#1 of 26 Best-rated film of 1960
1960 Mystery Thriller Horror 1h 49m
97 Metascore
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
About Psycho742 films on the site were released in 1960, and 26 have enough critic or audience ratings to be ranked. Psycho tops the list, ahead of The Apartment and The Hidden Fortress. The Apartment won Best Picture at the 1961 Oscars. This page covers 1960 alone; the 1960s page ranks the whole decade.
Psycho is the best-rated film of 1960, with a rank value of 91/100 from critics and audiences, ahead of The Apartment (90/100). Ranked by a blend of Metascore and IMDb/Letterboxd user ratings (Echo Scores start with 2017 releases).
#1 of 26 Best-rated film of 1960
1960 Mystery Thriller Horror 1h 49m
97 Metascore
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
About PsychoThe Apartment and The Hidden Fortress follow Psycho. Drama is the most common genre in the top 25 (15 films). Ranked by a blend of Metascore and IMDb/Letterboxd user ratings (Echo Scores start with 2017 releases).
1960 · Drama, Comedy · 2h 5m
Dir. Billy Wilder No Echo Score: ranked 90/100 on critics & audiences
1960 · Adventure, Drama · 2h 6m
Dir. Akira Kurosawa No Echo Score: ranked 84/100 on critics & audiences
1960 · Adventure, Biography
Dir. Stanley Kubrick No Echo Score: ranked 83/100 on critics & audiences
1960 · Adventure, Drama · 2h 13m
Dir. Fred Zinnemann No Echo Score: ranked 82/100 on critics & audiences
1960 · Adventure, Fantasy · 1h 33m
Dir. Robert Stevenson No Echo Score: ranked 78/100 on critics & audiences
1960 · Sci-Fi, Horror · 1h 17m
Dir. Wolf Rilla No Echo Score: ranked 76/100 on critics & audiences
1960 · Biography, Drama · 2h 8m
Dir. Stanley Kramer No Echo Score: ranked 76/100 on critics & audiences
1960 · Biography, Drama · 2h 24m
Dir. Vincent J. Donehue No Echo Score: ranked 75/100 on critics & audiences
1960 · Action, Adventure · 2h 8m
Dir. John Sturges No Echo Score: ranked 74/100 on critics & audiences
1960 · Drama, Crime · 1h 19m
Dir. Leslie Stevens No Echo Score: ranked 74/100 on critics & audiences
1960 · Drama, Horror · 1h 19m
No Echo Score: ranked 72/100 on critics & audiences
1960 · Drama, Comedy · 2h 14m
Dir. David Swift No Echo Score: ranked 70/100 on critics & audiences
1960 · Drama · 1h 36m
Dir. Tony Richardson No Echo Score: ranked 70/100 on critics & audiences
1960 · Adventure, Sci-Fi · 1h 43m
Dir. George Pal No Echo Score: ranked 69/100 on critics & audiences
1960 · Action, Drama · 3h 28m
No Echo Score: ranked 68/100 on critics & audiences
1960 · Adventure, Family · 2h 6m
Dir. Ken Annakin No Echo Score: ranked 68/100 on critics & audiences
1960 · Drama, Mystery · 1h 54m
Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz No Echo Score: ranked 66/100 on critics & audiences
1960 · Drama, Comedy · 1h 39m
Dir. Henry Levin No Echo Score: ranked 63/100 on critics & audiences
1960 · Comedy, Romance · 2h 6m
Dir. Vincente Minnelli No Echo Score: ranked 61/100 on critics & audiences
1960 · Drama, Mystery · 1h 43m
No Echo Score: ranked 60/100 on critics & audiences
1960 · Thriller, Comedy · 2h 7m
Dir. Lewis Milestone No Echo Score: ranked 59/100 on critics & audiences
1960 · Horror · 1h 25m
Dir. William Castle No Echo Score: ranked 53/100 on critics & audiences
1960 · Drama, Comedy · 1h 44m
Dir. Stanley Donen No Echo Score: ranked 51/100 on critics & audiences
1960 · Comedy · 1h 12m
No Echo Score: ranked 49/100 on critics & audiences
The Apartment leads with 11 wins from 17 nominations, then Spartacus with 5 wins. The Apartment won Best Picture at the 1961 Oscars. In all, 16 films released in 1960 have award nominations on the site, with 24 wins between them.
The highest-ranked 1960 film of 12 genres, from Mystery (Psycho) to Thriller (The Time Machine). Each film appears once, under its first genre that is still free.
Psycho 97 Metascore
The Apartment 94 Metascore
The Hidden Fortress 89 Metascore
Spartacus 87 Metascore
Darby O'Gill and the Little People 80 Metascore
Village of the Damned 77 Metascore
Inherit the Wind 75 Metascore
The Magnificent Seven 74 Metascore
Private Property 80 Metascore
House of Usher 75 Metascore
Pollyanna 66 Metascore
The Time Machine 67 Metascore December was the busiest month of 1960 with 71 releases; its best-rated film is The Sundowners. January shows 119 because films whose exact release day is unknown are stored on January 1.
44% of 1960's films with a known language are in English (319). Japanese comes next with 58 films, out of 35 languages in all.
A best-of page for each of 55 years, from 1900 to 2026 (so far). Before 1980 there is one page per decade, for its first year (1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940, 1950, 1960, 1970); from 1980 every year has its own.
Quick answers about 1960's best-rated films and awards, from the lists above.
Psycho is the best-rated film of 1960 on What's After the Movie, with a rank value of 91/100 from critics and audiences. The Apartment is second and The Hidden Fortress third. Ranked by a blend of Metascore and IMDb/Letterboxd user ratings (Echo Scores start with 2017 releases).
About PsychoThe Apartment (1960) won Best Picture at the 1961 Academy Awards.
The ApartmentThe Apartment has the best award record of the 1960 releases on the site: 11 wins from 17 nominations.
1961 awards seasonThe site lists 742 films released in 1960. 26 of them are ranked, and December had the most releases with a known day (71).
Ranked by a blend of Metascore and IMDb/Letterboxd user ratings (Echo Scores start with 2017 releases). Only feature films count (60 minutes or longer, no concert recordings), and a film needs enough ratings, box office or award attention to be ranked.