Top Movies of 1960s


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81. Wait Until Dark

Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Terence Young
Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Jack Weston, Samantha Jones
Plot: A blind woman is terrorized by a group of con-men who come up with an
elaborate scheme to steal back a doll containing drugs.

82. The Haunting

Year of Release: 1963
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Robert Wise
Actors: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn, Rosalie Crutchley, Lois Maxwell
Plot: Hill House, a place with a wicked history attracts a researcher who assembles a group of people to stay in the house for a period of time. Strange things happen...

83. It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

Year of Release: 1963
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Comedy
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Stanley Kramer
Actors: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney
Plot: A thief looking to cash in after a stint in prison (to the tune of $350,000) instead finds himself on the losing end of a car accident. His dying words send four different set of people on a madcap cross-country trip to claim the cash before anyone else.

84. Lolita

Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Actors: James Mason, Sue Lyon, Peter Sellers, Shelley Winters
Plot: A professor moves to a small resort style town to begin writing more
poetry when he meets a girl who is merely a teenager. He falls in love
with caring for her as he controls as the various neighbors become
suspicious.

85. To Sir, With Love

Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: James Clavell
Actors: Sidney Poitier, Christian Roberts, Judy Geeson, Suzy Kendall, Lulu, Faith Brook
Plot: An idealistic man with hopes of landing an engineering job takes a temporary position as a teacher at an East End London school. His breed of education is different, but as he breaks through to his students, and bonds with them, he must make a touch decision when an engineering job finally appears.

86. Sanjuro

Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Actors: ToshirĂ´ Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi, Yuzo Kayama, Reiko Dan, Akihiko Hirata
Plot: The wandering samurai once again finds his services are needed, this time
helping a group of naive samurai fight the corruption in their town.

87. Inherit the Wind

Year of Release: 1960
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Stanley Kramer
Actors: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Dick York, Donna Anderson, Harry Morgan
Plot: Based on the Scopes trial which took place in the '20s: Creationism versus Evolution.

88. Night, The ( notte, La )

Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki, Rosy Mazzacurati, Maria Pia Luzi
Plot: Taking place in Milan, we follow one couple over the course of the night - a relationship that is rapidly deteriorating.

89. A Man for All Seasons

Year of Release: 1966
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Biography
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Actors: Orson Welles, John Hurt, Paul Scofield, Leo McKern, Corin Redgrave, Robert Shaw
Plot: The struggle of Thomas More to stand up to the corrupt king as a divorce is decreed and rejected.

90. Lonely Wife, The ( Charulata )

Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Bengali
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Satyajit Ray
Actors: Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Shailen Mukherjee, Shyamal Ghoshal, Gitali Roy, Bholanath Koyal
Plot: Charulata is attractive, intellectual and a bit unfulfilled as her husband, Bhupati seems more interested in his newspaper job than in her. When his bohemian brother, Amal, returns from college - she connects with him on many levels.

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