Year 1961 movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant year 1961 movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, sexy, talky, black and white and unusual plot structure films and TV shows about / with love, husband wife relationship, runaway, kiss, culture clash, family relations, mentor, dialogue, couples and male female relationship plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, Italy, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as year 1961: Hidden Figures (2016), One, Two, Three (1961), Call the Midwife (2012), That Night (1992), Grease 2 (1982), 61* (2001), A Woman Is a Woman (1961), The Night (1961), Girl with a Suitcase (1961), The Scrounger (1961).
Best films
New films
| Bridge of Spies (2015) | 7.6 | |
| Da 5 Bloods (2020) | 6.5 | |
| Never Look Away (2018) | 7.7 | |
| Kingmaker (2022) | 6.8 | |
| The Hole (2021) | 6.6 |
List of year 1961 movies
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into ...
Style:
inspirational, exciting, touching, feel good, historical drama ...
Audience:
girls' night, family friendly, date night, chick flick, kids ...
Plot:
racism, mathematics, nasa, space program, stereotypes, african american, prejudice, sexism, genius, scientist, strong female character, racial segregation ...
Time:
60s, year 1961, 20th century, year 2016, 2010s ...
Place:
indiana, persia, usa, virginia, langley virginia
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A Coca-Cola executive in West Berlin tries to keep the boss's daughter from marrying a Communist.
Style:
funny, fast paced, black and white, biting, talky ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
cold war, iron curtain, coca cola, satire, capitalist, secretary, communism, forbidden love, farce, voice over narration, corporate executive, race against time ...
Time:
year 1961, 20th century, 60s, 1930s
Place:
berlin germany, west berlin west germany, east berlin, germany, east germany ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
Style:
costume drama, sincere, touching, realistic, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
midwife, childbirth, pregnancy, convent, nursing, friends, doctor, nurse, medical, family life, home birth, friendship ...
Time:
50s, 60s, 1950s, year 1961, 2010s ...
Place:
england, london, europe, britain
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age story about an eleven-year-old girl who idolizes her troubled sixteen-year-old neighbor.
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, teenage pregnancy, bowling, young couple, summer, bullying, teenager, child protagonist, star crossed lovers, grief, girl, teen angst ...
Time:
year 1961, year 1992, 60s, 20th century
Place:
new york
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41K
Genre: Comedy, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
It's 1961, two years after the original Grease gang graduated, and there's a new crop of seniors and new members of the coolest cliques on campus, the Pink Ladies and T-Birds. Michael Carrington is the new kid in school - but he's ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, cult classic, period piece, retro ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, date night ...
Plot:
high school, motorcycle, dancing, teenage girl, love, biker, greaser, opposites attract, secret identity, dance, teenage boy, cheerleader ...
Time:
year 1961, year 1982, 60s, 20th century, 1950s ...
Place:
los angeles
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19K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In 1961, Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle played for the New York Yankees. One, Mantle, was universally loved, while the other, Maris, was universally hated. Both men started off with a bang, and both were nearing Babe Ruth's 60 home run record. ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, realistic, sincere, feel good ...
Plot:
baseball, baseball player, rivalry, friendship, fan, contests and competitions, fame, against the odds, success, underdog, rising to stardom, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time:
year 1961, 20th century, 60s, year 1998
Place:
north dakota, usa, new york, kansas city, baltimore ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Exotic dancer Angéla attempts to have a child with her unwilling lover Émile. In the process, she finds herself torn between him and his best friend Alfred.
Style:
melancholic, light, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Plot:
love, pregnancy, infidelity, loneliness, dysfunctional family, couples, couple relations, love and romance, love triangle, fall in love, sexual relations, relationships ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s, 20th century
Place:
france, tokyo, paris france
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26K
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A married couple attend a bourgeois party and wade through the stifling strain that long-term marriage has imposed upon them.
Style:
erotic, cerebral, black and white, art house, sexual ...
