Best Action movies of 1961

Actors : Alberto Lupo, Ed Fury, Moira Orfei, Giacomo Furia,
Directors : Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia,

Actors : Isao Kimura, Akiko Kazami, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Wakaba Irie,
Directors : Tomu Uchida,

The film begins when the legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi is still named Shinmen Takezo. After being on the losing side of the Battle of Sekigahara, Takezo and his friend manage to escape and come across a young woman and her mother.

Actors : Anita Ekberg, Antonella Lualdi, Franco Silva, Jack Palance,

Genghis Khan and his Mongol army invade Poland and lay siege to the city of Cracow. The Polish king tries to make peace in order to save his city, and Genghis Khan seems amenable to that. ...

Actors : Gordon Mitchell, Chelo Alonso, Vira Silenti, Dante DiPaolo,
Directors : Antonio Leonviola,

Strongman Maciste must battle the one-eyed Cyclops monster that is ravaging the land of Sadok, while at the same time fending off the advances of the evil Queen Capys, who wants to do a little ravaging of her own.

Actors : Franca Bettoia, Franco Fabrizi, Alan Ladd, Robert Keith,

A duel takes place in order to put an end to the long and bloody war between the Romans and the Albans. Three valiant brothers are chosen for each side. The Romans choose three brothers: ...

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 : Kyôko Kagawa, Yuriko Hoshi, Toshirô Mifune, Yoshiko Kuga,
Directors : Hiroshi Inagaki,

Mohei is a wandering swordsman. He arrives in the city of Osaka, where the Toyotomi clan accepts him and comes to depend upon his courage and his battlefield skills. Those skills are sorely...

Actors : Aura Aurea, Carol Varga, Cesar Ramirez, Johnny Monteiro,
Directors : Danilo Santiago,

Thrill to the Rampaging Moors of Granada Spain in their lust for power.

Actors : Mark Allen, Addison Richards, Merry Anders, Jim Davis,
Directors : Edward L. Cahn,

A gambler tries to help track down the men who hanged a rancher when he tried to thwart their cattle rustling operations by selling his ranch.

Actors : Gloria Romero, Mario Montenegro, Fred Montilla, Tito Galla,
Directors : Ding M. De Jesus,

Was he a murderer and a thief - or a hero?

Actors : Mahipal, Manher Desai, Sahira, Shyama,
Directors : Homi Wadia,

Disgraced and exiled for falling in love with a wealthy woman, a healer is forced to become a bandit.

Actors : Samson Burke, Nadia Sanders, Wandisa Guida, Livio Lorenzon,
Directors : Luigi Capuano,

Sira shall marry Zagro, King of Licia, for political reasons.

Actors : Charito Solis, Robert Campos, Luz Valdez, Pancho Magalona,
Directors : Florentino Garcia,

The crack of his whip offers the only hope of survival for an oppressed people..

Actors : Pietro Albani, Emma Baron, Silvio Bagolini, Andrea Bosic,
Directors : Francesco De Feo,

A villain is poisoning a duke ;he imprisons his son ,wearing an iron mask,in a dungeon .

Actors : Joseph Estrada, Edita Clomera, Robert Campos, Guia Gomez,
Directors : Felix Villar,

Matchless psycho-suspense thriller his power rules everyone's fate.

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 : Jany Clair, Luisella Boni, Hans von Borsody, Helga Liné,
Directors : Eugenio Martín,

Alan Braves, captain of a pirate ship, is, by the treachery of a comrade, accused of a crime of which he is innocent.

Actors : Bin-hwa Lee, No-shik Park, Hae Hwang, Hang Jo,
Directors : Muk Kim,

The fighters of the Korean Indpendence Army struggle against the colonial policies of Japan in the early 1900's.

Actors : Valérie Lagrange, Geoffrey Horne, Gérard Barray, Mario Feliciani,
Directors : Anton Giulio Majano,

The Dumas story about Siamese twins separated at birth but who have a strong psychic link.

Actors : Joseph Estrada, Myrna Delgado, Eddie Mesa, Cesar Ramirez,
Directors : Danilo Santiago,

3 MEN - gunning down each other not knowing they are FATHER and SONS.