1. Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The ( buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il )
Year of Release: 1966
Overall Rating: 3.4 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sergio Leone
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach, Luigi Pistilli, Aldo Giuffrè, Rada Rassimov
Plot: A mysterious man, a petty theif, and a criminal all set off to find a pot of gold. Who is the good guy, the bad guy, and the ugly one?
2. Psycho
Year of Release: 1960
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John McIntire, Frank Albertson, John Anderson
Plot: A woman goes missing after stealing money from her boss?s client. The last place she was seen was at the Bates motel, run by a young, intriguing man.
3. To Kill a Mockingbird
Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Family
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Robert Mulligan
Actors: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, Frank Overton, Brock Peters, John Megna
Plot: A black man is charged with rape while a white man defends him in the 1930's south. The story is told through the eyes of his daugther.
4. Lawrence of Arabia
Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: David Lean
Actors: Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Claude Rains
Plot: A British officer leads a charge in Africa to discuss politics. While he was once British, is he now part of the African culture he tried to create?
5. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Actors: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Slim Pickens, Keenan Wynn, Glenn Beck
Plot: A cold war spoof, based off a mad general who wants to destroy the U.S.S.R. The President and his advisors meet in hopes of averting a nuclear war.
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey
Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Actors: Gary Lockwood, Douglas Rain
Plot: Set in the future, mankind discovers a mysterious buried object on the moon. A set of astronauts and a super intelligent computer are sent off on a quest to discover its origin.
7. The Great Escape
Year of Release: 1963
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Sturges
Actors: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Donald Pleasence, James Donald, Charles Bronson
Plot: Set in a POW camp in Germany during WWII, many American's plan a massive escape plan trying to reach England or a neutral country.
8. Once Upon a Time in the West
Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Sergio Leone
Actors: Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards, Gabriele Ferzetti, Paolo Stoppa
Plot: A man who plays the harmonica travels across the west to find his killer, while he falls for a victim's wife. He joins up with a notorious gun man to battle what's really bad.
9. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Year of Release: 1969
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: George Roy Hill
Actors: Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, George Furth, Cloris Leachman
Plot: A pair of bank robbers flee the country because of the law, and try to start a new in South America. Western.
10. Cool Hand Luke
Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Actors: Paul Newman, Dennis Hopper, Strother Martin, George Kennedy, J. D. Cannon, Lou Antonio
Plot: A man who refuses to confrom to prison law is a favorite amongst inmates, but hated by the men who gaurd him.
