Best movies of 1961

Actors : Audrey Hepburn, Buddy Ebsen, Patricia Neal, George Peppard,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building, but her past threatens to get in the way.

Actors : Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, George Chakiris,

Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.

Actors : Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie, George C. Scott,
Directors : Robert Rossen,

An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.

Actors : Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Henri Attal,
Directors : Jean-Luc Godard,

A French striptease artist is desperate to become a mother. When her reluctant boyfriend suggests his best friend to impregnate her, feelings become complicated when she accepts.

Actors : Anouk Aimée, Alan Scott, Marc Michel, Jacques Harden,
Directors : Jacques Demy,

A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Spencer Tracy,
Directors : Stanley Kramer,

In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazi judges for war crimes.

Actors : David Niven, Anthony Quayle, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

A British team is sent to cross occupied Greek territory and destroy the massive German gun emplacement that commands a key sea channel.

Actors : Thelma Ritter, Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift,
Directors : John Huston,

A divorcee falls for an over-the-hill cowboy who is struggling to maintain his romantically independent lifestyle.

Actors : Francisco Rabal, Silvia Pinal, Fernando Rey, José Calvo,
Directors : Luis Buñuel,

Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.

Actors : Pat Hingle, Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Audrey Christie,
Directors : Elia Kazan,

A fragile Kansas girl's love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti, Jeanne Moreau, Bernhard Wicki,
Directors : Michelangelo Antonioni,

A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship.

Actors : Martha Wentworth, J. Pat O'Malley, Rod Taylor, Betty Lou Gerson,

When a litter of Dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella de Vil, the parents must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement.

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Eijirô Tôno, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa,
Directors : Akira Kurosawa,

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.

Actors : Katy Jurado, Pina Pellicer, Karl Malden, Marlon Brando,
Directors : Marlon Brando,

After robbing a Mexican bank, Dad Longworth takes the loot and leaves his partner Rio to be captured but Rio escapes and searches for Dad in California.

Actors : Geneviève Page, Raf Vallone, Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Anthony Mann,

The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.

Actors : Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, Miriam Hopkins, James Garner,
Directors : William Wyler,

A troublemaking student at a girls' school accuses two teachers of being lesbians.

Actors : Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Michael Redgrave, Megs Jenkins,
Directors : Jack Clayton,

A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted.

Actors : Anthony Nicholls, Sylvia Syms, Dirk Bogarde, Dennis Price,
Directors : Basil Dearden,

The death of a young man leads to the discovery of a blackmail plot against a number of gay men in 1960s London.

Actors : Harriet Andersson, Lars Passgård, Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow,
Directors : Ingmar Bergman,

Recently released from a mental hospital; Karin rejoins her emotionally disconnected family and their island home, only to slip from reality as she begins to believe she is being visited by God.

Actors : Horst Buchholz, Arlene Francis, Pamela Tiffin, James Cagney,
Directors : Billy Wilder,

In West Berlin during the Cold War, a Coca-Cola executive is given the task of taking care of his boss' socialite daughter.