Top Movies of 1960s


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131. Lilies of the Field

Year of Release: 1963
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ralph Nelson
Actors: Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Lisa Mann, Isa Crino, Francesca Jarvis, Pamela Branch
Plot: A group of German nuns get a man to help them build a chapel.

132. The Professionals

Year of Release: 1966
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Western
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Richard Brooks
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Jack Palance, Woody Strode, Claudia Cardinale
Plot: A rich Texan hires a band of four men to rescue his wife from Mexican revolutionaries. The men accept the job but learn the "victim" may not be so innocent.

133. Fail-Safe

Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sidney Lumet
Actors: Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton, Henry Fonda, Larry Hagman, Ed Binns
Plot: When a series of errors send a squadron of Vindicator bombers on a course to nuke Russia. The president contacts Russia and works with the Pentagon and the Strategic Air Command in Omaha in order to stop WWIII.

134. Pierrot le fou

Year of Release: 1969
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani
Plot: A disaffected Parisian and his lover travel across the French countryside, on the lam from some criminals who are after her in this breezy, brightly colored crime caper from Godard.

135. A Raisin in the Sun

Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Daniel Petrie
Actors: Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Louis Gossett Jr., Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, John Fiedler
Plot: The patriarch of an African-American family in the middle of the twentieth century dies and leaves ten thousand dollars in life insurance to his family. What they do with it is both tragic and inspirational.

136. You Only Live Twice

Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Actors: Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Donald Pleasence, Lois Maxwell, Mie Hama, Akiko Wakabayashi
Plot: When an American space capsule goes missing, it nearly sparks WWIII
between the U.S. and Russia. But it's not a government behind the theft,
but S.P.E.C.T.R.E. and 007 must travel to Japan to figure out where the
capsule has gone and the real motivation for stealing the craft.

137. The Train

Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Frankenheimer
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon, Michel Simon, Albert Rémy
Plot: A railroad boss and the French Resistance join forces in Paris during the
German occupation, to thwart the Germans' plan.

138. Dr. No

Year of Release: 1963
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Action
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Terence Young
Actors: Sean Connery, Joseph Wiseman, Ursula Andress, Jack Lord, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell
Plot: James Bond is on a mission to discover who killed a fellow agent. In
Jamaica he and CIA agent Felix Leiter, along with the stunning Honey
Rider follow the clues and dodge danger until their investigation leads to
the mysterious Dr. No where an even more sinister plan will unfold.

139. El Dorado

Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Action
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Howard Hawks
Actors: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan, Edward Asner, Charlene Holt, Paul Fix
Plot: Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Hara. Together with an old Indian fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.

140. The Time Machine

Year of Release: 1960
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Pal
Actors: Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, Alan Young, Tom Helmore, Sebastian Cabot, Doris Lloyd
Plot: Based on HG wells novel of time travel - a man travels to the future where he find a complete different world and wants to at first come back, but then realizes he may have to stay.

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