1961: Top 100

Submitted by konekonoir on Mon, 01/26/2009 - 10:06
Tags: 
  • Delicious
  • Digg
  • StumbleUpon
  • Facebook
  • Google
  • Technorati
  1. 16
  2. West Side Story (Robert Wise)
  3. 15
  4. The Hustler (Robert Rossen)
  5. Judgment at Nuremberg (Stanley Kramer)
  6. 11
  7. Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards)
  8. 10
  9. The Innocents (Jack Clayton)
  10. Splendor in the Grass (Elia Kazan)
  11. 9
  12. Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
  13. 8
  14. La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  15. One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder)
  16. A Raisin in the Sun (Daniel Petrie)
  17. Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
  18. 7
  19. Divorce - Italian Style (Pietro Germi)
  20. El Cid (Anthony Mann)
  21. The Guns of Navarone (J Lee Thompson)
  22. Placido (Luis Garcia Berlanga)
  23. Summer and Smoke (Peter Glenville)
  24. 6
  25. Fanny (Joshua Logan)
  26. Flower Drum Song (Henry Koster)
  27. Lola (Jacques Demy)
  28. The Parent Trap (David Swift)
  29. Pocketful of Miracles (Frank Capra)
  30. Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi)
  31. 5
  32. The AbsentMinded Professor (Robert Stevenson)
  33. Babes in Toyland (Jack Donohue)
  34. The Children's Hour (William Wyler)
  35. The End of Summer (Yasujiro Ozu)
  36. The Long Absence (Henri Colpi)
  37. A Majority of One (Mervyn LeRoy)
  38. One-Eyed Jacks (Marlon Brando)
  39. A Taste of Honey (Tony Richardson)
  40. Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman)
  41. Viridiana (Luis Bunuel)
  42. A Woman Is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)
  43. 4
  44. Accattone (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  45. Blast of Silence (Allen Brown)
  46. Blue Hawaii (Norman Taurog)
  47. Chronicle of a Summer (Jean Rouch & Edgar Morin)
  48. Harry and the Butler (Bent Christensen)
  49. The Mark (Guy Green)
  50. The Misfits (John Huston)
  51. 3
  52. Antigone (Yorgos Javellas)
  53. Bachelor in Paradise (Jack Arnold)
  54. Birth of a Ship (Jan Lomnicki)
  55. The Day the Earth Caught Fire (Val Guest)
  56. Happiness of Us Alone (Zenzo Matsuyama)
  57. The Human Condition III (Masaki Kobayashi)
  58. The Ladies' Man (Jerry Lewis)
  59. Lover Come Back (Delbert Mann)
  60. The Miracle of Father Malachia (Bernhard Wicki)
  61. Question 7 (Stuart Rosenberg)
  62. Victim (Basil Dearden)
  63. 2
  64. The Age of Marriage (Kozaburo Yoshimura)
  65. Alloimono Stous Neous (Alekos Sakellarios)
  66. Arega Minato no Hi Da (Tadashi Imai)
  67. The Assassin (Elio Petri)
  68. Bad Boys (Susumu Hani)
  69. Clear Heaven (Grigori Chukhrai)
  70. The Comancheros (Michael Curtiz)
  71. Conspirator (Daisuke Ito)
  72. A Difficult Life (Dino Risi)
  73. The Do-It-Yourself Cartoon Kit (Bob Godfrey)
  74. The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (Karel Zeman)
  75. Gas, Inspector Palmu! (Matti Kassila)
  76. The Girls (Yuri Chulyukin)
  77. The Great Impostor (Robert Mulligan)
  78. Gunga Jumna (Nitin Bose)
  79. The Hand in the Trap (Leopoldo Torre Nilsson)
  80. Immortal Love (Keisuke Kinoshita)
  81. Joan of the Angels (Jerzy Kawalerowicz)
  82. Les Belles (Qin Tao)
  83. Leon Morin, Priest (Jean-Pierre Melville)
  84. The Lovemakers (Mauro Bolognini)
  85. Munro (Gene Deitch)
  86. No Love for Johnnie (Ralph Thomas)
  87. Onna wa Nido Umareru (Yuzo Kawashima)
  88. The Outsider (Delbert Mann)
  89. Paris Blues (Martin Ritt)
  90. Pasajes Tres (Javier Aguirre)
  91. Pigs and Battleships (Shohei Imamura)
  92. The Pleasure of His Company (George Seaton)
  93. Professor Mamlock (Konrad Wolf)
  94. A Revolutionary Family (Choui Khoua)
  95. The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (Jose Quintero)
  96. Romanoff and Juliet (Peter Ustinov)
  97. Saptapadi (Ajoy Kar)
  98. The Scarlet Dove (Matti Kassila)
  99. Seawards the Great Ships (Hilary Harris)
  100. The Sky Above, the Mud Below (Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau)
  101. Surogat (Dusan Vukotic)
  102. Synoikia to Oneiro (Alekos Alexandrakis)
  103. Thou Shalt Not Kill (Claude Autant-Lara)
  104. Town Without Pity (Gottfried Reinhardt)
  105. Very Nice, Very Nice (Arthur Lipsett)
  106. Victoria Regina (George Schaefer)
  107. W Kregu Ciszy (Jerzy Ziarnik)
  108. We Two (Amarjeet)
  109. When the Trees Were Tall (Lev Kulidzhanov)
  110. Whistle Down the Wind (Bryan Forbes)
  111. A Wife Confesses (Yasuzo Masumura)
Author Comments: 

Criteria used were

IMDB Awards Page
IMDB at least 7.5 with 25 votes
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
The Alternative 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
They Shoot Pictures, Don't They Top 1000

Title (Director)

throwaway attempt to make a 8,900 Movies blah blah blah.

Cloned From: 
1960: Top 100