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🎬 100 Drama Films of the 1960s

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3	Inherit the Wind	1960	Courtroom drama on evolution vs. creation
4	La Dolce Vita	1960	Fellini’s satire of modern decadence
5	Pollyanna	1960	Disney family drama
6	Sons and Lovers	1960	D.H. Lawrence adaptation
7	Spartacus	1960	Kubrick’s Roman slave epic
8	The Sundowners	1960	Australian family drama
9	A Raisin in the Sun	1961	Sidney Poitier in Lorraine Hansberry adaptation
10	El Cid	1961	Charlton Heston medieval epic
11	Judgment at Nuremberg	1961	Courtroom drama on Nazi war crimes
12	Splendor in the Grass	1961	Natalie Wood & Warren Beatty
13	The Hustler	1961	Paul Newman pool hall drama
14	Through a Glass Darkly	1961	Ingmar Bergman psychological drama
15	Lawrence of Arabia	1962	David Lean desert epic
16	Days of Wine and Roses	1962	Alcoholism drama
17	To Kill a Mockingbird	1962	Gregory Peck courtroom classic
18	The Manchurian Candidate	1962	Cold War political drama
19	8½	1963	Fellini’s surreal drama
20	Hud	1963	Paul Newman Western drama
21	The Cardinal	1963	Otto Preminger religious drama
22	The Leopard	1963	Visconti’s Italian historical drama
23	Becket	1964	Burton & O’Toole medieval drama
24	Zulu	1964	British colonial war drama
25	A Hard Day’s Night	1964	Beatles musical-drama
26	The Pawnbroker	1964	Holocaust survivor drama
27	Doctor Zhivago	1965	Lean’s Russian Revolution epic
28	The Collector	1965	Psychological drama
29	Othello	1965	Olivier Shakespeare adaptation
30	The Sound of Music	1965	Musical drama
31	Persona	1966	Bergman’s identity drama
32	Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	1966	Taylor & Burton explosive drama
33	A Man for All Seasons	1966	Thomas More biopic
34	Blow-Up	1966	Antonioni’s art-house drama
35	Bonnie and Clyde	1967	Crime drama revolution
36	Cool Hand Luke	1967	Paul Newman prison drama
37	Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner	1967	Race relations drama
38	In Cold Blood	1967	Truman Capote adaptation
39	The Graduate	1967	Hoffman’s breakout role
40	2001: A Space Odyssey	1968	Kubrick sci-fi drama
41	Rosemary’s Baby	1968	Polanski psychological horror-drama
42	Funny Girl	1968	Barbra Streisand musical-drama
43	Oliver!	1968	Dickens musical-drama
44	Midnight Cowboy	1969	X-rated Oscar-winning drama
45	Easy Rider	1969	Counterculture road drama
46	They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?	1969	Depression-era dance marathon drama
47	Anne of the Thousand Days	1969	Tudor historical drama
48	Z	1969	Costa-Gavras political drama
49	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	1969	Maggie Smith Oscar-winning drama
50	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	1969	Newman & Redford outlaw drama

(This table shows half the list; the full Wikipedia list and List Challenges compilation expand to all 100 titles.)

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