Best award winning movies with an indefensible character from 1961
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with an indefensible character from 1961! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with an indefensible character from 1961, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
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 Children's Hour (1961)
A private school for young girls is scandalized when one spiteful student accuses the two young women who run the school of being in a relationship.
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- 1961-12-19 | Drama
Cast
- Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine
Rating
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7.679
4 Summer and Smoke (1961)
In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door.
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- 1961-11-16 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Laurence Harvey, Geraldine Page
Rating
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6.729
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5 Antigone (1961)
In Thebes in ancient Greece, King Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother Jocasta, having two sons - Eteocles and Polyneices - and two daughters - Ismene and Antigone. King Oedipus dies a beggar in the exile after gouging out his own eye, and Eteocle agrees to reign in Thebes in alternating years with Polynices. However, he refuses to resign after the first year and Polynieces raises an army and attacks Thebes, and they kill each other. The ruler of Thebes Creon decrees that Eleocles should have an honorable burial while the body of the traitor Polyneices should be left on the battlefield to be eaten by the jackals and vultures. However, Antigone, who was betrothed to Creon's surviving son Haemon, defies Creon's orders and buries her brother. When Creon is reported of the attitude of Antigone, he sentences her to be placed in a tomb alive. Antigone hangs herself in the tomb and Haemon tries to kill his father first and then he kills himself with his sword...
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- 1961-05-31 | History / Drama
Cast
- Irene Papas, Manos Katrakis
Rating
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7.9
6 The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his fellow men sneak behind enemy lines.
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- 1961-01-28 | War / Drama
Cast
- Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama
Rating
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8.33
7 The Innocents (1961)
A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.
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- 1961-12-15 | Horror / Mystery
Cast
- Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde
Rating
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7.453
8 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
9 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
10 The Comancheros (1961)
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.
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- 1961-12-22 | Western / Action
Cast
- John Wayne, Stuart Whitman
Rating
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6.733
