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Best Movies of 1968, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
90 films from 1968 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Once Upon a Time in the West ('1968), at 8.5 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.5. Biggest split between audiences and critics: The Producers, 7.5 on IMDb against 96 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Once Upon a Time in the West '1968 | Drama / Western | 8.5 | 96% | 82 | 8.3 | Sergio Leone |
| 2 | 2001: A Space Odyssey '1968 | Sci-Fi / Mystery | 8.3 | 90% | 84 | 8.0 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 3 | Rosemary's Baby '1968 | Drama / Horror / Thriller | 8.0 | 97% | 96 | 7.8 | Roman Polanski |
| 4 | Planet of the Apes '1968 | Sci-Fi / Drama / Action | 8.0 | 86% | 79 | 7.7 | Franklin J. Schaffner |
| 5 | Night of the Living Dead '1968 | Horror | 7.8 | 95% | 89 | 7.6 | George A. Romero |
| 6 | Shame '1968 | War / Drama | 8.0 | 67% | - | 7.5 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 7 | The Lion in Winter '1968 | Drama | 7.8 | 91% | - | 7.4 | Anthony Harvey |
| 8 | War and Peace '1968 | Drama / War / Romance | 8.3 | 100% | - | 7.6 | Sergei Bondarchuk |
| 9 | Where Eagles Dare '1968 | War | 7.6 | 84% | 63 | 7.5 | Brian G. Hutton |
| 10 | The Odd Couple '1968 | Comedy | 7.6 | 97% | 86 | 7.4 | Gene Saks |
| 11 | The Great Silence '1968 | Western / Drama | 7.7 | 100% | - | 7.5 | Sergio Corbucci |
| 12 | Romeo and Juliet '1968 | Drama / Romance | 7.6 | 95% | 69 | 7.4 | Franco Zeffirelli |
| 13 | The Producers '1968 | Comedy | 7.5 | 92% | 96 | 7.1 | Mel Brooks |
| 14 | The Swimmer '1968 | Drama | 7.6 | 100% | - | 7.3 | Frank Perry |
| 15 | Hour of the Wolf '1968 | Drama / Horror | 7.5 | 92% | - | 7.4 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 16 | Bullitt '1968 | Action / Crime / Thriller | 7.4 | 98% | 81 | 7.2 | Peter Yates |
| 17 | Kuroneko '1968 | Drama / Fantasy / Horror | 7.7 | 96% | - | 7.4 | Kaneto Shindō |
| 18 | The Party '1968 | Comedy | 7.4 | 83% | 64 | 7.3 | Blake Edwards |
| 19 | Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day '1968 | Animation / Musical | 7.9 | - | - | 7.3 | Wolfgang Reitherman |
| 20 | Oliver! '1968 | Drama | 7.4 | 90% | 74 | 7.0 | Carol Reed |
| 21 | Stolen Kisses '1968 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.5 | 97% | - | 7.3 | François Truffaut |
| 22 | Yellow Submarine '1968 | Musical / Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 7.4 | 96% | 79 | 7.2 | George Dunning |
| 23 | Monterey Pop '1968 | Musical / Documentary | 7.9 | 96% | 77 | 7.4 | D. A. Pennebaker |
| 24 | Funny Girl '1968 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.4 | 95% | 88 | 7.1 | William Wyler |
| 25 | if.... '1968 | Drama | 7.4 | 90% | - | 7.0 | Lindsay Anderson |
| 26 | Junior and Karlson '1968 | Animation | 8.1 | - | - | 7.0 | Boris Stepantsev |
| 27 | Faces '1968 | Drama | 7.4 | 84% | 88 | 7.1 | John Cassavetes |
| 28 | Memories of Underdevelopment '1968 | Drama | 7.6 | 96% | - | 7.2 | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea |
| 29 | Targets '1968 | Thriller / Crime | 7.3 | 89% | - | 7.1 | Peter Bogdanovich |
| 30 | Asterix and Cleopatra '1968 | Animation / Comedy | 7.2 | - | - | 6.9 | René Goscinny |
| 31 | Death by Hanging '1968 | Comedy / Drama | 7.5 | 86% | - | 7.5 | Nagisa Ōshima |
| 32 | The Bride Wore Black '1968 | Crime / Drama / Mystery | 7.2 | 85% | - | 7.1 | François Truffaut |
| 33 | Hell in the Pacific '1968 | Drama / War | 7.2 | 67% | - | 7.0 | John Boorman |
| 34 | Black Panthers '1968 | Documentary | 7.4 | - | - | 7.1 | Agnès Varda |
| 35 | Yours, Mine and Ours '1968 | Comedy | 7.1 | 57% | - | 6.9 | Melville Shavelson |
| 36 | Very Happy Alexander '1968 | Comedy | 7.3 | - | - | 6.9 | Yves Robert |
| 37 | The Mercenary '1968 | Western / Comedy / Drama | 7.1 | 80% | - | 6.9 | Sergio Corbucci |
| 38 | Even the Wind Is Afraid '1968 | Mystery / Horror / Drama | 7.2 | - | - | 7.9 | Carlos Enrique Taboada |
| 39 | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang '1968 | Fantasy / Comedy | 7.0 | 70% | 64 | 6.8 | Ken Hughes |
| 40 | Hang 'em High '1968 | Western / Drama | 7.0 | 93% | 62 | 6.9 | Ted Post |
| 41 | Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime '1968 | Drama / Sci-Fi | 7.1 | 90% | - | 6.6 | Alain Resnais |
| 42 | Theorem '1968 | Mystery / Drama | 7.0 | 83% | - | 7.0 | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| 43 | The Boston Strangler '1968 | Drama / Crime / Thriller | 7.0 | 89% | 66 | 6.6 | Richard Fleischer |
| 44 | Be Sick… It's Free '1968 | Comedy | 7.1 | - | - | 7.0 | Luigi Zampa |
| 45 | Pretty Poison '1968 | Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller | 7.0 | 100% | - | 6.7 | Noel Black |
| 46 | The Day of the Owl '1968 | Drama / Crime | 7.0 | - | - | 7.1 | Damiano Damiani |
| 47 | Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa? '1968 | Comedy | 7.0 | - | - | 6.8 | Ettore Scola |
| 48 | Les Biches '1968 | Drama / Romance | 6.9 | 77% | - | 6.1 | Claude Chabrol |
| 49 | The Immortal Story '1968 | Drama / Romance | 6.9 | - | - | 7.1 | Orson Welles |
| 50 | The Little Drummer Boy '1968 | Animation / Drama | 6.9 | 75% | - | 6.6 | Jules Bass |
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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