Make Mine a Double
Year: 1961
Country: UK
Director: Darcy Conyers
Starring: Cecil Parker, William Hartnell, Brian Rix
Available Quality: DivX
A WWII British secret agent has a desperate mission in occupied France. An airman who is his double is enlisted in the scheme with the intention of confusing the enemy, but everyone gets confused.
Last Year At Marienbad
Year: 1961
Country: Italy, France
Director: Alain Resnais
Starring: Sacha Pitoëff, Françoise Bertin, Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Luce Garcia-Ville, Héléna Kornel, Françoise Spira
Available Quality: Hi Def
In a huge, old-fashioned luxury hotel a stranger tries to persuade a married woman to run away with him, but it seems she hardly remembers the affair they may have had (or not?) last year at Marienbad.
Pigs and Battleships
Year: 1961
Country: Japan
Director: Shôhei Imamura
Starring: Tetsurô Tanba, Takeshi Katô, Akira Yamauchi, Eijirô Tôno, Hiroyuki Nagato, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Masao Mishima
Available Quality: Hi Def, Hi Def
In post-war Japan, people are working hard, but never so much more than the Yakuza. In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together...
The Guns of Navarone
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama
Year: 1961
Country: USA, UK
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Anthony Quayle, James Robertson Justice, Irene Papas, Percy Herbert, Gregory Peck, David Niven
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Two powerful German guns control the seas past the Greek island of Navarone making the evacuation of endangered British troops on a neighboring island impossible. Air attack is useless so a team of six Allied and Greek soldiers is put ashore to meet up with partisans to try and dynamite the guns. The mission is perilous enough anyway but are the Germans on the island getting further help too?.
Flower Drum Song
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Year: 1961
Country: USA
Director: Henry Koster
Starring: James Hong, Benson Fong, Patrick Adiarte, James Shigeta, Nancy Kwan, Jack Soo, Juanita Hall
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A Chinese woman and her father illegally enter San Francisco to marry her fiance. While in San Francisco, she meets another man and falls deeply in love with him and the American way of life; to her father's disapproval.
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Year: 1961
Country: USA
Director: Blake Edwards
Starring: Martin Balsam, Audrey Hepburn, Patricia Neal, Mickey Rooney, George Peppard, Buddy Ebsen, John McGiver
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Struggling writer Paul Varjak moves into a New York apartment building and becomes intrigued by his pretty, quirky neighbor Holly Golightly. Holly's lifestyle confuses and fascinates Paul; in public she flits through parties with a sexy, sophisticated air, but when they're alone she changes into a sweetly vulnerable bundle of neuroses.
The Last Sunset
Genres: Western
Year: 1961
Country: USA
Director: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Neville Brand, Dorothy Malone, James Westmoreland, Jack Elam, Regis Toomey, Joseph Cotten
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Brendan O'Malley arrives at the Mexican home of old flame Belle Breckenridge to find her married to a drunkard getting ready for a cattle drive to Texas. Hot on O'Malley's heels is lawman Dana Stribling who has a personal reason for getting him back into his jurisdiction. Both men join Breckenridge and his wife on the drive. As they near Texas tensions mount, not least because Stribling is starting to court Belle and O'Malley is increasingly drawn by her daughter Missy.
A Raisin in the Sun
Genres: Drama
Year: 1961
Country: USA
Director: Daniel Petrie
Starring: Roy Glenn, Ruby Dee, Louis Gossett Jr., John Fiedler, Sidney Poitier, Diana Sands, Joel Fluellen
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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...
Victim (1961)
Year: 1961
Country: UK
Director: Basil Dearden
Starring: Dennis Price, John Cairney, Anthony Nicholls, Derren Nesbitt, Sylvia Syms, Nigel Stock, Dirk Bogarde
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A plea for reform of England's anti-sodomy statutes, this film pits Melville Farr, a married lawyer, against a blackmailer who has photos of Farr and a young gay man (who is being blackmailed and later commits suicide)in Farr's car. After the suicide, Farr tracks down other gay men being extorted for money by the same blackmailer. The well-educated police Detective Inspector Harris considers the sodomy law nothing more than an aid to blackmailers, and helps Farr in calling his blackmailer's bluff. The movie, far ahead of its time, ends with Farr and his wife coming to terms with his homosexuality after the public exposure he faces in the blac...
Five Golden Hours
Genres: Comedy
Year: 1961
Country: UK, Italy
Director: Mario Zampi
Starring: Sydney Tafler, John Le Mesurier, Martin Benson, Cyd Charisse, Dennis Price, George Sanders, Reginald Beckwith
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A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession until he meets and falls in love with a lovely baroness, who knows all about get-rich-quick schemes. The crook evolves an ingenious swindle geared to the time differential between New York and Rome and works it on his string of widows, but the baroness takes off with the dough. The crook flees to a mental home to escape the wrath of his victims.
