Italian films of 1961
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Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

s produced in Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 in 1961 (see 1961 in film
1961 in film
The year 1961 in film involved some significant events, with West Side Story winning 10 Academy Awards.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:* Atlantis, the Lost ContinentB...

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Title Director Cast Genre Notes
1960
1960 in film
The year 1960 in film involved some significant events, with Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho the top-grossing release in the U.S.-Events:* April 20 - for the first time since coming home from military service in Germany, Elvis Presley returns to Hollywood, California to film G.I...

A cavallo della tigre
A cavallo della tigre (1961 film)
A cavallo della tigre is an Italian film written and directed by Luigi Comencini in 1961. It was released as Jailbreak in the UK and On the Tiger's Back in the U.S.-Cast:*Nino Manfredi as Giacinto Rossi*Mario Adorf as Tagliabue...

Luigi Comencini
Luigi Comencini
Luigi Comencini was an Italian film director. Together with Dino Risi, Ettore Scola and Mario Monicelli, he was considered among the masters of the commedia all'italiana genre....

 
Nino Manfredi
Nino Manfredi
Nino Manfredi was an Italian actor, one of the most prominent in the commedia all'italiana genre....

, Gian Maria Volonté
Gian Maria Volontè
Gian Maria Volonté was an Italian actor. He is perhaps most famous outside of Italy for his roles as the main villain in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More.-Early life:Volonté was born in Milan, and graduated in Rome in 1957...

, Serge Reggiani
Serge Reggiani
Serge Reggiani was an Italian-born French singer and actor. He was born in Reggio Emilia, Italy and moved to France with his parents at the age of eight...

 
Comedy
A due passi dal confine  Gianni Vernuccio  Ombretta Colli, Tony Bellani  Drama
A porte chiuse  Dino Risi  Anita Ekberg
Anita Ekberg
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, Claudio Gora
Claudio Gora
Claudio Gora was an Italian actor and film director.He was a particularly prolific actor making some 155 appearances in film and television over nearly 60 years from 1939 to 1997...

 
Comedy
Accattone
Accattone
Accattone is a 1961 Italian drama film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Despite being filmed from an original screenplay, academics perceive Accattone as a cinematic rendition of Pasolini's earlier novels, particularly Boys of Life and A Violent Life...

Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual. Pasolini distinguished himself as a poet, journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, painter and political figure...

 
Franco Citti
Franco Citti
Franco Citti is an Italian actor. He came to fame at the age of 26, playing the title role in Pier Paolo Pasolini's film Accattone...

, Franca Pasut, Silvana Corsini 
Drama Pasolini's directorial debut
Adelchi 
Akiko  Luigi Filippo D'Amico
Luigi Filippo D'Amico
Luigi Filippo D'Amico was an Italian film director and screenwriter. His 1974 film Il domestico was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival....

 
Paolo Panelli
Paolo Panelli
Paolo Panelli was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 55 films between 1948 and 1996. He was married to Bice Valori.-Selected filmography:* Hearts at Sea * Against the Law...

, Marcello Paolini 
Comedy
Alfa Omega
Alfa Omega
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America di notte  Giuseppe Maria Scotese  Angela Maria, Lionel Hampton
Lionel Hampton
Lionel Leo Hampton was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor. Like Red Norvo, he was one of the first jazz vibraphone players. Hampton ranks among the great names in jazz history, having worked with a who's who of jazz musicians, from Benny Goodman and Buddy...

 
documentary
Amours célèbres  MIchel Boisrond
Michel Boisrond
Michel Jacques Boisrond was a French film director and writer...

 
Alain Delon
Alain Delon
Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon is a French actor. He rose quickly to stardom, and by the age of 23 was already being compared to French actors such as Gérard Philipe and Jean Marais, as well as American actor James Dean. He was even called the male Brigitte Bardot...

, Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot is a French former fashion model, actress, singer and animal rights activist. She was one of the best-known sex-symbols of the 1960s.In her early life, Bardot was an aspiring ballet dancer...

, Jean-Paul Belmondo
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Jean-Paul Belmondo is a French actor initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s.-Career:Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, west of Paris, Belmondo did not perform well in school, but developed a passion for boxing and football."Did you box professionally very long?" "Not very long...

, Philippe Noiret
Philippe Noiret
Philippe Noiret was a French film actor.-Biography:Noiret's father was in the clothes trade. Philippe was an indifferent scholar and attended several prestigious Paris schools, including the Lycée Janson de Sailly. He failed several times to pass his baccalauréat exams, so he decided to study...

Historic
An einem Freitag um halb zwölf  Alvin Rakoff
Alvin Rakoff
Alvin Rakoff is a Canadian film and television director who has spent the bulk of his career in England and directed more than 100 high profile television plays, as well as a dozen feature films and numerous stage productions...

