A list of films produced in Argentina in 1961:
Alejandro Rey was an Argentine-American actor and television director.
A sexploitation film is a class of independently produced, low-budget feature film that is generally associated with the 1960s and early 1970s, and that serves largely as a vehicle for the exhibition of non-explicit sexual situations and gratuitous nudity. The genre is a subgenre of exploitation films. The term "sexploitation" has been used since the 1940s.
Taras Bulba is a 1962 American Color by Deluxe in Eastmancolor adventure film loosely based on Nikolai Gogol's novel Taras Bulba, starring Tony Curtis and Yul Brynner. The film was directed by J. Lee Thompson. The story line of the film is considerably different from that of Gogol's novel, although it is closer to his expanded 1842 edition than his original (pro-Ukrainian) version of 1835.
Argentina Brunetti was an Argentine stage and film actress and writer.
Cinema of Argentina refers to the film industry based in Argentina. The Argentine cinema comprises the art of film and creative movies made within the nation of Argentina or by Argentine filmmakers abroad.
Alejandro Agresti is an Argentine film director, writer and producer. A prominent filmmaker in his country, he also directed The Lake House with Hollywood actors Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves in 2006.
This is an index to pages listing Argentine films ordered by year of release. For an A-Z list, see Category:Argentine films.
The cinema of Paraguay has historically been small. However, this has begun to change in recent years with films like El Toque del Oboe (1998); María Escobar (2002); O Amigo Dunor (2005), which competed for Best Movie in the Rotterdam International Film Festival; Hamaca Paraguaya (2006), which was screened at the Cannes Film Festival, gaining critical acclaim both in Paraguay and abroad; 7 cajas (2012); Latas Vacías (2014); and Luna de Cigarras (2014).
Alias Big Shot is a 1961 Argentine drama film directed by Lautaro Murúa and written by Augusto Roa Bastos and Bernardo Kordon. The film starred Alberto Argibay, Virginia Lago and Walter Vidarte. It won the Silver Condor Award for Best Picture.
Lautaro Murúa was a Chilean-Argentine actor, film director, and screenwriter. He is one of the best known actors in the cinema of Argentina.
Pierre Bruno Hugo Fontana, otherwise known as Hugo del Carril, was an Argentine film actor, film director and tango singer of the classic era.
Enrique Carreras was a Peruvian-born Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer, and was one of the most prolific film directors in the history of the Cinema of Argentina.
Graciela Borges is an Argentine television and film actress.
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, also known as Leo Towers and as Babsy, was an Argentine film director, producer and screenwriter.
Summer Skin is a 1961 Argentine film directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson. The film was selected as the Argentine entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 34th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Fernando Birri was an Argentine film maker and theorist. He was considered by many to be the father of the new Latin American cinema.
Pedro Jorge Rigato Delissetche, better known by his stage names George Rigaud, Georges Rigaud or Jorge Rigaud, was an Argentine film actor who appeared in 194 films between 1932 and 1981.
Events in the year 1961 in Spain.