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1. Seven Thieves (1960)
Approved | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A motley crew of professional thieves plans the robbery of a Monte Carlo casino vault.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Rod Steiger, Joan Collins, Eli Wallach
Votes: 1,755
Decent hiest film, bit lightweight but OK
2. The Time Machine (1960)
G | 103 min | Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi
A man's vision for a utopian society is disillusioned when travelling forward into time reveals a dark and dangerous society.
Director: George Pal | Stars: Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux, Sebastian Cabot
Votes: 44,863
Bit of a Sunday afternoon classic, fond memories of watching it as a youngster but on re-watching as an adult it's not that great.
3. Make Mine Mink (1960)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy
A weird mix of social misfits and neighbors becomes a gang of thieves stealing mink coats in order to fund local charities.
Director: Robert Asher | Stars: Terry-Thomas, Athene Seyler, Hattie Jacques, Billie Whitelaw
Votes: 1,130
"where's ya ruddy bonnet"? A gang of female mink coat thieves is controlled by Terry Thomas. I thought this was really funny and enjoyed it more than the better known School For Scoundrels that came out the same year.
4. The Concrete Jungle (1960)
TV-14 | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In the UK, after pulling a racetrack robbery, repeat offender Johnny Bannion hides the loot in a farmer's field but the police and the local mob come looking for Johnny and the money.
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker, Grégoire Aslan, Margit Saad
Votes: 1,764
5. Never Let Go (1960)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A cosmetic salesman sets out to prove to himself and his wife that he is not a failure.
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Richard Todd, Peter Sellers, Elizabeth Sellars, Adam Faith
Votes: 1,693
Peter Sellers playing against type as a vicious & bad tempered criminal who runs a gang of thieves who steal and launder cars through his garage repair workshops.
Gripping performance maybe a bit OTT . Richard Todd as a wimpish downtrodden salesman trying to prove his manliness to his wife by getting his stolen car back. Both Sellers and Todd's characters start to unravel as the police get involved
6. School for Scoundrels (1960)
Approved | 94 min | Comedy
A young man finds a very special school. It teaches him how to take advantage of people. He begins to put the lessons into operation.
Directors: Robert Hamer, Hal E. Chester, Cyril Frankel | Stars: Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Alastair Sim, Janette Scott
Votes: 3,895
classic - should be in 1001 ??? Prefered Make Mine Mink though, Very good
7. Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A pianist helps his brother escape from two gangsters, who retaliate by abducting their kid brother.
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, Michèle Mercier
Votes: 20,635
On 1001 - Excellent, film noir with comedic twists.
8. Never Take Candy from A Stranger (1960)
Approved | 81 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
In Canada, a British schoolmaster meets official resistance when he learns that his 9-year-old daughter has been the victim of the pedophile patriarch of the town's most powerful family.
Director: Cyril Frankel | Stars: Gwen Watford, Patrick Allen, Felix Aylmer, Niall MacGinnis
Votes: 1,984
Interesting anti-nonce film, filmed in uk set in canada with a mix of actors.
9. Elmer Gantry (1960)
Approved | 146 min | Drama
A fast-talking traveling salesman with a charming, loquacious manner convinces a sincere evangelist that he can be an effective preacher for her cause.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger
Votes: 12,824 | Gross: $11.34M
I find some of Burt Lancasters performances a bit OTT for me and here is an example. plus the 2.5 hr running time meant this wasn't quite for me no matter the subject. I'm sure this was quite controversial at the time hence the warning that kids shouldn't watch it at the beginning.
10. House of Usher (1960)
Approved | 79 min | Drama, Horror
Upon entering his fiancée's family mansion, a man discovers a savage family curse and fears that his future brother-in-law has entombed his bride-to-be prematurely.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey, Harry Ellerbe
Votes: 15,448 | Gross: $3.16M
The House Of Usher - Roger Cormans version of the gothic Edgar Allan Poe story, starring Vincent Price. Great fun, Price on good form, great gothic horror visuals. 7.3/10 think this should be 1001 is got all the ingredients for a cult classic.
11. The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960)
Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In 1901, a group of IRA members decides to rob the Bank of England in order to finance their movement and to embarrass the British government.
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Aldo Ray, Elizabeth Sellars, Peter O'Toole, Kieron Moore
Votes: 950
Good heist film about the IRA robbing the BOE but the era it was set in didn't really match the contempory acting and musical score. Plenty of Brit actors in there to enjoy too. 6.7/10
12. The Housemaid (1960)
Not Rated | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A composer and his wife are thrown into turmoil when a housemaid becomes more than they bargained for.
Director: Kim Ki-young | Stars: Jin Kyu Kim, Jeung-nyeo Ju, Eun-shim Lee, Aeng-ran Eom
Votes: 5,699
Japanese Luis Brunel is a good description. Quite a hard watch but it is quite remarkably odd
13. The Savage Innocents (1960)
Not Rated | 110 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
An Eskimo who has had little contact with white men goes to a trading post where he accidentally kills a missionary and finds himself being pursued by the police.
Director: Nicholas Ray | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Yôko Tani, Peter O'Toole, Carlo Giustini
Votes: 2,041
horrible. started off with an unforgivable scene of a lovely polar bear being killed, yeah so natives might of eaten them in the 60s still but this is a close up shot not some distant documentary style footage. The plot is boring rubbish, they spend half the film carrying or eating dead seals. Quinn mugs it up terribly, such a good actor deduced to this nonsense. 4.5/10
14. Black Sunday (1960)
Approved | 87 min | Horror
A vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Andrea Checchi, Ivo Garrani
Votes: 17,607
Mask of Satan [La Maschera del Demonio / Black Sunday] - fab gothic Italian horror - watched dubbed english version which is done really well. Barbara Steele - wow, hypnotic face and eyes. Probably would of enjoyed it more if I wasn't so tired so missed some of the finer plot details as nodded off a couple of times (my fault not the films). - not sure i enjoyed this as much as house of usher though - just because of Vincent Price's performance in that one. This is in the 1001 book.
15. The Entertainer (1960)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama
Archie Rice, an old-time British music hall performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.
Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Brenda de Banzie, Roger Livesey, Joan Plowright
Votes: 3,736
Brit kitchen sink drama about an old school stage performer / comedian and his family. great acxting from the cast and especially good performance from LL no surprise there then. A bit too "actory" for a sunday afternoon film. Good but not captivating enough for me to love it.
