Best Action movies of 1960

Actors : Yul Brynner, Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach,
Directors : John Sturges,

An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.

Actors : Dana Wynter, Kenneth More, Carl Möhner, Laurence Naismith,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

The World War II story of the British Navy's effort to defeat Nazi Germany's most powerful warship.

Actors : Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint,
Directors : Otto Preminger,

The state of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors.

Actors : John Laurie, Bernard Lee, James MacArthur, Peter Finch,
Directors : Robert Stevenson,

In Scotland in 1751, young David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship where he meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart with whom he escapes to the Scottish Highlands, dodging the redcoats.

Actors : Shinsuke Ashida, Misako Watanabe, Mari Shiraki, Michitarô Mizushima,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

A prison truck is assaulted and the two convicts inside are murdered. The prison guard on duty gets suspended for negligence and takes it upon himself to track down the killers.

Actors : Carol Ohmart, Steve Rowland, Robert Hutton, Jan Brooks,
Directors : John F. Schreyer,

Three teenage criminals break out of juvenile prison and head south to Mexico.

Actors : Michael Forest, Wally Campo, Frank Wolff, Richard Sinatra,
Directors : Roger Corman,

An American patrol has to cross behind enemy lines by skis in order to blow up an important railroad bridge. The task is made harder by conflicts between the platoon's veteran sergeant and ...

Actors : Dana Andrews, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Rhonda Fleming, John Kerr,
Directors : Joseph Pevney,

Disaster movie about a Navy jet and a commercial airliner heading for a mid air collision.

Actors : Ava Gardner, Joseph Cotten, Dirk Bogarde, Vittorio De Sica,
Directors : Nunnally Johnson,

A clergyman leaves the priesthood over the church's indifferent position during the Spanish Civil War but finds himself attracted to a beautiful entertainer.

Actors : Orson Welles, Ivica Pajer, Massimo Serato, Eleonora Rossi Drago,

King Saul of the Israelites is visited in Jerusalem by the Prophet Samuel who foretells him that a war with The Philistines is inevitable and the shepherd David will become king.

Actors : Elsa Martinelli, Jean Marais, Pierrette Bruno, Bourvil,
Directors : André Hunebelle,

The young King Louis XIII is dominated by his mother Marie de Medici and her favorite Concino Concini . Francois de Capestang, a faithful knight falls for the daughter of the Duke of Angouleme that conspires against the Crown by his side.

Actors : Alan Ladd, Glenn Corbett, Sidney Poitier, James Darren,
Directors : Hall Bartlett,

During the Korean War,a platoon leader dies leaving his inexperienced black sergeant in charge of his squad of belligerent and racist white men.

Actors : Gaby André, Broderick Crawford, Mark Forest, Renato Terra,
Directors : Vittorio Cottafavi,

A warrior returning home to his country must battle giant bats, three-headed dogs and a vicious dragon to save his wife, and his people, from the machinations of an evil ruler.

Actors : Gordon Scott, Betta St. John, Jock Mahoney, John Carradine,
Directors : Robert Day,

Tarzan must escort his prisoner Coy Banton out of the jungle to the authorities. The boat is blown up by Coy's father and brothers. In addition to Coy Tarzan must now lead five more of the ...

Actors : Ernest Borgnine, Alexander Scourby, Colleen Dewhurst, Kerwin Mathews,
Directors : André De Toth,

A US secret agent is sent to Berlin to pretend to be a spy for the USSR.

Actors : Lex Barker, Mario Scaccia, Jocelyn Lane, Rossana Rory,
Directors : Giorgio Simonelli,

On his way to (or from) the Crusades, Robin Hood is shipwrecked but saved by pirates who plan to return him home in order to ransom him to his father. The pirates' ship, however, sinks in a...

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Richard Harris, Dan O'Herlihy, Anne Heywood,
Directors : Tay Garnett,

In 1941, the I.R.A. plans a campaign to coincide with the planned German invasion of England. Dermott O'Neil (Robert Mitchum) finds it easy to get into the I.R.A., but can he get out?

Actors : Connie Hines, Alan Hale Jr., Race Gentry, Rory Calhoun,
Directors : Paul Helmick,

Professional stock car racer Mitch Cooper wrecks his car and hurts his ankle in a brutal smash-up. Mitch takes time off from racing to teach cocky eager beaver kid Les York how to drive ...

Actors : Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tamio Kawaji, Shinako Nakagawa, Yoshiko Nezu,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

The young rebel Juro has to deal with an environment of crime and prostitution, and the impact of its choices on personal relationships: one with his mother, with the lover of the latter and with a girl in love with him.

Actors : Aldo Silvani, Daniel Gélin, Pierre Brasseur, Anne Heywood,
Directors : Carmine Gallone,

Historical drama depicting the last of the Punic Wars between the Roman Republic and Carthage.