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Best Comedy Movies of the 1960s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
245 comedy films from the 1960s are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), at 8.3 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.8. Biggest split between audiences and critics: PlayTime, 7.8 on IMDb against 99 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb '1964 | Comedy / War | 8.3 | 97% | 97 | 8.1 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 2 | The Apartment '1960 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 8.3 | 94% | 94 | 8.2 | Billy Wilder |
| 3 | How the Grinch Stole Christmas! '1966 | Animation / Comedy | 8.3 | - | - | 7.5 | Chuck Jones |
| 4 | A Charlie Brown Christmas '1965 | Animation / Comedy | 8.3 | 94% | - | 7.7 | Bill Melendez |
| 5 | The Graduate '1967 | Drama / Romance / Comedy | 8.0 | 87% | 83 | 7.6 | Mike Nichols |
| 6 | La Dolce Vita '1960 | Comedy / Drama | 8.0 | 95% | 95 | 8.0 | Federico Fellini |
| 7 | Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures '1965 | Comedy | 8.4 | - | - | 7.5 | Leonid Gaidai |
| 8 | The Diamond Arm '1969 | Comedy / Crime | 8.3 | - | - | 7.7 | Leonid Gaidai |
| 9 | Sanjuro '1962 | Drama / Action / Comedy | 8.0 | 100% | 83 | 7.9 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 10 | Il Sorpasso '1962 | Drama / Comedy | 8.2 | - | - | 8.2 | Dino Risi |
| 11 | Kidnapping, Caucasian Style '1967 | Comedy | 8.3 | - | - | 7.7 | Leonid Gaidai |
| 12 | The Exterminating Angel '1962 | Comedy / Drama / Fantasy | 7.9 | 94% | - | 7.9 | Luis Buñuel |
| 13 | Mary Poppins '1964 | Comedy / Fantasy | 7.8 | 95% | 88 | 7.5 | Robert Stevenson |
| 14 | Charade '1963 | Comedy / Mystery / Romance | 7.8 | 95% | 83 | 7.7 | Stanley Donen |
| 15 | My Fair Lady '1964 | Comedy / Musical / Drama | 7.7 | 94% | 95 | 7.5 | George Cukor |
| 16 | Divorce Italian Style '1961 | Comedy / Crime | 7.9 | 100% | - | 7.9 | Pietro Germi |
| 17 | One, Two, Three '1961 | Comedy | 7.8 | 88% | 73 | 7.5 | Billy Wilder |
| 18 | PlayTime '1967 | Comedy | 7.8 | 98% | 99 | 7.7 | Jacques Tati |
| 19 | The Cremator '1969 | Horror / Drama / Crime / Comedy | 8.0 | 89% | - | 7.8 | Juraj Herz |
| 20 | The Music Man '1962 | Comedy / Musical / Romance | 7.7 | 94% | 76 | 7.1 | Morton DaCosta |
| 21 | Dinner for One '1963 | Comedy | 8.0 | - | - | 7.3 | Heinz Dunkhase |
| 22 | Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! '1966 | Comedy / War | 7.8 | - | - | 7.9 | Gérard Oury |
| 23 | My Night at Maud's '1969 | Romance / Comedy / Drama | 7.8 | 96% | - | 7.6 | Éric Rohmer |
| 24 | Late Autumn '1960 | Drama / Comedy | 7.9 | 100% | - | 7.7 | Yasujirō Ozu |
| 25 | The Girls '1962 | Comedy / Romance | 7.8 | - | - | 7.5 | Yuri Chulyukin |
| 26 | Placido '1962 | Comedy | 7.8 | 100% | - | 7.7 | Luis García Berlanga |
| 27 | Lolita '1962 | Drama / Comedy / Romance | 7.5 | 83% | 79 | 7.3 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 28 | Breakfast at Tiffany's '1961 | Comedy / Romance / Drama | 7.5 | 87% | 77 | 7.6 | Blake Edwards |
| 29 | The Odd Couple '1968 | Comedy | 7.6 | 97% | 86 | 7.4 | Gene Saks |
| 30 | Simon of the Desert '1965 | Comedy / Drama / Fantasy | 7.8 | 100% | - | 7.6 | Luis Buñuel |
| 31 | The Executioner '1963 | Comedy / Drama | 7.9 | - | - | 7.6 | Luis García Berlanga |
| 32 | Band of Outsiders '1964 | Crime / Drama / Comedy | 7.6 | 94% | 93 | 7.5 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 33 | The Fabulous Baron Munchausen '1962 | Animation / Fantasy / Comedy | 7.7 | - | - | 7.4 | Karel Zeman |
| 34 | Bootleggers '1961 | Comedy | 7.9 | - | - | 7.3 | Leonid Gaidai |
| 35 | A Hard Day's Night '1964 | Comedy / Musical | 7.5 | 98% | 96 | 7.3 | Richard Lester |
| 36 | The Producers '1968 | Comedy | 7.5 | 92% | 96 | 7.1 | Mel Brooks |
| 37 | The Young Girls of Rochefort '1967 | Romance / Comedy / Drama | 7.7 | 98% | - | 7.7 | Jacques Demy |
| 38 | Beware of the Car! '1966 | Comedy / Crime | 8.0 | - | - | 7.5 | Eldar Ryazanov |
| 39 | Antoine and Colette '1962 | Romance / Drama / Comedy | 7.4 | - | - | 7.2 | François Truffaut |
| 40 | A Monkey in Winter '1962 | Drama / Comedy | 7.4 | - | - | 7.6 | Henri Verneuil |
| 41 | War of the Buttons '1962 | Comedy / Drama | 7.4 | - | - | 7.2 | Yves Robert |
| 42 | How to Steal a Million '1966 | Comedy / Crime / Romance | 7.5 | 100% | - | 7.5 | William Wyler |
| 43 | Crooks in Clover '1963 | Comedy / Crime | 7.7 | - | - | 7.7 | Georges Lautner |
| 44 | The Organizer '1963 | Drama / Crime / Comedy | 8.0 | 90% | - | 7.5 | Mario Monicelli |
| 45 | Closely Watched Trains '1966 | Comedy / Drama / War | 7.6 | 90% | - | 7.2 | Jiří Menzel |
| 46 | Lilies of the Field '1963 | Comedy / Drama | 7.5 | 92% | 61 | 7.2 | Ralph Nelson |
| 47 | Chimes at Midnight '1965 | Comedy / Drama / War | 7.6 | 96% | 94 | 7.2 | Orson Welles |
| 48 | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World '1963 | Comedy / Crime | 7.4 | 71% | 59 | 7.0 | Stanley Kramer |
| 49 | The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales '1960 | Comedy / Crime / Horror | 7.7 | - | - | 8.0 | Rogelio A. González |
| 50 | Pollyanna '1960 | Comedy / Drama | 7.4 | 85% | 66 | 6.9 | David Swift |
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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