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
14
2
Alfred Hitchcock
Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire
Horror / Thriller
USA
English
21
3
Federico Fellini
Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Yvonne Furneaux
Drama / Comedy
Italy / France
Italian
35
4
Michelangelo Antonioni
Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Dominique Blanchar, Renzo Ricci
Drama / Mystery / Romance / Adventure
Italy / France
Italian
83
5
Billy Wilder
Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen
Romance / Comedy / Drama
USA
English
161
6
Luchino Visconti
Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Katina Paxinou
Drama
France / Italy
Italian
247
7
Stanley Kubrick
Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier
Romance / War / Action / Drama / Epic / History / Adventure
USA
English
380
8
Karel Reisz
Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts
Drama
UK
English
420
9
Michael Powell
Karlheinz Böhm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer, Maxine Audley
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Cult
UK
English
524
10
François Truffaut
Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger
Drama / Thriller / Romance / Crime / Comedy / Post-Noir
France
French
675
11
Georges Franju
Pierre Brasseur, Edith Scob, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel
Horror / Thriller
France / Italy
French
888
15
Ronald Neame
Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dennis Price, Kay Walsh, John Fraser
Drama / War
UK
English
1008
16
Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, Yul Brynner, Charles Aznavour, Claudine Auger
Drama / Experimental
France
French
1092
18
Fred Zinnemann
Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Peter Ustinov
Drama / Adventure
UK / Australia
English
1094
19
John Sturges
Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Horst Buchholz, James Coburn
Western / Adventure / Drama / Epic / Family
USA
English
1186
20
Vittorio De Sica
Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eleonora Brown, Carlo Ninchi
Drama / War
Italy / France
Italian
1209
21
Tony Richardson
Laurence Olivier, Brenda De Banzie, Roger Livesey, Joan Plowright
Drama
UK
English
1421
22
Jules Dassin
Melina Mercouri, Jules Dassin, George Foundas, Titos Vandis
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Greece
English
1551
23
Vincent J. Donehue
Ralph Bellamy, Greer Garson, Hume Cronyn, Jean Hagen
Drama / Biography
USA
English
1624
24
Mario Bava
Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Andrea Checchi, Ivo Garrani, Arturo Dominici
Horror
Italy
Italian
1648
25
Delbert Mann
Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire, Eve Arden, Angela Lansbury
Drama
USA
English
1652
26
Jacques Becker
Michel Constantin, Jean Keraudy, Philippe Leroy, Raymond Meunier, Marc Michel
Crime / Drama / Thriller
France / Italy
French
1689
27
René Clément
Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt, Erno Crisa, Frank Latimore
Crime / Thriller / Drama
France / Italy
French
1707
28
Otto Preminger
Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb
Action / Drama / History / War
USA
English
1732
29
Ritwik Ghatak
Supriya Choudhury, Anil Chatterjee, Niranjan Ray, Gita Ghatak
Drama
India
Bengali
1791
30
Louis Malle
Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret, Hubert Deschamps, Carla Marli
Comedy
France / Italy
French
1831
31
Guy Green
Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, Michael Craig, Bernard Lee
Drama
UK
English
1892
32
John Wayne
John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey
Action / Adventure / Drama / War / Western / History / Epic
USA
English
1897
33
David Swift
Hayley Mills, Jane Wyman, Richard Egan, Karl Malden, Nancy Olson, Adolphe Menjou
Family / Comedy / Drama / Adventure
USA
English
1971
34
Ingmar Bergman
Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitta Pettersson
Drama / Period Film / Crime
Sweden
Swedish
1975
35
Roger Corman
Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey, Harry Ellerbe, Eleanor LeFaber
Horror / Cult
USA
English
1988
36
Claude Chabrol
Bernadette Lafont, Clotilde Joano, Stéphane Audran
Drama / Mystery / Romance / Crime
France / Italy
French
1992
37
George Cukor
Marilyn Monroe, Yves Montand, Tony Randall, Frankie Vaughan
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2076
38
Vincente Minnelli
Judy Holliday, Dean Martin, Fred Clark, Eddie Foy Jr.
