Best Family movies of 1961

Actors : Balraj Sahni, Meena Kumari, Seema Deo, Shachin,
Directors : Sadashiv J. Row Kavi,

Geeta (Meena Kumari) is married to Shyam (Balraj Sahni) but is unable to bear children. She also looks after her younger brother-in-law, Mohan (Sailesh Kumar). Their happy family gets an ...

Actors : Rajendra Kumar, Meena Kumari, Madan Puri, Mohan Choti,
Directors : Devendra Goel,

After the passing of their parents Bombay-based Bishen Chand Gupta takes it upon himself to raise his younger brother, Kishen. He arranges for his education in Ahmedabad. While Kishen is ...

Actors : Peter Couldwell, Terry Bentley, Alan Dearth, Julie Youatt,
Directors : Jim Jeffrey,

A CFF film set in Australia. When a child nearly drowns his friends decide to start a local lifesaving and surf rescue club. They first have to raise the money for a surf boat but there's ...

Actors : Tamara Kokova, Memmedrza Sheikhzamanov, Gyunduz Abbasov, Eli Gurbanov,
Directors : Alisattar Atakishiyev,

The struggle of the people against the shakh (king) who seized all of land and water resources.

Actors : Rajendra Kumar, Sunder, Raj Mehra, Vyjayanthimala,
Directors : Mohan Kumar,

Rajan "Raju" Khanna lives with his elderly father, Nihalchand, mom, and a younger sister. He studies Arts in college, and has a sweetheart in fellow-collegian, Neena Bakshi. When Rajan ...

Actors : Michael Wade, Rachel Clay, Ronald Howard, Terry Raven,
Directors : Alberto Cavalcanti,

A group of children befriend a monster.

Actors : Roger Mobley, Richard Crane, Wanda Hendrix, Don Beddoe,
Directors : Edward L. Cahn,

Young newsboy is hunted by a bank robber who thinks the boy has his lost loot.

Actors : Andrzej Szczepkowski, Gustaw Holoubek, Bronislaw Pawlik, Marek Kondrat,
Directors : Sylwester Checinski,

Set in the Middle Ages the film tells the story of a wonder child, the little sculptor Wawrzek, who goes to work for a great master, Wit Stwosz. The story culminates in the unveiling of ...

Actors : Jesse White, Ben Johnson, Jess Kirkpatrick, Candy Moore,
Directors : Francis D. Lyon,

A Texas young girl with polio enters her pet the calf in a Chicago competition. The calf wins but the girl learns her cow is to be sold to a slaughterhouse. A kindly meat packer saves the day and the calf and girl are reunited.

Actors : Toru Koyanagi, Toshirô Mifune, Chishû Ryû, Hisako Sakabe,
Directors : Hiroshi Inagaki,

Gen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the god Prince Fudo-Myo. Prince Fudo-Myo comes to the boy's rescue in times of difficulty.

Actors : Aapeli, Leif Aaltonen, Pia Hattara, Kaarlo Halttunen,
Directors : Jack Witikka,

In a small Finnish town in the 1920s, 12-year-old Pietari Jormalainen lives in a lively courtyard surrounded by wooden houses. While God sees everything and everyone - and takes care of his...

Actors : Hung Pai, Yun Ling, Chin-Shui Chen, Lin Lin,
Directors : Ying Chang,

The happy lives of animals in the forest are stirred by the sudden attack of a pack of wolves. The Father Deer comes to the rescue, and asks Birdy to notify his son, the Deer. When the Deer...

Actors : Tarun Bose, Gopal, Vijaya Choudhury, Helen,
Directors : Phani Majumdar,

Parmanand lives a poor lifestyle in a village along with his widowed step-mother, Maya, and her two children, a son, Murli, who is studying in a Bombay college, and daughter, Kamla. ...

Actors : Jeanette Lin Tsui, Kelly Lai Chen, Yin Wang, Lai Wang,
Directors : Robert Chung,

A young middle-class upstart Lin Ching Yi reluctantly takes on the task as understudy for her sick father who's a dedicated teacher to a band of mischievous working-class 3rd graders that ...

Actors : Sean Scully, Sandra Spurr, Jacques Verbrugge, Walter Randall,
Directors : Derek Williams,

Tim (Sean Scully) comes over to Amsterdam to visit his penfriend Piet (Jacques Verbrugge). An Englishman operating as a tourist guide is a diamond-smuggler and the boys foil his plans in a boat chase.

Actors : Konstantin Kisimov, Mikhail Petrov, Rumen Hranov, Grisha Boyadzhiev,
Directors : Simeon Shivachev,

The children, living in a small coastal town, notice old Balyu hanging around the derelict windmill on the shore. He pays his debt to the con man Morti in a gold piece. The boy Kolkata ...

Actors : Rushdy Abaza, Soad Hosny,
Directors : Abbas Kamel,

Kamal, the television director, is casting for a young girl to star in the new review, but all applicants are failures. He tries his secretary and fiancée to do the job, but she looks ...

Actors : Salih Tozan, Muhterem Nur, Turgut Özatay, Sadri Alisik,
Directors : Nejat Saydam,

The oldest vintage version of the Turkish Cinderella Fairy Tale as a family drama.

Actors : Ivan Kondov, Albena Salabasheva, Dimitar Hadzhiyanev, Sonya Vasileva,
Directors : Gencho Genchev,

The school year Margaritka is ill. Her Daddy is the writer and her Mummy is an actress, rehearses her lines for a new premiere. She has an affair with the production's director. At Mummy's ...