 
Rod Steiger
Rod Steiger
Rodney Stephen "Rod" Steiger was an Academy Award-winning American actor known for his performances in such films as On the Waterfront, The Big Knife, Oklahoma!, The Harder They Fall, Across the Bridge, The Pawnbroker, Doctor Zhivago, In the Heat of the Night, and Waterloo as well as the...

, Nadia Tiller, Marisa Merlini
Marisa Merlini
Marisa Merlini was an Italian character actress active in Italy's post-World War II cinema. Merlini appreared in over fifty films during her career, which spanned from World War II to 2005...

 
Yellow
The Assassin
The Assassin (1961 film)
The Assassin is a 1961 Italian crime film directed by Elio Petri. It was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival.- Cast :* Marcello Mastroianni - Nello Poletti* Micheline Presle - Adalgisa de Matteis* Cristina Gaioni - Antonella Nogara...

Elio Petri  Marcello Mastroianni
Marcello Mastroianni
Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni, Knight Grand Cross was an Italian film actor. His honours included British Film Academy Awards, Best Actor awards at the Cannes Film Festival and two Golden Globe Awards.- Personal life :...

 
Entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival
11th Berlin International Film Festival
The 11th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from June 23 to July 4, 1961.-Jury:* James Quinn * France Roche* Marc Turfkruyer* Satyajit Ray* Gian Luigi Rondi* Hirosugu Ozaki* Nicholas Ray* Falk Harnack* Hans Schaarwächter...

Attenzione: guerra!  Jiri Brdecka  Alberto Caldana 
Avventura dell'uomo 
Banditi a Orgosolo
Banditi a Orgosolo
Banditi a Orgosolo is a 1960 Italian film drama directed by Vittorio De Seta. The film stars Vittorina Pisano. De Seta won an Award for the film at the Venice Film Festival.-Cast:*Vittorina Pisano ... Mintonia...

Vittorio De Seta
Vittorio De Seta
Vittorio De Seta was an Italian cinema director and screenwriter, considered one of the Italian cinema's great imaginative realists of the Sixties.- Biography :...

 
Vittorina Pisano  Venice Award for debut feature
Battaglie sui mari  Roberto Savarese 
Battle of the Worlds
Battle of the Worlds
Battle of the Worlds is a 1961 Italian science fiction film directed by Antonio Margheriti, starring Claude Raines, Bill Carter and Maya Brent.-Plot:...

(Il pianeta degli uomini spenti)
Antonio Margheriti
Antonio Margheriti
Antonio Margheriti , also known under the pseudonym Anthony M. Dawson, was a prolific Italian filmmaker. He was born in Rome and died in 2002 from a heart attack in Monterosi, Viterbo, near Rome at the age of 72....

 
Claude Rains
Claude Rains
Claude Rains was an English stage and film actor whose career spanned 66 years. He was known for many roles in Hollywood films, among them the title role in The Invisible Man , a corrupt senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington , Mr...

, Umberto Orsini 
Science Fiction
Bellezze sulla spiaggia  Romolo Girolami  Walter Chiari
Walter Chiari
Walter Chiari, stage name of Walter Annichiarico , was a hugely successful Italian stage and screen actor, mostly in comedy roles....

, Mario Carotenuto
Mario Carotenuto
Mario Carotenuto was an Italian actor of theatre and cinema.-Biography:Carotenuto, the son of an actor of silent films, debuted as a young actor in Theatre Costanzi in his native city of Rome, Italy...

, Valeria Fabrizi 
Commedia all'italiana
Commedia all'italiana
Commedia all'italiana or Italian-style comedy is an Italian film genre. It is widely considered to have started with Mario Monicelli's I soliti ignoti in 1958 and derives its name from the title of Pietro Germi's Divorzio all'italiana .-Stars:Vittorio Gassman, Ugo...

 

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
Caccia all'uomo 
Cacciatori di dote 
Capitaine tempête 
Capitani di ventura 
Che femmina... e che dollari! 
Che gioia vivere 
Cinque leoni un soldo 
Civiltà romana 
Cocagne 
Controfagotto 
Crimen 
Cronache del '22 
Di là dalla gloria 
Diana 
Dichiarazione d'amore 
Divorce, Italian Style
Divorce, Italian Style
Divorce, Italian Style is a 1961 Italian comedy film directed by Pietro Germi. The screenplay was written by Ennio De Concini, Pietro Germi, Alfredo Giannetti, and Agenore Incrocci; based on the novel Un delitto d'onore by Giovanni Arpino...


