Best movies of 1961

Actors : Georges Descrières, Claude Rich, Anna Karina, Jacqueline Danno,
Directors : Michel Deville,

Laurent is theatrical director, his girl Valerie an aspiring actress. Their relationship begins to fracture when Valerie doesn't get the role in Laurent's play.

Actors : Paul Massie, James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams,
Directors : Gerald Thomas,

A group of students at an elite music school decide to share a flat in order to cut their living costs and have somewhere to practice together. They get into quite a few scraps and ...

Actors : Carlos Larrañaga, Isabel Garcés, José Marco Davó, Marisol,
Directors : Luis Lucia,

Marisol's parents are dead, and she decides to sell everything she has and go to Madrid with her uncle's Ramon family. Leonor, her aunt, is a very bad woman that doesn't like Marisol and ...

Actors : Mario Barri, Charito Luna, Paul Sorensen, George Montgomery,
Directors : George Montgomery,

A Marine stationed in the Philippines loses a hand in an accident and is discharged from the Corps. When the Japanese invade the Philippines, he is called back into service to rescue a ...

Actors : Vincent Price, Liana Orfei, Giulia Rubini, Ricardo Montalban,
Directors : Mario Costa,

Actors : Abanish Banerjee, Supriya Choudhury, Satindra Bhattacharya, Anil Chatterjee,
Directors : Ritwik Ghatak,

A highly critical look at the role of "progressive" art and artists in a changing society.

Actors : Akiko Koyama, Masako Nakamura, Rentarô Mikuni, Yôko Mihara,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their "catch."

Actors : Xin-Gang Wang, Qiang Chen, Mei Xiang, Niu Tie,
Directors : Jin Xie,

In 1930s, Wu Qionghua was a housemaid of Nan-ba-tian, a cruel warlord of a village in Hainan Island, China. Often abused by her master, Qionghua was finally rescued by Hong Changqing, ...

Actors : Paolo Stoppa, Renzo Ricci, Franco Interlenghi, Giovanna Ralli,
Directors : Roberto Rossellini,

How Italy's historic national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi led a military campaign known as Expedition of the Thousand in 1860 and conquered Sicily and Naples.

Actors : James Lanphier, Marshall Thompson, Douglas Kennedy, Mala Powers,
Directors : Nathan Juran,

A professor is hired to navigate across Africa in a hot-air balloon to rescue a lost explorer, but a mysterious local villain named "Hindu" commandeers the balloon for his own nefarious purposes.

Actors : Marthe Mercadier, Pierre Dudan, María Riquelme, Louis de Funès,
Directors : Maurice Delbez,

Paul fishes out of the water the body of his greatest enemy. To avoid accusations that he is a killer, taking steps that will clear his good name.

Actors : Heinz Erhardt, Corny Collins, Grethe Weiser, Adrian Hoven,
Directors : Wolfgang Schleif,

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Edmund Purdom, Hélène Rémy, Isabelle Corey,
Directors : Giacomo Gentilomo,

Harald and his brother Guntar return to Norway to find their father murdered and his throne usurped. They try to take revenge on Sveno, but a traitor amongst them puts both brother's lives at risk.

Actors : Marina Vlady, Lino Ventura, Magali Noël, Bernard Fresson,
Directors : Luciano Emmer,

A romantic drama partially set in Amsterdam, the story starts out in a mining area in Holland where conditions are about as rough as they get. Two of the miners, Italians Federico (Lino ...

Actors : Bernard Lee, Peter Cushing, John Fraser, Michèle Mercier,
Directors : John Gilling,

Pirate wreckers ravage a small seaside community while the ineffectual local squire tries to discourage his son's romance with a smuggler's pretty daughter.

Actors : Ruth Roman, Paul Anka, Gigi Perreau, Alex Nicol,
Directors : William Alland,

Teen idol Paul Anka plays Craig Fowler, the troubled son of dysfunctional parents Jackie and Jay Fowler (Ruth Roman and Alex Nicol). When Jay loses his job as a aircraft mechanic, he goes ...

Actors : Keiji Sada, Tatsuya Nakadai, Hideko Takamine, Nobuko Otowa,
Directors : Keisuke Kinoshita,

The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowners son(Nakadai)... See full synopsis »

Actors : Edvin Adolphson, Christina Schollin, Jarl Kulle, Isa Quensel,
Directors : Lars-Magnus Lindgren,

Bank janitor play the stock market and compete with the bank.

Actors : Diana Dors, Dianne Foster, David Janssen, Jack Carson,
Directors : Joseph M. Newman,

The story of flamboyant Prohibition-era gangster, gambler and bootlegger Arnold Rothstein.

Actors : Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean Tissier, Sacha Briquet, Bernadette Lafont,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Roland, an idler living on the Left Bank in Paris, is determined to inflict a terrible revenge on his friend Arthur, after the latter subjected him to a harmless joke. He engages the ...