My Top 20 by Year - 1960
by miran_kor | created - 06 May 2014 | updated - 02 Jun 2015 | PublicUnder construction and always in progress.
The Best films from this year (according to IMDb) I've seen (so far).
Out of (only) 107 films 'seen' (ie rated at IMDb).
(Jun 2015)
Notes:
- Features, shorts, docs and TV movies eligible ("A film is a film is a film.").
- TV mini-series are NOT (unless stated otherwise).
- My humble rates added (for films with the same rate just once or twice though).
- Films with the same rate are ordered arbitrarily. Feel free to re-order them at your will.
- When I saw more than 20 excellent films (9/10 or above in my book) from a certain year I'll try and list them ALL. That would make some lists much longer but all the excellentia deserves to be mentioned.
Cinema = cinema (big screen) viewing TV = TV viewing PC = download OL = online viewing VHS = VHS viewing
Yet to see (among many):
Akibiyori (Late Autumn, Ozu, 1960) Sergeant Rutledge (Ford, 1960) Kapò (Pontecorvo, 1960) Inherit the Wind (Kramer, 1960) Holubice (The White Dove, Vlácil, 1960) Le testament d'Orphée, ou ne me demandez pas pourquoi! (Testament of Orpheus, Cocteau, 1960) Sons and Lovers (Cardiff, 1960) Tunes of Glory (Neame, 1960) Komisario Palmun erehdys (Inspector Palmu's Error, Kassila, 1960) Yôtô monogatari: hana no Yoshiwara hyakunin-giri (Killing in Yoshiwara, Uchida, 1960) Il bell'Antonio (Bell' Antonio, Bolognini, 1960) Dama s sobachkoy (The Lady with the Dog, Kheifits, 1960) Classe tous risques (The Big Risk, Sautet, 1960) Exodus (Preminger, 1960) Aru kyôhaku (Intimidation, Kurahara, 1960) The Savage Eye (Maddow/Meyers/Strick, 1960)
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1. The Young One (1960)
96 min | Drama
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Zachary Scott, Bernie Hamilton, Key Meersman, Crahan Denton
Votes: 3,064
Cinema. 10/10.
2. Lines: Vertical (1960)
6 min | Animation, Short
An experiment in abstract film-making, this short film (as its name implies) consists only of vertical lines, drawn directly onto each film frame, that change in response to music.
Directors: Evelyn Lambart, Norman McLaren
Votes: 401
OL.
3. High Note (1960)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
The sheet music for Johann Strauss' "The Blue Danube" is constructed by moving musical symbols. A baton-toting conductor note tries to direct his fellow notes in performing this musical ... See full summary »
Director: Chuck Jones | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 587
PC.
4. Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A pianist helps his brother escape from two gangsters, who retaliate by abducting their kid brother.
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, Michèle Mercier
Votes: 20,621
Cinema.
5. L'Avventura (1960)
Not Rated | 144 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. During the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Dominique Blanchar
Votes: 32,621
Cinema.
6. The Cloud-Capped Star (1960)
Not Rated | 126 min | Drama
A selfless young woman (Supriya Choudhury) sacrifices her own happiness for her unappreciative family.
Director: Ritwik Ghatak | Stars: Supriya Choudhury, Anil Chatterjee, Gyanesh Mukherjee, Bijon Bhattacharya
Votes: 3,234
PC. 10/10.
7. The Naked Island (1960)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama
A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, Shinji Tanaka, Masanori Horimoto
Votes: 6,175
OL. 9.5/10.
8. Letter Never Sent (1960)
Not Rated | 96 min | Adventure, Drama
Four geologists search for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia.
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov | Stars: Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Tatyana Samoylova, Vasiliy Livanov, Evgeniy Urbanskiy
Votes: 4,217
OL. 9.5/10.
9. The Virgin Spring (1960)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
In 14th-century Sweden, an innocent yet pampered teenage girl and her family's pregnant and jealous servant set out from their farm to deliver candles to church, but only one returns from events that transpire in the woods along the way.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitta Pettersson
Votes: 31,632 | Gross: $1.53M
Cinema. 9/10.
10. The Goddess (1960)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama
A young woman is deemed a goddess when her father-in-law, a rich feudal land-lord, has a dream envisioning her as an avatar of Kali.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Sharmila Tagore, Soumitra Chatterjee, Chhabi Biswas, Karuna Bannerjee
Votes: 2,799 | Gross: $0.09M
PC.
11. Psycho (1960)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Votes: 717,796 | Gross: $32.00M
Cinema.
12. The Housemaid (1960)
Not Rated | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A composer and his wife are thrown into turmoil when a housemaid becomes more than they bargained for.
Director: Kim Ki-young | Stars: Jin Kyu Kim, Jeung-nyeo Ju, Eun-shim Lee, Aeng-ran Eom
Votes: 5,694
OL.
13. Peeping Tom (1960)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.
Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Karlheinz Böhm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer, Maxine Audley
Votes: 39,218 | Gross: $0.08M
Cinema.
14. Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
Not Rated | 179 min | Crime, Drama, Sport
Having recently been uprooted to Milan, Rocco and his four brothers each look for a new way in life when a prostitute comes between Rocco and his brother Simone.
Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Claudia Cardinale
Votes: 21,184
PC.
15. Bad Luck (1960)
92 min | Comedy
The story is an odyssey of a little man through Poland of 1930 to 1950. It shows his attempts to cope with a changing world which seems to have no place for him. He has no consciousness of ... See full summary »
Director: Andrzej Munk | Stars: Bogumil Kobiela, Maria Ciesielska, Helena Dabrowska, Barbara Lass
Votes: 1,352
PC.
16. El cochecito (1960)
PG | 85 min | Comedy, Drama
Seventy-something Don Anselmo, a retired minister, becomes obsessed with owning a motorized wheelchair and fakes infirmity to get it.
Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: José Isbert, Pedro Porcel, José Luis López Vázquez, María Luisa Ponte
Votes: 1,573
PC.
17. Breathless (1960)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama
A small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Van Doude, Jean-Luc Godard
Votes: 87,879 | Gross: $0.34M
Cinema.
18. The Fugitive Kind (1960)
Not Rated | 119 min | Drama, Romance
Valentine "Snakeskin" Xavier, a trouble-prone drifter trying to go straight, wanders into a small Mississippi town looking for a simple and honest life but finds himself embroiled with problem-filled women.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Marlon Brando, Joanne Woodward, Anna Magnani, Maureen Stapleton
Votes: 7,134
Cinema.
19. Two Women (1960)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, War
In WWII Italy, a widow and her lonely daughter seek distance between themselves and the horrors of war.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raf Vallone, Eleonora Brown
Votes: 12,418
TV.
20. La Dolce Vita (1960)
Not Rated | 174 min | Comedy, Drama
A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Yvonne Furneaux
Votes: 78,152 | Gross: $19.52M
Cinema.
21. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
Not Rated | 111 min | Drama
A middle-aged bar hostess, constantly in debt, is faced with numerous social constraints and challenges posed to her by her family, customers and friends.
Director: Mikio Naruse | Stars: Hideko Takamine, Tatsuya Nakadai, Masayuki Mori, Reiko Dan
Votes: 4,821
PC.
22. The Devil's Eye (1960)
Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Don Juan is sent from Hell to Earth with a mission - to seduce a virgin in order to spoil her pure wedding. The mission becomes crazy when Don Juan falls in love for the first time in centuries.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Jarl Kulle, Bibi Andersson, Stig Järrel, Nils Poppe
Votes: 4,587
Cinema.
23. Opening Speech (1960)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Norman McLaren attempts to give the opening speech for the first Montreal International Film Festival, but his microphone won't cooperate.
Director: Norman McLaren | Star: Norman McLaren
Votes: 209
OL.
24. Un Oscar per il signor Rossi (1960)
11 min | Animation, Short
Mister Rossi wants to win the Oscars from his Movie.
Director: Bruno Bozzetto
Votes: 64
OL.
25. Spartacus (1960)
PG-13 | 197 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising.
Directors: Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Mann | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton
Votes: 143,102 | Gross: $30.00M
Cinema.
26. Universe (1960)
29 min | Documentary, Short
A journey through the universe as it would appear to a space traveler beginning at the David Dunlap Observatory on Earth.
Directors: Roman Kroitor, Colin Low | Stars: Donald MacRae, Douglas Rain
Votes: 372
OL.
27. Muzykanci (1960)
9 min | Documentary, Short, Music
A documentary about a group of Warsaw tram workers who moonlight in the city orchestra at night.
Director: Kazimierz Karabasz
Votes: 494
PC.
28. Love Exists (1961)
21 min | Documentary, Short
A social commentary on post-war France's urban developments.
Director: Maurice Pialat | Star: Jean-Loup Reynold
Votes: 699
PC.
29. Wsród ludzi (1960)
14 min | Documentary, Short
A short film which documents the life of a stray dog.
Director: Wladyslaw Slesicki
Votes: 121
OL.
30. Sagrenska koza (1960)
9 min | Animation, Short, Drama
Cartoon based on the short story by Honoré de Balzac.
Directors: Vlado Kristl, Ivo Vrbanic
Votes: 36
OL.
31.
CBS Reports (1959– )
Episode:
Harvest of Shame
(1960)
60 min | Documentary, News
In this CBS News production broadcast on Thanksgiving 1960, Edward R. Murrow points out the plight of migrant farm workers in America. Topics range from the harsh living conditions, endless... See full summary »
Director: Fred W. Friendly | Stars: Edward R. Murrow, Harriet Beeman, Michael Cassidy, Louis Cramp
Votes: 185
OL. 9/10.
32. The Hole (1960)
Not Rated | 131 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Distrust and uncertainty arise when four long-term inmates cautiously induct a new prisoner into their elaborate prison-break scheme.
Director: Jacques Becker | Stars: André Bervil, Jean Keraudy, Michel Constantin, Philippe Leroy
Votes: 20,351 | Gross: $0.03M
TV. 8.5/10.
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