25 Favorite Films of the 1960s

My favorite film of the 1960s came in the decade's first year. It's also my favorite Hitchcock and one of my favorite horror films.

This is my favorite Sean Connery Bond film. It has a realistic feel to it. It's fun to watch Bond try to make his way back through enemy territory, without the use of a cell phone. They don't make movies like this anymore.

This is a great dark comedy, by one of my favorite filmmakers of all time, Stanley Kubrick. The performances are legendary, and many scenes and lines are hysterical. The film also offer many lessons about deterence and mutual assured destruction.

This is the "Citizen Kane" of zombie movies. It's in black-and-white and made in the 1960s, but it was still well ahead of its time.

I'm a big James Bond fan, but the 1960s Bond films are by far my favorites. OHMSS is the most polarizing Bond film of all time, but I love it. I enjoyed the humor, the action, and the emotional side of Bond that we would not see again until Daniel Craig in Casino Royale.

Considered by many to be the greatest of all Bond films, Goldfinger clearly belongs among the top tier. This was the third film in the series, and it became to tilt the franchise towards campyness a bit. The villain's plan to seize the gold in Fort Knox is one of the most audacious schemes in a Bond film.

This is a great Western film by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood. The film is cool and epic and provides cool imagery of the old West and the American Civil War. The three-way gunfight at the end is very suspensful and exciting.

This is a somewhat underrated Leone film. It's not as epic as the Good, the Bad and the Ugly, but it moves better. It provides a very satisfactory conclusion. It's a lot of fun to see Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef interact with one another.

This is an outstanding film about the life of Jesus Christ. The dialogue is all taken directly from the Book of Matthew itself. It's filmed in black-and-white. It's understated yet very powerful at the same time.

I think that this is perhaps the most underrated Bond film of all time. It doesn't get the credit that it deserves. The quality of special effects and budget are far behind the films that would follow, but it's still very entertaining.

This is a classic, epic film that makes for a very enjoyable movie-watching experience. I love the acting and cinematopgraphy. It also provides a lot of history and gives the viewer a glimpse of Arabia during World War I.

This is a chilling and engaging suspense/horror film from Roman Polanski. The characters are very well developed and believable. It shows that evil doesn't always come in the form of mosters and serial killers, but it can come from the seemingly friendly people living in the apartment next to you.

This is another film that follows a group of outlaws. In this case, it's the "Barrow Gang" and their Depression-era bank robberies. The perfromances are all oustanding. It's fun to go along with these characters on this ride.

I'm a big fan of the sci fi genre, and Planet of the Apes is the best of the 1960s. It provides a sense of wonder, mystery, and discovery. Fans of Star Trek should give this film a try if they have not already seen it.

This is a strange, Japanese horror film that is not quite like anything I have seen before. It explores the dark side of human nature, but is also very artistic and beautiful.

This is Sam Peckinpah's great "anti-Western" that follows a group of outlaws at the end of the Western era. I like how they have their own code of honor, despite their other character flaws. The shootout at the end provides a bloody, satisfying conclusion.

Another one of my all-time favorite actors is Paul Newman. He gives one of his finest performances in this film. There are other great performances as well, including George C. Scott. This is a dark sports film, but it is also fun to see the trick shots and hustles.

Dustin Hoffman is among my favorite all-time actors, and I really enjoyed his performance here. There are a lot of metaphors in this movie about the younger generation breaking away from the older one and this mirrors what was going on in the 1960s.

This is certainly a film that every movie lover should see. It really requires multiple viewings to really appreciate. It's one of the most influential films of all time.

This is a fascinating Japanese film about a scientist who becomes trapped by rural villagers. He is cut off from society. This is an existential film that really made me think.

This is a thrilling suspense movie, staring Audrey Hepburn. She provides the vulnerability as a blind woman threatened by dangerous criminals. We really cheer for her and want her to survive. The film provides some good scares and has claustrophobic feel, but also has some humorous moments.

This is my favorite Goddard film. It features one of the best scenes in cinema history of a couple arguing. It found myself guessing as to the reason for the conflict. This film was a great story that made me mediate on it long after the final credits rolled.

This is the ultimate World War II prisoner of war movie. It's a ton of fun and features a large number of characters who taken different paths in an attempt to escape a Nazi prison camp. Steve McQueen shines as a huge star in this one.

Yojimbo is an outstanding Japanese samurai film about honor and overcoming tremendous odds. It was also the inspiration for the "Man with No Name" Spaghetti westerns, beginning with a Fist Full of Dollars, which uses Yojimbo's plot and transplants it to the old U.S. West.

This is another excellent samurai movie. It features a tale of honor and revenge and has some surprising twists and turns. The score for the film is also fantastic.