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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12 Harakiri 1962 Masaki Kobayashi NR -
16 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 -
35 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa NR -
39 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick NR -
52 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
59 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman NR -
67 Le samouraï 1967 Jean-Pierre Melville PG -
91 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick G -
99 8½ 1963 Federico Fellini NR -
107 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford NR -
110 Cool Hand Luke 1967 Stuart Rosenberg NR -
124 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini NR -
156 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill PG -
158 A Fistful of Dollars 1964 Sergio Leone R -
161 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone PG13 -
166 For a Few Dollars More 1965 Sergio Leone R -
174 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean G -
181 Charade 1963 Stanley Donen NR -
184 Andrei Rublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky NR -
186 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols PG -
188 The Great Escape 1963 John Sturges NR -
192 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard NR -
194 The Battle of Algiers 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo NR -
200 The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen NR -
201 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan NR -
205 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah R -
218 Army of Shadows 1969 Jean-Pierre Melville NR -
221 Woman in the Dunes 1964 Hiroshi Teshigahara NR -
224 Sanjuro 1962 Akira Kurosawa PG13 -
233 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 Mike Nichols NR -
270 The Magnificent Seven 1960 John Sturges NR -
274 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 Jacques Demy NR -
276 The Virgin Spring 1960 Ingmar Bergman NR -
279 The Exterminating Angel 1962 Luis Buñuel NR -
281 The Innocents 1961 Jack Clayton NR -
285 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn R -
290 Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski NR -
316 Rosemary's Baby 1968 Roman Polanski R -
317 Winter Light 1963 Ingmar Bergman NR -
318 In the Heat of the Night 1967 Norman Jewison NR -
327 Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati NR -
329 Eyes Without a Face 1960 Georges Franju NR -
334 Peeping Tom 1960 Michael Powell NR -
350 Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 Stanley Kramer NR -
374 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer PG13 -
384 Z 1969 Costa-Gavras PG -
385 Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero NR -
390 Wait Until Dark 1967 Terence Young NR -
403 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 Alain Resnais NR -
416 The Dirty Dozen 1967 Robert Aldrich NR -
418 Belle de jour 1967 Luis Buñuel R -
431 Jules and Jim 1962 François Truffaut NR -
434 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 Robert Aldrich NR -
436 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger R -
443 Cleo from 5 to 7 1962 Agnès Varda NR -
451 Pierrot le fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard NR -
454 Band of Outsiders 1964 Jean-Luc Godard NR -
461 Goldfinger 1964 Guy Hamilton NR -
462 The Producers 1968 Mel Brooks PG -
464 L'avventura 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni NR -
468 Hud 1963 Martin Ritt NR -
470 My Life to Live 1962 Jean-Luc Godard NR -
473 Fail-Safe 1964 Sidney Lumet NR -
482 The Birds 1963 Alfred Hitchcock PG13 -
506 Au Hasard Balthazar 1966 Robert Bresson NR -
509 Through a Glass Darkly 1961 Ingmar Bergman PG -
516 A Hard Day's Night 1964 Richard Lester NR -
526 Inherit the Wind 1960 Stanley Kramer NR -
539 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 Blake Edwards NR -
544 La jetée 1962 Chris Marker NR -
546 The Lion in Winter 1968 Anthony Harvey PG -
554 Lolita 1962 Stanley Kubrick NR -
566 Ivan's Childhood 1962 Andrei Tarkovsky NR -
581 Kwaidan 1964 Masaki Kobayashi NR -
589 Bullitt 1968 Peter Yates NR -
590 The Young Girls of Rochefort 1967 Jacques Demy NR -
604 Cape Fear 1962 J. Lee Thompson NR -
610 Viridiana 1961 Luis Buñuel NR -
