Defining Era
THE 1960S
THE OLD ORDER CRACKS
Studios crumbled, censorship loosened, and a new generation of filmmakers prepared to take the keys.
1960 — 1969
3,022
Films Catalogued
67.2
Avg Master Score
6.5
Avg IMDb
ROGER CORMAN
Top Director
109
Oscar-Nominated
The Defining Three
ESSENTIAL VIEWING
Top-ranked by master score. If you only saw three films from this decade, these are the three.
No.01
MS95.9
SERGIO LEONE|1966
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
“For three men the Civil War wasn't hell. It was practice.”
No.02
MS95.3
ALFRED HITCHCOCK|1960
PSYCHO
“A new and altogether different screen excitement!”
No.03
MS94.5
MASAKI KOBAYASHI|1962
HARAKIRI
“What befalls others today, may be your own fate tomorrow.”
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Master Score
Awards
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01
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1966 · Sergio Leone
95.9
02Psycho
1960 · Alfred Hitchcock
95.3
03Harakiri
1962 · Masaki Kobayashi
94.5
04A Fistful of Dollars
1964 · Sergio Leone
93.4
05Night of the Living Dead
1968 · George A. Romero
92.5
06For a Few Dollars More
1965 · Sergio Leone
92.2
07Sanjuro
1962 · Akira Kurosawa
92.2
08Woman in the Dunes
1964 · Hiroshi Teshigahara
92.0
09The Odd Couple
1968 · Gene Saks
91.7
10The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
1964 · Jacques Demy
91.3
11Persona
1966 · Ingmar Bergman
91.3
12A Hard Day's Night
1964 · Richard Lester
91.1
13From Russia with Love
1963 · Terence Young
90.6
14To Sir, with Love
1967 · James Clavell
90.6
15The Sound of Music
1965 · Robert Wise · 5 Oscars
90.6
16Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964 · Stanley Kubrick
90.5
17The Apartment
1960 · Billy Wilder · 5 Oscars
90.4
18In the Heat of the Night
1967 · Norman Jewison · 5 Oscars
90.3
19The Jungle Book
1967 · Wolfgang Reitherman
90.2
20Dr. No
1962 · Terence Young
90.1
21Kes
1969 · Ken Loach
89.7
22Mary Poppins
1964 · Robert Stevenson · 5 Oscars
89.7
23The Leopard
1963 · Luchino Visconti
89.7
24One Hundred and One Dalmatians
1961 · Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman
89.6
25A Charlie Brown Christmas
1965 · Bill Melendez
89.5
26Viridiana
1961 · Luis Buñuel
89.4
27Lawrence of Arabia
1962 · David Lean · 7 Oscars
89.4
28Repulsion
1965 · Roman Polanski
89.4
29Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969 · George Roy Hill · 4 Oscars
89.3
30West Side Story
1961 · Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise · 10 Oscars
89.3
31Purple Noon
1960 · René Clément
89.2
32Easy Rider
1969 · Dennis Hopper
89.1
33An Autumn Afternoon
1962 · Yasujirô Ozu
89.0
34Le trou
1960 · Jacques Becker
88.7
35Jules and Jim
1962 · François Truffaut
88.6
36Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
1964 · Larry Roemer
88.6
37Kwaidan
1964 · Masaki Kobayashi
88.5
38The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
1961 · Masaki Kobayashi
88.4
39Au hasard Balthazar
1966 · Robert Bresson
88.4
40L'Avventura
1960 · Michelangelo Antonioni
88.3
41Le Doulos
1962 · Jean-Pierre Melville
88.3
42La Notte
1961 · Michelangelo Antonioni
88.2
43Doctor Zhivago
1965 · David Lean · 5 Oscars
88.2
44Mamma Roma
1962 · Pier Paolo Pasolini
88.1
45Accattone
1961 · Pier Paolo Pasolini
88.0
46To Kill a Mockingbird
1962 · Robert Mulligan · 3 Oscars
88.0
47L'Eclisse
1962 · Michelangelo Antonioni
87.9
48If....
1968 · Lindsay Anderson
87.9
49Belle de Jour
1967 · Luis Buñuel
87.8
50Andrei Rublev
1966 · Andrei Tarkovsky
87.8
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