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Yojimbo
is a 1961 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa, who also co-wrote the screenplay and was one of the producers. The film stars Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katō, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, and Atsushi Watanabe. In the film, a rōnin arrives in a small town where competing crime lords fight for supremacy. The two bosses each try to hire the newcomer as a bodyguard.
Judgment at Nuremberg
1961 US film by Stanley Kramer
The Hustler
1961 film by Robert Rossen
Accattone
Accattone (, lit. "vagabond", "scrounger") is a 1961 Italian drama film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, and starring Franco Citti. It was Pasolini's first film as a director, as well as the acting debut for Citti, who would become a regular collaborator. It follows the life of Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi, a pimp living on the outskirts of Rome.
La Notte
1961 film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
Through a Glass Darkly
1961 film by Ingmar Bergman
The Children's Hour
1961 film directed by William Wyler
King of Kings
1961 film of the life of Jesus Christ
Barabbas
1961 Italian film by Richard Fleischer
Léon Morin, Priest
1961 film by Jean-Pierre Melville
The Long Absence
1961 film by Henri Colpi
Un taxi pour Tobrouk
1960 film by Denys de La Patellière
A Raisin in the Sun
1961 film by Daniel Petrie
Wild in the Country
1961 film directed by Philip Dunne
The Devil at 4 O'Clock
1961 film by Mervyn LeRoy
Francis of Assisi
1961 film by Michael Curtiz
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1961 film by Irwin Allen
Summer and Smoke
1961 film by Peter Glenville
The End of Summer
1961 film by Yasujirō Ozu
Five Days, Five Nights
1961 film by Lev Arnshtam, Heinz Thiel
The Lovemakers
1961 film by Mauro Bolognini
Yevdokiya
Yevdokiya () is a 1961 Soviet melodrama film directed by Tatyana Lioznova.
But What If This Is Love
1962 film by Yuli Raizman
Banditi a Orgosolo
1961 film by Vittorio De Seta
Queen of the Nile
1961 film by Fernando Cerchio
My Friend, Kolka!
1961 film by Alexander Mitta, Aleksei Saltykov
The Horizon
1962 film by Iosif Kheifits
Ukrainian Rhapsody
1961 film by Sergei Parajanov
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
1962 French short film directed by Robert Enrico
The Mark
1961 film by Guy Green
Town Without Pity
1961 film by Gottfried Reinhardt
The Count of Monte Cristo
1961 film by Claude Autant-Lara
Oh Islam
1961 Italian film by E. Bomba, A. Marton
Dharmputra
Dharmputra is a 1961 Hindi film directed by Yash Chopra based on a novel of the same name by Acharya Chatursen. This is Yash's second directorial venture. It was the first Hindi film to depict the partition of India, and Hindu fundamentalism. Produced by his elder brother B.R. Chopra, who was himself uprooted from Lahore, during the partition of India and established B.R. Films in Mumbai in 1956. The film dealt with issues of religious bigotry, fanaticism and communalism amidst the backdrop of the partition. Two years earlier, Yash Chopra had made his debut with Dhool Ka Phool (1959), steeped
Spotlight on a Murderer
1961 film by Georges Franju
Two Half Times in Hell
1961 film by Zoltán Fábri
At Five O'Clock in the Afternoon
1961 film by Juan Antonio Bardem
The Sins of Rachel Cade
1961 film by Gordon Douglas
Garibaldi
1961 Italian film directed by Roberto Rossellini
Who Are You, Mr. Sorge?
1961 film by Yves Ciampi
Immortal Love
1961 film by Keisuke Kinoshita
Summer Skin
1961 film by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
The Singer Not the Song
1961 film directed by Roy Ward Baker
Ada
1961 political drama film directed by Daniel Mann
La Princesse de Clèves
1961 film by Jean Delannoy
Question 7
1961 film by Stuart Rosenberg
Samson
1961 film by Andrzej Wajda
Antigone
1961 film by George Tzavellas
The Story of Joseph and His Brethren
1960 Yugoslavian/Italian film directed by Irving Rapper and Luciano Ricci
Teenagers
1961 film
The Brigand
1961 film by Renato Castellani
Alias Gardelito
1961 film by Lautaro Murúa
X-15
1961 film by Richard Donner
Parrish
1961 American film directed by Delmer Daves
Mission
1962 film by Yuri Yegorov
Vanina Vanini (film)
1961 film by Roberto Rossellini
The Menace
1961 film by Gérard Oury
Too Late Blues
1961 film by John Cassavetes
Atlas in the Land of the Cyclops
1961 film by Antonio Leonviola
Everyman
1961 film by Gottfried Reinhardt