Movies released in 1961| Absent-Minded Professor, The | Robert Stevenson |
| Aimless Bullet | Yu Hyun-mok |
| Amazons of Rome | Vittorio Cottafavi, Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia |
| Anatomy of a Psycho | Boris Petroff |
| Atlantis: The Lost Continent | George Pal |
| Atlas | Roger Corman |
| Atlas Against the Cyclops | Antonio Leonviola |
| Babes in Toyland | Jack Donohue, Austen Jewell |
| Bandits of Orgosolo | Vittorio De Seta |
| Barabbas | Richard Fleischer |
| Battle of the Worlds | Antonio Margheriti |
| Beast of Yucca Flats, The | Coleman Francis |
| Big Shots Die at Dawn | Kihachi Okamoto |
| Bitter End of a Sweet Night | Yoshishige Yoshida |
| Blast of Silence | Allen Baron |
| Bloodlust! | Ralph Brooke |
| Blue Hawaii | Norman Taurog |
| Blueprint of Murder | Kihachi Okamoto |
| Boys Beware | Sid Davis |
| Breakfast at Tiffany's | Blake Edwards |
| Bridge to the Sun | Etienne Périer |
| Cash on Demand | Quentin Lawrence |
| Children's Hour, The | William Wyler |
| Comancheros, The | Michael Curtiz |
| Creature from the Haunted Sea | Roger Corman |
| Curse of the Werewolf, The | Terence Fisher |
| Daredevil in the Castle | Hiroshi Inagaki |
| Day the Earth Caught Fire, The | Val Guest |
| Dead Eyes of London | Alfred Vohrer |
| Devil at 4 O'Clock, The | Mervyn LeRoy |
| Devil's Hand, The | William J. Hole Jr. |
| Devil's Messenger, The | Curt Siodmak, Herbert L. Strock |
| Devil's Partner | Charles R. Rondeau |
| Diary of a Nudist | Doris Wishman |
| Doctor Blood's Coffin | Sidney J. Furie |
| Down and Outing | Gene Deitch |
| Drifting Detective: Tragedy in the Red Valley | Kinji Fukasaku |
| Erik the Conqueror | Mario Bava |
| Errand Boy, The | Jerry Lewis |
| Eve and the Handyman | Russ Meyer |
| Flight of the Lost Balloon | Nathan H. Juran |
| Forger of London, The | Harald Reinl |
| Gorgo | Eugène Lourié |
| Green Archer, The | Jürgen Roland |
| Guns of Navarone, The | J. Lee Thompson |
| Happy Thieves, The | George Marshall |
| Hercules and the Captive Women | Vittorio Cottafavi |
| Hercules in the Haunted World | Mario Bava |
| Homicidal | William Castle |
| Hustler, The | Robert Rossen |
| Innocents, The | Jack Clayton |
| Invasion of the Neptune Men | Koji Ota |
| Invincible Gladiator, The | Alberto De Martino, Antonio Momplet |
| Killers on Parade | Masahiro Shinoda |
| Kipling's Women | Fred Hudson, Larry Smith |
| Konga | John Lemont |
| Last War, The | Shûe Matsubayashi |
| Lola | Jacques Demy |
| Mask, The | Julian Roffman |
| Master of the World | William Witney |
| Merciless Trap, The | Jun Fukuda |
| Monkey King: Havoc in Heaven, The | Wan Laiming |
| Monkey's Teeth | René Laloux |
| Mothra | Ishirō Honda |
| Mr. Sardonicus | William Castle |
| Murder She Said | George Pollock |
| Mysterious Island | Cy Endfield |
| Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile | Fernando Cerchio |
| Nude on the Moon | Doris Wishman, Raymond Phelan |
| Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, An | Robert Enrico |
| One Hundred and One Dalmatians | Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman, Clyde Geronimi |
| Other Woman, The | Mikio Naruse |
| Parent Trap, The | David Swift |
| Phantom Planet, The | William Marshall |
| Pigs and Battleships | Shōhei Imamura |
| Pit and the Pendulum, The | Roger Corman |
| Pocketful of Miracles | Frank Capra |
| Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak | Éric Rohmer |
| Reptilicus | Sidney W. Pink, Poul Bang |
| Santo vs. Evil Brain | Joselito Rodríguez |
| Santo vs. Infernal Men | Joselito Rodríguez |
| Secret Partner, The | Basil Dearden |
| Shadow of the Cat, The | John Gilling |
| Snake Woman, The | Sidney J. Furie |
| Spotlight on a Murderer | Georges Franju |
| Switchin' Kitten | Gene Deitch |
| Taste of Fear | Seth Holt |
| Taste of Honey, A | Tony Richardson |
| Terror of the Tongs, The | Anthony Bushell |
| Underworld U.S.A. | Samuel Fuller |
| Very Nice, Very Nice | Arthur Lipsett |
| Victim | Basil Dearden |
| Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory | Paolo Heusch |
| West Side Story | Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins |
| What a Carve Up! | Pat Jackson |
| When the Clock Strikes | Edward L. Cahn |
| Woman Is a Woman, A | Jean-Luc Godard |
| Yojimbo | Akira Kurosawa |
| Young Savages, The | John Frankenheimer |
| Zero Focus | Yoshitaro Nomura |