(Divorzio all'italiana)
Pietro Germi
Pietro Germi
Pietro Germi was an Italian actor, screenwriter, and director. Germi was born in Genoa, Liguria, to a lower-middle class family. He was a messenger and briefly attended nautical school before deciding on a career in acting.He studied acting and directing at Rome's Centro Sperimentale di...

 
Marcello Mastroianni
Marcello Mastroianni
Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni, Knight Grand Cross was an Italian film actor. His honours included British Film Academy Awards, Best Actor awards at the Cannes Film Festival and two Golden Globe Awards.- Personal life :...

, Daniela Rocca
Daniela Rocca
Daniela Rocca was an Italian model and actress.Rocca was born and raised in Acireale, a poor neighborhood in Catania. She became Miss Catania in 1953, and was discovered by talent scouts after competing in a Miss Italy competition...

, Stefania Sandrelli
Stefania Sandrelli
Stefania Sandrelli is an Italian actress, famous for her many roles in the commedia all'Italiana, starting from 1960s. She was 15 years old when she starred in Divorce, Italian Style, as Marcello Mastroianni's cousin, Angela.She was born in Viareggio, Tuscany. She had a long relationship with...

, Leopoldo Trieste
Leopoldo Trieste
Leopoldo Trieste was an Italian actor, film director and script writer.Trieste was born in Reggio Calabria...

 
Commedia all'italiana
Commedia all'italiana
Commedia all'italiana or Italian-style comedy is an Italian film genre. It is widely considered to have started with Mario Monicelli's I soliti ignoti in 1958 and derives its name from the title of Pietro Germi's Divorzio all'italiana .-Stars:Vittorio Gassman, Ugo...

 
Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay winner. 2 Oscar nominations and entered into the 1962 Cannes Film Festival
1962 Cannes Film Festival
-Jury:*Tetsuro Furukaki *Henry Deutschmeister *Sophie Desmarets *Jean Dutourd *Mel Ferrer *Romain Gary *Jerzy Kawalerowicz *Ernst Krüger...

Don Camillo monsignore ma non troppo 
Donne brutte 
Drakut il vendicatore 
Dynamite Jack 
El Cid
El Cid
Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar , known as El Cid Campeador , was a Castilian nobleman, military leader, and diplomat...

 
Ercole alla conquista di Atlantide 
Esploratori a cavallo 
Fantasmi a Roma 
The Fascist  Luciano Salce
Luciano Salce
Luciano Salce was an Italian film director and actor. His 1962 film Le pillole di Ercole was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival....

 
Ugo Tognazzi
Ugo Tognazzi
Ugo Tognazzi was an Italian film, TV, and theatre actor, director, and screenwriter.-Early life:Tognazzi was born in Cremona, in northern Italy but spent his youth in various localities as his father was a traveller clerk for an insurance company.After his return in the native city in 1936, he...

, Stefania Sandrelli
Stefania Sandrelli
Stefania Sandrelli is an Italian actress, famous for her many roles in the commedia all'Italiana, starting from 1960s. She was 15 years old when she starred in Divorce, Italian Style, as Marcello Mastroianni's cousin, Angela.She was born in Viareggio, Tuscany. She had a long relationship with...

 
War
Fertilizzanti complessi 
Five Golden Hours
Five Golden Hours
Five Golden Hours is a 1961 Italian-British comedy film directed by Mario Zampi and written by Hans Wilhelm. It stars Ernie Kovacs, Cyd Charisse and George Sanders, and features Dennis Price and John Le Mesurier.-Plot:...

 
Fra' Manisco cerca guai 
Freddy und der Millionär 
Gerarchi si muore 
Giorno per giorno disperatamente 
Gioventù di notte 
Gli addii 
Gli amici dell'isola 
Gli attendenti 
Gli incensurati 
Gli invasori 
Gli scontenti 
Gli stregoni 
Goliath contro i giganti 
Gordon, il pirata nero 
Hercules in the Haunted World
Hercules in the Haunted World
Hercules in The Haunted World is a 1961 Italian sword and sandal film directed by director Mario Bava and starring British-born bodybuilder Reg Park as Hercules and legendary British actor Christopher Lee as his nemesis, Lico. It is the sequel to Hercules and the Captive Women...

(Ercole al centro della terra)
Mario Bava
Mario Bava
Mario Bava was an Italian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer remembered as one of the greatest names from the "golden age" of Italian horror films.-Biography:Mario Bava was born in San Remo, Liguria, Italy...

 
Reg Park
Reg Park
Roy "Reg" Park from Leeds in West Yorkshire, England, was a bodybuilder, businessman and film actor.-Biography:...

, Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ is an English actor and musician. Lee initially portrayed villains and became famous for his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Horror films...

