# Top 25 Movies of the 1960s **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 3, 2019, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1960s/841220 "2019-10-03T19:29:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1960s/841220/1 "2019-10-03T19:29:24Z")
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 > **[Feature Film, Released between 1960-01-01 and 1969-12-31, Restrict to Titles...](https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&release_date=1960-01-01,1969-12-31&my_ratings=restrict&sort=my_ratings,desc)** > > IMDb's advanced search allows you to run extremely powerful queries over all people and titles in the database. Find exactly what you're looking for! ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1960s/841220/2 "2019-10-03T20:15:53Z")
Bullitt Point Blank The Graduate The Birds Psycho ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1960s/841220/3 "2019-10-03T20:19:14Z")
_ **The Great Escape** _. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1960s/841220/4 "2019-10-03T22:05:30Z")
Goldfinger Doctor Strangelove Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1960s/841220/5 "2019-10-03T23:01:14Z")
_2001: A Space Odyssey_ - Planet of the Apes\* _Fantastic Voyage_ _Mars Needs Women_ _Manos: The Hands of Fate_ ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1960s/841220/6 "2019-10-04T00:12:50Z")
> [@MortSahlFan](#): > > 1. Too Late Blues > 2. Dry Summer > 3. High and Low > 4. Too Late Blues > [Advanced search](http://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&release_date=1960-01-01,1969-12-31&my_ratings=restrict&sort=my_ratings,desc) “Too Late Blues” is so good it occupies two spots in the top 25. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1960s/841220/7 "2019-10-04T00:37:25Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1960s/841220/8 "2019-10-04T00:48:30Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1960s/841220/9 "2019-10-04T00:57:12Z")
Cool Hand Luke A Man for all Seasons Zulu ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1960s/841220/10 "2019-10-04T01:02:10Z")
The Blue Max ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1960s/841220/11 "2019-10-04T01:09:05Z")
Bonnie & Clyde Fail Safe ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1960s/841220/12 "2019-10-04T01:33:49Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > Cool Hand Luke > A Man for all Seasons > Zulu Forgot [This Sporting Life](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ydlk5). ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1960s/841220/13 "2019-10-04T01:54:22Z")
What’s with all these huge-ass lists? Why not the top five, or ten? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1960s/841220/14 "2019-10-04T02:00:11Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > What’s with all these huge-ass lists? Why not the top five, or ten? 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. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1960s/841220/15 "2019-10-04T02:07:23Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > 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. 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?” ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1960s/841220/16 "2019-10-04T03:49:51Z")
- 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\* > [@eunoia](#): > > …Wavelength (1967) Michael Snow… Respectfully, inclusion of this title invalidates your entire, otherwise interesting list, imo. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1960s/841220/17 "2019-10-04T03:58:00Z")
_The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance_ ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1960s/841220/18 "2019-10-04T05:13:15Z")
\*\*\*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\*\*\* ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1960s/841220/19 "2019-10-04T18:01:48Z")
> [@Dropo](#): > > Respectfully, inclusion of this title invalidates your entire, otherwise interesting list, imo. 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… 😉 > **[TSPDT - 1,000 Greatest Films (Table)](https://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000_all1000films_table.php)** > > They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? is dedicated to the art of motion picture film-making and most specifically to that one particular individual calling the shots from behind the camera - the film director. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1960s/841220/20 "2019-10-04T18:12:26Z")
Oooh, I get to be the first to name “A Hard Days Night”! 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1960s/841220.md?page=2)