Chronological Master List of '60s Films - 1961
A thousand or so of the most notable films of the ‘60s, plus everything from the decade we’ve covered on the podcast or written a little something about somewhere. Find this same list alphabetically here.
1961
• Gorgo (1961, Director: Eugène Lourié | Stars: Bill Travers, William Sylvester, Vincent Winter, Christopher Rhodes)
• Pigs and Battleships (1961, Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Hiroyuki Nagato, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Masao Mishima, Tetsurô Tanba)
• La Notte (1961, Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki) (Read Jenna's review) (Ep #16 - Michelangelo Antonioni in the 60s)
• One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961, Directors: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman | Stars: Rod Taylor, Betty Lou Gerson, J. Pat O'Malley, Martha Wentworth)
• The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961, Director: Masaki Kobayashi | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Tamao Nakamura, Yûsuke Kawazu)
• The Misfits (1961, Director: John Huston | Stars: Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter)
• Girl with a Suitcase (1961, Director: Valerio Zurlini | Stars: Claudia Cardinale, Jacques Perrin, Luciana Angiolillo, Renato Baldini) (Ep #10 - Kiss, Marry, Kill in the 60s: 1961 Edition)
• Mother Joan of the Angels (1961, Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Stars: Lucyna Winnicka, Mieczyslaw Voit, Anna Ciepielewska, Maria Chwalibóg) (Read Jenna's review) (Ep #9 - Polish Arthouse Cinema in the 60s)
• Reptilicus (1961, Directors: Poul Bang, Sidney W. Pink | Stars: Bent Mejding, Asbjørn Andersen, Povl Wøldike, Ann Smyrner)
• Underworld U.S.A. (1961, Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Dolores Dorn, Beatrice Kay, Paul Dubov)
• Lola (1961, Director: Jacques Demy | Stars: Anouk Aimée, Marc Michel, Jacques Harden, Alan Scott)
• The Absent Minded Professor (1961, Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk)
• Wise Guys (1961, Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Jean-Claude Brialy, Bernadette Lafont, Jean Tissier, Sacha Briquet) (Read Jenna's review) (Ep #10 - Kiss, Marry, Kill in the 60s: 1961 Edition)
• Blast of Silence (1961, Director: Allen Baron | Stars: Allen Baron, Molly McCarthy, Larry Tucker, Peter Clune)
• All in a Night's Work (1961, Director: Joseph Anthony | Stars: Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Cliff Robertson, Charles Ruggles) (Read Jenna's review)
• A Raisin in the Sun (1961, Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands) (Ep #12 - Black Masculinity in the 60s)
• One-Eyed Jacks (1961, Director: Marlon Brando | Stars: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Pina Pellicer, Katy Jurado)
• Scream of Fear (1961, Director: Seth Holt | Stars: Susan Strasberg, Ann Todd, Ronald Lewis, Christopher Lee)
• The Assassin (1961, Director: Elio Petri | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Micheline Presle, Cristina Gaioni, Salvo Randone) (Read Jenna's review)
• Phantom Lovers (1961, Director: Antonio Pietrangeli | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Belinda Lee, Sandra Milo, Eduardo De Filippo) (Read Jenna's review)
• Yojimbo (1961, Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tôno, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yôko Tsukasa) (Read Jenna's review)
• The Guns of Navarone (1961, Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: David Niven, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Quayle)
• The Curse of the Werewolf (1961, Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Clifford Evans, Oliver Reed, Yvonne Romain, Catherine Feller) (Read Jenna's review)
• The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961, Director: Coleman Francis | Stars: Douglas Mellor, Barbara Francis, Bing Stafford, Larry Aten)
• The Parent Trap (1961, Director: David Swift | Stars: Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Charles Ruggles)
• Viridiana (1961, Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey, José Calvo)
• Goodbye Again (1961, Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Yves Montand, Anthony Perkins, Jessie Royce Landis)
• Two Rode Together (1961, Director: John Ford | Stars: James Stewart, Richard Widmark, Shirley Jones, Linda Cristal)
