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Movies: Popular Movies of 1961

Movies in chronological context: 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1961st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 961st year of the 2nd millennium, the 61st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1960s decade. ()

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One Hundred and One Dalmatians(1961)

G
| 1h 19min | Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.6/5 (with 2,788 votes)

When a litter of dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the parents must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement. In a Disney animation classic, Dalmatian Pongo is tired of his bachelor-dog life. He spies lovely Perdita and maneuvers his master, Roger, into meeting Perdita's owner, Anita. The owners fall in love and marry, keeping Pongo and Perdita together too. After Perdita gives birth to a litter of 15 puppies, Anita's old school friend Cruella De Vil wants to buy them all. Roger declines her offer, so Cruella hires the criminal Badun brothers to steal them -- so she can have a fur coat.

Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman

Breakfast at Tiffany's(1961)

NR
| 1h 54min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 1,912 votes)

Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.

Directed by Blake Edwards - With George Peppard, Audrey Hepburn, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, Mickey Rooney, ...
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West Side Story(1961)

G
| 2h 32min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 799 votes)

In the slums of the upper West Side of Manhattan, New York, a gang of Polish-American teenagers called the Jets compete with a rival gang of recently immigrated Puerto Ricans, the Sharks, to "own" the neighborhood streets. Tensions are high between the gangs but two romantics, one from each gang, fall in love leading to tragedy.

Directed by Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins - With Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, Simon Oakland, ...
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Yojimbo(1961)

NR
| 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)

NR
| 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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The Guns of Navarone(1961)

NR
| 2h 38min | War, Action
3.7/5 (with 323 votes)

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

Directed by J. Lee Thompson - With Gregory Peck, James Robertson Justice, David Niven, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Quayle, Stanley Baker, ...
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Judgment at Nuremberg(1961)

NR
| 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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The Innocents(1961)

NR
| 1h 40min | Horror, History, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 241 votes)

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

Directed by Jack Clayton - With Deborah Kerr, Michael Redgrave, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins, Pamela Franklin, Clytie Jessop, ...

Viridiana(1961)

NR
| 1h 30min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 218 votes)

Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.

Directed by Luis Buñuel - With Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey, Margarita Lozano, Lola Gaos, José Calvo, ...
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Accattone(1961)

NR
| 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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Through a Glass Darkly(1961)

1h 31min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 203 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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Last Year at Marienbad(1961)

NR
| 1h 35min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 202 votes)

In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.

Directed by Alain Resnais - With Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff, Françoise Bertin, Luce Garcia-Ville, Françoise Spira, ...
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Divorce Italian Style(1961)

1h 44min | Comedy
4.0/5 (with 179 votes)

Ferdinando Cefalù is desperate to marry his cousin, Angela, but he is married to Rosalia and divorce is illegal in Italy. To get around the law, he tries to trick his wife into having an affair so he can catch her and murder her, as he knows he would be given a light sentence for killing an adulterous woman. He persuades a painter to lure his wife into an affair, but Rosalia proves to be more faithful than he expected.

Directed by Pietro Germi, Renzo Marignano - With Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli, Leopoldo Trieste, Odoardo Spadaro, Lando Buzzanca, ...

One, Two, Three(1961)

NR
| 1h 55min | Comedy
3.8/5 (with 169 votes)

C.R. MacNamara will do anything to get a promotion within the Coca-Cola company, including looking after boss W.P. Hazeltine's rebellious teenage daughter, Scarlett. When Scarlett visits Berlin, where C.R. is stationed, she reveals that she is married to a communist named Otto Piffl -- and C.R. recognizes that Otto's anti-establishment stance will clash with his boss's own political views, possibly jeopardizing his promotion.

Directed by Billy Wilder - With Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin, Arlene Francis, James Cagney, Liselotte Pulver, Ralf Wolter, ...

A Woman Is a Woman(1961)

NR
| 1h 23min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 168 votes)

Longing for a baby, a stripper pursues another man in order to make her boyfriend jealous.

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard - With Jean-Claude Brialy, Anna Karina, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jeanne Moreau, Catherine Demongeot, Dominique Zardi, ...

