Seeking out the

5000 greatest films

in a century of cinema

Not Yet Seen in 1961

The Absent-Minded Professor – Robert Stevenson

Accattone – Pier Poalo Pasolini

Ada – Daniel Man

All in a Night’s Work – Joseph Anthony

L’Amant de cinq jours – Philippe de Broca

And Lov Has Vanished (Dvoji) – Aleksandar Petrovic

Angel Baby – Paul Wendoks

Antigone – Yorgos Javellas

Armored Command – Byron Haskin

The Artillery Sergent Kalen (Ogniomistrz Kalen) – Ewa Petelska / Czeslaw Petelski

The Assassin (L’assassino) – Elio Pertri

Atlantis, the Lost Continent – George Pal

Babes in Toyland – Jack Doohue

Bachelor in Paradise – Jack Arnold

Back Street – David Miller

Banditi a Orgosolo (Bandits of Orgosolo) – Vittorio De Sata

Barabbas – Richard Fleisher

The Big Bankroll – Joseph M. Newman

The Big Gamble – Richard Fleischer

Black Silk (Prae dun) – Rattana Pestoji

Blast of Silence – Allen Baron

The Blond from Buenos Aires (Una Americanan en Buenos Aires) – George Cahan

Blue Hawaii – Norman Taurog

A Bomb Was Stolen (S-a furat o bomba) – Ion Popescu-Gopo

Bootleggers (Samogonshchiki) – Leoid Gaidai

Bridge to the Sun – Etienne Perier

By Love Possessed – John Sturges

Carry On Regardless – Gerald Thomas

Cash On Demand – Queton Lawrence

A cavallo della tigre – Luigi Comencini

The Children’s Hour – William Wyler

Chroniale of Flaming Years (Povest plamennykh let) – Yuliya Solntseva

The Coachman – Kang Dae-jin

The Colossus of Rhodes (Ill Colosso di Rodi) – Sergio Leone

The Comancheros – Michael Curtiz

Come September – Robert Mulligan

Cry for Happy – George Marshall

The Cossackes (Kazaki) – Vasili Pronin

The Curse of the Werewolf – Terence Fisher

Daigaku no Wakadaisho – Toshio Sugie

The Deadly Companions – Sam Peckinpah

Dersu Uzala – Agasi Babayan

The Devil at 4 O’Clock – Mervyn LeRoy

A Difficult Life (Una vita difficile) – Dino Risi

El Cid – Anthony Mann

The End of Summer (Kohayagawa-ke no aki lit) – Yasujiro Ozu

The End of the Cancageiros (A Morte Comando o Cangaco) – Carlos Coimbra

The Erran Boy – Jerry Lewis

The Exiles - Kent MacKenzie

The Explosive Generation – Buzz Kulik

Fanny – Joshua Logan

The Fascist (Il Federale) – Luciano Salce

A Fever in the Blood – Vincent Sherman

Five Golden Hours – Mario Zampi

Flame in the Streets – Roy Ward Baker

Flower Drum Song – Henry Koster

Francis of Assisi – Michael Curtiz

The Frightened City – John Lermont

Fury at Smugglers’ Bay – John Gilling

The George Raft Story – Joseph M. Newman

Gidget Goes Hawaiian – Paul Wendkos

Girl with a Suitcase (La Ragazza conla valigia) – Valerio Zurlini

Go Naked in the World – Ranald MacDougall

Goodbye Again – Antole Litvak

Gorgo – Eugene Lourie

The Great Impostor – Robert Mulligan

The Greengage Summer (The Loss of Innocence) – Lewis Gilbert

Gunga Jumma – Nitin Bose

Harry and the Butler (Harry og kammertjeneren) – Bent Chrstensen

Havoc in Heaven – Wan Laiming

The Hellions – Irving Allen / Ken Annakin

Hogs and Warships (Pigs and Battleships / Buta to gunkan) – Sholei Imamura

Homicidal – William Castle

The Honeymoon Machine – Richard Thorpe

Hoodlum Priest – Irvin Kershner

The Human Condition (Ningen no joken) – Masaki Kobayasho

The Houseguest and My Mother (Sarangbang sonnimgwa eomeoni) – Shin Sang-ok

Immortal Love (Eien no hito) – Keisuke Kinoshita

Invasion Quartet –Jay Lewis

The Joy of Living (Che goiia vivere / Quelle joie de vivre) – Allain Resnais

King of Kings – Nicholas Ray

The Knife (Het Mes) – Fons Rademakers

The Ladies Man – Jerry Lewis

The Last Judgement (Il giudizio universale) – Vittorio De Sica

The Last Sunset – Robert Aldrich

The Last Time I Saw Archie – Jack Webb

The Last War (Sekai Daisenso) – Shue Matsubayashi

Leon Morin, Priest (Leon Morin, pretre) – Jean-Pierre Melville

Lola – Jacques Demy

The Long Absence (Une Aussi longue absence) – Henri Colpi

The Long and the Short and the Tall – Leslie Norman

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The Lovemakers (La Viaccia) – Mauro Bolognini

