Best movies of 1961

Actors : Vera Ilic-Djukic, Miodrag Petrovic-Ckalja, Djokica Milakovic, Mija Aleksic,
Directors : Radivoje 'Lola' Djukic,

In a small motel located next to the highway there's nothing but boredom and laziness, but only until the waiter Raka gets promotion into a DE chief (Duty executor) of it. Soon he becomes ...

Actors : Kayoko Honoo, Yûsuke Kawazu, Shima Iwashita, Fumio Watanabe,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

A young journalist turns to an assassin for help when a team of hired killers comes gunning for her.

Actors : Jack Hogan, June Kenney, John Baer, Gregg Palmer,
Directors : William Witney,

A burglar steals a briefcase. Unknown to him, it contains a valuable secret formula. So he has the police on his trail--plus the owner of the formula and a ruthless spy...

Actors : Sergey Filippov, Anatoliy Papanov, Aleksandr Belyavskiy, Serafim Anikeyev,

Actors : Leif Juster, Egil Hjorth-Jenssen, Lalla Carlsen, Tore Foss,
Directors : Arne Skouen,

Thorvald runs a local bus route, with a 1923-model bus nicknamed 'Gamla', in the Norwegian country side. Thorvald himself always takes time to make numerous stops along his route, to help ...

Actors : Gunther Philipp, Vivi Bach, Susi Nicoletti, Peter Alexander,
Directors : Géza von Cziffra,

Actors : Paul Meurisse, Robert Hossein, Jean Servais, Françoise Prévost,
Directors : Robert Hossein,

Play the game of truth at your own risk.

Actors : Jan Erik Husbom, Tove Hellbom, Tomas Johansson, Kaj Andersson,
Directors : Olle Hellbom,

Actors : Totò, Lauretta Masiero, Virna Lisi, Ugo Tognazzi,
Directors : Mario Mattoli,

A petty thief pretends he is Mussolini's personal physician, wins the confidence of a family and succeeds in stealing their gold cutlery.

Actors : Tatyana Chanturia, Akakiy Chikvaidze, Gia Chiraqadze, V. Maisuradze,
Directors : Otar Iosseliani,

A young happy couple moves from a poor district to a new housing estate. Their relationship gets progressively worse as their comfort and possessions increase.

Actors : Pyotr Glebov, Mikhail Ulyanov, Rolan Bykov, Vsevolod Platov,
Directors : Vladimir Vengerov,

Actors : Henryk Hryniewicz, Andrzej Banaszewski, Beata Barszczewska, Edward Mincer,
Directors : Stanislaw Rózewicz,

Three episodes dealing with the harsh situation of children at the time of war. They stay at orphanages, wait for their parents to come back, help the soldiers, hide in the forests and do their best to survive.

Actors : Teruyo Yamagami, Michiko Saga, Masahiko Tsugawa, Sumiko Hidaka,
Directors : Yoshishige Yoshida,

An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.

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 : Faten Hamama, Zaki Rostom, Omar Sharif, Omar El-Hariri,
Directors : Ezzel Dine Zulficar,

Nahr el Hub is the Egyptian adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina". Nawal, a rural girl, is married off to a wealthy aristocrat called Taher Basha (Zaki Rostom). Nawal gets ...

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 : Anatoliy Papanov, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Sergey Yurskiy, Yuriy Yakovlev,
Directors : Eldar Ryazanov,

In a young anthropologist's dream, he brings a member of the imaginary mountain tribe called Tapi to Moscow, in order to save him from being eaten by other tribesmen as well as to prove the tribe's existence to academia. The main character is probably based on Yeti.

Actors : Spike Milligan, Grégoire Aslan, Bill Travers, John Le Mesurier,
Directors : Jay Lewis,

Spike Milligan and his friends decide to go to occupied France to silence a large German gun that is firing across the channel. They bumble though encounters with Germans and the French ...

Actors : Aliki Vougiouklaki, Thanasis Vengos, Labros Konstadaras, Giorgos Panjas,
Directors : Dinos Dimopoulos,

A rich girl leaves her family to avoid marrying the person her father has chosen for her. Her father offers a reward in order to find her and an other girl that looks exactly as her is ...

Actors : Aleksandr Demyanenko, Tatyana Konyukhova, Valentina Ananina, Rifat Aliyev,