Top Films of the 1960s (Calculated)

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The Servant (1963)
The Servant
★ 8.0 5 ratings
Joseph Losey actor: Dirk Bogarde / James Fox …
other title: Il servo / O Criado …
Indolent aristocrat Tony employs competent Barrett as his manservant and all seems to be going well until Barrett persuades Tony to hire his sister as a live-in maid.

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A Hard Day's Night (1964)
A Hard Day's Night
Richard Lester actor: John Lennon / Paul McCartney …
other title: Tutti per uno / En Hård Dags Nat …
Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul's troublemaking grandfather and Ringo's arrest.

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The Innocents (1961)
The Innocents
★ 8.3 10 ratings
Jack Clayton actor: Deborah Kerr / Peter Wyngarde …
other title: Suspense / Os Inocentes …
A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.

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Ivan's Childhood (1962)
Иваново детство
★ 8.1 14 ratings
Andrei Tarkovsky actor: Nikolay Burlyaev / Valentin Zubkov …
other title: Ivanovo detstvo / L'infanzia di Ivan …
In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.

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Charulata (1964)
চারুলতা
Satyajit Ray actor: Madhabi Mukherjee / Soumitra Chatterjee …
other title: La Moglie Sola / Charulata - Die einsame Frau …
In 1870s India, Charulata is an isolated, artistically inclined woman who sees little of her busy journalist husband, Bhupati. Realizing that his wife is alienated and unhappy, he convinces his cousin, Amal, to spend time with Charulata and nourish her creative impulses. Amal is a fledgling poet himself, and he and Charulata bond over their shared love of art.

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Il Posto (1961)
Il posto
Ermanno Olmi actor: Loredana Detto / Sandro Panseri …
other title: Il posto / O Posto …
With his family mired in financial troubles, Domenico moves to Milan, Italy, from his small town to get a job in lieu of furthering his education. A lack of options forces him to take a position as a messenger at a big company, where he hopes to receive a promotion soon. There, Domenico meets Antonietta, a young woman in a similar situation as himself. The two form a tentative relationship, but the soulless nature of their jobs threatens to keep them apart.

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My Night at Maud's (1969)
Ma nuit chez Maud
★ 7.6 5 ratings
other title: La mia notte con Maud / Ma nuit chez Maud …
The Catholic Jean-Louis runs into an old friend, the Marxist Vidal, in Clermont-Ferrand around Christmas. Vidal introduces Jean-Louis to the modestly libertine, recently divorced Maud and the three engage in conversation on religion, atheism, love, morality and Blaise Pascal's life and writings on philosophy, faith and mathematics. Jean-Louis ends up spending a night at Maud's. Jean-Louis' Catholic views on marriage, fidelity and obligation make his situation a dilemma, as he has already, at the very beginning of the film, proclaimed his love for a young woman whom, however, he has never yet spoken to.

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Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Judgment at Nuremberg
Stanley Kramer actor: Spencer Tracy / Richard Widmark …
other title: Vincitori e vinti / Dommen i Nürnberg …
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.

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Spartacus (1960)
Spartacus
★ 7.8 6 ratings
other title: Espartaco
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.

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Belle de Jour (1967)
Belle de jour
★ 7.1 11 ratings
Luis Buñuel Portolés actor: Catherine Deneuve / Jean Sorel …
other title: Bella di giorno / Dagens Skønhed …
Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.

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The Virgin Spring (1960)
Jungfrukällan
★ 8.1 7 ratings
Ingmar Bergman actor: Max von Sydow / Birgitta Valberg …
other title: La fontana della vergine / Jomfrukilden …
Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster daughter, the unrepentant Ingeri, to deliver candles to a distant church. On their way through the woods, the girls encounter a group of savage goat herders who brutally rape and murder Karin as Ingeri remains hidden. When the killers unwittingly seek refuge in the farmhouse of Töre and Märeta, Töre plots a fitting revenge.

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Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)
薔薇の葬列
Toshio Matsumoto actor: Shinnosuke Ikehata / Osamu Ogasawara …
other title: Il funerale delle rose / 薔薇の葬列 …
In late 60s Tokyo, Eddie, a young drag queen, is the favourite of Gonda, the owner of the bar where she works. This relationship provokes the jealousy of Gonda's mistress, Leda, the bar's matron. Eddie and Gonda decide to get rid of her...

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The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1965)
Il vangelo secondo Matteo
★ 8.8 6 ratings
Pier Paolo Pasolini actor: Enrique Irazoqui / Margherita Caruso …
other title: Il vangelo secondo Matteo / O Evangelho Segundo São Mateus …
Along a rocky, barren coastline, Jesus begins teaching, primarily using parables. He attracts disciples; he's stern, brusque, and demanding. His parables often take on the powers that be, so he and his teachings come to the attention of the Pharisees, the chief priests, and elders. They conspire to have him arrested, beaten, tried, and crucified, just as he prophesied to his followers.

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Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Night of the Living Dead
★ 7.9 14 ratings
George A. Romero actor: Judith O'Dea / Duane Jones …
other title: La notte dei morti viventi / De Levende Døde …
A group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse find themselves fending off a horde of recently dead, flesh-eating ghouls.

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The Big City (1963)
মহানগর
Satyajit Ray actor: Madhabi Mukherjee / Anil Chatterjee …
other title: La grande Città / Die große Stadt …
After her husband loses his job, a housewife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a salesperson.

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Peeping Tom (1960)
Peeping Tom
★ 8.2 13 ratings
Michael Powell actor: Karlheinz Böhm / Anna Massey …
other title: L'occhio che uccide / Fotomodeller Jages …
Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.
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