Plot:
writers, infidelity, hospital, midlife crisis, marriage, love, relationships, affair, amor, illicit affair, passion, crazy love ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s, 20th century
Place:
italy, mediterranean sea, usa, los angeles, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Lorenzo, who's 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgirl, Aida, whom his older brother has mistreated. In extending kindness and standing up for her, he comes of age. But, is there anything he can do ...
Plot:
coming of age, love, swing, teenage crush, jazz singer, class differences, male female relationship, milf, first love, love letter, italian neorealism, relationships ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s
Place:
italy
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
Style:
neorealism, realistic, serious, erotic, disturbing ...
Plot:
prostitution, prostitute, poverty, unemployment, robbery, life is a bitch, family relations, italian neorealism, criminal heroes, downfall, dishonesty, couple relations ...
Time:
20th century, year 1961, 60s, post world war two, 1950s ...
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe, tokyo, japan
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Takes place in a chateau, an ambiguous story of a man and a woman who may or may not have met last year at Marienbad.
Style:
surreal, mind bending, sexy, experimental, psychological ...
Plot:
hotel, surrealism, memory, obsession, uncertainty, stream of consciousness, alternate reality, amnesia, haunted by the past, dishonesty, hopes, destiny ...
Time:
20th century, year 1961, 60s
Place:
france, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Fortune hunter Holly Golightly finds herself captivated by aspiring writer Paul Varjak, who's moved into her building on a wealthy woman's dime. As romance blooms between Paul and Holly, Doc Golightly shows up on the scene, revealing ...
Style:
sentimental, sweet, feel good, touching, colorful ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, kids, teens, girls' night
Plot:
love story, fashion, cat, woman, secret past, love, destiny, love of one's life, eccentricity, writers, love and romance, party ...
Time:
60s, year 1961, 20th century
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, usa, los angeles, brazil ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A troublemaking student at a girl's school accuses two teachers of being lesbians.
Style:
sad, emotional, lgbt cinema, controversial, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, gender, unrequited love, bigotry, false accusation, girls' school, gay, evil child, tragedy, bullying, prejudice, closeted lesbian ...
Time:
year 1961, 20th century, 60s, 1930s
Place:
california
Is relevant?
17K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 182 min.
Story:
Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving the Moors from Spain.
Style:
breathtaking, epic, stylized, historically accurate, phantasmagoric ...
Plot:
knight, medieval, barbarian, sword fight, sword and shield, epic battle, spanish history, war, duel, swashbuckler, islam, battles ...
Time:
middle ages, 11th century, medieval times, year 1961
Place:
spain, europe, valencia spain, africa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
Style:
suspense, exciting, tense, intense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, military, behind enemy lines, island, resistance, nazi, mercenary, spy, wartime, gunfight, mountain, fortress ...
Time:
1940s, year 1961, year 1943, 20th century
Place:
greece, fictional island, germany, hellas, balkan ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In World War II, the widow Barny sees the Italian soldiers arriving in occupied Saint Bernard while walking to her job. Barny lives with her daughter and works correcting tests and feels a great attraction toward her boss Sabine. When the Germans ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, sincere, bleak ...
Plot:
clergy, world war two, atheist, religion, theology, catholic priest, church, priest, faith, unfulfilled love, self discovery, religions or cults ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1961
Place:
france, europe
Is relevant?
8K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Lola, is a 1961 film, the debut film directed by Jacques Demy as a tribute to director Max Ophüls and is described by Demy as a "musical without music". Anouk Aimée starred in the title role. The film was restored and re-released by ...
Style:
eros, art house, black and white, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
true love, swing, cabaret, young lovers, love, unrequited love, single mother, women, showgirl, girl, recovery, lost soul ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
france, europe, brittany, johannesburg south africa, amsterdam ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland and former World War II aviator Guido Racanelli. The two men instantly become infatuated with Roslyn and, on a whim, the three ...
Style:
sexy, atmospheric, black and white, retro, realistic ...
Plot:
desert, divorce, cowboy, stallion, fall in love, aging, older man younger woman relationship, modern west, moral dilemma, couples, age difference, death ...
