1961 Drama Movies

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Barabbas(1961)

3.5/5 (with 64 votes)

Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was pardoned for his crimes and spared crucifixion when Pilate offered the Israelites a choice to pardon Barabbas or Jesus. Struggling with his spirituality, Barabbas goes through many ordeals leading him to the gladiatorial arena, where he tries to win his freedom and confront his inner demons, ultimately becoming a follower of the man who was crucified in his place.

Directed by Richard Fleischer - With Anthony Quinn, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Palance, Silvana Mangano, Harry Andrews, Ernest Borgnine, ...

Yojimbo(1961)

| 1h 50min | Drama, Thriller

4.1/5 (with 592 votes)

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.

Directed by Akira Kurosawa - With Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yōko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Daisuke Katō, ...

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The Hustler(1961)

| 2h 14min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.9/5 (with 403 votes)

Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary Minnesota Fats to a high-stakes match.

Directed by Robert Rossen - With Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie, George C. Scott, Vincent Gardenia, Jake LaMotta, ...

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King of Kings(1961)

PG-13

| 2h 48min | Drama, History

3.6/5 (with 80 votes)

Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused, beloved, betrayed, and finally crucified. Yet that terrible fate would not be the end of the story.

Directed by Nicholas Ray - With Jeffrey Hunter, Robert Ryan, Ron Randell, Hurd Hatfield, Viveca Lindfors, Rita Gam, ...

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Judgment at Nuremberg(1961)

| 2h 59min | Drama, History, War

4.0/5 (with 322 votes)

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.

Directed by Stanley Kramer - With Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Maximilian Schell, ...

La Notte(1961)

2h 2min | Drama, Romance / Love

4.0/5 (with 275 votes)

A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship in Milan.

Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni - With Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki, Rosy Mazzacurati, Gitt Magrini, ...

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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea(1961)

1h 45min | Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction

2.9/5 (with 53 votes)

The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.

Directed by Irwin Allen - With Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine, Barbara Eden, Peter Lorre, Robert Sterling, Michael Ansara, ...

Accattone(1961)

| 1h 57min | Drama

3.9/5 (with 208 votes)

A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.

Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini - With Franco Citti, Adriana Asti, Stefano D'Arrigo, Nino Russo, Franco Marucci, Polidor, ...

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The Children's Hour(1961)

| 1h 48min | Drama

3.9/5 (with 144 votes)

A private school for young girls is scandalized when one spiteful student accuses the two young women who run the school of being in a relationship.

Directed by William Wyler - With Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner, Fay Bainter, Miriam Hopkins, Veronica Cartwright, ...

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Wild in the Country(1961)

| 1h 54min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 11 votes)

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

Directed by Philip Dunne - With Elvis Presley, Hope Lange, Tuesday Weld, Millie Perkins, Rafer Johnson, John Ireland, ...

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A Raisin in the Sun(1961)

2h 8min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.9/5 (with 50 votes)

Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall.

Directed by Daniel Petrie - With Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Stephen Perry, Ivan Dixon, ...

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The End of Summer(1961)

1h 43min | Drama

3.8/5 (with 34 votes)

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.

Directed by Yasujirō Ozu - With Setsuko Hara, Yumi Shirakawa, Akira Takarada, Chishū Ryū, Nakamura Ganjirō II, Yōko Tsukasa, ...

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Through a Glass Darkly(1961)

1h 31min | Drama

3.9/5 (with 244 votes)

Karin hopes to recover from her recent stay at a mental hospital by spending the summer at her family's cottage on a tiny island. Her husband, Martin, cares for her but is frustrated by her physical withdrawal. Her younger brother, Minus, is confused by Karin's vulnerability and his own budding sexuality. Their father, David, cannot overcome his haughty remoteness. Beset by visions, Karin descends further into madness.

Directed by Ingmar Bergman - With Harriet Andersson, Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Lars Passgård

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Léon Morin, Priest(1961)

2h 10min | Romance / Love, Drama

3.5/5 (with 58 votes)

In World War II, the widow Barny sees the Italian soldiers arriving in occupied Saint Bernard while walking to her job. Barny lives with her daughter and works correcting tests and feels a great attraction toward her boss Sabine. When the Germans arrive, Barny sends her half-Jewish daughter to live on a farm in the countryside and finds that Sabine's brother has been arrested and sent to a concentration camp. The atheist Barny decides to baptize her daughter to protect her and chooses priest Léon Morin to discuss with him themes related to religion and Catholicism and Léon lends books to her. Barny converts to Catholicism and becomes closer to Léon, feeling an unrequited desire for him.

Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville - With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Emmanuelle Riva, Irène Tunc, Volker Schlöndorff, Howard Vernon, Gérard Buhr, ...

The Count of Monte Cristo(1961)

3h | History

3.5/5 (with 10 votes)

Edmund Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmund of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmund escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmund must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.

Directed by Claude Autant-Lara - With Louis Jourdan, Yvonne Furneaux, Pierre Mondy, Roldano Lupi, Bernard Dhéran, Jean-Claude Michel, ...

Something Wild(1961)

1h 52min | Drama

3.2/5 (with 14 votes)

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.

Directed by Jack Garfein - With Carroll Baker, Ralph Meeker, Mildred Dunnock, Jean Stapleton, Martin Kosleck, Clifton James, ...

Angel Baby(1961)

| 1h 37min | Drama

3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

A woman who believes she has been chosen by God to heal people is taken in by a greedy promoter and his shrewish wife to make the rounds of the rural South - she to save souls and heal the sick, he to make as much money as he possibly can.