16. Two Way Stretch (1960)
TV-PG | 78 min | Comedy, Crime
While in prison, Dodger plots the perfect heist: break out, steal diamonds, get back before noticed. With days left on sentence and a solid alibi, he's confident nothing can go wrong.
Director: Robert Day | Stars: Peter Sellers, David Lodge, Bernard Cribbins, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Votes: 2,643
comedy heist starring sellers - pretty good fun.
17. Midnight Lace (1960)
Approved | 103 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
In London, a recently-wed American woman's sanity comes into question after she claims to be the victim of a threatening stalker.
Director: David Miller | Stars: Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin, Myrna Loy
Votes: 6,028 | Gross: $7.40M
doris Day thinks she's being stalked by a crazy phone call abuser. pretty poor, best thing was the colour pictures of london
18. Let's Make Love (1960)
Not Rated | 119 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Yves Montand, Tony Randall, Frankie Vaughan
Votes: 8,034 | Gross: $6.54M
Marilyn Monroe not her best role. Yves Montand OK, best bits were the Bing Crosby & Gene Kelly cameos, shame they didnt hang around. otherwise a bit dull. An alleged affair between the leads means theres some chemistry between the two -- ooh and wilfrid hyde-white is entertaining as always
19. The Cloud-Capped Star (1960)
Not Rated | 126 min | Drama
A selfless young woman (Supriya Choudhury) sacrifices her own happiness for her unappreciative family.
Director: Ritwik Ghatak | Stars: Supriya Choudhury, Anil Chatterjee, Gyanesh Mukherjee, Bijon Bhattacharya
Votes: 3,240
this is on the 1001 book list. i'm sure its great but i couldn't pay any attention to it when i watched it. wasn't in the mood, it seemed a bit too light hearted compared to say the Apu trilogy (which I loved). Will try to re-watch this when I'm more in the mood but the fact I wasn't drawn to any of it suggests its not my cup of tea and while I might like it I'll doubt I'll learn to love (and why waste time watching films you know you wont love when there are so many out there that you might be missing).
20. The Young One (1960)
96 min | Drama
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Zachary Scott, Bernie Hamilton, Key Meersman, Crahan Denton
Votes: 3,065
la joven, dark but also mildly amusing in places, covers some touchy subjects. very good but not-outstanding
21. Bad Luck (1960)
92 min | Comedy
The story is an odyssey of a little man through Poland of 1930 to 1950. It shows his attempts to cope with a changing world which seems to have no place for him. He has no consciousness of ... See full summary »
Director: Andrzej Munk | Stars: Bogumil Kobiela, Maria Ciesielska, Helena Dabrowska, Barbara Lass
Votes: 1,352
Zezowate szczęście - oPolish comedy sort of norman wisdom type,sort of foreign ealing comedy but not very funny one
22. Comanche Station (1960)
Approved | 73 min | Drama, Western
A man saves a woman who had been kidnapped by Comanches, then struggles to get both of them home alive.
Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Randolph Scott, Nancy Gates, Claude Akins, Skip Homeier
Votes: 4,427
Solid Sunday afternoon western, good but not remarkable. Randolph Scott rescues a woman kidnapped by the Comanche Indians and tries to get her back to her husband for the reward but a man he testified over at a court-martial bumps into him along the way.Best bits were Claude Atkins performance as the baddie, the scenery and the hinted at gay romance between the two younger cowboys. Randolph Scott & Nancy Gates characters could done with a bit more developing.
23. Exodus (1960)
Approved | 208 min | Action, Drama, War
The State of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors.
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford
Votes: 11,393 | Gross: $18.97M
Zionist epic is certainly a good film but I can't forgive the terrorist glamorization.
24. Sergeant Rutledge (1960)
Approved | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Western
Respected Black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, Woody Strode, Constance Towers, Billie Burke
Votes: 5,365
Above average western from John Ford but what stops it from being great is that what should be a (and in most posts is) a gritty tale with political hints at racial history of US army ends up losing its edge due to the A: - the lite-weight jovial opening theme (I thought I was about to be treated to a comedy musical) and B: - the comedy touches in the court house with the "water" and the judges wife. Monument Valley looks spectacular in the background though.
25. The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's (1960)
Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy
The hellions of St. Trinians are recruited to a sheik's harem. Little does he know what he's letting himself in for.
Director: Frank Launder | Stars: Cecil Parker, George Cole, Joyce Grenfell, Eric Barker
Votes: 990
Not nearly as funny as the first two, without Alistair Sims or Joan Rutherford it's missing a large piece and George Cole (as much as I love him) can't quite fill the gap.
26. The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
Not Rated | 73 min | Comedy, Horror
A clumsy young man working at an impoverished flower shop discovers that the strange plant he has been nurturing has an insatiable appetite for blood, forcing him to kill to feed it.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles, Dick Miller
Votes: 19,566 | Gross: $1.40M
I think i prefer the remake though I should probably rewatch it to make sure (its been a few decades since I saw it). Thisd low budget B-movie from Roger Corman is good fun and and has a similar plot to A Bucket Of Blood (a person turns killer), I think I prefered ABOB. The best thing here was young Jack Nicholson in a film stealing scene as a masochistic dentist patient.
27. The Truth (1960)
Not Rated | 127 min | Drama
A liberated small-town girl and the family's black sheep moves to Paris with her sister, only to find herself standing trial for the shocking murder of her young lover. Was his killing premeditated or was this a crime of passion?
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Sami Frey
Votes: 4,459
La Verite - Henri-Georges Clouzot penultimate film and the one he he made before the failure of The Inferno. This one covers similar themes to that about love and obssession indeed Clouzots obsession with Romy Schneider. The two leads are great including an enjoyable performace from Bridget Bardot (especially her dancing bum), the story of a woman killing her lover had been done before by Diana Dors and ??? The cutting between the court room and the flash backs meant i've felt it kept losing its momentum of the two leads performances. In a caser of life initating art (or was it the other way round) Bargot had an affair with Sami Frey resulting in her break up from her husband, in Sept 1960 after an arguement with the ex-husband she attempted suicide by cutting her wrists. Clouzot also had aheart -attack while making this film. A good film, not Clouzots best but still above average. 1001? - I think this one might grow on me , I really liked the lead performaces and it has resonance for me.
