Best Movies of 1966 by Title
2794
57
Alexander Kluge
Alexandra Kluge, Guenter Mack, Eva-Maria Meineke, Hans Korte
Comedy / Drama
West Germany
German
2746
54
Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi
Sergio Rossi
Documentary / Experimental
Italy
Italian
NR
-
Vittorio De Sica
Peter Sellers, Victor Mature, Britt Ekland, Martin Balsam, Akim Tamiroff
Comedy / Crime / Caper
Italy / USA / UK
English
118
3
Andrei Tarkovsky
Anatoli Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko, Nikolai Sergeyev
Drama / War / History / Biography / Epic / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2696
51
Robert Ellis Miller
Jane Fonda, Jason Robards, Dean Jones, Rosemary Murphy, Ann Prentiss
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2696
51
Stanley Donen
Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel, Kieron Moore, Carl Duering, John Merivale
Adventure / Drama / Romance / Thriller / Action / Spy / Comedy
USA
English
2695
50
Andrei Konchalovsky
Iya Savvina, Aleksandr Sirin, Lyubov Sokolova, Gennadi Yegorychyov, Ivan Petrov
Drama / Romance
Soviet Union
Russian
251
6
Robert Bresson
Anne Wiazemsky, François Lafarge, Philippe Asselin
Drama
France / Sweden
French
2696
51
Leslie H. Martinson
Adam West, Burt Ward, Lee Meriwether, Cesar Romero, Burgess Meredith
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Family / Fantasy / Comic
USA
English
2595
44
John Huston
John Huston, Michael Parks, Ulla Bergryd, Richard Harris
Drama / Epic / Religion
USA / Italy
English
2133
30
Ousmane Sembene
Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinek
Drama
France / Senegal
French
102
2
Michelangelo Antonioni
Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings, John Castle, Jane Birkin
Drama / Thriller / Mystery / Cult
UK / Italy
English
2696
51
John Guillermin
George Peppard, James Mason, Ursula Andress, Jeremy Kemp, Karl Michael Vogler
Adventure / Drama / War / Action
UK
English
1488
19
James Hill, Tom McGowan
Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Geoffrey Keen
Family / Drama / Adventure
UK / USA
English
2813
60
Louis McMahon
Robert Miller, Doris Burnell, Alan G. Barbour, Barney Noto, John Cullen
Sci-Fi / Action / Comedy / Serial
USA
English
2640
47
Ken Loach
Carol White, Ray Brooks, Winifred Dennis, Wally Patch, Adrienne Frame
Drama
UK
English
2794
57
Conrad Rooks
Jean-Louis Barrault, Conrad Rooks, William S. Burroughs
Drama / Experimental
USA / France
English
2696
51
Arthur Penn
Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, E.G. Marshall, Angie Dickinson
Drama / Crime
USA
English
998
14
Andy Warhol, Paul Morrissey
Brigid Berlin, Randy Borscheidt, Christian Aaron Boulogne
Drama / Experimental
USA
English
192
5
Jirí Menzel
Václav Neckár, Josef Somr, Vlastimil Brodský
Comedy / Drama / War
Czechoslovakia
Czech
2306
36
King Hu
Pei-pei Cheng, Hua Yueh, Hei Chan, Hung Lieh Chen, Yin-Chieh Han, Feng Ku
Action / Crime / Gangster
Hong Kong
Mandarin
1894
25
Roman Polanski
Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac, Lionel Stander
Thriller / Drama / Comedy / Crime
UK
English
867
11
Vera Chytilová
Jitka Cerhova, Ivana Karbanova, Julius Albert
Comedy / Drama / Experimental
Czechoslovakia
Czech
2813
60
Hamilton Luske
Walt Disney, Pinto Colvig, Chet Huntley, Dick Van Dyke
Documentary / Adventure / Biography / Drama / Family / Western
USA
English
2695
50
Sergio Corbucci
Franco Nero, José Bódalo, Loredana Nusciak
Western / Cult
Italy / Spain
Italian
2058
27
Bruce Brown
Michael Hynson, Robert August, Bruce Brown
Documentary / Sports / Cult
USA
English
1690
22
François Truffaut
Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack, Anton Diffring
Sci-Fi / Drama
UK
English
2218
32
Roy Boulting
Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, John Mills, Marjorie Rhodes
Comedy / Romance
UK
English
2482
40
Richard Fleischer
Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien, Donald Pleasence
Adventure / Sci-Fi / Action
USA
English
2612
46
Mary Ellen Bute
Martin J. Kelley, Jane Reilly, Peter Haskell, Page Johnson, John V. Kelleher
Drama / Fantasy
USA
English
1879
24
Billy Wilder
Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich, Judi West
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2490
41
Richard Lester
Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Buster Keaton, Michael Crawford
Comedy / Musical
UK / USA
English
2669
49
Ronald Neame
Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Herbert Lom, Roger C. Carmel
Comedy / Crime / Caper / Thriller
USA
English
2794
57
Roger Vadim
Jane Fonda, Michel Piccoli, Peter McEnery, Tina Aumont
Drama / Romance
Italy / France
French
1032
15
Silvio Narizzano
James Mason, Alan Bates, Lynn Redgrave, Charlotte Rampling
Comedy / Romance
UK
English
160
4
Sergio Leone
Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach
Action / Western / Drama / Epic
Italy / Spain
English
2504
42
John Frankenheimer
James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand, Toshirô Mifune, Brian Bedford
Drama / Sports
USA
English
2746
54
John Olden, Claus Peter Witt
Horst Tappert, Hans Cossy, Günther Neutze
Crime / Thriller / Drama
West Germany
German
2014
26
Sidney Lumet
Candice Bergen, Joan Hackett, Elizabeth Hartman, Shirley Knight, Joanna Pettet
Drama
USA
English
1744
23
Jack Smight
Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill, Janet Leigh, Pamela Tiffin
Crime / Mystery / Drama / Detective / Post-Noir
USA
English
2731
53
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Totò, Ninetto Davoli, Femi Benussi, Rossana Di Rocco
Comedy
Italy
Italian
2253
35
George Kuchar
Donna Kerness, George Kuchar, Stella Kuchar, Andrea Lunin, Hope Morris
Short / Drama
USA
English
2536
43
William Wyler
Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach, Hugh Griffith, Charles Boyer
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Romance / Caper
USA
English
2746
54
Henning Carlsen
Per Oscarsson, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitte Federspiel, Knud Rex
Drama / Comedy
Denmark / Norway / Sweden
Norwegian
2200
31
Carlos Saura
Ismael Merlo, Alfredo Mayo, José María Prada
Drama / Adventure
Spain
Spanish
2798
59
Kenneth Anger
Anaïs Nin, Kenneth Anger, Marjorie Cameron
Short / Experimental
USA
English
2696
51
René Clément
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron, George Chakiris, Gert Fröbe
Drama / History / War / Epic
France / USA
French
2404
39
Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo
Pauline Murray, Sebastian Shaw, Bart Allison, Reginald Marsh
Drama / Fantasy / War / Sci-Fi
UK
English
2746
54
Bruce Herschensohn
Gregory Peck, John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Earl Warren
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2696
51
Basil Dearden, Eliot Elisofon
Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Richard Johnson, Ralph Richardson
Action / Adventure / Drama / History / War / Epic
UK
English
2696
51
Philippe de Broca
Alan Bates, Geneviève Bujold, Jean-Claude Brialy, Julien Guiomar
Drama / Comedy / War / Romance / Adventure / Cult
France / Italy
French
1451
18
Alain Resnais
Yves Montand, Ingrid Thulin, Geneviève Bujold
Drama
France / Sweden
French
2606
45
Jean-Pierre Melville
Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin
Drama / Crime / Thriller / Gangster / Caper / Post-Noir
France
French
2813
60
Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Frank Tashlin, Hawley Pratt, Robert McKimson, Arthur Davis, Robert Clampett
Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Sheldon Leonard, June Foray, John T. Smith
Animation / Family / Comedy / Short
USA
English
2798
59
George Axelrod
Roddy McDowall, Tuesday Weld, Lola Albright, Ruth Gordon
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2696
51
Byron Paul
Dick Van Dyke, Nancy Kwan, Akim Tamiroff, Arthur Malet, Tyler McVey
Adventure / Comedy / Family / Romance
USA
English
2798
59
Jean-Luc Godard
Anna Karina, Jean-Pierre Léaud
Crime / Mystery / Thriller
France
French
1062
16
Claude Lelouch
Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Drama / Romance
France
French
374
8
Fred Zinnemann
Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern, Robert Shaw, Orson Welles
Drama / History / Period Film
UK
English
636
10
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya, Marlène Jobert
Drama
France / Sweden
French
2696
51
Joseph Losey
Monica Vitti, Terence Stamp, Dirk Bogarde, Harry Andrews, Michael Craig
Comedy / Crime / Thriller / Spy / Comic / Detective
UK
English
995
13
Karel Reisz
