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Best Movies of 1960, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
68 films from 1960 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Psycho ('1960), at 8.5 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.5. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Breathless, 7.6 on IMDb against 96 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Psycho '1960 | Horror / Thriller / Mystery | 8.5 | 97% | 97 | 8.4 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 2 | The Apartment '1960 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 8.3 | 94% | 94 | 8.2 | Billy Wilder |
| 3 | Le Trou '1960 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 8.5 | - | - | 8.2 | Jacques Becker |
| 4 | Rocco and His Brothers '1960 | Drama / Romance / Crime | 8.2 | 91% | 84 | 8.0 | Luchino Visconti |
| 5 | La Dolce Vita '1960 | Comedy / Drama | 8.0 | 95% | 95 | 8.0 | Federico Fellini |
| 6 | Inherit the Wind '1960 | Drama | 8.1 | 93% | 75 | 7.6 | Stanley Kramer |
| 7 | Spartacus '1960 | Drama | 7.9 | 93% | 87 | 7.5 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 8 | The Virgin Spring '1960 | Drama | 8.0 | 88% | - | 7.8 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 9 | The Bad Sleep Well '1960 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 8.0 | 100% | - | 7.7 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 10 | The Magnificent Seven '1960 | Western | 7.7 | 93% | 74 | 7.5 | John Sturges |
| 11 | L'Avventura '1960 | Drama / Mystery / Romance | 7.7 | 94% | - | 7.5 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| 12 | Macario '1960 | Drama / Fantasy | 8.3 | 100% | - | 8.7 | Roberto Gavaldón |
| 13 | Purple Noon '1960 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.7 | 92% | - | 7.6 | René Clément |
| 14 | Breathless '1960 | Drama / Crime / Romance | 7.6 | 95% | 96 | 7.5 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 15 | The Naked Island '1960 | Drama | 8.0 | 100% | - | 8.0 | Kaneto Shindō |
| 16 | Peeping Tom '1960 | Thriller / Horror | 7.6 | 96% | - | 7.4 | Michael Powell |
| 17 | Eyes Without a Face '1960 | Drama / Horror / Thriller | 7.6 | 97% | 90 | 7.6 | Georges Franju |
| 18 | When a Woman Ascends the Stairs '1960 | Drama | 8.0 | 100% | - | 8.0 | Mikio Naruse |
| 19 | Late Autumn '1960 | Drama / Comedy | 7.9 | 100% | - | 7.7 | Yasujirō Ozu |
| 20 | Two Women '1960 | Drama / War | 7.7 | 88% | - | 7.8 | Vittorio De Sica |
| 21 | Elmer Gantry '1960 | Drama | 7.7 | 94% | - | 7.3 | Richard Brooks |
| 22 | The Time Machine '1960 | Thriller / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Romance | 7.5 | 77% | 67 | 7.4 | George Pal |
| 23 | Letter Never Sent '1960 | Drama | 7.8 | - | - | 7.2 | Mikhail Kalatozov |
| 24 | The Truth '1960 | Drama / Romance | 7.6 | 67% | - | 7.6 | Henri-Georges Clouzot |
| 25 | Saturday Night and Sunday Morning '1960 | Drama / Romance | 7.5 | 87% | - | 7.0 | Karel Reisz |
| 26 | Shoot the Piano Player '1960 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 7.4 | 90% | - | 7.2 | François Truffaut |
| 27 | Wild River '1960 | Drama / Romance | 7.5 | 92% | - | 7.2 | Elia Kazan |
| 28 | Pollyanna '1960 | Comedy / Drama | 7.4 | 85% | 66 | 7.0 | David Swift |
| 29 | The Big Risk '1960 | Crime | 7.5 | 100% | 84 | 7.0 | Claude Sautet |
| 30 | Everybody Go Home! '1960 | Comedy / War / Drama | 7.7 | - | - | 7.6 | Luigi Comencini |
| 31 | Sergeant Rutledge '1960 | Western / Crime / Drama | 7.4 | 92% | - | 7.0 | John Ford |
| 32 | Village of the Damned '1960 | Horror / Sci-Fi | 7.3 | 93% | 77 | 7.2 | Wolf Rilla |
| 33 | Il bell'Antonio '1960 | Drama | 7.3 | - | - | 7.1 | Mauro Bolognini |
| 34 | The Traffic Policeman '1960 | Comedy | 7.2 | - | - | 7.3 | Luigi Zampa |
| 35 | Gentlemen Are Born '1960 | Comedy | 7.1 | - | - | 7.0 | Mario Mattoli |
| 36 | Testament of Orpheus '1960 | Fantasy | 7.2 | 88% | 75 | 7.6 | Jean Cocteau |
| 37 | The League of Gentlemen '1960 | Comedy / Crime | 7.2 | 83% | - | 7.1 | Basil Dearden |
| 38 | Our Man in Havana '1960 | Comedy / Thriller | 7.2 | 95% | - | 6.7 | Carol Reed |
| 39 | The Housemaid '1960 | Crime / Drama | 7.2 | 100% | - | 7.1 | Kim Ki-young |
| 40 | Sink the Bismarck! '1960 | War / Drama | 7.2 | 86% | - | 6.9 | Lewis Gilbert |
| 41 | Shadows '1960 | Drama | 7.2 | 100% | 86 | 6.9 | John Cassavetes |
| 42 | The Devil's Eye '1960 | Comedy / Fantasy / Drama | 7.1 | 71% | - | 7.2 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 43 | Comanche Station '1960 | Western | 7.0 | 100% | - | 6.7 | Budd Boetticher |
| 44 | Swiss Family Robinson '1960 | - | 7.1 | 81% | 61 | 6.8 | Ken Annakin |
| 45 | Black Sunday '1960 | Horror | 7.1 | 88% | - | 7.4 | Mario Bava |
| 46 | The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse '1960 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 6.9 | 100% | - | 6.8 | Fritz Lang |
| 47 | The Fugitive Kind '1960 | Romance / Drama | 7.0 | 56% | - | 6.9 | Sidney Lumet |
| 48 | Zazie dans le Métro '1960 | Comedy / Fantasy | 6.9 | 78% | - | 6.6 | Louis Malle |
| 49 | North to Alaska '1960 | Western / Comedy / Romance | 6.9 | 50% | - | 6.5 | Henry Hathaway |
| 50 | Midnight Lace '1960 | Mystery / Thriller | 6.8 | 83% | 60 | 6.6 | David Miller |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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