28. Wild River (1960)
Approved | 110 min | Drama, History, Romance
A TVA bureaucrat comes to the river to do what none of his predecessors have been able to do - evict a stubborn octogenarian from her island before the rising waters engulf her.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet, Albert Salmi
Votes: 6,184
Montgomery cliff & Lee Remick both very good with nice chemistry going on. the plot with trying to get the old lady off the island was good but there was too much ofg a divert to the love story & the racism stuff, Good film but not quite enough to be great.
29. Everybody Go Home! (1960)
122 min | Comedy, Drama, War
When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is disbanded and soldiers begin to return to their homes.
Director: Luigi Comencini | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Serge Reggiani, Carla Gravina, Martin Balsam
Votes: 1,453
Excellent balance of gritty historical was drama and comedic road movie set in 1943 after Italy effectively changed sides in WWII after the armicstice. Part culinary doc too - the polenta scene. 1001 - hell yeah.
30. The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Not Rated | 151 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi
Votes: 14,028
Akira Kurosawa - a man tries to get revenge for his faters suicide by marrying the bosses daughter of the company that he suspects forced his dad to jump out a window. Very good but i@m not sure it's a worth 8.1 hmmm will have to think about this one
31. Zazie in the Metro (1960)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy, Fantasy
With her mother away for the weekend, a brash and precocious ten-year-old country girl sets out to explore Paris during a Métro strike under her uncle's not-so-watchful eye. But can a little girl cause so much chaos in the city centre?
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret, Hubert Deschamps, Carla Marlier
Votes: 6,753
gosh this is an odd one , I'm not sure what to think of this. a surrealist tour of Paris, Benny Hill meets The Red Balloon, Man With A Movie Camera meets Monsieur Houlot. the colour footage of Paris is great especially the vertigo inducing section on the Eiffel Tower. Bit too long, got bored in places. Certainly memorable but a bit too silly for me. ETA - I keep thinking about this film think I liked it more than I thought, it was so wacky and unusual.
32. The Virgin Spring (1960)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
In 14th-century Sweden, an innocent yet pampered teenage girl and her family's pregnant and jealous servant set out from their farm to deliver candles to church, but only one returns from events that transpire in the woods along the way.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitta Pettersson
Votes: 31,655 | Gross: $1.53M
Bergman does Rape & revenge - powerful stuff, could of done with being 30 mins longer, would of liked more development of Max von Sydow's character. 1001 should be
33. The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960)
Not Rated | 99 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
After being shipwrecked, a man finds himself on an island inhabited by tiny people, who soon make plans for him.
Director: Jack Sher | Stars: Kerwin Mathews, Jo Morrow, June Thorburn, Lee Patterson
Votes: 3,082
Some early colour Ray Harryhausen but not much. A bit dull, remember quite liking it as a child. sentimental value only.
34. The Warped Ones (1960)
Not Rated | 75 min | Crime, Drama
A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and causes reckless mayhem, mostly directed at the girlfriend of the journalist who helped send him up.
Director: Koreyoshi Kurahara | Stars: Tamio Kawaji, Yuko Chiyo, Eiji Gô, Hiroyuki Nagato
Votes: 1,050
Bit too OTT for me, camera jumping about, eeven the subtitles on mine were bouncing around the screen. Interesting Japanese New wave so far from Yasujiro Ozu's style. The characters are all obnoxious so its hard to care about them. An interesting and possibly influential example of Japanese New Wave film making though and another nation doing "angry young men".
35. Late Autumn (1960)
Not Rated | 128 min | Comedy, Drama
A widow tries to marry off her daughter with the help of her late husband's three friends.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Setsuko Hara, Yôko Tsukasa, Mariko Okada, Keiji Sada
Votes: 6,180
Late Autumn - a remake of his earlier A Late Spring. Its Yasujiru so of course it's excellent but a little more light hearted (as much of his later work was), i think i preffered the earlier version. Still an 8/10 film though. Not sure if 1001 - If I'm not careful I could end up putting all his films in.
36. The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960)
PG | 123 min | Biography, Drama, History
A chronicle of Oscar Wilde's libel suit against the Marquis of Queensberry and the tragic turn his life takes because of it.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Peter Finch, Yvonne Mitchell, James Mason, Nigel Patrick
Votes: 1,120
interesting film dealing with Wilde's homosexuality but without ever directly mentioning or showing it. Peter Finch was pretty good in the title role.
37. Inspector Palmu's Error (1960)
109 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous police lieutenant Palmu is summoned to investigate.
Director: Matti Kassila | Stars: Joel Rinne, Elina Pohjanpää, Matti Ranin, Leo Riuttu
Votes: 2,100
It's no Death On The Nile or Dial M For Murder, when the murder is resolved it's not some cunning method that would catch you out. Acting and pacing with alright so OK though but not great. i can understand if Finland natives have a fondness for it, hence the high score.
38. Classe Tous Risques (1960)
Not Rated | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A ruthless criminal flees from the pursuit, involving more and more casualties.
Director: Claude Sautet | Stars: Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marcel Dalio
Votes: 4,281 | Gross: $0.09M
The Big Risk - another great french gangster flick from the 50s / 60s. Here Lino Ventura has the lead role that Jean Gabin usually takes but he is more than able to fill his shoes. The story of a robber on the lam with his two young sons after a post-heist escape from Italy to France goes tragically wrong. 1001 - although very good maybe not the best of this type of film, bit slow in places.
39. The Naked Island (1960)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama
A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, Shinji Tanaka, Masanori Horimoto
Votes: 6,184
A hour and half long film with no dialogue about people carrying buckets of water up a hill to water their crops on a small island could be boring as hell but this film from director Kaneto Shindo [a tribute to his parents, portraying their way of life] is beautifully done. Is it a metaphor for life, including the domestic violence induced when the wife drops her water? 1001 - yes
40. El cochecito (1960)
PG | 85 min | Comedy, Drama
Seventy-something Don Anselmo, a retired minister, becomes obsessed with owning a motorized wheelchair and fakes infirmity to get it.
Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: José Isbert, Pedro Porcel, José Luis López Vázquez, María Luisa Ponte
Votes: 1,576
Spanish dark comedy about an old man [cracking performance from Jose Isbert] who gets jealous of all his friends having motorized wheelchair [what we would call mobility scooters these days] and tries to fake invalidity to get his family to buy him one, when they refuse he has a tantrum and tries more sinister methods. This was ace but I'm not sure what happened at the end with the stew? [according to wikipedia - The film had troubles with Spanish censorship (Franco´s regime), that forced to change and cut the original ending.] Did they base Tony Sopranos mum on him? 1001 - maybe http://spanish_cinema.enacademic.com/57/El_Cochecito
41. Two Women (1960)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, War
In WWII Italy, a widow and her lonely daughter seek distance between themselves and the horrors of war.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raf Vallone, Eleonora Brown
Votes: 12,438
A mother tries to protect her daughter from the ravages of war in 1940s Italy. Sophia loren is great as the mum, reminded be a bit of Bellisima with Anna Magni. Very good but not as good as Everybody Go Home which has similar themes. 1001 possibly
42. Serge (1960)
80 min | Comedy, Drama
The mother of a 5 years old Seryozha remarries. This man becomes a friend and a confident, an adult who see Seryozha not as a child, but as a person.
