Films of the 1960s

See also: Early Films, Films of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s

Notable Film Franchises, 1960-1969

 * Carry On -- Fifteen films in the Sixties alone.
 * Carry on Constable (1960)
 * Carry on Regardless (1961)
 * Carry on Cruising (1962)
 * Carry on Cabby (1963)
 * Carry on Jack (1963)
 * Carry on Spying (1964)
 * Carry on Cleo (1964)
 * Carry on Cowboy (1965)
 * Carry on Screaming! (1966)
 * Don't Lose Your Head (1966)
 * Follow That Camel (1967)
 * Carry on Doctor (1967)
 * Carry on... Up the Khyber (1968)
 * Carry on Camping (1969)
 * Carry on Again Doctor (1969)
 * Hammer's Dracula
 * The Brides of Dracula (1960)
 * Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
 * Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)
 * Doctor Who Expanded Universe films
 * Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965)
 * Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 AD (1966)
 * Dollars Trilogy
 * A Fistful of Dollars (1964) -- One of the first spaghetti westerns, a remake of Yojimbo set in the Old West.
 * For a Few Dollars More (1965)
 * The Good the Bad And The Ugly (1966) -- Famously deconstructs and revises The Western.
 * The Edgar Wallace Films are a big success in West Germany.
 * Gamera
 * Giant Monster Gamera (1965)
 * Gamera vs. Barugon (1966)
 * Gamera VS Gyaos (1967)
 * Gamera vs. Viras (1968)
 * Gamera vs. Guiron (1969)
 * Godzilla
 * King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
 * Mothra vs. Godzilla (1963)
 * Ghidorah the Three Headed Monster (1964)
 * Invasion of Astro Monster (1965)
 * Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966)
 * Son of Godzilla (1967)
 * Destroy All Monsters (1968)
 * All Monsters Attack (1969)
 * Harry Palmer:
 * The Ipcress File (1965)
 * Funeral in Berlin (1966)
 * Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
 * First patch of James Bond films are released.
 * Dr. No (1962)
 * From Russia with Love (1963)
 * Goldfinger (1964)
 * Thunderball (1965)
 * You Only Live Twice (1967)
 * Casino Royale (1967) — Unofficial film.
 * On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
 * The Karl May or Kraut Westerns
 * Der Schatz I'm Silbersee (1962)
 * Winnetou I (1963)
 * Old Shatterhand (1963, different producer)
 * Winnetou II (1964)
 * Unter Geiern (1964)
 * Winnetou III (1965)
 * Der Ölprinz (1965)
 * Old Surehand (1965)
 * Winnetou und das Halbblut Apanatschi (1966)
 * Winnetou und sein Freund Old Firehand (1966)
 * Winnetou und Old Shatterhand im Tal der Toten (1968)
 * Looney Tunes - The 60's was the last decade of Termite Terrace.
 * St Trinian's continues into the 1960s:
 * The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's (1960)
 * The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery (1966)

1960

 * Thirteen Ghosts
 * The Alamo
 * The Amazing Transparent Man
 * The Apartment - An up-and-coming corporate underling loans his apartment out to executives so they can have illicit affairs with their girlfriends that their wives won't find out about.
 * L'Avventura
 * The Beatniks
 * Black Sunday
 * Breathless
 * Dinosaurus!
 * La Dolce Vita
 * Elmer Gantry
 * Eyes Without a Face
 * First Spaceship on Venus
 * Five Branded Women
 * The Hidden Fortress
 * Inherit the Wind
 * The League of Gentlemen
 * The Leech Woman
 * The Little Shop of Horrors
 * The Magnificent Seven -- A well-received adaptation of The Seven Samurai for the Western setting.
 * Make Mine Mink
 * North to Alaska
 * Oceans 11
 * Peeping Tom
 * Pollyanna
 * Psycho -- Alfred Hitchcock's most famous movie.
 * The Sinister Urge
 * Sink the Bismarck
 * Swiss Family Robinson
 * Spartacus
 * 13 Ghosts
 * Village of the Damned

1961

 * One Hundred and One Dalmatians
 * The Absent Minded Professor
 * Babes in Toyland
 * The Beast of Yucca Flats
 * Bloodlust
 * Breakfast at Tiffany's
 * The Cat and the Canary -- Swedish remake.
 * The Childrens Hour
 * El Cid
 * Gorgo -- A.K.A. British Godzilla.
 * The Guns of Navarone
 * Horrors of Spider Island
 * The Hustler
 * The Innocents
 * Invasion of the Neptune Men
 * Last Year at Marienbad
 * The Magic Sword
 * Mothra
 * Mr. Sardonicus
 * One, Two, Three
 * The Parent Trap - Hayley Mills edition
 * The Phantom Planet
 * Pocketful of Miracles
 * The Rebel
 * Reptilicus
 * Snow White and The Three Stooges
 * West Side Story - Romeo and Juliet set in 1950s Spanish Harlem
 * Whistle Down the Wind
 * Yojimbo -- Kurosawa's ronin classic. Pioneered the Dollars trilogy.

