Here’s the next installment of my decade by decade Top 50s. Today, the greatest movies of the 1960s.
- Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, 1964)
- Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
- Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968)
- Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967)
- The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)
- The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)
- You Only Live Twice (Lewis Gilbert, 1967)
- Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick, 1960)
- Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964)
- The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, 1965)
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
- The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, 1962)
- The Fire Within (Louis Malle, 1963)
- Billy Budd (Peter Ustinov, 1962)
- A Hard Day’s Night (Richard Lester, 1964)
- L’Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)
- The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963)
- The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy, 1967)
- La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960)
- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols, 1966)
- The Haunting (Robert Wise, 1963)
- Simon of the Desert (Luis Buñuel, 1965)
- Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)
- The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
- Hud (Martin Ritt, 1963)
- Shoot the Piano Player (François Truffaut, 1960)
- Belle de Jour (Luis Buñuel, 1967)
- Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich, 1962)
- Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
- Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
- True Grit (Henry Hathaway, 1969)
- Oliver! (Carol Reed, 1968)
- Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
- Long Day’s Journey into Night (Sidney Lumet, 1962)
- Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1968)
- In the Heat of the Night (Norman Jewison, 1967)
- The Little Soldier (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
- Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, 1969)
- Charade (Stanley Donen, 1963)
- Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966)
- Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Paul Mazursky, 1969)
- Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa, 1961)
- They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (Sydney Pollack, 1969)
- The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963)
- The Miracle Worker (Arthur Penn, 1962)
- Funny Girl (William Wyler, 1968)
- West Side Story (Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, 1961)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962)