Drama Movies of 1968
The Shoes of the Fisherman
A Pope contends with the prospects of nuclear world destruction in this Cold-War saga of religious faith and international politics. ... [ Drama movie - 1968 ]
Petulia
Petulia is Richard Lester's ode to the Swinging ... [ Drama movie - 1968 ]
The Magus
In Guy Green's deliriously disorienting adaptation of John Fowles's acclaimed second novel, Michael Caine plays Nicholas Urfe, an English schoolteacher evading serious ... [ Drama movie - 1968 ]
Star!
Touted by 20th Century-Fox as a follow-up to their enormously successful The Sound of Music, Star! reteams that earlier film's ... [ Drama movie - 1968 ]
Shame
Shame demonstrates the futility of escaping the consequences of war. In 1971, the Rosenbergs, Jan (Max von Sydow) and ... [ Drama movie - 1968 ]
Speedway
Steve Grayson (Elvis Presley) is a swinging racecar driver whose manager Kenny (Bill Bixby) has bet his money on the horses. Most of the ... [ Drama movie - 1968 ]
Charly
In 1961, Cliff Robertson starred in The Two Worlds of Charley Gordon, a TV adaptation of Daniel Keyes' story Flowers for Algernon. Determined not to lose out on the film version of this play as he'd done with Days of Wine and Roses, ... [ Drama movie - 1968 ]
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Based on the novel by Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter stars Alan ... [ Drama movie - 1968 ]
Romeo and Juliet
Director Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet was touted at the time of its release (successfully, if the box-office receipts are any indication), as something of a "youth ... [ Drama movie - 1968 ]
The Swimmer
John Cheever's "misery in suburbia" short stories, brief and to the point, have always proven excellent TV fodder. Director Frank Perry's The Swimmer, adapted for the screen by Perry's wife Eleanor, is a rare, and for the most part ... [ Drama movie - 1968 ]
Teorema
Terence Stamp is known only as "The Visitor" in Pier Paolo Pasolini's Teorema. The mysterious stranger insinuates himself into the home of a wealthy Italian family, where ... [ Drama movie - 1968 ]
Doctor Faustus
Richard Burton co-directed (along with Nevill Coghill) this labor of love that records a performance given by Burton at Oxford ... [ Drama movie - 1968 ]
La Chamade
In this romantic melodrama, Lucille (Catherine Deneuve) is a young woman who takes comfort in the arms of her older wealthy lover Charles (Michel Piccoli). She meets a young man, Antoine (Roger van Hool) who is involved with an icy socialite ... [ Drama movie - 1968 ]
The Unfaithful Wife
Stéphane Audran plays the title character, Hélène Desvallées, the bored wife of insurance executive Charles Desvallées (Michel Bouquet). Charles suspects Hélène of playing the field, so he has a private detective locate his wife's ... [ Drama movie - 1968 ]
Witchfinder General
A corrupt opportunist commits brutal crimes in the name of God and country in this atmospheric ... [ Drama movie - 1968 ]
Goto, L'ile d'amour
This unusual comic tragedy is filmed both in color and black-and-white and concerns the residents of the mythical island of Goto. Goto III (Pierre Brasseur) is the pompous dictator who ... [ Drama movie - 1968 ]
Partner
Bernardo Bertolucci was obviously influenced by the films of Jean-Luc Godard and the worldwide ... [ Drama movie - 1968 ]
Black Jesus
A Congo rebel leader is captured and imprisoned with two white felons in this feature deep with religious symbolism and condemnation of colonial exploitation. Maurice Lalubi (Woody Strode) is thrown in jail with a soldier and ... [ Drama movie - 1968 ]
Espana Otra Vez
David (Mark Stevens) is a physician who returns to Spain 30 years after his ... [ Drama movie - 1968 ]
Adam-12: Season 01
Season one of Adam-12 gets underway with admirable rapidity, with the episode ... [ Drama movie - 1968 ]
The Mod Squad: Season 01
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Who's That Knocking at My Door?
Shot over a period of several years and shown under ... [ Drama movie - 1968 ]
If...
Rebellious students at an English private school plan a violent revolt against their repressive environment in director Lindsay Anderson's ... [ Drama movie - 1968 ]
Everything for Sale
Polish director Andrej Wajda's portrait of life on a movie set, which is disrupted (although not that much) when the leading man is killed in a leap from a moving train. It seems that ... [ Drama movie - 1968 ]
Prohibido
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Vsichni Dobri Rodaci
The comparatively unknown Czech director Vojtech Jasny managed to earn a few industry award nominations for his nostalgic 1968 film All My Good Countrymen. The film is set in a ... [ Drama movie - 1968 ]
The Story of a Three-Day Pass
Artfully squeezing every penny out of a grant from the French Cinema Center, Melvin Van ... [ Drama movie - 1968 ]
El Hijo Prodigo
A movie about a popular singer's painful search for her lost son, with songs by Lamarque and Lico. ~ All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1968 ]
Single Room Furnished
In this melodrama, Johnnie (Jayne Mansfield) struggles through a series of relationships and pregnancies only to be repeatedly deserted by her no-good lovers. As she moves from relationship to relationship, Johnnie continues to ... [ Drama movie - 1968 ]
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
The widow of Bach reminisces in this biography. Her life with the great composer was not easy. He seldom spoke to her. When he ... [ Drama movie - 1968 ]
Signs of Life
A soldier is assigned to guard a fortress on a remote Greek island and finds himself unable to cope with ... [ Drama movie - 1968 ]
Gregorio and the Angel
After destroying a religious statue, the janitor comes across a girl who look remarkably like the statue. (AKA Gregorio) ~ All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1968 ]
Largo Viaje
A young boy mourns the loss of his newborn brother when the baby dies. At the baby's wake, the child is given paper wings to symbolize his union with the angels of heaven. The funeral takes place after the wake ... [ Drama movie - 1968 ]
Taqdeer
This sentimental but improbable story concerns a poor music teacher ... [ Drama movie - 1968 ]
Udoli Vcel
A young man is sent to live and study with a religious order when his father takes a young ... [ Drama movie - 1968 ]
Upkar
In this colorful drama tinged with social morality, a young Indian student comes of age and decides to become a farmer. Singing and dancing abound in this story, in which the ... [ Drama movie - 1968 ]
Vendetta: No Conscience, No Mercy
Two siblings seek a common goal from two sides of the law in this drama. John Phelan, an Irish-American dockworker, one day makes the mistake of getting into an ... [ Drama movie - 1968 ]
