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Top 100 Movies from the 1960s

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  1. Psycho (1960) - Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
  2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Directed by Stanley Kubrick
  3. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - Directed by David Lean
  4. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) - Directed by Sergio Leone
  5. Dr. Strangelove (1964) - Directed by Stanley Kubrick
  6. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) - Directed by Robert Mulligan
  7. 8½ (1963) - Directed by Federico Fellini
  8. West Side Story (1961) - Directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins
  9. The Sound of Music (1965) - Directed by Robert Wise
  10. Bonnie and Clyde (1967) - Directed by Arthur Penn
  11. The Graduate (1967) - Directed by Mike Nichols
  12. Midnight Cowboy (1969) - Directed by John Schlesinger
  13. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) - Directed by George Roy Hill
  14. Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) - Directed by Blake Edwards
  15. Rosemary's Baby (1968) - Directed by Roman Polanski
  16. Goldfinger (1964) - Directed by Guy Hamilton
  17. Easy Rider (1969) - Directed by Dennis Hopper
  18. Cool Hand Luke (1967) - Directed by Stuart Rosenberg
  19. The Apartment (1960) - Directed by Billy Wilder
  20. My Fair Lady (1964) - Directed by George Cukor
  21. A Hard Day's Night (1964) - Directed by Richard Lester
  22. Mary Poppins (1964) - Directed by Robert Stevenson
  23. Spartacus (1960) - Directed by Stanley Kubrick
  24. The Birds (1963) - Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
  25. In the Heat of the Night (1967) - Directed by Norman Jewison
  26. Belle de Jour (1967) - Directed by Luis Buñuel
  27. Doctor Zhivago (1965) - Directed by David Lean
  28. Persona (1966) - Directed by Ingmar Bergman
  29. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) - Directed by Mike Nichols
  30. The Manchurian Candidate (1962) - Directed by John Frankenheimer
  31. La Dolce Vita (1960) - Directed by Federico Fellini
  32. The Pink Panther (1963) - Directed by Blake Edwards
  33. Planet of the Apes (1968) - Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
  34. The Jungle Book (1967) - Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman
  35. Blow-Up (1966) - Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
  36. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) - Directed by Stanley Kramer
  37. The Dirty Dozen (1967) - Directed by Robert Aldrich
  38. Oliver! (1968) - Directed by Carol Reed
  39. Thunderball (1965) - Directed by Terence Young
  40. El Cid (1961) - Directed by Anthony Mann
  41. From Russia with Love (1963) - Directed by Terence Young
  42. A Fistful of Dollars (1964) - Directed by Sergio Leone
  43. Yojimbo (1961) - Directed by Akira Kurosawa
  44. The Great Escape (1963) - Directed by John Sturges
  45. Contempt (1963) - Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
  46. Le Samouraï (1967) - Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville
  47. The Battle of Algiers (1966) - Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo
  48. Z (1969) - Directed by Costa-Gavras
  49. The Lion in Winter (1968) - Directed by Anthony Harvey
  50. The Haunting (1963) - Directed by Robert Wise
  51. Cleopatra (1963) - Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  52. Night of the Living Dead (1968) - Directed by George A. Romero
  53. Fahrenheit 451 (1966) - Directed by François Truffaut
  54. Repulsion (1965) - Directed by Roman Polanski
  55. The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) - Directed by Norman Jewison
  56. Lolita (1962) - Directed by Stanley Kubrick
  57. The Italian Job (1969) - Directed by Peter Collinson
  58. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) - Directed by Peter R. Hunt
  59. Pierrot le Fou (1965) - Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
  60. Shoot the Piano Player (1960) - Directed by François Truffaut
  61. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) - Directed by Jacques Demy
  62. The Hustler (1961) - Directed by Robert Rossen
  63. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1969) - Directed by Stephan Elliott
  64. Charade (1963) - Directed by Stanley Donen
  65. Marnie (1964) - Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
  66. For a Few Dollars More (1965) - Directed by Sergio Leone
  67. The Virgin Spring (1960) - Directed by Ingmar Bergman
  68. Alphaville (1965) - Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
  69. The War of the Worlds (1965) - Directed by Byron Haskin
  70. The Misfits (1961) - Directed by John Huston
  71. The Magnificent Seven (1960) - Directed by John Sturges
  72. A Man for All Seasons (1966) - Directed by Fred Zinnemann
  73. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) - Directed by Sergio Leone
  74. The Graduate (1967) - Directed by Mike Nichols
  75. Jules and Jim (1962) - Directed by François Truffaut
  76. The Producers (1968) - Directed by Mel Brooks
  77. Harakiri (1962) - Directed by Masaki Kobayashi
  78. The Red Balloon (1960) - Directed by Albert Lamorisse
  79. Vivre Sa Vie (1962) - Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
  80. The Trial (1962) - Directed by Orson Welles
  81. The Leopard (1963) - Directed by Luchino Visconti
  82. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) - Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
  83. High and Low (1963) - Directed by Akira Kurosawa
  84. The Damned (1969) - Directed by Luchino Visconti
  85. Band of Outsiders (1964) - Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
  86. The Pawnbroker (1964) - Directed by Sidney Lumet
  87. Kwaidan (1964) - Directed by Masaki Kobayashi
  88. The Knack ...and How to Get It (1965) - Directed by Richard Lester
  89. The Innocents (1961) - Directed by Jack Clayton
  90. The Collector (1965) - Directed by William Wyler
  91. Darling (1965) - Directed by John Schlesinger
  92. The Servant (1963) - Directed by Joseph Losey
  93. The Ipcress File (1965) - Directed by Sidney J. Furie
  94. A Patch of Blue (1965) - Directed by Guy Green
  95. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1969) - Directed by Dario Argento
  96. Bullitt (1968) - Directed by Peter Yates
  97. The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) - Directed by Roman Polanski
  98. Women in Love (1969) - Directed by Ken Russell
  99. The Wild Bunch (1969) - Directed by Sam Peckinpah
  100. Barbarella (1968) - Directed by Roger Vadim

This list incorporates a range of genres, from suspenseful thrillers and epic dramas to groundbreaking science fiction and influential comedies, showcasing the diverse and rich landscape of 1960s cinema.