A Raisin in the Sun (1961)

Lover Come Back (1961)

Summary: A series of misunderstandings leaves an advertising executive with a campaign for a product which has not yet been invented, while he romances his rival in the guise of its inventor.

Release Date: March 03, 1962

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Delbert Mann

Writers: Stanley Shapiro

, Paul Henning

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: 7 Pictures, Nob Hill Productions Inc., Arwin Productions

Distributor: National Broadcasting Company (NBC), MCA Home Video, MCA/Universal Home Video, Universal Studios Home Video, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 16,937,969

Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

Summary: A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building, but her past threatens to get in the way.

Release Date: October 06, 1961

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Blake Edwards

Writers: Truman Capote

, George Axelrod

, Maurice Griffe

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Jurow-Shepherd

Distributor: CBS, Paramount Home Entertainment, Amazon Prime Video, Fathom Events

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,500,000

A Taste of Honey (1961)

Summary: A pregnant teenage girl must fend for herself when her mother remarries, leaving the girl with only a new male friend for support.

Release Date: October 01, 1961

Genre: Drama

Director: Tony Richardson

Writers: Shelagh Delaney

, Tony Richardson

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Woodfall Film Productions

Distributor: Continental Distributing, The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel, HBO Max

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 121,602

One, Two, Three (1961)

Summary: In West Berlin during the Cold War, a Coca-Cola executive is given the task of taking care of his boss' socialite daughter.

Release Date: December 16, 1961

Genre: Comedy

Director: Billy Wilder

Writers: Billy Wilder

, I.A.L. Diamond

, Ferenc Molnár

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Bavaria Film, Pyramid Productions, The Mirisch Corporation

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), MGM Home Entertainment, Image Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Kino Lorber

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000

The Children's Hour (1961)

Summary: A rebellious student at a girls' school accuses two teachers of lesbianism.

Release Date: December 19, 1961

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: William Wyler

Writers: Lillian Hellman

, John Michael Hayes

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: The Mirisch Corporation

Distributor: United Artists, MGM Home Entertainment, Kino Lorber

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,600,000

The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)

Summary: When the U.S. and Russia unwittingly test atomic bombs at the same time, it alters the nutation (axis of rotation) of the Earth.

Release Date: May 10, 1962

Genres: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

Director: Val Guest

Writers: Wolf Mankowitz

, Val Guest

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Pax Films

Distributor: Congress Entertainment, Home Box Office Home Video (HBO), Thorn EMI Video, Republic Pictures Home Video, Anchor Bay Entertainment

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 200,000

Splendor in the Grass (1961)

Summary: The love of high school sweethearts Deanie and Bud is weighed down by the oppressive expectations of their parents and society in smalltown Kansas in 1928, threatening the future of their relationship.

Release Date: October 20, 1961

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Elia Kazan

Writer: William Inge

Runtime: 2 h 04 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Newtown Productions, NBI Productions

Distributor: CBS, Warner Home Video, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 8,720,000

Mothra (1961)

Summary: An expedition to Infant Island uncovers a native tribe and twin tiny fairy priestesses of a mythical deity, who sets out to rescue the pair after they are kidnapped by a greedy businessman.

Release Date: May 10, 1962

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Director: Ishirô Honda

Writers: Shin'ichi Sekizawa

, Shin'ichirô Nakamura

, Takehiko Fukunaga

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Toho Company

Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Video, GoodTimes Home Video, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Television, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Mill Creek Entertainment

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Girl with a Suitcase (1961)

Summary: A girl pursues a guy who fooled her, but fascinates his younger brother instead.

Release Date: February 10, 1961

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Valerio Zurlini

Writers: Leonardo Benvenuti

, Piero De Bernardi

, Enrico Medioli

Runtime: 2 h 01 min

Production: Titanus, Société Générale de Cinématographie (S.G.C.)

Distributor: NoShame Films

Countries: Italy, France

Language: Italian

Whistle Down the Wind (1961)

Summary: When an injured wife murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the owner's three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.

Release Date: August 06, 1961

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Bryan Forbes

Writers: Mary Hayley Bell

, Keith Waterhouse

, Willis Hall

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Allied Film Makers (AFM), Beaver Films

Distributor: Pathé-America Distributing Company, Astor Pictures Corporation, Janus Films, Embassy Home Entertainment

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 148,000

Viridiana (1961)

Summary: Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.

Release Date: March 19, 1962

Genre: Drama

Director: Luis Buñuel

Writers: Julio Alejandro

, Luis Buñuel

, Benito Pérez Galdós

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Unión Industrial Cinematográfica (UNINCI), Producciones Gustavo Alatriste, Films 59

Distributor: The Criterion Collection

Countries: Mexico, Spain

Language: Spanish

Léon Morin, Priest (1961)

Summary: Set during occupied France, a faithless woman finds herself falling in love with a young priest.

Release Date: September 22, 1961

Genres: Drama, Romance, War

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville

Writers: Béatrix Beck

, Jean-Pierre Melville

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Concordia Compagnia Cinematografica, Rome Paris Films

Distributor: Rialto Pictures, Kino Video, The Criterion Collection

Countries: France, Italy

Language: French

Domestic: $ 72,078

International: $ 830

La notte (1961)

Summary: A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship.

Release Date: January 25, 1961

Genre: Drama

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni

Writers: Michelangelo Antonioni

, Ennio Flaiano

, Tonino Guerra

Runtime: 2 h 02 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Nepi Film, Sofitedip, Silver Films

Distributor: Lopert Pictures Corporation, Rialto Pictures, Fox Lorber, Movietime, The Criterion Collection

Countries: Italy, France

Language: Italian

Domestic: $ 39,236

International: $ 1,467

One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)

Summary: When a litter of Dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the owners must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement.

Release Date: February 24, 1961

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Animation

Directors: Clyde Geronimi

, Hamilton Luske

, Wolfgang Reitherman

Writers: Bill Peet

, Dodie Smith

Runtime: 1 h 19 min

MPAA: G

Production: Walt Disney Animation Studios

Distributor: Buena Vista Film Distribution Company, Buena Vista Distribution Company, Buena Vista Pictures, Buena Vista Home Video, Disney Channel, Walt Disney Home Video, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Disney+

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,000,000

Domestic: $ 144,880,014

International: $ 71,000,000

A Woman Is a Woman (1961)

Summary: A stripper who's desperate to become a mother accepts her reluctant boyfriend's suggestion that she be impregnated by his best friend.

Release Date: September 06, 1961

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Writers: Geneviève Cluny

, Jean-Luc Godard

Runtime: 1 h 24 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Euro International Films, Rome Paris Films, World Wonder Ring Stardom

Distributor: Pathé Contemporary Films, Rialto Pictures, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max, The Criterion Channel

Countries: France, Italy

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 160,000

Domestic: $ 100,665

International: $ 1,082