My Top 25 Films of 1961

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

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

Fictionalized depiction of the 1947 Judges' Trial, the third of 12 trials of Nazi war criminals conducted by the American occupying forces in Nuremberg, Germany, in which former judges of Nazi Germany were tried for their actions.

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.

A rebellious student at a girls' school accuses two teachers of lesbianism.

A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.

A team of Allied saboteurs is assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held Greek island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.

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

A closeted lawyer risks his career to bring a blackmailer to justice.

The love of high school sweethearts Deanie and Bud is weighed down by the oppressive expectations of their parents and society in smalltown Kansas in 1928, threatening the future of their relationship.

Teenage twin sisters swap places and scheme to reunite their divorced parents.

A series of misunderstandings leaves an advertising executive with a campaign for a product which has not yet been invented, while he romances his rival in the guise of its inventor.

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

A wheelchair-bound young woman returns to her father's estate after 10 years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.

A young woman arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown from Hong Kong with the intention of marrying a rakish nightclub owner, unaware he is involved with one of his singers.

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

A plain, repressed spinster falls for a dashing young medical student who prefers the wilder life, until it's too late.

A district attorney investigates three white teenagers accused of murdering a blind Puerto Rican kid.

An aging actress travels to Rome with her husband; after he suddenly dies during the flight, she begins a passionate affair with a young gigolo.

During the 1960s, two American expatriate jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls.

When Miss Jane Marple reports witnessing a murder through the window of a passing train, the police dismiss her as a dotty spinster when no trace of the crime can be found.

New York bootlegger Dave the Dude and his girlfriend Elizabeth "Queenie" Martin try to turn boozy street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when Annie learns that her daughter Louise is marrying the son of a Spanish count.

A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist.

A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the lessons of tolerance, kindness, and forgiveness.

Younger generation vs. "older" folks on vacation at an Italian villa.