Best movies of 1961

Titles indexed: 49

The Hustler

Rating: 7.7

Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the...

Konga

Rating: 4.3

Dr. Decker returns from Africa after a year, presumed dead. In that year, he discovered a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous s...

Paris Blues

Rating: 6.5

During the 1960s, two American jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls and must decide between ...

Sawt Echaâb

Rating: 10.0

“La Voix du Peuple,” composed of archival photographs by René Vauthier and others, exposes the root causes of the armed conflict of the Alge...

King of Kings

Rating: 7.2

Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused, beloved, betrayed, and finally crucifi...

Lover Come Back

Rating: 7.0

Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each other’s methods. After he steals a c...

The Comancheros

Rating: 6.7

Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a ba...

Atlas

Rating: 3.1

Evil king Praximedes convinces superhero Atlas to fight for him, but Atlas eventually sees the king's true nature and turns against him....

Accattone

Rating: 7.7

A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison....

The Big Gamble

Rating: 5.7

Irish seaman Vic Brennan persuades his Dublin family to finance a truck-hauling business in the remote African town of Jebanda. The only sti...

Misty

Rating: 5.9

Every year the Chincoteague fire department rounds up the wild ponies of Assateague Island and holds an auction to thin out the herd. The yo...

Mr. Sardonicus

Rating: 6.3

In 1880, Sir Robert Cargrave, a London physician known for his experimental work in paralysis treatment, is summoned to Gorslava by the myst...

A Geisha's Diary

Rating: 7.4

A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live n...

Blast of Silence

Rating: 7.0

A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York. But a special girl from his past and a fat gun dealer...

Safari Ya Gari

Rating: 0.0

This early travelogue film, made in a Kenyan train station, captures an impromptu musical performance. Some passengers eagerly join in while...

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