Drama Movies of 1966
The Chase
All hell breaks loose in a Texas town when an escaped convict heads home in Arthur Penn's Southern gothic melodrama. Appointed by local kingpin Val Rogers (E. G. Marshall), benevolent Sheriff Calder ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
Cast a Giant Shadow
Cast a Giant Shadow is a big-budget, glossy action/adventure story set at the time that Israel became a nation. American Army officer Colonel David Marcus is recruited by the yet-to-exist ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
This Property Is Condemned
Sydney Pollack's tawdry potboiler, adapted from a one-act play by Tennessee Williams, was rife with production problems, culminating in Williams' failed attempt to have his name removed from the credits. The ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
The Human Voice
Originally penned by renowned playwright Jean Cocteau, The Human Voice ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
Grand Prix
There's a few million dollars' worth of star power and a nickel's worth of plot in the lavish race-car melodrama Grand Prix. Among the participants in this annual cross-continent competition are characters ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
Hawaii
Hawaii hadn't even begun filming when director Fred Zinnemann was replaced by George Roy Hill; similarly, the role intended for Charlton Heston ended up being played by Richard Harris (though Heston would eventually star in the 1970 ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
"You are cordially invited to George and Martha's for an evening of fun and games." Thus read the ad copy for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, which ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
Follow Me, Boys!
Follow Me, Boys!, Disney's paean to the Boys Scouts of America, leaves no cliché unturned: we're even offered the old reliable "kid hanging over cliff by rope" bit. Corny, sentimental and obvious though it may be, the film is a delight to ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
Death of a Salesman
Alex Segal directed this 1966 production of Arthur Miller's classic American play, Death of a Salesman. Lee J. Cobb stars as Willy Loman, the everyman who is suddenly faced with the glaring reality that he is past his prime and ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
The Sand Pebbles
Steve McQueen received his only Academy Award nomination for his performance in this epic-scale war drama, ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
La Guerre Est Finie
La Guerre est Finie represents one of the few "linear" films of French director Alain Resnais. Instead of indulging in his beloved flashbacks and flashforwards, Resnais sticks to ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
Jack Landau directed this 1966 televised production of Tennessee Williams' fantastical one-act play. In it, Martin Sheen stars as Kilroy, an American GI who finds himself in the surreal landscape of a fictitious Latin ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
The Blue Max
Based on a novel by Jack D. Hunter, The Blue Max is a World War I aviation drama, told from the German point ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
Persona
Persona is difficult to characterize in simple terms, but it may be helpful to describe this complex film as being an ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
The Game Is Over
Under the tutelage of one-time husband, director Roger Vadim, Jane Fonda plays the much-younger wife of stuffed-shirt millionaire Michel ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
Dutchman
Anthony Harvey directed this adaptation of the controversial ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
An Enemy of the People
Arthur Miller's celebrated adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's powerful drama was brought to ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
Masculin/Feminin
Masculine Feminine was Jean-Luc Godard's first (but not his last) foray into the burgeoning "Children of the Sixties" generation -- or, ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
10:30 p.m. Summer
Passion, whether sex or violence, is the root of conflict in this film which follows as the alcoholic Mercouri and her husband Finch travel with their daughter and Schneider across Spain. Being married does not ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
Marat / Sade
Adapted from his own Royal Shakespeare Company production of Peter Weiss' play entitled The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates at Charenton Under the ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
Young Torless
Robert Musil's novel Die Verwirrungen des Zoglings Torless was the source for this ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
Namu, My Best Friend
Based on a true story and suitable for the whole family, Namu, the Killer Whale was a film that debunked many myths about orca whales--animals that have traditionally been considered voracious, merciless killers. Set in ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
A Man and a Woman
The ultimate "date" movie of the mid-1960s, director Claude Lelouch's A Man and a Woman (Un Homme et Une Femme) stars Jean-Louis Trintignant and Anouk Aimee in the title roles. The ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
Mademoiselle
In 1951, French writer Jean Genet presented a screenplay called "Les Rêves Interdits/L'Autre Versant du Rêve" to actress Anouk Aimée as a wedding gift. ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
Hunger
Set in the late 1800s, Hunger is about a struggling, starving ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
They Saved Hitler's Brain
After his head is surgically removed and sustained, Hitler is, essentially, still alive and living on an island in the Caribbean. When a young woman and her husband goes in search of her ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
Au Hasard Balthazar
Robert Bresson's acclaimed Au Hasard, Balthazar presents an unfettered view of human cruelty, suffering and injustice, filtered ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
La Soldadera
When her husband is taken away by government troops at the time of the Mexican Revolution, La Soldera ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
The Battle of Algiers
This highly political film about the Algerian struggle for independence from France took "Best ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
The Girl from Tobacco Row
Ron Ormond, the Carolina-based purveyor of bottom-budget "regionals," was producer of The Girl From Tobacco Row. Per its title, the film concerns ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
Mission to Death
German radar installations are the target of a group of American infantrymen. ~ All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
Thunderbird 6
This British sci-fi film is based on a popular British television series Thunderbirds. The characters are portrayed by special marionettes. The story centers on the exploits of International ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
The Love Merchant
A loyal wife becomes the subject of an indecent proposal in this vintage sexploitation drama. Kendall ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
Four Dollars of Revenge
When a large shipment of gold disappears, the military officer in charge of its safety is accused of ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
Spur Der Steine
This East German story of a party leader in ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
The Fighting Elegy
In this sharp satire from acclaimed Japanese director Seijun Suzuki, Hideki Takahashi ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
Testament: The Bible in Animation - Abraham
Tracing the thread of one of the Bible's most famous stories, Abraham offers an animated retelling of an old story. Overjoyed by the birth of a son to a wife he previously ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
The Journey of the Fifth Horse
In 1966, a year before he rose to overnight fame ... [ Drama movie - 1966 ]
Seguiré Tus Pasos
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