Best Movies of 1961

These are the 11 best-rated movies released in 1961, led by Vagabonds from Badgerville, The Monkey King: Uproar in Heaven and Professor Mamlock. Ranked by audience score, with cast, trailers and legal places to watch on every page.

1. Vagabonds from Badgerville (1961)

★ 8.5/10

A musical about the escapades of some tanuki passing themselves off as humans in human society.
2. The Monkey King: Uproar in Heaven (1961)

★ 7.7/10

Sun Wukong, the King of the Monkeys, sets off on his first adventure to gain a worthy weapon. This earns the attention of the Jade Emperor of Heaven.
3. Professor Mamlock (1961)

★ 7.2/10

A Jewish chief of surgery in 1933 Germany remains blind to the rising Nazi threat, dismissing political dissent from his son and a patient, until his family faces increasing anti-Semitic persecution.
4. Watch It, Sailor! (1961)

★ 7.0/10

Sailor Albert gets a message from the Navy saying he can't marry for certain unexplained legal reasons. Everyone, including his domineering mother-in-law to be, jumps to the conclusion that there must be another woman…
5. Compressed Hare (1961)

★ 6.9/10

Bugs battles Wile E. Coyote. A ten trillion volt electric magnet draws everything imaginable.
6. Prince Violent (1961)

★ 6.9/10

Viking Yosemite Sam arrives to storm the castle. But Bugs takes charge of the defenses, and between Bugs' cleverness and Sam's stupidity, the castle is never seriously threatened, even when Sam enlists the help of an…
7. Alice in the Navy (1961)

★ 6.5/10

Aliki is in love with someone who serves his duty in the greek navy. Wanting to see him, she disguises as a navy soldier and gets aboard her lover's ship. Things get more complicated when she comes accross the ship's…
8. Naked Autumn (1961)

★ 6.1/10

Milan is an ex Formula One driver and now he lives with his wife Roberte in a small country town. But Milan is not satisfied, so Roberte encourages a love-story between Milan and Helene, a young woman. Milan can't…
9. The George Raft Story (1961)

★ 5.2/10

The 1961 film biography of the nightclub dancer-turned-movie star George Raft.
10. The Snake Woman (1961)

★ 4.6/10

A doctor in 1890 England, in order to cure his wife's "sick mind," injects her with snake venom. She later gives birth to a daughter whom the villagers call "The Devil's Baby" and in a fit of fear they end up burning…
11. Boys Beware (1961)

★ 3.5/10

This anti-homosexual social "scare" short film focuses on the dangers of young boys talking to strangers.