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Best Action Movies of the 1960s
#1 Harakiri (1962) · ★ 8.4 · 1,233 votes · 2h 15m · action, drama, historyDown-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a wort…
#2 Sanjuro (1962) · ★ 7.9 · 749 votes · 1h 36m · action, comedy, dramaIn this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns t…
#3 Planet of the Apes (1968) · ★ 7.7 · 4,129 votes · 1h 52m · action, adventure, dramaAstronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his lif…
#4 Cool Hand Luke (1967) · ★ 7.7 · 1,665 votes · 2h 7m · action, drama, crimeWhen petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragli…
#5 The Dirty Dozen (1967) · ★ 7.6 · 1,366 votes · 2h 29m · action, adventure, war12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are f…
#6 The Longest Day (1962) · ★ 7.6 · 1,058 votes · 2h 58m · action, drama, historyThe retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as p…
#7 The Magnificent Seven (1960) · ★ 7.5 · 2,062 votes · 2h 8m · action, adventure, westernAn oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.…
#8 Where Eagles Dare (1968) · ★ 7.5 · 997 votes · 2h 35m · action, adventure, warWorld War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a…
#9 Goldfinger (1964) · ★ 7.4 · 4,103 votes · 1h 50m · action, adventure, thrillerSpecial agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a…
#10 Zulu (1964) · ★ 7.4 · 588 votes · 2h 18m · action, drama, historyIn 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drif…
#11 The Guns of Navarone (1961) · ★ 7.3 · 913 votes · 2h 40m · action, adventure, thrillerA team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue…
#12 Bullitt (1968) · ★ 7.2 · 1,328 votes · 1h 53m · action, thriller, romanceSenator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of testimony from the criminal's hothead brother Johnny, who is in protective custody in San Francis…
#13 Django (1966) · ★ 7.2 · 1,035 votes · 1h 32m · action, westernA coffin-dragging gunslinger and a prostitute become embroiled in a bitter feud between a Klan of Southern racists and a band of Mexican Revolutionaries.…
#14 From Russia with Love (1963) · ★ 7.1 · 3,475 votes · 1h 55m · action, adventure, thrillerAgent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to…
#15 Dr. No (1962) · ★ 7.0 · 4,165 votes · 1h 50m · action, adventure, thrillerAgent 007 battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica, where he encounter…
#16 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) · ★ 7.0 · 716 votes · 3h 12m · action, comedy, adventureA group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those…
#17 How the West Was Won (1962) · ★ 7.0 · 514 votes · 2h 44m · action, western, warThe epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.…
#18 The Italian Job (1969) · ★ 6.9 · 900 votes · 1h 40m · action, comedy, thrillerCharlie's got a 'job' to do. Having just left prison he finds one of his friends has attempted a high-risk job in Torino, Italy, right under the nose of the mafia. Charlie's friend…
#19 Thunderball (1965) · ★ 6.7 · 2,713 votes · 2h 10m · action, adventure, thrillerA criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret…
#20 You Only Live Twice (1967) · ★ 6.6 · 2,566 votes · 1h 57m · action, adventure, thrillerA mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the case in Japan and comes face to…
#21 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) · ★ 6.6 · 2,212 votes · 2h 22m · action, adventure, thrillerWith the help of Marc-Ange Draco, head of the Unione Corse crime syndicate, and Draco's troubled daughter Tracy, James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Stravro Blofeld, to a moun…
#22 Casino Royale (1967) · ★ 5.2 · 861 votes · 2h 11m · action, comedy, adventureSir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of th…