Best movies of 1961

Actors : William Mayer, Marietta, Pat Reilly, Lester Brown,

A rich rocket scientist organizes an expedition to the moon, which they discover is inhabited by nude women.

Actors : Carl Reiner, Deborah Walley, Michael Callan, James Darren,
Directors : Paul Wendkos,

Francine (Gidget) is desperate: her parents want to force her to come with them on vacation to Hawaii - just during the two weeks when her beloved "Moondoggie" is home from College. When he...

Actors : Carol Lynley, Mary Astor, Jeff Chandler, Eleanor Parker,
Directors : José Ferrer,

The residents of Peyton Place, New Hampshire, are not happy when its most famous resident, Alison Mackenzie, writes a "shocking" novel detailing the sinful secrets of the town. Most ...

Actors : Deborah Kerr, Gary Cooper, Eric Portman, Diane Cilento,
Directors : Michael Anderson,

Five years after George Radcliffe was the chief witness in a high profile murder case, his wife receives a blackmailing letter accusing him of the crime.

Actors : Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Edson Stroll, Carol Heiss,

An ice-skating Snow White finds refuge from the Wicked Queen with the Three Stooges.

Actors : Cecil Kellaway, Dolores Hart, Bradford Dillman, Stuart Whitman,
Directors : Michael Curtiz,

Francis Bernardone (Bradford Dillman) is the son of a wealthy cloth merchant in Assisi, who gives up all his worldly goods to dedicate himself to God. Clare (Dolores Hart) is a young ...

Actors : Sandra Dee, Charles Drake, Virginia Grey, John Gavin,
Directors : Harry Keller,

Tammy leaves the river in Mississippi to attend college, developing a relationship with Tom Freeman (John Gavin). Sandra Dee replaces Debbie Reynolds in this and the third Tammy movie. This...

Actors : Shirley Eaton, Dennis Price, Sidney James, Kenneth Connor,
Directors : Pat Jackson,

Ernie's uncle Gabriel has just died but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ancestral home with the rest of his relatives. Before long the guests begin to drop dead.

Actors : Maurice Marsac, Curt Lowens, Barbara Lass, Carl Schell,
Directors : Paolo Heusch,

At a girls' school, several students are murdered by a snarling, wolf-man-like creature. Suspicion falls upon a newly arrived teacher.

Actors : Lloyd Nolan, Connie Stevens, Dorothy McGuire, Troy Donahue,
Directors : Delmer Daves,

Premarital sex, secrets, and society. At 17, shy Susan Slade is on her way to California after a ten-year stay at a remote Chilean mine where her father was chief engineer. Onboard ship, ...

Actors : Peter Cushing, Richard Vernon, André Morell, Norman Bird,
Directors : Quentin Lawrence,

A charming but ruthless criminal holds the family of a bank manager hostage as part of a cold-blooded plan to steal 97,000 pounds.

Actors : Claude Rains, Maya Brent, Bill Carter, Umberto Orsini,
Directors : Antonio Margheriti,

A runaway asteroid dubbed "The Outsider" mysteriously begins orbiting the Earth and threatens it with lethal flying saucers.

Actors : Susan Hayward, Charles Drake, John Gavin, Vera Miles,
Directors : David Miller,

Ambitious but thwarted, Rae Smith meets handsome Marine Paul Saxon, (of the Saxon department store chain), as he passes through Lincoln, Nebraska, on his way home from World War II. There's...

Actors : Lilli Palmer, Debbie Reynolds, Fred Astaire, Tab Hunter,
Directors : George Seaton,

San Francisco debutante, Jessica Poole, is marrying Napa Valley cattle rancher, Roger Henderson, and hopes her peripatetic father, "Pogo" Poole, whom she hasn't seen for years, comes to the...

Actors : Pamela Mason, Cay Forester, Donald Woods, Johnny Cash,
Directors : Bill Karn,

Originally released in 1961 as Five Minutes to Live, this low-budget crime drama was later re-released as Door-to-Door Maniac. Fred narrates the film in flashback, detailing a suburban bank...

Actors : Børge Møller Grimstrup, Ingrid Langballe, Karl Stegger, Hanne Borchsenius,
Directors : Poul Bang,

Comedy about the people in an apartment building.

Actors : Hizuru Takachiho, Yoshiko Kuga, Ineko Arima, Kôji Nanbara,
Directors : Yoshitarô Nomura,

Teiko's new husband disappears on a business trip. She discovers a pair of mysterious postcards hidden away in a book that may be clues to his fate.

Actors : Pantelis Zervos, Dinos Iliopoulos, Anna Kyriakou, Thanasis Vengos,
Directors : Giannis Dalianidis,

The politician Theophilus Ferekis recruits secretary Theodore Parla, which satisfies the need to smooth lied to voters. The falsehoods of Theodore are quickly become a nuisance for Fereki ...

Actors : Popi Lazou, Nikos Rizos, Georgia Vasileiadou, Vasilis Avlonitis,
Directors : Nikos Tsiforos,

Klearhos is a mid50s man who fools around and puts the blame on his son in law , so that his wife wont catch him. But when he decides to go on vacation with his next door pretty young neighbor things get complicated.

Actors : Margarita Krinitsyna, Oleg Borisov, A. Kushnirenko, Nikolay Yakovchenko,
Directors : Viktor Ivanov,

Madcap comedy set in early 20th century Kiev about a barber whose fondness for drink, gambling, and women lead to bankruptcy. He marries an ugly rich woman to solve his financial woes, but pines for a virtuous beauty who despises him.