Favorite 50 of the '60s
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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.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
(1966)
A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery. (161 mins.)
Director: Sergio Leone
3.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
(1964)
An insane general starts a process to nuclear holocaust that a war room of politicians and generals frantically try to stop. (95 mins.)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
4.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
(1962)
A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed. (123 mins.)
Director: John Ford
5.
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
6.
Lawrence of Arabia
(1962)
A flamboyant and controversial British military figure and his conflicted loyalties during his World War I service in Arabia. (216 mins.)
Director: David Lean
7.
Le Samouraï
(1967)
Things suddenly go badly for a successful French assassin. (105 mins.)
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
8.
The Wild Bunch
(1969)
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them. (145 mins.)
Director: Sam Peckinpah
9.
Lolita
(1962)
A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a 14-year-old nymphet. (152 mins.)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
10.
Bonnie and Clyde
(1967)
A somewhat romanticized account of the career of the notoriously violent bank robbing couple and their gang. (112 mins.)
Director: Arthur Penn
11.
For a Few Dollars More
(1965)
Two bounty hunters with the same intentions, team up to track down a Western outlaw. (132 mins.)
Director: Sergio Leone
12.
Blast of Silence
(1961)
A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York. But a special girl from his past, and a fat gun dealer with pet rats, each gets in his way. (77 mins.)
Director: Allen Baron
13.
A Fistful of Dollars
(1964)
A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge. (99 mins.)
Director: Sergio Leone
14.
Doctor Zhivago
(1965)
Life of a Russian doctor/poet who, although married, falls for a political activist's wife and experiences hardships during the Bolshevik Revolution. (197 mins.)
Director: David Lean
15.
2001: A Space Odyssey
(1968)
Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest. (141 mins.)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
16.
The Great Silence
(1968)
A mute gunslinger faces off against a gang of bounty hunters in the great blizzard of 1899, and a grim, tense struggle unfolds. (105 mins.)
Director: Sergio Corbucci
17.
Cool Hand Luke
(1967)
A man refuses to conform to life in a rural prison. (126 mins.)
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
18.
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
19.
Easy Rider
(1969)
Two counterculture bikers travel from Los Angeles to New Orleans in search of America. (95 mins.)
Director: Dennis Hopper
20.
To Kill a Mockingbird
(1962)
Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his kids against prejudice. (129 mins.)
Director: Robert Mulligan
21.
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
22.
Le Trou
(1960)
In prison four long-sentence inmates planning an elaborate escape cautiously induct a new inmate to join in their scheme which leads to distrust and uncertainty. (132 mins.)
Director: Jacques Becker
23.
Purple Noon
(1960)
Tom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess. (118 mins.)
Director: René Clément
24.
The Manchurian Candidate
(1962)
A former Korean War POW is brainwashed by Communists into becoming a political assassin. But another former prisoner may know how to save him. (126 mins.)
Director: John Frankenheimer
25.
Rocco and His Brothers
(1960)
Having recently been uprooted to Milan, Rocco and his four brothers each look for a new way in life when a prostitute comes between Rocco and his brother Simone. (177 mins.)
Director: Luchino Visconti
26.
Le Deuxieme Souffle
(1966)
Gustave Minda, better known as Gu, a dangerous gangster, escapes from jail. He goes to Paris to join Manouche and other friends... (150 mins.)
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
27.
In Cold Blood
(1967)
After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity. (134 mins.)
Director: Richard Brooks
28.
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
29.
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
(1965)
British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the cold war during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one. (112 mins.)
Director: Martin Ritt
30.
8½
(1963)
A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies. (138 mins.)
Director: Federico Fellini
31.
Cape Fear
(1962)
A lawyer's family is stalked by a man he once helped put in jail. (105 mins.)
Director: J. Lee Thompson
32.
The Naked Kiss
(1964)
Kelly, a prostitute, finds redemption in the town of Grantville, where she arrives working as a medium-time seller... (90 mins.)
Director: Samuel Fuller
33.
Django
(1966)
A coffin-dragging gunslinger enters a town caught between two feuding factions, the KKK and a gang of Mexican Bandits. That man is Django, and he is caught up in a struggle against both parties. (92 mins.)
Director: Sergio Corbucci
34.
Peeping Tom
(1960)
A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror. (101 mins.)
Director: Michael Powell
35.
The Apartment
(1960)
A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue. (125 mins.)
Director: Billy Wilder
36.
The Great Escape
(1963)
Allied POWs plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II. (172 mins.)
Director: John Sturges
37.
Hud
(1963)
Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth... (112 mins.)
Director: Martin Ritt
38.
Wait Until Dark
(1967)
A recently blinded woman is terrorized by a trio of thugs while they search for a heroin stuffed doll they believe is in her apartment. (108 mins.)
Director: Terence Young
39.
In the Heat of the Night
(1967)
An African American detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racist southern town. (109 mins.)
Director: Norman Jewison
40.
Charade
(1963)
Romance and suspense in Paris, as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Who can she trust? (113 mins.)
Director: Stanley Donen
41.
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
(1960)
A rebellious, hard-living factory worker juggles relationships with two women, one of whom is married to another man but pregnant with his child. (89 mins.)
Director: Karel Reisz
42.
Breakfast at Tiffany's
(1961)
A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building. (115 mins.)
Director: Blake Edwards
43.
Any Number Can Win
(1963)
Charles (Jean Gabin), a sixtyish career criminal fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability... (118 mins.)
Director: Henri Verneuil
44.
The Dirty Dozen
(1967)
A US Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers in World War II. (150 mins.)
Director: Robert Aldrich
45.
Le Doulos
(1962)
Burglar Maurice Faugel has just finished his sentence. He murders Gilbert Vanovre, a receiver, and steals the loot of a break-in... (108 mins.)
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
46.
The Lion in Winter
(1968)
1183 AD: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him. (134 mins.)
Director: Anthony Harvey
47.
Belle de Jour
(1967)
A frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute. (101 mins.)
Director: Luis Bunuel
48.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
(1969)
Two Western bank/train robbers flee to Bolivia when the law gets too close. (110 mins.)
Director: George Roy Hill
49.
La Dolce Vita
(1960)
A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering paparazzo journalist living in Rome. (174 mins.)
Director: Federico Fellini
50.
Inherit the Wind
(1960)
Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution. (128 mins.)
Director: Stanley Kramer
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