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Best Crime Movies of the 1960s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
110 crime films from the 1960s are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is High and Low (1963), at 8.4 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.7. 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 | High and Low '1963 | Drama / Crime / Thriller / Mystery | 8.4 | 97% | 90 | 8.4 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 2 | Le Trou '1960 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 8.5 | - | - | 8.2 | Jacques Becker |
| 3 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid '1969 | Western / Crime / Drama | 8.0 | 89% | 66 | 7.6 | George Roy Hill |
| 4 | Rocco and His Brothers '1960 | Drama / Romance / Crime | 8.2 | 91% | 84 | 8.0 | Luchino Visconti |
| 5 | Cool Hand Luke '1967 | Drama / Crime | 8.0 | 100% | 92 | 7.7 | Stuart Rosenberg |
| 6 | Z '1969 | Thriller / Crime / Drama | 8.1 | 94% | 86 | 7.8 | Costa-Gavras |
| 7 | The Diamond Arm '1969 | Comedy / Crime | 8.3 | - | - | 7.7 | Leonid Gaidai |
| 8 | Le Samouraï '1967 | Crime / Thriller / Drama | 8.0 | 92% | 90 | 7.8 | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| 9 | In the Heat of the Night '1967 | Crime / Drama / Mystery | 7.9 | 96% | 76 | 7.7 | Norman Jewison |
| 10 | The Bad Sleep Well '1960 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 8.0 | 100% | - | 7.7 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 11 | In Cold Blood '1967 | Crime / Drama | 7.9 | 75% | 89 | 7.5 | Richard Brooks |
| 12 | Birdman of Alcatraz '1962 | Drama / Crime | 7.8 | 88% | 76 | 7.5 | John Frankenheimer |
| 13 | Bonnie and Clyde '1967 | Crime / Drama | 7.7 | 91% | 86 | 7.5 | Arthur Penn |
| 14 | Divorce Italian Style '1961 | Comedy / Crime | 7.9 | 100% | - | 7.9 | Pietro Germi |
| 15 | Cape Fear '1962 | Thriller / Drama / Crime | 7.7 | 89% | 76 | 7.4 | J. Lee Thompson |
| 16 | The Cremator '1969 | Horror / Drama / Crime / Comedy | 8.0 | 89% | - | 7.8 | Juraj Herz |
| 17 | Purple Noon '1960 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.7 | 92% | - | 7.6 | René Clément |
| 18 | West Side Story '1961 | Crime / Drama / Romance | 7.6 | 92% | 86 | 7.2 | Robert Wise |
| 19 | Breathless '1960 | Drama / Crime / Romance | 7.6 | 95% | 96 | 7.5 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 20 | Wait Until Dark '1967 | Thriller / Crime / Horror | 7.7 | 96% | 81 | 7.3 | Terence Young |
| 21 | Le Doulos '1962 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 7.7 | 96% | - | 7.4 | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| 22 | The Trial '1962 | Crime / Drama / Mystery | 7.6 | 84% | - | 7.4 | Orson Welles |
| 23 | The Sword of Doom '1966 | Drama / Crime / Action | 7.9 | 80% | - | 7.8 | Kihachi Okamoto |
| 24 | Band of Outsiders '1964 | Crime / Drama / Comedy | 7.6 | 94% | 93 | 7.5 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 25 | Victim '1961 | Drama / Crime / Thriller | 7.7 | 100% | 85 | 7.5 | Basil Dearden |
| 26 | Pitfall '1962 | Mystery / Fantasy / Crime | 7.5 | 100% | - | 7.3 | Hiroshi Teshigahara |
| 27 | Beware of the Car! '1966 | Comedy / Crime | 8.0 | - | - | 7.5 | Eldar Ryazanov |
| 28 | Dry Summer '1963 | Drama / Crime | 7.8 | - | - | 7.5 | Metin Erksan |
| 29 | Le Deuxième Souffle '1966 | Action / Drama / Crime | 7.9 | 100% | - | 7.7 | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| 30 | How to Steal a Million '1966 | Comedy / Crime / Romance | 7.5 | 100% | - | 7.5 | William Wyler |
| 31 | Crooks in Clover '1963 | Comedy / Crime | 7.7 | - | - | 7.7 | Georges Lautner |
| 32 | The Organizer '1963 | Drama / Crime / Comedy | 8.0 | 90% | - | 7.5 | Mario Monicelli |
| 33 | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World '1963 | Comedy / Crime | 7.4 | 71% | 59 | 7.0 | Stanley Kramer |
| 34 | Shoot the Piano Player '1960 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 7.4 | 90% | - | 7.2 | François Truffaut |
| 35 | Salvatore Giuliano '1962 | Crime / Drama | 7.3 | 100% | - | 7.5 | Francesco Rosi |
| 36 | Bullitt '1968 | Action / Crime / Thriller | 7.4 | 98% | 81 | 7.2 | Peter Yates |
| 37 | Experiment in Terror '1962 | Thriller / Crime | 7.3 | 100% | 69 | 7.1 | Blake Edwards |
| 38 | The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales '1960 | Comedy / Crime / Horror | 7.7 | - | - | 8.0 | Rogelio A. González |
| 39 | Pierrot le Fou '1965 | Drama / Romance / Crime | 7.4 | 88% | - | 7.3 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 40 | The Big Risk '1960 | Crime | 7.5 | 100% | 84 | 7.0 | Claude Sautet |
| 41 | Seance on a Wet Afternoon '1964 | Crime / Thriller / Drama | 7.6 | 82% | - | 7.3 | Bryan Forbes |
| 42 | Sergeant Rutledge '1960 | Western / Crime / Drama | 7.4 | 92% | - | 7.0 | John Ford |
| 43 | Pale Flower '1964 | Crime / Romance | 7.7 | 92% | - | 7.4 | Masahiro Shinoda |
| 44 | Blast of Silence '1961 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.4 | 83% | 75 | 7.0 | Allen Baron |
| 45 | A Shot in the Dark '1964 | Comedy / Mystery / Crime | 7.3 | 94% | 70 | 7.2 | Blake Edwards |
| 46 | The League of Gentlemen '1960 | Comedy / Crime | 7.2 | 83% | - | 7.1 | Basil Dearden |
| 47 | The Housemaid '1960 | Crime / Drama | 7.2 | 100% | - | 7.1 | Kim Ki-young |
| 48 | This Man Must Die '1969 | Thriller / Drama / Crime | 7.6 | 100% | - | 7.3 | Claude Chabrol |
| 49 | The Sicilian Clan '1969 | Crime / Drama | 7.4 | - | - | 7.6 | Henri Verneuil |
| 50 | Murder She Said '1961 | Comedy / Crime / Drama / Mystery | 7.3 | 90% | - | 7.3 | George Pollock |
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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