Notable Films Released in 1961
U.S.A. unless stated
A
- The Absent-Minded Professor, starring Fred MacMurray
- Accattone, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini - (Italy)
- Ada, starring Dean Martin and Susan Hayward
- All in a Night's Work, starring Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine
- And Love Has Vanished (Dvoje) - (Yugoslavia)
- Angel Baby, starring Salome Jens and Mercedes McCambridge
- Antigone, starring Irene Papas - (Greece)
- Armored Command, starring Howard Keel and Tina Louise
- The Artillery Sergeant Kalen (Ogniomistrz Kaleń) - (Poland)
- The Assassin (L'Assassino), starring Marcello Mastroianni - (Italy)
- Atlantis, the Lost Continent, starring John Dall
B
- Babes in Toyland, starring Ray Bolger, Tommy Sands, Annette Funicello
- Bachelor in Paradise, starring Bob Hope, Lana Turner, Janis Paige, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss
- Back Street, starring Susan Hayward, John Gavin, Vera Miles
- Bandits of Orgosolo (Banditi a Orgosolo) - (Italy)
- Barabbas, starring Anthony Quinn, Silvana Mangano and Jack Palance - (Italy)
- The Big Bankroll, aka King of the Roaring 20's, starring David Janssen, Mickey Rooney, Diana Dors
- The Big Gamble, starring Stephen Boyd
- Black Silk (Prae Dum) - (Thailand)
- Blast of Silence, directed by and starring Allen Baron
- The Blonde from Buenos Aires (Una Americana en Buenos Aires), starring Mamie Van Doren and Jean-Pierre Aumont - (Argentina/France)
- Blue Hawaii, starring Elvis Presley (his biggest box-office success), with Joan Blackman and Angela Lansbury
- Boatmen of Thessaloniki (Солунските Атентатори) - (Yugoslavia)
- A Bomb Was Stolen (S-a furat o bombă) - (Romania)
- Bootleggers (Samogonshchiki) - (USSR)
- Breakfast at Tiffany's, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen
- Bridge to the Sun, starring Carroll Baker and James Shigeta - (France/U.S.)
- By Love Possessed, starring Lana Turner, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., George Hamilton
C
- Carry On Regardless, starring Sid James, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey - (U.K.)
- Cash on Demand, starring Peter Cushing and André Morell - (U.K.)
- A cavallo della tigre (aka On the Tiger's Back), starring Nino Manfredi - (Italy)
- The Children's Hour, starring Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner and Miriam Hopkins (who also starred in the original film These Three)
- Chronicle of Flaming Years (Povest plamennykh let) - (USSR)
- The Coachman (Mabu) - (South Korea)
- The Colossus of Rhodes, directed by Sergio Leone, starring Rory Calhoun - (Italy)
- The Comancheros, starring John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Lee Marvin, Ina Balin
- Come September, starring Rock Hudson and Gina Lollobrigida
- Cry for Happy, starring Glenn Ford, Miyoshi Umeki, Donald O'Connor
- The Curse of the Werewolf, starring Clifford Evans and Oliver Reed - (U.K.)
D
- The Day the Earth Caught Fire, starring Edward Judd - (U.K.)
- The Deadly Companions, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Maureen O'Hara and Brian Keith
- Dersu Uzala - (USSR)
- The Devil at 4 O'Clock, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Frank Sinatra, Spencer Tracy, Gregoire Aslan
- A Difficult Life (Una vita difficile), directed by Dino Risi, starring Alberto Sordi - (Italy)
- Divorce Italian Style (Divorzio all'italiana), directed by Pietro Germi, starring Marcello Mastroianni - (Italy)
- Dondi, starring David Janssen
E
- El Cid, directed by Anthony Mann, starring Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren - (U.S./Italy)
- The End of Summer (Kohayagawa-ke no aki), directed by Yasujirō Ozu - (Japan)
- The End of the Cancageiros (A Morte Comanda o Cangaço) - (Brazil)
- The Errand Boy, directed by and starring Jerry Lewis
- The Exiles - documentary
- The Explosive Generation, starring William Shatner and Patty McCormack
F
- Fanny, starring Charles Boyer and Leslie Caron
- The Fascist (Il Federale), starring Ugo Tognazzi - (Italy)
- A Fever in the Blood, starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Angie Dickinson, Don Ameche, Jack Kelly, Carroll O'Connor
- Flooded Out (Los Inundados) - (Argentina)
- Flower Drum Song, starring Nancy Kwan
- Francis of Assisi, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Bradford Dillman and Dolores Hart
- The Frightened City, starring Sean Connery, John Gregson, Yvonne Romain
G
- The George Raft Story, starring Jayne Mansfield and Ray Danton
- Gidget Goes Hawaiian, starring Deborah Walley
- Girl with a Suitcase (La Ragazza con la valigia), starring Claudia Cardinale - (Italy)
- Go Naked in the World, starring Gina Lollobrigida and Anthony Franciosa - (Italy)
- Goodbye Again, starring Ingrid Bergman and Yves Montand - (France/U.S.)