Directors: Georgiy Daneliya, Igor Talankin | Stars: Boris Barkhatov, Sergey Bondarchuk, Irina Skobtseva, Natalya Chechyotkina
Votes: 718
Heart-warming Russian film about a mother who remarries, to the new manager of the local collective farm, and her young sons relationship with his new step-father. Not much of a plot but very charming with some nice cinematography. 1001 possibly - a bit too simple.
43. The Fugitive Kind (1960)
Not Rated | 119 min | Drama, Romance
Valentine "Snakeskin" Xavier, a trouble-prone drifter trying to go straight, wanders into a small Mississippi town looking for a simple and honest life but finds himself embroiled with problem-filled women.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Marlon Brando, Joanne Woodward, Anna Magnani, Maureen Stapleton
Votes: 7,151
can't remember much about this apart from it had a broody Brando interacting with some female characters
44. Innocent Sorcerers (1960)
83 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A young doctor and jazz drummer, is also a womanizer who meets one night another yet finally interesting girl, who all but forces herself into his apartment where they play the game of ... See full summary »
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Tadeusz Lomnicki, Krystyna Stypulkowska, Wanda Koczeska, Kalina Jedrusik
Votes: 1,564
A man who works as a sports doctor at a boxing ring and plays drums in jazz band, he flirts with a girl and they spend the night together talking and letting their romance blossom. Polish new wave, the bohemian stuff is all here attractive young men & women, listening to jazz in night clubs in Warsaw, riding scooters, boxing matches but's not as effortlessly cool as french new-wave, a little too try-hard. The dialogue and acting between the two leads is good. OK but I didn't love it, interesting as an example of Polish new-wave. 1001 - not for me but seems highly regarded by others.
45. Mill of the Stone Women (1960)
Approved | 96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
In 19th century Holland, a professor of fine arts and an unlicensed surgeon run a secret lab where the professor's ill daughter receives blood-transfusions from kidnapped female victims who posthumously become macabre art.
Director: Giorgio Ferroni | Stars: Pierre Brice, Scilla Gabel, Wolfgang Preiss, Dany Carrel
Votes: 2,091
The bit at the end with the burning carousel figures [corpses] was quite creepy otherwise it was a bit boring. Needed a Vincent Price or such to make the acting more engaging (being dubbed in Eng didn't help].
46. Mysterious Island (1961)
Not Rated | 101 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
During the Civil War a group of Union soldiers, a Confederate and a civilian escape the stockade using a hot-air balloon and end up on a strange Pacific island.
Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan, Gary Merrill
Votes: 8,548
Good adventure romp with Herbert Lom as Captain Nemo, some decent Ray Harryhausen effects with the crab scene on the beach being the highlight, could of done with a more spectacular ending with a Harryhausen gem. Not quite up to Adventures Of Sinbad standards but still a good Sunday afternoon film.
47. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
Not Rated | 111 min | Drama
A middle-aged bar hostess, constantly in debt, is faced with numerous social constraints and challenges posed to her by her family, customers and friends.
Director: Mikio Naruse | Stars: Hideko Takamine, Tatsuya Nakadai, Masayuki Mori, Reiko Dan
Votes: 4,833
Story of an ageing bar hostess girl trying to manage friends, family, business rivals & clients. Not my fav Mikio Naruse film that I've seen but still very good. - It seems this is his most famous film so I guess it should be 1001
48. Mughal-E-Azam (1960)
Not Rated | 197 min | Drama, Romance, War
A 16th century prince falls in love with a court dancer and battles with his emperor father.
Director: K. Asif | Stars: Prithviraj Kapoor, Madhubala, Dilip Kumar, Durga Khote
Votes: 8,831 | Gross: $0.16M
One of the most popular Bollywood films, an historical tale of the powerful emperor of Hindustan who goes to war with his son when the heir to the throne refuses to stop his romance with a court singer. Massively expensive at the time and many years in the making, the director did 3 scenes in colour but was refused the money when he decided to remake the rest of the film in colour. in 2004 a company decided to fulfill his wish by carefully recolouring the rest of the original film. I would usually avoid colourized versions of B&W films but this done really well and has her did the 3 colour sequences in the original you have a template to see how he intended it and know he wished it all to look like that. the colours, sets, costumes music are all stunning. Sure the acting, script, special effects are a bit dodge but this is still epic stuff. Spectacular sets but most of the first two thirds are set in them and it gets a bit claustrophobic, luckily in the last third we get a massive battle outside for some fresh air. 1001 - yes - I don't know much about Bollywood but this seems a good place to start
49. The Sundowners (1960)
Passed | 133 min | Drama, Western
In Australia's Outback during the early twentieth century, the impoverished Carmody family lives a nomadic life out of their wagon, but the mom and son want to settle, while the dad is against it.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Peter Ustinov, Glynis Johns
Votes: 4,838
meat pie western / romance drama - Ustinov & Kerr - very watchable, Robert Mitchum with an Aussie accent OK, bit subdued for him. Pleasant film for a sunday afternoon but nothing special.
50. The Goddess (1960)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama
A young woman is deemed a goddess when her father-in-law, a rich feudal land-lord, has a dream envisioning her as an avatar of Kali.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Sharmila Tagore, Soumitra Chatterjee, Chhabi Biswas, Karuna Bannerjee
Votes: 2,805 | Gross: $0.09M
Decent movie from Satyajit Ray but not in same league as The Music Box or Apu trilogy. A rich man thinks his daughter in law is an avatar of Kali to the dismay of his son / her husband.
51. The White Dove (1960)
76 min | Drama
A poetic film about a dove getting lost on its way to Prague getting shot down by a paralyzed boy. An artist who finds the dove becomes friends with the boy. Together they take care of it bringing it back to recovery.
