Best Fantasy movies of 1961

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 : Antonio Raxel, Edmundo Benitez, Humberto Dupeyrón, Santanón,

King Serio must give his daughter Dorita to the evil Ogre. The Lady of Time gives a pair of boots to the shepherd Juanito, who tries them on his cat. This becomes a big and helpful cat that...

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 : Jane Wyatt, Butch Patrick, Soupy Sales, Eddie Albert,
Directors : Randall Hood,

Harry Davis, principal of the Burberry Elementary School, is concerned because his two little boys wish they were bears. One day, the two boys meet an old gypsy who tells them to use a ...

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

A group of children befriend a monster.

Actors : Peter Nestler, Joseph Marz, Helmo Kindermann, Catherine Hansen,
Directors : Allan David,

In this tale based on a Brothers Grimm story, Prince Alfred searches for an enchanted castle that holds a magic fountain whose waters can cure his seriously ill father, the king. His two ...

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.

Actors : Sergio Ciani, Brad Harris, Serge Gainsbourg, Mara Berni,
Directors : Gianfranco Parolini,

While traveling through the kingdom of Sulom, Samson is arrested and finds that the queen no longer reigns and that a power-mad warlord and his army of mercenaries now controls the kingdom....

Actors : Aleksandra Violic, Stevo Vujatovic, Ana Karic, Zlatko Madunic,
Directors : Ante Babaja,

The adaptation of Hans Cristian Andersen's tale filmed on a white background. It is also the first Croatian movie in color.

Actors : Irena Prosen, Drago Krca, Antun Vrdoljak, Pero Kvrgic,
Directors : Nikola Tanhofer,

One day, Happiness and Sorrow come to town. Happiness leaves her magical cloak in the local inn, saying that it fulfills every wish to those who wear it. However, Sorrow knows that ...

Actors : Alberto Lupo, Alessandra Panaro, Taina Elg, Pierre Brice,
Directors : Giorgio Ferroni,

The god Dionysus decides to pay a visit to the city of Thebes.

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 : Werner Lierck, Horst Drinda, Lore Frisch, Wolf Kaiser,

Based on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Emperor's New Clothes." Hans and Kumpan repeatedly try to enter a town surrounded by a tall, impenetrable wall, where everyone is apparently very ...

Actors : Manuel Monroy, Alfredo Alaria, Manuel Barrio, Sandra Le Brocq,
Directors : Luis María Delgado,

Alfredo is a cheerful party animal, son of a wealthy man. Alfredo's brother, a young very focused and mature boy, and their father try unsuccessfully to change the profligate lifestyle of ...

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 : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Haya Harareet, James Westmoreland, Georges Rivière,

A helicopter crashes in the desert, and the crew winds up in the underground city of Atlantis and get mixed up in a slave revolt.

Actors : Consuelo Guerrero de Luna, Manuel 'Loco' Valdés, María Gracia, Santanón,
Directors : Roberto Rodríguez,

A gypsy cures the wound that a snake inflicts on Caperucita. The Wolf, the Dog and the Skunk befriend a little girl, but incomprehension makes them go back to the wild life.