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.

Pollyanna (1960)

La Collectionneuse (1967)

The Exchange Student (1967)

The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)

Taxi for Tobruk (1961)

Fantastic Voyage (1966)

Gambit (1966)

House of Usher (1960)

Taste of Fear (1961)

Pigsty (1969)

Hatari! (1962)

The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963)

Day of Anger (1967)

Torn Curtain (1966)

The Love Bug (1968)

Muriel, or the Time of Return (1963)

The Heroes of Telemark (1965)

Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)

The Conspirators (1969)

55 Days at Peking (1963)

The Day of the Owl (1968)

The War Wagon (1967)

Cul-de-sac (1966)

Weekend at Dunkirk (1964)

The Scapular (1968)

Sergeant Rutledge (1960)

Mirage (1965)

The Last Man on Earth (1964)

What a Way to Go! (1964)

Very Happy Alexander (1968)

Boccaccio '70 (1962)

Il bell'Antonio (1960)

This Sporting Life (1963)

The Last Adventure (1967)

The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

The Little Bather (1968)

The President (1961)

Devi (1960)

Two in the Shadow (1967)

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)

Face to Face (1967)

The Nanny (1965)

Exodus (1960)

The Haunted Palace (1963)

The Comancheros (1961)

Guns for San Sebastian (1967)

The Ugly Dachshund (1966)

Complexes (1965)

Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today (1960)

Sink the Bismarck! (1960)

The Gendarme Gets Married (1968)

X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)

Ghosts of Rome (1961)

The Insect Woman (1963)

The Unfaithful Wife (1969)

The Four Days of Naples (1962)

The Thrill of It All (1963)

The Fugitive Kind (1960)

The Bridge at Remagen (1969)

A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966)