Favorite Movies of the 1960s

1. They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
2. The Battle of Algiers
3. The Misfits
4. A Child Is Waiting
5. Birdman of Alcatraz

 

Chronologically:

1. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
2. The Sound of Music (1965)
3. The Producers (1967)
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
5. The Odd Couple (1968)

 

The Wild Bunch
Jules and Jim
L’Avventura
The Manchurian Candidate
Bonnie and Clyde
The Innocents
Psycho
Charade
Yojimbo
Z
Planet of the Apes

 

A Hard Day's Night....

 

The Graduate

 

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Lawrence of Arabia
Psycho
Easy Rider
In the Heat of the Night
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Bonnie & Clyde
The Great Escape
Cool Hand Luke
Once Upon A Time In The West
The Graduate
For a Few Dollars More
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
The Fall of the Roman Empire
101 Dalmatians
Django
A Hard Day's Night
Yellow Submarine
The Great Silence
The War Wagon
Theorem

 

Mary Poppins, among others...

 

Anything Bond, James Bond, shaken not stirred.
Easy Rider
Psycho
Anything Eastwood, Play Misty For Me, Hang 'Em High, Dirty Harry
The Haunting
Wait Until Dark
Midnight Cowboy
2001
The Planet of the Apes films
The Time Machine
Mysterious Island
Fantastic Voyage
Barbarella
Charly
Night of Living Dead

an incredible decade

 

Not mentioned yet -

La Dolce Vita
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Peeping Tom
To Kill a Mockinbird
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Woman in the Dunes
Dr Strangelove
Repulsion
Blowup
Belle de Jour
Point Blank
Closely Watched Trains
Rosemary's Baby
If...

 

Midnight Cowboy
Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Good Bad Ugly
Psycho
Easy Rider
Head
The Graduate
For a Few Dollars More
Fistful of Dollars
The Producers
Rosemarys Baby

 

2 just came to mind...
A Hard Days Night
Help!
The Beatles

 

#6-10
The Swimmer
Midnight Cowboy
Elmer Gantry
Knife In The Water
Never On Sunday

 

Another five, again listed chronologically, but this time with brief commentary added (not sure whether it's welcome or not):

6. Yojimbo (1961) - possibly my favorite Akira Kurosawa/Toshiro Mifune flick, and I think the main one John Belushi based his Samurai spoof on
7. Carnival of Souls (1962) - a more cerebral horror flick, perfect for Halloween, which sort of plays like an extended episode of The Twilight Zone
8. The Haunting (1963) - a very creepy movie, pointlessly remade years later...stick with this classic original!
9. From Russia With Love (1963) - for my money, the best of the James Bond franchise
10. A Shot in the Dark (1964) - probably my favorite of "The Pink Panther" movies, although The Pink Panther Strikes Again maybe ties with it

 

Cleopatra

 

some of mine :

The Night of the Iguana
The Party
The Ipcress File
Zulu
Sunday in New York

Bullitt
The Odd Couple
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas
The Birds
Father Goose

 

1.One-Eyed Jacks
2.Lawrence Of Arabia
3.A Hard Days Night
4.Once Upon A Time In The West
7.Wonder Wall
8.The Trip
9.Easy Rider
10.2001: A Space Oddysey
11. Don't Look Back (Dylan)
12.How I Won The War(Lennon)
13.Barbarella
14.Petulia
15.The Great Escape
16.The Fearless Vampire Killers
17.What's Up Tiger Lily

 

1. West Side Story
2. My Fair Lady
3. The Great Escape
4. The Odd Couple
5. It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey
7. Birdman Of Alcatraz
8. Fail Safe
9. Dr. Strangelove
10. Planet Of The Apes

 

Easy Rider
Goldfinger
Bonnie and Clyde
Hard Days Night
Help
The Great Escape
Bullett
Dr No
From Russia With Love
Thunderball

 

The Apartment
Bullitt
The Graduate
Head
In the Heat of the Night
The Italian Job
Midnight Cowboy
Psycho
Where Eagles Dare
Whistle Down the Wind

 

Ten great Japanese films of the 1960s:

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse, 1960)
Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto, 1969)
An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujirō Ozu, 1962)
Late Autumn (Yasujirō Ozu, 1960)
Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)
Branded to Kill (Seijun Suzuki, 1967)
Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi, 1962)
Eros + Massacre (Kijū Yoshida, 1969)
Profound Desires of the Gods (Shohei Imamura, 1968)
A Soldier’s Prayer (Masaki Kobayashi, 1961)*

*I wanted to include The Human Condition trilogy in the 1950s thread, but the series straddles into the 1960s. This is the most powerful part, anyway.

 

I’m also going to throw this one into the mix, as I think it’s a remarkable achievement, and I believe it may otherwise go unmentioned:

The Colour of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov, 1969)

 

First movie that popped into my head....Fantastic Voyage

 

#11-15 (all those movies are very, very close to each other in terms of quality.. It's very tough ranking them in general!)
Red Beard
The Incident
Loneliness of a Long-Distance Runner
Il Sorpasso
Ladybug, Ladybug

 

Hustler
Hud
Hombre
Harper
cool Hand luke
butcH cassidy