Top Movies of 1960s


The top movies of 1960s list is calculated by community movie ratings and members' "Top Movies List". Lists are updated daily.

71. Beauty of the Day ( Belle de jour )

Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page, Pierre Clémenti, Françoise Fabian
Plot: A young housewife who cannot connect intimately with her doctor husband indulges in fantasies and eventually starts working her afternoons as a prostitute.

72. Cape Fear

Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Actors: Robert Mitchum , Gregory Peck, Polly Bergen, Lori Martin, Jack Kruschen , Martin Balsam
Plot: A sadistic ex-con tracks down a Southern lawyer, and wages a campaign of terror on him and his family.

73. Viridiana

Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey, José Calvo, Margarita Lozano, Victoria Zinny
Plot: A novice visits her uncle shortly before taking her vows. Events lead her to refuse her vows, and instead to stay on at her (now deceased) uncle's manor with his son. The virtuous woman takes in beggars at the manor until things get out of hand in Luis Bunuel's brilliant satire of bourgeois values and the Catholic church.

74. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Year of Release: 1966
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mike Nichols
Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis
Plot: An aging couple who often fight use their guests as tool to piss the other
off in a life long battle with their marriage. Based on a play.

75. Dont Look Back ( Don't Look Back )

Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: D.A. Pennebaker
Actors: Bob Dylan, Albert Grossman, Bob Neuwirth, Joan Baez, Alan Price, Donovan
Plot: D.A. Pennebaker's documentary that follows Bob Dylan, 23, on a three-week tour of England in 1965. From airport to hotel to concert - this is the period Dylan was transitioning from acoustic to electric - and not everyone was happy about the chance. Joan Baez and Donovan make an appearance.

76. Ivan's Childhood ( Ivanovo detstvo )

Year of Release: 1963
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Actors: Nikolai Burlyayev, Valentin Zubkov, Yevgeni Zharikov, Stepan Krylov, Nikolai Grinko, Dmitri Milyutenko
Plot: During WWII, a young boy works as a spy on the Eastern Front - small enough to cross German lines unnoticed. Three soviet officers do their best to look after the boy/spy.

77. The Producers

Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Mel Brooks
Actors: Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars, Zero Mostel, Estelle Winwood, Christopher Hewett, Dick Shawn
Plot: The original version of this story. Before the play and before the movie re-make. Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel try to make money by producing a sure fire flop on Broadway.

78. avventura, L' ( Adventure, The )

Year of Release: 1960
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Actors: Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Dominique Blanchar, Renzo Ricci, James Addams
Plot: A group of upper middle class Italians takes a boating trip, stopping on an isolated island. One of their party goes missing, and her best friend and lover stay behind to look for her. Eventually, however, all parties concerned move on in this study of bourgeois decadence and ennui.

79. Eyes Without a Face ( yeux sans visage, Les )

Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Georges Franju
Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel, Edith Scob, François Guérin, Alexandre Rignault
Plot: A doctor feels responsible for ruining his daughter's face in an accident
- so much that she must wear a mask. He kidnaps young women with help from
his assistant in order to remove their faces and graft it onto his
daughter. Despite numerous failures, he refuses to give up, in his twisted
mind it is all for his daughter.

80. The Music Man

Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Comedy
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Morton DaCosta
Actors: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Ron Howard, Hermione Gingold, Paul Ford
Plot: Professor Harold Hill, a gilt-edged con artist, tricks the citizens of River City into organizing a boys band so he can sell them nonexistent band instruments.

Are you sure you want to delete this comment?