Most popular voted films released in the 1960s
This article looks at the top 20 films most voted by the IMDb community, out of 26,978 titles.
Time to reminisce on the classics of the 1960s. So brush off the old VHS tape, slide the DVD in the player, pop down to Blockbuster or search through your Foxtel movie channel. It’s time to pick your favourite film… sit back, relax and enjoy to top 20.
1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Western
A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
Director: Sergio Leone
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè
Stars: 8.9/10
Votes: 525,712
Gross: $6.10M
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Adventure, Sci-Fi
Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Actors: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter
Stars: 8.3/10
Votes: 448,705
Gross: $56.72M
3. Psycho (1960)
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer’s client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Stars: 8.5/10
Votes: 443,336
Gross: $32.00M
4. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Comedy
An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically try to stop.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Actors: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn
Stars: 8.5/10
Votes: 356,736
5. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Western
A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.
Director: Sergio Leone
Actors: Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards
Stars: 8.6/10
Votes: 226,463
6. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Crime, Drama
Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice.
Director: Robert Mulligan
Actors: Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy
Stars: 8.3/10
Votes: 225,674
7. The Graduate (1967)
Comedy, Drama
A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
Director: Mike Nichols
Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, William Daniels
Stars: 8/10
Votes: 216,049
Gross: $104.40M
8. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Adventure, Biography, Drama
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
Director: David Lean
Actors: Peter O’Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins
Stars: 8.3/10
Votes: 201,641
Gross: $6.00M
9. The Great Escape (1963)
Adventure, Drama, History
Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.
Director: John Sturges
Actors: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson
Stars: 8.2/10
Votes: 173,214
10. For a Few Dollars More (1965)
Western
Two bounty hunters with the same intentions team up to track down a Western outlaw.
Director: Sergio Leone
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volontè, Mario Brega
Stars: 8.3/10
Votes: 166,074
11. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Biography, Crime, Drama
Two Western bank/train robbers flee to Bolivia when the law gets too close.
Director: George Roy Hill
Actors: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin
Stars: 8.1/10
Votes: 158,806
Gross: $102.31M
12. A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
Western
A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge.
Director: Sergio Leone
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volontè, Marianne Koch, Wolfgang Lukschy
Stars: 8/10
Votes: 154,929
Gross: $3.50M
13. The Sound of Music (1965)
Biography, Drama, Family
A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.
Director: Robert Wise
Actors: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn
Stars: 8/10
Votes: 154,729
Gross: $163.21M
14. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Drama, Horror
A young couple move into an apartment, only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins to control her life.
Director: Roman Polanski
Actors: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer
Stars: 8/10
Votes: 146,141
15. Goldfinger (1964)
Action, Adventure, Thriller
Investigating a gold magnate’s smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve.
Director: Guy Hamilton
Actors: Sean Connery, Gert Fröbe, Honor Blackman, Shirley Eaton
Stars: 7.8/10
Votes: 143,110
Gross: $51.10M
16. Planet of the Apes (1968)
Adventure, Sci-Fi
An astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved.
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Actors: Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans
Stars: 8/10
Votes: 139,604
Gross: $26.00M
17. The Birds (1963)
Drama, Horror, Mystery
A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Suzanne Pleshette, Jessica Tandy
Stars: 7.7/10
Votes: 134,335
18. The Jungle Book (1967)
Animation, Adventure, Family
Bagheera the Panther and Baloo the Bear have a difficult time trying to convince a boy to leave the jungle for human civilization.
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
Actors: Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Louis Prima, Bruce Reitherman
Stars: 7.6/10
Votes: 128,879
Gross: $141.84M
19. Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building.
Director: Blake Edwards
Actors: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen
Stars: 7.7/10
Votes: 128,745
20. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Crime, Drama
A man refuses to conform to life in a rural prison.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Actors: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Strother Martin, J.D. Cannon
Stars: 8.2/10
Votes: 124,659
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