The Top 250 Movies of the 1960s

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The Top 250 Movies of the 1960s
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Ranking		 Movie Title Release
Year		 Director MPAA
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7 Harakiri 1962 Masaki Kobayashi NR -
15 High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa NR -
24 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder NR -
31 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 Sergio Leone NR -
37 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa NR -
40 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick NR -
57 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
60 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman NR -
72 Le samouraï 1967 Jean-Pierre Melville PG -
95 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick G -
102 8½ 1963 Federico Fellini NR -
107 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford NR -
118 Cool Hand Luke 1967 Stuart Rosenberg NR -
137 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini NR -
159 A Fistful of Dollars 1964 Sergio Leone R -
160 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill PG -
164 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone PG13 -
169 Andrei Rublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky NR -
170 The Battle of Algiers 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo NR -
173 For a Few Dollars More 1965 Sergio Leone R -
180 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean G -
185 Charade 1963 Stanley Donen NR -
196 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols PG -
197 The Great Escape 1963 John Sturges NR -
199 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard NR -
202 Army of Shadows 1969 Jean-Pierre Melville NR -
211 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan NR -
212 The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen NR -
213 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah R -
219 Sanjuro 1962 Akira Kurosawa PG13 -
222 Woman in the Dunes 1964 Hiroshi Teshigahara NR -
253 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 Mike Nichols NR -
271 The Innocents 1961 Jack Clayton NR -
275 The Magnificent Seven 1960 John Sturges NR -
283 The Virgin Spring 1960 Ingmar Bergman NR -
285 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 Jacques Demy NR -
286 The Exterminating Angel 1962 Luis Buñuel NR -
294 Winter Light 1963 Ingmar Bergman NR -
295 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn R -
309 Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski NR -
310 Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati NR -
320 Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 Stanley Kramer NR -
326 In the Heat of the Night 1967 Norman Jewison NR -
331 Rosemary's Baby 1968 Roman Polanski R -
337 Eyes Without a Face 1960 Georges Franju NR -
363 Peeping Tom 1960 Michael Powell NR -
384 Z 1969 Costa-Gavras PG -
390 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer PG13 -
396 Wait Until Dark 1967 Terence Young NR -
399 Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero NR -
413 Fail-Safe 1964 Sidney Lumet NR -
416 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 Robert Aldrich NR -
428 The Dirty Dozen 1967 Robert Aldrich NR -
436 Cleo from 5 to 7 1962 Agnès Varda NR -
438 Belle de jour 1967 Luis Buñuel R -
442 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 Alain Resnais NR -
443 Hud 1963 Martin Ritt NR -
454 Band of Outsiders 1964 Jean-Luc Godard NR -
463 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger R -
466 Jules and Jim 1962 François Truffaut NR -
473 L'avventura 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni NR -
474 Pierrot le fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard NR -
477 My Life to Live 1962 Jean-Luc Godard NR -
479 The Producers 1968 Mel Brooks PG -
485 Through a Glass Darkly 1961 Ingmar Bergman PG -
487 Goldfinger 1964 Guy Hamilton NR -
492 The Young Girls of Rochefort 1967 Jacques Demy NR -
509 The Birds 1963 Alfred Hitchcock PG13 -
529 Le trou 1960 Jacques Becker NR -
536 Inherit the Wind 1960 Stanley Kramer NR -
547 A Hard Day's Night 1964 Richard Lester NR -
567 The Lion in Winter 1968 Anthony Harvey PG -
579 They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 1969 Sydney Pollack PG13 -
581 Lolita 1962 Stanley Kubrick NR -