The Comancheros
Genres: Action, Adventure, Romance
Year: 1961
Country: USA
Director: Michael Curtiz
Starring: John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Patrick Wayne, Bruce Cabot, Jack Elam, Michael Ansara, Nehemiah Persoff
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Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.
Mosura aka Mothra
Genres: Action, Adventure, Family
Year: 1961
Country: Japan
Director: Ishirô Honda
Starring: Hiroshi Koizumi, Emi Ito, Yûmi Ito, Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Yoshifumi Tajima, Tetsu Nakamura
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Shipwreck survivors are found on Beiru, an island previously used for atomic tests. Amazingly free of radiation effects, they believe they were protected by a special juice given to them by the natives. A joint expedition of Rolithican and Japanese scientists explores Beiru and discovers many curious things, including two women only a foot high. Unscrupulous expedition leader Clark Nelson abducts the women and puts them in a vaudeville show. But their sweet singing contains a telepathic cry for help to Mothra, the gigantic moth worshiped as a goddess by the island people. Mothra seeks the women in Tokyo, wreaking the usual havoc and special e...
No Love for Johnnie
Genres: Drama
Year: 1961
Country: UK
Director: Ralph Thomas
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Paul Rogers, Mervyn Johns, Dennis Price, Geoffrey Keen, Peter Barkworth, Stanley Holloway
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Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional problems tower up over him. His desires to win the next election are endangered by his constant looking for love and he is faced with the choice of giving up a career in politics or giving up the woman he loves.
The Hustler
Year: 1961
Country: USA
Director: Robert Rossen
Starring: Vincent Gardenia, Paul Newman, George C. Scott, Piper Laurie, Myron McCormick, Stefan Gierasch, Murray Hamilton
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"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 legendary "Minnesota Fats" to a high-stakes match, but he loses in a heartbreaking marathon. Now broke and without his long-time manager, Felson faces an uphill battle to regain his confidence and his game. It isn't until he hits rock bottom that he agrees to join up with ruthless and cutthroat manager Bert Gordon. Gordon agrees to take him on the road to learn the ropes. But Felson soon realizes that making it to the top could cost him his soul, and perhaps his girlfriend. Will he decide that this is ...
Lunch Hour
Genres: Comedy
Year: 1961
Country: UK
Director: James Hill
Starring: Robert Stephens, Nigel Davenport, Michael Robbins, Shirley Anne Field, Kay Walsh, Hazel Hughes, Neil Culleton
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James Hill's stylish film starring Shirley Anne Field, with Hill's award-winning 'Trade Test' films as extras - now confirmed as a 2010 release, courtesy of a brief mention on Kim Newman's Guide to the Flipside of British Cinema.
The Misfits
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Year: 1961
Country: USA
Director: John Huston
Starring: Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter, Eli Wallach, James Barton, Kevin McCarthy
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Roslyn is a very beautiful woman who just got divorced. She meets two friends, Guido and Gay, who take her to Guido's house in the country to relax and forget the difficulties of the past few weeks. Everything is fine at first, but soon the two men fall in love with Roslyn and start showing some bad aspects of their characters. Soon they meet another friend of Gay's, and the four of them go to hunt some wild horses. This is when things just... explode!
They Took Us to the Sea
Genres: Documentary, Short
Year: 1961
Country: UK
Director: John Krish
Starring: Unknown
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Judgment at Nuremberg
Year: 1961
Country: USA
Director: Stanley Kramer
Starring: Montgomery Clift, William Shatner, Maximilian Schell, Ray Teal, Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark
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It has been three years since the most important Nazi leaders had already been tried. This trial is about 4 Judges who used their offices to conduct Nazi sterilization and cleansing policies. Retired American Judge, Judge Dan Haywood has a daunting task ahead of him. The Cold War is heating up and no one wants any more trials as Germany, and allied Governments, want to forget the past. But is that the right thing to do is the question that the tribunal must decide.
The AbsentMinded Professor
Year: 1961
Country: USA
Director: Robert Stevenson
Starring: James Westerfield, Keenan Wynn, Fred MacMurray, Forrest Lewis, David Lewis, Leon Ames, Wally Brown
Available Quality: DVD, iPod
A bumbling professor accidently invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a hard surface. It allows for the invention of shoes that can allow jumps of amazing heights and enables a modified Model-T to fly. Unfortunately, no one is interested in the material except for Alonzo Hawk, a corrupt businessman who wants to steal the material for himself.
Parrish
Genres: Drama
Year: 1961
Country: USA
Director: Delmer Daves
Starring: Dean Jagger, Karl Malden, Sylvia Miles, Dub Taylor, Hayden Rorke, Claudette Colbert, Bibi Osterwald
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Parrish McLean lives with his mother Ellen on Sala Post's tobacco plantation in the Connecticut River Valley. His mother winds up marrying Sala's rival Judd Raike, ruthless planter who wants to drive Sala out of business. Judd insists that Parrish learn the business from the ground up.