List of French films of 1961
A list of films produced in France in 1961.
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
Amelie or The Time to Love | Michel Drach | Marie-José Nat, Clotilde Joano, Jean Sorel | Drama | |
Cocagne | Maurice Cloche | Fernandel, Dora Doll, Leda Gloria | Comedy | Co-production with Italy |
The Colossus of Rhodes | Sergio Leone | Rory Calhoun, Lea Massari, Georges Marchal | Adventure | Italian-Spanish-French co-production |
The Count of Monte Cristo | Claude Autant-Lara | Louis Jourdan, Yvonne Furneaux, Pierre Mondy | Adventure | French-Italian co-production |
Dynamite Jack | Jean Bastia | Fernandel, Eleonora Vargas, Lucien Raimbourg | Western comedy | Co-production with Italy |
Enclosure | Armand Gatti | Jean Négroni | Drama | French-Yugoslavian co-production |
Erik the Conqueror | Mario Bava | Cameron Mitchell, Andrea Checchi, Françoise Christophe | Adventure | Italian-French co-production |
Girl with a Suitcase | Valerio Zurlini | Claudia Cardinale, Jacques Perrin, Corrado Pani | Drama, romance | Italian-French co-production |
Goodbye Again | Anatole Litvak | Ingrid Bergman, Yves Montand, Anthony Perkins | Drama, romance | American-French co-production |
Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis | Vittorio Cottafavi | Reg Park, Alessandro Sperli, Fay Spain | Adventure, fantasy | Italian-French co-production |
The Joy of Living | René Clément | Barbara Lass, Alain Delon, Gino Cervi | Comedy | French-Italian co-production |
L'Amant de cinq jours | Philippe de Broca | Jean Seberg, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Micheline Presle | Comedy, romance | French-Italian co-production |
Le Capitaine Fracasse | Pierre Gaspard-Huit | Jean Marais, Geneviève Grad, Gérard Barray | Adventure | French-Italian co-production |
Le cave se rebiffe | Gilles Grangier | Jean Gabin, Martine Carol, Bernard Blier | Crime | French-Italian co-production |
La Morte Saison des Amours | Pierre Kast | Françoise Arnoul, Daniel Gélin, Françoise Prevost | ||
La Notte | Michelangelo Antonioni | Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti | Drama | Italian-French co-production |
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney | Lilli Palmer, Carlos Thompson | Comedy | Co-production with West Germany | |
Last Year at Marienbad | Alain Resnais | Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoeff | Avant-garde | French-Italian co-production |
Le Goût de la Violence | Robert Hossein | Robert Hossein, Giovanna Ralli, Mario Adorf | Western | French-West German-Italian co-production |
Le Miracle des loups | André Hunebelle | Jean Marais, Rosanna Schiaffino, Roger Hanin | Historical film | French-Italian co-production |
Léon Morin, Priest | Jean-Pierre Melville | Jean-Paul Belmondo, Emmanuelle Riva, Irène Tunc | Drama | French-Italian co-production |
Lola | Jacques Demy | Anouk Aimée, Marc Michel, Elina Labourdette | Drama, romance | French-Italian co-production |
The Long Absence | Henri Colpi | Alida Valli, Georges Wilson, Jacques Harden | French-Italian co-production | |
Madame Sans-Gêne | Christian-Jaque | Sophia Loren, Robert Hossein, Julien Bertheau | Comedy | French-Italian-Spanish co-production |
Please, Not Now! | Roger Vadim | Brigitte Bardot, Jacques Riberolles, Claude Brasseur | Comedy | French-Italian co-production |
Pleins Feux Sur l'Assassin | Georges Franju | Pierre Brasseur, Pascale Audret, Marianne Koch | Mystery | |
The Return of Dr. Mabuse | Harald Reinl | Rudolf Fernau, Werner Peters, Lou Seitz | Crime | West German-French-Italian co-production |
The Thief of Bagdad | Arthur Lubin | Steve Reeves, Giorgia Moll, Edy Vessel | Adventure, fantasy | Italian-French co-production |
The Three Musketeers | Bernard Borderie | Gérard Barray, Bernard Woringer, Gérard Barray | Adventure | French-Italian co-production |
Tintin and the Golden Fleece | Jean-Jacques Vierne | Georges Wilson, Charles Vanel, Darío Moreno | Adventure | |
Tout l'Or du Monde | René Clair | Bourvil, Alfred Adam, Philippe Noiret | Comedy | French-Italian co-production |
Wise Guys | Claude Chabrol | Jean-Claude Brialy, Bernadette Lafont, Charles Belmont | Comedy-drama | French-Italian co-production |
A Woman Is a Woman | Jean-Luc Godard | Anna Karina, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Claude Brialy | Comedy | French-Italian co-production |
The Wonders of Aladdin | Henry Levin | Donald O'Connor, Noëlle Adam, Vittorio De Sica | Children's, comedy, fantasy | Italian-French-American co-production |