 
Sword and sandal
Sword and sandal
The Peplum , also known as Sword-and-Sandal, is a genre of largely Italian-made Historical or Biblical Epics that dominated the Italian film industry from 1957 to 1965, eventually being replaced in 1965 by the "Spaghetti Western"...

Hindu Kush
Hindu Kush
The Hindu Kush is an mountain range that stretches between central Afghanistan and northern Pakistan. The highest point in the Hindu Kush is Tirich Mir in the Chitral region of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.It is the westernmost extension of the Pamir Mountains, the Karakoram Range, and is a...

 
I 10 del Texas 
I due marescialli 
I giganti del cielo 
I magnifici tre 
I masnadieri
I masnadieri
I masnadieri is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Andrea Maffei, based on Die Räuber by Friedrich von Schiller....

 
I mongoli 
I sogni muoiono all'alba 
I soliti rapinatori a Milano 
I tartari 
Il bar di Gigi 
Il brigante 
Il cane di pietra 
Il carabiniere a cavallo 
Il colosso di Rodi
Il Colosso di Rodi
Il Colosso di Rodi is a 1961 sword and sandal film directed by Sergio Leone. It was Leone's first work as a credited director, in a genre where he already had worked before . It is by far the least known of his films...

 
Il conquistatore di Maracaibo 
The Fascist
The Fascist (film)
The Fascist is a 1961 Italian film directed by Luciano Salce. It was coproduced with France. It was also the first feature film scored by Ennio Morricone.- Plot :...

(Il federale)
Luciano Salce
Luciano Salce
Luciano Salce was an Italian film director and actor. His 1962 film Le pillole di Ercole was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival....

 
Ugo Tognazzi
Ugo Tognazzi
Ugo Tognazzi was an Italian film, TV, and theatre actor, director, and screenwriter.-Early life:Tognazzi was born in Cremona, in northern Italy but spent his youth in various localities as his father was a traveller clerk for an insurance company.After his return in the native city in 1936, he...

, Georges Wilson
Georges Wilson
Georges Wilson was a French film and television actor. He is the father of French actor Lambert Wilson.Wilson was born in Champigny-sur-Marne, Seine , to a French father and an Irish mother...

, Stefania Sandrelli
Stefania Sandrelli
Stefania Sandrelli is an Italian actress, famous for her many roles in the commedia all'Italiana, starting from 1960s. She was 15 years old when she starred in Divorce, Italian Style, as Marcello Mastroianni's cousin, Angela.She was born in Viareggio, Tuscany. She had a long relationship with...

, Mireille Granelli 
Commedia all'italiana
Commedia all'italiana
Commedia all'italiana or Italian-style comedy is an Italian film genre. It is widely considered to have started with Mario Monicelli's I soliti ignoti in 1958 and derives its name from the title of Pietro Germi's Divorzio all'italiana .-Stars:Vittorio Gassman, Ugo...

About WWII
Il fiume di Roma 
Il gigante di Metropolis 
The Last Judgement
The Last Judgement (1961 film)
The Last Judgement is a 1961 commedia all'italiana film by Italian director Vittorio De Sica. It was coproduced with France.It has an all-star Italian and international cast, including Americans Jack Palance, Ernest Borgnine; Greek Melina Mercouri and French Fernandel, Anouk Aimée and Lino...

(Il Giudizio universale)
Vittorio De Sica
Vittorio de Sica
Vittorio De Sica was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement....

 
Anouk Aimee
Anouk Aimée
Anouk Aimée is a French film actress. Aimée has appeared in 70 films since 1947. She began her film career in 1947 at age 14. In 1958 she portrayed the tragic artist Jeanne Hébuterne in the film Les Amants de Montparnasse...

, Vittorio Gassman
Vittorio Gassman
Vittorio Gassman Knight Grand Cross OMRI , popularly known as Il Mattatore, was an Italian theatre and film actor and director...

, Nino Manfredi
Nino Manfredi
Nino Manfredi was an Italian actor, one of the most prominent in the commedia all'italiana genre....

, Lino Ventura
Lino Ventura
Lino Ventura , was an Italian actor who starred in French movies.-Biography:Born as Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura in Parma, Italy to Giovanni Ventura and Luisa Borrini, "Lino" dropped out of school at the age of eight and later took on a variety of jobs...

, Alberto Sordi
Alberto Sordi
Alberto Sordi, also known as Albertone, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian actor. He was also a film director and the dubbing voice of Oliver Hardy in the Italian version of the Laurel & Hardy films....

, Fernandel
Fernandel
Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin , better known as Fernandel, was a French actor and singer. Born in Marseille, France, he was a comedy star who first gained popularity in French vaudeville, operettas, and music-hall revues...

, Silvana Mangano
Silvana Mangano
Silvana Mangano was an Italian actress.Raised in poverty during World War II, Mangano trained as a dancer and worked as a model before winning a "Miss Rome" beauty pageant in 1946...

