Best Adventure movies of 1961

Actors : Michael Forest, Walter Maslow, Frank Wolff, Barboura Morris,
Directors : Roger Corman,

Evil king Praximedes convinces superhero Atlas to fight for him, but Atlas eventually sees the king's true nature and turns against him.

Actors : Bernard Lee, Peter Cushing, John Fraser, Michèle Mercier,
Directors : John Gilling,

Pirate wreckers ravage a small seaside community while the ineffectual local squire tries to discourage his son's romance with a smuggler's pretty daughter.

Actors : Vincent Price, Liana Orfei, Giulia Rubini, Ricardo Montalban,
Directors : Mario Costa,

Actors : Pierre Mondy, Yvonne Furneaux, Louis Jourdan, Bernard Dhéran,
Directors : Claude Autant-Lara,

Edmund Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he ...

Actors : Kasym Zhakibayev, Aleksandr Baranov, Adolf Shestakov, N. Gladkov,
Directors : Agasi Babayan,

The story of a russian explorer (Vladimir Arsenev) in the wilderness of Siberia and Dersu Uzala, a native guide on his trip.

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Edmund Purdom, Hélène Rémy, Isabelle Corey,
Directors : Giacomo Gentilomo,

Harald and his brother Guntar return to Norway to find their father murdered and his throne usurped. They try to take revenge on Sveno, but a traitor amongst them puts both brother's lives at risk.

Actors : Bella Cortez, Gordon Mitchell, Roldano Lupi, Marietto,
Directors : Umberto Scarpelli,

Muscleman Ohro travels to the sinful capital of Atlantis to rebuke its godlessness and hubris and becomes involved in the battle against its evil lord Yoh-tar and his hideous super-science ...

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 : Dolores Carlos, Norman Casserly, Davee Decker, Allan Blacker,
Directors : Doris Wishman,

Newspaper editor Arthur Sherwood is on a hunting trip when he accidentally stumbles upon a nudist camp in the woods. He is very much shocked by this and decides to send reporter Stacy ...

Actors : Ken Scott, Dave King, John Richardson, Letícia Román,
Directors : Robert D. Webb,

An English captain and his crew are dispatched to the Spanish-controlled island of Tortuga, where famed privateer Henry Morgan has defected from his support of the English Empire and is ...

Actors : Roger Moore, Giorgia Moll, Mylène Demongeot, Scilla Gabel,
Directors : Richard Pottier,

The classic story from the early days of Rome where there are no women. Romulus, the founder of Rome, finds women to be wives from Sabina where there are a lot of women. The Sabine men, of ...

Actors : Richard Widmark, Sonja Ziemann, Walter Rilla, Charles Regnier,

Vienna, 1956. After Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune Mike Reynolds is hired to help a threatened Hungarian scientist (Prof. Jansci) escape from Budapest. He and...

Actors : Columba Domínguez, Julio Alemán, Patricia Conde, Antonio Aguilar,
Directors : Ismael Rodríguez,

Reynaldo and Martín Del Hierro are witnesses of the murder of their father by Pascual Velazco, as they grow up they're poisoned by the desire of vengeance by their mother, but once they get it it'll change their lifes forever.

Actors : Sylvia Syms, Jean Chevrier, Louis Jourdan, Nicole Courcel,

A warrior chieftain dashes between his barbaric allies and a beleaguered city that's being defended by embattled women warriors.

Actors : James Lanphier, Marshall Thompson, Douglas Kennedy, Mala Powers,
Directors : Nathan Juran,

A professor is hired to navigate across Africa in a hot-air balloon to rescue a lost explorer, but a mysterious local villain named "Hindu" commandeers the balloon for his own nefarious purposes.

Actors : Adrienne Corri, Peter Cushing, Peter Arne, Keith Michell,

Years after fleeing his ancestral home with his mother, Jason returns home to claim his birthright, only to find his way blocked by his evil cousin Thomas. In order to reclaim his title, ...

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 : Rosanna Schiaffino, Jean Marais, Jean-Louis Barrault, Roger Hanin,
Directors : André Hunebelle,

Charles le Temeraire asks in marriage Jeanne de Beauvais, daughter of King Louis XI, wishing to get her valuable lands in dowry. The King is wise to this, and since his daughter does not ...

Actors : Cesare Danova, Joan Staley, Sean McClory, Danielle De Metz,
Directors : Edward Bernds,

In 1881, in Algeria, Michael Denning and Hector Servadac are fighting a duel when a comet brushing Earth takes the two men to the Moon where they discover a prehistoric civilization.