Best 1961 movies

Stacker compiled a list of the best 1961 movies of all time based on our own Stacker score, a weighted index split evenly between IMDb user rating and Metascore. The top movie on this list has a Stacker score of 100; the remaining movies are ranked relative to it. To qualify, the film had at least 10,000 IMDb user votes and a Metascore. Any ties were broken by number of IMDb votes.

#16. The Comancheros
- Stacker score: 72.8
- IMDb user rating: 6.8 (votes: 11,000)
- Metascore: 55
- Director: Michael Curtiz, John Wayne
- Actors: John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Ina Balin
- Runtime: 1 hour 47 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A

#15. The Children's Hour
- Stacker score: 75.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 20,000)
- Metascore: 49
- Director: William Wyler
- Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner
- Runtime: 1 hour 48 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A

#14. Judgment at Nuremberg
- Stacker score: 84.6
- IMDb user rating: 8.3 (votes: 93,000)
- Metascore: 60
- Director: Stanley Kramer
- Actors: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark
- Runtime: 2 hours 59 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A

#13. The Parent Trap
- Stacker score: 85.8
- IMDb user rating: 7.2 (votes: 26,000)
- Metascore: 73
- Director: David Swift
- Actors: Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith
- Runtime: 2 hours 9 minutes
- Rating: G
- Box office: $25,150,385

#12. The Guns of Navarone
- Stacker score: 87.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 58,000)
- Metascore: 72
- Director: J. Lee Thompson
- Actors: David Niven, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn
- Runtime: 2 hours 38 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: N/A

#11. The Pit and the Pendulum
- Stacker score: 87.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.0 (votes: 18,000)
- Metascore: 78
- Director: Roger Corman
- Actors: Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr
- Runtime: 1 hour 20 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A

#10. The Misfits
- Stacker score: 88.2
- IMDb user rating: 7.2 (votes: 25,000)
- Metascore: 77
- Director: John Huston
- Actors: Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift
- Runtime: 2 hours 5 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A

#9. El Cid
- Stacker score: 89.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.2 (votes: 17,000)
- Metascore: 79
- Director: Anthony Mann
- Actors: Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone
- Runtime: 3 hours 2 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A

#8. Splendor in the Grass
- Stacker score: 89.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.7 (votes: 24,000)
- Metascore: 74
- Director: Elia Kazan
- Actors: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle
- Runtime: 2 hours 4 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: $8,720,000

#7. One, Two, Three
- Stacker score: 89.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 24,000)
- Metascore: 73
- Director: Billy Wilder
- Actors: James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin
- Runtime: 1 hour 44 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A

#6. Breakfast at Tiffany's
- Stacker score: 89.9
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 200,000)
- Metascore: 77
- Director: Blake Edwards
- Actors: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal
- Runtime: 1 hour 55 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A

#5. One Hundred and One Dalmatians
- Stacker score: 92.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 192,000)
- Metascore: 83
- Director: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman
- Actors: Rod Taylor, Betty Lou Gerson, J. Pat O'Malley
- Runtime: 1 hour 19 minutes
- Rating: G
- Box office: $144,880,014

#4. West Side Story
- Stacker score: 95.9
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 126,000)
- Metascore: 86
- Director: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
- Actors: Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer
- Runtime: 2 hours 33 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: $44,055,492

#3. The Innocents
- Stacker score: 97.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.7 (votes: 35,000)
- Metascore: 88
- Director: Jack Clayton
- Actors: Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins
- Runtime: 1 hour 40 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A

#2. A Raisin in the Sun
- Stacker score: 98.8
- IMDb user rating: 8.0 (votes: 10,000)
- Metascore: 87
- Director: Daniel Petrie
- Actors: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee
- Runtime: 2 hours 8 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A

#1. The Hustler
- Stacker score: 100.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.9 (votes: 90,000)
- Metascore: 90
- Director: Robert Rossen
- Actors: Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie
- Runtime: 2 hours 14 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A