Top Films of the 1960s (Calculated)

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Contempt (1963)
Le Mépris
★ 7.4 8 ratings
other title: Il disprezzo / O Desprezo …
A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb at the box office, he brings in a screenwriter to energize the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife.

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Macario (1960)
Macario
Roberto Gavaldón actor: Ignacio López Tarso / Pina Pellicer …
other title: Morte in vacanza / Macário …
Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, Death gives him a bottle of water which will heal any illness. Soon, Macario is more wealthy than the village doctor, which draws the attention of the feared Inquisition.

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L'Eclisse (1962)
L'eclisse
★ 8.3 11 ratings
Michelangelo Antonioni actor: Alain Delon / Monica Vitti …
other title: L'eclisse / O Eclipse …
Vittoria is a beautiful literary translator living in Rome. After splitting from her writer boyfriend, Riccardo, Vittoria meets Piero, a lively stockbroker, on the hectic floor of the Roman stock exchange. Though Vittoria and Piero begin a relationship, it is not one without difficulties, and their commitment to one another is tested during an eclipse.

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In Cold Blood (1967)
In Cold Blood
Richard Brooks actor: Robert Blake / Scott Wilson …
other title: A sangue freddo / Med koldt blod …
After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.

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The Color of Pomegranates (1969)
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★ 8.9 8 ratings
other title: Sayat Nova / Colour of Pomegranate …
The life of the revered 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova. Portraying events in the life of the artist from childhood up to his death, the movie addresses in particular his relationships with women, including his muse. The production tells Sayat-Nova’s dramatic story by using both his poems and largely still camerawork, creating a work hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.

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Mary Poppins (1964)
Mary Poppins
★ 7.9 8 ratings
Robert Stevenson actor: Julie Andrews / Dick Van Dyke …
Mr Banks is looking for a nanny for his two mischievous children and comes across Mary Poppins, an angelic nanny. She not only brings a change in their lives but also spreads happiness.

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The Cloud-Capped Star (1960)
মেঘে ঢাকা তারা
Ritwik Ghatak actor: Supriya Choudhury / Anil Chatterjee …
other title: La stella nascosta / Etoile cachée …
A selfless young woman, the daughter of a middle-class refugee family from East Pakistan, sacrifices her own happiness for her unappreciative family.

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Mouchette (1967)
Mouchette
Robert Bresson actor: Nadine Nortier / Jean-Claude Guilbert …
other title: Mouchette - Tutta la vita in una notte / Mouchette - Den voldtagne
A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.

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The Silence (1963)
Tystnaden
Ingmar Bergman actor: Ingrid Thulin / Gunnel Lindblom …
other title: Il silenzio / Stilheden …
Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.

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The Cremator (1969)
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★ 8.3 6 ratings
Juraj Herz actor: Rudolf Hrušínský / Vlasta Chramostová …
other title: L'uomo che bruciava i cadaveri / The Cremator - Der Leichenverbrenner …
In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering is drawn inexorably to Nazism.

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Happiness (1965)
Le Bonheur
★ 7.9 7 ratings
other title: Il verde prato dell'amore / Lykken …
Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker. One of Agnès Varda's most provocative films, 'Le bonheur' examines, with a deceptively cheery palette and the spirited strains of Mozart, the ideas of fidelity and happiness in a modern, self-centered world.

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A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
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Daniel Petrie actor: Sidney Poitier / Claudia McNeil …
other title: Un grappolo di sole / Ein Fleck in der Sonne …
Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall.

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Red Desert (1964)
Il deserto rosso
★ 7.2 8 ratings
Michelangelo Antonioni actor: Monica Vitti / Richard Harris …
other title: Il deserto rosso / O Deserto Vermelho …
In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.

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Victim (1961)
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Basil Dearden actor: Dirk Bogarde / Sylvia Syms …
other title: Der Teufelskreis / La victime …
A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, threatening to derail his career on the path of success.

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Dragon Inn (1967)
龍門客棧
★ 7.7 7 ratings
King Hu actor: Shih Chun / Pai Ying …
other title: Estalagem do Dragão / Die Herberge zum Drachentor …
China, year 1457. The Minister of Defense is executed, and his children are sentenced to exile by order of the tyrannical Tsao. Fearful of future revenge from the young people, Tsao sends cruel soldiers to murder them, but a brave group of swordsmen can change the course of the battle at the Dragon Inn.
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