Directed by Paul Wendkos - With Salome Jens

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Taxi for Tobruk(1961)

1h 35min | History, Drama, War

3.6/5 (with 65 votes)

During World War II, French Commandos join forces with a German officer in order to survive the African desert.

Directed by Denys de La Patellière - With Charles Aznavour, Lino Ventura, Hardy Krüger, Maurice Biraud, Germán Cobos, Fernando Sancho, ...

Atlas Against the Cyclops(1961)

1h 40min | Adventure, Fantasy

3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

Strongman Maciste must battle the one-eyed Cyclops monster that is ravaging the land of Sadok, while at the same time fending off the advances of the evil Queen Capys, who wants to do a little ravaging of her own.

Directed by Antonio Leonviola - With Gordon Mitchell, Chelo Alonso, Vira Silenti, Aldo Bufi Landi, Raffaella Carrà, Dante DiPaolo, ...

Girls of the Night(1961)

1h 32min | Drama

3.7/5 (with 3 votes)

In the late 1950's prostitution was banned in Japan and if a woman was found exercising this profession they were sent to a reformatory. This is a story of one of these brave women Kuniko who is released from the reformatory and tries to build a new life.

Directed by Kinuyo Tanaka - With Chisako Hara, Akemi Kita, Chieko Naniwa, Chieko Seki

Ada(1961)

1h 49min | Drama

3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

A popular but naive country singer is elected governor of a southern state and, once in office, decides to dismantle the corrupt political machine that got him elected. Director Daniel Mann's 1961 political drama stars Susan Hayward, Dean Martin, Wilfred Hyde-White, Martin Balsam, Ralph Meeker, Connie Sawyer, William Walker, Ray Teal, Larry Gates and Kathryn Card.

Directed by Daniel Mann - With Susan Hayward, Dean Martin, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Ralph Meeker, Martin Balsam, Ford Rainey, ...

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Mother Joan of the Angels(1961)

1h 50min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

3.8/5 (with 37 votes)

A Polish priest arrives at a convent hoping to save the Mother Superior, who is supposedly possessed by eight demons.

Directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz - With Jerzy Kaczmarek, Lucyna Winnicka, Kazimierz Fabisiak, Zygmunt Zintel, Franciszek Pieczka, Mieczysław Voit, ...

The Mark(1961)

| 2h 7min | Drama

3.3/5 (with 7 votes)

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.

Directed by Guy Green - With Maria Schell, Stuart Whitman, Rod Steiger, Brenda De Banzie, Donald Houston, Donald Wolfit, ...

The Catch(1961)

1h 45min | War, Drama

3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

Towards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their “catch.”.

Directed by Nagisa Ōshima - With Rentarō Mikuni

The Other Woman(1961)

1h 46min | Drama

3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable Ginza aunt is really their mother.

Directed by Mikio Naruse

X-15(1961)

| 1h 47min | Action, Drama, History

3.0/5 (with 6 votes)

X-15 is a 1961 movie that tells a fictionalized account of the X-15 research rocket plane, the men who flew it and the women who loved them.

Directed by Richard Donner - With David McLean, Charles Bronson, Brad Dexter, Kenneth Tobey, James Gregory, Mary Tyler Moore, ...

Joseph and His Brethren(1961)

| 1h 43min | Kids & Family, Drama

3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

A brother is cast out from his family, sold in to slavery and then returns years later as a man of power - but shows forgiveness and compassion to his family through the strength of character given to him by God.

Directed by Irving Rapper, Luciano Ricci - With Robert Riettii, Vira Silenti, Finlay Currie, Robert Morley, Terence Hill, Mimo Billi, ...

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A Wife Confesses(1961)

1h 31min | Drama, Mystery, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 15 votes)

Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accuse her of murder and prompt a confession.

Directed by Yasuzō Masumura - With Ayako Wakao, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Eitarō Ozawa, Haruko Mabuchi, Jun Negami, Hideo Takamatsu, ...

Town Without Pity(1961)

1h 45min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

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 Grant.

Directed by Gottfried Reinhardt - With Kirk Douglas, Christine Kaufmann, E. G. Marshall, Hans Nielsen, Ingrid van Bergen, Richard Jaeckel, ...

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Too Late Blues(1961)

| 1h 43min | Drama, Music

3.3/5 (with 21 votes)

Ghost is an ideological musician and leader of a jazz band who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself. His peripatetic performances lead him to cross paths with a singer, while his masculinity is thrown into question following a violent brawl.

Directed by John Cassavetes - With Bobby Darin, Stella Stevens, Vince Edwards, Seymour Cassel, Everett Chambers, Everett Chambers, ...

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1961 Drama Movies

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Barabbas(1961)

Yojimbo(1961)

The Hustler(1961)

King of Kings(1961)

Judgment at Nuremberg(1961)

La Notte(1961)

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea(1961)

Accattone(1961)

The Children's Hour(1961)

Wild in the Country(1961)

A Raisin in the Sun(1961)

The End of Summer(1961)

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Through a Glass Darkly(1961)

Léon Morin, Priest(1961)

The Count of Monte Cristo(1961)

Something Wild(1961)

Angel Baby(1961)

Taxi for Tobruk(1961)

Atlas Against the Cyclops(1961)

Girls of the Night(1961)

Ada(1961)

Mother Joan of the Angels(1961)

The Mark(1961)

The Catch(1961)

The Other Woman(1961)

X-15(1961)

Joseph and His Brethren(1961)

A Wife Confesses(1961)

Town Without Pity(1961)

Too Late Blues(1961)

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