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Top Films of the 1960s

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 1
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 16
4 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 25
5 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 Sergio Leone 48
6 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 59
7 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 73
8 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone 76
9 Rosemary's Baby 1968 Roman Polanski 77
10 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah 88
11 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 97
12 8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini 100
13 Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero 102
14 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan 109
15 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 116
16 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 122
17 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini 124
18 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 135
19 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise 146
20 The Great Escape 1963 John Sturges 154
21 The Battle of Algiers 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo 158
22 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 162
23 Planet of the Apes 1968 Franklin J. Schaffner 181
24 Mary Poppins 1964 Robert Stevenson 204
25 The Birds 1963 Alfred Hitchcock 226
26 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 230
27 Jules and Jim 1962 François Truffaut 241
28 Goldfinger 1964 Guy Hamilton 246
29 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 261
30 Andrei Rublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky 264
31 Peeping Tom 1960 Michael Powell 274
32 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger 280
33 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 Jacques Demy 292
34 L'Avventura 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni 299
35 A Hard Day's Night 1964 Richard Lester 303
36 Cool Hand Luke 1967 Stuart Rosenberg 308
37 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper 323
38 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 Blake Edwards 326
39 Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati 328
40 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick 336
41 The Leopard 1963 Luchino Visconti 340
42 Blow-Up 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni 346
43 My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor 348
44 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa 354
45 Au hasard Balthazar 1966 Robert Bresson 365
46 Belle de Jour 1967 Luis Buñuel 378
47 Eyes without a Face 1960 Georges Franju 381
48 Cleo from 5 to 7 1962 Agnès Varda 383
49 The Magnificent Seven 1960 John Sturges 388
50 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 393
51 Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski 396
52 The Producers 1967 Mel Brooks 420
53 Army in the Shadows 1969 Jean-Pierre Melville 424
54 The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen 426
55 The Haunting 1963 Robert Wise 428
56 A Fistful of Dollars 1964 Sergio Leone 429
57 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 Alain Resnais 433
58 In the Heat of the Night 1967 Norman Jewison 437
59 The Innocents 1961 Jack Clayton 444
60 Le Samouraï 1967 Jean-Pierre Melville 455
61 La Jetée 1962 Chris Marker 474
62 For a Few Dollars More 1965 Sergio Leone 476
63 Viridiana 1961 Luis Buñuel 485
64 Contempt 1963 Jean-Luc Godard 496
65 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 Robert Aldrich 530
66 The Dirty Dozen 1967 Robert Aldrich 537
67 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 Mike Nichols 559
68 The Jungle Book 1967 Wolfgang Reitherman 566
