Man-Trap

Edmond O'Brien Director

Don Diamond as Mexican Border Guard

Stella Stevens as Nina Jameson

Frank Albertson as Paul Snavely

Perry Lopez as Puerco

Helmed by Edmond O'Brien, this slick crime thriller stars Jeffrey Hunter as naïve Matt Jameson, whose Korean War pal Vince Biskay talks Matt into helping commandeer nearly $4 million from a Central American dictator. After Vince is wounded in a gun battle as they're making off with the loot, the duo holes up at Matt's house -- where his boozy, promiscuous wife puts the moves on Vince.

Sanctuary

1961

English

♡ 4

based on novel or book

In 1920s rural Mississippi, Nancy Mannigoe, an African-American servant, is placed on death row for the murder of Temple Drake's infant child. Temple, the daughter of the governor, pleads with her father to exonerate Nancy of the charges, explaining that Nancy acted in haste to prevent her from resuming her affair with a roguish Cajun called Candy Man. Details of Temple's sordid past are uncovered as she begs mercy for her faithful servant.

The Forgotten Faces

1961

English

6.6

♡ 3

Peter Watkins Director

Brian Turner as

Frances Mercer as

Michael Roy as

John Newing as

“The Forgotten Faces (1961), a film reconstruction of the Hungarian revolution of 1956, won Watkins another amateur Oscar, and to this day, the film is praised in England as "one of the most memorable amateur films ever made".

Fanny

1961

English

6.8

♡ 6

68%

Action

Drama

husband wife relationship

Joshua Logan Director

Moustache as

Charles Boyer as Cesar

Horst Buchholz as Marius

Maurice Chevalier as Panisse

Almost 19-year-old Marius feels himself in a rut in Marseille, his life planned for him by his cafe'-owning father, and he longs for the sea. The night before he is to leave on a 5-year voyage, Fanny, a girl he grew up with, reveals that she is in love with him, and he discovers that he is in love with her. He must choose between an exciting life at sea, and a boring life with the woman he loves. And Fanny must choose between keeping the man she loves, and letting him live the life he seems to want.

Night Tide

1961

English

6.4

♡ 10

86%

Curtis Harrington Director

Luana Anders as Ellen Sands

Dennis Hopper as Johnny Drake

Marjorie Eaton as Madame Romanovitch

Linda Lawson as Mora

A young sailor falls in love with a mysterious woman performing as a mermaid on the local pier. As they become entwined, he comes to suspect the woman might be a real mermaid who lures men to a watery death during the full moon. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2007.

The Mask

1961

English

5.8

♡ 15

Julian Roffman Director

Alfie Scopp as

Paul Stevens as Doctor Allan Barnes

Steven Appleby as Museum guide

Claudette Nevins as Pam Albright

A young archaeologist believes he is cursed by a mask that causes him to have weird nightmares and possibly to murder. Before committing suicide, he mails the mask to his psychiatrist, Dr. Barnes, who is soon plunged into the nightmare world of the mask.

Something Wild

1961

English

6.7

♡ 7

50%

Jack Garfein Director

Logan Ramsey as Bit Part

Diane Ladd as Bit Part

Ralph Meeker as Mike

Jean Stapleton as Shirley Johnson

A young rape victim tries desperately to pick up the pieces of her life, only to find herself at the mercy of a would-be rescuer.

On the Double

1961

English

6.4

♡ 15

58%

Melville Shavelson Director

Edgar Barrier as Blankmeister

Gregory Walcott as Colonel Rock Houston

Dana Wynter as Lady Margaret MacKenzie-Smith

Diana Dors as Sergeant Bridget Stanhope

American GI Ernie Williams, admittedly weak-kneed, has an uncanny resemblance to British Colonel MacKenzie. Williams, also a master of imitation and disguise, is asked to impersonate the Colonel, ostensibly to allow the Colonel to make a secret trip East. What Williams is not told is that the Colonel has recently been a target of assassins. After the Colonel's plane goes down, the plan changes and Williams maintains the disguise to confuse the Nazis about D-Day.

Pirates of Tortuga

1961

English

5.4

♡ 7

Action

Adventure

pirate

Robert D. Webb Director

Robert Stephens as Henry Morgan

Robert Adler as Merchant

Alan Caillou as Ringose

Edgar Barrier as Sir Thomas Mollyford

After a lengthy voyage, Capt. Bart docks his ship in a London harbor and is given a new mission by British Admiralty: capture the notorious Henry Morgan, a pirate who has been wreaking havoc throughout the Caribbean. After recruiting some former shipmates for his crew, Capt. Bart sets sail in search of the infamous buccaneer, and is joined by a beautiful female stowaway in the process.