David Warner, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Stephens, Irene Handl
Comedy / Drama
UK
English
2794
57
Mai Zetterling
Ingrid Thulin, Keve Hjelm, Jörgen Lindström, Lena Brundin
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
NR
-
Henry Hathaway
Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Arthur Kennedy, Suzanne Pleshette
Western
USA
English
2795
58
Norman Panama
Tony Curtis, Virna Lisi, George C. Scott, Carroll O'Connor
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2323
37
Don Chaffey
Raquel Welch, John Richardson, Percy Herbert, Robert Brown, Martine Beswick
Adventure / Fantasy
UK
English
2696
51
Daniel Mann
James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Gila Golan, Edward Mulhare, Benson Fong, Shelby Grant
Adventure / Comedy / Spy / Action / Cult
USA
English
16
1
Ingmar Bergman
Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook, Gunnar Björnstrand
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
2716
52
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Jerzy Zelnik, Wieslawa Mazurkiewicz, Barbara Brylska
Drama / History / Epic / War
Poland
Polish
2864
63
Shohei Imamura
Shoichi Ozawa, Sumiko Sakamoto, Masaomi Kondo, Keiko Sagawa, Ganjiro Nakamura
Comedy / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2102
28
Richard Brooks
Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Woody Strode
Western / Adventure
USA
English
NR
-
Michael Anderson
George Segal, Alec Guinness, Max von Sydow, Senta Berger, George Sanders
Thriller / Spy / Action
UK
English
2798
59
Yasuzo Masumura
Ayako Wakao, Shinsuke Ashida, Yusuke Kawazu, Ranko Akagi
Drama / War
Japan
Japanese
2795
58
Paul Czinner
Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, David Blair, Desmond Doyle
Musical
UK
English
1530
20
Norman Jewison
Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Alan Arkin
Comedy / War
USA
English
1666
21
Robert Wise
Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen
Drama / Romance / War / Adventure / History / Epic
USA
English
1197
17
John Frankenheimer
Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, John Randolph, Will Geer, Jeff Corey, Richard Anderson
Sci-Fi / Thriller / Mystery / Drama
USA
English
2762
55
Johnny Nelson
Documentary / Short / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2696
51
Phil Karlson
Dean Martin, Stella Stevens, Daliah Lavi, Victor Buono, Arthur O'Connell
Action / Comedy / Spy / Cult / Romance / Adventure
USA
English
2762
55
Mary J. Tsosie, Maxine Tsosie
Documentary / Short / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2795
58
Daniel Petrie
Laurence Harvey, Daliah Lavi, Lionel Jeffries, Eric Sykes
Comedy / Spy
UK
English
2659
48
Roberto Rossellini
Jean-Marie Patte, Raymond Jourdan, Silvagni, Katharina Renn
Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
France
French
2233
33
Seijun Suzuki
Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Hideaki Nitani, Ryuji Kita, Tsuyoshi Yoshida
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Gangster
Japan
Japanese
2696
51
Alfred Hitchcock
Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova, Hansjörg Felmy, Tamara Toumanova
Mystery / Thriller / Spy
USA
English
2794
57
Vittorio De Seta
Jacques Perrin, Ilaria Occhini, Rosemarie Dexter, Gianni Garko
Drama
Italy
Italian
570
9
Sergei Bondarchuk
Lyudmila Savelyeva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Gennadi Ivanov, Irina Gubanova
Drama / War / Epic / History / Romance
Soviet Union
Russian
2798
59
Woody Allen, Senkichi Taniguchi
Tatsuya Mihashi, Akiko Wakabayashi, Mie Hama, John Sebastian
Comedy / Crime / Adventure / Thriller / Spy
USA / Japan
English
259
7
Mike Nichols
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton
Thriller / Drama
USA
English
2114
29
Roger Corman
Peter Fonda, Nancy Sinatra, Bruce Dern, Diane Ladd, Buck Taylor
Drama / Action / Crime
USA
English
2788
56
Larisa Shepitko
Mayya Bulgakova, Sergey Nikonenko, Zhanna Bolotova, Panteleymon Krymov
Drama / War
Soviet Union
Russian
2234
34
Bryan Forbes
Jeremy Lloyd, John Mills, Michael Caine, James Villiers, Peter Sellers
Comedy / Crime
UK
English
2399
38
Francis Ford Coppola
Elizabeth Hartman, Geraldine Page, Peter Kastner, Rip Torn
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
