The best movies 1961 Pagina 9

Zenó (Mazzaropi) is a poor gardener of a traditional school in São Paulo who falls in love with one of the local girls, much richer and...

Les Perses (The Persians) is a French TV movie adaptation of Aeschylus' oldest known tragedy, Πέρσαι (Persai). It was...

A woman robs the authoritarian boss of a criminal gang and then falls in love with a buddy.

Five GIs end up in a female college during their military maneuvers. They're very welcome by the girls and since one of them has also a beautiful...

A Tokugawa Daimyo rebels against an his lord after the battle of Sekigahara. Samurai Matabei, a famous spear fighter and warrior, is a vassal of lord...

This short drama is a portrait of colonial administrator, Governor General and statesman Lord Durham (1792-1840). When Durham recommended...

He was appointed as the new chief engineer of a tractor factory. The presence of this man, direct, hard and uncompromising, creates a lot of conflict...

A woman commits suicide because she doesn't want to give in to her mother's evil temptations.

The son of a famous vigilante returns to his home town... but he's all citified and pantywaisted. Or is he?

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...

A charming but ruthless criminal holds the family of a bank manager hostage as part of a cold-blooded plan to steal £90,000.

The film uses an alternative shooting method, the so-called staring camera, two years before the same method used by Andy Warhol and two years before...

Germany, the 1930s. A young scientist, Professor Johannes Werner discovers rays of life-giving power. The scientist refuses to give up his invention...

A live recording of Carol Channing's revue on Broadway, filmed for early Canadian pay-TV.

While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and...

Frustrated salaryman responds to career setbacks by embarking on a life of crime.

Back from vacation, Lucy, a school's music teacher, misses a boy. People say he will not return because he recently lost his father. She is very...

A famous singer is drafted and gets the occasion of getting rid of his annoying girlfriend. He falls in love with a young student who finds out she...

Three female singers in the 1920s pursue their careers.

Father insists that one of his sons get married... because with no woman in the house, they can't get a good meal. The rest of the movie is devoted...

Two feuding families are affecting the quality of life in a small town. The Church wants to intervene, but the local Priest is sorta helpless, so he...

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

When his town is devastated by a flood, a young boy takes it upon himself to seek the help of the president. He meets a variety of characters along...

Three tomboyish farm-girls meet mens and start developing their girly sides.

Sequence filmed at the popular religious festival of the Virgin of Andacollo, Chile.

Sometimes a man will go to the ends of the earth to win the girl he loves! In this romantic comedy, billionaire Abundio Celso falls in love with the...

Santa Rosa de Lima, who died in the capital of Peru, was barely 31 years old when she died in 1617. José María Elorrieta's film...

Teresa is a beautiful and intelligent young woman, desperately seeking to leave the grinding poverty of the neighborhood where she lives.

Short film.

Pedro is a young peasant who leaves home to join the Rebel Army, based in Sierra Maestra.

Story set at the Chaco war between Bolivia and Paraguay.

A couple of friends, "Carmen" (Silvia Solar) and "Miguel"(Germán Cobos), fail to raise the money needed to marry. These difficulties...

Modesto works as clerk in the Vulcania company and aims to start a project to benefit the workers who work there. Modesto befriends Diana and by...

A family of six children are orphaned on Christmas Eve and struggle through a year without parental support.

A rural kid puts on a pair of sunglasses that were submerged in a pond, and finds himself at a beautiful crowded beach.

The images connect the workings of a slaughterhouse with a city that is also divided between executioners and dead people.

A poor mechanic is conned into taking the place of a wealthy business magnate so the rich man can take off to work on some major wheeling and...