Sekushî chitai

1961

Japanese

6.6

♡ 5

Action

Crime

japanese noir

Teruo Ishii Director

Kazuo Harada as

Toshio Hosokawa as Gorô Sudô

Teruo Yoshida as Hiroshi Yoshioka

Mako Sanjô as Reiko Takigawa

It tells the story of a couple who fall into a trap set up by a sinister organization. One of them is a guy who is framed for the murder of his lover. The other is a woman pick-pocket who is entrapped by the organization's schemes involving their crimes. Fate places them together, and they start to investigate the prostitution ring run by the organization...

Look in Any Window

1961

English

5.4

♡ 1

William Alland Director

Carole Mathews as Betty Lowell

Paul Anka as Craig Fowler

Gigi Perreau as Eileen Lowell

Jack Cassidy as Gareth Lowell

A teenager's parents finally realize how bad their home life is when their son is arrested for prowling.

All in a Night's Work

1961

English

6.1

♡ 6

43%

Joseph Anthony Director

Charles Evans as Colonel Ryder

Mary Treen as Miss Schuster

Kenneth Gibson as Nightclub Patron

Ian Wolfe as O'Hara

After the sudden death of magazine publisher Colonel Ryder, his nephew, Tony inherits the magazine and has big plans to expand it. While negotiating a loan from the bank, Tony gets a call from a detective surrounding his uncle's death. It turns out Colonel Ryder died in his hotel room with a smile on his face and a young woman was seen fleeing his room wearing only a towel. Suspicious of this woman and afraid the magazine's wholesome image may be tarnished and their loan denied, Tony asks the detective to stick around and find her.

Roommates

1961

English

5.9

♡ 5

Gerald Thomas Director

Brian Oulton as Concert Agent

Jennifer Jayne as Jill Clemons

James Robertson Justice as Sir Benjamin Boyd

Geoffrey Keen as Sir John

'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Robertson Justice, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams, Liz Fraser and Eric Barker. The film follows the hi-jinks of a group of music students who move into a shared flat in order to cut costs and have somewhere to practice their instruments. Things get tricky when Mervyn Hughes (Phillips) accidentally sells one of his compositions to an advertising agency and risks losing his scholarship. Can he and his friends find a way to raise the money to buy back the song rights?

The Connection

1961

English

7.0

♡ 1

95%

Shirley Clarke Director

Garry Goodrow as Ernie

William Redfield as Jim Dunn

Roscoe Lee Browne as J. J. Burden

Barbara Winchester as Sister Salvation

A title card announces that the film is a result of found footage assembled by cameraman J.J. Burden working for the acclaimed documentary filmmaker Jim Dunn, who has disappeared. Leach, a heroin addict, introduces the audience to his apartment where other heroin addicts, a mix of current and former jazz musicians, are waiting for Cowboy, their drug connection, to appear. Things go out of control as the men grow increasingly nervous and the cameraman keeps recording.

La viaccia

1961

Italian

6.9

♡ 4

Action

Drama

Mauro Bolognini Director

Jean-Paul Belmondo as Amerigo

Claudia Cardinale as Bianca

Emma Baron as Giovanna

Dante Posani as Gustavo

The death of a wealthy patriarch in 1885 sets off an interfamily power struggle. Son Ferdinando buys out his other relatives in order to gain full control over the dead man's property. But Ferdinando's nephew Amerigo holds out. Amerigo's stance is weakened when he heads for Florence and meets prostitute Bianca.

Léon Morin, Priest

1961

French

7.5

♡ 12

Action

based on novel or book

Jean-Pierre Melville Director

Gérard Buhr as Gunther

Jean-Paul Belmondo as Léon Morin

Howard Vernon as The colonel

Volker Schlöndorff as Un soldat allemand

Barny, although a Marxist, is intrigued by the mysteries of religion. In confession, she teases a priest, Léon Morin, but he is a young and intelligent man and ready to discuss anything.

The Misfits

1961

English

7.2

♡ 39

97%

John Huston Director

Estelle Winwood as Church Lady Collecting Money in Bar

Thelma Ritter as Isabelle Steers

Montgomery Clift as Perce Howland

Kevin McCarthy as Raymond Taber

While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland and former World War II aviator Guido Racanelli. The two men instantly become infatuated with Roslyn and, on a whim, the three decide to move into Guido's half-finished desert home together. When grizzled ex-rodeo rider Perce Howland arrives, the unlikely foursome strike up a business capturing wild horses.

