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1961

by maddox-richard • Created 14 years ago • Modified 4 months ago
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  • Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Claude Brialy, and Anna Karina in A Woman Is a Woman (1961)

    1. A Woman Is a Woman

    19611h 24mNot Rated71Metascore
    7.3 (20K)
    A stripper who's desperate to become a mother accepts her reluctant boyfriend's suggestion that she be impregnated by his best friend.
    DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsAnna KarinaJean-Claude BrialyJean-Paul Belmondo
    lights, camera, action!
  • The Innocents (1961)

    2. The Innocents

    19611h 40mApproved88Metascore
    7.7 (35K)
    A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted.
    DirectorJack ClaytonStarsDeborah KerrPeter WyngardeMegs Jenkins
  • A Taste of Honey (1961)

    3. A Taste of Honey

    19611h 41mApproved
    7.4 (6.7K)
    A pregnant teenage girl must fend for herself when her mother remarries, leaving the girl with only a new male friend for support.
    DirectorTony RichardsonStarsRita TushinghamDora BryanRobert Stephens
  • Vincent Price, John Kerr, and Barbara Steele in The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

    4. The Pit and the Pendulum

    19611h 20mApproved78Metascore
    7.0 (18K)
    In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.
    DirectorRoger CormanStarsVincent PriceBarbara SteeleJohn Kerr
  • Franco Fabrizi, Lea Massari, Alberto Sordi, and Lina Volonghi in A Difficult Life (1961)

    5. A Difficult Life

    19611h 58mNot Rated
    8.0 (2.4K)
    Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment.
    DirectorDino RisiStarsAlberto SordiLea MassariFranco Fabrizi
  • Girl with a Suitcase (1961)

    6. Girl with a Suitcase

    19611h 36m
    7.4 (2.7K)
    A girl pursues a guy who fooled her, but fascinates his younger brother instead.
    DirectorValerio ZurliniStarsClaudia CardinaleJacques PerrinLuciana Angiolillo
  • A cavallo della tigre (1961)

    7. A cavallo della tigre

    19611h 49m
    7.1 (610)
    An inept thief wants to escape prison and return to his family, but two of his prison mates also want out.
    DirectorLuigi ComenciniStarsNino ManfrediMario AdorfValeria Moriconi
  • Night Tide (1961)

    8. Night Tide

    19611h 26mNot Rated
    6.4 (4.5K)
    A young sailor is attracted to a mysterious mermaid performing at a carnival, but soon suspects that the girl is actually a siren who draws men to their watery deaths during the full moon.
    DirectorCurtis HarringtonStarsDennis HopperLinda LawsonGavin Muir
  • Paul Newman, Louis Armstrong, and Joanne Woodward in Paris Blues (1961)

    9. Paris Blues

    19611h 38mApproved61Metascore
    6.7 (4.3K)
    During the 1960s, two American expatriate jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls.
    DirectorMartin RittStarsPaul NewmanJoanne WoodwardSidney Poitier
  • The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)

    10. The Curse of the Werewolf

    19611h 33mApproved
    6.5 (7.6K)
    In eighteenth-century Spain, an adopted boy becomes a werewolf and terrorizes the inhabitants of his town.
    DirectorTerence FisherStarsClifford EvansOliver ReedYvonne Romain
  • Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

    11. Breakfast at Tiffany's

    19611h 55mApproved77Metascore
    7.5 (200K)
    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.
    DirectorBlake EdwardsStarsAudrey HepburnGeorge PeppardPatricia Neal
  • Happiness of Us Alone (1961)

    12. Happiness of Us Alone

    19612h 10m
    7.9 (219)
    A sympathetic portrayal of the suffering of a deaf couple at the hands of a shell shocked postwar society that treats them like wayward children to be at turns pitied or exploited.
    DirectorZenzô MatsuyamaStarsHideko TakamineKeiju KobayashiIzumi Hara
  • Toshirô Mifune and Tatsuya Nakadai in Yojimbo (1961)

    13. Yojimbo

    19611h 50mNot Rated93Metascore
    8.2 (139K)
    A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.
    DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneEijirô TônoTatsuya Nakadai
  • Susan Strasberg in Scream of Fear (1961)

    14. Scream of Fear

    19611h 21mApproved65Metascore
    7.4 (6.1K)
    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.
    DirectorSeth HoltStarsSusan StrasbergAnn ToddRonald Lewis
  • Murder She Said (1961)

    15. Murder She Said

    19611h 27mApproved
    7.3 (9.1K)
    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.
    DirectorGeorge PollockStarsMargaret RutherfordArthur KennedyMuriel Pavlow
  • Tony Hancock in Call Me Genius (1961)

    16. Call Me Genius

    19611h 45m
    6.8 (1.3K)
    Tony Hancock gives up his day job to become an artist. He's a lot of enthusiasm, but little talent, and critics dislike his work. Nevertheless, he impresses a talented artist.
    DirectorRobert DayStarsTony HancockGeorge SandersPaul Massie
  • Allen Baron and Molly McCarthy in Blast of Silence (1961)

    17. Blast of Silence

    19611h 17mApproved75Metascore
    7.4 (6.1K)
    A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York, but a special girl from his past and a gun dealer with pet rats get in his way.
    DirectorAllen BaronStarsAllen BaronMolly McCarthyLarry Tucker
  • Paul Newman in The Hustler (1961)

    18. The Hustler

    19612h 14mApproved90Metascore
    7.9 (89K)
    An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.
    DirectorRobert RossenStarsPaul NewmanJackie GleasonPiper Laurie
  • Something Wild (1961)

    19. Something Wild

    19611h 53mNot Rated
    6.7 (1.9K)
    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.
    DirectorJack GarfeinStarsCarroll BakerRalph MeekerMildred Dunnock
  • Poignant Story (1961)

    20. Poignant Story

    19611h 46m
    7.4 (235)
    The real mother of the two children of a respectable university professor is not his wife, but his mistress, the hostess of a Ginza bar the family frequents.
    DirectorMikio NaruseStarsHideko TakamineChikage AwashimaMasayuki Mori
  • The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)

    21. The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

    19613h 10mNot Rated
    8.8 (8.1K)
    His ideals challenged by life as a conscript in war-time Japan's military, a pacifist faces ever greater tests in his fight for survival.
    DirectorMasaki KobayashiStarsTatsuya NakadaiMichiyo AratamaTamao Nakamura
  • Onna bakari no yoru (1961)

    22. Onna bakari no yoru

    19611h 33m
    7.3 (389)
    A prostitute tries to change her life after the enforcement of an anti-prostitution law.
    DirectorKinuyo TanakaStarsChisako HaraAkemi KitaKyôko Kagawa
  • One, Two, Three (1961)

    23. One, Two, Three

    19611h 44mApproved73Metascore
    7.8 (24K)
    In West Berlin during the Cold War, a Coca-Cola executive is given the task of taking care of his boss' socialite daughter.
    DirectorBilly WilderStarsJames CagneyHorst BuchholzPamela Tiffin
  • Julio Alemán, Antonio Aguilar, Patricia Conde, and Columba Domínguez in My Son, the Hero (1961)

    24. My Son, the Hero

    19611h 35m
    7.9 (397)
    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.
    DirectorIsmael RodríguezStarsAntonio AguilarJulio AlemánColumba Domínguez
  • Viridiana (1961)

    25. Viridiana

    19611h 31mNot Rated
    8.0 (27K)
    Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.
    DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsSilvia PinalFrancisco RabalFernando Rey

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