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Best Movies of 1966, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
84 films from 1966 are in our catalog; the 50 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 7.5. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Au Hasard Balthazar, 7.7 on IMDb against 98 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 | How the Grinch Stole Christmas! '1966 | Animation / Comedy | 8.3 | - | - | 7.5 | Chuck Jones |
| 3 | The Battle of Algiers '1966 | Drama / War | 8.1 | 99% | 96 | 7.9 | Gillo Pontecorvo |
| 4 | Persona '1966 | Drama | 8.0 | 91% | 86 | 8.1 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 5 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? '1966 | Drama | 8.0 | 96% | 75 | 7.7 | Mike Nichols |
| 6 | Andrei Rublev '1966 | Drama | 8.0 | 96% | - | 7.9 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| 7 | It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown '1966 | Animation / Comedy | 8.1 | 90% | - | 7.5 | Bill Melendez |
| 8 | A Man for All Seasons '1966 | Drama | 7.7 | 89% | 72 | 7.3 | Fred Zinnemann |
| 9 | Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! '1966 | Comedy / War | 7.8 | - | - | 7.9 | Gérard Oury |
| 10 | The Sword of Doom '1966 | Drama / Crime / Action | 7.9 | 80% | - | 7.8 | Kihachi Okamoto |
| 11 | Au Hasard Balthazar '1966 | Drama | 7.7 | 100% | 98 | 7.5 | Robert Bresson |
| 12 | The Face of Another '1966 | Drama / Sci-Fi | 7.8 | 86% | - | 7.8 | Hiroshi Teshigahara |
| 13 | Seconds '1966 | Sci-Fi / Thriller / Horror | 7.6 | 79% | 71 | 7.4 | John Frankenheimer |
| 14 | The War Game '1966 | War | 7.9 | 93% | - | 7.7 | Peter Watkins |
| 15 | Beware of the Car! '1966 | Comedy / Crime | 8.0 | - | - | 7.5 | Eldar Ryazanov |
| 16 | Le Deuxième Souffle '1966 | Action / Drama / Crime | 7.9 | 100% | - | 7.7 | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| 17 | El Dorado '1966 | Western / Drama | 7.5 | 96% | 85 | 7.4 | Howard Hawks |
| 18 | How to Steal a Million '1966 | Comedy / Crime / Romance | 7.5 | 100% | - | 7.5 | William Wyler |
| 19 | Closely Watched Trains '1966 | Comedy / Drama / War | 7.6 | 90% | - | 7.2 | Jiří Menzel |
| 20 | Blow-Up '1966 | Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 7.4 | 87% | 82 | 7.3 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| 21 | Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree '1966 | Animation | 8.0 | - | - | 7.6 | Wolfgang Reitherman |
| 22 | The Sand Pebbles '1966 | Drama / War | 7.5 | 86% | - | 7.2 | Robert Wise |
| 23 | The Saragossa Manuscript '1966 | Fantasy / Mystery / Drama | 7.8 | 94% | - | 7.7 | Wojciech Has |
| 24 | A Man and a Woman '1966 | Drama / Romance | 7.5 | 75% | - | 7.4 | Claude Lelouch |
| 25 | The Endless Summer '1966 | Documentary | 7.6 | 100% | 82 | 7.2 | Bruce Brown |
| 26 | For Love and Gold '1966 | Comedy | 7.7 | - | - | 7.7 | Mario Monicelli |
| 27 | The Professionals '1966 | Western / Action | 7.3 | 89% | 75 | 7.1 | Richard Brooks |
| 28 | Masculin Féminin '1966 | Drama / Romance | 7.3 | 96% | 93 | 7.2 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 29 | Daisies '1966 | Comedy / Drama | 7.3 | 86% | - | 7.3 | Věra Chytilová |
| 30 | Fahrenheit 451 '1966 | Drama / Sci-Fi | 7.2 | 82% | - | 7.1 | François Truffaut |
| 31 | Django '1966 | Action / Western | 7.2 | 94% | 75 | 7.2 | Sergio Corbucci |
| 32 | Black Girl '1966 | Drama | 7.4 | 94% | 72 | 7.3 | Ousmane Sembène |
| 33 | The Ghost and Mr. Chicken '1966 | Comedy / Mystery / Romance | 7.3 | 67% | - | 6.7 | Alan Rafkin |
| 34 | The Fortune Cookie '1966 | Comedy | 7.2 | 96% | 63 | 7.2 | Billy Wilder |
| 35 | Grand Prix '1966 | Drama / Action | 7.2 | 92% | 72 | 7.3 | John Frankenheimer |
| 36 | Born Free '1966 | Drama | 7.2 | 88% | - | 6.8 | James Hill |
| 37 | The Hawks and the Sparrows '1966 | Comedy / Fantasy | 7.2 | 85% | - | 7.2 | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| 38 | The Chase '1966 | Crime / Drama | 7.1 | 73% | - | 7.1 | Arthur Penn |
| 39 | Pharaoh '1966 | Drama | 7.3 | - | - | 6.8 | Jerzy Kawalerowicz |
| 40 | Tokyo Drifter '1966 | Thriller / Crime / Action | 7.1 | 93% | - | 7.1 | Seijun Suzuki |
| 41 | The Blue Max '1966 | War / Action / Drama | 7.1 | 100% | - | 6.8 | John Guillermin |
| 42 | Gambit '1966 | Comedy / Crime | 7.1 | 100% | 62 | 7.0 | Ronald Neame |
| 43 | Alfie '1966 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.0 | 97% | 70 | 6.5 | Lewis Gilbert |
| 44 | Cul-de-sac '1966 | Thriller / Comedy / Crime | 7.0 | 83% | 75 | 6.7 | Roman Polanski |
| 45 | The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! '1966 | Comedy / War | 7.0 | 83% | 69 | 6.5 | Norman Jewison |
| 46 | This Property Is Condemned '1966 | Drama / Romance | 7.0 | 62% | - | 6.4 | Sydney Pollack |
| 47 | The Treasure of San Gennaro '1966 | Comedy / Crime | 6.9 | - | - | 7.4 | Dino Risi |
| 48 | Come Drink with Me '1966 | Action | 6.9 | 100% | - | 6.7 | King Hu |
| 49 | Nevada Smith '1966 | Western | 6.9 | 50% | - | 6.7 | Henry Hathaway |
| 50 | Let's Not Get Angry '1966 | Crime / Comedy | 6.6 | - | - | 7.5 | Georges Lautner |
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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