The Misfits(1961)

NR
| 2h 4min | Western, Drama, Action, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 156 votes)

While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland and former World War II aviator Guido Racanelli. The two men instantly become infatuated with Roslyn and, on a whim, the three decide to move into Guido's half-finished desert home together. When grizzled ex-rodeo rider Perce Howland arrives, the unlikely foursome strike up a business capturing wild horses.

Directed by John Huston - With Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter, Eli Wallach, Estelle Winwood, ...
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The Parent Trap(1961)

G
| 2h 9min | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.6/5 (with 151 votes)

Two identical twin sisters, separated at birth by their parents' divorce, are reunited years later at a summer camp, where they scheme to bring their parents back together. The girls, one of whom has been living with their mother and the other with their father, switch places after camp and go to work on their plan, the first objective being to scare off a gold-digger pursuing their father.

Directed by David Swift - With Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Charles Ruggles, Una Merkel, Leo G. Carroll, ...
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The Children's Hour(1961)

NR
| 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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The Pit and the Pendulum(1961)

NR
| 1h 20min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 134 votes)

Francis Barnard goes to Spain, when he hears his sister Elizabeth has died. Her husband Nicholas Medina, the son of the most brutal torturer of the Spanish Inquisition, tells him she has died of a blood disease, but Francis finds this hard to believe. After some investigating he finds out that it was extreme fear that was fatal to his sister and that she may have been buried alive!

Directed by Roger Corman - With Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr, Luana Anders
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El Cid(1961)

NR
| 3h 2min | Action, Drama, History, Romance / Love, War
3.5/5 (with 113 votes)

Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving the Moors from Spain.

Directed by Anthony Mann - With Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, Gary Raymond, Hurd Hatfield, Herbert Lom, ...

Splendor in the Grass(1961)

NR
| 2h 4min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 107 votes)

A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.

Directed by Elia Kazan - With Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle, Zohra Lampert, Gary Lockwood, William Inge, ...
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Lola(1961)

PG-13
| 1h 30min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 104 votes)

A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.

Directed by Jacques Demy - With Anouk Aimée, Marc Michel, Alan Scott, Carlo Nell, Corinne Marchand, Dorothée Blanck, ...

One-Eyed Jacks(1961)

NR
| 2h 21min | Western
3.4/5 (with 87 votes)

Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio to be captured. Years later, Rio escapes from the prison where he has been since, and hunts down Dad for revenge. Dad is now a respectable sheriff in California, and has been living in fear of Rio's return.

Directed by Marlon Brando - With Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Katy Jurado, Pina Pellicer, Ben Johnson, Slim Pickens, ...
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The Comancheros(1961)

PG
| 1h 45min | Romance / Love, Western, Action, Adventure
3.4/5 (with 81 votes)

Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.

Directed by Michael Curtiz, John Wayne - With John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Ina Balin, Lee Marvin, Nehemiah Persoff, Bruce Cabot, ...
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Murder She Said(1961)

NR
| 1h 27min | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
3.6/5 (with 81 votes)

Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own.

Directed by George Pollock - With Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, Stringer Davis, Bud Tingwell, James Robertson Justice, ...
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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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The Colossus of Rhodes(1961)

2h 7min | History, Drama, Adventure
3.0/5 (with 74 votes)

While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patriots and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.

Directed by Sergio Leone - With Rory Calhoun, Lea Massari, Ángel Aranda, Mabel Karr, George Rigaud, Mimmo Palmara, ...
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The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer(1961)

3h 10min | War, Drama, History
4.2/5 (with 73 votes)

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his fellow men sneak behind enemy lines.

Directed by Masaki Kobayashi - With Tatsuya Nakadai, Taketoshi Naito, Nobuo Kaneko, Yūsuke Kawazu

Don Camillo: Monsignor(1961)

1h 49min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 72 votes)

Don Camillo (now bishop) and Peppone (now senator) return to the town of Brescello and rekindle their friendly rivalry.

Directed by Carmine Gallone - With Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Leda Gloria, Gina Rovere, Valeria Ciangottini, Saro Urzì, ...
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