The Lists: Must See Movies, 1960-1969

2001: A Space Odyssey. Image courtesy of MGM.

Boldfaced titles with asterisk (*) indicated top 10 of the decade.

The Apartment (1960, Billy Wilder)
Ballad of a Soldier (1960, Grigori Chukhraj and Valentin Yezhov)
Breathless (Jean Luc Godard)
The Cranes Are Flying (1960, Mikhail Kalatozov)
Eyes Without a Face (1960, Georges Franju)
La Dolce Vita (1960, Federico Fellini) *
L'Avventura (1960, Michelangelo Antonioni)
Les Bonnes Femmes (1960, Claude Chabrol)
Le Trou (1960, Jacques Becker)
Peeping Tom (1960, Michael Powell)
Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock) *
Rocco and His Brothers (1960, Luchino Visconti)
Shoot the Piano Player (1960, Francois Truffaut)
The Virgin Spring (1960, Ingmar Bergman)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1960, Robert Aldrich)
The Young One (La Joven) (1960, Luis Bunuel)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961, Blake Edwards)
The Hustler (1961, Robert Rossen)
Kanal (1961, Andrzej Wajda)
La Notte (1961, Michelangelo Antonioni)
Last Year at Marienbad (1961, Alain Resnais)
Lola (1961, Jacques Demy)
One Eyed Jacks (1961, Marlon Brando)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1961, Karel Reisz)
Splendor in the Grass (1961, Elia Kazan)
Through a Glass, Darkly (1961, Ingmar Bergman)
Viridiana (1961, Luis Bunuel)
West Side Story (1961, Jerome Robbins and David Winters)
Yojimbo (1961, Akira Kurosawa)
An Autumn Afternoon (1962, Yasujiro Ozu)
Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962, Agnes Varda)
Days of Wine and Roses (1962, Blake Edwards)
The Exterminating Angel (1962, Luis Bunuel)
Jules and Jim (1962, Francois Truffaut) *
Keeper of Promises (1962, Anselmo Duarte)
Knife in the Water (1962, Roman Polanski)
La Jetee (1962, Chris Marker)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean) *
L'eclisse (1962, Michelangelo Antonioni)
Lonely Are the Brave (1962, David Miller)
The Longest Day (1962, Andrew Marton and Ken Annakin)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962, John Frankenheimer)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962, John Ford)
My Life to Live (Vivre sa Vie) (1962, Jean Luc Godard)
Testament of Orpheus (1962, Jean Cocteau)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962, Robert Mulligan)
The Up Series (7 Up-56 Up) (1963-2012, Michael Apted)
8 1/2 (1963, Federico Fellini) *
The Birds (1963, Alfred Hitchcock)
Charade (1963, Stanley Donen)
Contempt (1963, Jean Luc Godard)
Flaming Creatures (1963, Jack Smith)
The Great Escape (1963, John Sturges)
Hud (1963, Martin Ritt)
Il Posto (The Sound of Trumpets) (1963, Ermanno Olmi)
The Leopard (1963, Luchino Visconti)
The Nutty Professor (1963, Jerry Lewis)
Pasazerka (1963, Andrzej Munk and Witold Lesiewicz)
Shock Corridor (1963, Samuel Fuller)
Winter Light (1963, Ingmar Bergman)
Youth of the Beast (1963, Seijun Suzuki)
Band of Outsiders (1964, Jean Luc Godard)
Diary of a Chambermaid (1964, Luis Bunuel)
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964, Stanley Kubrick) *
A Fistful of Dollars (1964, Sergio Leone)
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
A Hard Day's Night (1964, Richard Lester)
I Am Cuba (1964, Mikhail Kalatozov)
Kwaidan (1964, Masaki Kobayashi)
My Fair Lady (1964, George Cukor)
The Naked Kiss (1964, Samuel Fuller)
Onibaba (1964, Kaneto Shindo)
Red Desert (1964, Michelangelo Antonioni)
Scorpio Rising (1964, Kenneth Anger)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, Jacques Demy)
