Best Thriller movies of 1961

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Eijirô Tôno, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa,
Directors : Akira Kurosawa,

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.

Actors : Sylvia Syms, Anthony Nicholls, Dirk Bogarde, Dennis Price,
Directors : Basil Dearden,

The death of a young man leads to the discovery of a blackmail plot against a number of gay men in 1960s London.

Actors : Eugenie Leontovich, Patricia Breslin, Glenn Corbett, Alan Bunce,
Directors : William Castle,

The brutal stabbing murder of a justice-of-the-peace sparks an investigation of dark family secrets in a sleepy small town in Southern California.

Actors : Ann Todd, Ronald Lewis, Christopher Lee, Susan Strasberg,
Directors : Seth Holt,

A wheelchair-bound young woman returns to her father's estate after ten years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.

Actors : Allen Baron, Molly McCarthy, Peter Clune, Larry Tucker,
Directors : Allen Baron,

A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York. But a special girl from his past, and a fat gun dealer with pet rats, each gets in his way.

Actors : Luana Anders, Dennis Hopper, Gavin Muir, Linda Lawson,
Directors : Curtis Harrington,

On leave in a shore side town, Johnny becomes interested in a young dark haired woman. They meet and he learns that she plays a mermaid in the local carnival. After strange occurrences, ...

Actors : Dolores Dorn, Beatrice Kay, Paul Dubov, Cliff Robertson,
Directors : Samuel Fuller,

Fourteen-year-old Tolly Devlin sees four hoods beat his father to death. Twenty years later, the killers have risen to the top of the crime syndicate and Tolly has a plan for revenge.

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 : Jean-Pierre Aumont, Frank Sinatra, Spencer Tracy, Kerwin Mathews,
Directors : Mervyn LeRoy,

A crusty, eccentric priest recruits three reluctant convicts to help him rescue a children's leper colony from a Pacific island menaced by a smoldering volcano.

Actors : Richard Vernon, Peter Cushing, André Morell, Norman Bird,
Directors : Quentin Lawrence,

A charming but ruthless criminal holds the family of a bank manager hostage as part of a cold-blooded plan to steal 97,000 pounds.

Actors : Bernard Blier, Renée Faure, Henri Crémieux, Jean Gabin,
Directors : Henri Verneuil,

At 73, France's ex-president, Emile Beaufort, faces declining health, but he still plays a vigorous role behind the scenes as a philosopher and, potentially, as a power broker. In ...

Actors : Micheline Presle, Marcello Mastroianni, Salvo Randone, Cristina Gaioni,
Directors : Elio Petri,

Alfredo Martelli is picked up by the police in his apartment without justification. In the precinct, he slowly discovers what is the investigation about as we find out details about his life.

Actors : Deborah Kerr, Gary Cooper, Eric Portman, Diane Cilento,
Directors : Michael Anderson,

Five years after George Radcliffe was the chief witness in a high profile murder case, his wife receives a blackmailing letter accusing him of the crime.

Actors : Claudette Nevins, Paul Stevens, Anne Collings, Bill Walker,
Directors : Julian Roffman,

A young archaeologist believes he is cursed by a mask that causes him to have weird nightmares and possibly to murder. Before committing suicide, he mails the mask to his psychiatrist, Dr. ...

Actors : André Morell, William Lucas, Barbara Shelley, Freda Jackson,
Directors : John Gilling,

A female house cat sees her mistress murdered by her husband and two servants, and becomes ferociously bent on revenge.

Actors : Hazel Court, Ian Hunter, Kieron Moore, Kenneth J. Warren,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

People are mysteriously disappearing near a remote Cornish village, where a scientist is experimenting with reviving the dead.

Actors : Quintín Bulnes, Roberto G. Rivera, Elvira Quintana, Ramón Gay,
Directors : Benito Alazraki,

Four men are cursed by a voodoo priest for stealing a sacred idol from his temple. Soon a band of murderous "doll men" are after the men and their families.

Actors : Senta Berger, Eva Bartok, Geneviève Cluny, O.W. Fischer,

Actors : Gunvor Sandkvist, Tauno Palo, Matti Oravisto, Helen Elde,
Directors : Matti Kassila,

Doctor Aitamaa is spending holiday with his family at their summer villa. He accidentally reads a letter that was meant to his wife. The letter is from another man. Aitamaa fallows his wife...

Actors : Ronnie Burns, Darrell Howe, Pamela Lincoln, Judy Howard,
Directors : Boris Petroff,

The crazed brother of a condemned killer sent to the gas chamber swears vengeance on those he holds responsible for his brother's execution.