Top 20 films of the 1960's POLL

[Abdrewes]

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What are your favorite films from the 1960s? Only lists with twenty choices will be taken to account for the poll.

#1 Spot is worth 20 points, #2 is worth 19, etc.


The Results:



1 2001: A Space Odyssey 476
2: Psycho 473
3: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 384
4: Lawrence of Arabia 374
5: Once Upon a Time in the West 277
6: Dr. Strangelove 276
7: Rosemary's Baby 247
8: The Apartment 201
9: Le Samourai 168
10: 8 1/2 159
11: Planet of the Apes 146
12: The Graduate 143
13: The Great Escape 137
14: Goldfinger 137 (12 votes)
15: To Kill a Mockingbird 128
16: The Wild Bunch 122
17: For a Few Dollars More 111
18: High and Low 99
19: Last Year at Marienbad 96
20: Night of the Living Dead 95

The Rest:

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Spartacus 95
Yojimbo 94
Harakiri 93
The Birds 90
L'avventura 89
Bonnie and Clyde 89
Persona 89
The Sound of Music 88
Charade 81
Repulsion 80
Dr. No 79
Andrei Rublev 78
The Manchurian Candidate 77
Breakfast at Tiffany's 77
The Battle of Algiers 76
Playtime 76
From Russia With Love 75
Midnight Cowboy 72
Peeping Tom 72
The Woman in the Dunes 67
La Dolce Vita 65
The Hustler 65
Lolita 64
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid 63
Breathless 62
Marketa Lazarova 61
The Time Machine 58
Branded to Kill 56
Cool Hand Luke 55
Doctor Zhivago 54
L’Eclisse 54
Army of Shadows 51
The Exterminating Angel 50
On Her Majesty's Secret Service 50
Au Hasard Balthazar 49
The Innocents 49
Point Blank 49
Eyes Without a Face 48
A Fistful of Dollars 48
My Fair Lady 45
Pale Flower 44
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 44
West Side Story 43
Contempt 42
If... 42
Weekend 41
Ivan's Childhood 40
Belle de Jour 38
Cape Fear 38
Onibaba 38
The Silence 38
Vivre Sa Vie 37
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence 36
Red Desert 36
Easy Rider 35
El Dorado 34
The Human Condition: a Soldier's Prayer 34
La Jetee 34
A Man for all Seasons 34
Seconds 32
Carnival Of Souls 31
The Cremator 31
Daisies 31
The Great Silence 31
Mary Poppins 31
Thunderball 31
Becket 30
The Fall of the House of Usher 30
In the Heat of the Night 29
Kwaidan 29
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold 29
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 27
The Italian Job 27
Kes 27
Salesman 27
Blowup 26
Pierrot le Fou 26
The Virgin Spring 26
The Color of Pomegranates 24
One Two Three 24
A Hard Day's Night 23
In Cold Blood 23
Quatermass & The Pit 22
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster 21
The Lion in Winter 21
The Trial 21
The Guns of Navarone 20
Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors 20
Baron Prášil 19
Blood and Black Lace 19
Charulata 19
Death by Hanging 19
Rapture 19
Seven Women 19
Where Eagles Dare 19
Tom Jones 19
Darling 18
This Sporting Life 18
Through a Glass Darkly 18
The Warlord 18
Yellow Submarine 18
Z 18
The Absent Minded Professor 17
Brides of Dracula 17
Funeral Parade of Roses 17
The Pink Panther 17
The Sorrow and the Pity 17
Wild River 17
Eros + Massacre 16
The Frightened Woman 16
The Incident 16
Juliet of the Spirits 16
Rocco and His Brothers 16
Titicut Follies 16
You Only Live Twice 16
The Alamo 15
Boy 15
The Devil Rides Out 15
Danger: Diabolik 15
I Am Cuba 15
The Ladies Man 15
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 15
The Naked Prey 15
Red Beard 15
Tokyo Drifter 15
America, America 14
The Bad Sleep Well 14
The Haunting 14
The Magnificent Seven 14
Wait Until Dark 14
