Top Movies of 1960s


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141. Lonely Are the Brave

Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: David Miller
Actors: Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau, Michael Kane, Carroll O'Connor, William Schallert

142. Contempt ( mépris, Le )

Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Giorgia Moll, Fritz Lang
Plot: A man attempts to write a script for Ulysses in order to make it more commercial. But in order to get the best deal, he throws his wife into the mix resulting in disaster for all involved.

143. Blow-Up

Year of Release: 1966
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Actors: Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings, John Castle, Jane Birkin, Gillian Hills
Plot: A photographer in swinging London snaps some photos and stumbles upon murder.

144. Judgment at Nuremberg

Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Stanley Kramer
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Spencer Tracy, Judy Garland, Montgomery Clift, William Shatner
Plot: After World War II, an American appointed court tries Nazi German judges on war crimes committed during World War II.

145. Sword of Doom, The ( Dai-bosatsu tôge )

Year of Release: 1966
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kihachi Okamoto
Actors: Tatsuya Nakadai, Yuzo Kayama, Michiyo Aratama, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Naito, Tadao Nakamaru
Plot: A talented but remorseless samurai kills without feeling - but the brother of a man murdered in a duel vows revenge as the samurai succumbs to madness.

146. Pickpocket

Year of Release: 1963
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Bresson
Actors: Martin LaSalle, Marika Green, Jean Pélégri, Dolly Scal, Pierre Leymarie, Kassagi
Plot: A young man tries his hand at pickpocketing and is almost immediately arrested. After reflecting on the morality he is released, only to dead with the fallout from his mother's death. He rejects offers from his friends and, after learning from a professional, takes up pickpocketing as a means for survival and self-expression.

147. Elevator to the Gallows ( Ascenseur pour l'échafaud )

Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Louis Malle
Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Yori Bertin, Jean Wall, Elga Andersen
Plot: Julien and his lover Florence - plan to murder her husband - Julien's boss and a powerful man, by staging it as a suicide. Yet one critical error sends Julien to retrieve a key piece of evidence leading to a chain of events that spells doom.

148. Seven Days in May

Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: John Frankenheimer
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Martin Balsam
Plot: An unpopular president has passed a nuclear disarmament treaty through the
Senate, but finds popular opinion swiftly turning on him. A friendly
Marine Colonel informs him that current Joint Chiefs head General Scott
(and certain future presidential candidate) plans to kill the treaty,
fearing a Soviet sneak attack. Thus the intrigue begins, and the president
must figure out who he can trust and who he must fear.

149. Targets

Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Actors: Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff, Arthur Peterson, Monte Landis, Peter Bogdanovich, Nancy Hsueh
Plot: An elderly horror film star who, while making a personal appearance at a drive in theater, confronts a psychotic Vietnam veteran who's turned into a mass murdering sniper.

150. Daisies ( Sedmikrasky )

Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Czech
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Vera Chytilová
Actors: Ivana Karbanová, Jitka Cerhová, Marie Cesková, Jirina Myskova, Marcela Brezinova, Julius Albert
Plot: Two manic girls named Marie and Marie both have a zest for food and living.

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