Top Films of the 1960s (Calculated)

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São Paulo, Incorporated (1965)
São Paulo, Sociedade Anônima
other title: São Paulo, Sociedade Anônima
Carlos is a young man from the São Paulo middle class who works for a big company during a time when foreign automobile industries were settling in Brazil. Shortly after, he accepts a job at a factory that makes automobile parts, where he becomes manager. To a certain extent, he is a family man who works hard, earns well and lives unsatisfied. Without any prospects in his life to change the condition he rejects, his last resort is escaping.

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Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures (1965)
Операция «Ы» и другие приключения Шурика
Leonid Gaidai actor: Aleksandr Demyanenko / Mikhail Pugovkin …
other title: Operatsiya 'Y' i drugie priklyucheniya Shurika / Operação "Y" e Outras Aventuras de Shurika …
The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik, the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets into ludicrous situations but always finds a way out very neatly.

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The Red and the White (1967)
Csillagosok, Katonák
Miklós Jancsó actor: József Madaras / Tibor Molnár …
other title: L'armata a cavallo / Sterne an den Mützen …
In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks' defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side and then the other.

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I Am Twenty (1965)
Мне двадцать лет
Marlen Khutsiyev actor: Valentin Popov / Nikolai Gubenko …
other title: Ho vent'anni / Ich bin zwanzig Jahre alt …
Having returned from the army, 20-year-old Sergei settles down at the thermal power station and merges into ordinary life. Every day he meets and spends time with childhood friends — the young family man Slava and the merry fellow Nikolai, and once at first sight he falls in love with a stranger on the bus. A lyrical story about a generation of young people entering adulthood, a reappraisal of values, life principles, traditions in culture and art.

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The War Game (1966)
The War Game
other title: La Bombe / El juego de la guerra
A docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain. After backing the film's development, the BBC refused to air it, publicly stating "the effect of the film has been judged by the BBC to be too horrifying for the medium of broadcasting." It debuted in theaters in 1966 and went on to great acclaim, but remained unseen on British television until 1985.

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Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968)
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Jonas Mekas actor: Timothy Leary / Ed Emshwiller …
other title: Walden
Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family, friends, lovers, and artistic idols. Blending everyday encounters with portraits of the avant-garde art scene, it forms an epic, personal meditation on community, creativity, and the passage of time.

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Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Breakfast at Tiffany's
★ 6.9 12 ratings
Blake Edwards actor: Audrey Hepburn / George Peppard …
other title: Colazione da Tiffany / Pigen Holly …
Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.

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The Brick and the Mirror (1966)
خشت و آینه
Ebrahim Golestan actor: Taji Ahmadi / Zackaria Hashemi …
other title: Mattone e specchio / La Brique et le miroir …
Hashem is a cab driver who finds an infant child in the back seat of his cab one night after he gives a ride to a young woman. Hashem and his girlfriend, Taji, try to cope with this unwanted child. Hashem insists on getting rid of the child, Taji on keeping him.

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Entranced Earth (1967)
Terra em Transe
Glauber Rocha actor: Jardel Filho / Paulo Autran …
other title: Terra in trance / Terra em Transe …
Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a conservative. In this context, Paulo is torn between the madness of the elite and the blind submission of the masses. But, in this complex tropical reality, nothing really is what it seems to be.

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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
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Stanley Kramer actor: Spencer Tracy / Sidney Poitier …
other title: Indovina chi viene a cena? / Gæt hvem der kommer til middag …
A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.

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The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
The Manchurian Candidate
John Frankenheimer actor: Frank Sinatra / Laurence Harvey …
other title: Và e uccidi / Kandidaten fra Manchuriet …
Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.

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The Hill (1965)
The Hill
Sidney Lumet actor: Sean Connery / Harry Andrews …
other title: La collina del disonore / Højen …
North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.

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Titicut Follies (1967)
Titicut Follies
★ 9.0 5 ratings
A stark and graphic portrayal of the conditions that existed at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and documents the various ways the inmates are treated by the guards, social workers, and psychiatrists.

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Black God, White Devil (1964)
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Glauber Rocha actor: Geraldo del Rey / Yoná Magalhães …
other title: Deus E o Diabo na Terra do Sol / Le Dieu noir et le Diable blond …
Wanted for killing his boss, Manuel flees with his wife Rosa to the sertão, the barren landscape of Northern Brazil. Thrust into a primordial violent region, Manuel and Rosa come under the influence and control of a series of frightening figures.

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A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
Per un pugno di dollari
★ 7.9 18 ratings
Sergio actor: Clint Eastwood / Marianne Koch …
other title: Per un pugno di dollari / En nævefuld dollars …
The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.

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Walking the Streets of Moscow (1964)
Я шагаю по Москве
other title: A zonzo per Mosca / Zwischenlandung in Moskau …
On a stopover in Moscow, a young writer Volodya makes friends with Kolya, who is returning home from a hard night shift. Just as Kolya is about to take a rest, he is met by his old friend Sasha, who wants help getting a deferral from military service so that he can get married.
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