Time:
20th century, year 1961, 60s
Place:
usa, nevada, las vegas, california, reno nevada
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Francis Barnard goes to Spain, when he hears his sister Elizabeth has died. Her husband Nicholas Medina, the son of the most brutal torturer of the Spanish Inquisition, tells him she has died of a blood disease, but Francis finds this hard to ...
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, scary, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
spanish inquisition, castle, torture, murder, insanity, vengeance, investigation, inquisition, monster, macabre, gory, edgar allan poe ...
Time:
middle ages, 15th century, 16th century, medieval times, 14th century ...
Place:
europe, spain
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
With his family mired in financial troubles, Domenico moves to Milan, Italy, from his small town to get a job in lieu of furthering his education. A lack of options forces him to take a position as a messenger at a big company, where he hopes to ...
Style:
neorealism, sad, art house, insightful, social ...
Plot:
italian neorealism, coming of age, worker, european, teenager, boy, spirituality, angry, young adult, realism, little boy, time travel ...
Time:
year 1961, 20th century, 60s
Place:
italy, europe, milan italy
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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...
Style:
black and white, dramatic, aesthetic, retro, existential ...
Plot:
african american, racism, poverty, racial segregation, atheism, working class family, civil rights, black, black history, dysfunctional family, segregation, racial discrimination ...
Time:
year 1961, 50s, 20th century
Place:
chicago, africa, usa, illinois, nigeria
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.
Style:
touching, sad, emotional, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, forbidden love, small town, adolescence, love story, sexual repression, mental illness, teenager, suicide attempt, unrequited love, high school football, true love ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1961, future ...
Place:
kansas, yale university, new york, connecticut, usa ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A wheelchair-bound young girl returns to her father's estate after ten years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.
Style:
scary, suspense, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
murder, disability, corpse, false identity, piano, female protagonist, father, uncover truth, investigation, parents and children, mistaken identity, missing person ...
Time:
20th century, year 1961, 60s
Place:
france, french riviera, cote d'azur, riviera
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Focuses on a working class girl who is struggling to create a life for herself with her gay co-worker after becoming pregnant from a one-night stand with a black sailor.
Style:
independent film, sexual, black and white, depressing, talky ...
Plot:
coming of age, working class, kitchen sink realism, social realism, interracial relations, friendship, pregnant teenager, single mother, dysfunctional family, single parent, family relations, forbidden love ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s
Place:
england, britain, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Ghost is an idealogical musician who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself.
Style:
crying
Plot:
music and dance, jazz, bare chested male, bar fight, bartender, talent agent, fistfight, older woman younger man relationship, interracial friendship, countess, piano, children ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s
Place:
los angeles
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.
Style:
realistic, serious, cynical, suspenseful, retro ...
Plot:
american indian, rescue, hostage, cowboy, small town, chase, captivity, society, culture clash, chief, squaw, civil war ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s, 1880s
Place:
texas, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
gangster, testimony, prison, dishonesty, manhunt, haunted by the past, witnessing a crime, law enforcement, parents and children, drug addiction, betrayal, revenge ...
Time:
60s, year 1961
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A prominent lawyer goes after a blackmailer who threatens gay men with exposure in a time when homosexual acts were still being illegal. But he's queer himself.
Style:
controversial, neo noir, noir, disturbing, cynical ...
Plot:
lgbtq, blackmail, homosexuality, gay, closeted homosexual, gay couple, barrister, gay husband, lawyer, male homosexuality, realism, pub ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s
Place:
england, britain, europe, london, united kingdom
Is relevant?
28K
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.
Style:
controversial, black and white, surreal, disturbing, art house ...
Plot:
religion, satire, dark humor, catholic, passion, rape, morality, voyeurism, idealism, nun, loser, sexual deviant ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s, 20th century
Place:
spain, madrid, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.
Style:
black comedy, humorous, witty, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot:
divorce, sicilian, cousin cousin relationship, murder, manipulation, forbidden love, husband wife relationship, marriage, couple relations, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, family problems ...
Time:
20th century, year 1961, 60s, 18th century
Place:
italy, sicily, europe
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