# The best crime films of the 1960s

Les Tontons flingueurs, To Kill a Mockingbird, Le Deuxième Souffle, The Sicilian Clan, In the Heat of the Night and Bullitt: the 1960s crime films rated highest by AlloCiné viewers.

- 11 votes · 15 items
- Sep 8, 2022 · A. Guerin
- https://even.best/en/l/4748/the-best-crime-films-of-the-1960s

## Top 15

1. **Les Tontons flingueurs (1963)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Georges Lautner.
2. **The Battle of Algiers (1966)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Gillo Pontecorvo.
3. **Fail Safe (1964)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Sidney Lumet.
4. **The Chase (1966)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Arthur Penn.
5. **The Virgin Spring (1960)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Ingmar Bergman.
6. **How to Steal a Million (1966)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — William Wyler.
7. **The Sicilian Clan (1969)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Henri Verneuil.
8. **In the Heat of the Night (1967)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Norman Jewison.
9. **To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Robert Mulligan.
10. **Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Otto Preminger.
11. **This Man Must Die (1969)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Claude Chabrol.
12. **Bullitt (1968)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Peter Yates.
13. **Bonnie and Clyde (1967)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Arthur Penn.
14. **Le Deuxième Souffle (1966)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Jean-Pierre Melville.
15. **The Boston Strangler (1968)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Richard Fleischer.

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