1961 Movies

This newly rediscovered short was created in Jim's home studio in Bethesda, MD around 1961. It is one of several experimental shorts inspired by the m...

Perez kidnaps the President's daughter to trade her for imprisoned revolutionaries.

September 1943: in the general confusion a thief dressed as a priest and a sergeant exchange clothes and roles.

Nikkatsu finally responds to Suzuki's growing discontentment by giving him a bigger budget and a better script. This episodic collection of "real coas...

The police investigate the murder of a wealthy old man.

A pure love story that depicts the joy of loving and the bitterness of being loved in a burst of youth.

Full of Caribbean music and from which a torrid romance is born.

One after another, expedition teams were being attacked in the Himalayas. With the unprecedented boom in snow men, the public began to make a fuss abo...

A potrait of Malmö, lovingly told by Gösta Werner and Nils Poppe.

Director Emil Rantamo goes with his family to the country for the summer. The family's son Fritsu gets engaged to Tipuli Niemi. Sausage maker Niemi th...

An inebriated mouse with a throbbing head takes a priceless diamond, thinking it's a soothing piece of ice. Two policemen, one of them a lunkhead, are...

Horseman. With a mask on. First in a series, "El Norteño."

March, 1945: The insecure and hesitant reserve lieutenant Felix Bleck receives orders to lead a transport of 40 prisoners to the Western Front, where...

Colonels, majors, lieutenants: all of them live in the same building. Some of them have a wife or children or none, but everyone has his orderly. Majo...

Three stories with three central female characters linking the stories together. The first one concerns an orphan girl who grows attached to the post...

Dmitry Gorin is awaiting the post of branch manager of a savings bank. But one day he accidentally gives an extra amount to a person who works in the...

On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space. He was launched into a sub-orbital ballistic trajectory onboard a Mercury capsule, Fr...