Best Movies of 1960 by Rank
12
1
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, Jean-Pierre Melville
Crime / Drama / Romance / Gangster
France
French
15
2
Alfred Hitchcock
Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire
Horror / Thriller
USA
English
18
3
Federico Fellini
Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Yvonne Furneaux
Drama / Comedy
Italy / France
Italian
32
4
Michelangelo Antonioni
Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Dominique Blanchar, Renzo Ricci
Drama / Mystery / Romance / Adventure
Italy / France
Italian
79
5
Billy Wilder
Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen
Romance / Comedy / Drama
USA
English
154
6
Luchino Visconti
Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Katina Paxinou
Drama
France / Italy
Italian
265
7
Stanley Kubrick
Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier
Romance / War / Action / Drama / Epic / History / Adventure
USA
English
394
8
Karel Reisz
Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts
Drama
UK
English
436
9
Michael Powell
Karlheinz Böhm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer, Maxine Audley
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Cult
UK
English
576
10
François Truffaut
Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger
Drama / Thriller / Romance / Crime / Comedy / Post-Noir
France
French
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671
11
Georges Franju
Pierre Brasseur, Edith Scob, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel
Horror / Thriller
France / Italy
French
889
15
Ronald Neame
Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dennis Price, Kay Walsh, John Fraser
Drama / War
UK
English
1063
16
Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, Yul Brynner, Charles Aznavour, Claudine Auger
Drama / Experimental
France
French
1081
17
Fred Zinnemann
Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Peter Ustinov
Drama / Adventure
UK / Australia
English
1122
18
John Sturges
Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Horst Buchholz, James Coburn
Western / Adventure / Drama / Epic / Family
USA
English
1198
20
Vittorio De Sica
Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eleonora Brown, Carlo Ninchi
Drama / War
Italy / France
Italian
1256
21
Tony Richardson
Laurence Olivier, Brenda De Banzie, Roger Livesey, Joan Plowright
Drama
UK
English
1381
22
Jules Dassin
Melina Mercouri, Jules Dassin, George Foundas, Titos Vandis
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Greece
English
1487
23
Vincent J. Donehue
Ralph Bellamy, Greer Garson, Hume Cronyn, Jean Hagen
Drama / Biography
USA
English
1609
24
Delbert Mann
Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire, Eve Arden, Angela Lansbury
Drama
USA
English
1668
25
Jacques Becker
Michel Constantin, Jean Keraudy, Philippe Leroy, Raymond Meunier, Marc Michel
Crime / Drama / Thriller
France / Italy
French
1698
26
Mario Bava
Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Andrea Checchi, Ivo Garrani, Arturo Dominici
Horror
Italy
Italian
1706
27
Guy Green
Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, Michael Craig, Bernard Lee
Drama
UK
English
1720
28
Ritwik Ghatak
Supriya Choudhury, Anil Chatterjee, Niranjan Ray, Gita Ghatak
Drama
India
Bengali
1744
29
Otto Preminger
Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb
Action / Drama / History / War
USA
English
1811
30
John Wayne
John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey
Action / Adventure / Drama / War / Western / History / Epic
USA
English
1845
31
Louis Malle
Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret, Hubert Deschamps, Carla Marli
Comedy
France / Italy
French
1880
32
René Clément
Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt, Erno Crisa, Frank Latimore
Crime / Thriller / Drama
France / Italy
French
1887
33
Ingmar Bergman
Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitta Pettersson
Drama / Period Film / Crime
Sweden
Swedish
1958
34
David Swift
Hayley Mills, Jane Wyman, Richard Egan, Karl Malden, Nancy Olson, Adolphe Menjou
Family / Comedy / Drama / Adventure
USA
English
1976
35
George Cukor
Marilyn Monroe, Yves Montand, Tony Randall, Frankie Vaughan
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
1983
36
Roger Corman
Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey, Harry Ellerbe, Eleanor LeFaber
Horror / Cult
USA
English
2070
37
Claude Chabrol
Bernadette Lafont, Clotilde Joano, Stéphane Audran
Drama / Mystery / Romance / Crime
France / Italy
French
2071
38
Vincente Minnelli
Judy Holliday, Dean Martin, Fred Clark, Eddie Foy Jr.