Too Late Blues

1961

English

6.8

♡ 13

82%

John Cassavetes Director

Cliff Carnell as Charlie

Val Avery as Milt Frielobe

Nick Dennis as Nick Bubalinas

Seymour Cassel as Red

Ghost is an ideological musician and leader of a jazz band who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself. His peripatetic performances lead him to cross paths with a singer, while his masculinity is thrown into question following a violent brawl.

Posse from Hell

1961

English

6.6

♡ 3

43%

Herbert Coleman Director

Frank Overton as Burt Hogan

Forrest Lewis as Doctor Welles

Lee Van Cleef as Leo

Jerry Gatlin as Rider

Banner Cole is a tough sheriff's deputy who forms a small posse to go after 4 death cell escapees who killed the sheriff , along with 3 other men, and kidnapped a woman with rape in mind.

Tokyo Knights

1961

Japanese

6.1

♡ 4

Action

Crime

Seijun Suzuki Director

Chikako Hosokawa as

Hiroshi Kondô as

Nobuo Kaneko as

Ichiro Kijima as

A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime.

The Man with a Shotgun

1961

Japanese

6.3

♡ 4

Action

Crime

Seijun Suzuki Director

Akira Takahashi as

Izumi Ashikawa as

Yûji Odaka as (as Yuji Kodaka)

Takashi Ebata as Ken

Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of trouble surrounding the town's mill.

The Terror of the Tongs

1961

English

5.7

♡ 7

19%

Anthony Bushell Director

Ric Young as Confucius

Yvonne Monlaur as Lee

Roger Delgado as Tang Hao - Tong Enforcer

Cyril Shaps as (uncredited)

In 1910, Hong Kong, under the rule of the British Empire, is a prosperous and bustling city, but, hidden in the shadows of its many narrow streets, the hideous members of the Red Dragon gang, a branch of the evil Chinese secret society of the Tongs, lurk and murder those who oppose to their tyranny, which thrives on vice, crime and the fear of the weakest.

Spotlight on a Murderer

1961

French

6.5

♡ 5

Georges Franju Director

Jean Babilée as Christian de Kerloguen

Marianne Koch as Edwige

Jean-Louis Trintignant as Jean-Marie de Kerloguen

Lucien Raimbourg as Julien

An old count hides just before he dies to annoy his heirs. The heirs search a manor for the count's body and are killed off one by one. Jean-Marie, his fiancée Micheline, and Edwige investigate the deaths and search for the count's body.

Hercules in the Haunted World

1961

Italian

6.2

♡ 6

63%

Mario Bava Director

Osiride Pevarello as Assassin

Reg Park as Ercole

Mino Doro as Keros

Christopher Lee as Re Lico

Upon his return from battle in the previous film, the great warrior Hercules learns that his lover, Daianara, has lost her senses. Acording of the oracle Medea, Dianara's only hope is the Stone of Forgetfulness which lies deep in the realm of Hades. Hercules, with two companions, Theseus and Telemachus, embarks on a dangerous quest for the stone, while he is unaware that Dianara's guardian, King Lico, is the one responsible for her condition and plots to have the girl for himself as his bride upon her revival.

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

1961

English

6.0

♡ 19

72%

Irwin Allen Director

Ron Nyman as Crew Member

Regis Toomey as Dr. Jamieson

Joan Fontaine as Dr. Susan Hiller

Michael Ansara as Miguel Alvarez

The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.

Cash on Demand

1961

English

7.5

♡ 8

Quentin Lawrence Director

Paddy Smith as Bank Customer

Kevin Stoney as Detective Inspector Bill Mason

Peter Cushing as Harry Fordyce

Fred Stone as Window Cleaner

A charming but ruthless criminal holds the family of a bank manager hostage as part of a cold-blooded plan to steal £90,000.

I Like Money

1961

English

6.1

♡ 2

50%

Action

Comedy

Drama

Peter Sellers Director

John Le Mesurier as Blackmailer

Joan Sims as Colette

Billie Whitelaw as Ernestine

Leo McKern as Muche

Mr. Topaze is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses to give a passing grade to a bad student, the grandson of a wealthy baroness. Castel Benac, a government official who runs a crooked financial business on the side, is persuaded by his mistress, Suzy, a musical comedy actress, to hire Mr. Topaze as the front man for his business. Gradually, Topaze becomes a rapacious financier who sacrifices his honesty for success and, in a final stroke of business bravado, fires Benac and acquires Suzy in the deal. An old friend and colleague, Tamise questions him and tells Topaze that what he now says and practices indicates there are no more honest men.

His and Hers

1961

English

5.6

♡ 5

Action

Comedy

Brian Desmond Hurst Director

Janette Scott as Fran Blake

Joan Sims as Hortense

Marie Devereux as Stunning Wife

Francesca Annis as Wanda

Author-explorer Reggie Blake takes an unorthodox approach to his craft, apparently finding inspiration in the adventures suggested by his agent Charles Lunton; it matters little that most of his experiences are wildly embellished or even entirely fictitious...

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