Best 21 Thriller Movies Hits from 1961

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town. Get info on Yojimbo / IMDB / YouTube

A team of Allied saboteurs is assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held Greek island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers. Details on The Guns of Navarone / IMDB / YouTube

A closeted lawyer risks his career to bring a blackmailer to justice. Explore Victim / 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. Look into Scream of Fear / IMDB / YouTube

A disgruntled veteran recruits a group of disgraced colleagues to perform a bank robbery with military precision. More about The League of Gentlemen / IMDB / YouTube

In 1862, during the American Civil War, a Southern civilian is about to be hanged for attempting to sabotage a railway bridge. When the execution takes place from the bridge, the rope breaks and he begins his escape toward home. Details on Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / IMDB / YouTube

A teenager who witnesses the murder of his father vows to exact revenge on the four mobsters involved in the killing. Details on Underworld U.S.A. / 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. Explore Homicidal / IMDB / YouTube

A district attorney investigates three white teenagers accused of murdering a blind Puerto Rican kid. See more about The Young Savages / 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. Explore Paris Belongs to Us / IMDB / YouTube

A crusty, eccentric priest recruits three reluctant convicts to help him rescue a children's leper colony from a Pacific island menaced by a smoldering volcano. Read about The Devil at 4 O'Clock / IMDB / YouTube

A crazed hunter kidnaps people and turns them loose on his private estate, where he hunts them for sport. Check out Bloodlust! / IMDB / YouTube

Dr.Decker comes back from Africa. During one year, he came across a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee and he decides to use his chimp, 'Konga' to 'get rid of them'. Check out Konga / 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. Read 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. Find out about 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. Check out The Naked Edge / IMDB / YouTube

A young archaeologist thinks he is cursed by an Aztec mask that makes him have strange nightmares. Before committing suicide, he sends the mask to his psychiatrist, who soon plunges into the mask's nightmarish world. Look into The Mask / 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. See more about No Place Like Homicide! / IMDB / YouTube

A murderous thug and his cohorts take a bank executive's wife hostage after their robbery plans go awry. Look into Five Minutes to Live / IMDB / YouTube

A runaway asteroid dubbed The Outsider mysteriously begins orbiting the Earth and threatens it with lethal flying saucers. Find out about Battle of the Worlds / 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