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2117
39
Lewis Gilbert
Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Carl Möhner, Laurence Naismith, Karel Stepanek
Action / Drama / War
UK
English
2160
40
Luis Buñuel
Zachary Scott, Bernie Hamilton, Key Meersman, Crahan Denton
Drama / Adventure
Mexico / USA
Spanish
2214
41
John Huston
Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Audie Murphy, John Saxon, Charles Bickford
Western / Drama
USA
English
2261
42
Vincente Minnelli
Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard, George Hamilton
Drama / Adventure
USA
English
2266
43
Ken Annakin
John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Janet Munro, Sessue Hayakawa
Adventure / Family
USA
English
2276
44
Henry Hathaway
Edward G. Robinson, Rod Steiger, Joan Collins, Eli Wallach, Alexander Scourby
Crime / Drama / Caper
USA
English
2311
45
Ki-young Kim
Eun-shim Lee, Jeung-nyeo Ju, Jin Kyu Kim, Sung-kee Ahn, Aeng-ran Eom
Drama
South Korea
Korean
2332
46
George Pal
Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux, Sebastian Cabot, Tom Helmore
Adventure / Sci-Fi / Fantasy / War
USA
English
2360
47
Wolf Rilla
George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin Stephens, Michael Gwynn, Laurence Naismith
Sci-Fi / Horror
UK / USA
English
2361
48
Kaneto Shindô
Taiji Tonoyama, Nobuko Otowa, Shinji Tanaka
Drama
Japan
Japanese (No Dialogue)
2396
49
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Brigitte Bardot, Charles Vanel, Paul Meurisse, Sami Frey
Drama / Crime
France / Italy
French
2396
49
Roberto Gavaldón
Ignacio López Tarso, Pina Pellicer, Enrique Lucero
Drama / Fantasy / Mystery
Mexico
Spanish
2398
50
Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis, Alex Gerry, Bob Clayton, Sonnie Sands
Comedy
USA
English
2402
51
Jacques Rivette
Betty Schneider, Giani Esposito, Françoise Prévost
Mystery / Drama / Thriller
France
French
2431
52
Iosif Khejfits
Iya Savvina, Aleksei Batalov, Nina Alisova
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2446
53
Charles Walters
Doris Day, David Niven, Janis Paige, Spring Byington, Richard Haydn
Comedy / Family / Musical
USA
English
2447
54
Mikio Naruse
Hideko Takamine, Tatsuya Nakadai, Masayuki Mori, Reiko Dan
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2452
55
Ken Hughes, Irving Allen
Peter Finch, Yvonne Mitchell, James Mason, Nigel Patrick
Drama / Biography
UK
English
2456
56
John Ford
Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Towers, Billie Burke, Woody Strode, Juano Hernandez
Western / Crime / Drama
USA
English
2461
57
Budd Boetticher
Randolph Scott, Nancy Gates, Claude Akins, Skip Homeier, Richard Rust
Western / Action / Drama
USA
English
2471
58
David Miller
Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin, Myrna Loy, Roddy McDowall
Thriller / Mystery / Film-Noir
USA
English
2538
59
Robert Youngson
Charles Chaplin, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase
Comedy / Documentary / History / Family
USA
English
2542
60
Walter Lang
Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan
Musical / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2584
61
Ron Rice
Taylor Mead, Barry Clark, Heinz Ellsworth, Linda Evanoff, Ella Henry, Bob Kaufman
Drama / Comedy / Experimental
USA
English
2584
61
Nagisa Oshima
Miyuki Kuwano, Fumio Watanabe, Hiroshi Akutagawa, Shinko Ujiie, Akiko Koyama
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2591
62
Roger Corman
Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles, Dick Miller, Myrtle Vail, Tammy Windsor
Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi / Cult
USA
English
2591
62
Roman Tikhomirov
Oleg Strizhenov, Zurab Andjaparidze, Larisa Avdeyeva, Vladimir Basov, I. Daryalov
Musical / Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2594
63
K. Asif
Prithviraj Kapoor, Madhubala, Durga Khote, Nigar Sultana
Drama / War / Romance / History / Biography
India
Urdu
2606
64
France Stiglic
Boris Dvornik, Dusica Zegarac, Beba Loncar, Dragan Milivojevic
Drama
Yugoslavia
Serbo-Croatian
2628
65
Daniel Mann
Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Eddie Fisher, Dina Merrill, Mildred Dunnock
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2628
65
Ralph Thomas
Lilli Palmer, Sylvia Syms, Yvonne Mitchell, Ronald Lewis, Albert Lieven, Peter Arne
