Top 25 Movies of the 1960s

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

www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&release_date=1960-01-01,1969-12-31&my_ratings=restrict&sort=my_ratings,desc

 

Without ranking them, here's my list:

Theorem (1968)
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (1966)
The Great Silence (1968)
Z (1969)
Shock Troops (1967)
Barbarella (1968)
2001 - A Space Odyssey (1968)
The Beatles: A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Django (1966)
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962)
The Music Man (1962)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Easy Rider (1969)
Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)
Mutiny On The Bounty (1962)
The Sleeping Car Murders (1965)
Grand Prix (1966)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Cléo From 5 To 7 (1964)
The Firemen's Ball (1967)
Seven Days In May (1964)
The Fall Of The Roman Empire (1964)
For A Few Dollars More (1965)
Yojimbo (1960)
Hands Over The City (1963)

 

While there are a few more I could add, "Elmer Gantry" from 1960 is a masterpiece.
Burt Lancaster's performance is one of the greatest in film history (he won the Oscar)
and Shirley Jones is also remarkable (best supporting actress). One of my all-time favorite
films in the history of film....

 

A Hard Day's Night
Help!
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?
Pretty Poison
Night Of The Grizzly
Ride Beyond Vengeance
Birdman of Alcatraz
Fate Is The Hunter
Convicts 4
The Ghost & Mr Chicken
The Gazebo -December 16, 1959 (U.S.) July 24, 1960 (UK)

 

I can't believe I missed that one! It's probably a Top 25 movie all-time of mine.

 

From what I have seen, I got to 17 that I really enjoyed:

Psycho
The Virgin Spring
West Side Story
101 Dalmatians
Breakfast at Tiffany's
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lord of the Flies
Dr. Strangelove
Mary Poppins
A Hard Day's Night
The Sound of Music
The Graduate
Bonnie and Clyde
To Sir with Love
Night of the Living Dead
Romeo and Juliet
Easy Rider

There are a couple of big ones from the '60s that I've seen but didn't like (2001 and Lawrence of Arabia especially).

 

25...that's a heap of feature films:
Village of the Damned
Barabbas
Absent-Minded Professor
To Kill a Mockingbird
Dr. No
Seven Days in May
Lord of the Flies
From Russia with Love
A Hard Day’s Hight
The Loved One
The Wrong Box
The Comedians
TAMI Show
Night of the Living Dead
The Producers
Monterey Pop
Putney Swope
Manchurian Candidate
Z
True Grit
Zulu
Psycho
Blow-up
In Cold Blood
Dr Strangelove

 

I'll put in a good word for these:

The Parent Trap (1961)
The Great Race (1965)
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)

 

Midnight Cowboy
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
The Good The Bad The Ugly
Easy Rider
Psycho
Head
The Producers
The Graduate
For Few Dollars More
Rosemary's Baby
Fistful of Dollars
The Birds
Night of Living Dead
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Hustler
A Boy Named Charlie Brown
Hang Em High
The Trial
Help
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
Chimes at Midnight
Torn Curtain
Dr Strangelove
Yellow Submarine
2001

 

The Apartment
Charade
How To Steal a Million
Good Neighbor Sam
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Man's Favorite Sport
The Odd Couple
Sound of Music
The Magnificent Seven
Ocean's 11
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation
That Touch of Mink
Mary Poppins
101 Dalmations
The Parent Trap
The Love Bug
The Sword In The Stone
Barefoot in the Park
The Great Escape
Cool Hand Luke
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Cactus Flower
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
The Fortune Cookie
Absent Minded Professor

 

Psycho
The Apartment
Elmer Gantry
West Side Story
The Hustler
One Two Three
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence
Lawrence of Arabia
The Manchurian Candidate
Dr. Strangelove
A Hard Day's Night
My Fair Lady
The Pawnbroker
A Man for All Seasons
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?
Blow-Up
The Graduate
In Cold Blood
Bonnie and Clyde
In the Heat of the Night
Oliver !
2001 A Space Odyssey
Planet of the Apes
The Wild Bunch
Midnight Cowboy

 

I only rate three on that list highly. Persona, The Battle for Algiers, Midnight Cowboy.

