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 Pink Panther (1963)
The Alamo (1960)
The Great Race (1965)
Seven Days in May (1964)
How the West Was Won (1962)
The Collector (1965)
Theorem (1968)
The Damned (1969)
Alphaville (1965)
The Chase (1966)
Grand Prix (1966)
if.... (1968)
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965)
The Misfits (1961)
I Knew Her Well (1965)
Cactus Flower (1969)
The Bride Wore Black (1968)
Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back (1967)
Lilies of the Field (1963)
Is Paris Burning? (1966)
The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
Beware of the Car! (1966)
This Man Must Die (1969)
Hands Over the City (1963)
Thunderball (1965)
Testament of Orpheus (1960)
Hombre (1967)
The Organizer (1963)
The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
Everybody Go Home! (1960)
Targets (1968)
Von Ryan's Express (1965)
Ride the High Country (1962)
Faces (1968)
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
Dragon Inn (1967)
The Restaurant (1966)
Yearning (1964)
Salvatore Giuliano (1962)
Be Sick… It's Free (1968)
You Only Live Twice (1967)
Battle of Britain (1969)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
Death Rides a Horse (1967)
Murder at the Gallop (1963)
Father Goose (1964)
Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard (1967)
Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966)
The Two of Us (1967)
The Milky Way (1969)
Battle of the Bulge (1965)
Greed in the Sun (1964)
The Hero (1966)
El Cid (1961)
Hibernatus (1969)
Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)