Best movies of 1960s that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Geneviève Page, Raf Vallone,
Directors : Anthony Mann,

The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.

Actors : Katy Jurado, Pina Pellicer, Karl Malden, Marlon Brando,
Directors : Marlon Brando,

After robbing a Mexican bank, Dad Longworth takes the loot and leaves his partner Rio to be captured but Rio escapes and searches for Dad in California.

Actors : Jack Klugman, Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

An alcoholic marries a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.

Actors : Pamela Brown, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Elizabeth Taylor,

Queen Cleopatra of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.

Actors : Sue Lyon, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, Richard Burton,
Directors : John Huston,

A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.

Actors : Peter Ustinov, Robert Morley, Maximilian Schell, Melina Mercouri,
Directors : Jules Dassin,

A conman gets mixed up with a group of thieves who plan to rob an Istanbul museum to retrieve a jeweled dagger.

Actors : Robert Shaw, Wendy Hiller, Paul Scofield, Leo McKern,
Directors : Fred Zinnemann,

The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage.

Actors : Brian Keith, Alan Arkin, Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

Without hostile intent, a Soviet sub runs aground off New England. Men are sent for a boat, but many villagers go into a tizzy, risking bloodshed.

Actors : David Niven, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles, Peter Sellers,

In an early spy spoof, aging Sir James Bond comes out of retirement to take on SMERSH.

Actors : Samantha Eggar, Rex Harrison, Anthony Newley, Richard Attenborough,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

After the animal communicating veterinarian goes too far for his clientèle, he and his friends escape their hometown to sea in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail.

Actors : Shirley MacLaine, Audrey Hepburn, James Garner, Miriam Hopkins,
Directors : William Wyler,

A troublemaking student at a girls' school accuses two teachers of being lesbians.

Actors : Leslie Caron, Jack Good, Trevor Howard, Cary Grant,
Directors : Ralph Nelson,

During World War II, a man persuaded to live on an isolated island and spot aircraft finds himself responsible for a teacher and several students, all female.

Actors : Robert Ryan, Dana Andrews, Robert Shaw, Henry Fonda,
Directors : Ken Annakin,

A dramatization of Nazi Germany's final Western Front counterattack of World War II.

Actors : Trevor Howard, Robert Mitchum, Christopher Jones, John Mills,
Directors : David Lean,

Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.

Actors : Jenny Runacre, Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk, John Cassavetes,
Directors : John Cassavetes,

A common friend's sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives and ultimately leave together. But mindless enthusiasm for regained freedom will be ...

Actors : Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde, Melvyn Douglas,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

Honest and hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant and egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash.

Actors : Rachel Roberts, William Hartnell, Richard Harris, Alan Badel,
Directors : Lindsay Anderson,

Despite success on the field, a rising rugby star senses the emerging emptiness of his life as his inner angst begins to materialize through aggression and brutality, so he attempts to woo his landlady in hopes of finding reason to live.

Actors : Hardy Krüger, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, James Stewart,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

After a plane crash in the Sahara, one of the survivors says he's an airplane designer and they can make a flyable plane from the wreckage.

Actors : Patricia Neal, Kirk Douglas, Tom Tryon, John Wayne,
Directors : Otto Preminger,

A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.

Actors : Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan, Rock Hudson, Jim Brown,
Directors : John Sturges,

USN nuclear sub USS Tigerfish must rush to the North Pole to rescue the staff of Drift Ice Station Zebra weather station.