Gertrud 13
Jules et Jim 13
Masculin Feminin 13
Profound Desires of the Gods 13
Sanjuro 13
Shock Corridor 13
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 13
Alfie 12
Alphaville 12
Le Doulos 12
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 12
Hud 12
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide 12
The Misfits 12
The Parallel Street 12
The Sword in the Stone 12
Two Women 12
Winter Light 12
Birdman of Alcatraz 11
Jason and the Argonauts 11
Judgement at Nuremberg 11
The Party's Over 11
The Plague of the Zombies 11
The Rise to Power of Louis XIV 11
A Touch of Zen 11
The Vengeance of Fu Manchu 11
Viridiana 11
Whatever Happened To Aunt Alice? 11
Zorba the Greek 11
101 Dalmatians 10
Barefoot in the Park 10
The Face of Another 10
Fail Safe 10
Mamma Roma 10
The Producers 10
Secret Ceremony 10
Silence Has No Wings 10
Take the Money and Run 10
Blind Beast 9
The Face of Fu Manchu 9
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken 9
Judex 9
Marnie 9
Swiss Family Robinson 9
A Treatise on Japanese Bawdy Songs 9
Cléo from 5 to 7 8
An Ideal Husband 8
The Ipcress File 8
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 8
Made in U.S.A. 8
Samurai Rebellion 8
School For Scoundrels 8
Shame 8
Underworld, USA 8
Yearning 8
Youth of the Beast 8
Days of Wine & Roses 7
Django 7
Dog Star Man 7
Girl with a Suitcase 7
King Kong vs. Godzilla 7
The Leopard 7
The One-Armed Swordsman 7
THe Professionals 7
Story of a Three-Day Pass 7
The Brides of Fu Manchu 6
Bye Bye Birdie 6
Chimes at Midnight 6
The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach 6
The Cincinnati Kid 6
Face to Face aka faccia a faccia 6
Fahrenheit 451 6
Major Dundee 6
The Masque of the Red Death 6
The Party 6
Pigs and Battleships 6
The Sons of Katie Elder 6
Village of the Damned 6
Blast of Silence 5
Bunny Lake Is Missing 5
The Cloud-capped Star 5
The Fireman's Ball 5
Gamera: The Giant Monster 5
Hercules in the Haunted World 5
MacKenna's Gold 5
The Milky Way 5
La Notte 5
Le Révélateur 5
Shoot the Piano Player 5
Three Outlaw Samurai 5
Happy End 4
The Hill 4
The Jungle Book 4
My Night At Maud’s 4
Nothing But a Man 4
The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming 4
Scream of Fear 4
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? 4
A Big Hand for the Little Lady 3
Chelsea Girls 3
Day Of Anger 3
The Dirty Dozen 3
The Exiles 3
The House is Black 3
Lemonade Joe 3
Little Shop of Horrors 3
The Love Bug 3
Ocean's Eleven 3
Pitfall 3
Ride the High Country 3
Seance on a Wet Afternoon 3
Ship of Fools 3
Walk on the Wild Side 3
A.K.A. Serial Killer 2
Carry on Screaming! 2
Cul-de-Sac 2
Leon Morin, Priest 2
Planeta Bur 2
The Red and the White 2
The Three Stooges in Orbit 2
Topaz 2
True Grit 2
Twisted Nerve 2
The Great Race 1
Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte 1
The Pawnbroker 1
Salvatore Giuliano 1
Young Girls of Rochefort 1

My List:

1. Red Desert
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. L'Avventura
4. Last Year at Marienbad
5. Harakiri
6. Playtime
7. Lawrence of Arabia
8. La Dolce Vita
9. Winter Light
10. A Touch of Zen
11. Peeping Tom
12. 8 ½
13. Andrei Rublev
14. Blowup
15. The Wild Bunch
16. Le Samourai
17. Eyes Without a Face
18. The House is Black
19. Letter Never Sent
20. Rosemary's Baby

[toddly6666]

1. 2001
2. Bonnie and Clyde
3. Lawrence of Arabia
4. Once Upon a Time in the West
5. The Secret of Santa Vittoria
6. The Sound of Music
7. West Side Story
8. The Two of Us (Claude Berri)
9. Belle de Jour
10. A Touch of Zen
11. Come Drink With Me

[The Great Owl]

