TOP 10: 1960's
these are the best of the 1960's..they carry entertainment value and importance...obviously every top movies list is carried with a bias, we can not truly define the "greatest"
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1.
Once Upon a Time in the West
(1968)
Epic story of a mysterious stranger with a harmonica who joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad. (175 mins.)
Director: Sergio Leone
2.
Breathless
(1960)
A young car thief kills a policeman and tries to persuade a girl to hide in Italy with him. (90 mins.)
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
3.
Army of Shadows
(1969)
France, 1942, during the occupation. Philippe Gerbier, a civil engineer, is one of the French Resistance's chiefs...
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
4.
Last Year at Marienbad
(1961)
Takes place in a chateau, an ambiguous story of a man and a woman who may or may not have met last year at Marienbad. (94 mins.)
Director: Alain Resnais
5.
The Graduate
(1967)
Recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock is trapped into an affair with Mrs. Robinson, who happens to be the wife of his father's business partner and then finds himself falling in love with her daughter, Elaine. (106 mins.)
Director: Mike Nichols
6.
Psycho
(1960)
A thirty-something secretary steals $40,000 from her employer's client, and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor too long under the domination of his mother. (109 mins.)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
7.
The Leopard
(1963)
The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860's Sicily. (187 mins.)
Director: Luchino Visconti
8.
High and Low
(1963)
An executive of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and held for ransom. (143 mins.)
Director: Akira Kurosawa
9.
The Battle of Algiers
(1966)
An account of the bloodiest revolution in modern history. (121 mins.)
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
10.
Le Samouraï
(1967)
Things suddenly go badly for a successful French assassin. (105 mins.)
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
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