Lover Come Back – Delbert Mann

Madame (Madame Sans-Gene) – Christian-Jaque

A Majority of One – Mervyn LeRoy

Man-Trap – Edmond O’Brien

The Mark – Guy Green

The Mask – Julian Roffman

The Miracale of Father Malachia (Das Wunder des Malachias) – Bernard Wicki

Mother Joan of the Angels (Matka Joanna od Aniolow) – Jerzy Kawaerowicz

Mr. Topaz – Peter Sellers

Murder, She Said – Geroge Pollock

Mysterious Island – Cy Endfield

The Naked Edge – Michael Anderson

Nazrana (Gift) - C.V. Sridhar

Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile (Nefertiti, regina del Nilo) – Fernando Cerchio

No Love for Johnnie – Ralph Tomas

Not My Darling Daughter – Ralph Thomas

La Notte (The Night) – Michelangelo Antonioni

Nude on the Moon – Doris Wishman

On The Fiddle – Cyril Frankel

One, Two, Three – Billy Wilder

The Outsider – Delbert Man

Paris Belongs to Us (Paris nous appartient) – Jacques Rivette

Paris Blues – Martin Ritt

Parrish – Delmer Daves

Peace to Him Who Enters – Vladimir Naumov

The Pit ad the Pedulum – Roger Corman

Placido – Luis Garcia Bertanga

Please, Not Now! (La Bride sur le cou) – Roger Vadim

The Pleasure of His Company – George Seaton

Pocketful of Miracles – Frank Capra

Portrait of a Mobster – Joseph Pevney

Il Posto – Ermanno Olmi

Professor Mamlock – Konrad Wolf

The Queen’s Gaurds – Michael Powell

Question 7 – Stuart Rosenberg

The Rebel (Call Me Genius) –

Return to Peyton Place – Jose Ferrer

The Right Approch = David Butler

Sale a Crooked Ship – Irving Brecher

Scarlet Sails (Alye parusa) – Alexandr Ptushko

The Second Time Around – Vincent Sherman

The Secret Partner – Basil Dearden

The Secret Ways – Phil Karlson / Richard Widmark

Seetharama Kalanam – N. Trivikrama Rao

The Singer and Not the Song – Roy Ward Baker

The Sins of Rachel Cade – Gordon Douglas

A Soldier’s Prayer – Masaki Kobayashi

A Song About the Gray Pigeon (Piesen o sivem holuboi) – Stanislav Barabas

Spare the Rod – Leslie Norman

The Steamroller and the Violin (Katok I skripka) – Andrie Tarkovsky

Summer and Smoke – Peter Glenville

Susan Slade – Delmer Daves

Taste of Fear – Seth Holt

A Taste of Honey – Tony Richardson

Three Daughters (Teen Kanya) – Satyajit Ray

Then Nilavu (Honey Moon) C.V. Sridhar

A Thunder Drums – Joseph M. Newman

Tintin and the Golden Fleece (Tintin et e mystere de la Toison) – Jean-Pierre Talbot / George Willson

Two Living, One Dead – Anthony Asquith

Two Road Together – John Ford

Underworld USA – Sam Fuller

Viridiana – Luis Bunuel

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea – Irwin Allen

We Were Young (A byahme mladi) – Binka Zhelyazkova

When the Trees Were Tall (Kogda derevya byli bolshimi) – Lev Kulidzhanov

Whistle Down the Wind – Bryan Forbes

Wife Number 13 (Al zouga talattashar) – Fatin Abdel Wahab

Wild in the Country – Philip Dunne

Wise Guys (Les Godelureaux) – Claude Chabrol

A Woman is a Woman – Jean-Luc Godard

The Wonders of Aladdin – Mario Bava / Henry Levin

The Young Ones (Wonderful to Be Young) – Sidney J. Furie

Young People (Los jovenes) – Luis Alcoriza

The Young Savages – John Frankenheimer