, Melina Mercouri
Melina Mercouri
Melina Mercouri , born as Maria Amalia Mercouri was a Greek actress, singer and politician.As an actress she made her film debut in Stella and met international success with her performances in Never on Sunday, Phaedra, Topkapi and Promise at Dawn...

, Jack Palance
Jack Palance
Jack Palance , was an American actor. During half a century of film and television appearances, Palance was nominated for three Academy Awards, all as Best Actor in a Supporting Role, winning in 1991 for his role in City Slickers.-Early life:Palance, one of five children, was born Volodymyr...

 
Commedia all'italiana
Commedia all'italiana
Commedia all'italiana or Italian-style comedy is an Italian film genre. It is widely considered to have started with Mario Monicelli's I soliti ignoti in 1958 and derives its name from the title of Pietro Germi's Divorzio all'italiana .-Stars:Vittorio Gassman, Ugo...

Negatively reviewed by contemporary critics
Il giustiziere dei mari 
Il ladro di Bagdad 
Il mantenuto 
Il mondo di notte numero 2 
Il più forte 
Il posto
Il Posto
Il Posto is an Italian film directed by Ermanno Olmi. An extension of Italian Neorealism, it explores many of the dehumanizing practices of the corporation from the viewpoint of an Italian adolescent.-Synopsis:...

Ermanno Olmi
Ermanno Olmi
Ermanno Olmi is a renowned Italian film director.-Biography:Olmi was born in Bergamo, Lombardy. He is married to Loredana Detto, who played Antonietta Masetti in Il Posto....

 
Loredana Detto, Tullio Kezich
Tullio Kezich
Tullio Kezich was an Italian film critic, screenwriter, playwright and actor.Kezich was born in Trieste...

, Sandro Panseri 
Drama Venice Award. Close to Italian neorealism
Italian neorealism
Italian neorealism is a style of film characterized by stories set amongst the poor and working class, filmed on location, frequently using nonprofessional actors...

Il ratto delle sabine
Il ratto delle sabine
Il ratto delle sabine is a Italian adventure comedy film from 1961, directed by Richard Pottier, written by Edoardo Anton, starring Roger Moore and Jean Marais. The scenario was based on a novel of André Castelot...

 
Il re di Poggioreale 
Il relitto 
Il segreto dello sparviero nero 
Il sepolcro dei re 
Il terrore dei mari 
Im Stahlnetz des Dr. Mabuse 
Inchiesta a Perdasdefogu 
Io bacio... tu baci 
Italia '61 
Kanjut sar
Kanjut Sar
Kanjut Sar is a mountain located in the Hispar Muztagh, a subrange of the Karakoram mountain range. It lies within the Gilgit-Baltistan province of Pakistan...

 
L'adorabile Giulio 
L'amant de cinq jours
L'Amant de cinq jours
L'Amant de cinq jours is a 1961 French comedy film directed by Philippe de Broca. It was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:* Jean Seberg - Claire* Micheline Presle - Madeleine* Jean-Pierre Cassel - Antoine...

 
L'ammutinamento 
L'année dernière à Marienbad 
The Ladykiller of Rome (L'assassino) Elio Petri  Marcello Mastroianni
Marcello Mastroianni
Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni, Knight Grand Cross was an Italian film actor. His honours included British Film Academy Awards, Best Actor awards at the Cannes Film Festival and two Golden Globe Awards.- Personal life :...

, Salvo Randone
Salvo Randone
Salvatore "Salvo" Randone was an Italian theatrical and film actor. He appeared in 45 films between 1943 and 1977.He was married to the actress Neda Naldi-Selected filmography:...

 
Kafkaesque Drama Petri's debut
L'Atlantide 
L'imprevisto 
L'onorata società
L'onorata società
L'onorata società is a 1961 Italian comedy film directed by Riccardo Pazzaglia. It was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.-Cast:* Franco Franchi - Salvatore* Ciccio Ingrassia - Rosolino...

 
L'oro di Roma 
L'ultimo dei Vikinghi 
L'uomo in grigio 
L'urlo dei bolidi 
La colpa e la pena
La colpa e la pena
La colpa e la pena is a 1961 Italian film directed by Marco Bellochio. The screenplay and the story were also was written by Marco Bellocchio....

 
La corona di fuoco 
La facciola 
La Fayette
La Fayette (film)
La Fayette is a 1961 French-Italian biographical film directed by Jean Dréville and starring Pascale Audret, Jack Hawkins and Orson Welles. The film depicts the life of Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, in particular his role in the American War of Independence.-Cast:* Pascale Audret -...

