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Best Movies of the 1960s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
800 films from the 1960s are in our catalog; the 100 best are ranked below. Top of the list is The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ('1966), at 8.8 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 8.0. Biggest split between audiences and critics: The Children's Hour, 7.8 on IMDb against 49 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly '1966 | Western | 8.8 | 97% | 90 | 8.5 | Sergio Leone |
| 2 | Psycho '1960 | Horror / Thriller / Mystery | 8.5 | 97% | 97 | 8.4 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 3 | Harakiri '1962 | Action / Drama | 8.6 | 100% | 85 | 8.5 | Masaki Kobayashi |
| 4 | Once Upon a Time in the West '1968 | Drama / Western | 8.5 | 96% | 82 | 8.3 | Sergio Leone |
| 5 | 2001: A Space Odyssey '1968 | Sci-Fi / Mystery | 8.3 | 90% | 84 | 8.0 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 6 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb '1964 | Comedy / War | 8.3 | 98% | 97 | 8.1 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 7 | Lawrence of Arabia '1962 | War | 8.3 | 93% | 100 | 8.0 | David Lean |
| 8 | High and Low '1963 | Drama / Crime / Thriller / Mystery | 8.4 | 97% | 90 | 8.4 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 9 | The Apartment '1960 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 8.3 | 94% | 94 | 8.2 | Billy Wilder |
| 10 | Judgment at Nuremberg '1961 | Drama | 8.3 | 93% | 60 | 8.0 | Stanley Kramer |
| 11 | To Kill a Mockingbird '1962 | Drama | 8.2 | 93% | 88 | 8.0 | Robert Mulligan |
| 12 | The Great Escape '1963 | Drama / War | 8.2 | 94% | 86 | 7.9 | John Sturges |
| 13 | For a Few Dollars More '1965 | Western | 8.2 | 92% | 74 | 8.0 | Sergio Leone |
| 14 | Le Trou '1960 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 8.5 | - | - | 8.2 | Jacques Becker |
| 15 | Yojimbo '1961 | Drama / Thriller | 8.2 | 96% | 93 | 8.1 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 16 | How the Grinch Stole Christmas! '1966 | Animation / Comedy | 8.3 | - | - | 7.5 | Chuck Jones |
| 17 | A Charlie Brown Christmas '1965 | Animation / Comedy | 8.3 | 94% | - | 7.7 | Bill Melendez |
| 18 | Woman in the Dunes '1964 | Drama / Thriller | 8.4 | 100% | - | 8.2 | Hiroshi Teshigahara |
| 19 | The Sound of Music '1965 | Drama / Musical / Romance | 8.1 | 83% | 63 | 7.7 | Robert Wise |
| 20 | The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer '1961 | War / Drama | 8.8 | - | - | 8.4 | Masaki Kobayashi |
| 21 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance '1962 | Western | 8.1 | 95% | 94 | 7.8 | John Ford |
| 22 | La Jetée '1962 | Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi | 8.2 | 90% | - | 7.9 | Chris Marker |
| 23 | The Battle of Algiers '1966 | Drama / War | 8.1 | 99% | 96 | 7.9 | Gillo Pontecorvo |
| 24 | The Graduate '1967 | Drama / Romance / Comedy | 8.0 | 87% | 83 | 7.6 | Mike Nichols |
| 25 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid '1969 | Western / Crime / Drama | 8.0 | 89% | 66 | 7.6 | George Roy Hill |
| 26 | Rosemary's Baby '1968 | Drama / Horror / Thriller | 8.0 | 97% | 96 | 7.8 | Roman Polanski |
| 27 | Planet of the Apes '1968 | Sci-Fi / Drama / Action | 8.0 | 86% | 79 | 7.7 | Franklin J. Schaffner |
| 28 | Cool Hand Luke '1967 | Drama / Crime | 8.0 | 100% | 92 | 7.7 | Stuart Rosenberg |
