Top 10 Best 60’s Movies !

In the 1960s, the movies reflected America’s huge culture swings and traditions. The decade’s best movies remain an unbelievable (and deeply entertaining) archive of that influential decade, from beach party escapism and spirited performances to dark political comedies and sophisticated adult shows. The movies of that phase are still reviving in the heart of old ones and even touched this generation. So Check out these Ten classic films — all streaming online — and they are the very best of the 1960s. Even the ’60s was also the decade of the “cool” frontman celebs like Robert Redford, Clint Eastwood, Paul Newman, and Steve McQueen, who raised Hollywood’s class in the 1960s. So, Here’s our shortlist of the ten best films from the swinging sixties.

What was the highest-grossing film of 1960?

Spartacus(1960) is the highest-grossing movie that earned around US$14,000,000.

Who was the most popular actor in the 60s?

John Wayne is the most memorable actor of swinging sixties.

Who was the biggest box office actress in the 1960s?

In 1963, Elizabeth Taylor was paid one million dollars in the most expensive movie, “Cleopatra.”

10. The Sound of Music (1965)

The Rodgers & Hammerstein screen musical scooped up four Oscars on its run to be one of America’s most loved musicals. Robert Wise’s movie follows a runaway nun named Maria (Julie Andrews, now 84), a nurse for the seven motherless Von Trapp kids. It keeps the heart of their harsh father (Christopher Plummer, now 90). The whole story is a tuneful and heartwarming story. It is grounded on the real-life story of real-life Trapp Family singers’ who later become one of the world’s best-known concert bands in that era, immediately heading to World War II. Julie Andrews performs Maria’s role, the tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey who acts the role of a teacher in the home of a widowed marine captain with seven kids and brings a new passion of life and music into the home.

9. The Graduate (1967)

Dustin Hoffman, now 82, gives a tragic and humorous performance as a recent college guy who gets an exceptional class in violation from older woman Anne Bancroft. When he tries to fall in love with her child Katharine Ross, now 80, tempers flare. Mike Nichols’s 1967 drama was way forward of its time. The whole story turns around when he is seduced into a seductive affair with his father’s friend’s wife. On December 21, 1967, the Graduate was declared a critical and financial success earning $104.9 million, becoming the highest-earned movie of 1967 worldwide. Adjusted for inflation, the film’s gross is $805 million, addressing the 23rd highest-ever earning film in North America. It earned seven submissions at the 40th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won Best Director.

8. Midnight Cowboy(1969)

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Directed by: John Schlesinger
Produced by: Jerome Hellman
Release date: May 25, 1969
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight
Box office: $44.8 million
Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 88%

Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American comedy movie based on the 1965 novel of James Leo Herlihy of the same name. Set in New York City, Midnight Cowboy describes the unlikely association between two hustlers: naïve sex worker Joe Buck (Voight) and weak man “Ratso” Rizzo (Hoffman). At the 42nd Academy Honors, the movie won three awards: Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director. Midnight Cowboy is the only X-rated film ever to win Best Movie. The story revolves around Joe, a newbie, fighting to survive on New York City streets and with the flexible outcast Ratso Rizzo. Increasingly, the unusual pair emerges from normal associates to best friends.

7. Help! (1965)

Following A Hard Day’s Night, Richard Lester takes the Beatles at their most entertaining and bubbly ideas in their second film collectively. This comedic cavort has John, Paul, George, and Ringo running from Buckingham Palace to the Bahamas while producing such classics as “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away.” The whole story revolves around a follow-up to a successful debut musical band, “A Hard Day’s Night,” the Beatles again offer up a melding of song and slapstick. After Ringo falls upon a precious gem, the band starts getting attacked by a fringe spiritual group. To escape their immediate stalkers, the guys hit the street. As John, Paul, George, and Ringo mix musical aggregates, their singing hits vary from “Ticket to Ride” to an official ballad.

6. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Legendary critic Pauline Kael penned a 7,000-word rave regarding Arthur Penn’s “iconic gangster film.” The Oscar-winning, fact-based offense drama spotlights the outlaw lovers Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty, now 83) and Bonnie (Faye Dunaway, now 79) on a brutal crime spree that ends in a shower of bullets. The whole story revolves around Bonnie and Clyde and their survival. This movie is a 1967 biographical crime film conducted by Arthur Penn and featuring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the title roles, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. This 1960’s drama was overwhelming by many viewers and gained a huge appreciation from critics, and ended up as the best movie of that year.

5. Funny Girl (1968)

Barbra Streisand, now 78, does her film debut at the top of her recreation as the singer-comedienne Fanny Brice. In this stage modification directed by William Wyler, Streisand won an Oscar fastening out hits like “Don’t Rain on My Parade” and sizzles contrary to Doctor Zhivago’s dashing Omar Sharif as gambler Nicky Arnstein. The whole story revolves around the 1930s comedienne Fannie Brice’s life, from her spring days in the Jewish tenements of New York to the height of her work with the Ziegfeld Follies. Funny Girl became the highest-earning movie of 1968 in the United States and received eight Academy Award nominations.

4. Apartment (1960)

Billy Wilder’s character adult comedy (five Oscars in 1960) stars Jack as a clerk trying to get in the business. When he lends his flat to big chief Fred MacMurray for extracurricular projects, the difficult worker falls for his superior’s mistress: sexy lift operator Shirley MacLaine, now 86. The whole story revolves around C. C. Baxter, a clerk in an assurance company, lends out his apartment to the officials to carry out their extramarital affairs. However, a wrench is thrown in the products when Baxter falls in love. This movie became the 8th highest-earning film of 1960 and at the 33rd Academy Awards, was nominated for ten scholarships and won five, including Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Screenplay.

3. Psycho (1960)

This Alfred Hitchcock’s classic movie is based on a sexually active secretary Janet Leigh who steals some dough and suddenly drives off. It is a book-based movie an adaptation of Robert Bloch’s 1959 novel. When she stays for the night at the isolated Bates Motel, she meets the even lonelier owner (Anthony Perkins) and his overbearing mother — and pays a hefty price for her dishonesty. The whole story revolves around Marion, who disappeared after stealing cash from her employer. Her lover and sister try to get her and reach the notorious Bates Motel, where they meet Norman Bates. Psycho was selected for four Academy Awards, including Best Director for Hitchcock and Best Supporting Actress for Leigh.

2. The Good, the Bad and Ugly (1966)

Sergio Leone’s The Good, Bad and Ugly has Clint Eastwood, now 89, who is pursuing down $200,000 in Federal dollars on the dusty country, while Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef try to get it first. During the Civil War, the whole story revolves around two men, Blondie and Tuco, form an uneasy alliance while looking for treasure. They must also outwit Angel Eyes, an outlaw who wants to raid the riches for himself. The film was a financial gain, earning over $25 million at the box office, and is charged with having ejected Eastwood into stardom. Due to the general criticism of the Western spaghetti genre, the film’s significant reception following its liberation. Still, it gained significant acclaim in later years, becoming recognized as the “definitive spaghetti Western.”

1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

The director of Black and White Movies Stanley Kubrick looks at life on the edge of nuclear extinction — and laughs sorely. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb blends the great Peter Sellers in a triple act and George C. Scott in the role of Gen. “Buck” Turgidson. The whole story revolves around An American Brigadier who reestablishes the world using a B-52 aviator on the Russians. The film is often admitted one of the best dramas ever made and one of the greatest movies of all time. In 1998, the American Film Institute listed it twenty-sixth in its list of the best American movies. This movie was a great blockbuster of the ’60s and still reviving in the heart core of the audience.

Conclusion!

The 1960s were an extended period for cinema. Some of the most immeasurable and most memorable films came out in the 1960s. The ’60s saw the extension of many iconic film producers and stars from Hollywood’s Golden Age, forward some of them to define the next generation of actors and powerbrokers. And these ten movies mentioned above are just a few beautiful glimpses of that era.