- Gorgo, starring Bill Travers - (U.K.)
- The Great Impostor, starring Tony Curtis
- The Greengage Summer, starring Kenneth More and Susannah York - (U.K.)
- Gunga Jumna, starring Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala - (India)
- The Guns of Navarone, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn - (U.K.)
H
- Harry and the Butler (Harry og kammertjeneren) - (Denmark)
- Havoc in Heaven (aka The Monkey King), an animated films - (China)
- Hogs and Warships (Buta to gunkan), directed by Shōhei Imamura - (Japan)
- Homicidal, directed by William Castle
- The Honeymoon Machine, starring Steve McQueen, Brigid Bazlen, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss
- Hoodlum Priest, starring Don Murray
- The Human Condition (Ningen no jōken), directed by Masaki Kobayashi - (Japan)
- The Houseguest and My Mother (Sarangbang sonnimgwa eomeoni) - (South Korea)
- The Hustler, directed by Robert Rossen, starring Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, George C. Scott, Jackie Gleason
I
- Immortal Love (Eien no hito) - (Japan)
- The Innocents, starring Deborah Kerr - (U.K.)
J
- Judgment at Nuremberg, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell, Judy Garland, Montgomery Clift, Richard Widmark, William Shatner
K
- King of Kings, directed by Nicholas Ray, starring Jeffrey Hunter, Robert Ryan, Siobhan McKenna, Hurd Hatfield, Rita Gam, Rip Torn
- The Knife (Het Mes), directed by Fons Rademakers - (Netherlands)
L
- The Ladies Man, directed by and starring Jerry Lewis
- The Last Judgement (Il Giudizio universale), directed by Vittorio De Sica - (Italy)
- The Last Sunset, starring Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas, Dorothy Malone, Joseph Cotten, Carol Lynley
- The Last Time I Saw Archie, starring Robert Mitchum and Jack Webb
- The Last War (Sekai Daisensō) - (Japan)
- Last Year at Marienbad (L'Année dernière à Marienbad), directed by Alain Resnais, starring Delphine Seyrig - Golden Lion winner - (France)
- Leon Morin, Priest (Léon Morin, prêtre), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo - (France)
- Lola, directed by Jacques Demy, starring Anouk Aimée - (France)
- The Long Absence (Une aussi longue absence) - Palme d'Or winner - (France)
- The Long and the Short and the Tall, starring Laurence Harvey and Richard Harris - (U.K.)
- Look in Any Window, starring Paul Anka and Ruth Roman
- The Lovemakers (La Viaccia), starring Claudia Cardinale and Jean-Paul Belmondo - (Italy)
- Lover Come Back, starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson
M
- Mad Dog Coll (Gene Hackman's debut)
- A Majority of One, starring Rosalind Russell and Alec Guinness
- Man-Trap, starring Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Stella Stevens
- The Mark, starring Stuart Whitman and Maria Schell - (U.K.)
- The Mask, starring Paul Stevens - (Canada)
- The Miracle of Father Malachia (Das Wunder des Malachias), directed by Bernhard Wicki - (West Germany)
- The Misfits, directed by John Huston, starring Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable (in both their last screen roles) and Montgomery Clift
- Mother Joan of the Angels (Matka Joanna od Aniołów) - (Poland)
- Mothra, directed by Ishirō Honda - (Japan)
- Murder, She Said, starring Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, James Robertson Justice, Stringer Davis - (U.K.)
- Mysterious Island, starring Michael Craig, Michael Callan, Joan Greenwood
N
- The Naked Edge, starring Gary Cooper (in his final film) and Deborah Kerr
- Nazrana (Gift), starring Raj Kapoor and Vyjayanthimala - (India)
- Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile (Nefertiti, regina del Nilo), starring Jeanne Crain and Vincent Price - (Italy)
- No Love for Johnnie, starring Peter Finch - (U.K.)