 

2001
Cleopatra
Butch Cassidy
3 In the Attic

Obviously, I have to think more deeply on this.

 

Ones I rate .,

The Swimmer
Midnight Cowboy
Planet Of The Apes
The Graduate
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
2001 - A Space Odyssey
The Beatles: A Hard Day's Night
Psycho
West Side Story

 

Once Upon a Time in the West
Where Eagles Dare
Rosemary’s Baby
2001: A Space Odyssey
Planet of the Apes
The Dirty Dozen
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
My Fair Lady
Lawrence of Arabia
Psycho
The Guns of Navarone
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Great Escape
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
True Grit
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The Sound of Music
Dr. Strangelove
Bullitt
The Time Machine
Bonnie and Clyde
The Pink Panther
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
The Ghost & Mr. Chicken
Dr. No

 

In no specific order:

The Whisperers
What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
Poor Cow
A Place to Go
The Birds
Oliver!
Up the Junction
Easy Rider
Kes
Blow-Up
Cathy Come Home
Midnight Cowboy
The Sterile Cuckoo
Fahrenheit 451
My Geisha
Charlie Bubbles
The Innocents
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Billy Liar
A Taste of Honey
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Sweet Charity
Rosemary's Baby
Night of the Living Dead
Séance on a Wet Afternoon

 

The Good The Bad And The Ugly
2001 A Space Odyssey
From Russia With Love
Once Upon A Time In The West
Wild Bunch
Bonnie And Clyde
Repulsion
Dr. Strangelove
Goldfinger
Night Of The Living Dead
Psycho
Planet Of The Apes
Barbarella
The Birds
Dr. No
Fistful Of Dollars
For A Few Dollars More
Breakfast At Tiffany's
Rosemary's Baby
The Misfits
Don't Look Back
A Hard Day's Night
Help!
My Fair Lady
Midnight Cowboy

 

Some mighty fine flicks on the above lists. But not even one Elvis movie? Just out of respect , you understand ?
So...'Clambake '.

 

I like the way a sports-minded person noticed that this could be turned into the 1971-72 Boston Bruins defence corps:

Bobby (Orr) and Carol (Vadnais) and Ted (Green) and Dallas (Smith)

!!

 

I know I can come up with 25, but I can only list ten for now:

Lawrence Of Arabia
2001
The Wild Bunch
Blow Up
Burn
Midnight Cowboy
The Servant
Andrei Rublev
Persona
Easy Rider

 

In no particular order:

if....
The Virgin Spring
Persona
One-Eyed Jacks
L’Avventura
Blow-Up
Woman in the Dunes
Chimes at Midnight
The Innocents
Ride the High Country
The Wild Bunch
Kes
My Fair Lady
2001: A Space Odyssey
Ivan’s Childhood
Andrei Rublev
The Apartment
Midnight Cowboy
Witchfinder General
Profound Desires of the Gods
Viridiana
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Rosemary’s Baby
Take the Money and Run
Privilege

 

Not 25..but-Magnificent Seven..Breakfast At Tiffany's..Guns Of Navarone..King Of Kings..From Russia With Love..Goldfinger..The Devil At Four O'Clock..In The Heat Of The Night..The Good The Bad The Ugly..Hang Em High..The Long Ships..Ride The High Country..For Love Of Ivy..Yoyage To The Bottom Of The Sea..The Pit And The Pendelum..Two Rode Together.

 

In no order:

1 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
2 Breathless
3 La Dolce Vita
4 The Misfits
5 The Wild Bunch
6 The Graduate
7 Catch 22
8 If
9 The Battle of Algiers
10 Psycho
11 Ride the High Country
12 The Swimmer
13 Lawrence of Arabia
14 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
15 Jules et Jim
16 Fail Safe
17 The Ipcress File
18 Billy Liar
19 The Chase
20 Dr Strangelove
21 Bonnie and Clyde
22 The Haunting
23 The Apartment
24. The Innocents
25. Once Upon a Time in the West

 

Released in 1970.

Sorry

 

Oooops. I'll replace it with Z