• The Young Savages (1961, Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Edward Andrews, Vivian Nathan)
• The Ladies Man (1961, Director: Jerry Lewis | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Helen Traubel, Pat Stanley, Kathleen Freeman) (Read Jenna's review)
• Master of the World (1961, Director: William Witney | Stars: Vincent Price, Charles Bronson, Henry Hull, Mary Webster)
• The Deadly Companions (1961, Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Steve Cochran, Chill Wills)
• The Last Sunset (1961, Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas, Dorothy Malone, Joseph Cotten)
• Wild in the Country (1961, Director: Philip Dunne | Stars: Elvis Presley, Hope Lange, Tuesday Weld, Millie Perkins) (Read Jenna's review)
• Homicidal (1961, Director: William Castle | Stars: Glenn Corbett, Patricia Breslin, Eugenie Leontovich, Alan Bunce)
• The Colossus of Rhodes (1961, Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Rory Calhoun, Lea Massari, Georges Marchal, Conrado San Martín)
• Striped Trip (1961, Director: Vladimir Fetin | Stars: Aleksey Gribov, Ivan Dmitriev, Margarita Nazarova, Evgeniy Leonov)
• Fanny (1961, Director: Joshua Logan | Stars: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Charles Boyer, Horst Buchholz)
• Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961, Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Antony Carbone, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Robert Towne, Beach Dickerson)
• Night Tide (1961, Director: Curtis Harrington | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Linda Lawson, Gavin Muir, Luana Anders) (Read Jenna's review)
• A Woman Is a Woman (1961, Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Henri Attal) (Read Jenna's review) (Ep #3 - Anna Karina With Godard in the 60s)
• Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961, Director: Irwin Allen | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine, Barbara Eden, Peter Lorre)
• Invasion of the Neptune Men (1961, Director: Kôji Ohta | Stars: Shin'ichi Chiba, Ryûko Minakami, Mitsue Komiya, Seiichirô Kameishi)
• Whistle Down the Wind (1961, Director: Bryan Forbes | Stars: Alan Bates, Bernard Lee, Norman Bird, Diane Clare)
• Mothra (1961, Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Furankî Sakai, Hiroshi Koizumi, Kyôko Kagawa, Yumi Itô)
• Come September (1961, Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin)
• Pit and the Pendulum (1961, Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr, Luana Anders)
• Ada (1961, Director: Daniel Mann | Stars: Susan Hayward, Dean Martin, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Ralph Meeker) (Read Jenna's review)
• Last Year at Marienbad (1961, Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff, Françoise Bertin) (Read Jenna's review)
• Accattone (1961, Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Franco Citti, Franca Pasut, Silvana Corsini, Paola Guidi) (Read Jenna's review) (Ep #10 - Kiss, Marry, Kill in the 60s: 1961 Edition)
• Mysterious Island (1961, Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan, Gary Merrill)
• Victim (1961, Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price, Anthony Nicholls)
• Il Posto (1961, Director: Ermanno Olmi | Stars: Sandro Panseri, Loredana Detto, Corrado Aprile, Guido Chiti)
• Léon Morin, Priest (1961, Director: Jean-Pierre Melville | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Emmanuelle Riva, Irène Tunc, Nicole Mirel) (Read Jenna's review)
• Bloodlust! (1961, Director: Ralph Brooke | Stars: Wilton Graff, June Kenney, Walter Brooke, Robert Reed)
• A Taste of Honey (1961, Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Rita Tushingham, Dora Bryan, Robert Stephens, Murray Melvin)
• The Hustler (1961, Director: Robert Rossen | Stars: Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie, George C. Scott)
• Murder She Said (1961, Director: George Pollock | Stars: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, James Robertson Justice)
• Paris Blues (1961, Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Sidney Poitier, Louis Armstrong)
• Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961, Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen) (Read Jenna's review)
• Mr. Sardonicus (1961, Director: William Castle | Stars: Ronald Lewis, Audrey Dalton, Guy Rolfe, Oskar Homolka)
