106 Best Movies of the 1960s Survey

[SelwynMcGinty]

Yes, there are now a handful of live survey threads regarding movie decades, but how could we possibly resist re-evaluating the 1960s, a fascinating bridge between Old and New Hollywood, and a particularly fertile era of international film.

Once again, it seems prudent to implement a weighted system - this time, participants are asked to list their
Top 25 of theatrical releases between January 1, 1960 and December 31, 1969.

The counting will be as follows:
25 points for the #1 choice, 24 points for the #2 spot, 23 for #3, etc. down the line. The #25 selection will now be awarded 2 pts, in order to distinguish those entries from the Honorables.

If indicated that there's no particular order, each selection will be awarded 7 points.

If you'd like to list some Honorable Mentions past 25 selections, please do so -
each title past the 25th will be awarded 1 point.
Please, just try not to list 600,000 films!

Don't imagine this will be tallied any time soon, so there's plenty of chances to change titles and lists.

Of course, any comments, thoughts, suggestions, questions or any discourse regarding Cinema of the great 1960s or anything else are encouraged and appreciated.

As always... thank you to everyone and cheers!

Starting off (this order may be subject to change in the coming days):

1. The Battle of Algiers
2. The Wild Bunch
3. Harakiri
4. Il Sorpasso (The Easy Life)
5. Lawrence of Arabia
6. The Pornographers
7. The Saragossa Manuscript
8. The Hustler
9. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
10. Black Girl
11. The Leopard
12. Nothing But a Man
13. Victim
14. Kwaidan
15. Yojimbo
16. Cleo from 5 to 7
17. The Damned (1969, Luchino Visconti)
18. Once Upon a Time in the West
19. The Apartment
20. Le Samourai
21. High School (Frederick Wiseman)
22. Romeo and Juliet
23. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
24. Woman in Chains (La Prisonniere)
25. Macario

Honorable Mentions: Rocco & His Brothers, High and Low, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Mister Buddwing, Samurai Rebellion, Army of Shadows, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Z, Portrait of Jason, The Pit & the Pendulum, House of Usher, Red Beard, The Pawnbroker, The Servant, Chimes at Midnight, Charulata, Belle du dour, Hud, Mamma Rosa, Planet of the Apes, Bonnie and Clyde, Marat/Sade, Memories of Underdevelopment, Medium Cool, Loves of a Blonde, A Man for All Seasons, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Burn!, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Vivre Sa Vie, Mickey One and just too many others...

Cheers and Thank You!

[AKORIS]

01-Psycho
02-Goldfinger
03-West Side Story
04-On Her Majesty's Secret Service
05-The Innocents
06-The Birds
07-2001
08-The Sound Of Music
09-The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
10-The Wild Bunch
11-Once Upon A Time In The West
12-Thunderball
13-House Of Usher
14-Lawrence Of Arabia
15-The Graduate
16-You Only Live Twice
17-The Apartment
18-The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence
19-Dr. No
20-From Russia With Love
21-The Swimmer
22-The Masque Of The Red Death
23-Bonnie & Clyde
24-Dracula: Prince Of Darkness
25-Cool Hand Luke

[Gacivory]

1. The Apartment
2. Army of Shadows
3. High & Low
4. Z
5. Last Year at Marienbad
6. Seconds
7. The Manchurian Candidate
8. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
9. The Trial
10. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
11. Persona
12. La Notte
13. The Leopard
14. Once Upon a Time in the West
15. The Pawnbroker
16. Rosemary’s Baby
17. For a Few Dollars More
18. A Fistful of Dollars
19. The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
20. The Misfits
21. The Curse of Frankenstein
22. Horror of Dracula
23. The Battle of Algiers
24. Night of the Living Dead

[Cremildo]

01. Winter Light
02. Harakiri
03. Au hasard Balthazar
04. The Miracle Worker
05. Jules and Jim
06. The Sound of Music
07. Kuroneko
08. Late Autumn
09. Story of a Prostitute
10. Army of Shadows
11. Bonnie & Clyde
12. The Servant
13. Once Upon a Time in the West
14. Psycho
15. Last Year at Marienbad
16. The Apartment
17. Midnight Cowboy
18. The Lion in Winter
19. Splendor in the Grass
20. Le doulos
21. Lawrence of Arabia
22. Samurai Rebellion
23. Cool Hand Luke
24. The Passion of Anna
25. Vivre sa vie

