Top 10 Films of the 1960s

Maybe I'm not looking hard enough, but I couldn't find a thread for this anywhere. Here's my list:

01. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Robert Mulligan
02. Persona (1966) Ingmar Bergman
03. Jules and Jim (1962) François Truffaut
04. The Fire Within (1963) Louis Malle
05. The Graduate (1967) Mike Nichols
06. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Stanley Kubrick
07. Psycho (1960) Alfred Hitchcock
08. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) David Lean
09. Midnight Cowboy (1969) John Schlesinger
10. The Great Escape (1963) John Sturges

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Dr. Strangelove

Bonnie and Clyde

The Graduate

2001: A Space Odyssey

The Pawnbroker

Psycho

Lawrence of Arabia

The Great Escape

The Wild Bunch

The Americanization of Emily

10.High And Low (1963, Kurosawa)

9.Once Upon A Time In The West (1968, Leone)

8.The Exterminating Angel (1960, Bunuel)

7.La Dolce Vita (1960, Fellini)

6.Psycho (1960, Hitchcock)

5.The Party (1968, Edwards)

4.Pitfall (1962, Teshigahara)

3.This Sporting Life (1963, Anderson)

2.The Birds (1963, Hitchcock)

1.Take The Money And Run (1969, Allen)

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My 100 ALL-TIME FAVE Movies

No order again;

"Psycho"
"The Graduate"
"The Wild Bunch"
"Once Upon a Time in The West"
"For a Few Dollars More"
"Witchfinder General"
"The Odd Couple"
"Dr Strangelove'
"The Italian Job"
"The Haunting"

Midnight Cowboy
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Apartment
Bonnie and Clyde
Rosemary's Baby
The Graduate
2001: A Space Odyssey
Yojimbo
Knife in the Water
Psycho

Bubbling under...

Lawrence of Arabia
Hell in the Pacific
Once Upon a Time in the West

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100 Favourites From The Future: REWIRED

I don't think I can make a top 10 just yet, as I am still in heavy movie watching stage for first viewings.

But, Planet of the Apes is missing in this thread. At least it can be an honorable mention.

The Best of the Best are always difficult because you leave out dozens of films you love to death. However, if push comes to shove...

1. Elmer Gantry
2. Midnight Cowboy
3. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
4. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
5. War and Peace (Sergei Bondarchuk)
6. Alfie
7. Z
8. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
9. My Fair Lady
10. West Side Story

The most-perfect film which didn't make the list (for shame) amd hasn't been mentioned yet: The Innocents.

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2001: A Space Odyssey
Dr. Strangelove
Psycho
The Wild Bunch
Le Samourai
The Battle of Algiers
Lawrence of Arabia
Bonnie & Clyde
Midnight Cowboy
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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Here are my top ten movies for the 1960's:

West Side Story

Sound of Music

Midnight Cowboy

Easy Rider

The Graduate

Bonnie and Clyde

Lawrence of Arabia

Dr. Zhivago

2001: A Space Odyssey

Planet of the Apes

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"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)

To Kill A Mockingbird (1962, Robert Mulligan)

The Haunting (1963, Robert Wise)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969, George Roy Hill)

Once Upon A Time In the West (1968, Sergio Leone)

The Wild Bunch (1969, Sam Peckinpah)

The Magnificent Seven (1960, John Sturges)

The Miracle Worker (1962, Arthur Penn)

Bonnie and Clyde (1967, Arthur Penn)

Bullitt (1968, Peter Yates)

Rosemary's Baby (1968, Roman Polanski)

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My Faves:


10. The Great Escape (1963) A great cast in a great story about a great escape.

9. For A Few Dollars More (1965) The Man With No Name returns, but now, he comes with a name, ("Manco"....?), teams up with a partner (Col. Mortimer) & this time around, is out for more than just a fistful of dollars.

8. A Fistful Of Dollars (1964) Clints Eastwood's first foray into the sub-genre within a genre known as the spaghetti western, & into a memorable trilogy of a non-American telling of a soon-to-be American icon.

7. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) A really unique western that is both lotsa of fun & tragic at the same time. Not to mention, the first example of the lightning captured in a bottle that is the Newman & Redford combo.

6. Psycho (1960) Though the datedness of this movie has seemed to lessen the shock & horror of this b/w classic, the energy of it still reverberates today & the ending shot of Norman Bates' visage is still one of the best creepy endings on film.

5. Magnificent 7 (1960) Y'know, there may be cowboy movies that are better filmed, with stories that are better written, that capture the western history more accurately, that have an impact that is more poignant or even have characters that are more iconic.
But very few other cowboy flicks (those being a couple of them that were made with a dash of spaghetti sauce on 'em) were more bad-ass than this one.

4. Cool Hand Luke (1967) One of those rare times when a movie line becomes a part of movie history. And if you don't know what I'm talking about,
well then, what we've got here, is a failure to communicate.

3. Night of the Living Dead (1968) Back when the idea of slow shambling zombies was actually scary.

2. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (1966) IMO, the best of the "Man With No Name" trilogy & the most definitive one of the three. It's almost impossible to think of the genre of the spaghetti western, let alone this particular series & not think of the iconic trio of Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef & Eli Wallach.

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) A sci-fi suspense thriller plotline that is almost quietly yet masterfully delivered. Plus, if you're not on drugs whilst viewing this film, by the time you get to the ending, you will you feel as though you are.

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Right now, all I'm wearing is a mustard-stained wife-beater T-shirt, no pants & a massive sombrero.

The trouble with the sixties is that there were so many good movies that even just twenty would be very difficult.

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Right on, Cyberia!!

01. 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 [Stanley Kubrick]
02. Once Upon a time in the West 1968 [Sergio Leone]
03. The Apartment 1960 [Billy Wilder]
04. Branded to Kill 1967 [Seijun Suzuki]
05. The Girl Who Knew Too Much 1963 [Mario Bava]
06. The Wild Bunch 1969 [Sam Peckinpah]
07. Seconds 1966 [John Frankenheimer]
08. The Hustler 1961 [Robert Rossen]
09. Dr. Strangelove 1964 [Stanley Kubrick]
10. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 1966 [Sergio Leone]

1. Cape Fear
2. Night of the Living dead
3. To Kill a Mockenbird
4. 2001 a space odessy
5. Good Bad and the Ugly
6. Bonnie and Clyde
7.Psycho
8. The Great Escape
9. The Birds
10. Cool Hand Luke

To Kill a Mockingbird

The Birds

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

The Longest Day

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Breakfast at Tiffany's

The Pink Panther

True Grit

The Hustler

The Flight of The Phoenix

Not a bad decade at all

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1. Night Of The Living Dead
2. Psycho
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
5. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
6. To Kill A Mockingbird
7. True Grit
8. Cape Fear\
9. Sound Of Music
10. The Great Escape

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"George, this is a little too much for me. Escaped convicts, fugitive sex... I've got a cockfight to focus on."

Kind of a joke how little I've seen from this decade but here it is nonetheless:

1. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
2. Psycho
3. The Sound of Music
4. The Birds
5. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
6. The Wild Bunch
7. Dr. Strangelove
8. In the Heat of the Night
9. Midnight Cowboy
10. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

1 Hara-Kiri
2 Dr Strangelove, or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb
3 An Autumn Afternoon
4 The Gospel According to St Matthew
5 Persona
6 Onibaba
7 Au Hasard, Balthasar
8 The Nutty Professor
9 2001: A Space Odyssey
10 Peeping Tom