Best Movies of the 1960s

These are the 48 best-rated movies released in the 1960s, led by Rosie!, Ankhen and Farewell Kiss. Ranked by audience score, with cast, trailers and legal places to watch on every page.

1. Rosie! (1967)

★ 10.0/10

An eccentric Los Angeles dowager decides to fight back when her two greedy daughters attempt to have her declared legally insane.
2. Ankhen (1968)

★ 9.0/10

Shortly after independence India faces terrorists attacks in Assam. A group of concerned citizens, who are not connected with the government, decide to do something to stop this carnage. Spy Sunil Mehra (Dharmendra)…
3. Farewell Kiss (1965)

★ 9.0/10

Ekrem who lost his wife on his wedding day, He meets a woman who looks like his dead wife. However, she does not like him and finds him ugly. He tries every way to make her like him.
4. Kadın Berberi (1964)

★ 9.0/10

Lale is the only daughter of a wealthy family and inherits all her parents' money and property. On a boat tour, she meets Erol the hair dresser. In the beginning they feel attracted to each other but all this ends as…
5. Nelson Cavaquinho (1969)

★ 8.8/10

A short film of lovely poetic, observational elements and interviews with the famed samba singer/songwriter Nelson Antônio da Silva, whose adopted last name ‘Cavaquinho’ refers to the small guitar-like instrument that…
6. Hero of the Red Light District (1960)

★ 8.7/10

A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring birthmark on his face. Even the courtesans in Yoshiwara refuse to…
7. Vagabonds from Badgerville (1961)

★ 8.5/10

A musical about the escapades of some tanuki passing themselves off as humans in human society.
8. The Scapular (1968)

★ 8.3/10

A woman who is about to die calls the town's priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not believe in them will end up dead.
9. Secret Paris (1965)

★ 8.0/10

Features gourmets chowing down on bats, voodoo practitioners, a chap who has a fetish for being covered in bees and a gal who has the Eiffel Tower tattooed on her behind so she can sell the skin at a later date. These…
10. Blood and Diamonds (1964)

★ 8.0/10

A group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions begin to rise.
11. The Dog Lover (1962)

★ 8.0/10

Jack is the fastidious manager of a local supermarket. The harmless but disruptive actions of his customers frequently give him headaches, which he remedies by holding a can of frozen juice against his forehead. At…
12. The Bogus Policeman (1967)

★ 8.0/10

Toramatsu is a very enthusiastic policeman. Believing that the police should help others he is dismissed the force when his pistol is stolen while doing one of his good deeds. He saves a child from drowning, restores…
13. L'assassin connaît la musique (1963)

★ 7.8/10

Lionel Fribourg, a great composer (at least that's what he thinks) has a problem with his noisy environment: he can't complete his unfinished symphony. Of course there is a market for unfinished symphonies but, for all…
14. The Monkey King: Uproar in Heaven (1961)

★ 7.7/10

Sun Wukong, the King of the Monkeys, sets off on his first adventure to gain a worthy weapon. This earns the attention of the Jade Emperor of Heaven.
15. The Morning (1967)

★ 7.5/10

In the first days after the Second World War, as collaborators are being taken care of, a former partisan finds out that war never truly ends — not even in time of peace.
16. Wall Engravings (1968)

★ 7.5/10

Jeanne looks back on her love for Jean. The melancholic young man wouldn't accept the world as it was, always wishing to depart. She doesn't know that he's dead.
17. Long Live the Republic (1965)

★ 7.5/10

Oldrich is the runt of his village, beaten by his father, bullied by the other boys. But he has imagination on his side, and a wiry toughness they can’t defeat. The village is in turmoil, because the Nazi occupiers…
18. Yeh Raat Phir Na Aaygi (1966)

★ 7.5/10

After discovery of skeletal remains at an excavation site, a woman known to be deceased for over 2 centuries mysteriously re-surfaces to claim her lover.
19. Baby Doll (1968)

★ 7.5/10

A bachelor attorney with a roving eye for beautiful women stets his sights on a Young student for his next amorous conquest.
20. The Olsen Gang (1969)

★ 7.5/10

Egon Olsen is the leader of the Olsen Gang. While he was in the slammer, he planned how he would steal the fantastic golden figure Keizeroppzatsen.
21. Eleven Samurai (1967)

★ 7.5/10

The lord of the Oshi fief is killed by his trespassing neighbour, the cruel and despotic Nariatsu, son of the former Shogun. After an investigation, the Oshi clan is blamed for what happened and sentenced to be…
22. The Great Killing (1964)

★ 7.5/10

A cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfill a plot to assassinate the puppet of a villain intent on usurping the shogunate in the 17th century. A Shogunate Elder connives to rule Japan by making his…
23. The Girls (1962)

★ 7.5/10

A graduate of the culinary technical school of the cook, Tosya Kislitsyna, a naive and eccentric girl, came to the village lost in the northern forests. She sticks her nose in all affairs, seeks to help everyone. She…
24. Chief of the Souls Sector (1967)

