# List of British films of 1961

A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1961 (see 1961 in film):

## 1961

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 1961 |||||||
| Bomb in the High Street | Peter Bezencenet, Terry Bishop | Ronald Howard, Terry Palmer, Suzanna Leigh, Jack Allen | Drama | |
| The Breaking Point | Lance Comfort | Peter Reynolds, Dermot Walsh | Crime | |
| Carry On Regardless | Gerald Thomas | Sid James, Kenneth Williams | Comedy | |
| Cash on Demand | Quentin Lawrence | Peter Cushing, André Morell | Thriller | |
| Clue of the Silver Key | Gerard Glaister | Bernard Lee, Lyndon Brook, Finlay Currie | Crime | |
| The Court Martial of Major Keller | Ernest Morris | Laurence Payne, Susan Stephen | Drama | |
| The Curse of the Werewolf | Terence Fisher | Clifford Evans, Oliver Reed | Horror | |
| The Day the Earth Caught Fire | Val Guest | Edward Judd, Janet Munro, Leo McKern | Sci-fi | |
| Dentist on the Job | C. M. Pennington-Richards | Kenneth Connor, Shirley Eaton | Comedy | |
| The Devil's Daffodil | Ákos Ráthonyi | William Lucas, Penelope Horner | Crime | |
| Don't Bother to Knock | Cyril Frankel | Richard Todd, Nicole Maurey | Comedy | |
| Double Bunk | C. M. Pennington-Richards | Ian Carmichael, Sid James | Comedy | |
| During One Night | Sidney J. Furie | Don Borisenko, Susan Hampshire | Drama | |
| Five Golden Hours | Mario Zampi | Ernie Kovacs, Cyd Charisse, George Sanders | Comedy | |
| Flame in the Streets | Roy Ward Baker | John Mills, Sylvia Syms | Drama | |
| Follow That Man | Jerome Epstein | Sydney Chaplin, Dawn Addams, Elspeth March | Comedy | |
| Freedom to Die | Francis Searle | Paul Maxwell, Felicity Young | Crime | |
| The Frightened City | John Lemont | Herbert Lom, Sean Connery | Crime | |
| Fury at Smugglers' Bay | John Gilling | Peter Cushing, Bernard Lee, Michèle Mercier | Adventure | |
| Girl on Approval | Charles Frend | Rachel Roberts, James Maxwell | Drama | |
| The Girl on the Boat | Henry Kaplan | Norman Wisdom, Millicent Martin | Comedy | |
| Gorgo | Eugène Lourié | Bill Travers, William Sylvester | Sci-fi | |
| The Green Helmet | Michael Forlong | Bill Travers, Ed Begley | Drama | |
| The Greengage Summer | Lewis Gilbert | Kenneth More, Danielle Darrieux | Drama | |
| The Guns of Navarone | J. Lee Thompson | Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn | World War II | |
| The Hellfire Club | Robert S. Baker Monty Berman | Keith Michell, Adrienne Corri, Peter Cushing | Adventure | |
| The Hellions | Irving Allen, Ken Annakin | Richard Todd, Anne Aubrey | Adventure | |
| Highway to Battle | Ernest Morris | Gerard Heinz, Margaret Tyzack | Drama | |
| House of Mystery | Vernon Sewell | Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton | Horror | |
| The Impersonator | Alfred Shaughnessy | John Crawford, Jane Griffiths | Mystery | |
| Information Received | Robert Lynn | Sabine Sesselmann, William Sylvester | Crime | |
| The Innocents | Jack Clayton | Deborah Kerr, Michael Redgrave, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins | Horror | Entered into the 1962 Cannes Film Festival |
| Invasion Quartet | Jay Lewis | Bill Travers, Spike Milligan | Comedy | |
| Jungle Street | Charles Saunders | Jill Ireland, David McCallum, Kenneth Cope | Crime | |
| The Kitchen | James Hill | Carl Möhner, Mary Yeomans | Drama | |
| The Long and the Short and the Tall | Leslie Norman | Laurence Harvey, Richard Todd | World War II | |
| Lunch Hour | James Hill | Shirley Anne Field, Robert Stephens | Comedy | |
| The Man in the Back Seat | Vernon Sewell | Derren Nesbitt, Keith Faulkner | Crime | |
| The Mark | Guy Green | Maria Schell, Stuart Whitman | Drama | |
| Mary Had a Little... | Edward Buzzell | Agnes Laurent, Hazel Court, Jack Watling | Comedy | |
| A Matter of WHO | Don Chaffey | Terry-Thomas, Sonja Ziemann | Crime | |
| Mr. Topaze | Peter Sellers | Peter Sellers, Nadia Gray | Comedy | |
| Murder, She Said | George Pollock | Margaret Rutherford, Stringer Davis | Mystery | |
| Mysterious Island | Cy Endfield | Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Herbert Lom | Sci-fi adventure | |
| The Naked Edge | Michael Anderson | Gary Cooper, Deborah Kerr | Thriller | |
| Nearly a Nasty Accident | Don Chaffey | Jimmy Edwards, Kenneth Connor | Comedy | |
