Drama Movies
The Naked Island (1960)
Esther and the King (1960)
Recently widowed Persian King Ahasuerus wants to marry the beautiful Esther. But Esther is a Jewess, and Haman, the king’s evil minister, is spreading hatred against the Jews.
The Facts of Life (1960)
Middle-class suburbanites Larry and Kitty grow bored with their lives and respective marriages. Although each always found the other’s manner grating, they fall in love when thrown together–without their spouses–on…
Girl of the Night (1960)
Bobbie is a sensitive, lonely call girl who is manipulated and ultimately used by her madam.
The World of Suzie Wong (1960)
A Hong Kong prostitute tries modeling and falls for the artist who’s painting her.
The Housemaid (1960)
A piano composer’s family moves into a new house; when his pregnant wife collapses from working to support the family, he hires a housemaid to help with housework.
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married.
Shadows (1960)
The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned jazz singer brother, Hugh, and discovers that her…
Spartacus (1960)
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners…
Night and Fog in Japan (1960)
Blood Is Dry (1960)
Key Witness (1960)
An average Los Angeles citizen witnesses a gang murder when he stops to use a telephone. When he presents himself to the LAPD as the only person willing to identify…
Weddings and Babies (1960)
A photographer struggles to make enough money to marry his fiancee, who is starting to believe he’s delaying their marriage deliberately.
Sunrise at Campobello (1960)
The story of Franklin Roosevelt’s bout with polio at age 40 in 1921 and how his family (and especially his wife Eleanor) cope with his illness. From being stricken while…
The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
In this loose adaptation of “Hamlet,” illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi. At…
Tunes of Glory (1960)
Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, with the strict, temperamental Lieutenant Colonel Basil Barrow. Resentful toward his…
September Storm (1960)
American fashion model Anne Traymore, swimming off the isle of Majorca, loses a bracelet, which the handsome Manuel del Rio Montoya returns to her. She believes he owns a beautiful…
The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960)
London at the turn of the century. Three men are on a mission from the IRA to steal all the gold in the vaults of the Bank of England. Norgate,…
The Crowded Sky (1960)
When Navy pilot Dale Heath takes off, he doesn’t expect his navigational equipment to fail and must adapt when it goes out along with his radio. Heading straight for a…
Youth in Fury (1960)
Sons and Lovers (1960)
The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman from the town…
All the Young Men (1960)
During the Korean War, the lieutenant in charge of a Marine rifle platoon is killed in battle. Before he dies, he places the platoon’s sergeant, who’s black, in charge. The…
Beat Girl (1960)
When her architect father brings home a much younger new wife, rebellious and resentful teen Jenny goes to extreme lengths to sabotage their relationship.
I Aim at the Stars (1960)
The life story of the famed rocket scientist Dr. Werner von Braun, one of the most brilliant and controversial figures of the space age. Dr. von Braun literally pioneered man’s…
Song Without End (1960)
The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt, whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences.
The Sun’s Burial (1960)
Hell to Eternity (1960)
Based on the story about Guy Gabaldon, a Los Angeles Hispanic boy raised in the 1930s by a Japanese-American foster family. After Pearl Harbor, his foster family is interned at…
Portrait in Black (1960)
A pair of lovers plot to kill the woman’s rich husband.