1961 Movies

A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an explosion...

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...

A mother and daughter create bitterness, hatred, acrimony and discord in a wealthy family.

1961 Japanese movie

Dr. Frank Harlow is in the process of trying to save a man badly beaten by two gangsters whom he identifies to the police. When the victim dies the ch...

This film shows that the crooks who steal public funds and avoid labor can never escape the watchful eyes of the protectors.

A popular but naive country singer is elected governor of a southern state and, once in office, decides to dismantle the corrupt political machine tha...

1961 Japanese movie

Set in a juvenile detention center and depicted with a documentary touch.

Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real esta...

Based on a novel by Maria Majerova, this well-photographed but routine romantic drama is directed and co-scripted by Vaclav Krska. Set in a more old-f...

Gauri Shankar Roy looks much like the king of Jhind. When the actual king, Shakar Singh, goes missing, a person from the kingdom approaches Gauri to p...

Keisuke Morita, a man with dark glasses standing on the Shibaura pier, a descendant of an illegitimate descendant left behind in Osaka and a brother o...

A gang of career criminals plots the robbery of an armored car company's headquarters. Although the robbery itself goes off as planned, it's not long...

A small group of Americans take part in an attempted overthrow of Fidel Castro's Communist regime in Cuba.

A story about a tomboy, Otoshi, who is good at singing, dancing and fencing.

Professor Bruce Patterson is constantly having to fight off the advances of his young female students and is engaged to Helen Bushmill. While Helen go...

Carefully chronicling in great detail the early years of Hitler's political life until his fall as the leader of Germany, this archive-footage documen...

Father insists that one of his sons get married... because with no woman in the house, they can't get a good meal. The rest of the movie is devoted to...