| The Night We Got the Bird | Darcy Conyers | Brian Rix, Dora Bryan | Comedy | |
| Night Without Pity | Theodore Zichy | Sarah Lawson, Neil McCallum | Crime | |
| No Love for Johnnie | Ralph Thomas | Peter Finch | Drama | Finch won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at Berlin. |
| No My Darling Daughter | Ralph Thomas | Michael Redgrave, Michael Craig | Comedy | |
| Nothing Barred | Darcy Conyers | Brian Rix, Leo Franklyn | Comedy | |
| On the Fiddle | Cyril Frankel | Alfred Lynch, Sean Connery, Stanley Holloway | Comedy/action | |
| Out of the Shadow | Michael Winner | Terence Longdon, Donald Gray | Thriller | |
| Over the Odds | Michael Forlong | Marjorie Rhodes, Glenn Melvynn | Comedy | |
| Part-Time Wife | Max Varnel | Anton Rodgers, Nyree Dawn Porter | Comedy | |
| Partners in Crime | Peter Duffell | Bernard Lee, Stanley Morgan | Crime | |
| Passport to China | Michael Carreras | Richard Basehart, Lisa Gastoni | Adventure | |
| Payroll | Sidney Hayers | Michael Craig, Françoise Prévost, Billie Whitelaw | Crime | |
| Petticoat Pirates | David MacDonald | Charlie Drake, Anne Heywood, Thorley Walters | Comedy | |
| Pit of Darkness | Lance Comfort | William Franklyn, Moira Redmond | Thriller | |
| The Queen's Guards | Michael Powell | Daniel Massey, Robert Stephens | Drama | |
| Rag Doll | Lance Comfort | Jess Conrad, Kenneth Griffith | Crime | |
| Raising the Wind | Gerald Thomas | James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips | Comedy | |
| The Rebel | Robert Day | Tony Hancock, George Sanders, Paul Massie | Comedy | |
| Return of a Stranger | Max Varnel | John Ireland, Susan Stephen, Cyril Shaps | Thriller | |
| The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone | José Quintero | Vivien Leigh, Warren Beatty, Lotte Lenya | Drama | |
| Savage Guns | Michael Carreras | Richard Basehart | Western | Co-production with Spain |
| The Secret Partner | Basil Dearden | Stewart Granger, Bernard Lee | Crime | |
| Seven Keys | Pat Jackson | Alan Dobie, Jeannie Carson, Delphi Lawrence, John Carson | Crime | |
| The Shadow of the Cat | John Gilling | Conrad Phillips, Barbara Shelley, André Morell | Horror | |
| The Singer Not the Song | Roy Ward Baker | Dirk Bogarde, John Mills | Western | |
| The Snake Woman | Sidney J. Furie | Susan Travers, John McCarthy | Horror | |
| So Evil, So Young | Godfrey Grayson | Jill Ireland, Ellen Pollock | Drama | |
| Spare the Rod | Leslie Norman | Max Bygraves, Geoffrey Keen, Donald Pleasence | Drama | |
| A Story of David | Bob McNaught | Jeff Chandler, Basil Sydney | Drama | Co-production with Israel |
| Strip Tease Murder | Ernest Morris | John Hewer, Ann Lynn | Crime | |
| Strongroom | Vernon Sewell | Derren Nesbitt, Colin Gordon, Ann Lynn | Crime drama | |
| Taste of Fear | Seth Holt | Susan Strasberg, Ronald Lewis, Christopher Lee | Thriller | |
| A Taste of Honey | Tony Richardson | Dora Bryan, Robert Stephens, Rita Tushingham | Drama | |
| The Third Alibi | Montgomery Tully | Laurence Payne, Patricia Dainton | Thriller | |
| Three on a Spree | Sidney J. Furie | Jack Watling, Carole Lesley, Renée Houston | Comedy | |
| Ticket to Paradise | Francis Searle | Emrys Jones, Patricia Dainton | Romance | |
| The Treasure of Monte Cristo | Monty Berman | Rory Calhoun, Patricia Bredin, John Gregson | Adventure | |
| Two Living, One Dead | Anthony Asquith | Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers | Thriller | |
| The Unstoppable Man | Terry Bishop | Cameron Mitchell, Marius Goring, Harry H. Corbett | Drama | |
| Very Important Person | Ken Annakin | James Robertson Justice, Stanley Baxter | Comedy | |
| Victim | Basil Dearden | Dirk Bogarde, Dennis Price, Sylvia Syms | Drama | |
| Watch it, Sailor! | Wolf Rilla | Dennis Price, Liz Fraser | Comedy | |
| A Weekend with Lulu | John Paddy Carstairs | Bob Monkhouse, Leslie Phillips | Comedy | |
| What a Carve Up! | Pat Jackson | Sid James, Kenneth Connor | Comedy | |
| What a Whopper | Gilbert Gunn | Adam Faith, Sid James | Comedy | |
| Whistle Down the Wind | Bryan Forbes | Hayley Mills, Bernard Lee, Alan Bates | Drama | |
| The Wind of Change | Vernon Sewell | Donald Pleasence, Johnny Briggs, Ann Lynn | Drama | |
| The Young Ones | Sidney J. Furie | Cliff Richard, Robert Morley | Musical | |