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Best Romance Movies of the 1960s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
134 romance films from the 1960s are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is The Apartment (1960), at 8.3 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.7. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Jules and Jim, 7.6 on IMDb against 97 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Apartment '1960 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 8.3 | 94% | 94 | 8.2 | Billy Wilder |
| 2 | The Sound of Music '1965 | Drama / Musical / Romance | 8.1 | 83% | 63 | 7.7 | Robert Wise |
| 3 | La Jetée '1962 | Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi | 8.2 | 90% | - | 7.9 | Chris Marker |
| 4 | The Graduate '1967 | Drama / Romance / Comedy | 8.0 | 87% | 83 | 7.6 | Mike Nichols |
| 5 | Rocco and His Brothers '1960 | Drama / Romance / Crime | 8.2 | 91% | 84 | 8.0 | Luchino Visconti |
| 6 | The Hustler '1961 | Drama / Romance | 7.9 | 94% | 90 | 7.7 | Robert Rossen |
| 7 | Doctor Zhivago '1965 | Drama / Romance / War | 7.9 | 82% | 69 | 7.6 | David Lean |
| 8 | Charade '1963 | Comedy / Mystery / Romance | 7.8 | 95% | 83 | 7.7 | Stanley Donen |
| 9 | La Notte '1961 | Drama / Romance | 7.9 | 84% | - | 7.9 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| 10 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner '1967 | Drama / Romance | 7.8 | 71% | 63 | 7.6 | Stanley Kramer |
| 11 | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg '1964 | Drama / Romance | 7.8 | 97% | 86 | 7.4 | Jacques Demy |
| 12 | A Raisin in the Sun '1961 | Drama / Romance | 8.0 | 91% | 87 | 7.7 | Daniel Petrie |
| 13 | War and Peace '1968 | Drama / War / Romance | 8.3 | 100% | - | 7.7 | Sergei Bondarchuk |
| 14 | L'Avventura '1960 | Drama / Mystery / Romance | 7.7 | 94% | - | 7.5 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| 15 | The Music Man '1962 | Comedy / Musical / Romance | 7.7 | 94% | 76 | 7.1 | Morton DaCosta |
| 16 | Charulata '1964 | Drama / Romance | 8.1 | 93% | - | 7.5 | Satyajit Ray |
| 17 | West Side Story '1961 | Crime / Drama / Romance | 7.6 | 92% | 86 | 7.2 | Robert Wise |
| 18 | Breathless '1960 | Drama / Crime / Romance | 7.6 | 95% | 96 | 7.5 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 19 | Jules and Jim '1962 | Drama / Romance | 7.6 | 94% | 97 | 7.5 | François Truffaut |
| 20 | Splendor in the Grass '1961 | Drama / Romance | 7.7 | 75% | 74 | 7.5 | Elia Kazan |
| 21 | A Patch of Blue '1965 | Drama / Romance | 8.0 | 89% | 73 | 7.6 | Guy Green |
| 22 | Days of Wine and Roses '1963 | Drama / Romance | 7.8 | 100% | 74 | 7.5 | Blake Edwards |
| 23 | My Night at Maud's '1969 | Romance / Comedy / Drama | 7.8 | 96% | - | 7.6 | Éric Rohmer |
| 24 | L'Eclisse '1962 | Drama / Romance | 7.6 | 87% | - | 7.6 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| 25 | The Silence '1963 | Drama / Romance | 7.7 | 85% | - | 7.5 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 26 | The Girls '1962 | Comedy / Romance | 7.8 | - | - | 7.5 | Yuri Chulyukin |
| 27 | Belle de Jour '1967 | Drama / Romance | 7.6 | 95% | - | 7.3 | Luis Buñuel |
| 28 | Last Year at Marienbad '1961 | Drama / Romance | 7.6 | 93% | - | 7.4 | Alain Resnais |
| 29 | Lolita '1962 | Drama / Comedy / Romance | 7.5 | 83% | 79 | 7.3 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 30 | Breakfast at Tiffany's '1961 | Comedy / Romance / Drama | 7.5 | 87% | 77 | 7.6 | Blake Edwards |
| 31 | Romeo and Juliet '1968 | Drama / Romance | 7.6 | 95% | 69 | 7.4 | Franco Zeffirelli |
| 32 | The Time Machine '1960 | Thriller / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Romance | 7.5 | 77% | 67 | 7.4 | George Pal |
| 33 | Time to Love '1965 | Drama / Romance | 7.9 | - | - | 7.5 | Metin Erksan |
| 34 | Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors '1965 | Drama / Romance | 7.8 | 93% | - | 7.5 | Sergei Parajanov |
| 35 | The Young Girls of Rochefort '1967 | Romance / Comedy / Drama | 7.7 | 98% | - | 7.7 | Jacques Demy |
| 36 | Antoine and Colette '1962 | Romance / Drama / Comedy | 7.4 | - | - | 7.2 | François Truffaut |
| 37 | The Truth '1960 | Drama / Romance | 7.6 | 67% | - | 7.6 | Henri-Georges Clouzot |
| 38 | How to Steal a Million '1966 | Comedy / Crime / Romance | 7.5 | 100% | - | 7.5 | William Wyler |
| 39 | Saturday Night and Sunday Morning '1960 | Drama / Romance | 7.5 | 87% | - | 7.0 | Karel Reisz |
| 40 | Happiness '1965 | Drama / Romance | 7.6 | 88% | - | 7.5 | Agnès Varda |
| 41 | Wild River '1960 | Drama / Romance | 7.5 | 92% | - | 7.2 | Elia Kazan |
| 42 | Contempt '1963 | Drama / Romance | 7.4 | 92% | - | 7.0 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 43 | Pierrot le Fou '1965 | Drama / Romance / Crime | 7.4 | 88% | - | 7.3 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 44 | The Night of the Iguana '1964 | Drama / Romance | 7.5 | 75% | - | 7.2 | John Huston |
| 45 | Stolen Kisses '1968 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.5 | 97% | - | 7.3 | François Truffaut |
| 46 | Léon Morin, Priest '1961 | Drama / Romance | 7.5 | 96% | - | 7.1 | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| 47 | Funny Girl '1968 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.4 | 95% | 88 | 7.1 | William Wyler |
| 48 | The Soft Skin '1964 | Drama / Romance | 7.5 | 90% | 78 | 7.2 | François Truffaut |
| 49 | Pale Flower '1964 | Crime / Romance | 7.7 | 92% | - | 7.4 | Masahiro Shinoda |
| 50 | Amphibian Man '1962 | Sci-Fi / Romance | 6.9 | - | - | 6.8 | Vladimir Chebotaryov |
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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