Movie List for "1961"

Plácido (1961) Comedy Drama Movie

In a small Spanish town, a group of old ladies decides to celebrate Christmas Eve with a “seat a poor man at your table” dinner: each wealthy household of the town will have a homeless person dining with them that night. The celebrat Year 1961.

Generes: Comedy, Drama
Director: Luis García Berlanga
Writer: Luis García Berlanga, Rafael Azcona, José Luis Colina
Actors: Cassen, José Luis López Vázquez, Elvira Quintillá

Buta to gunkan (1961) Action Comedy Crime Movie

A young hoodlum decides to work for a criminal organization that is tearing itself apart. Year 1961.

Generes: Action, Comedy, Crime
Director: Shohei Imamura
Writer: Hisashi Yamanouchi, Gisashi Yamauchi, Kazu Ôtsuka
Actors: Hiroyuki Nagato, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Masao Mishima

Banditi a Orgosolo (1961) Drama Movie

In the harsh granite mountains of the center of the island of Sardinia in the Mediterranean Sea, an old people live at the town of Orgòsolo. Between the rocks and the oak woods, shepherds attend their flock of sheep like their fore f Year 1961.

Generes: Drama
Director: Vittorio De Seta
Writer: Vera Gherarducci, Vittorio De Seta
Actors: Michele Cossu, Peppeddu Cuccu, Vittorina Pisano

Yôjinbô (1961) Action Drama Thriller Movie

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town. Year 1961.

Generes: Action, Drama, Thriller
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Writer: Akira Kurosawa, Ryûzô Kikushima
Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tôno, Tatsuya Nakadai

L’année dernière à Marienbad (1961) Drama Mystery Movie

In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before. Year 1961.

Generes: Drama, Mystery
Director: Alain Resnais
Writer: Alain Robbe-Grillet
Actors: Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff

Eien no hito (1961) Drama Movie

A young woman is forced by circumstance into a loveless marriage while still in love with another. This episodic tale follows their story through three decades of bitter conflict which engulfs their children and those around them. Year 1961.

Generes: Drama
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Writer: Keisuke Kinoshita
Actors: Hideko Takamine, Keiji Sada, Tatsuya Nakadai

Divorzio all’italiana (1961) Comedy Drama Romance Movie

A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife. Year 1961.

Generes: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Pietro Germi
Writer: Alfredo Giannetti, Ennio De Concini, Pietro Germi
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli

Seniman bujang lapok (1961) Comedy Movie

The third installment of the ‘Bujang Lapok’ movies, the three bachelors try to make it as movie stars but their naivete and inexperience provide hilarious results. Along the way, they have to deal with the various neighbours around t Year 1961.

Generes: Comedy
Director: P. Ramlee
Writer: H.M. Rohaizad, Rohavlee
Actors: P. Ramlee, Aziz Sattar, S. Shamsuddin

West Side Story (1961) Crime Drama Musical Romance Movie

Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy. Year 1961.

Generes: Crime, Drama, Musical, Romance
Director: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
Writer: Ernest Lehman (screenplay by), Arthur Laurents (book), Jerome Robbins (play)
Actors: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno

Pit and the Pendulum (1961) Drama Horror Mystery Movie

In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister’s death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor. Year 1961.

Generes: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Director: Roger Corman
Writer: Richard Matheson (screenplay), Edgar Allan Poe (story “The Pit and the Pendulum”)
Actors: Vincent Price, John Kerr, Barbara Steele, Luana Anders

Son of the South (2020) Biography Drama Movie

The true story of one young white Southerner in the Summer of 1961, caught in a place and time where he had to choose which side he was on. Year 2020.

Generes: Biography, Drama
Director: Barry Alexander Brown
Writer: Barry Alexander Brown, Bob Zellner, Constance Curry
Actors: Lucas Till, Jim Klock, Michael Sirow

Gagarin. Pervyy v kosmose (2013) Adventure Biography Drama Movie

On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Gagarin blasted off in a Vostok rocket and he orbited Earth for 106 minutes. He was the cosmonaut who was selected from over three thousand fighter pilots throughout the Soviet Union. Year 2013.

Generes: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Director: Pavel Parkhomenko
Writer: Oleg Kapanets, Andrey Dmitriev
Actors: Yaroslav Zhalnin, Mikhail Filippov, Vladimir Steklov

The Duke (2020) Biography Comedy Drama Movie

In 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60 year old taxi driver, steals Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. Year 2020.

Generes: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Director: Roger Michell
Writer: Richard Bean, Clive Coleman
Actors: Jim Broadbent, Heather Craney, Stephen Rashbrook

Gagarin. Pervyy v kosmose (2013) Adventure Biography Drama History Movie

On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Gagarin blasted off in a Vostok rocket and he orbited Earth for 108 minutes. He was the cosmonaut who was selected from over three thousand fighter pilots throughout the Soviet Union. Year 2013.

Generes: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Director: Pavel Parkhomenko
Writer: Andrey Dmitriev, Oleg Kapanets
Actors: Yaroslav Zhalnin, Mikhail Filippov, Olga Ivanova, Vadim Michman