| 29 | Red Beard '1965 | Drama | 8.3 | 73% | 90 | 8.2 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 30 | Rocco and His Brothers '1960 | Drama / Romance / Crime | 8.2 | 91% | 84 | 8.0 | Luchino Visconti |
| 31 | 8½ '1963 | Drama | 8.0 | 97% | 93 | 8.1 | Federico Fellini |
| 32 | Persona '1966 | Drama | 8.0 | 91% | 86 | 8.1 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 33 | La Dolce Vita '1960 | Comedy / Drama | 8.0 | 95% | 95 | 8.0 | Federico Fellini |
| 34 | Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures '1965 | Comedy | 8.4 | - | - | 7.5 | Leonid Gaidai |
| 35 | Inherit the Wind '1960 | Drama | 8.1 | 93% | 75 | 7.6 | Stanley Kramer |
| 36 | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? '1962 | Horror / Thriller | 8.0 | 91% | 75 | 7.9 | Robert Aldrich |
| 37 | Z '1969 | Thriller / Crime / Drama | 8.1 | 94% | 86 | 7.8 | Costa-Gavras |
| 38 | The Diamond Arm '1969 | Comedy / Crime | 8.3 | - | - | 7.7 | Leonid Gaidai |
| 39 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? '1966 | Drama | 8.0 | 96% | 75 | 7.7 | Mike Nichols |
| 40 | Army of Shadows '1969 | Drama / Thriller | 8.1 | 97% | 99 | 7.9 | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| 41 | Le Samouraï '1967 | Crime / Thriller / Drama | 8.0 | 92% | 90 | 7.8 | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| 42 | Ivan's Childhood '1962 | Drama / War | 8.0 | 100% | - | 7.8 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| 43 | Sanjuro '1962 | Drama / Action / Comedy | 8.0 | 100% | 83 | 7.9 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 44 | A Fistful of Dollars '1964 | Western | 7.9 | 98% | 65 | 7.8 | Sergio Leone |
| 45 | Andrei Rublev '1966 | Drama | 8.0 | 96% | - | 7.9 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| 46 | Spartacus '1960 | Drama | 7.9 | 93% | 87 | 7.5 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 47 | The Miracle Worker '1962 | Drama | 8.1 | 96% | 83 | 7.9 | Arthur Penn |
| 48 | Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer '1964 | Animation / Fantasy | 8.0 | 95% | - | 7.4 | Larry Roemer |
| 49 | Il Sorpasso '1962 | Drama / Comedy | 8.2 | - | - | 8.2 | Dino Risi |
| 50 | Samurai Rebellion '1967 | Drama | 8.3 | 100% | 90 | 8.2 | Masaki Kobayashi |
| 51 | The Manchurian Candidate '1962 | Thriller / Drama | 7.9 | 96% | 94 | 7.5 | John Frankenheimer |
| 52 | The Hustler '1961 | Drama / Romance | 7.9 | 94% | 90 | 7.7 | Robert Rossen |
| 53 | The Virgin Spring '1960 | Drama | 8.0 | 88% | - | 7.8 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 54 | The Wild Bunch '1969 | Western | 7.9 | 91% | 98 | 7.6 | Sam Peckinpah |
| 55 | Viridiana '1962 | Drama | 8.0 | 97% | - | 7.7 | Luis Buñuel |
| 56 | In the Heat of the Night '1967 | Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 7.9 | 96% | 76 | 7.7 | Norman Jewison |
| 57 | Doctor Zhivago '1965 | Drama / Romance / War | 7.9 | 82% | 69 | 7.6 | David Lean |
| 58 | Kidnapping, Caucasian Style '1967 | Comedy | 8.3 | - | - | 7.6 | Leonid Gaidai |
| 59 | Winter Light '1963 | Drama | 8.0 | 77% | - | 7.9 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 60 | It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown '1966 | Animation / Comedy | 8.1 | 90% | - | 7.5 | Bill Melendez |
| 61 | The Exterminating Angel '1962 | Comedy / Drama / Fantasy | 7.9 | 94% | - | 7.9 | Luis Buñuel |
| 62 | Mary Poppins '1964 | Comedy / Fantasy | 7.8 | 95% | 88 | 7.5 | Robert Stevenson |
| 63 | Fail Safe '1964 | Thriller / Drama / War | 8.0 | 93% | 75 | 7.8 | Sidney Lumet |
| 64 | Midnight Cowboy '1969 | Drama | 7.8 | 89% | 79 | 7.5 | John Schlesinger |
