# The best movies of the 1960s

Leone, Hitchcock, Kobayashi, the French New Wave and French comedy: AlloCiné users' top 10 and the decade's great films selected by the Ciné-club de Caen.

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- Sep 20, 2024 · C. Favre
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## Top 12

1. **Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Sergio Leone: Harmonica, Frank and the coming of the railroad.
2. **Psycho (1960)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Alfred Hitchcock: the Bates Motel and the shower scene.
3. **The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sergio Leone: three men and a treasure during the Civil War.
4. **Harakiri (1962)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Masaki Kobayashi: a rōnin asks to commit seppuku in a clan's courtyard.
5. **Le Trou (1960)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jacques Becker: five prisoners dig their way out of La Santé.
6. **Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Gérard Oury: Bourvil and Louis de Funès cross occupied France.
7. **Monsieur Gangster (1963)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Georges Lautner: Lino Ventura and Audiard's dialogue.
8. **High and Low (1963)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Akira Kurosawa: an industrialist and the ransom for a child who isn't his.
9. **The Truth (1960)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Henri-Georges Clouzot: Brigitte Bardot on trial for murder.
10. **War and Peace (1966)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sergei Bondarchuk: the monumental Tolstoy adaptation.
11. **Breathless (1960)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jean-Luc Godard: Belmondo, Jean Seberg and the birth of the New Wave.
12. **La Dolce Vita (1960)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Federico Fellini: Marcello Mastroianni and the Trevi Fountain.
13. **L'Avventura (1960)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Michelangelo Antonioni: a disappearance on an island and a drifting couple.
14. **Rocco and His Brothers (1960)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Luchino Visconti: a southern family emigrates to Milan.
15. **Shoot the Piano Player (1960)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — François Truffaut: Charles Aznavour as a bar pianist.

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