Director: Frantisek Vlácil | Stars: Katerina Irmanovová, Karel Smyczek, Vjaceslav Irmanov, Gustav Püttjer
Votes: 751
Arty abstract-ish plot about a girl waiting for her pigeon racing white dove to arrive , unknown to her its got lost and is being nursed back to health by a boy and his artist father in the city. Bit too arty for me, some nice photography. Probably would appreciate this more if I was in the mood for such a plotless but pretty film.
52. Skeleton of Mrs. Morales (1960)
85 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after fifteen years of hellish marriage.
Director: Rogelio A. González | Stars: Arturo de Córdova, Amparo Rivelles, Elda Peralta, Guillermo Orea
Votes: 2,117
kind of Mexican hammer horror. felt more like a 1940s or early 50s film rather than 1960. OK but not great, I think the 8.2 on imdb is nationalistic voting from Mexicans.
53. Never on Sunday (1960)
Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the prostitute with whom he is infatuated.
Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Melina Mercouri, Jules Dassin, Giorgos Foundas, Titos Vandis
Votes: 6,148
A pygmalion tale of a US tourist that tries to educate a lively Greek prostitute about the true meaning of Greek culture. One of those annoying films that can't make up its mind what language it wants to be in , fliting between english & greek, this was made even harder by the fact the version I watched had subs off synch and once I got them inline they needed contsant adjusting. So despite that I enjoyed this, a great performance from Melina Mercouri as the prostitute, Ilya. Director Jules Dassin plays the american but I think he lets the film down a little, a strong male lead needed. 1001 ?? this seems well known is it considered a classic? " find version with in synch subs.
54. Higher Principle (1960)
104 min | Drama, War
The story of High school in Czechia (then Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia) during occupation by Nazi Germany, where three students are arrested by Gestapo.
Director: Jirí Krejcík | Stars: Frantisek Smolík, Jana Brejchová, Ivan Mistrík, Alexander Postler
Votes: 668
After the assassination of a German general [Heydrich] in 1942, Prague, the Nazis order retaliation executions of the local population. 3 Pupils of the local school are grassed up for drawing a cartoon and arrested and sentenced to be shot. Their teacher tries to free them. Very good but not quite excellent but maybe worth having on 1001 as good to have a Czech film for early 60s on there. 1001???? mmmmmmmmm
55. Cimarron (1960)
Approved | 147 min | Drama, Romance, Western
The Oklahoma Land Run of April 1889 sets the stage for an epic saga of a frontier adventurer, his wife and family and their friends.
Directors: Anthony Mann, Charles Walters | Stars: Glenn Ford, Maria Schell, Anne Baxter, Arthur O'Connell
Votes: 3,432
The horse / wagon race for the land scene is pretty spectacular but aprt from that a bit dull. More about the female characters than Glen Ford's
56. The Alamo (1960)
Passed | 162 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In 1836, a small band of soldiers sacrifice their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.
Director: John Wayne | Stars: John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Frankie Avalon
Votes: 17,728 | Gross: $17.26M
John Wayne directed and starred so expect gung-ho Americanism aplenty. watchable but nothing essential.
57. Adua e le compagne (1960)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Drama
When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant. They discover they cannot escape their past.
Director: Antonio Pietrangeli | Stars: Simone Signoret, Marcello Mastroianni, Sandra Milo, Emmanuelle Riva
Votes: 1,408
When local brothel closes three of the women decide to open a countryside restaurant. When money becomes a problem, the man who lent them the funds tries to get them back to their old profession. Simone Signoret & Marcello Mastroianni are always watchable and the former is very good here. 7.5/10 Good but not a classic
58. Escape by Night (1960)
TV-PG | 82 min | Drama, War
During the Second World War three allied prisoners: a Soviet, an American, and an Englishman, attempt to escape Rome with the help of a young couple who are residents of the city.
Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Leo Genn, Giovanna Ralli, Sergey Bondarchuk, Hannes Messemer
Votes: 771
Wait For The Dawn - Italians hide a British, injued American & a Russian soldier from the Nazis and fascists in post Armistice of Cassibile. The mixture of languages and lack of focus on one character rather diluted this ones appeal to me. OK though 7.2 /10
59. 5 Branded Women (1960)
Approved | 101 min | Drama, War
Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by the Yugoslav partisans but they take up arms to fend for themselves.
Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Van Heflin, Silvana Mangano, Jeanne Moreau, Vera Miles
Votes: 610
was ok but nothing remarkable or especially memorable. 6.6/10
60. The Adventures of Buratino (1960)
68 min | Family, Adventure, Animation
A colorful fairy tale about a little wooden boy Buratino and his quest for the Golden Key that opens a secret door.
Directors: Dmitriy Babichenko, Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Mikhail Botov | Stars: Nina Gulyaeva, Evgeniy Vesnik, Georgiy Vitsin, Tamara Dmitrieva
Votes: 883
61. The Brides of Dracula (1960)
Unrated | 85 min | Horror
Vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing returns to Transylvania to destroy handsome bloodsucker Baron Meinster, who has designs on a beautiful young schoolteacher.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, Martita Hunt, Yvonne Monlaur, Freda Jackson
Votes: 8,883
good fun dracula hammer horror with Peter Cushing
62. Testament of Orpheus (1960)
Not Rated | 79 min | Biography, Fantasy
The Poet looks back over his life and work, recalling his inspirations and obsessions.
Director: Jean Cocteau | Stars: Jean Cocteau, Françoise Arnoul, Claudine Auger, Charles Aznavour
Votes: 3,742
jean cocteau takes a trip through space and time to explore his works. I liked this, it maybe slowed a bit in second half. mmmmmmm i'm not sure 7.4/10
63. The Lost World (1960)
Approved | 97 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Professor Challenger leads an expedition of scientists and adventurers to a remote plateau deep in the Amazonian jungle to verify his claim that dinosaurs still live there.
Director: Irwin Allen | Stars: Michael Rennie, Jill St. John, David Hedison, Claude Rains
Votes: 4,475
pretty laughably rubbish with regard to plot, acting & spacial affects but it zips along at an ok pace abd is kind of fun. there are lots of better examples of this adventure in prehistory times type of film from this era. 6.3/10
64. Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
G | 126 min | Adventure, Family
A Swiss family must survive being shipwrecked on a deserted island.
