Movies 1961 Page 49

In 1920s rural Mississippi, Nancy Mannigoe, an African-American servant, is placed on death row for the murder of Temple Drake's infant child....

The life and tribulations of Carmelist nun Teresa de Jesús, who had transcendental experiences. She would write several works and would reform the...

The film is set in the early XX century. Three friends of the working of the Ural village - Yegor, Petka and Stickleback - are not on good terms with...

Two linear characters typical of Émile Cohl are situated in the same frame, in different coloured rectangles making up their respective settings....

The serial killing of a samurai each night by strangulation at various temples confounds investigators and brings a chill to the residents of Edo....

A small picturesque town at the turn of the century. The conservative views of the townspeople are shaken when they find out that the school teacher...

Afacan tells the story of a young girl who witnesses a murder and struggles to escape the killers who are after her. Directed and written by Şinasi...

An inebriated mouse with a throbbing head takes a priceless diamond, thinking it's a soothing piece of ice. Two policemen, one of them a lunkhead,...

Documentary following the work of the Transport Command of Britain's Royal Air Force.

The Tartars and the Vikings maintain a fragile peace in the harsh landscape of the Russian Steppe. When the leader of the Vikings, Oleg, declines to...

The school year is over. The former nine-graders begin their summer internship, which proved for the kids to be a real school of grown-up life with...

Therese, a café owner, mourns the mysterious disappearance of her husband sixteen years earlier. A tramp arrives in the town and she believes him to...

A British drama about a girl becoming a woman after she relocates to London. She and her young boyfriend become tempted by one of her older admirers...

Unfinished film by Jean Eustache . A couple kisses. A group of friends talk inside a room. One of them reads from a paper.

A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.

Lancashire newlyweds Violet and Arthur Fitton are forced to postpone their honeymoon and move in temporarily with his parents.

When the wife of Sebastian Schumann left her family, he told his little daughter that her mother has died, because he thought that this was the...

Bournemouth offers a variety of sports, pastimes, steamer trips, and fine dining for holidaymakers, competing with cheaper foreign holidays and...

Shows a flea pulling a massive dry ice puck, thus demonstrating the small force needed to move a nearly frictionless body. Includes a short excerpt...

A film by Richard Preston.

1961 American promotional film for Türkiye, produced by United World Films and Dudley Pictures and directed by Otto Lang

Attractive low-rent housing and new opportunities for business and industry came about as a result of clearing a ten-block slum area in the centre of...

A Tooter Turtle short.

A cartoon about the history and benefits of taking vitamins.

The Runcorn and Widnes Bridge is opened by Princess Alexandra.

Many of today's railway problems were created during the years of competition between the various railway companies. At Sheffield, for instance,...

Filmed in Rome, Italy.

Documentary about Isafjordur in Iceland.

Explains the theory of electromagnetism by building slowly from a simple bar magnet to a completed electromagnet made from simple home materials.

Animated Short

Film on nuclear fallout and its potential for damage in the event of an attack on the United States. Freakishly dramatic music. Picture of people...

Egyptian film shot by Salah al-Tuhami.

Synthetic rain; Camera-less film.

A film by Galician surrealist painter Granell made with two Japanese spinning tops. These were a present from Marcel Duchamp.