20 Greatest Movies of Each Year 1960s

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Criteria: The movies are ranked according to their initial and lasting acclaim, influence as well as initial and lasting popularity.

List Begun: 2021-11-07
20 Greatest Movies of Each Year 1960s

20 Greatest Movies of 1969

  #. Movie Title - (Directors Name)

  1. Midnight Cowboy - (John Schlesinger)
  2. The Wild Bunch - (Sam Peckinpah)
  3. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - (George Roy Hill)
  4. Easy Rider - (Dennis Hopper)
  5. Z - (Costa-Gavras)
  6. Kes - (Ken Loach)
  7. My Night at Maud's - (Éric Rohmer)
  8. Army of Shadows - (Jean-Pierre Melville)
  9. The Color of Pomegranates - (Sergei Parajanov)
10. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - (Sydney Pollack)
11. The Sorrow and the Pity - (Marcel Ophüls)
12. Salesman - (Albert & David Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin)
13. Fellini Satyricon - (Federico Fellini)
14. The Damned - (Luchino Visconti)
15. Women in Love - (Ken Russell)
16. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice - (Paul Mazursky)
17. True Grit - (Henry Hathaway)
18. The Diamond Arm - (Leonid Gaidai)
19. A Boy Named Charlie Brown - (Bill Meléndez)
20. The Italian Job - (Peter Collinson)

Midnight Cowboy DVD cover

20 Greatest Movies of 1968

  1. 2001: A Space Odyssey - (Stanley Kubrick)
  2. Once Upon a Time in the West - (Sergio Leone)
  3. Night of the Living Dead - (George A. Romero)
  4. Rosemary's Baby - (Roman Polanski)
  5. Planet of the Apes - (Franklin J. Schaffner)
  6. Bullitt - (Peter Yates)
  7. if.... - (Lindsay Anderson)
  8. Faces - (John Cassavetes)
  9. Memories of Underdevelopment - (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)
10. The Party - (Blake Edwards)
11. The Lion in Winter - (Anthony Harvey)
12. Yellow Submarine - (George Dunning)
13. The Odd Couple - (Gene Saks)
14. Stolen Kisses - (François Truffaut)
15. Oliver! - (Carol Reed)
16. High School - (Frederick Wiseman)
17. Romeo and Juliet - (Franco Zeffirelli)
18. Barbarella - (Roger Vadim)
19. Where Eagles Dare - (Brian G. Hutton)
20. Shame - (Ingmar Bergman)

2001: A Space Odyssey DVD cover

20 Greatest Movies of 1967

  1. The Graduate - (Mike Nichols)
  2. Bonnie and Clyde - (Arthur Penn)
  3. In the Heat of the Night - (Norman Jewison)
  4. Cool Hand Luke - (Stuart Rosenberg)
  5. Le Samouraï - (Jean-Pierre Melville)
  6. The Jungle Book - (Wolfgang Reitherman)
  7. The Producers - (Mel Brooks)
  8. Belle de Jour - (Luis Buñuel)
  9. Playtime - (Jacques Tati)
10. Dont Look Back - (D.A. Pennebaker)
11. The Dirty Dozen - (Robert Aldrich)
12. Point Blank - (John Boorman)
13. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - (Stanley Kramer)
14. In Cold Blood - (Richard Brooks)
15. Week End - (Jean-Luc Godard)
16. Mouchette - (Robert Bresson)
17. The Young Girls of Rochefort - (Jacques Demy)
18. Titicut Follies - (Frederick Wiseman)
19. The Firemen's Ball - (Milos Forman)
20. Branded to Kill - (Seijun Suzuki)

The Graduate DVD cover

20 Greatest Movies of 1966

  1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - (Sergio Leone)
  2. Persona - (Ingmar Bergman)
  3. Blowup - (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  4. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - (Mike Nichols)
  5. The Battle of Algiers - (Gillo Pontecorvo)
  6. Andrei Rublev - (Andrei Tarkovsky)
  7. Au hasard Balthazar - (Robert Bresson)
  8. A Man for All Seasons - (Fred Zinnemann)
  9. Django - (Sergio Corbucci)
10. Closely Watched Trains - (Jirí Menzel)
11. Seconds - (John Frankenheimer)
12. Daisies - (Vera Chytilová)
13. The War Game - (Peter Watkins)
14. A Man and a Woman - (Claude Lelouch)
15. Alfie - (Lewis Gilbert)
16. Masculine Feminine - (Jean-Luc Godard)
17. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! - (Chuck Jones)
18. Black Girl - (Ousmane Sembene)
19. The Sand Pebbles - (Robert Wise)
20. El Dorado - (Howard Hawks)

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly DVD cover

20 Greatest Movies of 1965

  1. The Sound of Music - (Robert Wise)
  2. Repulsion - (Roman Polanski)
  3. Doctor Zhivago - (David Lean)
  4. Pierrot le Fou - (Jean-Luc Godard)
  5. Chimes at Midnight - (Orson Welles)
  6. For a Few Dollars More - (Sergio Leone)
  7. Alphaville - (Jean-Luc Godard)
  8. A Charlie Brown Christmas - (Bill Meléndez)
  9. Loves of a Blonde - (Milos Forman)
10. War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky - (Sergei Bondarchuk)
11. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! - (Russ Meyer)
12. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors - (Sergei Parajanov)
13. The Shop on Main Street - (Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos)
14. Red Beard - (Akira Kurosawa)
15. Juliet of the Spirits - (Federico Fellini)
16. A Patch of Blue - (Guy Green)
17. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold - (Martin Ritt)
18. Cat Ballou - (Elliot Silverstein)
19. Help! - (Richard Lester)
20. The Ipcress File - (Sidney J. Furie)