Strangers of the Earth

1961

French

6.5

♡ 1

Documentary

local farmers

Mario Ruspoli Director

Famille Cheyla as Eux-mêmes

M. Beaufils as Lui-même - un petit propriétaire

Constantin as Lui-même - un vieux berger

Gilles Quéant as Récitant / Narrator

Les inconnus de la terre starts like a traditional feature film: in the beginning of the film all the leading roles are given a short introduction. This is followed by a number of interviews, in which the makers unashamedly appear themselves. They include an interview with a lonely shepherd and one with three unmarried brothers who try to run the parental farm for better or worse. Notwithstanding the fact that this mode of interviewing has now become classical, les inconnus de la terre works rather refreshingly. The film is more than just an enumeration of problems. In an honest way it shows the ties of those involved to the land and to nature, in addition to being a plea for the modernization of French agriculture.

A Raisin in the Sun

1961

English

8.0

♡ 23

90%

86%

Action

based on play or musical

Daniel Petrie Director

Ivan Dixon as Asagai

Diana Sands as Beneatha Younger

George DeNormand as Employer

Ruby Dee as Ruth Younger

Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall.

Blue Hawaii

1961

English

6.1

♡ 20

22%

Norman Taurog Director

John Archer as Jack Kelman

Kenneth Gibson as Party Guest

Angela Lansbury as Sarah Lee Gates

Gene LeBell as (uncredited)

Chad Gates has just been discharged from the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surf-board, his beach buddies and his girlfriend.

The Catch

1961

Japanese

6.8

♡ 4

Nagisa Ôshima Director

Akiko Koyama as Hiroko Ishii

Sadako Sawamura as Katsu, Kazumasa's wife

Rentarô Mikuni as Kazumasa Takano

Teruko Kishi as Masu Tsukada

Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their 'catch'.

The Last Sunset

1961

English

6.7

♡ 10

60%

Robert Aldrich Director

Dorothy Malone as Belle Breckenridge

Joseph Cotten as John Breckenridge

Carol Lynley as Melissa 'Missy' Breckenridge

Regis Toomey as Milton Wing

At a Mexican ranch, fugitive O'Malley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher Breckenridge drive his herd into Texas where Stribling could legally arrest O'Malley, but Breckenridge's wife complicates things.

Man Called Rocca

6.4

Jean Becker Director

Christine Kaufmann as Geneviève Adé

Jean-Paul Belmondo as Roberto La Rocca

Gérard Hernandez as Un prisonnier démineur

Dominique Zardi as Un prisonnier démineur

Roberto goes to Marseilles to give a hand to his friend Xavier, wrongly imprisoned following a frame-up organized by his associate Villanova. Roberto sets out to seduce Villanova's mistress, but when Villanova is killed, Roberto ends up leader of the band...

Johnny Nobody

1961

English

6.4

♡ 2

Nigel Patrick Director

Nigel Patrick as Father Carey

William Bendix as James Ronald Mulcahy

Aldo Ray as Johnny Nobody

Michael Brennan as Supt. Lynch

When the atheistic ranting of Irish-American author James Mulcahy upsets the inhabitants of the Irish village to which he has retired, a mob threatens him. But moments after he has dared God to strike him dead, a stranger appears and does so. The man, dubbed "Johnny Nobody" by the press, claims no knowledge of Mulcahy or even of himself. He asks the help of the village priest, Father Carey, in his upcoming trial for Mulcahy's murder. While the amnesiac Johnny goes to trial, Father Carey mulls questions of belief raised by the case. And then, the good father learns a little more about Johnny Nobody...

Love New and Old

1961

Japanese

6.6

♡ 1

Drama

Masahiro Shinoda Director

Miyuki Kuwano as

Yûsuke Kawazu as

Masayuki Mori as

Bunta Sugawara as

A woman brings her injured daughter to the hospital, only to realize that the doctor is the estranged father of her child.

Lola

1961

French

♡ 12

95%

Jacques Demy Director

Catherine Lutz as Claire, the bar owner

Corinne Marchand as Daisy

Carlo Nell as Dancing Teacher

Anouk Aimée as Lola / Cécile

A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.

Onna bakari no yoru

1961

Japanese

7.3

♡ 3

Drama

woman director

Kinuyo Tanaka Director

Akemi Kita as Chieko

Sadako Sawamura as Dr. Kitamura

Chieko Seki as Oyuki

Yôsuke Natsuki as Tsukasa Hayakawa

In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Japan's new rehabilitation centers struggles to build a new life.

The Fantasy of Deer Warrior

1961

Chinese

5.9

♡ 1

Family

Fantasy

taiyupian

Ying Chang Director Yu Hsu

Yu Hsu as

Chin-Yi Kuo as

Yung-chi Huang as

Yun-lung Liu as

The happy lives of animals in the forest are stirred by the sudden attack of a pack of wolves. Uncle Deer comes to the rescue, and asks Birdy to notify his son, the Deer Warrior. Deer and his rival, Sika Deer fight for the love of Miss Deer while Foxy mingles with the leader of the wolves, desiring to be the prettiest in the land. A truly bizarre family (?) film from critic and pioneer Chang Ying.