1961 Movies

El Cid

Directed by: Anthony Mann

Starring: Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, Geneviève Page

Country: United States of America

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

La notte

Directed by: Michelangelo Antonioni

Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki

Country: United States of America

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

Accattone

Directed by: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Starring: Franco Citti, Franca Pasut, Silvana Corsini, Paola Guidi

Country: United States of America

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

Doubt

Directed by: John Patrick Shanley

Starring: Amy Adams, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Viola Davis

Country: United States of America

The Guns of Navarone

Directed by: J. Lee Thompson

Starring: David Niven, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Quayle

Country: United States of America

Outline: A British team is sent to cross occupied Greek territory and destroy the massive German gun emplacement that commands a key sea channel.

West Side Story

Directed by: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise

Starring: Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn

Country: United States of America

Outline: Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.

Lover Come Back

Directed by: Delbert Mann

Starring: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Edie Adams

Country: United States of America

Outline: A series of misunderstandings leaves an advertising executive with a campaign for a product which has not yet been invented, while he romances his rival in the guise of its inventor.

Come September

Directed by: Robert Mulligan

Starring: Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin

Country: United States of America

Outline: Younger generation vs. "older" folks on vacation at an Italian villa.

King of Kings

Directed by: Nicholas Ray

Starring: Jeffrey Hunter, Siobhan McKenna, Hurd Hatfield, Ron Randell

Country: United States of America

Outline: The temporary physical life of everyone's Savior, Jesus Christ.

Yojimbo

Directed by: Akira Kurosawa

Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tôno, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yôko Tsukasa

Country: United States of America

Outline: A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.

Judgment at Nuremberg

Directed by: Stanley Kramer

Starring: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich

Country: United States of America

Outline: In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazi judges for war crimes.

A Raisin in the Sun

Directed by: Daniel Petrie

Starring: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands

Country: United States of America

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

Through a Glass Darkly

Directed by: Ingmar Bergman

Starring: Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow, Lars Passgård

Country: United States of America

Outline: Recently released from a mental hospital; Karin rejoins her emotionally disconnected family and their island home, only to slip from reality as she begins to believe she is being visited by God.

The Hustler

Directed by: Robert Rossen

Starring: Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie, George C. Scott

Country: United States of America

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

One, Two, Three

Directed by: Billy Wilder

Starring: James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin, Arlene Francis

Country: United States of America

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

Last Year at Marienbad

Directed by: Alain Resnais

Starring: Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff, Françoise Bertin

Country: United States of America

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

The Innocents

Directed by: Jack Clayton

Starring: Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins, Michael Redgrave

Country: United States of America

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

Victim

Directed by: Basil Dearden

Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price, Anthony Nicholls

Country: United States of America

Outline: The death of a young man leads to the discovery of a blackmail plot against a number of gay men in 1960s London.

Splendor in the Grass

Directed by: Elia Kazan

Starring: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle, Audrey Christie

Country: United States of America

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

The Children's Hour

Directed by: William Wyler

Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner, Miriam Hopkins

Country: United States of America

Outline: A troublemaking student at a girls' school accuses two teachers of being lesbians.

Léon Morin, Priest

Directed by: Jean-Pierre Melville

Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Emmanuelle Riva, Irène Tunc, Nicole Mirel

Outline: Set during occupied France, a faithless woman finds herself falling in love with a young priest.

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Directed by: Blake Edwards

Starring: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen

Country: United States of America

Outline: 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.