69 Kes 1969 Ken Loach 576
70 Alphaville 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 636
71 High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa 642
72 Pierrot le Fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 671
73 Ride the High Country 1962 Sam Peckinpah 683
74 Carnival of Souls 1962 Herk Harvey 716
75 My Life to Live 1962 Jean-Luc Godard 724
76 Point Blank 1967 John Boorman 727
77 Chimes at Midnight 1965 Orson Welles 739
78 Bullitt 1968 Peter Yates 741
79 Harakiri 1962 Masaki Kobayashi 753
80 The Sorrow and the Pity 1969 Marcel Ophüls 766
81 Dr. No 1962 Terence Young 781
82 Woman in the Dunes 1964 Hiroshi Teshigahara 805
83 L'Eclisse 1962 Michelangelo Antonioni 806
84 Rocco and His Brothers 1960 Luchino Visconti 838
85 The Gospel According to St. Matthew 1964 Pier Paolo Pasolini 845
86 If.... 1968 Lindsay Anderson 850
87 Kwaidan 1964 Masaki Kobayashi 852
88 Daisies 1966 Vera Chytilová 859
89 The Train 1964 John Frankenheimer 860
90 The Longest Day 1962 Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki 864
91 Yellow Submarine 1968 George Dunning 870
92 One Hundred and One Dalmatians 1961 Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wolfgang Reitherman 885
93 From Russia with Love 1963 Terence Young 889
94 The Exterminating Angel 1962 Luis Buñuel 896
95 Seconds 1966 John Frankenheimer 901
96 Dont Look Back 1967 D.A. Pennebaker 910
97 Z 1969 Costa-Gavras 929
98 Jason and the Argonauts 1963 Don Chaffey 931
99 Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 Stanley Kramer 936
100 Closely Watched Trains 1966 Jirí Menzel 947
101 Band of Outsiders 1964 Jean-Luc Godard 953
102 Funny Girl 1968 William Wyler 955
103 Knife in the Water 1962 Roman Polanski 983
104 The Servant 1963 Joseph Losey 1000
105 Charade 1963 Stanley Donen 1009
106 In Cold Blood 1967 Richard Brooks 1020
107 Ivan's Childhood 1962 Andrei Tarkovsky 1025
108 Oliver! 1968 Carol Reed 1029
109 My Night at Maud's 1969 Éric Rohmer 1034
110 Zulu 1964 Cy Endfield 1036
111 Hud 1963 Martin Ritt 1037
112 Titicut Follies 1967 Frederick Wiseman 1066
113 I Am Cuba 1964 Mikhail Kalatozov 1072
114 The Virgin Spring 1960 Ingmar Bergman 1084
115 Village of the Damned 1960 Wolf Rilla 1085
116 Lolita 1962 Stanley Kubrick 1089
117 The Odd Couple 1968 Gene Saks 1091
118 Fahrenheit 451 1966 François Truffaut 1108
119 The Young Girls of Rochefort 1967 Jacques Demy 1111
120 Where Eagles Dare 1968 Brian G. Hutton 1113
121 Black Girl 1966 Ousmane Sembene 1181
122 Splendor in the Grass 1961 Elia Kazan 1189
123 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1960 Karel Reisz 1190
124 The Pink Panther 1963 Blake Edwards 1206
125 Cape Fear 1962 J. Lee Thompson 1219
126 This Sporting Life 1963 Lindsay Anderson 1223
127 Black Sunday 1960 Mario Bava 1224
128 Seven Up! 1964 Paul Almond 1227
129 A Man for All Seasons 1966 Fred Zinnemann 1237
130 The Trial 1962 Orson Welles 1244
131 Salesman 1969 Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin 1250
132 Onibaba 1964 Kaneto Shindô 1252
133 Shoot the Piano Player 1960 François Truffaut 1291
134 An Autumn Afternoon 1962 Yasujirô Ozu 1306
135 The Misfits 1961 John Huston 1311
136 Scorpio Rising 1963 Kenneth Anger 1331
137 The Ipcress File 1965 Sidney J. Furie 1336
138 True Grit 1969 Henry Hathaway 1343
139 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 1962 Tony Richardson 1363
140 The Great Silence 1968 Sergio Corbucci 1366
141 The Time Machine 1960 George Pal 1375
142 Mouchette 1967 Robert Bresson 1393
143 Black God and White Devil 1964 Glauber Rocha 1397
144 The Guns of Navarone 1961 J. Lee Thompson 1399
145 The Party 1968 Blake Edwards 1414
146 Charulata 1964 Satyajit Ray 1425
147 Inherit the Wind 1960 Stanley Kramer 1430
148 Red Beard 1965 Akira Kurosawa 1437
149 The Music Man 1962 Morton DaCosta 1440