613 Seconds 1966 John Frankenheimer R -
621 Le trou 1960 Jacques Becker NR -
629 Contempt 1963 Jean-Luc Godard NR -
631 From Russia with Love 1963 Terence Young NR -
634 Dr. No 1962 Terence Young PG -
641 They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 1969 Sydney Pollack PG13 -
642 Onibaba 1964 Kaneto Shindô NR -
657 The Haunting 1963 Robert Wise G -
672 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick NR -
688 Blow-Up 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni NR -
701 In Cold Blood 1967 Richard Brooks R -
724 My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor G -
728 A Man for All Seasons 1966 Fred Zinnemann G -
773 Planet of the Apes 1968 Franklin J. Schaffner G -
785 Point Blank 1967 John Boorman NR -
791 The Trial 1962 Orson Welles NR -
800 Red Beard 1965 Akira Kurosawa NR -
805 The Guns of Navarone 1961 J. Lee Thompson NR -
806 El Dorado 1966 Howard Hawks NR -
815 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean NR -
824 The Leopard 1963 Luchino Visconti PG -
841 The Odd Couple 1968 Gene Saks G -
846 The Bad Sleep Well 1960 Akira Kurosawa NR -
860 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967 Stanley Kramer NR -
862 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper R -
864 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise G -
885 Hour of the Wolf 1968 Ingmar Bergman NR -
906 The Great Silence 1968 Sergio Corbucci NR -
920 A Shot in the Dark 1964 Blake Edwards PG -
953 The Sword of Doom 1966 Kihachi Okamoto NR -
956 Mary Poppins 1964 Robert Stevenson G -
967 The Longest Day 1962 Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki NR -
987 True Grit 1969 Henry Hathaway G -
1011 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World 1963 Stanley Kramer G -
1014 Shame 1968 Ingmar Bergman R -
1018 Zulu 1964 Cy Endfield NR -
1019 L'Eclisse 1962 Michelangelo Antonioni NR -
1028 My Night at Maud's 1969 Eric Rohmer PG -
1029 Kes 1969 Ken Loach PG -
1030 Shoot the Piano Player 1960 François Truffaut NR -
1044 The Silence 1963 Ingmar Bergman NR -
1054 La Notte 1961 Michelangelo Antonioni NR -
1055 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise NR -
1104 The Train 1964 John Frankenheimer NR -
1107 Knife in the Water 1962 Roman Polanski NR -
1127 Django 1966 Sergio Corbucci NR -
1149 Where Eagles Dare 1968 Brian G. Hutton PG -
1172 The Jungle Book 1967 Wolfgang Reitherman G -
1183 Thunderball 1965 Terence Young NR -
1184 Alphaville 1965 Jean-Luc Godard NR -
1195 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 1965 Martin Ritt NR -
1218 How to Steal a Million 1966 William Wyler NR -
1247 Chimes at Midnight 1965 Orson Welles NR -
1248 Black Sunday 1960 Mario Bava NR -
1269 Red Desert 1964 Michelangelo Antonioni NR -
1272 Targets 1968 Peter Bogdanovich R -
1289 On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1969 Peter R. Hunt PG -
1290 Take the Money and Run 1969 Woody Allen PG -
1302 Shock Corridor 1963 Samuel Fuller NR -
1306 Samurai Rebellion 1967 Masaki Kobayashi NR -
1316 Hang 'Em High 1968 Ted Post PG13 -
1317 A Woman is a Woman 1961 Jean-Luc Godard NR -
1324 The Misfits 1961 John Huston NR -
1325 Seven Days in May 1964 John Frankenheimer NR -
1345 Becket 1964 Peter Glenville PG13 -
1354 You Only Live Twice 1967 Lewis Gilbert NR -
1358 Ride the High Country 1962 Sam Peckinpah NR -
1370 An Autumn Afternoon 1962 Yasujirô Ozu NR -
1376 If.... 1968 Lindsay Anderson NR -
1383 Carnival of Souls 1962 Herk Harvey PG -
1392 Splendor in the Grass 1961 Elia Kazan NR -
1393 Doulos: The Finger Man 1962 Jean-Pierre Melville NR -
1394 The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer 1961 Masaki Kobayashi PG -
1440 Jason and the Argonauts 1963 Don Chaffey G -
1459 The Gospel According to St. Matthew 1964 Pier Paolo Pasolini NR -
1466 Blood and Black Lace 1964 Mario Bava NR -
1478 The Sons of Katie Elder 1965 Henry Hathaway NR -
1486 The Swimmer 1968 Frank Perry PG -
1489 The Time Machine 1960 George Pal G -
1491 Don't Look Back 1967 D.A. Pennebaker NR -
1516 Faces 1968 John Cassavetes R -
1523 Help! 1965 Richard Lester G -
1530 Birdman of Alcatraz 1962 John Frankenheimer NR -
1539 Daisies 1966 Vera Chytilová NR -
1544 The Italian Job 1969 Peter Collinson G -
1551 Elmer Gantry 1960 Richard Brooks NR -
1573 One, Two, Three 1961 Billy Wilder NR -
