# List of French films of 1961

A list of films produced in France in 1961.
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| All the Gold in the World | René Clair | Bourvil, Alfred Adam, Philippe Noiret | Comedy | French-Italian co-production |
| Amelie or The Time to Love | Michel Drach | Marie-José Nat, Clotilde Joano, Jean Sorel | Drama | |
| Captain Fracasse | Pierre Gaspard-Huit | Jean Marais, Geneviève Grad, Gérard Barray | Adventure | French-Italian co-production |
| Cocagne | Maurice Cloche | Fernandel, Dora Doll, Leda Gloria | Comedy | Co-production with Italy |
| The Colossus of Rhodes | Sergio Leone | Rory Calhoun, Lea Massari, Georges Marchal | Adventure | Italian-Spanish-French co-production |
| The Counterfeiters of Paris | Gilles Grangier | Jean Gabin, Martine Carol, Bernard Blier | Comedy | French-Italian co-production |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Claude Autant-Lara | Louis Jourdan, Yvonne Furneaux, Pierre Mondy | Adventure | |
| Daniella by Night | Max Pécas | Elke Sommer, Ivan Desny, Helmut Schmid | Spy | Co-production with West Germany |
| Dynamite Jack | Jean Bastia | Fernandel, Eleonora Vargas, Lucien Raimbourg | Western comedy | Co-production with Italy |
| Enclosure | Armand Gatti | Jean Négroni | Drama | French-Yugoslavian co-production |
| Erik the Conqueror | Mario Bava | Cameron Mitchell, Andrea Checchi, Françoise Christophe | Adventure | Italian-French co-production |
| Five Day Lover | Philippe de Broca | Jean Seberg, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Micheline Presle | Comedy, romance | French-Italian co-production |
| Girl with a Suitcase | Valerio Zurlini | Claudia Cardinale, Jacques Perrin, Corrado Pani | Drama, romance | Italian-French co-production |
| Goodbye Again | Anatole Litvak | Ingrid Bergman, Yves Montand, Anthony Perkins | Drama, romance | American-French co-production |
| Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis | Vittorio Cottafavi | Reg Park, Alessandro Sperli, Fay Spain | Adventure, fantasy | Italian-French co-production |
| Dans l'eau qui fait des bulles | Maurice Delbez | Louis de Funès, Pierre Dudan, Marthe Mercadier, María Riquelme, Philippe Lemaire, Jacques Castelot | Comedy | |
| The Joy of Living | René Clément | Barbara Lass, Alain Delon, Gino Cervi | Comedy | French-Italian co-production |
| Keep Talking, Baby | Guy Lefranc | Eddie Constantine, François Chauveau | Crime | |
| La Notte | Michelangelo Antonioni | Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti | Drama | Italian-French co-production |
| The Last of Mrs. Cheyney | Franz Josef Wild [de] | Lilli Palmer, Carlos Thompson | Comedy | Co-production with West Germany |
| Last Year at Marienbad | Alain Resnais | Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoeff | Drama | French-Italian co-production |
| Léon Morin, Priest | Jean-Pierre Melville | Jean-Paul Belmondo, Emmanuelle Riva, Irène Tunc | Drama | French-Italian co-production |
| Lola | Jacques Demy | Anouk Aimée, Marc Michel, Elina Labourdette | Drama, romance | French-Italian co-production |
| The Long Absence | Henri Colpi | Alida Valli, Georges Wilson, Jacques Harden | Drama | French-Italian co-production |
| Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love! | Claude Autant-Lara | Francis Blanche, Bernard Blier, Pierre Brasseur, Francis Claude, Nicole Courcel, Danielle Darrieux, Danielle Gaubert, Roger Hanin, Melina Mercouri, Armand Mestral, Simone Renant, Vittorio De Sica, Jean Sorel | Adventure, comedy, historical | French-Italian co-production |
| Madame Sans-Gêne | Christian-Jaque | Sophia Loren, Robert Hossein, Julien Bertheau | Comedy | French-Italian-Spanish co-production |
| The Menace | Gérard Oury | Robert Hossein, Marie-José Nat | Drama | French-Italian co-production |
| Le Miracle des loups | André Hunebelle | Jean Marais, Rosanna Schiaffino, Roger Hanin | Historical | French-Italian co-production |
| The Nina B. Affair | Robert Siodmak | Nadja Tiller, Pierre Brasseur, Walter Giller | Drama | French-West German co-production |
| One Night on the Beach | Michel Boisrond | Martine Carol, Jean Desailly, Geneviève Grad, Daliah Lavi | Drama, Romance | French-Italian co-production |
| The Passion of Slow Fire | Édouard Molinaro | Jean Desailly | Crime | |
| Please, Not Now! | Roger Vadim | Brigitte Bardot, Jacques Riberolles, Claude Brasseur | Comedy | French-Italian co-production |
| The President | Henri Verneuil | Jean Gabin, Bernard Blier | Thriller | French-Italian co-production |
| Rendezvous | Jean Delannoy | Annie Girardot, Andréa Parisy, Odile Versois, Jean-Claude Pascal, Philippe Noiret, Michel Piccoli, Jean-François Poron | Crime | French-Italian co-production |
| The Return of Dr. Mabuse | Harald Reinl | Rudolf Fernau, Werner Peters, Lou Seitz | Crime | West German-French-Italian co-production |
| The Season for Love | Pierre Kast | Françoise Arnoul, Daniel Gélin, Françoise Prevost | Comedy drama | |
| Second Bureau Against | Jean Stelli | Frank Villard, Dominique Wilms | Thriller | |
| Spotlight on a Murderer | Georges Franju | Pierre Brasseur, Pascale Audret, Marianne Koch | Mystery | |
| The Taste of Violence | Robert Hossein | Robert Hossein, Giovanna Ralli, Mario Adorf | Western | French-West German-Italian co-production |
| Taxi for Tobruk | Denys de La Patellière | Hardy Krüger, Lino Ventura, Maurice Biraud, Charles Aznavour | War | |
| The Thief of Bagdad | Arthur Lubin | Steve Reeves, Giorgia Moll, Edy Vessel | Adventure, fantasy | Italian-French co-production |
| The Three Musketeers | Bernard Borderie | Gérard Barray, Bernard Woringer, Gérard Barray | Adventure | French-Italian co-production |
| Tintin and the Golden Fleece | Jean-Jacques Vierne | Georges Wilson, Charles Vanel, Darío Moreno | Adventure | |
| Wise Guys | Claude Chabrol | Jean-Claude Brialy, Bernadette Lafont, Charles Belmont | Comedy-drama | French-Italian co-production |
| A Woman Is a Woman | Jean-Luc Godard | Anna Karina, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Claude Brialy | Comedy | French-Italian co-production |
| The Wonders of Aladdin | Henry Levin | Donald O'Connor, Noëlle Adam, Vittorio De Sica | Children's, comedy, fantasy | Italian-French-American co-production |