150 La Notte 1961 Michelangelo Antonioni 1454
151 Memories of Underdevelopment 1968 Tomás Gutiérrez Alea 1463
152 Winter Light 1963 Ingmar Bergman 1464
153 Barbarella 1968 Roger Vadim 1491
154 The Professionals 1966 Richard Brooks 1501
155 One-Eyed Jacks 1961 Marlon Brando 1507
156 Faces 1968 John Cassavetes 1510
157 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967 Stanley Kramer 1517
158 How the West Was Won 1962 John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall 1519
159 A Shot in the Dark 1964 Blake Edwards 1525
160 Tom Jones 1963 Tony Richardson 1531
161 Week End 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 1563
162 A Raisin in the Sun 1961 Daniel Petrie 1579
163 The Red Desert 1964 Michelangelo Antonioni 1583
164 The Endless Summer 1966 Bruce Brown 1595
165 The Lion in Winter 1968 Anthony Harvey 1596
166 The Miracle Worker 1962 Arthur Penn 1597
167 Fail-Safe 1964 Sidney Lumet 1618
168 Shock Corridor 1963 Samuel Fuller 1624
169 Django 1966 Sergio Corbucci 1666
170 The Italian Job 1969 Peter Collinson 1679
171 Le Trou 1960 Jacques Becker 1706
172 The Silence 1963 Ingmar Bergman 1718
173 Wait until Dark 1967 Terence Young 1737
174 The War Game 1966 Peter Watkins 1749
175 Quatermass and the Pit 1967 Roy Ward Baker 1754
176 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 1965 Sergei Parajanov 1762
177 Samurai Rebellion 1967 Masaki Kobayashi 1764
178 The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer 1961 Masaki Kobayashi 1766
179 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 1965 Russ Meyer 1774
180 Marnie 1964 Alfred Hitchcock 1785
181 War and Peace 1965 Sergey Bondarchuk 1787
182 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World 1963 Stanley Kramer 1806
183 The Color of Pomegranates 1969 Sergei Parajanov 1815
184 The Masque of the Red Death 1964 Roger Corman 1816
185 Through a Glass Darkly 1961 Ingmar Bergman 1845
186 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 1968 Ken Hughes 1853
187 Romeo and Juliet 1968 Franco Zeffirelli 1861
188 One, Two, Three 1961 Billy Wilder 1865
189 Chronicle of a Summer 1961 Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch 1870
190 Gertrud 1964 Carl Theodor Dreyer 1872
191 The Shooting 1966 Monte Hellman 1887
192 Stolen Kisses 1968 François Truffaut 1893
193 The Parent Trap 1961 David Swift 1896
194 Sanjuro 1962 Akira Kurosawa 1900
195 Cleopatra 1963 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1904
196 Chelsea Girls 1966 Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol 1915
197 The House Is Black 1963 Forugh Farrokhzad 1921
198 The Devil Rides Out 1968 Terence Fisher 1931
199 Masculine Feminine 1966 Jean-Luc Godard 1948
200 Portrait of Jason 1967 Shirley Clarke 1962
201 Loves of a Blonde 1965 Milos Forman 1966
202 Blood and Black Lace 1964 Mario Bava 1973
203 The Shop on Main Street 1965 Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos 1980
204 Branded to Kill 1967 Seijun Suzuki 1987
205 High School 1968 Frederick Wiseman 1999
206 On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1969 Peter R. Hunt 2015
207 Wavelength 1967 Michael Snow 2036
208 Funeral Parade of Roses 1969 Toshio Matsumoto 2053
209 Black Sabbath 1963 Mario Bava 2061
210 Hour of the Wolf 1968 Ingmar Bergman 2086
211 The Hour of the Furnaces 1968 Octavio Getino and Fernando E. Solanas 2087
212 Fantastic Voyage 1966 Richard Fleischer 2090
213 Accattone 1961 Pier Paolo Pasolini 2091
214 Cat Ballou 1965 Elliot Silverstein 2104
215 Alfie 1966 Lewis Gilbert 2122
216 The Firemen's Ball 1967 Milos Forman 2123
217 Dog Star Man 1964 Stan Brakhage 2133
218 The Nutty Professor 1963 Jerry Lewis 2138
219 Juliet of the Spirits 1965 Federico Fellini 2161
220 Thunderball 1965 Terence Young 2181
221 Victim 1961 Basil Dearden 2207