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Janet Munro
Votes: 18,176 | Gross: $40.36M
A Disney film so you know this version of the classic story of a family stranded on an island will have good production values. Pretty action packed start, so far we've had a ship wreck, piloting a raft in rough seas, a tiger, sharks and pirates. If this came out today animal rights people would go banans over some scenes. Mothers rather weedy portrayal might anger some feminists. The little kid is really annoying. I guess this must be the quintessential film version of this story. 7.3/10 1001
65. The Savage Eye (1959)
68 min | Drama
This drama takes the form of a story told using documentary material as an intrinsic part of the narrative. In this journey through the dark side of 1950s urban life, the camera follows ... See full summary »
Directors: Ben Maddow, Sidney Meyers, Joseph Strick | Stars: Barbara Baxley, Gary Merrill, Herschel Bernardi, Jean Hidey
Votes: 336
An Angel talks to a woman try to find herr place in the world after a divorce. Narration over footage. Similar to Chris Marker's stuff, although there is a main actress here although you dfont see her speak just here her dialogiue other the footage of her. 7.7/10 78.5 % only --- need to replace with full copy.
66. Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
Approved | 136 min | Comedy, Drama
A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, Hope Lange, Arthur O'Connell
Votes: 7,968 | Gross: $5.45M
Frank Capra's remake (and his last film) of his 30s film "Lady For A Day". Not as good as the original.
67. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Approved | 179 min | Drama, War
In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazis judged for war crimes.
Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich
Votes: 85,561
An important film, interesting points put across. the usual concentration camp footage gets rolled out, a bit wordy as most of film is set in court. Good performances, wow Marlene Dietrich still looks stunning. 1001 but can't help feeling it would of been better made in Germany with a German playing the Burt Lancaster role. 7.6/10
68. El Cid (1961)
Approved | 182 min | Biography, Drama, History
The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, Geneviève Page
Votes: 15,693 | Gross: $26.62M
Epic about the Spanish hero, battle at end is pretty spctacular but this is not up to Ben Her standards despite Charlton Heston's lead. still worthy of 1001 list. 7/10
69. I Promised to Pay (1961)
94 min | Crime, Drama
A gang plans to steal a factory's wages, but an armored van foils them. They rob anyway, killing the driver. His vengeful wife and encroaching police make the gang betray each other.
Director: Sidney Hayers | Stars: Michael Craig, Françoise Prévost, Billie Whitelaw, William Lucas
Votes: 894
Payroll - Decent gritty Brit armoured car heist film. I liked the way you thought it would be a standard cops vs robbers film at start with a few female characters as wives of the men on each side added as garnish but as the story progresses the women take over and lead the plot. 1001 possibly 7.2/10
70. Victim (1961)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
A closeted lawyer risks his career to bring a blackmailer to justice.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price, Anthony Nicholls
Votes: 7,207
Dirk Bogarde as a secretly gay barrister, with a knowing but accepting wife, who tries to track down the blackmailer who is ransoming him and other gay men. There seemed to be a sea change around this time with gay plot lines now being openly discussed where as before they were hinted at or covered completely from original sources [We Three - Children's Hour], [two Oscar Wilde films in 1960]. An interesting social film but also a good thriller with Bogarde being on good form as some fun side parts. 1001 yes 7.8/10
71. Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Not Rated | 124 min | Drama, Romance
The love of high school sweethearts Deanie and Bud is weighed down by the oppressive expectations of their parents and society in smalltown Kansas in 1928, threatening the future of their relationship.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle, Audrey Christie
Votes: 22,649 | Gross: $8.72M
Warren Beatty's first film and he's great but it's Natalie Wood who really makes this great. A tale of repressed love and people being forced down roads they don't want to go against where their heart wants to take them. Had a tear in my eye at the ending. " you've just gotta take what life throws at you" 8.5/10
72. The Children's Hour (1961)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Romance
A rebellious student at a girls' school accuses two teachers of lesbianism.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner, Miriam Hopkins
Votes: 18,410
i enjoyed this but I think I'd seen it before plus the 1936 version [These Three] - Also reminds me of The Bad Seed (1956). Good performances, especially the child actors - wow that one of the girls grew up to be Lambert in Alien. 1001? Room for this and These Three ?
73. Yojimbo (1961)
Not Rated | 110 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tôno, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yôko Tsukasa
Votes: 131,400
Another Akirosawa samurai classic, not as good as Seven Samurai but still great. - Bit fun & with a more modern soundtrack. Would of liked a better fight between the giant & the hero. 1001
74. One, Two, Three (1961)
Not Rated | 104 min | Comedy
In West Berlin during the Cold War, a Coca-Cola executive is given the task of taking care of his boss' socialite daughter.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin, Arlene Francis
Votes: 22,995
Entertainingly watchable comedy about Cagney's Coca Cola executive in Cold War Berlin trying to undo the marriage his boss's 17 daughter has gotten into before her dad arrives and finds out. Cagney is still a powerhouse with a quickfire whirlwind of delivery but the rest of the cast can't match is screen presence, only the secretary matches him, so it's all a bit of a one man show which means it drags more than it could of if it had a stronger actress playing the daughter. Good advert for Coca Cola too. The music score by Andre Previn of Aram Khachaturian's lively "Sabre Dance" is also a high point. Cagney didn't make another film for 20 years after this, maybe he wanted to go out on a high. 7.4/10 1001
75. The Young Savages (1961)
Not Rated | 103 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A district attorney investigates three white teenagers accused of murdering a blind Puerto Rican kid.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Edward Andrews, Vivian Nathan
Votes: 2,939
Three members of a Harlem white street gang stab to death a blind member of a Puerto-rican gang. Prosecutor Burt Lancaster accompanied occasionally by Tele Savalas] investigates the case to see if it's as clear cut as it first seems. Matters are further complicated by the fact one of the boys arrested for murder is the sons of an ex-flame of Lancaster's character. Pretty good but but not essential. 7./10
76. The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr, Luana Anders
Votes: 16,406 | Gross: $4.36M
Another Roger Corman directed & Vincent Price led camp Hammer Horror, based on an Edgar Allen Poe story. A man calls on an imposing gothic coastal castle to discover what happened to his sister. Good fun as usual but not my favourite of these.
77. Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff, Françoise Bertin
Votes: 24,889 | Gross: $0.06M
A group of sophisticated men & women mingle in a sumptuously decorated mansion and gardens, they watch plays and concerts, play card games & talk of various abstract subjects, the camera slowly pans among them and they occasionally freeze in place, all the while a sinister organ soundtrack plays. A man (who narrates) & a woman are the main characters, he tries to persuade her that they met there the year before - ghosts of former lovers, in limbo, trying to recall how & where they met or a dream? or is he Death coming to collect her after giving her a years grace after her husband killed her or she committed suicide? Wow loved this, must get DVD. wouldn't be surprised if this was an influence for Kubrick making The Shining [ETA seems I'm correct]. Well worth checking out the 4 main locations in Germany it was shot, would love to visit.
