Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
Fanny (1961)
- Dir. Joshua Logan
Feat. Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Charles Boyer…
- Adored melodrama set in Marseilles, starring Leslie Caron as the titular character who falls in love with a young sailor (Buchholz) but must grapple…
Femme Est Une Femme, Une (A Woman is a Woman) (1961)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Paul Belmondo…
- Godard flirts with the Hollywood musical, and any other idea that takes his fancy to tell his buoyant tale of a free–spirited stripper who…
Five Minutes To Live (Door-to-Door Maniac) (1961)
- Dir. Bill Karn
Feat. Johnny Cash, Cay Forrester, Donald Woods…
- Little known B–movie thriller with Cash and Forrester playing hoods who complete a smalltown bank robbery, then start paying suburban house…
Flower Drum Song (1961)
- Dir. Henry Koster
Feat. Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta
- Amiable if overlong musical comedy telling the story of a Chinese girl who smuggles herself into San Francisco as a "picture bride" to marry a young…
Francis Of Assisi (1961)
- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Bradford Dillman, Dolores Hart, Stuart Whitman
- Cinema–scopic religious epic about the founder of the school of monks, with Bradford Dillman well suited as St. Francis, and Dolores Hart good…
Frightened City, The (1961)
- Dir. John Lemont
Feat. Sean Connery, Herbert Lom, John Gregson
- London becomes terrorised by protection racketeers who intend to amalgamate into one vast crime syndicate.
Goodbye Again (Aimez-Vous Brahms) (1961)
- Dir. Anatole Litvak
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Yves Montand, Anthony Perkins…
- Elegant love triangle has Bergman falling in love with dashing young Anthony Perkins much to her philandering husband's chagrin.
Overly familiar…
Great Impostor, The (1961)
- Dir. Robert Mulligan
Feat. Tony Curtis, Karl Malden, Edmond O'Brien…
- Tony Curtis bluffs his way though society in this comic caper based on the true story of Ferdinand Demara who successfully passed himself off as a…
Guns of Navarone, The (1961)
- Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Gregory Peck, David Niven
- A great WW2 nail–biter in which Gregory Peck and David Niven lead the all–star macho cast as an elite squad assigned to destroy two giant…
Hustler, The (1961)
- Dir. Robert Rossen
Feat. Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, George C. Scott…
- Classic Paul Newman, playing a pool–shark with potential who gets into a match with the legendary Minnesota Fats (Jackie Gleason). George C…