The Great Films: 1960, 1961

It's getting to be that time of year again when I begin to compile my list of the 25 best movies of the year. As a prelude I revisit the Top 25 from past years. Click on the titles to learn more about the films.

1960
1. Psycho
2. The Apartment
3. Elmer Gantry
4. Spartacus
5. Rocco and His Brothers
6. Inherit the Wind
7. Sons and Lovers
8. La Dolce Vita
9. The Magnificent Seven
10. The Virgin Spring
11. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
12. Tunes of Glory
13. Breathless
14. The Entertainer
15. Concrete Jungle
16. L’Avventura
17. The Sundowners
18. Sink the Bismark!
19. Two Women
20. Pollyanna
21. The Time Machine
22. Village of the Damned
23. Swiss Family Robinson
24. Wild River
25. Purple Noon

1961
1. Yojimbo
2. West Side Story
3. Judgment at Nuremberg
4. The Hustler
5. Divorce — Italian Style
6. A Raisin in the Sun
7. Viridiana
8. A Taste of Honey
9. El Cid
10. The Innocents
11. The Guns of Navarone
12. Through a Glass Darkly
13. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
14. Splendor in the Grass
15. Last Year at Marienbad
16. Victim
17. King of Kings
18. One, Two, Three
19. Whistle Down the Wind
20. Fanny
21. The Misfits
22. Murder, She Said
23. Summer and Smoke
24. Lover Come Back
25. Flower Drum Song