78. Lola (1961)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance
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.
Director: Jacques Demy | Stars: Anouk Aimée, Marc Michel, Jacques Harden, Alan Scott
Votes: 7,530
Jacques Demy first feature length film. Thought it was watchable but not great, the open scene was promising with the cool man in a white cowboy suit driving a convertible Cadillac along Nantes seafront while Allegretto part from Beethoven's 7th Symphony played and then he gets cooler as he slips his sunglasses on. But then I got a bit bored, didn't care for any of the characters, didn't find Anouk Aimée as Lola that appealing. The ending kind of brought it together and and made me feel that I should of been playing more attention. Maybe one to give another chance some day but I'm in no hurry and this director seems to have made films that are held in better regard (the next two in his romantic trilogy), I'll watch this instead for now. 6.8/10
79. Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog (1961)
Approved | 87 min | Drama, Family
The remarkable veritable story of a terrier named Bobby and the enduring friendship he forges with a tenderhearted shepherd known simply as Old Jock---unbroken even by the kindly old man's death.
Director: Don Chaffey | Stars: Donald Crisp, Laurence Naismith, Alex Mackenzie, Duncan Macrae
Votes: 1,852
Soppy Disney Scottish dog tale. Not for me. 5.5/10
80. Two Rode Together (1961)
Passed | 109 min | Drama, Western
A corrupt marshal is pressured by his army friend into negotiating the release of white captives of the Comanches, but finds that their reintegration into society has its consequences.
Director: John Ford | Stars: James Stewart, Richard Widmark, Shirley Jones, Linda Cristal
Votes: 6,955
John Ford, James Stewart, Richard Widmark - all reliable names but this was unfortunately rather rubbish, poor story with cartoon indians, a better print might of helped but not much. Jimmie Stewart was getting a bit old for action films by 1961? 6.5/10
81. Blast of Silence (1961)
Approved | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York, but a special girl from his past and a gun dealer with pet rats get in his way.
Director: Allen Baron | Stars: Allen Baron, Molly McCarthy, Larry Tucker, Peter Clune
Votes: 5,670
Excellent neo-noir with european feel to it (reminded me of Alphaville with Lionel Stander's gruff voiced narration. Nice and dark. 7.6/10 1001
82. Viridiana (1961)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama
Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey, José Calvo
Votes: 26,141
I'm not a massive fan of Luis Buñuel and although I enjoyed the first half with the creepy uncle & the nun the second half with house full of drunks & the son left me a bit cold. 6.5/10
83. The Ladies Man (1961)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy
A clueless, recently-single graduate unwittingly takes a job as a servant in a mansion inhabited by dozens of young women.
Director: Jerry Lewis | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Helen Traubel, Pat Stanley, Kathleen Freeman
Votes: 4,566
I don't see the appeal in Jerry Lewis films and while this probably the one I've enjoyed most it still wasn't great. The female actresses were enjoyable and the gangster with his hat was a funny scene, also the bit when the camera pulls back showing the whole house as an open fronted film set was impressive. Most of Lewis gags seem old silent era stuff recycled. 6/10
84. The Exiles (1961)
Not Rated | 72 min | Drama
Follows a family of Native Americans living in the City of Angels.
Director: Kent Mackenzie | Stars: Yvonne Williams, Homer Nish, Tom Reynolds, Rico Rodriguez
Votes: 1,389 | Gross: $0.03M
about native americans lives. sorry but this didn't grab me so i can hardly remember what it was about, just seemed tyo be people getting drunk and argueing or dancing. Maybe its a gritty look at how America treats it's native population but I didn't feel any interest or liking for any character shown. 6/10
85. Chronicle of a Summer (1961)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, History
A documentary about the everyday lives of ordinary Parisians, done in the style of cinéma vérité.
Directors: Edgar Morin, Jean Rouch | Stars: Angelo, Nadine Ballot, Catherine, Céline
Votes: 3,584
cinema verite, this sort of film might seem quite common now but here it was just beginning and this is great. A load of people just talking or going about their lives could of been boring but this is quite fascinating to watch and you're interested in their stories, it has some interesting "twists" like them showing the finished film to the interviewees and asking them what they think of it. Great and influential but probably not the kind of thing you would want to watch again in a hurry.
86. A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
Approved | 128 min | Drama
A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.
Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands
Votes: 9,573
Story of a poor african american family waiting for an insurance pay out after the (unseen) patriarch of the family dies in a work accident. The acting is great here and it need to be as it's mostly set in one or two rooms of their house and a bar. Sidney Poitier won an award for playing the part on stage before bringing it to screen but it is Claudia McNeil as the family matriarch who holds the centre of the story. Great stuff, essential viewing. 1001
87. Accattone (1961)
Not Rated | 117 min | Drama
A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiraling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Franco Citti, Franca Pasut, Silvana Corsini, Paola Guidi
Votes: 10,162
Pier Paolo Pasolini's first feature film is the story of a small time Rome pimp who lives off the measly profits of the woman he exploits. Him and his mates are small time Rome gangsters who sit about all day bantering in the sun, in the stle that would be depicted in most US mafia films/series in the future. Great performance from first time actor Franco Citti, he reminds he of a young Al Pacino in Scarface here.
88. What a Whopper (1961)
90 min | Comedy
A writer attempts to raise some cash by writing a book about the Loch Ness Monster. No publisher will take it because they all think there isn't really a monster. The writer and some of his... See full summary »
Director: Gilbert Gunn | Stars: Adam Faith, Sidney James, Carole Lesley, Terence Longdon
Votes: 285
a group try to fake a loch ness monster sighting to bump their friends book on the subject. very poor bri comedy. only watchable by the fact there are so many familiar faces. adam faith is crap at acting.
89. Placido (1961)
85 min | Comedy, Drama
In a small Spanish town, a group of old ladies decides to celebrate Christmas Eve with a "seat a poor man at your table" dinner: each wealthy household of the town will have a homeless ... See full summary »
Director: Luis García Berlanga | Stars: Cassen, José Luis López Vázquez, Elvira Quintillá, Manuel Alexandre
Votes: 3,769
a man ties to get a bank note paid in on the day of a christmas festival & parade where people are expected to take a poor person into their house for a meal. Wasn't really in the mood for this so might re-watch another time, the subs were slightly shoddy too and the quick fire dialogue didn't help. Spanish satirical comedy - reminded me a bit of Brunel's Viradina from the same year.
