Best movies of 1961

Actors : Hope Lange, Millie Perkins, Elvis Presley, Tuesday Weld,
Directors : Philip Dunne,

A troubled young man discovers that he has a knack for writing when a counselor encourages him to pursue a literary career.

Actors : Kyôko Kagawa, Furankî Sakai, Yumi Itô, Hiroshi Koizumi,
Directors : Ishirô Honda,

Shipwreck survivors are found on Beiru Island (Infanto tô), which was previously used for atomic tests. The interior is amazingly free of radiation effects, and they believe that they were ...

Actors : Maureen O'Hara, Chill Wills, Steve Cochran, Brian Keith,
Directors : Sam Peckinpah,

Ex-army officer accidentally kills a woman's son, tries to make up for it by escorting the funeral procession through dangerous Indian territory.

Actors : Emmanuelle Riva, Nicole Mirel, Irène Tunc, Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Directors : Jean-Pierre Melville,

Set during occupied France, a faithless woman finds herself falling in love with a young priest.

Actors : Dolores Dorn, Beatrice Kay, Paul Dubov, Cliff Robertson,
Directors : Samuel Fuller,

Fourteen-year-old Tolly Devlin sees four hoods beat his father to death. Twenty years later, the killers have risen to the top of the crime syndicate and Tolly has a plan for revenge.

Actors : Luana Anders, Dennis Hopper, Gavin Muir, Linda Lawson,
Directors : Curtis Harrington,

On leave in a shore side town, Johnny becomes interested in a young dark haired woman. They meet and he learns that she plays a mermaid in the local carnival. After strange occurrences, ...

Actors : Christopher Rhodes, Vincent Winter, William Sylvester, Bill Travers,
Directors : Eugène Lourié,

Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus. Then its mother shows up.

Actors : Margo Johns, Claire Gordon, Jess Conrad, Michael Gough,
Directors : John Lemont,

Dr.Decker comes back from Africa after a year, presumed dead. During that year, he came across a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee to ...

Actors : Jean-Pierre Aumont, Frank Sinatra, Spencer Tracy, Kerwin Mathews,
Directors : Mervyn LeRoy,

A crusty, eccentric priest recruits three reluctant convicts to help him rescue a children's leper colony from a Pacific island menaced by a smoldering volcano.

Actors : Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Malone, Kirk Douglas, Rock Hudson,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

Brendan O'Malley arrives at the Mexican home of old flame Belle Breckenridge to find her married to a drunkard getting ready for a cattle drive to Texas. Hot on O'Malley's heels is lawman ...

Actors : Georges Marchal, Lea Massari, Conrado San Martín, Rory Calhoun,
Directors : Sergio Leone,

While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patriots and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.

Actors : Nick Dennis, Everett Chambers, Stella Stevens, Bobby Darin,
Directors : John Cassavetes,

Ghost is an idealogical musician who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself. However, when he meets and falls in love with beautiful singer, Jess ...

Actors : Carroll Baker, Mildred Dunnock, Ralph Meeker, Jean Stapleton,
Directors : Jack Garfein,

A young rape victim tries desperately to pick up the pieces of her life, only to find herself at the mercy of a would-be rescuer.

Actors : Lucyna Winnicka, Anna Ciepielewska, Mieczyslaw Voit, Maria Chwalibóg,
Directors : Jerzy Kawalerowicz,

A priest is sent to a small parish in the Polish countryside which is believed to be under demonic possession and there he finds his own temptations awaiting.

Actors : Stanislav Khitrov, Lyusyena Ovchinnikova, Nikolai Rybnikov, Nadezhda Rumyantseva,
Directors : Yuriy Chulyukin,

Tonya has just graduated from the trade school and found a job as a cook in a Siberian village. She is naive but open hearted and kind. When Ilya starts flirting with her she takes it as a ...

Actors : Shin'ichi Chiba, Seiichirô Kameishi, Ryûko Minakami, Mitsue Komiya,
Directors : Kôji Ohta,

Clumsy invaders from Neptune are thwarted by hero Space Chief and a nondescript group of microshort-wearing Japanese kids.

Actors : Antony Carbone, Beach Dickerson, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Robert Towne,
Directors : Roger Corman,

A crook decides to bump off members of his inept crew and blame their deaths on a legendary sea creature. What he doesn't know is that the creature is real.

Actors : Francis X. Bushman, Anthony Dexter, Coleen Gray, Dean Fredericks,
Directors : William Marshall,

After an invisible asteroid draws an astronaut and his ship to its surface, he is miniaturized by the phantom planet's exotic atmosphere.

Actors : Vincent Price, Charles Bronson, Henry Hull, Mary Webster,
Directors : William Witney,

In 1868, an American scientist and his team become hostages of fanatical pacifist Robur who uses his airship Albatross to destroy military targets on Earth.

Actors : Manuel Alexandre, Cassen, José Luis López Vázquez, Elvira Quintillá,
Directors : Luis García Berlanga,

In a small spanish town, a group of old ladies decide to celebrate Christmas Eve with a "Sit a poor man at your table" dinner: each wealthy household of the town will have a homeless person...