Best Romance movies of 1960s that are oscar winners or nominees

Breakfast at Tiffany's(1961)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building, but her past threatens to get in the way.



Love Story(1970)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 59

A boy and a girl from different backgrounds fall in love regardless of their upbringing - and then tragedy strikes.





Doctor Zhivago(1965)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 25

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during the First World War and then the October Revolution.



The Time Machine(1960)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 21

A man's vision for a utopian society is disillusioned when travelling forward into time reveals a dark and dangerous society.





Barefoot in the Park(1967)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 26

Paul, a conservative young lawyer, marries the vivacious Corie. Their highly passionate relationship descends into comical discord in a five-flight New York City walk-up apartment.



The Thomas Crown Affair(1968)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A debonair, adventuresome bank executive believes he has pulled off the perfect multi-million dollar heist, only to match wits with a sexy insurance investigator who will do anything to get her man.



Splendor in the Grass(1961)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 15

A fragile Kansas girl's love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.



Cat Ballou(1965)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects.



Lolita(1962)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a fourteen-year-old nymphet.



Irma la Douce(1963)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 14

In Paris, a former policeman falls in love with a prostitute, and tries to get her out of that life by paying for all of her time.



The Fortune Cookie(1966)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A crooked lawyer persuades his brother-in-law to feign a serious injury.



Far from the Madding Crowd(1967)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 28

Bathsheba Everdene, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and is romantically pursued by three very different men.



Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice(1969)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 28

Documentary film-maker Bob Sanders and his wife Carol attend a group therapy session that serves as the backdrop for the opening scenes of the film. Returning to their Los Angeles home, the...



Charade(1963)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Romance and suspense ensue in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Who can she trust?



Seven Days in May(1964)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 15

United States military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack.



Valley of the Dolls(1967)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 22

Film version of Jacqueline Susann's best-selling novel chronicling the rise and fall of three young women in show business.



The Sand Pebbles(1966)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 12

Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and...



Two for the Road(1967)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A couple in the south of France non-sequentially spin down the highways of infidelity in their troubled ten-year marriage.




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