Top 25 Movies of the 1960s

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  1. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
  2. The Battle of Algiers
  3. The Swimmer
  4. A Child Is Waiting
  5. Birdman of Alcatraz
  6. An Autumn Afternoon
  7. Ladybug, Ladybug
  8. The Happy Ending
  9. The Misfits
  10. The Face of Another
  11. The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Runner
  12. Midnight Cowboy
  13. The Sign of the Leo
  14. The Professionals
  15. Le Trou
  16. Il Sorpasso
  17. The Incident
  18. Persona
  19. Never On Sunday
  20. David and Lisa
  21. Hombre
  22. Too Late Blues
  23. Dry Summer
  24. High and Low
  25. Too Late Blues
    and there’s still many great ones left. Here’s an easy way to find out if you rate on IMDB
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Bullitt
Point Blank
The Graduate
The Birds
Psycho

3

The Great Escape.

4

Goldfinger
Doctor Strangelove
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid

5

2001: A Space Odyssey

  • Planet of the Apes*

Fantastic Voyage

Mars Needs Women

Manos: The Hands of Fate

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“Too Late Blues” is so good it occupies two spots in the top 25. :wink:

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TIL the next movie Michiyoshi Doi directed after Chiheisen ga giragira (1961) was called Shitto (1962).

Top 38 not yet named? Using IMDb would make this easier:

À bout de souffle (Breathless) (1960) Jean-Luc Godard
Andrei Rublev (1966) Andrey Tarkovskiy
Au hazard Balthazar (1966) Robert Bresson
Army of Shadows (L’armée des ombres )(1969) Jean-Pierre Melville
Bedtime Story (1964) Ralph Levy
Belle de jour (1967) Luis Bunuel
Charly (1968) Ralph Nelson
Cleo de 5 à 7 (1962) Agnès Varda
Dzhamiliya (Jamilya)(1969) Irina Poplavskaya
How The Grinch Stole Christmas (1966) Chuck Jones
Human Condition III (1961) Masaki Kobayashi
Il gattopardo (The Leopard)(1963) Luchino Visconti
Jules et Jim (1962) Francois Truffaut
Kes (1969) Ken Loach
La 317ème Section (1965) Pierre Schoendoerffer
La grande vadrouille (1966) Gerard Oury
La jetée (1962) Chris Marker
L’année dernière à Marienbad (1961) Alain Resnais
L’avventura (1960) Michelangelo Antonioni
Léon Morin, pretre (1961) Jean-Pierre Melville
Les yeux sans visage (1960) Georges Franju
Marketa Lazarova (1967) Frantisek Vlacil
Night of the Living Dead (1968) George A. Romero
Playtime (1967) Jacques Tati
Seconds (1966) John Frankenheimer
Sedmikrasky (Daisies)(1966) Vera Chylitova
The Apartment (1960) Billy Wilder
The Color of Pomegranates (Sayat Nova)(1969) Sergei Parjanov
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966) Sergio Leone
The Hustler (1962) Robert Rossen
The Pawnbroker (1964) Sidney Lumet
The Trial (1962) Orson Welles
Titicut Follies (1967) Frederick Wiseman
Trans-Europ Express (1966) Alain Robbe-Grillet
War And Peace (Vojna I Mir)(1965) Sergei Bondarchuk
Wavelength (1967) Michael Snow
Woman in the Dunes (1964) Hiroshi Teshigahara
Yoyo (1965) Pierre Étaix

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  1. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
  2. The Longest Day
  3. The Great Escape 1963
  4. The Dirty Dozen 1967
  5. 2001 Space Oddity
  6. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  7. West Side Story 1961
  8. Hello Dolly 1969
  9. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
  10. Psycho 1960
  11. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
  12. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
  13. Mary Poppins (1964)
  14. Easy Rider 1969
  15. Breakfast at Tiffany’s 1961
  16. It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 1963
  17. Barefoot in the Park 1967
  18. Wait Until Dark 1967
  19. Failsafe 1964
  20. The Yellow Submarine 1968
  21. Lion in the Winter 1966
  22. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner 1967
  23. Inherit the Wind (1960)
  24. Gypsy (1962)
  25. Dr. No (1962) partially for starting the franchise

I didn’t bother with exact order, but this is for me an excellent top 25 for the 1960s.

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Cool Hand Luke
A Man for all Seasons
Zulu

10

The Blue Max

11

Bonnie & Clyde
Fail Safe

12

Forgot This Sporting Life.

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What’s with all these huge-ass lists? Why not the top five, or ten?

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I kind of liked top 25. Means I could put a few extras on the list whereas 5 or 10 I would feel bad for leaving some off.

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It’s a good point. I’ll give it a try tomorrow morning when I’m less tired.

But, “Ten Favorite Songs?” Sheesh. How about “25 Places on Your Body You Like To Be Touched?”

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Breathless
Peeping Tom
Black Sunday (1960)
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
The Innocents
8.5
Dr. Strangelove
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
The Saragossa Manuscript
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Battle of Algiers
The Sword of Doom
Bonnie and Clyde
Point Blank
Quatermass and the Pit
Weekend
2001: A Space Odyssey
Night of the Living Dead
Danger: Diabolik
Once Upon a Time in the West
Z
The Wild Bunch
The Valley of Gwangi
Goyokin*

Respectfully, inclusion of this title invalidates your entire, otherwise interesting list, imo.

17

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

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***The Guns of Navarone

36 Hours

The Train

Heroes of Telemark

633 Squadron

Wait until Dark

101 Dalmatians

Mary Poppins

My Fair Lady

The Pink Panther

A Shot in the Dark

The Great Race

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines

Where Eagles Dare

A Fistful of Dollars

A Few Dollars More

True Grit***

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The TSPDT poll currently has Wavelength at #210 all-time greatest film and #1 all-time greatest Canadian film. Not that it should matter overly, but their methodology suggests I’m definitely not alone on this one. Something like Bedtime Story (1964) I might have to get creative to defend… :wink:

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Oooh, I get to be the first to name “A Hard Days Night”! :wink: