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Best Movies of 1960

The highest-rated films released in 1960, ranked by TMDB user score among titles with at least 500 votes.

📊 A century of movies in numbers 17 titlesavg ★ 7.71 avg 120 min DramaThrillerHorrorRomance

Most watched in 1960

PsychoPsycho1960 · ★ 8.4 · 1h 49m The ApartmentThe Apartment1960 · ★ 8.2 · 2h 6m SpartacusSpartacus1960 · ★ 7.5 · 3h 17m BreathlessBreathless1960 · ★ 7.5 · 1h 30m La Dolce VitaLa Dolce Vita1960 · ★ 8.0 · 2h 54m The Magnificent SevenThe Magnificent Seven1960 · ★ 7.5 · 2h 8m
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  1. #1 Psycho (1960) · ★ 8.4 · 11,281 votes · 1h 49m · thriller, horror, mystery

    When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Ba…

  2. #2 The Apartment (1960) · ★ 8.2 · 2,792 votes · 2h 6m · comedy, romance, drama

    Bud 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…

  3. #3 Le Trou (1960) · ★ 8.2 · 602 votes · 2h 12m · thriller, drama, crime

    Four 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…

  4. #4 La Dolce Vita (1960) · ★ 8.0 · 2,067 votes · 2h 54m · comedy, drama

    Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by h…

  5. #5 Rocco and His Brothers (1960) · ★ 8.0 · 684 votes · 2h 58m · romance, drama, crime

    When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.…

  6. #6 The Virgin Spring (1960) · ★ 7.8 · 692 votes · 1h 30m · drama, history

    Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster daughter, the unrepentant Ingeri, to deliver candles to a distant church. On their…

  7. #7 Two Women (1960) · ★ 7.8 · 589 votes · 1h 40m · drama, war

    A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them.…

  8. #8 Eyes Without a Face (1960) · ★ 7.6 · 818 votes · 1h 24m · thriller, drama, horror

    Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane, who outsiders believe is dead. Dr. Génessie…

  9. #9 Purple Noon (1960) · ★ 7.6 · 628 votes · 1h 58m · thriller, drama, crime

    Tom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess.…

  10. #10 Spartacus (1960) · ★ 7.5 · 2,466 votes · 3h 17m · adventure, drama, history

    The 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…

  11. #11 Breathless (1960) · ★ 7.5 · 2,096 votes · 1h 30m · romance, drama, crime

    A 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.…

  12. #12 The Magnificent Seven (1960) · ★ 7.5 · 2,062 votes · 2h 8m · action, adventure, western

    An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.…

  13. #13 L'Avventura (1960) · ★ 7.5 · 773 votes · 2h 24m · romance, drama, mystery

    Claudia 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…

  14. #14 The Time Machine (1960) · ★ 7.4 · 954 votes · 1h 43m · fantasy, adventure, thriller

    A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.…

  15. #15 Peeping Tom (1960) · ★ 7.4 · 933 votes · 1h 41m · thriller, drama, horror

    Loner 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…

  16. #16 Black Sunday (1960) · ★ 7.4 · 603 votes · 1h 26m · horror

    A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike desc…

  17. #17 Village of the Damned (1960) · ★ 7.2 · 517 votes · 1h 17m · horror, science-fiction

    In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child bearing age is pregnant. The resulting children have the same strange blond hai…

Questions

What is the best movie of 1960?
By TMDB user rating among films with at least 500 votes, Psycho leads 1960 with 8.4/10, followed by The Apartment (8.2).
What was the most watched film of 1960?
Measured by TMDB vote count, Psycho drew the most engagement with 11,281 votes.
How many notable films came out in 1960?
This index counts 17 films from 1960 with 500 or more TMDB votes; their average rating is 7.71 and average runtime 120 minutes.
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