Best Crime movies of 1960s

Actors : Rony Clanton, Yolanda Rodríguez, Carl Lee, Clarence Williams III,
Directors : Shirley Clarke,

Filmmaker Shirley Clarke ("The Connection") directs this powerful, stark semi-documentary look at the horrors of Harlem ghetto slum life filled with drugs, violence, human misery, and a ...

Actors : Fariba Khatami, Bahman Mofid, Hassan Shahin, Behrouz Vossoughi,
Directors : Masud Kimiai,

Reza Motori, who has feigned madness, escapes from an asylum and robs a factory, with the aid of a friend. Afterwards, a young writer, who looks exactly like Reza, visits the asylum in ...

Actors : Yvonne Furneaux, Maurice Ronet, Anthony Perkins, Stéphane Audran,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

A champagne tycoon's (Furneaux) partner (Ronet) suspects his partner's gigolo husband (Perkins) of murders he's been framed for.

Actors : Tomas Milian, Margaret Lee, Don Backy, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Carlo Lizzani,

A detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers.

Actors : Tuncer Necmioglu, Pervin Par, Yilmaz Güney, Erol Tas,
Directors : Lütfi Akad,

In order to keep his ailing son alive, an impoverished man agrees to sneak a herd of sheep across the border.

Actors : Guillermo Orea, Arturo de Córdova, Elda Peralta, Amparo Rivelles,
Directors : Rogelio A. González,

A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after twenty years of hellish marriage.

Actors : Uschi Glas, Grit Boettcher, Konrad Georg, Joachim Fuchsberger,
Directors : Alfred Vohrer,

Police try to track down a hooded serial killer who murders his victims with a combination of acid and poison gas.

Actors : William Lucas, Billie Whitelaw, Françoise Prévost, Michael Craig,
Directors : Sidney Hayers,

A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ...

Actors : Bernard Blier, André Pousse, Marlène Jobert, Françoise Rosay,
Directors : Michel Audiard,

Actors : Robert Bean, Georgianna Carter, Carol Bigby, Jack Nicholson,
Directors : Harvey Berman,

A rebellious punk of the beat generation spends his days as an amateur dirt track driver in between partying and troublemaking. He eventually kidnaps his buddy's girlfriend, kills a few ...

Actors : Orson Welles, Keith Michell, George Peppard, Inger Stevens,
Directors : John Guillermin,

In 1960s Paris, an American boxer stumbles upon an international fascist conspiracy that aims to create a new world order.

Actors : Nobuo Nakamura, Yôko Fujiyama, Yôsuke Natsuki, Hiroshi Koizumi,
Directors : Ishirô Honda,

The Earth is attacked by a giant jellyfish monster from outer space that, for some reason, has a sweet tooth for diamonds.

Actors : Dorothy Provine, Rip Torn, David McCallum, Robert Vaughn,
Directors : Joseph Sargent,

U.N.C.L.E. agents Solo and Kuryakin try to stop a megalomaniac who thinks he's like Alexander The Great, commits offenses against the ten commandments and steals chemical weapons from the army in order to achieve world domination.

Actors : Linda Ho, Vincent Price, Richard Loo, June Kyoto Lu,
Directors : Albert Zugsmith,

In 19th century San Francisco's Chinatown, American adventurer Gilbert De Quincey is saving slave girls owned by the Chinese Tong factions.

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Nanda, Bindu, Sujit Kumar,
Directors : Yash Chopra,

Taking place almost entirely over the course of one stormy night, a woman is terrified when an accused murderer escapes from a mental hospital and seeks refuge in her home.

Actors : Jan Murray, Sal Mineo, Juliet Prowse, Elaine Stritch,
Directors : Joseph Cates,

In New York, a disco hostess is stalked by a sexual predator and she requests help from a vice squad detective who takes a personal interest in the case.

Actors : Dorothy Provine, Edward G. Robinson, Dick Van Dyke, Henry Silva,
Directors : Jerry Paris,

When practicing for a role, actor Jack is mistaken for the killer Ace. He doesn't realize this until it's too late and is carried off to gangster boss Leo Smooth, who wants Ace to do a job ...

Actors : Lino Ventura, Maurice Biraud, Irina Demick, Charles Aznavour,
Directors : Pierre Granier-Deferre,

Three little criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding torch. So they persuade their successful ...

Actors : Lionel Jeffries, Mark Lester, Jeremy Kemp, Susan George,
Directors : John Hough,

Witnessing an assassination, a boy claims the assassins are hunting him. With his older sister, the pair escape numerous attacks and are aided by their grandfather and a resourceful young ...

Actors : Bernard Blier, Maurice Biraud, Danièle Delorme, Francis Blanche,
Directors : Georges Lautner,

In a moment of madness a respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. Unable to take in what he has done, he flees from the scene of the crime and behaves as if nothing has happened.