222 Kill, Baby...Kill! 1966 Mario Bava 2213
223 Monterey Pop 1968 D.A. Pennebaker 2225
224 Il Sorpasso 1962 Dino Risi 2228
225 When a Woman Ascends the Stairs 1960 Mikio Naruse 2251
226 A Man and a Woman 1966 Claude Lelouch 2266
227 Two or Three Things I Know about Her 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 2283
228 Teorema 1968 Pier Paolo Pasolini 2292
229 Tokyo Olympiad 1965 Kon Ichikawa 2293
230 Fellini Satyricon 1969 Federico Fellini 2310
231 Batman 1966 Leslie H. Martinson 2311
232 The Swimmer 1968 Frank Perry 2318
233 Advise & Consent 1962 Otto Preminger 2323
234 The Red and the White 1967 Miklós Jancsó 2352
235 Salvatore Giuliano 1962 Francesco Rosi 2361
236 The Pawnbroker 1964 Sidney Lumet 2369
237 Witchfinder General 1968 Michael Reeves 2383
238 Marketa Lazarová 1967 Frantisek Vlácil 2388
239 Take the Money and Run 1969 Woody Allen 2391
240 Le Bonheur 1965 Agnès Varda 2411
241 Terra em Transe 1967 Glauber Rocha 2420
242 Purple Noon 1960 René Clément 2435
243 Nothing but a Man 1964 Michael Roemer 2449
244 The Little Shop of Horrors 1960 Roger Corman 2457
245 The Saragossa Manuscript 1965 Wojciech Has 2459
246 Le Doulos 1962 Jean-Pierre Melville 2466
247 Lilies of the Field 1963 Ralph Nelson 2476
248 Shame 1968 Ingmar Bergman 2480
249 The Cloud-Capped Star 1960 Ritwik Ghatak 2482
250 Lonely Are the Brave 1962 David Miller 2491
251 Days of Wine and Roses 1962 Blake Edwards 2493
252 Billy Liar 1963 John Schlesinger 2503
253 America, America 1963 Elia Kazan 2546
254 Il Posto 1961 Ermanno Olmi 2551
255 The Learning Tree 1969 Gordon Parks 2560
256 Le Petit soldat 1963 Jean-Luc Godard 2577
257 Hombre 1967 Martin Ritt 2609
258 Elmer Gantry 1960 Richard Brooks 2616
259 The Housemaid 1960 Kim Ki-young 2623
260 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 1965 Martin Ritt 2624
261 The Sword in the Stone 1963 Wolfgang Reitherman 2634
262 El Dorado 1966 Howard Hawks 2643
263 The Fire within 1963 Louis Malle 2649
264 Downhill Racer 1969 Michael Ritchie 2653
265 They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 1969 Sydney Pollack 2663
266 The Naked Kiss 1964 Samuel Fuller 2673
267 To Sir, with Love 1967 James Clavell 2685
268 Divorce - Italian Style 1961 Pietro Germi 2687
269 The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 Norman Jewison 2699
270 The Damned 1969 Luchino Visconti 2704
271 Tokyo Drifter 1966 Seijun Suzuki 2705
272 Wild River 1960 Elia Kazan 2719
273 Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One 1968 William Greaves 2724
274 Hell in the Pacific 1968 John Boorman 2737
275 The Face of Another 1966 Hiroshi Teshigahara 2751
276 Antonio das Mortes 1969 Glauber Rocha 2754
277 Mamma Roma 1962 Pier Paolo Pasolini 2756
278 Barefoot in the Park 1967 Gene Saks 2772
279 Seven Days in May 1964 John Frankenheimer 2776
280 Blood Feast 1963 Herschell Gordon Lewis 2782
281 The Sand Pebbles 1966 Robert Wise 2795
282 Flaming Creatures 1963 Jack Smith 2799
283 Becket 1964 Peter Glenville 2820
284 Second Breath 1966 Jean-Pierre Melville 2836
285 The Round-up 1966 Miklós Jancsó 2849
286 The Damned 1962 Joseph Losey 2860
287 The Pit and the Pendulum 1961 Roger Corman 2864
288 How the Grinch Stole Christmas! 1966 Chuck Jones 2870
289 El Cid 1961 Anthony Mann 2872
290 The Children's Hour 1961 William Wyler 2888
291 The Rise of Louis XIV 1966 Roberto Rossellini 2917
292 Battle of Britain 1969 Guy Hamilton 2918
293 Von Ryan's Express 1965 Mark Robson 2927
294 The Americanization of Emily 1964 Arthur Hiller 2933
295 Viva Las Vegas 1964 George Sidney 2935
296 Two Women 1960 Vittorio De Sica 2950
297 Not on Your Life 1963 Luis García Berlanga 2952
298 A Taste of Honey 1961 Tony Richardson 3008
299 The Fall of the House of Usher 1960 Roger Corman 3017
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