582 Au Hasard Balthazar 1966 Robert Bresson NR -
586 Onibaba 1964 Kaneto Shindô NR -
589 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 Blake Edwards NR -
591 La jetée 1962 Chris Marker NR -
600 Kwaidan 1964 Masaki Kobayashi NR -
602 Seconds 1966 John Frankenheimer R -
608 Ivan's Childhood 1962 Andrei Tarkovsky NR -
619 Bullitt 1968 Peter Yates NR -
633 Cape Fear 1962 J. Lee Thompson NR -
637 Viridiana 1961 Luis Buñuel NR -
650 Contempt 1963 Jean-Luc Godard NR -
660 From Russia with Love 1963 Terence Young NR -
666 The Haunting 1963 Robert Wise G -
667 Dr. No 1962 Terence Young PG -
686 Blow-Up 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni NR -
693 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick NR -
698 In Cold Blood 1967 Richard Brooks R -
739 The Trial 1962 Orson Welles NR -
743 Point Blank 1967 John Boorman NR -
746 Red Beard 1965 Akira Kurosawa NR -
758 A Man for All Seasons 1966 Fred Zinnemann G -
766 El Dorado 1966 Howard Hawks NR -
768 My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor G -
798 Planet of the Apes 1968 Franklin J. Schaffner G -
800 The Guns of Navarone 1961 J. Lee Thompson NR -
840 The Leopard 1963 Luchino Visconti PG -
842 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean NR -
851 The Bad Sleep Well 1960 Akira Kurosawa NR -
874 The Great Silence 1968 Sergio Corbucci NR -
888 The Odd Couple 1968 Gene Saks G -
891 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967 Stanley Kramer NR -
900 Hour of the Wolf 1968 Ingmar Bergman NR -
908 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise G -
916 The Sword of Doom 1966 Kihachi Okamoto NR -
922 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper R -
955 Shame 1968 Ingmar Bergman R -
959 The Longest Day 1962 Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki NR -
964 A Shot in the Dark 1964 Blake Edwards PG -
966 My Night at Maud's 1969 Eric Rohmer PG -
986 Kes 1969 Ken Loach PG -
990 The Train 1964 John Frankenheimer NR -
993 Zulu 1964 Cy Endfield NR -
1001 Mary Poppins 1964 Robert Stevenson G -
1025 La Notte 1961 Michelangelo Antonioni NR -
1029 L'Eclisse 1962 Michelangelo Antonioni NR -
1055 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World 1963 Stanley Kramer G -
1059 Shoot the Piano Player 1960 François Truffaut NR -
1076 True Grit 1969 Henry Hathaway G -
1080 The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer 1961 Masaki Kobayashi PG -
1089 Targets 1968 Peter Bogdanovich R -
1112 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise NR -
1135 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 1965 Martin Ritt NR -
1137 The Silence 1963 Ingmar Bergman NR -
1165 Knife in the Water 1962 Roman Polanski NR -
1167 Django 1966 Sergio Corbucci NR -
1194 Where Eagles Dare 1968 Brian G. Hutton PG -
1209 Seven Days in May 1964 John Frankenheimer NR -
1228 An Autumn Afternoon 1962 Yasujirô Ozu NR -
1231 The Jungle Book 1967 Wolfgang Reitherman G -
1232 Chimes at Midnight 1965 Orson Welles NR -
1233 Black Sunday 1960 Mario Bava NR -
1244 Samurai Rebellion 1967 Masaki Kobayashi NR -
1246 Alphaville 1965 Jean-Luc Godard NR -
1270 Thunderball 1965 Terence Young NR -
1274 How to Steal a Million 1966 William Wyler NR -
1291 Becket 1964 Peter Glenville PG13 -
1312 Red Desert 1964 Michelangelo Antonioni NR -
1313 The Swimmer 1968 Frank Perry PG -
1317 Take the Money and Run 1969 Woody Allen PG -
1332 Splendor in the Grass 1961 Elia Kazan NR -
1334 On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1969 Peter R. Hunt PG -
1338 Ride the High Country 1962 Sam Peckinpah NR -
1369 Carnival of Souls 1962 Herk Harvey PG -
1373 The Misfits 1961 John Huston NR -
1377 Elmer Gantry 1960 Richard Brooks NR -
1396 Blood and Black Lace 1964 Mario Bava NR -
1407 Hang 'Em High 1968 Ted Post PG13 -
1426 Doulos: The Finger Man 1962 Jean-Pierre Melville NR -
1433 Shock Corridor 1963 Samuel Fuller NR -
1439 You Only Live Twice 1967 Lewis Gilbert NR -
1441 A Woman is a Woman 1961 Jean-Luc Godard NR -
1442 If.... 1968 Lindsay Anderson NR -
1445 Jason and the Argonauts 1963 Don Chaffey G -
1446 The Gospel According to St. Matthew 1964 Pier Paolo Pasolini NR -
1468 Faces 1968 John Cassavetes R -
1475 Don't Look Back 1967 D.A. Pennebaker NR -
1476 I Am Cuba 1964 Mikhail Kalatozov NR -
1478 Birdman of Alcatraz 1962 John Frankenheimer NR -
1514 The Time Machine 1960 George Pal G -
