Best Movies of the 1960s
The 1960s tore the rulebook up: new waves in France and Japan, spaghetti westerns, and studio spectacle giving way to something rawer. The decade's essential films are ranked here by how audiences rate them today. See where each one streams and log the classics you've met.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Psycho (1960)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Harakiri (1962)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
The Apartment (1960)
High and Low (1963)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Persona (1966)
For a Few Dollars More (1965)
8½ (1963)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Yojimbo (1961)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Il Sorpasso (1962)
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966)
The Sound of Music (1965)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Le Trou (1960)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Woman in the Dunes (1964)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
The Graduate (1967)
Le Samouraï (1967)
Mary Poppins (1964)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
The Birds (1963)
The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Red Beard (1965)
The Hustler (1961)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
Z (1969)
The Longest Day (1962)
Divorce Italian Style (1961)
Goldfinger (1964)
Two Women (1960)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)
The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
Eyes Without a Face (1960)
Jules and Jim (1962)
Where Eagles Dare (1968)
Mamma Roma (1962)
Lolita (1962)
Marriage Italian Style (1964)
L'Avventura (1960)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
The Sword in the Stone (1963)
The Miracle Worker (1962)
Blow-Up (1966)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
The Innocents (1961)