Greatest 25 Mystery Movies Editor's Pick Released in 1961

A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. During the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other. See more about L'Avventura / IMDB / YouTube

A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted. See more about The Innocents / IMDB / YouTube

In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor. See more about The Pit and the Pendulum / IMDB / YouTube

A wheelchair-bound young woman returns to her father's estate after 10 years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate. Explore Scream of Fear / IMDB / YouTube

A priest is sent to a small parish in the Polish countryside which is believed to be under demonic possession and there he finds his own temptations awaiting. See more about Mother Joan of the Angels / IMDB / YouTube

The brutal stabbing murder of a justice-of-the-peace sparks an investigation of dark family secrets in a sleepy small town in Southern California. Get info on Homicidal / IMDB / YouTube

A mysterious and cruel Baron, whose face has become frozen in a horrifying grin, demands that a prominent London physician apply experimental treatments on him to restore his face. Look into Mr. Sardonicus / IMDB / YouTube

Anne Goupil is a literature student in Paris in 1957. Her elder brother, Pierre, takes her to a friend's party where the guests include Philip Kaufman, an expatriate American escaping McCarthyism, and Gerard Lenz, a theatre director who arrives with the mysterious woman Terry. The talk at the party is about the apparent suicide of their friend Juan, a Spanish activist. Read about Paris Belongs to Us / IMDB / YouTube

In Canada, a British schoolmaster meets official resistance when he learns that his 9-year-old daughter has been the victim of the pedophile patriarch of the town's most powerful family. More about Never Take Candy from A Stranger / IMDB / YouTube

A house cat sees her mistress murdered by two servants under orders from her husband , and becomes ferociously bent on revenge. Explore The Shadow of the Cat / IMDB / YouTube

Five years after George Radcliffe was the chief witness in a high profile murder case, his wife receives a blackmailing letter accusing him of the crime. Find out about The Naked Edge / IMDB / YouTube

A man is haunted by visions of a beautiful woman. When he finally meets her, he winds up involved in a Satanic cult. Details on The Devil's Hand / IMDB / YouTube

In 1910, Hong Kong members of a secret Tong crime syndicate protect their identities by murdering the daughter of a British sea captain who vows revenge. Info on The Terror of the Tongs / IMDB / YouTube

Ernie's uncle has just died, but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ancestral home with the rest of his relatives. Before long, the guests begin to drop dead. Check out No Place Like Homicide! / IMDB / YouTube

People are mysteriously disappearing near a remote Cornish village, where a scientist is experimenting; reviving the dead. Find out about Doctor Blood's Coffin / IMDB / YouTube

Ayako is charged with murdering her much older academic husband while climbing a mountain. Ayako was having an affair, apparently with her husband's approval, and this complicates the trial. Learn about A Wife Confesses / IMDB / YouTube

A wealthy London-based shipping magnate is blackmailed by an evil dentist which threatens to reveal an old case of fraud, while the dentist himself is threatened by a mysterious masked man. Look into The Secret Partner / IMDB / YouTube

When he learns his days are numbered old count Hervé de Kéraudren decides to hide in a secret alcove and to die there, just to annoy his heirs. As a result of his body not being found the latter will have to wait for five years until they can inherit the count's money. Very upsetting indeed, all the more as they are required to keep up the Kéraudren estate in the mean. Learn about Spotlight on a Murderer / IMDB / YouTube

Neurotic woman engages in an affair with the law partner of her impotent husband. Info on By Love Possessed / IMDB / YouTube

The crazed brother of a condemned killer sent to the gas chamber swears vengeance on those he holds responsible for his brother's execution. Learn about Anatomy of a Psycho / IMDB / YouTube

A famous movie star's fan-club secretary has been brutally murdered. She has in her office old newspaper clippings regarding a missing heiress. Did the secretary know something about the mystery of the heiress? Tom Alder investigates. Explore Twenty Plus Two / IMDB / YouTube

During the 1956 Hungarian uprising, an American mercenary is hired to smuggle a Hungarian resistance leader out of Soviet-occupied Budapest. See more about The Secret Ways / IMDB / YouTube

Satan enlists the help of a suicide victim in Hell to lure unsuspecting earthly victims to their eternal doom. Contains three somewhat unrelated Twilight Zone-esque stories. More about The Devil's Messenger / IMDB / YouTube

When reporter Mark Kingston's student brother falls from his Cambridge college window, he makes haste from the States to set out to prove that it would not have been suicide, but was rather murder. More about Murder on the Campus / IMDB / YouTube

A man's death of smallpox at London airport sends officials into a panic as they conduct a frantic search for the carrier. Explore A Matter of WHO / IMDB / YouTube