# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**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, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1960s/841220/21 "2019-10-04T18:12:53Z")
Searching “196” in the TSPDT poll gives 174 1960s worthy films. Polls aren’t everything, I’d argue a movie that you love with a much more limited appeal is what’s really great about movies, but I’ll grant this represents a lot of people that watch a lot of movies. > **[TSPDT - 1,000 Greatest Films (Full List)](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:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1960s/841220/22 "2019-10-04T18:35:02Z")
I can get about half of them… To Kill a Mockingbird Charade Wait Until Dark Failsafe The Miracle Worker The Apartment Cape Fear The Odd Couple To Sir, With Love A Shot in the Dark Dr. Strangelove Psycho The Birds ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1960s/841220/23 "2019-10-05T02:23:31Z")
When I look through my list of my 100 favorite movies, I find that seven of them were made in the 1960’s: _Army of Shadows_ (1969, France/Italy, dir. Jean-Pierre Melville) _Dr. Strangelove_ (1964, U.K., dir. Stanley Kubrick) _La Jetée_ (1962, France, dir. Chris Marker) _Psycho_ (1960, U.S., dir. Alfred Hitchcock) _Ride the High Country_ (1962, U.S., dir. Sam Peckinpah) _2001_ (1968, U.K., dir. Stanley Kubrick) _The Wild Bunch_ (1969, U.S., dir. Sam Peckinpah) ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1960s/841220/24 "2019-10-05T04:23:46Z")
In no particular order: Lawrence of Arabia The Great Escape Bonnie and Clyde Days of Wine and Roses Kelly’s Heroes Bullitt Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice The Time Machine Planet of the Apes Breakfast at Tiffany’s Charade Elmer Gantry It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Becket The Train The Dirty Dozen Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! The Italian Job Gambit Cool Hand Luke Fitzwilly Two for the Road Goodbye, Mr. Chips Once Upon a Time in the West Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1960s/841220/25 "2019-10-05T07:24:07Z")
I would add: Spartacus (1960) The Manchurian Candidate (1962) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) ---
**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 5, 2019, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1960s/841220/26 "2019-10-05T10:52:31Z")
::looks around:: Nobody’s mentioned **The Producers** yet? Sure, it deserved the Oscar it won for its script; the script, by itself, was terrific. But learning what Gene Wilder can do with a terrific script? That’s _magic,_ lemmetellya. (Granted, everything hinges on hitting it out of the park with the show-within-a-show; but they do _that,_ too.) ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1960s/841220/27 "2019-10-05T12:42:05Z")
> [@zamboniracer](#): > > “Too Late Blues” is so good it occupies two spots in the top 25. 😉 Good catch. I think I’ll put in His Days Are Numbered (1962) as the replacement. Thanks. ---
**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 5, 2019, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1960s/841220/28 "2019-10-05T13:29:52Z")
> [@Personal](#): > > In no particular order: > > … > Kelly’s Heroes > … > Fitzwilly > … Kelly’s Heroes: I love this movie, but it was 1970. Otherwise it would have been in my list. Fitzwilly: I forgot this one, I would take it over Dr. No ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2019, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1960s/841220/29 "2019-10-06T09:21:22Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Kelly’s Heroes: I love this movie, but it was 1970. Otherwise it would have been in my list. > > Fitzwilly: I forgot this one, I would take it over Dr. No I figured that out earlier while working on my 1970s list. I’ll swap in Women in Love, the Oliver Reed movie from 1969. ---
**Author:** ![HyacinthBucket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hyacinthbucket/32/3063_2.png) [@HyacinthBucket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HyacinthBucket)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1960s/841220/30 "2019-10-11T03:04:17Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > 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. Pretty much what I would have picked, but take out Yellow Submarine and replace it with **A Hard Day’s Night** (1964 IIRC). And wasn’t The Lion In Winter released in 1968? ---
**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 11, 2019, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1960s/841220/31 "2019-10-11T13:05:06Z")
> [@HyacinthBucket](#): > > Pretty much what I would have picked, but take out Yellow Submarine and replace it with **A Hard Day’s Night** (1964 IIRC). > > And wasn’t The Lion In Winter released in 1968? Yes, 1968 is correct. I wanted to include a Beatles movie and I know how important **A Hard Day’s Night** was at the time but I realized I have enjoyed Yellow Submarine a lot more often over the years and from 3 different point of views. Child, guy in his early 20s and father of little kids. **A Hard Day’s Night** was really good once, but not as much on re-watching. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1960s/841220.md?page=1)