Best attention grabbing award winning movies from 1961
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1 Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.
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- 1961-12-18 | Drama / War
Cast
- Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster
Rating
8.0
2 The Hustler (1961)
Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary Minnesota Fats to a high-stakes match.
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- 1961-09-25 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason
Rating
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7.686
3 The Guns of Navarone (1961)
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
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- 1961-04-27 | War / Adventure
Cast
- Gregory Peck, David Niven
Rating
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7.314
4 Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.
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- 1961-10-06 | Comedy / Romance
Cast
- Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard
Rating
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7.669
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5 West Side Story (1961)
In the slums of the upper West Side of Manhattan, New York, a gang of Polish-American teenagers called the Jets compete with a rival gang of recently immigrated Puerto Ricans, the Sharks, to "own" the neighborhood streets. Tensions are high between the gangs but two romantics, one from each gang, fall in love leading to tragedy.
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- 1961-12-13 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer
Rating
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7.263
6 The End of Summer (1961)
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.
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- 1961-10-29 | Drama
Cast
- Setsuko Hara, Yōko Tsukasa
Rating
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7.5
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7 The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices and have caused the orbit of the Earth to alter, sending it hurtling towards the sun.
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- 1961-11-01 | Science Fiction / Drama
Cast
- Janet Munro, Leo McKern
Rating
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6.778
8 Yojimbo (1961)
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.
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- 1961-04-25 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai
Rating
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8.103
9 A Taste of Honey (1961)
Jo is a neglected 16-year-old girl whose promiscuous mother marries a dandy. Jo gets pregnant after a tryst with a black cook, who leaves her over his impending responsibilities of fatherhood, and she only finds support in a gay male friend.
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- 1961-10-01 | Drama
Cast
- Rita Tushingham, Murray Melvin
Rating
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6.941
10 Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.
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- 1961-05-25 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi
Rating
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7.423
