1. La Dolce Vita (1960)
2. Andrei Rublev (1966)
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
4. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
5. America America (1963)
6. The Leopard (1963)
7. Persona (1966)
8. L’Avventura (1960)
9. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
10. Jules et Jim (1962)
11. Seconds (1966)
12. My Night at Maud’s (1969)
13. La notte (1961)
14. The Innocents (1961)
15. Blow-Up (1966)
16. Au hasard, Balthazar (1966)
17. The Swimmer (1968)
18. Petulia (1968)
19. Zorba the Greek (1964)
20. Far From the Madding Crowd (1967)
21. Lord Jim (1965)
22. 8 1/2 (1963)
23. Ivan’s Childhood (1962)
24. Il posto (1961)
25. Shame (1968)
25. Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
27. The Pawnbroker (1964)
28. Point Blank (1967)
29. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969)
30. The Apartment (1960)
31. Accident (1967)
32. La collectionneuse (1967)
33. Psycho (1960)
34. Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
35. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
36. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
37. Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
38. Downhill Racer (1969)
39. The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
40. Women in Love (1969)
41. The Wild Bunch (1969)
42. The Cardinal (1963)
43. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
44. The Sand Pebbles (1966)
45. The Cloud-Capped Star (1960)
46. Peeping Tom (1960)
47. Zazie dans le metro (1960)
48. Hud (1963)
49. Knife in the Water (1962)
50. The Great Escape (1963)
also good:
1960: The Bad Sleep Well, The Bellboy, Bells are Ringing, The Entertainer, Eyes Without a Face, High Time, Jigoku, Purple Noon, Le testament d’Orphee, The Virgin Spring, Wild River
1961: The Guns of Navarone, The Hustler, Lola, The Misfits, One-Eyed Jacks, Splendor in the Grass, West Side Story
1962: David and Lisa, L’eclisse, Experiment in Terror, Il sorpasso, Lolita, Mafioso, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Music Man, Mutiny on the Bounty, Ride the High Country, Sundays and Cybele, The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
1963: Bay of Angels, The Big City, The Birds, The Fire Within, High and Low, It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, The Servant, This Sporting Life, Winter Light
1964: Charulata, Dr. Strangelove, A Hard Day’s Night, Marnie, Mary Poppins, My Fair Lady, The Pumpkin Eater, Red Desert, Sallah, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, A Shot in the Dark, The Soft Skin, The Train, The World of Henry Orient, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
1965: The Hill, In Harm’s Way, Red Beard, Repulsion, Shakespeare Wallah, Ship of Fools, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, The Sound of Music, A Thousand Clowns, Yo Yo
1966: Closely Watched Trains, Cul-de-Sac, The Fortune Cookie, The Trouble with Angels
1967: Bonnie and Clyde, Cool Hand Luke, The Graduate, In Cold Blood, Mouchette, Playtime, The Producers, The Young Ladies of Rochefort
1968: The Bride Wore Black, Capricious Summer, The Color of Pomegranates, Finian’s Rainbow, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Oliver!, The Party, Planet of the Apes, Rosemary’s Baby, Stolen Kisses
1969: The Arrangement, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Joke, Mississippi Mermaid, A Passion, The Reivers, The Spider’s Stratagem, Sweet Charity
and the James Bond series, the “Dollars” trilogy, and several Ken Russell television films including The Debussy Film, Isadora Duncan, Song of Summer