The Great Owl's Top 20 Films of the 1960s

1. Le Samouraï
2. Army of Shadows
3. Dr. No
4. From Russia with Love
5. Psycho
6. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
7. The Birds
8. The Time Machine
9. Goldfinger
10. The Great Escape
11. Planet of the Apes
12. Lawrence of Arabia
13. 2001: A Space Odyssey
14. Touchez Pas Au Grisbi
15. Yojimbo
16. Once Upon a Time in the West
17. Thunderball
18. Eyes Without a Face
19. Topaz
20. Seconds

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by toddly6666

1. 2001
2. Bonnie and Clyde
3. Lawrence of Arabia
4. Once Upon a Time in the West
5. The Secret of Santa Vittoria
6. The Sound of Music
7. West Side Story
8. The Two of Us (Claude Berri)
9. Belle de Jour
10. A Touch of Zen
11. Come Drink With Me

"Only lists with twenty choices will be taken to account for the poll."

[Abdrewes]

Great list, Owl. I expected Seconds to be ranked a bit higher

[Gerby]

1. The Apartment
2. Blow Up
3. Psycho
4. If...
5. The Incident
6. The Naked Prey
7. Rosemary's Baby
8. Le Samurai
9. The Great Silence
10. Whatever Happened To Aunt Alice?
11. Cape Fear
12. Lawrence Of Arabia
13. School For Scoundrels
14. Charade
15. Quatermass & The Pit
16. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
17. The Hill
18. Day Of Anger
19. Twisted Nerve
20. Wait Until Dark

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

Great list, Owl. I expected Seconds to be ranked a bit higher

Same here! I've got a lot of favorites from this decade that carry way way back to childhood, though, and my first viewing of Seconds was not long ago.

This is the first decade where I'm having to kick some highbrow favorites (the Godard films, the Antonioni films, etc.) to the curb in favor of movies that I grew up watching (the Sean Connery Bond films, etc.).

[SimBelm]

01. 2001: A Space Odyssey
02. Last Year at Marienbad
03. Daisies
04. The Cremator
05. Pierrot le Fou
06. Woman in the Dunes
07. Pale Flower
08. Harakiri
09. The Parallel Street
10. Vivre sa Vie
11. Silence Has No Wings
12. A Treatise on Japanese Bawdy Songs
13. Made in U.S.A.
14. Death by Hanging
15. Pigs and Battleships
16. Tokyo Drifter
17. Happy End
18. Lemonade Joe
19. A.K.A. Serial Killer
20. The Exterminating Angel

[Abdrewes]

Whoah! SimBelm, I've only seen 50% of your list (the ten I have seen are all superb). It seems like I have some homework to do

[Scottie]

It's embarrassing how many films from the 1960s I own and how little of them that I've seen.

[Yami]

This was a tough one to rank. Lots of great films I've had to leave out.

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
2. Marketa Lazarová (Vláčil, 1967)
3. Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
4. 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)
5. Eros + Massacre (Yoshida, 1969)
6. Boy (Oshima, 1969)
7. The Cremator (Herz, 1969)
8. Persona (Bergman, 1966)
9. Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, 1968)
10. Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson, 1966)
11. La Jetée (Marker, 1962)
12. Breathless (Godard, 1960)
13. Yearning (Naruse, 1964)
14. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962)
15. Chimes at Midnight (Welles, 1965)
16. Le révélateur (Garrel, 1968)
17. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Leone, 1966)
18. Charulata (Ray, 1964)
19. The Exterminating Angel (Buñuel, 1962)
20. Le Samouraï (Melville, 1967)

Abdrewes, isn't The Conformist a 1970 film?

[brandon_260]

My list for this decade is pretty concrete, but I have about 5-6 more films I'd like to watch before making a final list. This is probably my favorite decade for film.

[SimBelm]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

Whoah! SimBelm, I've only seen 50% of your list (the ten I have seen are all superb). It seems like I have some homework to do

To be fair I haven't seen half of yours either, but they're all on my 60s watchlist except for A Touch of Zen which I'll add now. I heartily recommend any and all of which you can get your hands on, the only ones I can't find on English friendly DVDs are Silence Has No Wings, Death by Hanging, Happy End, and AKA Serial Killer. Although I believe Death by Hanging might be on Criterion's Hulu channel by now, the others might be on YouTube. Lemonade Joe has an English friendly region free Czech Blu-ray that goes for around $30-35. If you haven't seen The Cremator I say go for that one first, it's an absolutely sensational film and shouldn't be too hard to get a hold of.

