Best Mystery movies of 1961

Actors : Eitarô Ozawa, Haruko Mabuchi, Ayako Wakao, Hiroshi Kawaguchi,
Directors : Yasuzô Masumura,

Ayako is charged with murdering her much older academic husband while climbing a mountain. Ayako was having an affair, apparently with her husband's approval, and this complicates the trial.

Actors : David Janssen, Jacques Aubuchon, Jeanne Crain, Dina Merrill,
Directors : Joseph M. Newman,

A famous movie star's fan club secretary has been brutally murdered. She has in her office old newspaper clippings regarding a missing heiress. Did the secretary know something about the mystery of the heiress? David Janssen investigates.

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 : 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.

Actors : Monique Mélinand, Alexandra Stewart, Jean Desailly, Yvette Etiévant,
Directors : Édouard Molinaro,

Stéphane Blanchon, who teaches at the International College, lives a quiet comfortable life in Geneva. He is married to Christine, a cold, dry-hearted woman, and his sentimental life is ...

Actors : John Salew, Patricia Burke, Jane Griffiths, John Crawford,
Directors : Alfred Shaughnessy,

In a small English town a schoolmistress meets a sergeant from the nearby U.S. airforce base and they decide on a date. When they miss each other at a cafe as arranged, a train of events is...

Actors : John Glyn-Jones, John Bentley, Patrick Allen, Jacqueline Ellis,
Directors : Clive Donner,

When a corpse is found in the Thames, the only clue is that the dead man was killed by a karate or judo expert.

Actors : John Harding, Jacques Bergerac, Helena Nash, Mala Powers,
Directors : Bernard Wiesen,

Traveling by train from Los Angeles to San Francisco, a woman--recently released from psychiatric care--is accused of the murder of a woman found dead in her compartment. Arrested and taken...

Actors : Dermot Walsh, Donald Gray, Robertson Hare, Terence Longdon,
Directors : Michael Winner,

When reporter Mark Kingston's student brother falls from his Cambridge college window, he makes haste from the States to set out to prove that it would not have been suicide, but was rather murder.

Actors : Bernard Archard, Paul Stassino, Elvi Hale, Michael Coles,
Directors : Robert Tronson,

A petty burglar sets a chain of events in motion when he steals some bullion that the owner hasn't declared to the authorities.

Actors : Francis Matthews, Sheldon Lawrence, Susan Denny, Cyril Shaps,
Directors : Godfrey Grayson,

A group of former concentration camp prisoners has formed an underground network to hunt Nazi leaders, who are still on the loose. At a secret meeting in Paris they discuss what to do with ...

Actors : Su-il Bang, Hae Hwang, Hye-jeong Kim, Hang Jo,
Directors : Bong-rae Lee,

A journalist attempts to clear his cousin's name of murder so he begins an investigation into the crime. Discovering that the killing was politically motivated, but lacking proof against ...

Actors : Julio Alemán, Domingo Soler, Germán Robles, Aurora Alvarado,

An aristocratic vampire swears an oath to kill the enemies who killed his father. In order to terrify them even further, he warns each one when he is coming for them.

Actors : Lee Montague, Terence Alexander, Allan Cuthbertson, Maxine Audley,
Directors : Robert Tronson,

The police investigate the murder of an officer killed during a jewel robbery.

Actors : Artyk Dzhallyyev, Evgeniy Markov, Aman Kulmamedov, Feliks Yavorsky,

Secret documents are hidden in ruins of ancient fortress Kum-Basan-Kala in Middle Asia for further transportation abroad. Foreign intelligence sends special agent to get them.