Best Movies of 1968 by Rank
3
1
Stanley Kubrick
Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter
Sci-Fi / Adventure / Experimental / Epic / Cult
UK / USA
English
166
2
Sergio Leone
Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards
Western / Drama / Epic / Cult
Italy / USA
English
307
3
Lindsay Anderson
Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick
Drama / Comedy / Cult
UK
English
309
4
George A. Romero
Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
321
5
John Cassavetes
John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin, Seymour Cassel
Drama
USA
English
329
6
Roman Polanski
Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer
Horror / Thriller / Drama / Cult
USA
English
432
8
Franklin J. Schaffner
Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore
Action / Drama / Adventure / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
557
9
François Truffaut
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade
Drama / Romance / Comedy
France
French
650
11
Peter Yates
Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon, Simon Oakland
Action / Drama / Thriller / Crime / Detective / Cult
USA
English
689
12
Franco Zeffirelli
Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK / Italy
English
768
13
Anthony Harvey
Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, John Castle, Nigel Terry
Drama / History / Period Film
UK
English
886
14
George Dunning
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison
Animation / Fantasy / Music / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
933
15
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Sergio Corrieri, Daisy Granados, Eslinda Núñez
Drama
Cuba
Spanish
962
16
Peter Bogdanovich
Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff, Arthur Peterson, Monte Landis
Thriller / Crime
USA
English
1005
17
William Wyler
Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif
Drama / Romance / Musical / Comedy / Biography
USA
English
1268
18
Richard Lester
Julie Christie, George C. Scott, Richard Chamberlain
Drama / Romance
UK
English
1314
19
François Truffaut
Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Bouquet, Charles Denner, Claude Rich
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Post-Noir
France / Italy
French
1391
20
Paul Newman
Joanne Woodward, James Olson, Kate Harrington, Estelle Parsons
Drama
USA
English
1410
21
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Silvana Mangano, Terence Stamp, Massimo Girotti, Anne Wiazemsky
Drama / Religion
Italy
Italian
1578
22
Brian G. Hutton
Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure, Patrick Wymark
Action / Adventure / War
UK / USA
English
1581
23
Gene Saks
Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fiedler, Herb Edelman
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1650
24
Michael Reeves
Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Rupert Davies, Hilary Heath, Robert Russell
History / Horror / Drama / Period Film / Adventure
UK
English
1714
26
Frank Perry, Sydney Pollack
Burt Lancaster, Janet Landgard, Janice Rule, Tony Bickley, Marge Champion
Drama
USA
English
1741
27
Roger Vadim
Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O'Shea
Adventure / Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Cult / Comic
France / Italy
English
1787
28
Ralph Nelson
Cliff Robertson, Claire Bloom, Lilia Skala, Leon Janney
Drama / Sci-Fi
USA
English
1796
29
Norman Jewison
Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Jack Weston, Biff McGuire
Crime / Drama / Romance / Adventure / Caper
USA
English
1812
30
Ingmar Bergman
Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Gertrud Fridh, Georg Rydeberg
Drama / Horror
Sweden
Swedish
1845
31
Francis Ford Coppola
Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele, Don Francks
Family / Fantasy / Musical / Comedy
USA
English
1998
32
William Greaves
Patricia Ree Gilbert, Don Fellows, Bob Rosen, Susan Anspach, Jonathan Gordon
Documentary / Experimental
USA
English
2047
33
Tom Gries
Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence, Lee Majors, Bruce Dern
Western / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2053
34
Nagisa Oshima
Kei Sato, Fumio Watanabe, Toshirô Ishidô, Masao Adachi
Comedy / Crime / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2209
35
Ulu Grosbard
Patricia Neal, Jack Albertson, Martin Sheen, Don Saxon
Drama
USA
English
2227
36
Robert Stevenson
Dean Jones, Michele Lee, David Tomlinson, Buddy Hackett, Joe Flynn, Benson Fong
Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Sports / Adventure
USA
English
2227
36
Don Siegel
Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Inger Stevens, Harry Guardino, James Whitmore
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2299
37
Emile de Antonio
Harry S. Ashmore, Daniel Berrigan, Joseph Buttinger, William R. Corson
Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2305
38
Karel Reisz
Vanessa Redgrave, James Fox, John Fraser, Jason Robards
Drama / Biography
UK / France
English
2316
39
Richard Fleischer
Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy, Mike Kellin, Hurd Hatfield
Crime / Drama / History / Mystery / Thriller / Biography / Detective
USA
English
2316
39
Tony Richardson
Trevor Howard, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud, Harry Andrews, Jill Bennett
Drama / History / War / Epic / Romance
UK
English
2316
39
Don Siegel
Clint Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb, Susan Clark, Tisha Sterling, Don Stroud, Betty Field
Drama / Crime / Action / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
2316
39
Paul Morrissey
Joe Dallesandro, Geraldine Smith, Patti D'Arbanville, Candy Darling, Jackie Curtis
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
2316
39
Bob Rafelson
Peter Tork, Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, Annette Funicello
Comedy / Musical / Fantasy / Cult
USA
English
2330
40
D.A. Pennebaker
Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, 'Mama' Cass Elliot, Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend
Documentary / Music
USA
English
2337
41
Gerald Thomas
Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Roy Castle, Joan Sims
Adventure / Comedy
UK
English
2411
42
Claude Chabrol
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacqueline Sassard, Stéphane Audran, Nane Germon
Drama / Romance
France / Italy
French
2450
43
Blake Edwards
Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, Gavin MacLeod, J. Edward McKinley
Comedy / Cult
USA
English
2482
44
Robert Ellis Miller
Alan Arkin, Sondra Locke, Laurinda Barrett, Stacy Keach
Drama
USA
English
2510
45
Michael Anderson
Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier, Oskar Werner, David Janssen
Drama / Religion
USA
English
2553
46
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Roger Coggio, Norman Eshley, Fernando Rey
Drama / Romance / Fantasy
France
French
2599
47
Federico Fellini
Terence Stamp, Salvo Randone, Anne Tonietti, Marina Yaru, Fabrizio Angeli
Drama / Horror
France / Italy
French
2605
48
Robert Altman, William Conrad
James Caan, Joanna Cook Moore, Robert Duvall, Barbara Baxley, Charles Aidman
Sci-Fi / Thriller / Drama / Adventure / Action
USA
English
2605
48
Hy Averback
Peter Sellers, Jo Van Fleet, Leigh Taylor-Young, Joyce Van Patten, David Arkin
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2605
48
Jack Smight
Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, George Segal, Eileen Heckart, Murray Hamilton
Comedy / Thriller / Crime / Detective
USA
English
2605
48
Joseph Losey
Elizabeth Taylor, Mia Farrow, Robert Mitchum, Peggy Ashcroft, Pamela Brown
Drama
UK
English
2605
48
Roger Vadim
Jane Fonda, James Robertson Justice, Françoise Prévost
Horror / Mystery
France / Italy
French
2605
48
Louis Malle
Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, Katia Christine, Umberto D'Orsi, Renzo Palmer
Horror / Mystery
France / Italy
French
2653
49
Melville Shavelson
Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda, Van Johnson, Louise Troy
Comedy / Family / Drama
USA
English
2689
50
Ken Hughes
Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Gert Fröbe, Anna Quayle
Family / Comedy / Musical / Fantasy / Adventure
UK
English
2689
50
Gordon Douglas
Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Ralph Meeker, Jack Klugman, Horace McMahon
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
2689
50
Ray Kellogg, John Wayne, Mervyn LeRoy
John Wayne, David Janssen, Jim Hutton, Aldo Ray, Raymond St. Jacques, Bruce Cabot
Action / Drama / War / Adventure
USA
English
2689
50
John Boorman
Lee Marvin, Toshirô Mifune
Drama / War / Adventure
USA
English
2689
50
John Sturges
Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan, Jim Brown, Tony Bill, Lloyd Nolan
Action / Drama / Thriller / Spy
USA
English
2689
50
Noel Black
Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld, Beverly Garland, John Randolph, Dick O'Neill
Thriller / Crime / Romance
USA
English
2689
50