 
La fille aux yeux d'or 
La fille du torrent 
La giornata balorda 
La grande olimpiade 
La grande vallata 
La guerra di Troia 
La moglie di mio marito 
La notte
La Notte
La Notte is a 1961 Italian film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. It is considered the central film of a trilogy beginning with L'avventura and ending with L'Eclisse.- Plot :...

Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian modernist film director, screenwriter, editor and short story writer.- Personal life :...

 
Marcello Mastroianni
Marcello Mastroianni
Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni, Knight Grand Cross was an Italian film actor. His honours included British Film Academy Awards, Best Actor awards at the Cannes Film Festival and two Golden Globe Awards.- Personal life :...

, Jeanne Moreau
Jeanne Moreau
Jeanne Moreau is a French actress, singer, screenwriter and director.She made her theatrical debut in 1947, and established herself as one of the leading actresses of the Comédie-Française...

, Monica Vitti
Monica Vitti
Monica Vitti is an Italian actress best known for her starring roles in films directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, her lover at that time, during the early 1960s...

, Bernhard Wicki 
Drama Won the Golden Bear
Golden Bear
According to legend, the Golden Bear was a large golden Ursus arctos. Members of the Ursus arctos species can reach masses of . The Grizzly Bear and the Kodiak Bear are North American subspecies of the Brown Bear....

 at Berlin
11th Berlin International Film Festival
The 11th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from June 23 to July 4, 1961.-Jury:* James Quinn * France Roche* Marc Turfkruyer* Satyajit Ray* Gian Luigi Rondi* Hirosugu Ozaki* Nicholas Ray* Falk Harnack* Hans Schaarwächter...

La padrona di raggio di luna 
La princesse de Clèves
La Princesse de Clèves
La Princesse de Clèves is a French novel which was published anonymously in March 1678. It is regarded by many as the beginning of the modern tradition of the psychological novel, and as a great classic work. Its author is generally held to be Madame de La Fayette.The action takes place between...

 
Girl with a Suitcase
Girl with a Suitcase
Girl with a suitcase is a 1961 Italian romantic drama film by Italian Director Valerio Zurlini starring Claudia Cardinale as a naive nightclub singer who lives on the good will of others. It was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival.-Synopsis:...

(La ragazza con la valiglia)
Valerio Zurlini
Valerio Zurlini
Valerio Zurlini was an Italian film director, stage director and screenwriter.-Biography:During his law studies in Rome, he started working in the theatre. In 1943, he joined the Italian resistance. Zurlini became a member of the Italian Communist Party...

 
Claudia Cardinale
Claudia Cardinale
Claudia Cardinale is an Italian actress, and has appeared in some of the most prominent European films of the 1960s and 1970s. The majority of Cardinale's films have been either Italian or French...

, Jacques Perrin
Jacques Perrin
Jacques Perrin is a French actor and filmmaker. He is occasionally credited as Jacques Simonet. Simonet was his father's name and Perrin his mother's.-Life and career:...

 
Drama
La ragazza di mille mesi 
La ragazza in vetrina 
La ragazza sotto il lenzuolo 
La regina dei tartari 
La rivolta dei mercenari 
La tragica notte di Assisi 
La trincea 
La vendetta della maschera di ferro 
La vendetta di Ursus 
La Venere dei pirati 
The Lovemakers (La viaccia) Mauro Bolognini
Mauro Bolognini
Mauro Bolognini was an Italian film director of literate sensibility, known for masterful handling of period subject matter.-Biography:Mauro Bolognini was born in Pistoia, Tuscany....

 
Claudia Cardinale
Claudia Cardinale
Claudia Cardinale is an Italian actress, and has appeared in some of the most prominent European films of the 1960s and 1970s. The majority of Cardinale's films have been either Italian or French...

, Jean Paul Belmondo, Pietro Germi
Pietro Germi
Pietro Germi was an Italian actor, screenwriter, and director. Germi was born in Genoa, Liguria, to a lower-middle class family. He was a messenger and briefly attended nautical school before deciding on a career in acting.He studied acting and directing at Rome's Centro Sperimentale di...

, Romolo Valli
Romolo Valli
Romolo Valli was an Italian actor.Valli was born in Reggio Emilia. He was one of the best known Italian actors from the 1950s to his death. He worked both for the stage and the silver screen...

 
Drama
Laura nuda 
Le avventure di Mary Read 
Le avventure di topo Gigio 
Le baccanti 
Le capitaine Fracasse
Le Capitaine Fracasse
Le Capitaine Fracasse , is a French comedy film from 1961, directed by Pierre Gaspard-Huit, written by Pierre Gaspard-Huit and Pierre Gaspard-Huit, starring Jean Marais and Louis de Funès...