[kpkelley]

1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. The Sound of Music
3. To Kill a Mockingbird
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey
5. Dr. Strangelove
6. The Apartment
7. The Graduate
8. Doctor Zhivago
9. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
10. Yojimbo
11. Breakfast at Tiffany's
12. Belle de jour
13. Repulsion
14. Planet of the Apes
15. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
16. The Great Escape
17. Cool Hand Luke
18. Dr. No
19. Goldfinger
20. Sanjuro

[larrys]

My list is English language films only and limited to what is in my personal collection.

1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. Midnight Cowboy
3. Bonnie & Clyde
4. The Graduate
5. Rosemary's Baby
6. Becket
7. The Lion in Winter
8. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
9. Dr. Strangelove
10. 2001
11. The Hustler
12. To Kill a Mockingbird
13. Hud
14. The Wild Bunch
15. Psycho
16. In the Heat of the Night
17. Doctor Zhivago
18. Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
19. The Manchurian Candidate
20. The Dirty Dozen

10 Honorable Mentions (all tied for 21st): Blow-Up, The Guns of Navarone, Cool Hand Luke, Spartacus, The Great Escape, Bullitt, The Planet of the Apes, Petulia, Darling, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

[Gerby]

Originally Posted by SimBelm

To be fair I haven't seen half of yours either, but they're all on my 60s watchlist except for A Touch of Zen which I'll add now. I heartily recommend any and all of which you can get your hands on, the only ones I can't find on English friendly DVDs are Silence Has No Wings, Death by Hanging, Happy End, and AKA Serial Killer. Although I believe Death by Hanging might be on Criterion's Hulu channel by now, the others might be on YouTube. Lemonade Joe has an English friendly region free Czech Blu-ray that goes for around $30-35. If you haven't seen The Cremator I say go for that one first, it's an absolutely sensational film and shouldn't be too hard to get a hold of.

Happy End is a crazy movie...the only movie I know of that is entirely in reverse! Some nice Czech new wave movies in your list.

[Visco.]

1.) 2001
2.) Lawrence of Arabia
3.) 8 1/2

I'm gonna need some more time..

[GentleGiant]

1. Le Samouraï
2. Playtime
3. Andrei Rublev
4. 8 1/2
5. Persona
6. Psycho
7. Once Upon a Time in the West
8. L'eclisse
9. The Exterminating Angel
10. Red Desert
11. Woman of the Dunes
12. Vivre Sa Vie
13. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
14. The Leopard
15. L’avventura
16. Repulsion
17. My Night At Maud’s
18. High And Low
19. Harakiri
20. Rosemary’s Baby

[Abdrewes]

Awesome list, Gentle Giant!!

SimBelm,
I hope you'll give A Touch of Zen a chance. I can't see how it isn't the definitive Wuxia film. It's also a hell of a spectacle. Even on the smallest screen, it is built to impress.

Happy End sounds very intriguing. I'm very interested in films with non-linear structures.

[SimBelm]

Originally Posted by Gerby

Happy End is a crazy movie...the only movie I know of that is entirely in reverse! Some nice Czech new wave movies in your list.

Man alive is it crazy, both that and Daisies put me in such a fun mood. It blows my mind how well the dialog works in reverse, added in with the narration it's comedy gold. I love most of what I've seen of the Czech new wave so far, I'm glad I still have a lot of it left to explore because there are so many gems to be found.

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

SimBelm,
I hope you'll give A Touch of Zen a chance. I can't see how it isn't the definitive Wuxia film. It's also a hell of a spectacle. Even on the smallest screen, it is built to impress.

Happy End sounds very intriguing. I'm very interested in films with non-linear structures.

I've been meaning to try King Hu's films so it works out well, both Zen and Dragon Inn will go high up the watchlist.

I'm also a sucker for non-linear films, Happy End feeds right into that, I hope when Criterion get around to doing another Czech New Wave set that it will be on there.