1535 The Sons of Katie Elder 1965 Henry Hathaway NR -
1544 One, Two, Three 1961 Billy Wilder NR -
1574 Purple Noon 1960 René Clément PG13 -
1577 Daisies 1966 Vera Chytilová NR -
1584 Rocco and His Brothers 1960 Luchino Visconti NR -
1625 Help! 1965 Richard Lester G -
1636 The Italian Job 1969 Peter Collinson G -
1673 A Charlie Brown Christmas 1965 Bill Melendez G -
1690 The Fortune Cookie 1966 Billy Wilder NR -
1699 The Miracle Worker 1962 Arthur Penn NR -
1702 Tokyo Drifter 1966 Seijun Suzuki NR -
1741 House of Usher 1960 Roger Corman NR -
1745 Village of the Damned 1960 Wolf Rilla NR -
1762 Week End 1967 Jean-Luc Godard NR -
1772 The Pink Panther 1963 Blake Edwards NR -
1773 Masculin Feminin 1966 Jean-Luc Godard NR -
1787 Marnie 1964 Alfred Hitchcock PG -
1792 Black Sabbath 1963 Mario Bava NR -
1809 The Last Man on Earth 1964 Ubaldo Ragona, Sidney Salkow NR -
1812 Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte 1964 Robert Aldrich NR -
1834 The Servant 1963 Joseph Losey NR -
1838 The Music Man 1962 Morton DaCosta G -
1841 The Naked Kiss 1964 Samuel Fuller NR -
1843 The Children's Hour 1961 William Wyler NR -
1847 How the Grinch Stole Christmas! 1966 Chuck Jones NR -
1858 Kuroneko 1968 Kaneto Shindô NR -
1891 The Masque of the Red Death 1964 Roger Corman NR -
1913 Closely Watched Trains 1966 Jirí Menzel NR -
1916 The Hill 1965 Sidney Lumet NR -
1917 Branded To Kill 1967 Seijun Suzuki NR -
1920 Days of Wine and Roses 1962 Blake Edwards NR -
1922 The Professionals 1966 Richard Brooks NR -
1935 Juliet of the Spirits 1965 Federico Fellini NR -
1940 The Fearless Vampire Killers 1967 Roman Polanski NR -
1944 Two for the Road 1967 Stanley Donen NR -
1949 Stolen Kisses 1968 François Truffaut R -
1987 Le bonheur 1965 Agnès Varda NR -
1988 Yellow Submarine 1968 George Dunning G -
1994 To Sir, With Love 1967 James Clavell NR -
2011 Mouchette 1967 Robert Bresson NR -
2013 A Raisin in the Sun 1961 Daniel Petrie NR -
2019 Marketa Lazarová 1967 Frantisek Vlácil NR -
2039 The Cincinnati Kid 1965 Norman Jewison NR -
2048 Hombre 1967 Martin Ritt NR -
2068 The Sword in the Stone 1963 Wolfgang Reitherman G -
2092 101 Dalmatians 1961 Clyde Geronimi NR -
2093 The Face of Another 1966 Hiroshi Teshigahara NR -
2099 The Ipcress File 1965 Sidney J. Furie NR -
2104 Lilies of the Field 1963 Ralph Nelson NR -
2115 Advise and Consent 1962 Otto Preminger NR -
2134 The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 Norman Jewison NR -
2144 Simon of the Desert 1965 Luis Buñuel NR -
2163 The Flight of the Phoenix 1965 Robert Aldrich NR -
2176 Funny Girl 1968 William Wyler G -
2179 The Passion of Anna 1969 Ingmar Bergman R -
2226 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 1965 Russ Meyer NR -
2236 The Party 1968 Blake Edwards PG -
2246 Bunny Lake Is Missing 1965 Otto Preminger NR -
2285 The Pawnbroker 1964 Sidney Lumet NR -
2294 Lola 1961 Jacques Demy NR -
2322 Il sorpasso 1962 Dino Risi NR -
2332 Irma La Douce 1963 Billy Wilder NR -
2339 Oliver! 1968 Carol Reed G -
2390 The Cremator 1969 Juraj Herz R -
2400 One-Eyed Jacks 1961 Marlon Brando NR -
2406 Fahrenheit 451 1966 François Truffaut NR -
2452 Witchfinder General 1968 Michael Reeves NR -
2465 How the West Was Won 1962 John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall NR -
2480 Pit and the Pendulum 1961 Roger Corman NR -
2518 The Shop on Main Street 1965 Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos NR -
2548 Support Your Local Sheriff 1969 Burt Kennedy G -
2555 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1960 Karel Reisz NR -
2566 Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told 1967 Jack Hill NR -
2575 Barefoot in the Park 1967 Gene Saks NR -
2597 It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown 1966 Bill Melendez NR -
2599 Late Autumn 1960 Yasujirô Ozu NR -
2613 The Collector 1965 William Wyler NR -
2643 Hell in the Pacific 1968 John Boorman G -
2658 McLintock! 1963 Andrew V. McLaglen NR -
2677 Mutiny on the Bounty 1962 Lewis Milestone NR -
2692 The Color of Pomegranates 1968 Sergei Parajanov NR -
2727 The Night of the Iguana 1964 John Huston NR -
2734 The Great Race 1965 Blake Edwards NR -
2740 Divorce Italian Style 1961 Pietro Germi NR -
2785 Dracula: Prince of Darkness 1966 Terence Fisher NR -
2789 Batman 1966 Leslie H. Martinson NR -
2807 Fantastic Voyage 1966 Richard Fleischer PG -

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