Best Crime movies of 1961

Actors : Reiko Sassamori, Keiichirô Akagi, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Mari Shiraki,
Directors : Yôichi Ushihara,

A violent and bizarre action picture, employing some accidental as well as intentional surreal use of color.

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 : Marie Brozová, Otakar Brousek, Josef Gruss, Zdenek Duss,
Directors : Pavel Blumenfeld,

Jan Bernard (Vladimír Ráz) reports to the district police department that his wife Hilda did not return from visiting her sister in East Berlin. For young investigator Tereza Machátová (...

Actors : Krishna Kumari, Akkineni Nageshwara Rao, Relangi Venkatramaiah, Gummadi,
Directors : Kolli Pratyagatma,

Anand, the spoiled son of a public prosecutor finds his exorbitant and Casanova-like lifestyle curbed by his disapproving father and maternal uncle. He is more or less compelled to get ...

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 : Tatsuya Mihashi, Makoto Satô, Yûzô Kayama, Kumi Mizuno,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

While testing the advance prototype of a revolutionary gas engine, the vehicle is involved in a mysterious accident killing its driver. The police report states that it was an accident, ...

Actors : Kay Callard, Felicity Young, Bruce Seton, Paul Maxwell,
Directors : Francis Searle,

Craig Owen is an incarcerated criminal whose cellmate holds the secret to the valuable contents within a safe deposit box.

Actors : Madan Puri, Chandrashekhar, Sheikh Mukhtar, Kumkum,
Directors : Romney Dey,

Low-caste impoverished boot-polisher and masseur brothers deal with challenges while trying to improve their lifestyle.

Actors : Nadja Tiller, Jean Servais, Peter van Eyck, 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 : 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 : Timothy Beaton, John Ireland, Susan Stephen, Cyril Shaps,
Directors : Max Varnel,

John and Pam have bought a terrace house in a village, and move into it with their little son. In the middle of the night Pam notices that a man is peeping at them from the pavement outside...

Actors : James Brown, Merry Anders, Barry Kelley, Milton Frome,
Directors : Edward L. Cahn,

A rookie policeman is sent to the Police Dog Training School with a a half-wild German Sehpherd. They become a successful team and later capture an arson gang together,

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Lalita Pawar, Saroja Devi B., K.N. Singh, Ajit,
Directors : P.L. Santoshi,

A lover follows his sweetheart to her hometown and becomes embroiled in a murder mystery.

Actors : J. Pat O'Malley, Romo Vincent, Robert Gist, Robert J. Wilke,
Directors : Jerry Hopper,

A gang plots the robbery of an armored-car company headquarters. Although the robbery itself goes off as planned, it's not long before the gang members are fighting among themselves over ...