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.
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Cape Fear (1962)
West Side Story (1961)
For Love and Gold (1966)
Belle de Jour (1967)
True Grit (1969)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
The Sucker (1965)
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Black Sunday (1960)
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)
El Dorado (1966)
From Russia with Love (1963)
The Great Silence (1968)
The Servant (1963)
The Face of Another (1966)
Zulu (1964)
Wait Until Dark (1967)
The Sicilian Clan (1969)
Easy Rider (1969)
Dr. No (1962)
Marnie (1964)
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
Zorba the Greek (1964)
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
A Shot in the Dark (1964)
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
The Lion in Winter (1968)
Fists in the Pocket (1965)
Take the Money and Run (1969)
Seconds (1966)
Stolen Kisses (1968)
Cleopatra (1963)
Yellow Submarine (1968)
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
The Producers (1968)
The Haunting (1963)
Barefoot in the Park (1967)
The Hill (1965)
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez (1964)
Le Deuxième Souffle (1966)
A Monkey in Winter (1962)
Le Doulos (1962)
Funny Girl (1968)
Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
The Truth (1960)
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966)
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Point Blank (1967)
Days of Wine and Roses (1963)
The Fortune Cookie (1966)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
The Swimmer (1968)
The Swimming Pool (1969)
Seduced and Abandoned (1964)
The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)