★ 7.4/10

Magdalena, a young chemist, imagines how the perfect man should look like. Gore, a meteorologist, former friend who was in love with her identifies in the end with the true love imagined by Magdalena.
25. Romeo e Giulietta (1964)

★ 7.3/10

Two teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy.
26. Paris in August (1966)

★ 7.3/10

A man is alone in Paris during the month of August while his woman and children go on vacation. He meets a young English girl posing as a model who came to Paris for a shoot.
27. This Man Must Die (1969)

★ 7.3/10

When his young son is killed in a hit and run accident, Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and murder the killer. By chance, Thenier makes the acquaintance of an actress, Helène Lanson, who was in the car at the…
28. The Threat (1966)

★ 7.3/10

Two escaped criminals who kidnapped a baby break into the house of Misawa, a man who works in an advertising agency and lives quietly with his family. They will force him to collect the child's ransom for them.
29. Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro (1965)

★ 7.3/10

The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi. With all the familiar characters making appearances: Otsu (Musashi's great love), Akemi, Matahachi (his…
30. Spies Kill Silently (1966)

★ 7.3/10

Professor Freeman is an important English scientist that is investigating a method to treat cancer. His daughter is killed in the swimming pool of a hotel in Beirut. The case is confidential so that the mission is…
31. Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen (1966)

★ 7.2/10

A 1964 documentary portrait of Cohen in his pre-musician days as a poet and stand-up comedian.
32. The Horse with the Flying Tail (1960)

★ 7.2/10

A palimino cow pony, through a series of owners and adventures becomes a champion mount for one of the US equestrian team.
33. Professor Mamlock (1961)

★ 7.2/10

A Jewish chief of surgery in 1933 Germany remains blind to the rising Nazi threat, dismissing political dissent from his son and a patient, until his family faces increasing anti-Semitic persecution.
34. Dirkie (1969)

★ 7.2/10

An 8-year-old boy and his dog are left to face a vast desert wasteland alone after a plane crash, while an army of men and machines penetrate the desert searching for them. Based on true events.
35. The White Dove (1960)

★ 7.1/10

A poetic film about a dove getting lost on its way to Prague getting shot down by a paralyzed boy. An artist who finds the dove becomes friends with the boy. Together they take care of it bringing it back to recovery.
36. A Mountain Tale (1967)

★ 7.0/10

When a young woman learns that her fiancé is cheating on her, she leaves her school and goes to remote village as a teacher. In the village where she goes, her unprecedented behavior disturbs some villagers. Complained…
37. Dağlar Kızı Reyhan (1969)

★ 7.0/10

The film tells the love story of Reyhan, who works as a sales assistant at a record company, and Mehmet, a driver. Mehmet is going to Germany to buy a car. His fiancée Reyhan does not want him to go. Ekrem, the King of…
38. Watch It, Sailor! (1961)

★ 7.0/10

Sailor Albert gets a message from the Navy saying he can't marry for certain unexplained legal reasons. Everyone, including his domineering mother-in-law to be, jumps to the conclusion that there must be another woman…
39. Normal Love (1965)

★ 7.0/10

The feature length Normal Love is Jack Smith’s follow up to his now legendary film Flaming Creatures. This vivid, full-color homage to B-movies is a dizzying display of camp that clearly affirms Smith’s role as the…
40. Adieu Philippine (1962)

★ 6.9/10

Michel is a young technician in the fledgling TV industry and is due for military service in two months at the time of the Algerian War. Juliette and Liliane are inseparable best friends, and aspiring actresses, who…
41. All the Way Home (1963)

★ 6.9/10

In the early 1900's Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father's sudden, accidental death. The widow and her young son must endure the heartache of life following the tragedy, but slowly rise up from…
42. All the Women in the World (1966)

★ 6.9/10

When womanizer Paulo meets a friend’s fiancée, she changes the way he looks at the opposite sex. He falls in love, and believes she is in fact all women in one. Because of that, he has to face an important decision: to…
43. Compressed Hare (1961)

★ 6.9/10

Bugs battles Wile E. Coyote. A ten trillion volt electric magnet draws everything imaginable.
44. Prince Violent (1961)

★ 6.9/10

Viking Yosemite Sam arrives to storm the castle. But Bugs takes charge of the defenses, and between Bugs' cleverness and Sam's stupidity, the castle is never seriously threatened, even when Sam enlists the help of an…
45. The Epic That Never Was (1969)

★ 6.9/10

The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage.
46. Person to Bunny (1960)

★ 6.8/10

In his Hollywood home Bugs is being interviewed by the Edward R. Murrow TV show "People to People" when Daffy and Elmer show up.
47. A Gentle Woman (1969)

★ 6.8/10

When his young wife commits suicide with no explanation, an introspective pawnbroker looks back on their life together.
48. The Ballad of Crowfoot (1968)

★ 6.8/10

Released in 1968 and often referred to as Canada’s first music video, The Ballad of Crowfoot was directed by Willie Dunn, a Mi’kmaq/Scottish folk singer and activist who was part of the historic Indian Film Crew, the…