1962

 * Almost Angels
 * The Brain That Wouldn't Die
 * Cape Fear
 * Captain Clegg
 * Carnival of Souls
 * Cleo From 5 to 7
 * Eegah!
 * Gay Purr-ee
 * Gypsy
 * Jack the Giant Killer
 * La Jetee
 * Journey to the Seventh Planet
 * King Kong vs. Godzilla
 * Lawrence of Arabia
 * The Longest Day
 * The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
 * The Manchurian Candidate -- The film that introduced brainwashing to a generation of Americans.
 * The Music Man
 * Mutiny on the Bounty
 * The Phantom of the Opera
 * Ring of Terror
 * The Road to Hong Kong
 * Samson vs. the Vampire Women
 * Sanjuro
 * State Fair-A remake of Rodgers and Hammerstein's only musical written especially for Hollywood.
 * To Kill a Mockingbird
 * A View from the Bridge
 * What Ever Happened to Baby Jane

1963

 * Eight and A Half
 * Atragon
 * The Birds
 * Blood Feast -- The grandfather of all gore movies.
 * Charade
 * The Comedy Of Terrors
 * Children of the Damned
 * Cleopatra
 * Colossus and the Headhunters
 * The Crawling Hand
 * The Great Escape
 * The Haunting
 * High and Low
 * I Step Through Moscow
 * Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
 * Jason and the Argonauts -- The 1963 film with this title has that skeleton fight scene.
 * Lassie's Great Adventure. A combination of five television episodes, theatrically released.
 * Les Tontons Flingueurs
 * Matango
 * McLintock
 * The Mouse on the Moon, the sequel to The Mouse That Roared (1959)
 * The Nutty Professor
 * The Old Dark House
 * One Got Fat
 * The Pink Panther -- The slapstick adventures of Inspector Clouseau.
 * The Skydivers -- A rambling Shaggy Dog Story by Coleman Francis.
 * The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle
 * The Sword in the Stone
 * Tom Jones
 * Tormented

1964

 * The Atomic Brain
 * Blood and Black Lace
 * Cindrella
 * The Creeping Terror
 * Devil Doll
 * Dogora
 * Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
 * The First Men in the Moon
 * Ghidorah the Three Headed Monster
 * A Hard Days Night -- One of the greatest Mockumentaries ever.
 * The Horror of Party Beach
 * The Incredible Mr. Limpet
 * The Incredibly Strange Creatures
 * Lemonade Joe
 * Mary Poppins -- The Disney mega-musical fantasy.
 * Marnie
 * Morozko
 * Mothra vs. Godzilla
 * My Fair Lady
 * Onibaba
 * Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
 * A Shot in the Dark -- The Clouseau series formula is firmly established.
 * Seven Days in May
 * 7 Faces of Dr. Lao
 * The Starfighters
 * The Three Lives Of Thomasina
 * Teen-Age Strangler
 * Topkapi
 * Two Thousand Maniacs
 * Zorba the Greek
 * Zulu -- A classic war film set in the Zulu War.

1965

 * Agent for H.A.R.M.
 * The Agony and the Ecstasy
 * Attack of the Eye Creatures
 * The Battle of the Bulge
 * Cat Ballou
 * Cinderella (1st remake)
 * Doctor Zhivago -- David Lean's epic Lawrence of Arabia followup: the Russian Revolution film starring Omar Sharif.
 * Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
 * The Flight of the Phoenix
 * Frankenstein Conquers the World
 * Giant Monster Gamera
 * The Great Race
 * The Greatest Story Ever Told
 * The Hallelujah Trail
 * Help
 * Invasion of Astro Monster
 * Kitten With a Whip
 * Monster a Go Go
 * Die Söhne der großen Bärin -- First of the DEFA Westerns.
 * Shenandoah
 * The Sound of Music -- The monster hit of the decade.
 * The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
 * That Darn Cat
 * Thirty Three
 * Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
 * Village of the Giants
 * Von Ryan's Express
 * What's New Pussycat
 * Ship of Fools

