Best Crime movies of 1961

Actors : Nadja Tiller, Peter van Eyck, Jean Servais, Rod Steiger,
Directors : Alvin Rakoff,

When an enigmatic woman hires a group of criminals to rob a US Army payroll armored truck bound for Marseilles things go wrong.

Actors : Brad Logan, Claire Brennen, John Dennis, Billy Holms,

During Prohibition, a meek bookkeeper hides out from gangsters at a health farm. The gangsters find out where he is. Complications ensue.

Actors : Grant Richards, Craig Hill, Willis Bouchey, Elaine Edwards,
Directors : Edward L. Cahn,

Dr. Frank Harlow is in the process of trying to save a man badly beaten by two gangsters whom he identifies to the police. When the victim dies the charge becomes murder and Harlow ...

Actors : Diana Chesney, Nora Nicholson, Jan Miller, Richard McNeff,
Directors : Charles Saunders,

This story is about a collection of older ladies living in a boarding house run by their acquaintance, Miss Letty Frost.She has an air or respectability. It quickly becomes apparent that ...

Actors : Derren Nesbitt, Carol White, Harry Locke, Keith Faulkner,
Directors : Vernon Sewell,

Two young thugs rob a bookie leaving a dog-racing track with his winnings, but when they grab his case full of money they discover that he has chained it to his wrist. They dash around town...

Actors : Mayumi Shimizu, Kôji Wada, Nobuo Kaneko, Shin Morikawa,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

A carnivalesque tale of a young student who hooks up with a down-at-heels traveling circus troupe.

Actors : Leonard Sachs, William Franklyn, Bruno Barnabe, Moira Redmond,
Directors : Lance Comfort,

When Richard Logan, the partner in a safe making firm, is found unconscious, on an old deserted bomb site, he finds that he has no recollection of the last three weeks. Then he discovers ...

Actors : Pradeep Kumar, Nasir Hussain, Madhubala, K.N. Singh,
Directors : Pramod Chakravorty,

Bombay City Police suspect that some diamonds are being smuggled through Santa Cruz Airport, they immediately alert Customs Officials, and Airport police who thoroughly check through all ...

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Lois Maxwell, Harry H. Corbett, Marius Goring,
Directors : Terry Bishop,

(1960) Cameron Mitchell, Marious Goring, Harry Corbett, Lois Maxwell, Denis Gilmore. An underrated British thriller. Mitchell is a rich businessman whose son is kidnapped. Naturally, ...

Actors : Teruo Yoshida, Mako Sanjô, Yôko Mihara, Junko Ikeuchi,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

A man meets a woman. He is wrongfully suspected for the murder of her lover. She is a pick-pocket who's involved in an organized crime against her will. They pursue the truth of the murder and the secret of the prostitution syndicate.

Actors : Clive Morton, Katherine Woodville, James Villiers, Paul Daneman,
Directors : Allan Davis,

TV journalist Tab Holland assists Scotland yard with the murder of a reclusive millionaire whose corpse is discovered locked in a vault. The key to the vault is mysteriously found on the table beside the corpse.

Actors : Jeanne Jerrems, Athan Karras, Rosemary Torri, David Hooks,

A young Greek immigrant confronts New York City while searching for the man who raped his sister.

Actors : Jeannie Carson, Delphi Lawrence, Alan Dobie, John Carson,
Directors : Pat Jackson,

An ex-con goes looking for his late cellmate's hidden loot.

Actors : James Brown, John Banner, Merry Anders, Gene Nelson,
Directors : Jack Leewood,

An investment counselor turns jewel thief when the gangster he embezzled funds from demands to be paid back.

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 : Kenneth Griffith, Hermione Baddeley, Christina Gregg, Jess Conrad,
Directors : Lance Comfort,

Carol flees to London from her alcoholic stepfather, but runs into a rough crowd in her new home.

Actors : Jesse White, Greta Thyssen, Elaine Edwards, Jock Mahoney,
Directors : Leon Chooluck,

An insurance investigator goes to Los Angeles to investigate the disappearance of a colleague.

Actors : Kamaljit Singh, I.S. Johar, Helen, Geeta Bali,
Directors : G.P. Sippy,

A naive unemployed youth is mistaken for a look-alike gangster.

Actors : Anouk Aimée, Jeanne Valérie, Tomas Milian, Raymond Pellegrin,
Directors : Alberto Lattuada,

An English teacher seduces a young student in the company of his wife to help him in an ambitious plan with the kidnapping of a newborn baby of a wealthy businessman.

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.