 
Le cave se rebiffe 
Le comte de Monte Cristo 
Le goût de la violence 
Le grand barrage 
Le italiane e l'amore 
Le magnifiche sette 
Le meraviglie di Aladino 
Le miracle des loups
Le Miracle des loups
Le Miracle des loups is the title of two French adventure historical films, both located at the time of rivalry between Louis XI and Charles the Bold...

 
Le pavé de Paris 
Le président 
Le puits aux trois vérités 
Le rendez-vous 
Le sette sfide 
Le stagioni 
Le triomphe de Michel Strogoff 
Le vergini di Roma 
Legge di guerra 
Leon Garros ishchet druga 
Leoni al sole 
Les filles sèment le vent 
Les godelureaux
Les Godelureaux
Les Godelureaux is a 1961 French revenge drama directed by Claude Chabrol and based on the novel by Eric Ollivier.-Plot:Roger is publicly humiliated by Arthur and plots to destroy Arthur's life, using Ambroisine as bait.-Cast:*Jean-Claude Brialy as Ronald*Bernadette Lafont as Ambroisine*Charles...

 
Les grandes personnes 
Les hommes veulent vivre 
Les lions sont lâchés
Les Lions sont lâchés
Les Lions sont lâchés is a 1961 French comedy film directed by Henri Verneuil, and written by France Roche and Michel Audiard...

 
Les trois mousquetaires: La vengeance de Milady 
Les trois mousquetaires: Première époque - Les ferrets de la reine 
Lettera dal Venezuela 
Lola
Lola (1961 film)
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...

 
Lui, lei e il nonno 
Lycanthropus
Lycanthropus
Lycanthropus is a 1962 horror film directed by Paolo Heusch...

 
Léon Morin, prêtre 
Maciste alla corte del Gran Khan 
Maciste contro Ercole nella valle dei guai 
Maciste contro il vampiro 
Maciste nella terra dei ciclopi 
Maciste, l'uomo più forte del mondo 
Malesia magica 
Mani in alto 
Marco Polo
Marco Polo
Marco Polo was a Venetian merchant traveler from the Venetian Republic whose travels are recorded in Il Milione, a book which did much to introduce Europeans to Central Asia and China. He learned about trading whilst his father and uncle, Niccolò and Maffeo, travelled through Asia and apparently...

 
Mariti a congresso 
Mariti in pericolo 
Maurizio, Peppino e le indossatrici 
Milano nera 
Mina... fuori la guardia 
Morgan il pirata 
Morte di un bandito 
Napoléon II, l'aiglon 
Nefertiti, regina del Nilo 
No, No, It's a Sin 
Odissea nuda 
Orazi e curiazi
Orazi e Curiazi
Orazi e Curiazi is an opera by the Italian composer Saverio Mercadante. It takes the form of a tragedia lirica in three acts. The libretto, by Salvadore Cammarano is based on the Roman legend of the fight between the Horatii and the Curiatii...

 
Pastasciutta nel deserto 
Pecado de amor
Pecado de amor
Pecado de amor is a 1961 Argentine film....

 
Pesci d'oro e bikini d'argento 
Pomodoro 
Processo Karamazov 
Psycosissimo 
Pugni, pupe e marinai 
Pulcinella, cetrulo di Acerra 
Pulcinella: Il gioco dell'oca 
Qui êtes-vous, Monsieur Sorge? 
Racconti dell'Italia di ieri - L' alfiere nero 
Racconti dell'Italia di ieri - Terno secco 
Racconti dell'Italia di ieri - Un episodio dell'anno della fame 
Rocco e le sorelle 
Romolo e Remo
Romolo e Remo
Romolo e Remo is a 1961 film directed by Sergio Corbucci and starring Steve Reeves, Gordon Scott, and Virna Lisi.Tagline: "The Legendary Conflict of Mankind's Mightiest Mortals!"-Summary:...

 
Sacco in plypac 
Sansone
Sansone
People with the surname Sansone:* Gilda Sansone - Italian fashion model* Greg Sansone - Canadian sports anchor* Gianluca Sansone Italian footballer* Kathryn Sansone - American homemaker...

 
Scandali al mare 
Scano Boa 
Solimano il conquistatore 
Solitudine 
Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare
Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare
Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare is a 1961 comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Ugo Tognazzi.-Cast:* Ugo Tognazzi - Ernesto* Virna Lisi - Silvia* Totò - Dott...

 
Séptimo paralelo 
Teddy, l'orsacchiotto vagabondo 
Then There Were Three 
The Joy of Living
The Joy of Living
The Joy of Living is a 1961 Italian-French comedy film directed by René Clément. It was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Alain Delon - Ulysse Cecconato* Barbara Lass - Franca Fossati* Gino Cervi - Olinto Fossati...