Edward Dmytryk
Sean Connery, Brigitte Bardot, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Peter van Eyck
Western
UK / West Germany
English
2689
50
Robert Wise
Julie Andrews, Richard Crenna, Michael Craig, Daniel Massey, Robert Reed
Biography / Musical / Drama
USA
English
2691
51
Dusan Makavejev
Dragoljub Aleksic, Ana Milosavljevic, Vera Jovanovic, Bratoljub Gligorijevic
Documentary / Experimental / Drama
Yugoslavia
Serbo-Croatian
2709
52
Zoltán Fábri
Mari Törõcsik, Sándor Pécsi
Drama
Hungary / USA
Hungarian
2709
52
Mario Monicelli
Monica Vitti, Stanley Baker, Carlo Giuffrè, Corin Redgrave
Comedy / Romance
Italy
English
2724
53
Octavio Getino, Fernando E. Solanas, Santiago Álvarez
María de la Paz, Fernando E. Solanas
Documentary
Argentina
Spanish
2756
54
Thomas Reichman
Charles Mingus, Walter Bishop, Charles McPherson, Carolyn Mingus, Dannie Richmond
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2771
55
Alexander Kluge
Hannelore Hoger, Alfred Edel, Curd Jürgens, Klaus Schwarzkopf
Drama
West Germany
German
2775
56
Robert Aldrich
Kim Novak, Peter Finch, Ernest Borgnine, Milton Selzer, Rossella Falk
Drama / Mystery
USA
English
2788
57
Robert Lapoujade
Pierre Luzan, Roberto Chauffard, Martine Brochard
Drama
France / West Germany
French
2788
57
Carmelo Bene
Carmelo Bene, Lydia Mancinelli, Ornella Ferrari, Anita Masini
Experimental / History / Drama / Comedy
Italy
Italian
2789
58
Michel Deville
Michèle Morgan, Catherine Deneuve, Pierre Clémenti
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Comedy
France
French
2789
58
Melvin Frank
Gina Lollobrigida, Shelley Winters, Phil Silvers, Peter Lawford
Comedy
UK
English
2789
58
John Frankenheimer
Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, Georgia Brown, Hugh Griffith
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2789
58
Vassilis Georgiadis
Anne Lonnberg, Yannis Voglis, Kostas Bakas, Vangelis Kazan
Drama / Romance
Greece
Greek
2789
58
Michael Sarne
Geneviève Waïte, Christian Doermer, Calvin Lockhart
Musical / Drama
UK
English
2789
58
Terence Young
Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason, Ava Gardner
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Biography / History
France / UK
English
2792
59
Jean-Marie Straub
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hanna Schygulla, Lilith Ungerer
Short / Drama
West Germany
German
2792
59
Alain Resnais
Claude Rich, Olga Georges-Picot, Anouk Ferjac, Alain MacMoy
Sci-Fi / Experimental / Fantasy / Drama
France
French
2792
59
Joris Ivens, Marceline Loridan Ivens
Documentary / War / History
France / Vietnam
French
2797
60
Paul Almond
Geneviève Bujold, Marc Strange, Gerard Parkes, Elton Hayes, Edie Kerr
Thriller / Romance / Mystery / Drama
Canada
English
2801
61
Daniel Mann
Sidney Poitier, Abbey Lincoln, Beau Bridges, Nan Martin, Lauri Peters
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2801
61
Sydney Pollack
Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Telly Savalas, Ossie Davis, Dabney Coleman
Comedy / Western
USA
English
2807
62
Andrew V. McLaglen
John Wayne, Vera Miles, Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton, Jay C. Flippen
Action / Adventure / Romance
USA
English
2824
63
Vilgot Sjöman
Maj Hultén, Vilgot Sjöman, Lena Nyman, Börje Ahlstedt
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
2835
64
Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
Gustav Leonhardt, Christiane Lang, Bob van Asperen, Bernd Weikl
Biography / History / Music / Drama
West Germany / Italy
German
2839
65
Ousmane Sembene
Makhouredia Gueye, Ynousse N'Diaye, Isseu Niang, Mustapha Ture, Farba Sarr
Comedy / Drama
Senegal / France
Wolof
2846
66
Maurice Pialat
Michel Tarrazon, Linda Gutenberg, Raoul Billerey
Drama
France
French
2860
67
Joseph Losey
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Noel Coward, Joanna Shimkus
Drama / Romance
UK
English
2860
67
Tai Kato
Chieko Baisho, Yuki Kawamura, Sanae Nakahara, Ran Fan O
Drama / Thriller / Mystery
Japan
Japanese
2860
67
Peter Collinson
David Hemmings, Tony Beckley, Tom Bell, Alan Dobie
Drama / War
UK
English
NR
-
Bryan Forbes
Michael Caine, Vladek Sheybal, Emilio Rodríguez, David Buck, Carmen Dene
Crime / Drama / Caper
UK
English
NR
-
Ted Post
Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley, Pat Hingle, Ben Johnson, Charles McGraw
Western / Crime / Drama
USA
English
NR
-
Bud Yorkin
Alan Arkin, Frank Finlay, Delia Boccardo, Patrick Cargill, Beryl Reid, Barry Foster
Comedy / Crime / Detective
UK
English