The Sound of Music movie poster

20 Greatest Movies of 1964

  1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - (Stanley Kubrick)
  2. Goldfinger - (Guy Hamilton)
  3. Mary Poppins - (Robert Stevenson)
  4. A Fistful of Dollars - (Sergio Leone)
  5. A Hard Day's Night - (Richard Lester)
  6. My Fair Lady - (George Cukor)
  7. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - (Jacques Demy)
  8. Woman in the Dunes - (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
  9. The Gospel According to St. Matthew - (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
10. Bande à part - (Jean-Luc Godard)
11. Red Desert - (Michelangelo Antonioni)
12. Black God, White Devil - (Glauber Rocha)
13. The Pawnbroker - (Sidney Lumet)
14. Marnie - (Alfred Hitchcock)
15. Kwaidan - (Masaki Kobayashi)
16. Zulu - (Cy Endfield)
17. Zorba the Greek - (Michael Cacoyannis)
18. A Shot in the Dark - (Blake Edwards)
19. Fail-Safe - (Sidney Lumet)
20. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - (Larry Roemer)

Dr. Strangelove DVD cover

20 Greatest Movies of 1963

  1.- (Federico Fellini)
  2. The Birds - (Alfred Hitchcock)
  3. Contempt - (Jean-Luc Godard)
  4. From Russia with Love - (Terence Young)
  5. The Great Escape - (John Sturges)
  6. The Leopard - (Luchino Visconti)
  7. High and Low - (Akira Kurosawa)
  8. The Haunting - (Robert Wise)
  9. The Pink Panther - (Blake Edwards)
10. Charade - (Stanley Donen)
11. Hud - (Martin Ritt)
12. Winter Light - (Ingmar Bergman)
13. The Nutty Professor - (Jerry Lewis)
14. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World - (Stanley Kramer)
15. Tom Jones - (Tony Richardson)
16. Scorpio Rising - (Kenneth Anger)
17. The Servant - (Joseph Losey)
18. Shock Corridor - (Samuel Fuller)
19. The Silence - (Ingmar Bergman)
20. Jason and the Argonauts - (Don Chaffey)

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20 Greatest Movies of 1962

  1. Lawrence of Arabia - (David Lean)
  2. To Kill a Mockingbird - (Robert Mulligan)
  3. Dr. No - (Terence Young)
  4. The Manchurian Candidate - (John Frankenheimer)
  5. Jules and Jim - (François Truffaut)
  6. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - (John Ford)
  7. La jetée - (Chris Marker)
  8. Cléo from 5 to 7 - (Agnès Varda)
  9. Lolita - (Stanley Kubrick)
10. The Exterminating Angel - (Luis Buñuel)
11. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? - (Robert Aldrich)
12. Vivre sa vie - (Jean-Luc Godard)
13. Ivan's Childhood - (Andrei Tarkovsky)
14. Harakiri - (Masaki Kobayashi)
15. L'eclisse - (Michelangelo Antonioni)
16. Knife in the Water - (Roman Polanski)
17. Ride the High Country - (Sam Peckinpah)
18. The Longest Day - (Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton & Bernhard Wicki)
19. The Miracle Worker - (Arthur Penn)
20. Days of Wine and Roses - (Blake Edwards)

Lawrence of Arabia DVD cover

20 Greatest Movies of 1961

  1. West Side Story - (Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins)
  2. Breakfast at Tiffany's - (Blake Edwards)
  3. Yojimbo - (Akira Kurosawa)
  4. Last Year at Marienbad - (Alain Resnais)
  5. Viridiana - (Luis Buñuel)
  6. The Hustler - (Robert Rossen)
  7. The Innocents - (Jack Clayton)
  8. Judgment at Nuremberg - (Stanley Kramer)
  9. Through a Glass Darkly - (Ingmar Bergman)
10. La notte - (Michelangelo Antonioni)
11. Accattone - (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
12. Splendor in the Grass - (Elia Kazan)
13. One Hundred and One Dalmatians - (Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske & Wolfgang Reitherman)
14. The Guns of Navarone - (J. Lee Thompson)
15. Divorce Italian Style - (Pietro Germi)
16. One, Two, Three - (Billy Wilder)
17. The Misfits - (John Huston)
18. Pit and the Pendulum - (Roger Corman)
19. Victim - (Basil Dearden)
20. El Cid - (Anthony Mann)

West Side Story movie poster

20 Greatest Movies of 1960

  1. Psycho - (Alfred Hitchcock)
  2. Breathless - (Jean-Luc Godard)
  3. La dolce vita - (Federico Fellini)
  4. The Apartment - (Billy Wilder)
  5. L'avventura - (Michaelangelo Antonioni)
  6. Spartacus - (Stanley Kubrick)
  7. Peeping Tom - (Michael Powell)
  8. The Virgin Spring - (Ingmar Bergman)
  9. Rocco and His Brothers - (Luchino Visconti)
10. The Magnificent Seven - (John Sturges)
11. Eyes Without a Face - (Georges Franju)
12. Shoot the Piano Player - (François Truffaut)
13. The Time Machine - (George Pal)
14. Mughal-E-Azam - (K. Asif)
15. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - (Karel Reisz)
16. Black Sunday - (Mario Bava)
17. Inherit the Wind - (Stanley Kramer)
18. Le trou - (Jacques Becker)
19. Village of the Damned - (Wolf Rilla)
20. Purple Noon - (René Clément)

Psycho movie poster
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