Best Sci-Fi movies of 1961

Actors : Barbara Eden, Joan Fontaine, Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lorre,
Directors : Irwin Allen,

When the Earth is threatened by a burning Van Allen Radiation Belt, US Navy Admiral Harriman Nelson plans to shoot a nuclear missile at the Belt using his experimental atomic submarine, the Seaview.

Actors : Michael Goodliffe, Janet Munro, Leo McKern, Edward Judd,
Directors : Val Guest,

When the U.S. and Russia unwittingly test atomic bombs at the same time, it alters the nutation (axis of rotation) of the Earth.

Actors : Bing Stafford, Barbara Francis, Larry Aten, Douglas Mellor,
Directors : Coleman Francis,

A defecting Soviet scientist is hit by a nuclear explosion near Yucca Flats and roams around as a beast.

Actors : Nancy Olson, Tommy Kirk, Keenan Wynn, Fred MacMurray,
Directors : Robert Stevenson,

A college professor invents an anti-gravity substance which a corrupt businessman wants for himself.

Actors : Bent Mejding, Povl Wøldike, Asbjørn Andersen, Ann Smyrner,
Directors : Sidney W. Pink,

After copper miners discover part of the frozen tail of a prehistoric monster in Lapland, scientists inadvertently bring it back to life.

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 : Shin'ichi Chiba, Seiichirô Kameishi, Ryûko Minakami, Mitsue Komiya,
Directors : Kôji Ohta,

Clumsy invaders from Neptune are thwarted by hero Space Chief and a nondescript group of microshort-wearing Japanese kids.

Actors : Vincent Price, Charles Bronson, Henry Hull, Mary Webster,
Directors : William Witney,

In 1868, an American scientist and his team become hostages of fanatical pacifist Robur who uses his airship Albatross to destroy military targets on Earth.

Actors : Margo Johns, Claire Gordon, Michael Gough, Jess Conrad,
Directors : John Lemont,

Dr.Decker comes back from Africa after a year, presumed dead. During that year, he came across a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee to ...

Actors : Francis X. Bushman, Anthony Dexter, Coleen Gray, Dean Fredericks,
Directors : William Marshall,

After an invisible asteroid draws an astronaut and his ship to its surface, he is miniaturized by the phantom planet's exotic atmosphere.

Actors : William Smith, Sal Ponti, John Dall, Joyce Taylor,
Directors : George Pal,

A Greek Fisherman brings an Atlantean Princess back to her homeland which is the mythical city of Atlantis. He is enslaved for his trouble. The King is being manipulated by an evil sorcerer...

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 : Claude Rains, Maya Brent, Bill Carter, Umberto Orsini,
Directors : Antonio Margheriti,

A runaway asteroid dubbed "The Outsider" mysteriously begins orbiting the Earth and threatens it with lethal flying saucers.

Actors : Gert Fröbe, Daliah Lavi, Lex Barker, Fausto Tozzi,
Directors : Harald Reinl,

Evil mastermind Dr. Mabuse is using brainwashed prison inmates to commit crimes but the German police aided by an FBI agent is on his trail.

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 : Furankî Sakai, Yuriko Hoshi, Nobuko Otowa, Akira Takarada,
Directors : Shûe Matsubayashi,

This Japanese film speculates on the events which lead the U.S. and the Soviet Union into a nuclear Armageddon.

Actors : Elaine Stewart, Debra Paget, Anthony Caruso, Ron Randell,
Directors : Allan Dwan,

After wandering in a nuclear testing area in the desert, escaped mobster Ron Candell starts mutating and seeks revenge on his former crime partners.

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 : Paula Raymond, Craig Hill, Gregory Morton, Dayton Lummis,
Directors : Reginald Le Borg,

A cross-country airliner, whose passengers include a nuclear physicist, a rocket expert, and a mathematical genius, is drawn beyond radar range by an unknown, unbreakable force.

Actors : Bice Valori, Raimondo Vianello, Kirk Morris, Frank Gordon,
Directors : Mario Mattoli,

Two boxing promoters travel via time machine back to the days of Hercules, who must save them from Genghis Khan and the Mongol Horde.