Best Music movies of 1961

Actors : Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier, Louis Armstrong,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

During the 1960s, two American ex-pat jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in-love with two American tourist girls.

Actors : Carl Reiner, Deborah Walley, Michael Callan, James Darren,
Directors : Paul Wendkos,

Francine (Gidget) is desperate: her parents want to force her to come with them on vacation to Hawaii - just during the two weeks when her beloved "Moondoggie" is home from College. When he...

Actors : Pamela Mason, Cay Forester, Donald Woods, Johnny Cash,
Directors : Bill Karn,

Originally released in 1961 as Five Minutes to Live, this low-budget crime drama was later re-released as Door-to-Door Maniac. Fred narrates the film in flashback, detailing a suburban bank...

Actors : Heinz Erhardt, Fritz Tillmann, Marika Rökk, Cornelia Froboess,
Directors : Ulrich Erfurth,

Actors : Rehman, Guru Dutt, Waheeda Rehman, Minoo Mumtaz,
Directors : M. Sadiq,

The setting is the city of Lucknow in northern India, where Islamic culture flourished. Two of the three best friends who live in this city have fallen in love with the same woman named ...

Actors : Dion DiMucci, Chubby Checker, The Marcels, Vicki Spencer,
Directors : Oscar Rudolph,

Not only is this written by the same screen writer who wrote the earlier "Rock Around the Clock", it uses the same exact lines.

Actors : Agnes Rehni, Peter Malberg, Karl Stegger, Hanne Borchsenius,
Directors : Alice O'Fredericks,

Actors : The Starliters, Joey Dee, Teddy Randazzo, Jo Ann Campbell,
Directors : Greg Garrison,

The rise, fall and rise again of the Peppermint Lounge nightclub is chronicled. The sons of the Peppermint Lounge nightclub owner nearly topple the club's initial success by redesigning the place but realize their mistake.

Actors : Asha Parekh, Nirupa Roy, Nasir Hussain, Sunil Dutt,
Directors : Hrishikesh Mukherjee,

Young and attractive Sarita Choudhary lives a wealthy lifestyle with her widowed dad, Jagatnarayan in a palatial house with her aunt, Rukmani; cousin, Lalli, and a maid-servant, Manorama ...

Actors : Zubaida Tharwat, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Abdel Halim Hafez, Mahmoud El-Meliguy,
Directors : Atef Salem,

An unexpected love affair quickly blossoms between aspiring down-on-his-luck reporter Salah (Abdel Halim Hafez) and the subject of his first newspaper scoop, a pretty young heiress (Zubaida...

Actors : Frankie Vaughan, Martha Hyer, Gary Crosby, Juliet Prowse,
Directors : David Butler,

The story of five fun-loving young bachelors who live together in a converted nightclub in the Hollywood Hills. Newcomer Leo Mack is a young Hollywood hopeful who stirs up trouble when he ...

Actors : Gianni Meccia, Jimmy Fontana, Umberto Orsini, Mina,
Directors : Piero Vivarelli,

Adolfo Cocchi has a building firm but his plan to build a set of buildings is been stopped by an old former Garibaldian, Don Leopoldo, who refuses to sell his property. A group of young ...

Actors : Paul Löwinger, Peter Kraus, Hans von Borsody, Karin Dor,
Directors : Franz Antel,

Eva is small dancing girl at a revue-show . When she finds out the fact that she inherited the palace hotel in St. Wolfgang at the Wolfgang lake she resigns. Together with her friend Maxie ...

Actors : Vivi Bach, Adrian Hoven, Claus Biederstaedt, Elma Karlowa,
Directors : Franz Marischka,

Albert and Corinna begin a camping site in their backyard and soon welcome a bunch of eccentric, love lost holiday goers.

Actors : Hazy Osterwald, Wera Frydtberg, Marina Petrova, Peer Schmidt,
Directors : Franz Josef Gottlieb,

A young guy forms a big band and has some success with his musuc and strange lyrics.

Actors : Lasse Liemola, Anja Haahdenmaa, Laila Kinnunen, Rami Sarmasto,
Directors : Valentin Vaala,

Laila and Lasse are two teenagers dreaming about careers as singers. (In real life, the actors were already the hottest numbers of the Finnish pop scene). Lasse's brother Rami dreams about ...

Actors : Georg Ots, Arved Haug, Marina Yurasova, Lia Laats,
Directors : Viktor Nevezhin,

An easy old-fashioned comedy about a composer who is creating a new song for a coming festival. The song was ment to be kept in secret. Still, some passer-by accidentally hears the tunes of...