1961 Movies

During WW2, in a Nazi-occupied country, a local partisan blows-up a German military train, prompting the Germans to take civilian hostages to be shot if the culprit doesn't surrender before a deadline.

Classic adaptation of the even more classic play by William Shakespeare.

Filmed at the Alhambra in Spain in just one day, according to Marie Menken. Arabesque for Kenneth Anger concentrates on visual details found in Moorish architecture and in ancient Spanish tile. The date 1961 refers to the addition of Teiji Ito's soundtrack and...

“I made several films while still in high school, one of which was called Faulty Pronoun Reference, Comparison and Punctuation of the Participle Phrase* (or something like that) and was about grammar. More specifically, it compared three commonly made grammat...

It is 1955 and the government in Czechoslovakia has declared an amnesty for post-war emigrants. Many of them returned to their families, only young Pavel Kocián's single mother waits in vain for him. Despite her protests, Tomáš Stach, an assembler, is accommod...

Two wealthy brothers have feelings for the stableman's daughter. When the younger son tries to rape her, the girl runs away from the house. A fashion designer takes her in and she becomes a famous model until the older brother runs into her.

While assisting the Bombay Police in arresting diamond smugglers, Shekhar (Pradeep Kumar) suspects Bhagwandas (Nazir Hussain) who owns a jewellery shop. Soon, he discovers that Bhagwandas is the father of Rita, his love interest (Madhubala).

Nodding to the TV actress Mary Martin, who took part in a New York anti-litter campaign in 1961, Paul Morrissey imagines a pretty young litter-picker turned murderess who poisons bums with adulterated booze until an old bag lady throws her under a motorized st...

A rather simplistic film produced in black-and-white about a worker’s troubles with the factory; with its fairly brilliant, collage-like use of cutouts of actual factory machinery.

After her husband's death, Manorama is left alone with an infant daughter. The daughter falls ill due to poor nutrition, and in an act of desperation Manorama leaves the daughter in front of the house of Seth Jagatnarayan Chaudhary, a wealthy man who, having...

A State Department employee, who is suspected of murdering a high government official, sets out to hunt down the real killer.

After the murder of a brutal landowner, and six long years of incarceration, unarmed Tasos returns to his village, only to face the deceased's murderous brothers. Is Tasos willing to honour his promise to his late mother?

A short directed by Herbert Mayer-Franck.

Not having heard that war has erupted between the U.S. and Mexico, a wagon train heads west, only to find itself threatened by the Mexicans who have teamed up with hostile Indians.

Works on Rua Farani, reception of the Cuban ambassador and Dom Jaime Câmara, day of scouting, nakedness of the employees of the Guanabara Palace. Film 16mm, PB, silent. Directed by Esdras Baptista, 1961. LUPA-UFF collection.

Lucien, a modest engineering student, discovers that his steady girl friend Mireille is using him to cover up her dates with Mario, an older man. Lucien wanders about the streets of Paris and meets Joëlle, a sophisticated teenager who supports herself with a j...

1961 Japanese film about the Shinsengumi.

Film medallion of actress Terezie Brzková.