Woman in the Dunes (1964, Hiroshi Teshigahara)
Alphaville (1965, Jean Luc Godard)
Before the Revolution (1965, Bernardo Bertolucci)
Chimes at Midnight (1965, Orson Welles)
Dr. Zhivago (1965, David Lean)
Loves of a Blonde (1965, Milos Forman)
Pierrot le Fou (1965, Jean Luc Godard)
Repulsion (1965, Roman Polanski)
The Shop on Main Street (1965, Jan Kadar)
The Sound of Music (1965, Robert Wise)
Subarnarekha (1965, Ritwik Ghatak)
Tokyo Olympiad (1965, Kon Ichikawa)
Vinyl (1965, Andy Warhol)
The War Games (1965, Peter Watkins)
The Battle of Algiers (1966, Gillo Pontecorvo)
Blowup (1966, Michelangelo Antonioni)
Closely Watched Trains (1966, Jiri Menzel)
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1966, Russ Meyer)
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone)
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966, Robert Bresson)
Masculin Feminin (1966, Jean Luc Godard)
Persona (1966, Ingmar Bergman)
Red Angel (1966, Yasuzo Masumura)
Seconds (1966, John Frankenheimer)
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1966, Sergei Parajanov)
Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1966, Jean Luc Godard)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966, Mike Nichols)
Belle de Jour (1967, Luis Bunuel)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967, Arthur Penn) *
Cool Hand Luke (1967, Stuart Rosenberg)
Daisies (1967, Vera Chytilova)
Elvira Madigan (1967, Bo Widerberg)
The Graduate (1967, Mike Nichols) *
Hombre (1967, Martin Ritt)
In Cold Blood (1967, Richard Brooks)
In the Heat of the Night (1967, Norman Jewison)
Le Samourai (1967, Jean-Pierre Melville)
Marketa Lazarova (1967, Frantisek Vlacil)
Mouchette (1967, Robert Bresson)
Playtime (1967, Jacques Tati)
Point Blank (1967, John Boorman)
The Red and the White (1967, Miklos Jancso)
Week End (1967, Jean Luc Godard)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick) *
Bullitt (1968, Peter Yates)
Faces (1968, John Cassavetes)
High School (1968, Frederick Wiseman)
Hour of the Wolf (1968, Ingmar Bergman)
If... (1968, Lindsay Anderson)
The Lion in Winter (1968, Anthony Harvey)
Memories of Underdevelopment (1968, Tomas Gutierrez Alea)
Night of the Living Dead (1968, George Romero)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968, Sergio Leone)
Planet of the Apes (1968, Franklin J. Schaffner)
Pretty Poison (1968, Noel Black)
The Producers (1968, Mel Brooks)
Romeo and Juliet (1968, Franco Zeffirelli)
Rosemary's Baby (1968, Roman Polanski)
Shame (1968, Ingmar Bergman)
Stolen Kisses (1968, Francois Truffaut)
Targets (1968, Peter Bogdanovich)
The Two of Us (1968, Claude Berri)
Valley of the Bees (1968, Frantisek Vlacil)
Alice's Restaurant (1969, Arthur Penn)
Andrei Rublev (1969, Andrei Tarkovsky)
Army of Shadows (1969, Jean-Pierre Melville)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969, George Roy Hill)
The Color of Pomegranates (1969, Sergei Parajanov)
Easy Rider (1969, Dennis Hopper)
Katzelmacher (1969, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Kes (1969, Ken Loach)
Le Boucher (1969, Claude Chabrol)
Lucia (1969, Humberto Solas)
Medium Cool (1969, Haskell Wexler)
Midnight Cowboy (1969, John Schlesinger) *
My Night at Maud's (1969, Eric Rohmer)
Putney Swope (1969, Robert Downey Sr.)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969, Sydney Pollack)
This Man Must Die (1969, Claude Chabrol)
A Touch of Zen (1969, King Hu)
True Grit (1969, Henry Hathaway)
The Wild Bunch (1969, Sam Peckinpah)
Z (1969, Costa Gavras)