1966

 * Alfie
 * Andrei Rublev
 * Batman the Movie
 * The Battle of Algiers
 * Blow Up
 * A Bullet for The General
 * Circus of Fear
 * Closely Watched Trains
 * Deathwatch
 * Django
 * Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
 * El Dorado
 * The Elusive Avengers
 * Gamera vs. Barugon
 * Island of Terror
 * It Happened Here -- Controversial Alternate History film set in a Nazi-occupied Britain, that subverted the gallant resistance and dirty collaborator tropes.
 * The Man Called Flintstone
 * A Man for All Seasons
 * Manos the Hands of Fate
 * Modesty Blaise
 * The Naked Prey
 * The Oscar -- Perhaps the ultimate So Bad It's Good example of Oscar Bait.
 * Our Man Flint -- One of the best James Bond parodies/followers.
 * Persona
 * The Plague of the Zombies
 * The Professionals
 * The Quiller Memorandum
 * Red Zone Cuba -- Another movie by Coleman Francis, this one also known as Night Train to Mundo Fine.
 * The Russians Are Coming
 * The Sand Pebbles
 * Secret Agent Super Dragon
 * The Shooting -- Another postmodern western.
 * Torn Curtain
 * War of the Gargantuas
 * Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf
 * Wild World of Batwoman

1967

 * Barefoot in the Park
 * Bedazzled
 * Belle de Jour
 * Bonnie and Clyde -- landmark film that ushered in the "New Hollywood" era
 * Catalina Caper
 * Cool Hand Luke
 * Danger Death Ray
 * The Deadly Bees
 * The Dirty Dozen
 * The Fearless Vampire Killers
 * Fitzwilly
 * Gamera VS Gyaos
 * Guess Whos Coming to Dinner
 * The Graduate
 * The Incident
 * In the Heat of the Night
 * Le Samourai
 * The Jungle Book -- Disney's last animated feature made during Walt's lifetime.
 * King Kong Escapes
 * Mad Monster Party
 * Magical Mystery Tour
 * Operation Double 007
 * Point Blank
 * The Presidents Analyst
 * The Projected Man
 * Son of Godzilla
 * Thoroughly Modern Millie
 * To Sir With Love
 * Wait Until Dark
 * Wild Rebels

1968

 * 2001: A Space Odyssey
 * Barbarella
 * Bullitt
 * Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
 * Danger Diabolik -- Famously the Grand Finale of Mystery Science Theater 3000
 * Destroy All Monsters
 * Equinox
 * Finian's Rainbow
 * Funny Girl
 * Gamera vs. Viras
 * The Ghastly Ones
 * The Great Silence
 * Hang 'Em High
 * Head
 * Hols: Prince of the Sun
 * If You Meet Sartana, Pray For Your Death
 * If
 * Les Biches
 * The Lion in Winter
 * The Love Bug
 * Night of the Living Dead -- Introduced the Zombie Apocalypse.
 * Oliver!
 * Once Upon a Time in the West -- Sergio Leone's all time classic spaghetti western.
 * The Party -- The real location of Peter Sellers in 1968!
 * Inspector Clouseau
 * Planet of the Apes -- The original science fiction classic, whose ending was very shocking for its day.
 * The Producers -- Launched the career of Mel Brooks.
 * Rosemarys Baby
 * Santo En El Tesoro De Dracula (Santo in Dracula's Treasure, 1968) aka El Vampiro Y El Sexo (The Vampire and the Sex, the "adult" version of the film, unreleased until 2011).
 * Spider Baby or The Maddest Story Ever Told
 * Targets
 * The Thomas Crown Affair
 * Where Eagles Dare
 * Yellow Submarine

1969

 * Alices Restaurant
 * Bambi Meets Godzilla
 * Battle of Britain
 * A Boy Named Charlie Brown
 * Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
 * The Cube
 * Don't Drink the Water (remade in 1994)
 * Easy Rider
 * Gamera vs. Guiron
 * The Girl in Gold Boots
 * Hello Dolly
 * The Italian Job -- Where the aim was only the removal of the doors.
 * The Magic Christian
 * Medium Cool -- shot in the '68 riots, rated-X by the Moral Guardians for political content.
 * Midnight Cowboy -- The first X-rated film to win an Oscar for best picture.
 * My Side of the Mountain
 * Paint Your Wagon
 * Putney Swope -- a Token Black is "accidentally" made head of an ad agency.
 * Sartana: Angel Of Death
 * The Sidehackers aka Five The Hard Way -- featuring the infamously graphic rape scene that squicked out Best Brains.
 * Support Your Local Sheriff
 * Take the Money and Run
 * Topaz
 * The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
 * The Valley of Gwangi
 * They Saved Hitlers Brain
 * True Grit
 * Viva Max
 * The Wild Bunch -- One of the bloodiest westerns ever filmed. Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece.
 * White Sun of the Desert
 * Z