- La Notte (The Night), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau - Golden Bear winner - (Italy/France)
- Nude on the Moon, directed by Doris Wishman
O
- One-Eyed Jacks, directed by and starring Marlon Brando, with Karl Malden, Katy Jurado, Ben Johnson
- One Hundred and One Dalmatians, featuring the voices of Rod Taylor and Betty Lou Gerson
- One, Two, Three, directed by Billy Wilder, starring James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin, Arlene Francis
- The Outsider, a biography starring Tony Curtis as World War II marine Ira Hayes
P
- The Parent Trap, starring Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith
- Paris Belongs to Us (Paris nous appartient), directed by Jacques Rivette - (France)
- Paris Blues, starring Sidney Poitier, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Diahann Carroll
- Parrish, starring Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens, Claudette Colbert
- Peace to Him Who Enters (Mir vkhodyashchemu) - (USSR)
- Pigs and Battleships (Buta to gunkan), directed by Shohei Imamura - (Japan)
- The Pit and the Pendulum, with Vincent Price
- Plácido, directed by Luis García Berlanga - (Spain)
- Please, Not Now! (La Bride sur le cou), starring Brigitte Bardot - (France)
- The Pleasure of His Company, starring Fred Astaire and Debbie Reynolds
- Pocketful of Miracles, final film of director Frank Capra, starring Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Hope Lange, Peter Falk, Ann-Margret
- Portrait of a Mobster, starring Vic Morrow
- Il Posto (The Errand Boy), directed by Ermanno Olmi - (Italy)
- Professor Mamlock - (East Germany)
Q
- Question 7, directed by Stuart Rosenberg - (U.S./West Germany)
R
- A Raisin in the Sun, starring Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee
- The Rebel, starring Tony Hancock - (U.K.)
- Return to Peyton Place, directed by José Ferrer, starring Carol Lynley, Tuesday Weld, Eleanor Parker
- The Right Approach, starring Martha Hyer and Juliet Prowse
- The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, starring Vivien Leigh and Warren Beatty - (U.K.)
S
- Sail a Crooked Ship, starring Ernie Kovacs, Robert Wagner, Dolores Hart, Frank Gorshin
- Scarlet Sails (Алые Паруса) - (U.S.S.R.)
- The Second Time Around, starring Debbie Reynolds, Andy Griffith, Juliet Prowse
- The Secret Ways, starring Richard Widmark
- Seetha Rama Kalynam, directed by and starring N. T. Rama Rao - (India)
- Sennin Buraku (Hermit Village) - (Japan)
- The Sins of Rachel Cade, starring Angie Dickinson
- A Soldier's Prayer (Ningen no jôken), directed by Masaki Kobayashi - (Japan)
- Something Wild, starring Carroll Baker and Ralph Meeker
- A Song About the Gray Pigeon (Piesen o sivém holubovi) - (Czechoslovakia)
- Splendor in the Grass, starring Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty
- The Steamroller and the Violin (Katok i skripka), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky - (U.S.S.R.)
- Summer and Smoke, starring Geraldine Page and Laurence Harvey
- Susan Slade, starring Troy Donahue and Connie Stevens
T
- Taste of Fear, starring Susan Strasberg - (U.K.)
- Then Nilavu (Honeymoon), starring Gemini Ganesan and Vyjayanthimala - (India)
- A Taste of Honey, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Rita Tushingham - (U.K.)
- Three Daughters (Teen Kanya), directed by Satyajit Ray - (India)
- Through a Glass Darkly (Såsom i en spegel), directed by Ingmar Bergman - (Sweden)
- A Thunder of Drums, starring Richard Boone, George Hamilton, Luana Patten
- Town Without Pity, starring Kirk Douglas, Christine Kaufmann, E. G. Marshall, Frank Sutton, Robert Blake
- Two Living, One Dead, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Patrick McGoohan - (UK/Sweden)
- Two Rode Together, starring James Stewart and Richard Widmark
U
- Underworld U.S.A., directed by Samuel Fuller, starring Cliff Robertson
V
- Victim, directed by Basil Dearden, starring Dirk Bogarde and Sylvia Sims - (U.K.)
- Viridiana, directed by Luis Buñuel - Palme d'Or winner - (Mexico/Spain)
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, starring Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine, Robert Sterling, Peter Lorre, Barbara Eden
W
- We Were Young (A byahme mladi) - (Bulgaria)
- West Side Story, starring Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris
- When the Trees Were Tall (Kogda derevya byli bolshimi) - (U.S.S.R.)
- Whistle Down the Wind, directed by Bryan Forbes, starring Hayley Mills and Alan Bates - (U.K.)
- Wife Number 13 (Al zouga talattashar) - (Egypt)
- Wild in the Country, starring Elvis Presley with Hope Lange, Tuesday Weld, Millie Perkins
- A Woman Is a Woman (Une Femme est une femme), directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina - (France)
Y
- Yojimbo, directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshirō Mifune - (Japan)
- The Young Ones, starring Cliff Richard and The Shadows - (U.K.)
- The Young Savages, starring Burt Lancaster and Dina Merrill
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