1960 Top Ten List

  • The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
  • Wild River (Elia Kazan)
  • Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
  • Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti)
  • Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju)
  • Le Trou (Jacques Becker)
  • Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Karel Reisz)
  • The Housemaid (Kim Ki-young)
  • Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)
  • Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)

    • Additional 1960 Films By Rating

  • The Lady With the Dog (Iosif Kheifits)
  • Letter Never Sent (Mikhail Kalatozov)
  • Shoot the Piano Player (François Truffaut)
  • Late Autumn (Yasujiro Ozu)
  • The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman)
  • The Bad Sleep Well (Akira Kurosawa)
  • Inherit the Wind (Stanley Kramer)
  • When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Makio Naruse)
  • Tunes of Glory (Ronald Neame)
  • L'avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  • Where the Boys Are (Henry Levin)
  • Classe tous risques (Claude Sautet)
  • Purple Noon (René Clément)
  • La Vérité (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
  • Black Sunday (Mario Bava)
  • Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick)
  • Bells Are Ringing (Vincente Minnelli)
  • Jigoku (Nobuo Nakagawa)
  • The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges)
  • Testament of Orpheus (Jean Cocteau)
  • La dolce vita (Federico Fellini)
  • Cruel Story of Youth (Nagisa Oshima)
  • Primary (no director credited)
  • The Savage Innocents (Nicholas Ray)
  • Blackout in Rome (Roberto Rossellini)
  • Ocean's Eleven (Lewis Milestone)
  • The Grass Is Greener (Stanley Donen)
  • Night and Fog in Japan (Nagisa Oshima)