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Best Fantasy Movies of the 1960s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
59 fantasy films from the 1960s are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964), at 8.0 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.0. Biggest split between audiences and critics: The Love Bug, 6.5 on IMDb against 48 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer '1964 | Animation / Fantasy | 8.0 | 95% | - | 7.4 | Larry Roemer |
| 2 | The Exterminating Angel '1962 | Comedy / Drama / Fantasy | 7.9 | 94% | - | 7.9 | Luis Buñuel |
| 3 | Mary Poppins '1964 | Comedy / Fantasy | 7.8 | 95% | 88 | 7.5 | Robert Stevenson |
| 4 | Kwaidan '1965 | Horror / Fantasy / Drama | 7.9 | 91% | - | 7.7 | Masaki Kobayashi |
| 5 | Macario '1960 | Drama / Fantasy | 8.3 | 100% | - | 8.7 | Roberto Gavaldón |
| 6 | An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge '1961 | Drama / Fantasy | 8.1 | - | - | 7.6 | Robert Enrico |
| 7 | Simon of the Desert '1965 | Comedy / Drama / Fantasy | 7.8 | 100% | - | 7.6 | Luis Buñuel |
| 8 | The Fabulous Baron Munchausen '1962 | Animation / Fantasy / Comedy | 7.7 | - | - | 7.4 | Karel Zeman |
| 9 | The Time Machine '1960 | Thriller / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Romance | 7.5 | 77% | 67 | 7.4 | George Pal |
| 10 | Pitfall '1962 | Mystery / Fantasy / Crime | 7.5 | 100% | - | 7.3 | Hiroshi Teshigahara |
| 11 | The Monkey King: Uproar in Heaven '1961 | Animation / Fantasy / Action | 8.0 | - | - | 7.8 | Wan Laiming |
| 12 | Kuroneko '1968 | Drama / Fantasy / Horror | 7.7 | 96% | - | 7.4 | Kaneto Shindō |
| 13 | Yellow Submarine '1968 | Musical / Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 7.4 | 96% | 79 | 7.2 | George Dunning |
| 14 | The Saragossa Manuscript '1966 | Fantasy / Mystery / Drama | 7.8 | 94% | - | 7.7 | Wojciech Has |
| 15 | The Bremen Town Musicians '1969 | Animation / Drama / Fantasy | 7.9 | - | - | 7.1 | Inessa Kovalevskaya |
| 16 | Juliet of the Spirits '1965 | Comedy / Drama / Fantasy | 7.4 | 79% | 84 | 7.2 | Federico Fellini |
| 17 | Jason and the Argonauts '1963 | Fantasy | 7.3 | 85% | 69 | 7.2 | Don Chaffey |
| 18 | Testament of Orpheus '1960 | Fantasy | 7.2 | 88% | 75 | 7.6 | Jean Cocteau |
| 19 | The Devil's Eye '1960 | Comedy / Fantasy / Drama | 7.1 | 71% | - | 7.2 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 20 | King Kong vs. Godzilla '1962 | Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Action | 6.2 | 52% | - | 6.9 | Ishirō Honda |
| 21 | Carnival of Souls '1962 | Horror / Mystery / Fantasy | 7.0 | 87% | - | 7.0 | Herk Harvey |
| 22 | The Sword in the Stone '1963 | Animation / Fantasy | 7.1 | 65% | 61 | 7.2 | Wolfgang Reitherman |
| 23 | Zazie dans le Métro '1960 | Comedy / Fantasy | 6.9 | 78% | - | 6.6 | Louis Malle |
| 24 | 7 Faces of Dr. Lao '1964 | Fantasy / Western / Comedy | 7.1 | 88% | - | 6.9 | George Pal |
| 25 | Viy '1967 | Drama / Fantasy / Horror | 7.1 | 88% | - | 6.9 | Georgi Kropachyov |
| 26 | The Hawks and the Sparrows '1966 | Comedy / Fantasy | 7.2 | 85% | - | 7.2 | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| 27 | At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul '1964 | Horror / Thriller / Fantasy | 6.9 | 67% | - | 6.8 | José Mojica Marins |
| 28 | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang '1968 | Fantasy / Comedy | 7.0 | 70% | 64 | 6.8 | Ken Hughes |
| 29 | Fantomas Unleashed '1965 | Comedy / Crime / Fantasy | 6.8 | - | - | 6.7 | André Hunebelle |
| 30 | Medea '1969 | Drama / Fantasy | 6.9 | 73% | - | 6.7 | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| 31 | Mothra '1961 | Sci-Fi / Fantasy | 6.6 | 80% | - | 7.2 | Ishirō Honda |
| 32 | Macunaima '1969 | Comedy / Fantasy | 6.8 | - | - | 6.9 | Joaquim Pedro de Andrade |
| 33 | Matango '1963 | Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Drama / Mystery / Fantasy | 6.4 | - | - | 6.7 | Ishirō Honda |
| 34 | Blackbeard's Ghost '1968 | Comedy / Fantasy | 6.8 | 82% | 71 | 6.7 | Robert Stevenson |
| 35 | Horus: Prince of the Sun '1968 | Drama / Animation / Fantasy | 6.6 | - | - | 6.4 | Isao Takahata |
| 36 | Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard '1967 | Comedy / Crime / Fantasy | 6.7 | - | - | 6.7 | André Hunebelle |
| 37 | Cinderfella '1960 | Comedy / Fantasy / Musical | 5.9 | 50% | - | 6.2 | Frank Tashlin |
| 38 | Satyricon '1969 | Drama / Fantasy | 6.8 | 76% | - | 6.7 | Federico Fellini |
| 39 | The Curse of the Werewolf '1961 | Horror / Drama / Fantasy | 6.5 | 60% | - | 6.5 | Terence Fisher |
| 40 | Bedazzled '1967 | Fantasy / Comedy / Romance | 6.7 | 74% | 77 | 6.2 | Stanley Donen |
| 41 | The Incredible Mr. Limpet '1964 | Animation / Comedy / War / Fantasy | 6.5 | 40% | - | 6.2 | Arthur Lubin |
| 42 | Father Frost '1965 | Fantasy / Comedy / Romance | 6.4 | - | - | 6.2 | Aleksandr Rou |
| 43 | Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster '1964 | Sci-Fi / Action / Fantasy | 6.5 | 77% | - | 7.0 | Ishirō Honda |
| 44 | Babes in Toyland '1961 | Comedy / Fantasy / Musical | 6.1 | 36% | 55 | 5.9 | Austen Jewell |
| 45 | The Gorgon '1964 | Horror / Fantasy | 6.4 | 67% | - | 6.4 | Terence Fisher |
| 46 | The Raven '1963 | Comedy / Horror / Fantasy / Drama | 6.5 | 88% | - | 6.4 | Roger Corman |
| 47 | The Love Bug '1968 | Comedy / Fantasy | 6.5 | 78% | 48 | 6.6 | Robert Stevenson |
| 48 | The Lost World '1960 | Fantasy / Sci-Fi | 5.5 | - | - | 5.8 | Irwin Allen |
| 49 | King Kong Escapes '1967 | Action / Fantasy / Horror / Sci-Fi | 5.5 | 63% | - | 6.1 | Ishirō Honda |
| 50 | Magical Mystery Tour '1967 | Musical / Comedy / Fantasy | 6.1 | 64% | 50 | 6.6 | Paul McCartney |
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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Directors on this list
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