Best movies of 1961

Actors : Nancy Olson, Tommy Kirk, Keenan Wynn, Fred MacMurray,
Directors : Robert Stevenson,

A college professor invents an anti-gravity substance which a corrupt businessman wants for himself.

Actors : Yvonne Romain, Clifford Evans, Catherine Feller, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Terence Fisher,

In Spain, Leon is born on Christmas day to a mute servant girl who was raped by a beggar. His mother dies giving birth and he is looked after by Don Alfredo. As a child Leon becomes a ...

Actors : Bent Mejding, Povl Wøldike, Asbjørn Andersen, Ann Smyrner,
Directors : Sidney W. Pink,

After copper miners discover part of the frozen tail of a prehistoric monster in Lapland, scientists inadvertently bring it back to life.

Actors : Pat Stanley, Helen Traubel, Jerry Lewis, Kathleen Freeman,
Directors : Jerry Lewis,

After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job. He finally finds one in a big house which is inhabited by many, many women. Can he ...

Actors : Michael Callan, Gary Merrill, Joan Greenwood, Michael Craig,
Directors : Cy Endfield,

During the Civil War a group of Union soldiers and two Confederates escape the stockade using a hot air balloon and end up on a strange Pacific island.

Actors : Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier, Louis Armstrong,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

During the 1960s, two American ex-pat jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in-love with two American tourist girls.

Actors : Alan Bates, Bernard Lee, Diane Clare, Norman Bird,
Directors : Bryan Forbes,

When an injured wife murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the owners three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.

Actors : Eugenie Leontovich, Patricia Breslin, Glenn Corbett, Alan Bunce,
Directors : William Castle,

The brutal stabbing murder of a justice-of-the-peace sparks an investigation of dark family secrets in a sleepy small town in Southern California.

Actors : Igor Fomchenko, Marina Adzhubei, Vladimir Zamanskiy, Yuri Brusser,
Directors : Andrei Tarkovsky,

Seven year old Sasha practices violin every day to satisfy the ambition of his parents. Already withdrawn as a result of his routines, Sasha quickly regains confidence when he accidentally ...

Actors : Ronald Lewis, Oskar Homolka, Guy Rolfe, Audrey Dalton,
Directors : William Castle,

A search for a winning lottery ticket in his dead father's grave causes Sardonicus' face to freeze in a horrible grimace, until he forces a doctor to treat his affliction--with even more ...

Actors : Sandra Dee, Rock Hudson, Bobby Darin, Gina Lollobrigida,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

Younger generation vs. "older" folks on vacation at an Italian villa.

Actors : Jerry Lewis, Howard McNear, Brian Donlevy, Dick Wesson,
Directors : Jerry Lewis,

Paramutual Pictures wants to know where all the money is going so they hire Morty to be their spy. Morty works for Mr. Sneak and gets a job in the mail room so that he can have access to ...

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Edward Andrews, Vivian Nathan, Dina Merrill,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy. He begins to discover that the facts in the case aren't ...

Actors : Sandro Panseri, Tullio Kezich, Loredana Detto, Mara Revel,
Directors : Ermanno Olmi,

A very young college graduate attempts to obtain a position with a large corporation.

Actors : Tamao Nakamura, Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Yûsuke Kawazu,
Directors : Masaki Kobayashi,

His ideals challenged by life as a conscript in war-time Japan's military, a pacifist faces ever greater tests in his fight for survival.

Actors : Ann Todd, Christopher Lee, Ronald Lewis, Susan Strasberg,
Directors : Seth Holt,

A wheelchair-bound young woman returns to her father's estate after ten years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.

Actors : Tommy Sands, Ray Bolger, Annette Funicello, Ed Wynn,
Directors : Jack Donohue,

Tom the Piper's Son is about to marry Mary Quite Contrary. On the eve of their wedding, evil miser Barnaby hires two henchmen to drown Tom and steal Mary's sheep, cared for by Little Bo ...

Actors : Allen Baron, Molly McCarthy, Peter Clune, Larry Tucker,
Directors : Allen Baron,

A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York. But a special girl from his past, and a fat gun dealer with pet rats, each gets in his way.

Actors : Michiyo Aratama, Ganjirô Nakamura, Setsuko Hara, Yôko Tsukasa,
Directors : Yasujirô Ozu,

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.

Actors : Anil Chatterjee, Chandana Banerjee, Nripati Chatterjee, Sita Mukherjee,
Directors : Satyajit Ray,

Based on popular Indian stories of great writer Rabindra Nath Tagore, these short films reveal definitive moments in the lives of three young girls.