Drama / War / Religion
UK
English
2628
65
Mark Robson
Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Myrna Loy, Ina Balin, Leon Ames, Elizabeth Allen
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2628
65
Henry Hathaway
John Wayne, Stewart Granger, Ernie Kovacs, Fabian, Capucine
Comedy / Western / Romance / Action / Adventure
USA
English
2628
65
Joshua Logan
Anthony Perkins, Jane Fonda, Ray Walston, Marc Connelly, Anne Jackson
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2628
65
Henry Levin
Dolores Hart, George Hamilton, Yvette Mimieux, Jim Hutton, Barbara Nichols
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2635
66
Robert Hamer, Hal E. Chester, Cyril Frankel
Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Alastair Sim, Janette Scott, Dennis Price
Comedy
UK
English
2642
67
Robert Drew, Albert Maysles, D.A. Pennebaker
John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Hubert H. Humphrey
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2645
68
Georgi Daneliya, Igor Talankin
Boris Barkhatov, Sergei Bondarchuk, Irina Skobtseva
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2646
69
Leslie Norman
Laurence Harvey, Richard Todd, Richard Harris, David McCallum, Ronald Fraser
War / Drama
UK
English
2682
70
André Cayatte
Charles Aznavour, Nicole Courcel, Georges Rivière
Drama / War
Italy / France / West Germany
French
2683
71
Charles Vidor, George Cukor
Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Geneviève Page
Drama / Musical / Period Film / Biography
USA
English
2694
72
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi
Drama / Thriller
Japan
Japanese
2697
73
Philippe de Broca
Jean-Louis Maury, Geneviève Cluny, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Robert Vattier
Comedy / Romance
France
French
2699
74
Vittorio De Seta
Vittorina Pisano, Michele Cossu, Peppeddu Cuccu
Drama / Crime
Italy
Italian
2699
74
Marco Ferreri
José Isbert, José Luis López Vázquez
Comedy / Drama / Crime
Spain
Spanish
2699
74
Florestano Vancini
Belinda Lee, Gabriele Ferzetti, Enrico Maria Salerno
Drama / War
Italy / France
Italian
2699
74
Veljko Bulajic
Antun Vrdoljak, Zlatko Madunic, Ljubisa Jovanovic, Ita Rina
Drama / Sci-Fi / Fantasy
Yugoslavia
Serbo-Croatian
2699
74
Albert Lamorisse
Maurice Baquet, André Gille, Pascal Lamorisse, Jack Lemmon
Family / Adventure
France
French
2700
75
Melvin Frank
Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Ruth Hussey, Don DeFore, Louis Nye
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
2700
75
Axel von Ambesser
Heinz Rühmann, Ernst Stankovski, Franz Muxeneder
Comedy / Drama / War
West Germany
German
2700
75
Stanley Donen
Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons
Comedy / Romance
UK
English
2700
75
Melville Shavelson
Clark Gable, Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica, Marietto
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2700
75
George Sidney
Cantinflas, Dan Dailey, Shirley Jones, Carlos Montalbán
Comedy / Musical
Mexico / USA
English
2700
75
George Sidney
Tony Curtis, Dean Martin, Janet Leigh, James Whitmore
Comedy
USA
English
2706
76
Fons Rademakers
Ellen Vogel, Guus Hermus, Ank van der Moer, Jan Teulings, Yoka Berretty
Comedy / Drama
Netherlands
Dutch
2708
77
Philip Leacock
Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, John Gregson, Sybil Thorndike, Derek Sydney
Drama / Family / Religion
UK
English
2719
78
Tian-Lin Wang
Grace Chang, Yang Chang, Po-Chien Chin, Chi Hsieh, Ta Lei, Enjia Liu, Li Ma
Musical / Romance
Hong Kong
Mandarin
2751
79
Satyajit Ray
Chhabi Biswas, Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore
Drama / Religion
India
Bengali
2751
79
Yasuzo Masumura
Ayako Wakao, Jerry Fujio, Jun Fujimaki, Eiji Funakoshi
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2751
79
Fritz Lang
Gert Fröbe, Peter Van Eyck, Linda Sini, Wolfgang Preiss
Crime / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
France / Italy / West Germany
German
NR
-
Lewis Milestone
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Angie Dickinson
Comedy / Crime / Caper / Cult
USA
English
NR
-
Robert Day
Peter Sellers, David Lodge, Bernard Cribbins, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Maurice Denham
Comedy / Crime / Caper
UK
English