1600 A Charlie Brown Christmas 1965 Bill Melendez G -
1614 Marnie 1964 Alfred Hitchcock PG -
1625 The Fortune Cookie 1966 Billy Wilder NR -
1648 The Pink Panther 1963 Blake Edwards NR -
1652 Masculin Feminin 1966 Jean-Luc Godard NR -
1666 Rocco and His Brothers 1960 Luchino Visconti NR -
1667 Purple Noon 1960 René Clément PG13 -
1681 Black Sabbath 1963 Mario Bava NR -
1690 Tokyo Drifter 1966 Seijun Suzuki NR -
1692 House of Usher 1960 Roger Corman NR -
1708 Week End 1967 Jean-Luc Godard NR -
1726 The Miracle Worker 1962 Arthur Penn NR -
1735 Village of the Damned 1960 Wolf Rilla NR -
1744 The Music Man 1962 Morton DaCosta G -
1765 The Last Man on Earth 1964 Ubaldo Ragona, Sidney Salkow NR -
1780 Two for the Road 1967 Stanley Donen NR -
1782 How the Grinch Stole Christmas! 1966 Chuck Jones NR -
1795 Closely Watched Trains 1966 Jirí Menzel NR -
1825 The Masque of the Red Death 1964 Roger Corman NR -
1832 I Am Cuba 1964 Mikhail Kalatozov NR -
1858 The Fearless Vampire Killers 1967 Roman Polanski NR -
1885 Mouchette 1967 Robert Bresson NR -
1895 The Hill 1965 Sidney Lumet NR -
1897 Yellow Submarine 1968 George Dunning G -
1900 The Children's Hour 1961 William Wyler NR -
1902 Juliet of the Spirits 1965 Federico Fellini NR -
1940 Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte 1964 Robert Aldrich NR -
1945 Stolen Kisses 1968 François Truffaut R -
1956 To Sir, With Love 1967 James Clavell NR -
1957 Kuroneko 1968 Kaneto Shindô NR -
1960 The Sword in the Stone 1963 Wolfgang Reitherman G -
1964 The Naked Kiss 1964 Samuel Fuller NR -
1967 Branded To Kill 1967 Seijun Suzuki NR -
1985 101 Dalmatians 1961 Clyde Geronimi NR -
1994 Days of Wine and Roses 1962 Blake Edwards NR -
1996 The Professionals 1966 Richard Brooks NR -
2024 The Cincinnati Kid 1965 Norman Jewison NR -
2035 The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 Norman Jewison NR -
2077 The Party 1968 Blake Edwards PG -
2078 Hombre 1967 Martin Ritt NR -
2080 Marketa Lazarová 1967 Frantisek Vlácil NR -
2106 A Raisin in the Sun 1961 Daniel Petrie NR -
2115 The Servant 1963 Joseph Losey NR -
2122 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 1965 Russ Meyer NR -
2128 Simon of the Desert 1965 Luis Buñuel NR -
2132 Lilies of the Field 1963 Ralph Nelson NR -
2137 Funny Girl 1968 William Wyler G -
2140 The Face of Another 1966 Hiroshi Teshigahara NR -
2156 The Flight of the Phoenix 1965 Robert Aldrich NR -
2170 Oliver! 1968 Carol Reed G -
2174 The Ipcress File 1965 Sidney J. Furie NR -
2237 The Passion of Anna 1969 Ingmar Bergman R -
2238 Advise and Consent 1962 Otto Preminger NR -
2251 Le bonheur 1965 Agnès Varda NR -
2302 Bunny Lake Is Missing 1965 Otto Preminger NR -
2306 Fahrenheit 451 1966 François Truffaut NR -
2315 Lola 1961 Jacques Demy NR -
2374 Irma La Douce 1963 Billy Wilder NR -
2390 Pit and the Pendulum 1961 Roger Corman NR -
2391 Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told 1967 Jack Hill NR -
2401 How the West Was Won 1962 John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall NR -
2436 McLintock! 1963 Andrew V. McLaglen NR -
2483 Il sorpasso 1962 Dino Risi NR -
2484 It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown 1966 Bill Melendez NR -
2486 One-Eyed Jacks 1961 Marlon Brando NR -
2488 The Pawnbroker 1964 Sidney Lumet NR -
2575 Witchfinder General 1968 Michael Reeves NR -
2606 Batman 1966 Leslie H. Martinson NR -
2629 The Great Race 1965 Blake Edwards NR -
2657 Support Your Local Sheriff 1969 Burt Kennedy G -
2664 Dracula: Prince of Darkness 1966 Terence Fisher NR -
2667 Barefoot in the Park 1967 Gene Saks NR -
2669 Hell in the Pacific 1968 John Boorman G -
2686 Mutiny on the Bounty 1962 Lewis Milestone NR -
2705 Destroy All Monsters 1968 Ishirô Honda G -
2707 The Collector 1965 William Wyler NR -
2733 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1960 Karel Reisz NR -
2755 Fantastic Voyage 1966 Richard Fleischer PG -
2772 The Shop on Main Street 1965 Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos NR -
2775 Godzilla vs. the Thing 1964 Ishirô Honda NR -
2833 Swiss Family Robinson 1960 Ken Annakin G -
2844 The Night of the Iguana 1964 John Huston NR -
2857 Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster 1964 Ishirô Honda NR -

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