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Top Films of the 1960s (#1-200)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 2
2 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick 3
3 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick 12
4 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 19
5 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 Sergio Leone 44
6 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone 58
7 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 59
8 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 62
9 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah 63
10 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 65
11 8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini 74
12 Rosemary's Baby 1968 Roman Polanski 78
13 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini 86
14 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 97
15 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan 100
16 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 105
17 Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero 113
18 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise 118
19 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 136
20 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 144
21 The Battle of Algiers 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo 145
22 Andrei Rublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky 160
23 Planet of the Apes 1968 Franklin J. Schaffner 166
24 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 178
25 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper 181
26 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger 194
27 L'Avventura 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni 195
28 Jules and Jim 1962 François Truffaut 201
29 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 214
30 Peeping Tom 1960 Michael Powell 232
31 The Great Escape 1963 John Sturges 234
32 Goldfinger 1964 Guy Hamilton 244
33 Blow-Up 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni 246
34 The Birds 1963 Alfred Hitchcock 251
35 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick 254
36 Mary Poppins 1964 Robert Stevenson 267
37 A Hard Day's Night 1964 Richard Lester 270
38 The Magnificent Seven 1960 John Sturges 273
39 Cool Hand Luke 1967 Stuart Rosenberg 285
40 The Leopard 1963 Luchino Visconti 293
41 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 Jacques Demy 298
42 Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati 300
43 The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen 301
44 The Producers 1967 Mel Brooks 309
45 Belle de Jour 1967 Luis Buñuel 317
46 My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor 322
47 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa 328
48 Viridiana 1961 Luis Buñuel 332
49 Au hasard Balthazar 1966 Robert Bresson 348
50 La Jetée 1962 Chris Marker 350
51 Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski 358
52 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 Blake Edwards 359
53 Contempt 1963 Jean-Luc Godard 371
54 Le Samouraï 1967 Jean-Pierre Melville 375
55 A Fistful of Dollars 1964 Sergio Leone 383
56 Army in the Shadows 1969 Jean-Pierre Melville 388
57 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 Alain Resnais 392
58 Eyes without a Face 1960 Georges Franju 406
59 Pierrot le Fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 422
60 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 425
61 The Innocents 1961 Jack Clayton 442
62 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 Mike Nichols 448
63 Cleo from 5 to 7 1962 Agnès Varda 461
64 In the Heat of the Night 1967 Norman Jewison 464
65 For a Few Dollars More 1965 Sergio Leone 468
66 The Jungle Book 1967 Wolfgang Reitherman 474
67 Kes 1969 Ken Loach 478
68 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 Robert Aldrich 488
69 Point Blank 1967 John Boorman 489
70 The Haunting 1963 Robert Wise 497
71 Alphaville 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 517
72 The Gospel According to St. Matthew 1964 Pier Paolo Pasolini 557
73 If.... 1968 Lindsay Anderson 559
74 The Dirty Dozen 1967 Robert Aldrich 566
75 Z 1969 Costa-Gavras 584
76 L'Eclisse 1962 Michelangelo Antonioni 596
77 The Exterminating Angel 1962 Luis Buñuel 613
78 Bullitt 1968 Peter Yates 627
79 My Life to Live 1962 Jean-Luc Godard 628
80 High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa 662
81 Woman in the Dunes 1964 Hiroshi Teshigahara 667
82 Closely Watched Trains 1966 Jirí Menzel 680
83 Ride the High Country 1962 Sam Peckinpah 684
84 The Sorrow and the Pity 1969 Marcel Ophüls 709
85 Rocco and His Brothers 1960 Luchino Visconti 727
86 Yellow Submarine 1968 George Dunning 731
87 Dr. No 1962 Terence Young 742
88 Dont Look Back 1967 D.A. Pennebaker 749
89 My Night at Maud's 1969 Eric Rohmer 752
90 Harakiri 1962 Masaki Kobayashi 754
91 One Hundred and One Dalmatians 1961 Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wolfgang Reitherman 755
92 Oliver! 1968 Carol Reed 757
93 The Odd Couple 1968 Gene Saks 798
94 Knife in the Water 1962 Roman Polanski 799
95 Shoot the Piano Player 1960 François Truffaut 807
96 Seconds 1966 John Frankenheimer 817
97 Ivan's Childhood 1962 Andrei Tarkovsky 818