[Beckford]

The 60’s
My Personal Favorites

1. 2001:A Space Odyssey(‘68-Stanley Kubrick)
2. The Misfits(‘61-John Huston)
3. La Dolce Vita(‘60-Federico Fellini)
4. Lolita (’62-Stanley Kubrick)
5. Rosemary’s Baby(’68-Roman Polanski)
6. Andrei Rublev(’69-Andrei Tarkovsky)
7. The Longest Day(’62-Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki)
8. Comanche Station(’60-Budd Boetticher)
9. The Birds(’63-Alfred Hitchcock)
10. Mademoiselle(’66-Tony Richardson)
11. The Taming of the Shrew(’67-Franco Zeffirelli)
12. Sweet Charity(’69-Bob Fosse)
13. More Than a Miracle(’67-Francesco Rosi)
14. Victim(‘61-Basil Dearden)
15. Hello Dolly!(’69-Gene Kelly)
16. Bay of Angels(’62-Jacques Demy)
17. The Miracle Worker(’62-Arthur Penn)
18. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?(’62-Robert Aldrich)
19. Quatermass and the Pit(’67-Roy Ward Baker)
20. The Fall of the Roman Empire(’64-Anthony Mann)
21. This Property is Condemned('66-Sydney Pollack)
22. Eyes Without a Face(’60-Georges Franju)
23. The Masque of the Red Death(’64-Roger Corman)
24. Long Day’s Journey into Night(’62-Sidney Lumet)
25. The Young Ones(’61-Sidney J. Furie)

Honorable Mention (chronological)

Adua e le Compagne(’60-Antonio Pietrangeli)
Exodus(’60-Otto Preminger)
Macario(’60-Roberto Gavaldon)
Pollyanna(’60-David Swift)
Strangers When We Meet(’60-Richard Quine)
Village of the Damned(’60-Wolf Rilla)
The World of Suzie Wong(’60-Richard Quine)
The Day the Earth Caught Fire(’61-Val Guest)
Judgment at Nuremberg(’61-Stanley Kramer)
One-Eyed Jacks(’61-Marlon Brando)
Taste of Fear(’61-Seth Holt)
Der Schatz im Silbersee(’62-Harald Reinl)
Gypsy(’62-Mervyn LeRoy)
Requiem for a Heavyweight(’62-Ralph Nelson)
An Actor’s Revenge(’63-Kon Ichikawa)
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World(’63-Stanley Kramer)
The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb(’64-Michael Carreras)
A Hard Day’s Night(’64-Richard Lester)
Lady in a Cage(’64-Walter Grauman)
Robinson Crusoe on Mars('64-Byron Haskin)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg(’64-Jacques Demy)
Apache Uprising(’65-R.G. Springsteen)
Darling(‘65-John Schlezinger)
The Greatest Story Ever Told(’65-George Stevens)
Return from the Ashes('65-J. Lee Thompson)
Yoyo(’65-Pierre Etaix)
War and Peace(’67-Sergei Bondarchuk)
The Young Girls of Rochefort('67-Jacques Demy)
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas(’68-Hy Averback)
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed(’69-Terence Fisher)
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service(’69-Peter R. Hunt)

[lesco]

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2 - 10: everything else

[merlinjones]

1 The Manchurian Candidate
2 Psycho
3 West Side Story
4 The Graduate
5 Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
6 Pollyanna
7 The Parent Trap!
8 Swiss Family Robinson
9 One Hundred and One Dalmatians
10 Mary Poppins
11 The Sound of Music
12 The Swimmer
13 The Birds
14 Planet of the Apes
15 The Misfits
16 Bonnie & Clyde
17 My Fair Lady
18 The Three Lives of Thomasina
19 Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
20 The Trouble With Angels
21 The Jungle Book
22 Village of the Damned
23 A Boy Named Charlie Brown
24 Jason and the Argonauts
25) Romeo and Juliet

