11. Housemaid, The ( Hanyo - 1960 )
Year of Release: 1960
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ki-young Kim
Actors: Eun-shim Lee, Jeung-nyeo Ju, Jin Kyu Kim, Sung-kee Ahn, Jeong-ok Na, Seok-je Kang
Plot: Mr. Kim is a staunch family man and part-time piano teacher. When his wife requests a maid to help around the house, he turns to one of his students to help find a suitable woman. Yet the person hired turns out to be a bit unstable and after a brief affair, becomes pregnant and blackmails him and the family begins to fall apart.
12. Elmer Gantry
Year of Release: 1960
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Richard Brooks
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger, Shirley Jones, Patti Page
Plot: A salesman joins a televangelist on her barnstorming tour in the '20s. Burt Lancaster and Shirley Jones won Oscars.
13. Sergeant Rutledge
Year of Release: 1960
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Ford
Actors: Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Towers, Billie Burke, Woody Strode, Juano Hernandez, Willis Bouchey
14. Late Autumn ( Akibiyori )
Year of Release: 1960
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Actors: Setsuko Hara, Yôko Tsukasa, Mariko Okada, Keiji Sada, Miyuki Kuwano, Shinichirô Mikami
Plot: A widowed mother works to marry off her daughter (who is not interested in dating, let alone marriage) with the help of three friends of her late husband (all who carry an unrequited love for the daughter).
15. Shoot the Piano Player ( Tirez sur le pianiste )
Year of Release: 1960
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: François Truffaut
Actors: Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, Michèle Mercier, Serge Davri, Claude Mansard
Plot: A nightclub pianist is drawn into the sights of gangsters when he helps out a friend and small time hood, leading to tragic consequences.
16. The Sundowners
Year of Release: 1960
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Actors: Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Peter Ustinov, Glynis Johns, Dina Merrill, Chips Rafferty
Plot: A study of the Carmody family, Paddy, Ida and their son Sean, as the roam the Australian Outback as sheep drovers. While Ida and Sean would rather settle on a farm - Paddy is happy being constantly on the move. The final decisions will revolve around many different situations including a sheep-shearing contest, a birth, gambling and a horse race.
17. Village of the Damned
Year of Release: 1960
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Wolf Rilla
Actors: George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin Stephens, Michael Gwynn, Laurence Naismith, Jenny Laird
Plot: An entire small English village loses consciousness for a day; later every woman in the village discovers she's pregnant. The children that are born to them all look similar and share unusual powers.
18. Swiss Family Robinson
Year of Release: 1960
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Ken Annakin
Actors: John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Janet Munro, Sessue Hayakawa, Tommy Kirk
Plot: A Swiss family is shipwrecked on a deserted island.
19. Pollyanna
Year of Release: 1960
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: David Swift
Actors: Jane Wyman, Hayley Mills, Karl Malden, Adolphe Menjou, Agnes Moorehead, Donald Crisp
20. The Entertainer
Year of Release: 1960
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Tony Richardson
Actors: Laurence Olivier, Brenda De Banzie, Roger Livesey, Joan Plowright, Albert Finney, Alan Bates
Plot: Archie Rice has seen much better days. With his career fading and debts piling, nothing is below him, as he cajoles and manipulates everyone around him - from his gin-soaked wife to his retired father - all to better himself.