90. Mother Joan of the Angels (1961)
110 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A priest is sent to a small parish in the Polish countryside which is believed to be under demonic possession and there he finds his own temptations awaiting.
Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Stars: Lucyna Winnicka, Mieczyslaw Voit, Anna Ciepielewska, Maria Chwalibóg
Votes: 4,314
A priest, Father Józef Suryn, turns up at a convent to help other priests to exorcise demons from the nuns living there, especially the mother-superior, Mother Joan who he is personally assigned to. A previous priest had been burnt at the stake for being found guilty of sexually tempting the sisters (Based on same story that Ken Russel's The Devil's was based on). The patrons of a nearby tavern gossip about the goings on at the convent. Good, strong imagery, good acting, ending was cut off slightly - 1001
91. The End of Summer (1961)
103 min | Drama
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Ganjirô Nakamura, Setsuko Hara, Yôko Tsukasa, Michiyo Aratama
Votes: 4,504
Yasujiro Ozu's penultimate film, covers subjects such as marriage, death, following your heart. Quite a few characters & locations for one of his films, quite hard to understand where it was going with all the characters in the first 20mins or so. But as usual it turns into an excellent film once you're informed how all the characters are related to each other. All his usual fav actor/acr=tresses are here (some with only a couple of lines). Excellent as always but can't say this was a favourite of mine, mainly due to lack of focus on one or two characters so it came across a bit soap opera-ish.
92. Flame in the Streets (1961)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama
During the 1960s in Britain, tense race relations between whites and blacks are affecting the workplace, the family, the dating scene, and the society at large.
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Brenda de Banzie, Earl Cameron
Votes: 414
Well meaning UK flick about racism in the workplace and in relationships. Just doesn't have a plot gripping enough of performances engaging enough to make it great.
93. A Difficult Life (1961)
Not Rated | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, War
Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Lea Massari, Franco Fabrizi, Lina Volonghi
Votes: 2,187
The life of Silvio Magnozzi [Alberto Sordi] - a girl saves his life from the Nazis while he is an Italian partisan writing an underground newspaper. after the war he finds her again and she runs away with him to Rome where he is now an underpaid journalist on a newspaper writing libelous articles that end up getting him put in prison [after he refuses to be bribed into cancelling the offending piece]. They have a son but as their relationship breaks down as he has no money he becomes increasingly alcoholic an desperate. A few years later it appears he has got his act together but at the cost of the rebelliousness that she found attractive in him. The film incorporates some of the historical events Italy from 1944 to 1960. This was decent but I didn't love it. 7.6/10 maybe 1001 in a weaker year , one to reassess in a few months.
94. Pigs and Battleships (1961)
Not Rated | 108 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A young hoodlum decides to work for a criminal organization that is tearing itself apart.
Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Hiroyuki Nagato, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Masao Mishima, Tetsurô Tanba
Votes: 2,591
Japanese new-wave, in a Japan still full of US soldiers and rife with corruption due to the rationing of food a young man falls in with the local Yakuza gangsters to help with their pig smuggling racket. Reminded me of The Warped Ones style wise. The ending with the gangsters getting overcome by a vast herd of stampeding pigs is great, the rest of it wasn't as good. non of the characters are very likeable.
95. Hand in Hand (1961)
Approved | 78 min | Drama, Family
A little Roman Catholic boy and a little Jewish girl become best friends despite the prejudice that surrounds them.
Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, John Gregson, Sybil Thorndike
Votes: 587
Two British children, a Catholic boy & a Jewish girl, become friends, they decide to become "blood brothers" to cement their closeness. Their respective parents tell them not to visit the other one's place of worship or it will anger their gods but they decide to ignore them. Quite charming but there's not enough there to make it great, the kids acting isn't great (no worse than the adults to be fair). Plus it was missing the first 15 mins so I don't know how they met. Nothing great but I would like to watch a complete version.
96. Master of the World (1961)
Approved | 102 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
In 1868, an American scientist and his team become hostages of fanatical pacifist Robur who uses his airship Albatross to destroy military targets on Earth.
Director: William Witney | Stars: Vincent Price, Charles Bronson, Henry Hull, Mary Webster
Votes: 3,521
Based on two Jules Verne novels. a group trying to learn more about a volcano by taking a hot air balloon into the crater are taken aboard a far superior flying machine after they crash. The airship is captained by Vincent Price who is out to blackmail the worlds governments into giving up their arms to enable world peace. Lack-lustre special effects, set designs and acting, Price is the only thing worth watching here but it can't save it from being a clunker. 5.5/10
97. The Hellfire Club (1961)
Approved | 94 min | Adventure
Years after fleeing his ancestral home with his mother, Jason returns home to claim his birthright, only to find his way blocked by his evil cousin Thomas. In order to reclaim his title, ... See full summary »
Directors: Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman | Stars: Keith Michell, Adrienne Corri, Peter Cushing, Peter Arne
Votes: 367
Pretty poor but watchable, I was hoping for some docu-drama type historical stories about the Hellfire Club but it's just used as a backdrop for the plot. Some very attractive redhead actresses, not many familiar faces - Bill Owens. 6.2/10
98. The Assassin (1961)
Not Rated | 83 min | Crime, Thriller
Alfredo Martelli is picked up by the police at his apartment without justification. In the precinct, he slowly discovers what the investigation is about as we discover details about his life.
Director: Elio Petri | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Micheline Presle, Cristina Gaioni, Salvo Randone
Votes: 1,521
A man is arrested for killing his rich lover, as he is interrogated in a police station the story of their relationship is told in flashback. Not the greatest of of Marcello Mastriano's appearances. the cutting back and forth between the police station and the flashback blocks any tension rising. Little empathy with the characters. Ending was unsatisfying too. 6.7/10
99. A Taste of Honey (1961)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama
A pregnant teenage girl must fend for herself when her mother remarries, leaving the girl with only a new male friend for support.
Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Rita Tushingham, Dora Bryan, Robert Stephens, Murray Melvin
Votes: 6,364
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100. The Misfits (1961)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, Romance, Western
A divorcée falls for an over-the-hill cowboy who is struggling to maintain his romantically independent lifestyle.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter
Votes: 23,430 | Gross: $8.94M
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