King of Kings
The Absent-Minded Professor
Lawrence of Arabia
Batman
The Love Bug
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Goldfinger
From Russia With Love
Dr. No
A Hard Day's Night
Head
That Darn Cat!
Yellow Submarine
Babes in Toyland
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
Munster Go Home!
The Moon-Spinners
Summer Magic
In Search of the Castaways
Blackbeard's Ghost
The Incredible Journey
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Strait Jacket
Pajama Party
Beach Blanket Bingo
Escapade in Florence
Breakfast at Tiffanys
The Monkey's Uncle
The Misadventures of Merlin Jones
Ski Party
Ride the Wild Surf
Wild in the Streets
The Gnome-Mobile
Bikini Beach
Muscle Beach Party
The Sword in the Stone
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
Kidnapped
Mad Monster Party
House of Dark Shadows
I Could Go On Singing

If they count:

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
A Charlie Brown Christmas
It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
Charlie Brown's All-Stars
You're in Love Charlie Brown
Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree
Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day

[SelwynMcGinty]

Originally Posted by merlinjones

If they count:

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
A Charlie Brown Christmas
It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
Charlie Brown's All-Stars
You're in Love Charlie Brown
Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree
Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day

sorry to be such a stickler, but these surveys are based on feature films only.
Inspired choices, though - and your Top 25 and Honorables are safe!

[Winslow Leach]

1. Psycho (1960)
2. The Good the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
3. Goldfinger (1964)
4. From Russia with Love (1963)
5. The Wild Bunch (1969)
6. Le Samourai (1967)
7. Fistful of Dollars (1964)
8. For a Few Dollars More (1965)
9. Cape Fear (1962)
10. Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (1969)
11. Breathless (1960)
12. The Ipcress File (1965)
13. Charade (1963)
14. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
15. Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
16. West Side Story (1961)
17. Mary Poppins (1964)
18. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
19. A Hard Day's Night (1964)
20. Help! (1965)
21. Dr. No (1962)
22. Thunderball (1965)
23. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)
24. The Little Shop of Horrors (1961)
25. You Only Live Twice (1967)

[SelwynMcGinty]

Originally Posted by Winslow Leach

12. The Ipcress File (1965)

just watched the mini-series on Acorn/Amazon (it was OK, not great), so I need to give this a re-watch soon.

[stlcards]

1. The Graduate
2. Breakfast At Tiffany's
3. From Russia With Love
4. Goldfinger
5. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
6. The Apartment
7. Psycho
8. Once Upon A Time In The West
9. The Killers (1964)
10. The Birds
11. The Good The Bad And The Ugly
12. El Dorado
13. For A Few Dollars More
14. Charade
15. Thunderball
16. The Magnificent Seven
17. The Great Escape
18. The Manchurian Candidate
19. Point Blank
20. Marnie
21. Experiment In Terror
22. Dr. Strangelove
23. Harper
24. Dr. No
25. The Pink Panther

[qualsh]

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. The Apartment
3. High and Low
4. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
5. Harakiri
6. The Graduate
7. Yojimbo
8. Psycho
9. Le Samourai
10. Once Upon a Time in the West
11. Rosemary's Baby
12. Woman in the Dunes
13. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
14. Cool Hand Luke
15. Seconds
16. Army of Shadows
17. Playtime
18. Il Sorpasso
19. Lawrence of Arabia
20. Sanjuro
21. The Battle of Algiers
22. La Dolce Vita
23. Red Beard
24. Night of the Living Dead
25. An Autumn Afternoon

[Cpt. Feeney]

1.High and Low - Akira Kurosawa
2.Andrei Rublev - Andrei Tarkovsky
3.Rocco and his Brothers - Luchino Visconti
4.The Human Condition III - Masaki Kobayashi
5.2001 A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick

6.Lawrence of Arabia - David Lean
7.The Birds - Alfred Hitchcock
8.Downhill Racer - Michael Ritchie
9.Charulata - Satyajit Ray
10.In Cold Blood - Richard Brooks

11.Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock
12.The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Sergio Leone
13.The Hill - Sidney Lumet
14.The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - John Ford
15.Zulu - Cy Enfield

16.Cool Hand Luke - Stuart Rosenberg
17.Rosemary’s Baby - Roman Polanski
18.Spartacus - Stanley Kubrick
19.Requiem for a Heavyweight - Ralph Nelson
20.I am Cuba - Mikhail Kalatazov