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2101
39
Luis Buñuel
Zachary Scott, Bernie Hamilton, Key Meersman, Crahan Denton
Drama / Adventure
Mexico / USA
Spanish
2123
40
Lewis Gilbert
Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Carl Möhner, Laurence Naismith, Karel Stepanek
Action / Drama / War
UK
English
2169
41
John Huston
Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Audie Murphy, John Saxon, Charles Bickford
Western / Drama
USA
English
2227
42
Ken Annakin
John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Janet Munro, Sessue Hayakawa
Adventure / Family
USA
English
2231
43
Henry Hathaway
Edward G. Robinson, Rod Steiger, Joan Collins, Eli Wallach, Alexander Scourby
Crime / Drama / Caper
USA
English
2299
44
Ki-young Kim
Eun-shim Lee, Jeung-nyeo Ju, Jin Kyu Kim, Sung-kee Ahn, Aeng-ran Eom
Drama
South Korea
Korean
2316
45
Wolf Rilla
George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin Stephens, Michael Gwynn, Laurence Naismith
Sci-Fi / Horror
UK / USA
English
2320
46
George Pal
Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux, Sebastian Cabot, Tom Helmore
Adventure / Sci-Fi / Fantasy / War
USA
English
2340
47
Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis, Alex Gerry, Bob Clayton, Sonnie Sands
Comedy
USA
English
2345
48
Jacques Rivette
Betty Schneider, Giani Esposito, Françoise Prévost
Mystery / Drama / Thriller
France
French
2381
49
Vincente Minnelli
Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard, George Hamilton
Drama / Adventure
USA
English
2456
50
Mikio Naruse
Hideko Takamine, Tatsuya Nakadai, Masayuki Mori, Reiko Dan
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2472
51
Kaneto Shindô
Taiji Tonoyama, Nobuko Otowa, Shinji Tanaka
Drama
Japan
Japanese (No Dialogue)
2496
52
Charles Walters
Doris Day, David Niven, Janis Paige, Spring Byington, Richard Haydn
Comedy / Family / Musical
USA
English
2511
53
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Brigitte Bardot, Charles Vanel, Paul Meurisse, Sami Frey
Drama / Crime
France / Italy
French
2511
53
Roberto Gavaldón
Ignacio López Tarso, Pina Pellicer, Enrique Lucero
Drama / Fantasy / Mystery
Mexico
Spanish
2511
53
John Ford
Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Towers, Billie Burke, Woody Strode, Juano Hernandez
Western / Crime / Drama
USA
English
2513
54
Budd Boetticher
Randolph Scott, Nancy Gates, Claude Akins, Skip Homeier, Richard Rust
Western / Action / Drama
USA
English
2528
55
David Miller
Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin, Myrna Loy, Roddy McDowall
Thriller / Mystery / Film-Noir
USA
English
2546
56
Robert Youngson
Charles Chaplin, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase
Comedy / Documentary / History / Family
USA
English
2557
57
Ken Hughes, Irving Allen
Peter Finch, Yvonne Mitchell, James Mason, Nigel Patrick
Drama / Biography
UK
English
2597
58
Ron Rice
Taylor Mead, Barry Clark, Heinz Ellsworth, Linda Evanoff, Ella Henry, Bob Kaufman
Drama / Comedy / Experimental
USA
English
2597
58
Nagisa Oshima
Miyuki Kuwano, Fumio Watanabe, Hiroshi Akutagawa, Shinko Ujiie, Akiko Koyama
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2600
59
Iosif Khejfits
Iya Savvina, Aleksei Batalov, Nina Alisova
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2605
60
Roger Corman
Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles, Dick Miller, Myrtle Vail, Tammy Windsor
Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi / Cult
USA
English
2605
60
Roman Tikhomirov
Oleg Strizhenov, Zurab Andjaparidze, Larisa Avdeyeva, Vladimir Basov, I. Daryalov
Musical / Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2614
61
K. Asif
Prithviraj Kapoor, Madhubala, Durga Khote, Nigar Sultana
Drama / War / Romance / History / Biography
India
Urdu
2649
62
Walter Lang
Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan
Musical / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2689
63
Daniel Mann
Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Eddie Fisher, Dina Merrill, Mildred Dunnock
