Best Fantasy movies of 1961

Actors : Michael Callan, Gary Merrill, Joan Greenwood, Michael Craig,
Directors : Cy Endfield,

During the Civil War a group of Union soldiers and two Confederates escape the stockade using a hot air balloon and end up on a strange Pacific island.

Actors : Tommy Sands, Ray Bolger, Annette Funicello, Ed Wynn,
Directors : Jack Donohue,

Tom the Piper's Son is about to marry Mary Quite Contrary. On the eve of their wedding, evil miser Barnaby hires two henchmen to drown Tom and steal Mary's sheep, cared for by Little Bo ...

Actors : Kyôko Kagawa, Furankî Sakai, Yumi Itô, Hiroshi Koizumi,
Directors : Ishirô Honda,

Shipwreck survivors are found on Beiru Island (Infanto tô), which was previously used for atomic tests. The interior is amazingly free of radiation effects, and they believe that they were ...

Actors : Leonora Ruffo, Christopher Lee, George Ardisson, Reg Park,

Hercules must journey in Hades itself to retrieve the magic stone that will free his love from the powers of darkness.

Actors : Fay Spain, Ettore Manni, Luciano Marin, Reg Park,
Directors : Vittorio Cottafavi,

Strong yet sleepy Hercules discovers that the Queen of Atlantis is plotting to take over the world with superhuman warriors.

Actors : Smaro Stefanidou, Spyros Mousouris, Dimitris Horn, Maro Kodou,
Directors : Alekos Sakellarios,

Two rich old friends, Andreas and Agisilaos are in love with young Rita. Andreas believes that youth and not money drive the word. He sells his soul to the devil, becomes young and flirts ...

Actors : William Mayer, Marietta, Pat Reilly, Lester Brown,

A rich rocket scientist organizes an expedition to the moon, which they discover is inhabited by nude women.

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Eduardo De Filippo, Sandra Milo, Belinda Lee,
Directors : Antonio Pietrangeli,

Several ghosts in an ancient palazzo in Rome join together to save their home from destruction. Mastrianni plays several parts and is hilarious. The other actors are great too.

Actors : Giorgia Moll, Edy Vessel, Steve Reeves, Arturo Dominici,

In the time of the Arabian Nights, the city of Baghdad is ruled by Sultan Ali Bajazeth but actually controlled by the scheming Grand Vizier Ghamal. The poor of Baghdad are aided by Karim, the Thief of Baghdad.

Actors : Aleksandr Lupenko, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Yelena Cheremshanova, Vasiliy Lanovoy,
Directors : Aleksandr Ptushko,

A little girl Assol met a wizard and it has been foretold: "... it will be a fine sunny day when a beautiful ship under scarlet sail comes and the noble prince will take you away from here....

Actors : Haralambie Boros, Eugenia Balaure, Horia Caciulescu, Emil Botta,
Directors : Ion Popescu-Gopo,

A dialogue free Romanian science-fiction spy-comedy that draws upon farce, satire and surrealism as it subversively deconstructs the spy thriller with the protagonist's accidental discovery...

Actors : Mickey Rooney, Jackie Cooper, Buddy Hackett, Joanie Sommers,
Directors : Don Taylor,

Two sailors sneak a talking duck on board their ship. Complications ensue.

Actors : Cesare Danova, Joan Staley, Sean McClory, Danielle De Metz,
Directors : Edward Bernds,

In 1881, in Algeria, Michael Denning and Hector Servadac are fighting a duel when a comet brushing Earth takes the two men to the Moon where they discover a prehistoric civilization.

Actors : Leonora Ruffo, Gordon Scott, Jacques Sernas, Gianna Maria Canale,

Goliath must save the kidnapped women of his village from an evil zombie leader who needs their blood to feed his soldiers.

Actors : Doris Weikow, Wolf-Dieter Panse, Marianne Christina Schilling, Harry Hindemith,
Directors : Gottfried Kolditz,

Hated by her jealous and bloodthirsty stepmother, Snow White flees a murder attempt and seeks shelter in the woods with seven kindly dwarfs. Feeling she is safe from harm, Snow White ...

Actors : Donald O'Connor, Vittorio De Sica, Aldo Fabrizi, Noëlle Adam,

A poor young man finds a magic lamp that possesses a genie, who will grant the boy three wishes if he sets him free from the lamp.

Actors : Bella Cortez, Gordon Mitchell, Roldano Lupi, Marietto,
Directors : Umberto Scarpelli,

Muscleman Ohro travels to the sinful capital of Atlantis to rebuke its godlessness and hubris and becomes involved in the battle against its evil lord Yoh-tar and his hideous super-science ...

Actors : Ed Fury, Moira Orfei, Mario Scaccia, Cristina Gaioni,
Directors : Carlo Campogalliani,

Ursus returns from war to find his fiancée, Attea, has been kidnapped by a mysterious sect which sacrifices virgins to its patron goddess. Ursus faces much treachery and is forced to ...

Actors : Gordon Mitchell, Chelo Alonso, Vira Silenti, Dante DiPaolo,
Directors : Antonio Leonviola,

Strongman Maciste must battle the one-eyed Cyclops monster that is ravaging the land of Sadok, while at the same time fending off the advances of the evil Queen Capys, who wants to do a little ravaging of her own.

Actors : Paul Wynter, Moira Orfei, Gianni Garko, Mark Forest,
Directors : Antonio Leonviola,

Maciste arranges for himself and his new friend Bangor to be captured by a mysterious band of white-clad marauders and taken to an underground city. There the two are forced to turn an ...