Top 25 Movies of the 1960s

2001: A Space Odyssey
Midnight Cowboy
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Barbarella
Easy Rider
True Grit
Jason and the Argonauts
The Time Machine
In Search of the Castaways
Goldfinger
The Graduate
Bonnie and Clyde
The Nutty Professor
Mary Poppins
Night of Living Dead
The Great Escape
Bullitt
Lawrence of Arabia
Dr. Strangelove
The Party
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Pink Panther
Psycho
Cool Hand Luke
Rosemary's Baby

 

Six votes for blow up? Not saying you are wrong, but I do not get the appeal of this film in any way.

 

Great lists. I'll try. So many to choose from! No order

1. Kuroneko
2. High and Low
3. Exterminating Angel
4. Viridiana
5. Rosemary's Baby
6. Night of the Living Dead
7. Take the Money and Run
8. Once Upon a Time in the West
9. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
10. Dr. Strangelove
11. Spider Baby
12. X: The Man With the X-Ray Eyes
13. The Intruder
14. Le Doulos
15. The Face of Another
16. The Misfits
17. Carnival of Souls
18. For a Few Dollars More
19. Pierrot le Fou
20. Bonnie and Clyde
21. 2001: A Space Odyssey
22. Cool Hand Luke
23. The Producers
24. Onibaba
25. Lolita
26. Divorce Italian Style

 

Completely forgot about one of my 60s faves, The Fugitive Kind (1960, Lumet). To be frank, Marlon Brando was miscast. The part of Valentine Xavier calls for a Chet Baker type, imo, not Brando's gentle rascal persona which he had to have stifled considerably for the role. Plus, he looks like a slugger for the St. Louis Cardinals, not a cabaret/saloon blues musician. Otherwise, the casting and direction ate excellent.

 

Some great films there. Wish I'd had The Intruder, The Man with X-Ray Eyes and Onibaba on my list!

 

Dracula Has Risen From The Grave
(Hammer, 1969, Christopher Lee)

That’s it.

 

No order

8 1/2
Dr Strangelove
La Jettee
Playtime
The Pornographers
The Saragossa Manuscript
Simon Of the Desert
The World’s Greatest Sinner
Yojimbo
Army Of Shadows
The Wild Bunch
Belle De Jour
Bonnie and Clyde
The Good The Bad and the Ugly
Django
Cool Hand Luke
Seconds
Death By Hanging
Shock Corridor
Hud
Le Samouri
Vargtimmen
Week-End
Salto
The Cremator
Spider Baby

 

At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul
Branded to Kill
Breathless
Django
Dr. Strangelove
Easy Rider
8 1/2
Eyes Without a Face
Goldfinger
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Graduate
The Haunting
The Hustler
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Midnight Cowboy
Night of the Living Dead
Once Upon a Time
In the West
Planet of the Apes
Psycho
This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse
The Time Machine
To Kill a Mockingbird
Tokyo Drifter
2001: A Space Odyssey
Yojimbo

 

Nice! You and I have similar taste on all the decades. Nice to see some Kurosawa, Bunuel, and Spider Baby!

 

L’Avventura
Bande a Part
Belle du Jour
Blow-Up
Bonnie and Clyde
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort
La Dolce Vita
Dr. Strangelove
Easy Rider
A Hard Day’s Night
If...
The Manchurian Candidate
Once Upon a Time in the West
Peeping Tom
Playtime
Point Blank
The President's Analyst
The Producers
Psycho
Repulsion
Rosemary’s Baby
Seconds
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
2001: a Space Odyssey

 

The Wild Bunch
Ride the High Country
The Manchurian Candidate
The Innocents
L’Avventura
Jules and Jim
Shoot the Piano Player
Z
Planet of the Apes
Charade
Knife in the Water
Rosemary’s Baby
Yojimbo
Band of Outsiders (Bande à part)
Bonnie and Clyde
Psycho
Lolita
Dr. Strangelove
Lawrence of Arabia
The Leopard
The Battle of Algiers
A Hard Day’s Night
Oliver!
Shame
Goldfinger (or From Russia with Love)

 

There are too many great movies for mere lists, but I'll tip in two foreign favorites, Danger Diablolik an Erotissimo.

 

That is precisely why I included brief commentaries in my lists for all these threads (including the 80's one!), and artificially limited myself to those films I have personally found to be the most re-watchable over time, regardless of any nods or concessions to objective quality. Of course, this basically means I left off a lot of great titles that tend to be "one-and-done" type of affairs for me, so I have been very much enjoying reading other people's lists, especially those which also provide a little extra insight.

Please do share your top 25 for this decade, plus the others if possible, and thank you for providing your two foreign favorites. I am unfamiliar with those, and will be curious to check 'em out.

 

Top 25 of the 60s in terms of what I feel people will be watching 50-100 years from now. What is best can't be decided on an objective basis so this is how I approached it.

1960
L'avventura
Psycho
The Time Machine

1961
La Dolce Vita
West Side Story
The Misfits
A Raisin In The Sun
Yojimbo

1962
An Autumn Afternoon
Dr No

1963
The Birds
Jason and the Argonauts
8 1/2

1964
Goldfinger
A Shot In The Dark
The Pink Panther
A Hard Days Night
Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Woman of the Dunes

1965
Alphaville

1966
Alfie

1967
The Good The Bad The Ugly

1968
Planet of the Apes
Barbarella

1969
Midnight Cowboy