1961 Movies

The story of John A. MacDonald’s rise to power.

Die Konzessionen des Mister Urquhart (The Concessions of Mr. Urquhart) (1961) is an East German documentary directed by Andrew Thorndike, Annelie Thor...

A social worker rescues a pretty young woman from an old rich landlord who wants to marry her. Enraged by this, the landlord falsely accuses the socia...

A UB Captain tries to apprehend a band of former resistance fighters causing havoc to citizens, but they're always one step ahead of him.

On the outskirts of the provincial town, Yevdokim and Yevdokiya live, raising foster children. Yevdokim works at a factory, Yevdokiya is a housewife....

When news of a caravan coming to the jungle to find animals for a new circus act is brough to him, Sidney tries to prepare an act for the circus exped...

Cannes Jury Prize-winning short film.

Tsuiseki is a 1961 crime film.

Short animated film commissioned by IBM - to illustrate Camille Jordan's concept of topology - the fact that a simple closed curve divides a plane int...

Documentary short film on the city of Évora, Portugal. Usually regarded as the first film of the Portuguese New Wave.

A young delinquent takes part in a robbery and is sentenced to a juvenile detention center, where he clashes with other youths and reflects on his lif...

Yianni Martakis, a sailor immigrant in New York City, is on a mission to find and kill the man who raped his sister. Along the way he becomes entangle...

A short film by Piotr Kamler from 1961.

Hibari Misora plays Yoshiko, the popular daughter of a fish market owner. After discovering that she was adopted, she sets out to help her biological...

Insurance salesman Tom and his wife Jenny are struggling through the first years of marriage in a modest flat, on Tom's even more modest salary. By co...

Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In “On the Road,” the two main prota...

When a USAF sergeant stationed on a base in England is suspected and then accused of murdering a woman, both he and a local school teacher must race t...

A condemned criminal's acquaintances gather at a remote lodge on the eve of his execution to search for hidden money.