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Best Romance Movies of the 1960s
#1 The Apartment (1960) · ★ 8.2 · 2,792 votes · 2h 6m · comedy, romance, dramaBud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a pl…
#2 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.…
#3 La Jetée (1962) · ★ 7.9 · 1,049 votes · 0h 29m · romance, drama, science-fictionA man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world caused by a world war.…
#4 La Notte (1961) · ★ 7.9 · 760 votes · 2h 2m · romance, dramaA day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship in Milan.…
#5 The Sound of Music (1965) · ★ 7.7 · 3,750 votes · 2h 54m · romance, drama, familyIn the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children and brings a new lov…
#6 Charade (1963) · ★ 7.7 · 1,602 votes · 1h 53m · comedy, romance, mysteryAfter Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she…
#7 The Hustler (1961) · ★ 7.7 · 1,126 votes · 2h 14m · romance, dramaFast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary Minnesota Fats to a high-stak…
#8 The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) · ★ 7.7 · 668 votes · 2h 6m · comedy, romance, dramaIn the seaside town of Rochefort, twin sisters Delphine and Solange dream of love and artistic fulfillment beyond their quiet lives. As sailors, artists, musicians, and chance visi…
#9 Marriage Italian Style (1964) · ★ 7.7 · 561 votes · 1h 42m · comedy, romance, dramaDuring the bombing of Naples in World War II, a cynical businessman helps a naive prostitute, who spends the next two decades desperate to have him reciprocate her feelings.…
#10 Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) · ★ 7.6 · 4,566 votes · 1h 55m · comedy, romance, dramaHolly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past th…
#11 The Graduate (1967) · ★ 7.6 · 3,809 votes · 1h 47m · comedy, romance, dramaA disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.…
#12 Doctor Zhivago (1965) · ★ 7.6 · 1,272 votes · 3h 20m · romance, drama, warThe life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the O…
#13 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) · ★ 7.6 · 935 votes · 1h 48m · romance, dramaA couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.…
#14 L'Eclisse (1962) · ★ 7.6 · 572 votes · 2h 6m · romance, dramaVittoria is a beautiful literary translator living in Rome. After splitting from her writer boyfriend, Riccardo, Vittoria meets Piero, a lively stockbroker, on the hectic floor of…
#15 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.…
#16 My Fair Lady (1964) · ★ 7.5 · 1,473 votes · 2h 53m · comedy, romance, dramaA snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.…
#17 Jules and Jim (1962) · ★ 7.5 · 1,074 votes · 1h 46m · romance, dramaIn the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim and both men fall for the impulsive and beautifu…
#18 L'Avventura (1960) · ★ 7.5 · 773 votes · 2h 24m · romance, drama, mysteryClaudia and Anna join Anna's lover, Sandro, on a boat trip to a remote volcanic island. When Anna goes missing, a search is launched. In the meantime, Sandro and Claudia become inv…
#19 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.…
#20 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.…
#21 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) · ★ 7.4 · 913 votes · 1h 33m · romance, dramaThis simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother…
#22 Romeo and Juliet (1968) · ★ 7.4 · 748 votes · 2h 18m · romance, dramaRomeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young lovers defy their destiny and elope, only to suffer…
#23 Last Year at Marienbad (1961) · ★ 7.4 · 559 votes · 1h 35m · romance, dramaAt a weekend gathering, a man tells a woman that they had spent time there together a year prior. But, the woman has no recollection whatsoever and is convinced that he is simply f…
#24 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…
#25 Belle de Jour (1967) · ★ 7.3 · 1,046 votes · 1h 41m · romance, dramaBeautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri menti…
#26 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…
#27 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…
#28 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…
#29 Marnie (1964) · ★ 7.1 · 1,261 votes · 2h 10m · thriller, romance, dramaMarnie is a beautiful but emotionally withdrawn thief, stealing from employers before disappearing under new identities. When her new boss, Mark Rutland, discovers her secret, his…
#30 Cleopatra (1963) · ★ 7.1 · 889 votes · 4h 11m · romance, drama, historyDetermined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony, who vows…
#31 Barefoot in the Park (1967) · ★ 7.1 · 628 votes · 1h 46m · comedy, romanceIn this film based on a Neil Simon play, newlyweds Corie, a free spirit, and Paul Bratter, an uptight lawyer, share a sixth-floor apartment in Greenwich Village. Soon after their m…
#32 Contempt (1963) · ★ 7.0 · 996 votes · 1h 43m · romance, dramaArt film producer Jeremy Prokosch, unhappy with the work of his director, hires Fritz Lang (as himself) to direct an adaptation of The Odyssey, but when it seems that the legendary…
#33 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…
#34 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…