Best Genius & Prodigy movies of 1960s

Actors : Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova, Paul Newman, Hansjörg Felmy,
Directors : Alfred Hitchcock,

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.

Actors : Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien, Stephen Boyd, Donald Pleasence,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

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.

Actors : Curd Jürgens, Harry Andrews, Michael Caine, Trevor Howard,
Directors : Guy Hamilton,

In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the UK.

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 : Richard Harris, Kirk Douglas, Ulla Jacobsson, Michael Redgrave,
Directors : Anthony Mann,

Norwegian resistance tries to stop German efforts to produce an atomic bomb component during World War II.

Actors : Martha Hyer, Lionel Jeffries, Miles Malleson, Edward Judd,
Directors : Nathan Juran,

When a spaceship lands on the moon, it is hailed as a new accomplishment, before it becomes clear that a Victorian party completed the journey in 1899, leading investigators to that mission's last survivor.

Actors : Leon Janney, Claire Bloom, Cliff Robertson, Lilia Skala,
Directors : Ralph Nelson,

An intellectually disabled man undergoes an experiment that gives him the intelligence of a genius.

Actors : Kurt Russell, William Schallert, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn,
Directors : Robert Butler,

Some college students manage to persuade the town's big businessman, A. J. Arno, to donate a computer to their college. When the problem- student, Dexter Riley, tries to fix the computer, ...

Actors : Roddy McDowall, Lola Albright, Martin West, Tuesday Weld,
Directors : George Axelrod,

A bright satirical comedy about an innocent high school girl granted her wishes by a student prodigy. A broad satire of teenage culture in the sixties, its targets ranging from progressive education to beach movies.

Actors : Johnny Crawford, Tommy Kirk, Joy Harmon, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Bert I. Gordon,

Delinquent teen-agers ingest a substance and grow thirty feet tall, then proceed to take over a small town.

Actors : Sean Connery, Joanne Woodward, Patrick O'Neal, Jean Seberg,
Directors : Irvin Kershner,

Samson Shillitoe, mad genius of a poet irresistible to women but plagued by writer's block, agrees to see a psychiatrist... and his beautiful wife.

Actors : Alberto Lupo, Sergio Fantoni, Susanne Loret, Franca Parisi,
Directors : Anton Giulio Majano,

A stripper is horribly disfigured in a car accident. A brilliant scientist develops a treatment that restores her beauty and falls in love with her. To preserve her appearance the doctor ...

Actors : Lilli Palmer, Dirk Bogarde, John Gielgud, Susannah York,
Directors : David Greene,

A British mathematician, working on code decryption, unexpectedly falls in love with another decrypter. This leads them to a complicated intrigue within the codebreakers.

Actors : Robert Ryan, Luciana Paluzzi, Nanette Newman, Chuck Connors,
Directors : James Hill,

When Captain Nemo saves the passengers of a sinking ship and takes them to his Utopian underwater city he discovers that not all of his guests agree to remain there forever.

Actors : Fabian, Cindy Carol, James Stewart, Glynis Johns,
Directors : Henry Koster,

Professor Leaf, an absent-minded poet with a prejudice against the sciences, is forced to face the fact that his son is a math prodigy with little artistic talent of his own.

Actors : Edward G. Robinson, Eli Wallach, Joan Collins, Rod Steiger,
Directors : Henry Hathaway,

A motley crew of professional thieves plans the robbery of a Monte Carlo casino vault.

Actors : Orson Welles, Carol White, Harry Andrews, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Michael Winner,

Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing for a small literary magazine. He wants to...

Actors : Yul Brynner, Kay Kendall, Maxwell Shaw, Geoffrey Toone,
Directors : Stanley Donen,

Yul Brynner plays a musical genius whose eccentricities are kept in check by his wife, until she discovers him "auditioning" a sultry young pianist. She walks out on him and his career ...

Actors : Hardy Krüger, David Opatoshu, Macha Méril, Montgomery Clift,
Directors : Raoul Lévy,

Montgomery Cliff (in his last role) plays James Bower, an American physicist visiting West Germany who's recruited by a shady CIA agent, named Adam, to help them with the defection of a ...

Actors : Ciccio Ingrassia, Gloria Paul, Fernando Rey, Franco Franchi,
Directors : Giorgio Simonelli,

An evil genius named Goldginger hatches a plot to turn all government employees into mindless drones.