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2689
63
Ralph Thomas
Lilli Palmer, Sylvia Syms, Yvonne Mitchell, Ronald Lewis, Albert Lieven, Peter Arne
Drama / War / Religion
UK
English
2689
63
Mark Robson
Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Myrna Loy, Ina Balin, Leon Ames, Elizabeth Allen
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2689
63
Henry Hathaway
John Wayne, Stewart Granger, Ernie Kovacs, Fabian, Capucine
Comedy / Western / Romance / Action / Adventure
USA
English
2689
63
Joshua Logan
Anthony Perkins, Jane Fonda, Ray Walston, Marc Connelly, Anne Jackson
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2689
63
Henry Levin
Dolores Hart, George Hamilton, Yvette Mimieux, Jim Hutton, Barbara Nichols
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2691
64
Robert Hamer, Hal E. Chester, Cyril Frankel
Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Alastair Sim, Janette Scott, Dennis Price
Comedy
UK
English
2709
65
France Stiglic
Boris Dvornik, Dusica Zegarac, Beba Loncar, Dragan Milivojevic
Drama
Yugoslavia
Serbo-Croatian
2737
66
Robert Drew, Albert Maysles, D.A. Pennebaker
John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Hubert H. Humphrey
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2740
67
Georgi Daneliya, Igor Talankin
Boris Barkhatov, Sergei Bondarchuk, Irina Skobtseva
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2741
68
Leslie Norman
Laurence Harvey, Richard Todd, Richard Harris, David McCallum, Ronald Fraser
War / Drama
UK
English
2754
69
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi
Drama / Thriller
Japan
Japanese
2771
70
André Cayatte
Charles Aznavour, Nicole Courcel, Georges Rivière
Drama / War
Italy / France / West Germany
French
2773
71
Charles Vidor, George Cukor
Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Geneviève Page
Drama / Musical / Period Film / Biography
USA
English
2788
72
Vittorio De Seta
Vittorina Pisano, Michele Cossu, Peppeddu Cuccu
Drama / Crime
Italy
Italian
2788
72
Marco Ferreri
José Isbert, José Luis López Vázquez
Comedy / Drama / Crime
Spain
Spanish
2788
72
Florestano Vancini
Belinda Lee, Gabriele Ferzetti, Enrico Maria Salerno
Drama / War
Italy / France
Italian
2788
72
Veljko Bulajic
Antun Vrdoljak, Zlatko Madunic, Ljubisa Jovanovic, Ita Rina
Drama / Sci-Fi / Fantasy
Yugoslavia
Serbo-Croatian
2788
72
Albert Lamorisse
Maurice Baquet, André Gille, Pascal Lamorisse, Jack Lemmon
Family / Adventure
France
French
2789
73
Melvin Frank
Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Ruth Hussey, Don DeFore, Louis Nye
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
2789
73
Axel von Ambesser
Heinz Rühmann, Ernst Stankovski, Franz Muxeneder
Comedy / Drama / War
West Germany
German
2789
73
Stanley Donen
Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons
Comedy / Romance
UK
English
2789
73
Melville Shavelson
Clark Gable, Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica, Marietto
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2789
73
George Sidney
Cantinflas, Dan Dailey, Shirley Jones, Carlos Montalbán
Comedy / Musical
Mexico / USA
English
2789
73
George Sidney
Tony Curtis, Dean Martin, Janet Leigh, James Whitmore
Comedy
USA
English
2792
74
Satyajit Ray
Chhabi Biswas, Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore
Drama / Religion
India
Bengali
2792
74
Yasuzo Masumura
Ayako Wakao, Jerry Fujio, Jun Fujimaki, Eiji Funakoshi
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2792
74
Fritz Lang
Gert Fröbe, Peter Van Eyck, Linda Sini, Wolfgang Preiss
Crime / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
France / Italy / West Germany
German
2797
75
Philip Leacock
Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, John Gregson, Sybil Thorndike, Derek Sydney
Drama / Family / Religion
UK
English
2807
76
Tian-Lin Wang
Grace Chang, Yang Chang, Po-Chien Chin, Chi Hsieh, Ta Lei, Enjia Liu, Li Ma
Musical / Romance
Hong Kong
Mandarin
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