98 Lolita 1962 Stanley Kubrick 823
99 The Servant 1963 Joseph Losey 824
100 Zulu 1964 Cy Endfield 825
101 A Man for All Seasons 1966 Fred Zinnemann 838
102 From Russia with Love 1963 Terence Young 856
103 Chimes at Midnight 1965 Orson Welles 858
104 Winter Light 1963 Ingmar Bergman 872
105 Jason and the Argonauts 1963 Don Chaffey 877
106 Carnival of Souls 1962 Herk Harvey 887
107 Salesman 1969 Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin 906
108 The Party 1968 Blake Edwards 908
109 Hud 1963 Martin Ritt 911
110 The Ipcress File 1965 Sidney J. Furie 912
111 Titicut Follies 1967 Frederick Wiseman 920
112 The Longest Day 1962 Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki 923
113 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 1962 Tony Richardson 932
114 Faces 1968 John Cassavetes 938
115 I Am Cuba 1964 Mikheil Kalatozishvili 965
116 This Sporting Life 1963 Lindsay Anderson 977
117 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1960 Karel Reisz 982
118 Band of Outsiders 1964 Jean-Luc Godard 985
119 Memories of Underdevelopment 1968 Tomás Gutiérrez Alea 1002
120 The Virgin Spring 1960 Ingmar Bergman 1003
121 Charade 1963 Stanley Donen 1007
122 Gertrud 1964 Carl Theodor Dreyer 1015
123 Where Eagles Dare 1968 Brian G. Hutton 1033
124 Mouchette 1967 Robert Bresson 1036
125 Tom Jones 1963 Tony Richardson 1043
126 Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 Stanley Kramer 1055
127 Shock Corridor 1963 Samuel Fuller 1060
128 The Train 1964 John Frankenheimer 1064
129 Barbarella 1968 Roger Vadim 1078
130 The Music Man 1962 Morton DaCosta 1114
131 The Shop on Main Street 1965 Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos 1121
132 Scorpio Rising 1963 Kenneth Anger 1122
133 The Color of Pomegranates 1969 Sergei Parajanov 1125
134 Funny Girl 1968 William Wyler 1137
135 Daisies 1966 Vera Chytilová 1138
136 Charulata 1964 Satyajit Ray 1140
137 The Pink Panther 1963 Blake Edwards 1143
138 Kwaidan 1964 Masaki Kobayashi 1161
139 Fahrenheit 451 1966 François Truffaut 1178
140 An Autumn Afternoon 1962 Yasujirô Ozu 1187
141 The Young Girls of Rochefort 1967 Jacques Demy 1193
142 Seven Up! 1964 Paul Almond 1196
143 Black God and White Devil 1964 Glauber Rocha 1197
144 Red Beard 1965 Akira Kurosawa 1225
145 Splendor in the Grass 1961 Elia Kazan 1233
146 Cape Fear 1962 J. Lee Thompson 1237
147 The Trial 1962 Orson Welles 1244
148 Black Sunday 1960 Mario Bava 1246
149 In Cold Blood 1967 Richard Brooks 1250
150 Village of the Damned 1960 Wolf Rilla 1268
151 The Nutty Professor 1963 Jerry Lewis 1269
152 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 1965 Russ Meyer 1278
153 The Time Machine 1960 George Pal 1281
154 The Misfits 1961 John Huston 1286
155 True Grit 1969 Henry Hathaway 1293
156 The Guns of Navarone 1961 J. Lee Thompson 1303
157 The Silence 1963 Ingmar Bergman 1318
158 One-Eyed Jacks 1961 Marlon Brando 1319
159 Le Trou 1960 Jacques Becker 1352
160 Week End 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 1366
161 The Miracle Worker 1962 Arthur Penn 1368
162 The War Game 1966 Peter Watkins 1369
163 Black Girl 1966 Ousmane Sembene 1379
164 Onibaba 1964 Kaneto Shindô 1393
165 Romeo and Juliet 1968 Franco Zeffirelli 1398
166 La Notte 1961 Michelangelo Antonioni 1400
167 Marnie 1964 Alfred Hitchcock 1401
168 The Red Desert 1964 Michelangelo Antonioni 1415
169 Alfie 1966 Lewis Gilbert 1418
170 Loves of a Blonde 1965 Milos Forman 1428
171 The Italian Job 1969 Peter Collinson 1447
172 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World 1963 Stanley Kramer 1476
173 The Great Silence 1968 Sergio Corbucci 1479
174 The Professionals 1966 Richard Brooks 1480
175 Fantastic Voyage 1966 Richard Fleischer 1500
176 Chronicle of a Summer 1961 Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch 1510
177 Fail-Safe 1964 Sidney Lumet 1520
178 Wavelength 1967 Michael Snow 1526
179 How the West Was Won 1962 John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall 1530
180 One, Two, Three 1961 Billy Wilder 1540
181 A Shot in the Dark 1964 Blake Edwards 1544
182 Hour of the Wolf 1968 Ingmar Bergman 1547
183 The Lion in Winter 1968 Anthony Harvey 1568
184 Two or Three Things I Know about Her 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 1569
185 Django 1966 Sergio Corbucci 1583
186 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 1968 Ken Hughes 1622
187 Accattone 1961 Pier Paolo Pasolini 1631
188 Quatermass and the Pit 1967 Roy Ward Baker 1650
189 Cleopatra 1963 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1654
190 The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer 1961 Masaki Kobayashi 1669
191 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 1965 Sergei Parajanov 1671
192 Billy Liar 1963 John Schlesinger 1678
193 Purple Noon 1960 René Clément 1695
194 Lonely Are the Brave 1962 David Miller 1704
195 Chelsea Girls 1966 Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol 1717
196 High School 1968 Frederick Wiseman 1730
197 The Hour of the Furnaces 1968 Octavio Getino, Fernando E. Solanas, and Santiago Álvarez 1762
198 The Endless Summer 1965 Bruce Brown 1765
199 Branded to Kill 1967 Seijun Suzuki 1769
200 Through a Glass Darkly 1961 Ingmar Bergman 1770
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