1961 Movies, Best to Worst

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

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

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.

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

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

When the U.S. and Russia unwittingly test atomic bombs at the same time, it alters the nutation (axis of rotation) of the Earth.

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.

The brutal stabbing murder of a justice-of-the-peace sparks an investigation of dark family secrets in a sleepy small town in Southern California.

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

Men sent their own way await heroin in Leach's apartment.

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

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.

A pregnant teenage girl must fend for herself when her mother remarries, leaving the girl with only a new male friend for support.

Governor Pontius Pilate gave the populace a choice to spare either Barabbas, a criminal, or Jesus, condemned as a heretic, from crucifixion. The masses chose Barrabas, and he is haunted by the image of Jesus for the rest of his life.

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

Four American soldiers stationed near a German village face death in the rape of a local girl, and are defended by outside counsel Major Steve Garrett.

When an injured wife murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the owner's three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.

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.

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

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

When a litter of Dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the owners must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement.

The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.

A successful business woman, dissatisfied with her current, philandering lover, starts an affair with a much younger man.