1961 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or Winner and Nominees

The Long Absence

Henri Colpi

Thérèse Langlois, who runs a small café in the suburbs of Paris, lives alone, awaiting her long lost husband. One day she thinks she recognizes him in a tramp walking past her establishment…

Viridiana

Luis Buñuel

A Raisin in the Sun

Daniel Petrie

A Song About the Gray Pigeon

Stanislav Barabas

Brother

Kon Ichikawa

Che gioia vivere

René Clément

Children of the Sun

John Hubley

Darclée

Mihai Iacob

Girl with a Suitcase

Valerio Zurlini

Goodbye Again

Anatole Litvak

Het mes

Fons Rademakers

I Like Mike

Peter Frye

Kazaki

Vasili Pronin

La mano en la trampa

Leopoldo Torre Nilsson

La viaccia

Mauro Bolognini

Le ciel et la boue

Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau

Line

Nils-Reinhardt Christensen

Madalena

Dinos Dimopoulos

Mother Joan of the Angels

Jerzy Kawalerowicz

Plein sud

Gaston De Gerlache

That Forward Center Dies at Dawn

René Múgica

The Brute

Zoltán Fábri

The First Miss

Lima Barreto

The Fourteenth Day

Zdravko Velimirovic

The Hoodlum Priest

Irvin Kershner

The Judge

Alf Sjöberg

The Last Witness

Wolfgang Staudte

The Mark

Guy Green

The Story of the Flaming Years

Yuliya Solntseva

The Wastrel

Michael Cacoyannis

Two Women

Vittorio De Sica