List of LGBT-related films of 1961 explained

Films

TitleDirectorCountryGenreCastNotes
Accattone Italy Drama
United States Drama Shirley MacLaine, Audrey Hepburn, James Garner, Miriam Hopkins, Fay Bainter and Karen Balkin The film is based on Lillian Hellman's play The Children's Hour, with school teachers falsely accused of having lesbian relationship; one of them realizes that she is in love with the other.[1]
La Fille aux yeux d'or France
Italy
Drama Marie Laforêt, Paul Guers, Françoise Prévost, Françoise Dorléac and Jacques Verlier AKA The Girl with the Golden Eyes
United Kingdom Drama Co-written by Shelagh Delaney, based on her play of the same name
Victim United Kingdom Crime, drama First English language film to use the word "homosexual"

Notes and References

  1. Darren, p. 45