Drama Movies of 1961
Judgment at Nuremberg
After the end of World War II, the world gradually became aware of the full extent of the war crimes perpetrated by the Third Reich. In 1948, a series of trials were held in Nuremberg, Germany, by an international tribunal, headed by ... [ Drama movie - 1961 ]
The Misfits
The final film of stars Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe is an elegy for the death of the Old West ... [ Drama movie - 1961 ]
The Hustler
As The Hustler's "Fast" Eddie Felson, Paul Newman created a classic antihero, ... [ Drama movie - 1961 ]
The Children's Hour
Based on the 1934 play by Lillian Hellman, The Children's Hour is set at an exclusive girl's school managed by best friends Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine. ... [ Drama movie - 1961 ]
The Devil at 4 O'clock
Spencer Tracy plays an American priest tending to the natives of a South Sea ... [ Drama movie - 1961 ]
Fanny
Fanny was adapted from the Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on the final chapter of Marcel Pagnol's "Marseilles Trilogy". Pagnol's original, titled Cesar, ends with protagonist Marius returning to the sea, leaving ... [ Drama movie - 1961 ]
A Raisin in the Sun
While this original movie version of Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning play may have dated somewhat, it was groundbreaking when first released in 1961, and a wealth of ... [ Drama movie - 1961 ]
A Man in Our House
Based on the novel by Ihsan Abdel Qoddous, A Man in Our House stars ... [ Drama movie - 1961 ]
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Vivien Leigh plays Karen Stone, a middle-aged actress whose career is in a tailspin. ... [ Drama movie - 1961 ]
La Notte
La Notte is another of Michelangelo Antonioni's cinematic interrupted journeys. Just as no one solved the central mystery in Antonioni's L'Avventura, neither does anyone truly enjoy the literary party that is La Notte's ... [ Drama movie - 1961 ]
Return to Peyton Place
If anything, this star-studded sequel is even sillier than the ... [ Drama movie - 1961 ]
Town Without Pity
Gene Pitney's hit title song for this courtroom drama became a bigger and more enduring success than the film in which it was repeatedly sung. The story takes place in postwar ... [ Drama movie - 1961 ]
Splendor in the Grass
1961's premiere "date" movie represented the screen debut of Warren Beatty. Set in the 1920s, William Inge's screenplay concerns the superheated romance between working-class high schooler Natalie Wood and rich kid Beatty. Trying ... [ Drama movie - 1961 ]
Francis of Assisi
This penultimate film by director Michael Curtiz, perhaps best known for ... [ Drama movie - 1961 ]
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
"All I want is a good time. The rest is propaganda." That's the philosophy of archetypal British "angry young man" Arthur Seaton (Albert Finney). A middle-class working stiff in a dead-end job, Arthur's ... [ Drama movie - 1961 ]
X-15
This oddly technical drama about three test pilots for the X-15 devotes a great deal of time to scientific ... [ Drama movie - 1961 ]
The Hoodlum Priest
Director Irvin Kershner, better known for his big-budget films like The Empire Strikes Back, joins with scripters and lead Don Murray to create this moving and effective docudrama. The story is based on the ... [ Drama movie - 1961 ]
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
Despite its come-on title, The Day the Earth Caught Fire is an intelligent, disturbing piece of speculative fiction. Through the eyes of British reporter Peter Stenning (Edward ... [ Drama movie - 1961 ]
Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog
Disney's Greyfriars Bobby is a remake of A Challenge to Lassie; both are based on the same novel by Eleanor Atkinson, and both feature Donald Crisp in a major role. A true story, set in Edinburgh around 1875, the ... [ Drama movie - 1961 ]
Lola
Jacques Demy's auspicious debut -- "a musical without music" set in the port city of Nantes -- ... [ Drama movie - 1961 ]
El Analfabeto
Popular Mexican comic Cantinflas made this his homecoming film after veering off to the U.S. to appear in Pepe, his last movie in English. El Analfabeto sees him back in ... [ Drama movie - 1961 ]
Accattone
Accattone , Pier Paolo Pasolini's first feature, is also his first semidocumentary study of "the ... [ Drama movie - 1961 ]
Antigone
Yiorgos Tzavellas wrote and directed this award-winning attempt at reimagining the classic tragedy by Sophocles as an actual motion ... [ Drama movie - 1961 ]
The Choppers
A young speed demon drives himself down the road to ruin in this crime drama. The trouble starts because the teen is so desperate to get a special set of hub caps for his dragster that he steals them off another car. It was easy and a car ... [ Drama movie - 1961 ]
The Siberian Lady Macbeth
A few years after director Akira Kurosawa released the Japanese version (Throne of Blood) of Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth, Andrzej Wajda, for his first project outside of Poland, directed Siberska Ledi ... [ Drama movie - 1961 ]
Los Hermanos Del Hierro
This effective drama about vengeance and its results is loosely based on practices in the Mexican boondocks where the law can be ignored when it comes to seeking revenge. The tale concerns two brothers who decide to ... [ Drama movie - 1961 ]
Matka Joanna od Aniolow
A Mother superior in a 17th-century convent finds herself possessed by the ... [ Drama movie - 1961 ]
Karate, the Hand of Death
In this early martial arts action-drama, Matt Carver (Joel Holt) is an American who studied in Japan and is returning for his ... [ Drama movie - 1961 ]
Il Posto
Better known as The Sound of Trumpets, Il Posto was the first feature-length ... [ Drama movie - 1961 ]
Samson
Sampson is one of several Andrzej Wajda films harking back to his youth during the Nazi Occupation of ... [ Drama movie - 1961 ]
Pueblito
Volatile, home-grown Mexican director and actor Emilio "El Indio" Fernández guides this simple melodrama through its paces to put across a relatively effective -- though idealistic -- story about social change. Set in a ... [ Drama movie - 1961 ]
Tres Tristes Tigres
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Ellas, Tambien Son Rebeldes
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