| 65 | Night of the Living Dead '1968 | Horror | 7.8 | 95% | 89 | 7.6 | George A. Romero |
| 66 | I Am Cuba '1964 | Drama | 8.2 | 100% | 91 | 7.9 | Mikhail Kalatozov |
| 67 | The Leopard '1963 | Drama | 7.9 | 100% | 100 | 7.7 | Luchino Visconti |
| 68 | Charade '1963 | Comedy / Mystery / Romance | 7.8 | 95% | 83 | 7.7 | Stanley Donen |
| 69 | Through a Glass Darkly '1961 | Drama | 7.9 | 100% | 84 | 7.8 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 70 | La Notte '1961 | Drama / Romance | 7.9 | 84% | - | 7.9 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| 71 | In Cold Blood '1967 | Crime / Drama | 7.9 | 75% | 89 | 7.5 | Richard Brooks |
| 72 | The Bad Sleep Well '1960 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 8.0 | 100% | - | 7.7 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 73 | Vivre Sa Vie '1962 | Drama | 7.8 | 92% | - | 7.7 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 74 | An Autumn Afternoon '1962 | Drama | 8.0 | 95% | 91 | 7.9 | Yasujirō Ozu |
| 75 | Cléo from 5 to 7 '1962 | Drama | 7.8 | 93% | 87 | 7.7 | Agnès Varda |
| 76 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner '1967 | Drama / Romance | 7.8 | 71% | 63 | 7.6 | Stanley Kramer |
| 77 | Goldfinger '1964 | Action / Thriller | 7.7 | 99% | 87 | 7.4 | Guy Hamilton |
| 78 | The Shop on Main Street '1965 | Drama / War | 8.2 | 100% | - | 7.1 | Ján Kadár |
| 79 | The Magnificent Seven '1960 | Western | 7.7 | 93% | 74 | 7.5 | John Sturges |
| 80 | Kwaidan '1965 | Horror / Fantasy / Drama | 7.9 | 91% | - | 7.7 | Masaki Kobayashi |
| 81 | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg '1964 | Drama / Romance | 7.8 | 97% | 86 | 7.4 | Jacques Demy |
| 82 | Birdman of Alcatraz '1962 | Drama / Crime | 7.8 | 88% | 76 | 7.5 | John Frankenheimer |
| 83 | Bonnie and Clyde '1967 | Crime / Drama | 7.7 | 91% | 86 | 7.5 | Arthur Penn |
| 84 | My Fair Lady '1964 | Comedy / Musical / Drama | 7.7 | 94% | 95 | 7.5 | George Cukor |
| 85 | The Given Word '1962 | Drama | 8.3 | - | - | 8.1 | Anselmo Duarte |
| 86 | The Longest Day '1962 | War / Drama | 7.7 | 83% | 75 | 7.6 | Ken Annakin |
| 87 | Divorce Italian Style '1961 | Comedy / Crime | 7.9 | 100% | - | 7.9 | Pietro Germi |
| 88 | One, Two, Three '1961 | Comedy | 7.8 | 88% | 73 | 7.5 | Billy Wilder |
| 89 | Shame '1968 | War / Drama | 8.0 | 67% | - | 7.5 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 90 | The Lion in Winter '1968 | Drama | 7.8 | 91% | - | 7.4 | Anthony Harvey |
| 91 | The Dirty Dozen '1967 | Action / War | 7.7 | 82% | 73 | 7.6 | Robert Aldrich |
| 92 | A Raisin in the Sun '1961 | Drama / Romance | 8.0 | 91% | 87 | 7.7 | Daniel Petrie |
| 93 | Hud '1963 | Drama / Western | 7.8 | 86% | 62 | 7.3 | Martin Ritt |
| 94 | Cape Fear '1962 | Thriller / Drama / Crime | 7.7 | 89% | 76 | 7.4 | J. Lee Thompson |
| 95 | The Children's Hour '1961 | Drama | 7.8 | 80% | 49 | 7.7 | William Wyler |
| 96 | PlayTime '1967 | Comedy | 7.8 | 98% | 99 | 7.7 | Jacques Tati |
| 97 | Onibaba '1964 | Horror | 7.8 | 90% | - | 7.7 | Kaneto Shindō |
| 98 | War and Peace '1968 | Drama / War / Romance | 8.3 | 100% | - | 7.6 | Sergei Bondarchuk |
| 99 | The Cremator '1969 | Horror / Drama / Crime / Comedy | 8.0 | 89% | - | 7.8 | Juraj Herz |
| 100 | L'Avventura '1960 | Drama / Mystery / Romance | 7.7 | 94% | - | 7.5 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
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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