Top Movies of 1960s


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11. The Graduate

Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mike Nichols
Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, Murray Hamilton, William Daniels, Murray Hamilton
Plot: A young man, entering the real world meets the sultry wife of his father's business partner, only to fall in love with her daughter.

12. The Magnificent Seven

Year of Release: 1960
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: John Sturges
Actors: Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Eli Wallach, James Coburn
Plot: A small Mexican village finds seven gunfighters to protect them from a 100-man bandit army who plunder them each year for their food.

13. Bonnie and Clyde

Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Arthur Penn
Actors: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, Gene Wilder, Denver Pyle
Plot: The Story of the outrageous bank robbing couple and the romance they shared.

14. The Apartment

Year of Release: 1960
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Billy Wilder
Actors: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, David Lewis
Plot: A man who is trying to move up in his company, "rents" out his apartment to gain dollars and a better title. He falls in love along the way.

15. For a Few Dollars More ( Per qualche dollaro in più )

Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Western/Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sergio Leone
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volontè, Mara Krupp, Benito Stefanelli, Klaus Kinski
Plot: A man with no name teams up with another bounty hunter to catch an outlaw, in which they both have different stories as to why they want to catch him.

16. The Sound of Music

Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Biography
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Robert Wise
Actors: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Charmian Carr, Nicholas Hammond, Peggy Wood, Angela Cartwright
Plot: A young woman travels from home town in Austria to become a maid/nanny for a widowed naval officer. She teaches his children how to sing and enjoy life better. Musical.

17. Night of the Living Dead

Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George A. Romero
Actors: Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman, Keith Wayne, Judith Ridley, Marilyn Eastman
Plot: A group is stranded at a farm house after the dead begin to rise and crave human flesh.

18. The Hustler

Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sport
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Rossen
Actors: Paul Newman, George C. Scott, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie, Michael Constantine, Myron McCormick
Plot: A young pool player challenges a long-time champion in a high stakes game of pool.

19. Fistful of Dollars, A ( Per un pugno di dollari )

Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Western/Action
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sergio Leone
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, Antonio Prieto, Benito Stefanelli, Gian Maria Volontè, Wolfgang Lukschy
Plot: A man with no name finds himself in a town with two rival gangs. He plots to put them up against themselves for reasons other than games. When he himself is put in the middle he must chose which one he is for and which one he is against...or does?

20. Yojimbo

Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Daisuke Katô, Yôko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Seizaburô Kawazu
Plot: A samurai enters a town where two families are feuding, as he develops plan to play them against each other.

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