Invasion
Producer/director Roger Corman briefly abandoned Edgar Allan Poe for The Secret Invasion, a commendable attempt to make a war epic on a "B" budget. The story is a scaled-down precursor to The Dirty Dozen: Five ... [ Drama movie - 1964 ]
La Ronde
This uneven remake of the 1950 Max Ophuls feature from the play by Arthur Schnitzler takes place in Paris just before World War I instead of Vienna at the turn of the 20th century. A soldier (Claude ... [ Drama movie - 1964 ]
Girl With Green Eyes
Rita Tushingham was propelled into stardom with The Girl ... [ Drama movie - 1964 ]
The Pawnbroker
Critically acclaimed Rod Steiger plays Sol Nazerman, a Jewish pawnbroker who survived imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp, even though ... [ Drama movie - 1964 ]
Diary of a Chambermaid
The second screen version of Octave Mirbeau's novel (originally filmed in 1946 by Jean Renoir), Diary of a Chambermaid charts the ambitions of ... [ Drama movie - 1964 ]
Loving Couples
In this drama set in a Scandinavian hospital in 1915, the individual stories of three pregnant women about to give ... [ Drama movie - 1964 ]
Bande à Part
One of pioneering director Jean-Luc Godard's most accessible films is this French spin on ... [ Drama movie - 1964 ]
The Naked Kiss
Kelly (Constance Towers), a prostitute who wants to transform her life, beats up her pimp, takes ... [ Drama movie - 1964 ]
Séance on a Wet Afternoon
Kim Stanley plays a crooked medium who has become slightly unhinged since the death of her son. Craving money and publicity, she concocts a scheme with her weak-willed husband (Richard ... [ Drama movie - 1964 ]
Hamlet
This 199-minute Broadway production of Shakespeare's classic tragedy was directed for ... [ Drama movie - 1964 ]
The Soft Skin
Francois Truffaut directed this simple tale of revenge and adultery which features an exceptional musical score by Georges Delerue. The story concerns a love affair between successful literary magazine ... [ Drama movie - 1964 ]
Gamlet
Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the "Melancholy Dane" was given one of its best screen treatments by Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev. Kozintsev's Elsinore was a real castle in Estonia, utilized metaphorically as ... [ Drama movie - 1964 ]
Nothing But a Man
A landmark independent film, Nothing but a Man is the first dramatic story featuring a largely black cast created for an integrated audience (the work of black filmmakers such as Oscar Micheaux was intended for audiences who ... [ Drama movie - 1964 ]
Tini Zabutykh Predkiv
Along with Tarkovsky and Dovzhenko, Sergei ... [ Drama movie - 1964 ]
Saul e David
This biblical epic chronicles the rocky relationship between David the giant-killer and Saul, King of the Israelites who listens to the ... [ Drama movie - 1964 ]
I Am Cuba
An unabashed exercise in cinema stylistics, I Am Cuba is pro-Castro/anti-Batista rhetoric dressed up in the finest clothes. The film's four dramatic stories take place in ... [ Drama movie - 1964 ]
El Gallo De Oro
Cockfights are an important aspect of Mexican tradition as illustrated in this ... [ Drama movie - 1964 ]
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
Relating his facts in straight-on documentary fashion, Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1964 Biblical film stars ... [ Drama movie - 1964 ]
Gabino Barrera
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Back Door to Hell
In this WW II actioner, three soldiers are assigned to gather desperately needed information about Japanese occupation in the Philippines as the US prepares a major attack. During their arduous jungle journey, the soldiers lose their radio ... [ Drama movie - 1964 ]
Gate of Flesh
Gate of Flesh is one of the earliest examples of the sado-masochistic soft-core sex films ... [ Drama movie - 1964 ]
The Yellow Teddybears
In this youthful drama, based on a true story, a group of boarding school girls who have lost their ... [ Drama movie - 1964 ]
It Happened Here
Fledgling filmmaker (and future film historian) ... [ Drama movie - 1964 ]
Black Peter
Czech director Milos Forman won first prize at the Locarno film festival for his first feature film, Black Peter. This coming-of-age story about a shy teenager who falls in love, bears the heavy influence of Francois ... [ Drama movie - 1964 ]
Charulata
This film by Satyajit Ray, India's most renowned filmmaker, tells the story of Charu (Madhabi Mukherjee), a woman in late 19th-century Calcutta. She is neglected by her busy husband, Bhupati ... [ Drama movie - 1964 ]
Asi Amaron Nuestros Padres
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Yo, El Valiente
Yo, El Valiente tells the story of a man who travels with a friend to his hometown in order to make peace with his elderly father and ... [ Drama movie - 1964 ]