• Splendor in the Grass (1961, Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle, Audrey Christie) (Read Jenna's review) (Ep #10 - Kiss, Marry, Kill in the 60s: 1961 Edition)
• King of Kings (1961, Director: Nicholas Ray | Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, Siobhan McKenna, Hurd Hatfield, Ron Randell)
• Through a Glass Darkly (1961, Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow, Lars Passgård)
• The Devil's Brigade (1961, Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vince Edwards, Andrew Prine)
• West Side Story (1961, Directors: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise | Stars: Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn)
• Placido (1961, Director: Luis García Berlanga | Stars: Cassen, José Luis López Vázquez, Elvira Quintillá, Manuel Alexandre)
• El Cid (1961, Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, Geneviève Page) (Read Jenna's review) (Ep #29 - Sophia Loren in the 60s)
• The End of Summer (1961, Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Ganjirô Nakamura, Setsuko Hara, Yôko Tsukasa, Michiyo Aratama)
• The Comancheros (1961, Directors: Michael Curtiz, John Wayne | Stars: John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Ina Balin, Nehemiah Persoff)
• Flower Drum Song (1961, Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta, Benson Fong, Jack Soo)
• Summer and Smoke (1961, Director: Peter Glenville | Stars: Laurence Harvey, Geraldine Page, Rita Moreno, Una Merkel) (Read Jenna's review) (Ep #24 - Tennessee Williams in the 60s)
• Blue Hawaii (1961, Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Elvis Presley, Joan Blackman, Angela Lansbury, Nancy Walters) (Read Jenna's review)
• The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961, Director: Val Guest | Stars: Edward Judd, Janet Munro, Leo McKern, Michael Goodliffe)
• The Errand Boy (1961, Director: Jerry Lewis | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Brian Donlevy, Howard McNear, Dick Wesson) (Read Jenna's review)
• The Innocents (1961, Director: Jack Clayton | Stars: Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins, Michael Redgrave) (Read Jenna's review) (Ep #10 - Kiss, Marry, Kill in the 60s: 1961 Edition)
• Paris Belongs to Us (1961, Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Betty Schneider, Giani Esposito, Françoise Prévost, Daniel Crohem)
• The Phantom Planet (1961, Director: William Marshall | Stars: Dean Fredericks, Coleen Gray, Anthony Dexter, Francis X. Bushman)
• Babes in Toyland (1961, Director: Jack Donohue | Stars: Ray Bolger, Tommy Sands, Annette Funicello, Ed Wynn)
• Judgment at Nuremberg (1961, Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich)
• One, Two, Three (1961, Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin, Arlene Francis) (Read Jenna's review) (Read Bart's review) (Ep #4 - Cold War Comedies in the 60s)
• Pocketful of Miracles (1961, Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, Hope Lange, Arthur O'Connell)
• The Children's Hour (1961, Director: William Wyler | Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner, Miriam Hopkins)
• Divorce Italian Style (1961, Director: Pietro Germi | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli, Leopoldo Trieste) (Read Jenna's review)
• Madame (1961, Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Sophia Loren, Robert Hossein, Renaud Mary, Julien Bertheau) (Ep #29 - Sophia Loren in the 60s)
• Lover Come Back (1961, Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Edie Adams)
• Something Wild (1961, Director: Jack Garfein | Stars: Carroll Baker, Ralph Meeker, Mildred Dunnock, Jean Stapleton) (Read Jenna's review) (Ep #10 - Kiss, Marry, Kill in the 60s: 1961 Edition)
• Barabbas (1961, Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Silvana Mangano, Arthur Kennedy, Katy Jurado)
• The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961, Director: José Quintero | Stars: Vivien Leigh, Warren Beatty, Coral Browne, Jill St. John) (Read Jenna's review) (Ep #24 - Tennessee Williams in the 60s)
• The Steamroller and the Violin (1961, Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Igor Fomchenko, Vladimir Zamanskiy, Natalya Arkhangelskaya, Marina Adzhubei)
• The Fiancés of the Bridge Mac Donald (1961, Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Anna Karina, Jean-Luc Godard, Emilienne Caille, Eddie Constantine) (Ep #11 - Agnes Varda in the 60s)
