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Best Adventure Movies of the 1960s
#1 Il Sorpasso (1962) · ★ 8.2 · 864 votes · 1h 45m · comedy, adventure, dramaRoberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who takes him for a drive through the Roman and Tuscany countries in the summer. When t…
#2 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) · ★ 8.0 · 12,983 votes · 2h 29m · adventure, science-fiction, mysteryHumanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.…
#3 Lawrence of Arabia (1962) · ★ 8.0 · 3,591 votes · 3h 48m · adventure, history, warDuring World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the Turks.…
#4 The Great Escape (1963) · ★ 7.9 · 2,953 votes · 2h 53m · adventure, thriller, dramaThe Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to si…
#5 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…
#6 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) · ★ 7.6 · 2,561 votes · 1h 51m · adventure, drama, westernAs the west rapidly becomes civilized, a pair of outlaws in 1890s Wyoming find themselves pursued by a posse and decide to flee to South America in hopes of evading the law.…
#7 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…
#8 Spartacus (1960) · ★ 7.5 · 2,466 votes · 3h 17m · adventure, drama, historyThe rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners…
#9 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.…
#10 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…
#11 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…
#12 The Time Machine (1960) · ★ 7.4 · 954 votes · 1h 43m · fantasy, adventure, thrillerA Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.…
#13 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) · ★ 7.4 · 670 votes · 0h 52m · fantasy, adventure, tv-movieSam the snowman tells us the story of a young red-nosed reindeer who, after being ousted from the reindeer games because of his glowing nose, teams up with Hermey, an elf who wants…
#14 The Jungle Book (1967) · ★ 7.3 · 6,790 votes · 1h 18m · adventure, animation, familyThe boy Mowgli makes his way to the man-village with Bagheera, the wise panther. Along the way he meets jazzy King Louie, the hypnotic snake Kaa and the lovable, happy-go-lucky bea…
#15 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…
#16 One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) · ★ 7.2 · 6,784 votes · 1h 19m · comedy, adventure, animationWhen a litter of dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the parents must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement.…
#17 Jason and the Argonauts (1963) · ★ 7.2 · 728 votes · 1h 44m · fantasy, adventure, familyJason, a fearless sailor and explorer, returns to his home land of Thessaly after a long voyage to claim his rightful throne. He learns, however, that he must first find the magica…
#18 Yellow Submarine (1968) · ★ 7.2 · 570 votes · 1h 30m · comedy, fantasy, adventureThe wicked Blue Meanies take over Pepperland, eliminating all color and music. As the only survivor, the Lord Admiral escapes in the yellow submarine and journeys to Liverpool to e…
#19 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…
#20 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…
#21 Easy Rider (1969) · ★ 7.0 · 2,230 votes · 1h 36m · adventure, dramaWyatt and Billy, two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California and decide to travel cross-country in search of spiritual truth.…
#22 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…
#23 Asterix and Cleopatra (1968) · ★ 6.9 · 1,052 votes · 1h 12m · comedy, adventure, animationPopular animated hero Asterix and his faithful sidekick Obelix travel to ancient Egypt to help Cleopatra build a new summer home. Cleopatra and Julius Caesar have made a bet, with…
#24 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) · ★ 6.8 · 769 votes · 2h 24m · comedy, fantasy, adventureA hapless inventor finally finds success with a flying car, which a dictator from a foreign government sets out to take for himself.…
#25 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…
#26 Lord of the Flies (1963) · ★ 6.7 · 597 votes · 1h 32m · adventure, thriller, dramaFollowing a plane crash a group of schoolboys find themselves on a deserted island. They appoint a leader and attempt to create an organized society for the sake of their survival.…
#27 Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard (1967) · ★ 6.7 · 587 votes · 1h 44m · comedy, fantasy, adventureIn the third and final episode of the trilogy, Fantômas imposes a head tax on the rich, threatening to kill those who do not comply.…
#28 Fantomas Unleashed (1965) · ★ 6.7 · 586 votes · 1h 45m · comedy, fantasy, adventureIn the second episode of the trilogy Fantômas kidnaps distinguished scientist professor Marchand with the aim to develop a super weapon that will enable him to menace the world. Fa…
#29 Fantastic Voyage (1966) · ★ 6.7 · 516 votes · 1h 41m · adventure, science-fictionIn order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream.…
#30 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…
#31 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…
#32 Asterix the Gaul (1967) · ★ 6.5 · 804 votes · 1h 8m · comedy, adventure, animationIn the year 50 BC, Gaul is occupied by the Romans - nearly. But the small village of Asterix and his friends still resists the Roman legions with the aid of their druid's magic pot…
#33 Barbarella (1968) · ★ 6.0 · 882 votes · 1h 38m · comedy, fantasy, adventureIn the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.…
#34 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…