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Best Crime Movies of the 1960s
#1 High and Low (1963) · ★ 8.4 · 1,201 votes · 2h 22m · thriller, drama, crimeA Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.…
#2 Le Trou (1960) · ★ 8.2 · 602 votes · 2h 12m · thriller, drama, crimeFour prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Claude Gaspard, is moved into their cell. They take a risk and share their plan wi…
#3 Rocco and His Brothers (1960) · ★ 8.0 · 684 votes · 2h 58m · romance, drama, crimeWhen a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.…
#4 Divorce Italian Style (1961) · ★ 7.9 · 546 votes · 1h 44m · comedy, crimeFerdinando Cefalù is desperate to marry his cousin, Angela, but he is married to Rosalia and divorce is illegal in Italy. To get around the law, he tries to trick his wife into hav…
#5 Le Samouraï (1967) · ★ 7.8 · 1,313 votes · 1h 45m · thriller, drama, crimeAfter carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts, finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless em…
#6 Z (1969) · ★ 7.8 · 653 votes · 2h 2m · thriller, drama, crimeA prominent politician is murdered during a demonstration. The government and army are trying to suppress the truth, but a tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get aw…
#7 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…
#8 In the Heat of the Night (1967) · ★ 7.7 · 1,290 votes · 1h 49m · thriller, drama, crimeAfrican-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs p…
#9 Crooks in Clover (1963) · ★ 7.7 · 579 votes · 1h 51m · comedy, crimeAn aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo known as the Mexican. If he is…
#10 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.…
#11 Purple Noon (1960) · ★ 7.6 · 628 votes · 1h 58m · thriller, drama, crimeTom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess.…
#12 Breathless (1960) · ★ 7.5 · 2,096 votes · 1h 30m · romance, drama, crimeA small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.…
#13 Bonnie and Clyde (1967) · ★ 7.5 · 1,844 votes · 1h 51m · drama, crimeIn the 1930s, bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow, and together they start a violent crime spree throughout the country, stealing cars and…
#14 How to Steal a Million (1966) · ★ 7.5 · 666 votes · 2h 3m · comedy, romance, crimeA woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries.…
#15 Cape Fear (1962) · ★ 7.5 · 655 votes · 1h 46m · thriller, drama, crimeSam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever…
#16 Band of Outsiders (1964) · ★ 7.5 · 626 votes · 1h 37m · comedy, drama, crimeCinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and Westerns while pursuing the lovely Odile. The misfit trio upends convention at…
#17 Peeping Tom (1960) · ★ 7.4 · 933 votes · 1h 41m · thriller, drama, horrorLoner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reaction…
#18 The Sucker (1965) · ★ 7.4 · 735 votes · 1h 51m · comedy, crimeIn this Franco-Italian gangster parody, a shopkeeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash that totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by drivin…
#19 The Trial (1962) · ★ 7.4 · 591 votes · 1h 59m · drama, crime, mysteryArrested for an unnamed crime, Josef K. is trapped in a surreal bureaucratic maze where justice is unknowable and guilt is assumed.…
#20 Lolita (1962) · ★ 7.3 · 2,305 votes · 2h 34m · comedy, romance, dramaHumbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Cha…
#21 Pierrot le Fou (1965) · ★ 7.3 · 970 votes · 1h 50m · romance, drama, crimePierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the…
#22 Wait Until Dark (1967) · ★ 7.3 · 615 votes · 1h 48m · thriller, horror, crimeAfter a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals…
#23 West Side Story (1961) · ★ 7.2 · 2,100 votes · 2h 33m · romance, drama, crimeIn Manhattan’s Upper West Side, rival gangs of Polish-Americans and newly arrived Puerto Ricans clash for control of the neighborhood, even as two young members from opposite sides…
#24 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…
#25 A Shot in the Dark (1964) · ★ 7.2 · 685 votes · 1h 42m · comedy, crime, mysteryInspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a straightforward murder investigation into a comedic series of mishaps, testing the pa…
#26 Take the Money and Run (1969) · ★ 7.1 · 809 votes · 1h 25m · comedy, crimeVirgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not-so-budding career, he is completely incompetent.…
#27 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…
#28 The Swimming Pool (1969) · ★ 7.0 · 581 votes · 2h 3m · thriller, romance, dramaSet in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern is to gratify their mutual pa…
#29 The Pink Panther (1963) · ★ 6.9 · 1,232 votes · 1h 55m · comedy, crimeThe trademark of The Phantom, a renowned jewel thief, is a glove left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Clouseau, an expert on The Phantom's exploits, feels sure that he knows w…
#30 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…
#31 The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) · ★ 6.8 · 606 votes · 1h 42m · thriller, romance, dramaA debonair, adventuresome bank executive believes that he has pulled off the perfect multi-million dollar heist--until he must match wits with an insurance investigator who will do…
#32 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.…
#33 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…