21.If - Lindsay Anderson
22.The Boston Strangler - Richard Fleischer
23.Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Karel Reisz
24.Midnight Cowboy - John Schlesinger
25.Two Weeks in Another Town - Vincente Minnelli

[DR Herbert West]

1. 2001
2. From Russia with Love
3. Psycho
4. Planet of the Apes
5. Dr. No
6. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
7. Night of the Living Dead
8. A Fistful of Dollars
9. Lawrence of Arabia
10. For a Few Dollars More
11. Blow-Up
12. Thunderball
13. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
14. Goldfinger
15. The Wild Bunch
16. Black Sunday
17. You Only Live Twice
18. Dr. Strangelove
19. The Haunting
20. The Great Escape
21. Dracula: Prince of Darkness
22. The Birds
23. Cape Fear
24. Black Sabbath
25. Brides of Dracula

[hasslein]

1. Planet of the Apes
2. 2001
3. Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
4. The Good the Bad & the Ugly
5. Barabbas
6. The Guns of Navarone
7. Lawrence of Arabia
8. The Magnificent Seven
9. Goldfinger
10. The Agony & the Ecstacy
11. Barbarella
12. Batman the Movie
13. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
14. Help!
15. Butch Cassidy
16. Jungle Book
17. Jason & the Argonauts
18. Yellow Submarine
19. The Professionals
20. Fantastic Voyage
21. El Cid
22. The Greatest Story Ever Told
23. 100 Rifles
24. Mackennas Gold
25. The Reward

[RiotNarita]

1 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2 Once Upon a Time in the West
3 From Russia with Love
4 101 Dalmatians
5 The Collector
6 Le Samouraï
7 The Train
8 The Guns of Navarone
9 Where Eagles Dare
10 In the Heat of the Night
11 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
12 Spartacus
13 L’Armée des ombres
14 Hud
15 Le Clan des Siciliens
16 The Great Escape
17 Cool Hand Luke
18 Planet of the Apes
19 Blood and Black Lace
20 The Jungle Book
21 Death Rides a Horse
22 Hombre
23 Bunny Lake Is Missing
24 H.M.S. Defiant
25 True Grit
- The Graduate
- Battle of the Bulge
- Hang ’Em High
- Becket
- Pretty Poison
- Seven Days in May
- Le Deuxième Souffle

[Alan T]

1. Psycho
2. Goldfinger
3. From Russia With Love
4. For A Few Dollars More
5. Dr. No
6. Night of the Living Dead
7. Thunderball
8. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
9. The Wild Bunch
10. You Only Live Twice
11. Carnival of Souls
12. The Birds
13. 2001: A Space Odyssey
14. A Fistful Of Dollars
15. Bullitt
16. The Dirty Dozen
17. The Innocents
18. Lawrence of Arabia
19. Peeping Tom
20. The Magnificent Seven
21. The Great Escape
22. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
23. Once Upon A Time in the West
24. The Haunting
25. Planet of the Apes

[Rayjg]

Andrei Rublev
Army of Shadows
Blood and Roses
Chimes at Midnight
Contempt
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb*
8 1/2
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Hour of the Wolf
Jules and Jim
The Ladies' Man
Last Year at Marienbad
The Leopard
Lord Loves a Duck
Major Dundee
The Manchurian Candidate
Once Upon A Time in the West
Petulia
Playtime
Point Blank
Psycho
Rosemary's Baby
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Trial
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

[AKORIS]

thank you Alan T for reminding me of THE INNOCENTS! Can't believe I forgot it... had to re-rank my entire list.....

[Damon1281]

1. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
2. Psycho
3. From Russia With Love
4. The Jungle Book
5. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
6. Goldfinger
7. Dr. No
8. To Kill a Mockingbird
9. In Cold Blood
10. The Producers
11. War and Peace
12. 2001
13. For a Few Dollars More
14. The Sound of Music
15. The Birds
16. Planet of the Apes
17. Bonnie & Clyde
18. The Graduate
19. Once Upon a Time in the West
20. Jason and the Argonauts
21. Spartacus
22. The Alamo
23. Cool Hand Luke
24. The Pink Panther
25. The Great Escape