Best movies of 1960s

Little Big Man(1970)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 48

Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer.



Il gattopardo(1963)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 50

The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860's Sicily.



Planet of the Apes(1968)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 40

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.



Take the Money and Run(1969)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 48

The life and times of Virgil Starkwell, inept bank robber.



Il conformista(1970)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 50

A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.



Beneath the Planet of the Apes(1970)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 42

The sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission searches for the only survivor of the previous expedition. He discovers a planet ruled by apes and an underground city run by telepathic humans.





Les yeux sans visage(1960)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 45

A surgeon causes an accident which leaves his daughter disfigured, and goes to extremes to give her a new face.



West Side Story(1961)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 36

Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.



Becket(1964)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 50

King Henry II of England comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant Thomas à Becket, who finds his true honor by observing God's divine will rather than the king's.



In Cold Blood(1967)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 45

After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.



Le petit soldat(1963)

Combined Rating:
54
Combined Critics Rating: 61

During the Algerian war for independence from France, a young Frenchman living in Geneva who belongs to a right-wing terrorist group and a young woman who belongs to a left-wing terrorist ...



Bande à part(1964)

Combined Rating:
54
Combined Critics Rating: 44

Two crooks with a fondness for old Hollywood B-movies convince a languages student to help them commit a robbery.





Hombre(1967)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 51

John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Indians, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.



To Kill a Mockingbird(1962)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 29

Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice.



The Sound of Music(1965)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 30

A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.



Downhill Racer(1969)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 62

Quietly cocky Robert Redford joins U.S. ski team as downhill racer and clashes with the team's coach, played by Gene Hackman. Lots of good skiing action leading to an exciting climax.



Cape Fear(1962)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 38

A lawyer's family is stalked by a man he once helped put in jail.



In the Heat of the Night(1967)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 33

An African American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.




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