René Clément  Entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival
1961 Cannes Film Festival
-Jury:*Jean Giono *Sergei Yutkevich *Pedro Armendáriz *Luigi Chiarini *Claude Mauriac *Edouard Molinaro *Jean Paulhan *Raoul Ploquin...

Torino nei cent'anni 
Tototruffa '62 
Totò, Peppino e la dolce vita 
Tout l'or du monde 
Trionfo di Maciste 
Tropico di notte 
Tu ne tueras point 
Ulisse contro Ercole 
Un figlio d'oggi 
Un giorno da leoni 
Un quarto d'Italia 
Un soir sur la plage 
Una spada nell'ombra 
A Difficult Life
A Difficult Life
A Difficult Life is a Commedia all'italiana or Italian-style comedy film directed by Dino Risi in 1961.-Plot:...

(Una vita difficile)
Dino Risi  Alberto Sordi
Alberto Sordi
Alberto Sordi, also known as Albertone, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian actor. He was also a film director and the dubbing voice of Oliver Hardy in the Italian version of the Laurel & Hardy films....

, Lea Massari
Lea Massari
Anna Maria Massetani better known as Lea Massari is an Italian actress.She was born Anna Maria Massetani in Rome, but when she was 22, she changed her name to Lea Massari after the death of her fiancé Leo...

, Franco Fabrizi
Franco Fabrizi
Franco Fabrizi was an Italian actor.Son of a barber and a cinema cashier, he was a soap opera photo actor, for example, the fotoromanzo Arizona Kid, in the newspaper Avventuroso Film...

, Claudio Gora
Claudio Gora
Claudio Gora was an Italian actor and film director.He was a particularly prolific actor making some 155 appearances in film and television over nearly 60 years from 1939 to 1997...

 
Commedia all'italiana
Commedia all'italiana
Commedia all'italiana or Italian-style comedy is an Italian film genre. It is widely considered to have started with Mario Monicelli's I soliti ignoti in 1958 and derives its name from the title of Pietro Germi's Divorzio all'italiana .-Stars:Vittorio Gassman, Ugo...

Une aussi longue absence 
Une femme est une femme 
Uomini e mare 
Ursus 
Ursus nella valle dei leoni 
Vacanze alla baia d'argento 
Vanina Vanini
Vanina Vanini (film)
Vanina Vanini also known as The Betrayer is a 1961 Italian drama film directed by Roberto Rossellini.-Plot summary:Vanina Vanini, a bored, spoiled Roman countess, falls in love with a dedicated young patriot who is in Rome to assassinate a traitor to the brotherhood of the Free Masons.-Cast:*Sandra...

Roberto Rossellini
Roberto Rossellini
Roberto Rossellini was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Rossellini was one of the directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing films such as Roma città aperta to the movement.-Early life:Born in Rome, Roberto Rossellini lived on the Via Ludovisi, where Benito Mussolini had...

 
Sandra Milo
Sandra Milo
Sandra Milo is an Italian actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles in Federico Fellini's 8½ and Juliet of the Spirits, winning a Silver Ribbon best supporting actress award for each film.-Career:...

, Laurent Terzieff
Laurent Terzieff
Laurent Terzieff was a French actor.- Biography :Laurent Terzieff was the son of a plastician and of Jean Terzieff, a Russian sculptor who emigrated to France during the First World War. The original surname of his family was Čemerzin.The spectacle of the bombardments had a dramatic effect on...

, Martine Carol
Martine Carol
-Biography:Born Marie-Louise Jeanne Nicolle Mourer in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, , she studied acting under René Simon , making her stage debut in 1940 and her first motion picture in 1943. One of the most beautiful women in film, she was frequently cast as an elegant blonde seductress...

, Paolo Stoppa
Paolo Stoppa
Paolo Stoppa was an Italian actor and dubber.Born in Rome, he began as a stage actor in 1927 in the theater in Rome and began acting in films in 1932...

 
Drama Based on Stendhal
Stendhal
Marie-Henri Beyle , better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Known for his acute analysis of his characters' psychology, he is considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism in his two novels Le Rouge et le Noir and La Chartreuse de Parme...

's novel Vanina Vanini
Vanina Vanini
Vanina Vanini is the title of a story by Stendhal , the nom de plume of Marie-Henri Beyle. Set in 1830s during the early Risorgimento, when Italy was under Austrian control, it concerns the love affair of a young Roman princess and a revolutionary carbonaro.-Synopsis:Vanina Vanini, the...

Venere creola 
Viva l'Italia! 
Vive Henri IV... vive l'amour! 
Vulcano, figlio di Giove 
Walter e i suoi cugini 

External links

  • Italian films of 1961 at the Internet Movie Database
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