Best movies of 1960s

Zulu(1964)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift.



Knife in the Water(1962)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 20

On their way to a sailing trip, an aging husband and wife invite along an emphatic young hitchhiker out of sheer patronization.



Inherit the Wind(1960)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 17

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.



Torn Curtain(1966)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 19

An American scientist publicly defects to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the solution for a formula resin before planning an escape back to the West.



Point Blank(1967)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 21

After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.



Long men kezhan(1967)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 49

The Eunuch of the Emperor has ordered the commander of his army condemned to death for betrayal and insurrection. The commander's family was was murdered to cut off his bloodline, but his ...



Carnival of Souls(1962)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 21

After a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival.



Ocean's Eleven(1960)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 20

Danny Ocean gathers a group of his World War II compatriots to pull off the ultimate Las Vegas heist. Together the eleven friends plan to rob five Las Vegas casinos in one night.



Wait Until Dark(1967)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 15

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.



Sanjuro(1962)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 15

A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.



Mafioso(1962)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 44

When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades' old oath forces him to fulfill a nightmarish obligation.



Queimada(1969)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 36

The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade. Years later he is sent again to...



Catch-22(1970)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A man is trying desperately to be certified insane during World War II, so he can stop flying missions.



Topaz(1969)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 19

A French intelligence agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring.





Fantastic Voyage(1966)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 19

A scientist is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his blood stream with a small crew. Problems arise almost as soon as they enter the bloodstream.



Viridiana(1961)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.



Ivanovo detstvo(1962)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 15

In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.



Kes(1969)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 19

A young, English working-class boy spends his free time caring for and training his pet falcon.



El Dorado(1966)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Hara. Together with an old Indian fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.




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