I am currently throwing together top 100 lists for each decade from the 1930s onwards - sadly, as of yet, I have not seen enough pre-1930s films to go back any further than this. I shall continue posting these attached to whichever film ranks as my no. 1 for the period. I won't post the entire 100s on here but here is my top 50 for the 1960s. Clearly, ranking on such a list is always arbitrary and, were I to start again tomorrow, it would no doubt look a little different. But, for today, I am reasonably happy with this ranking.

Please feel free to comment or share your own favourites!

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Stanley Kubrick
2. Rocco and His Brothers (1960) Luchino Visconti
3. Psycho (1960) Alfred Hitchcock
4. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) Robert Bresson
5. The Virgin Spring (1960) Ingmar Bergman
6. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Robert Mulligan
7. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) Mike Nichols
8. The Manchurian Candidate (1962) John Frankenheimer
9. Billy Budd (1962) Peter Ustinov
10. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) John Ford
11. Dr. Strangelove (1964) Stanley Kubrick
12. Woman in the Dunes (1964) Hiroshi Teshigahara
13. Fail-Safe (1964) Sidney Lumet
14. Blow-Up (1966) Michelangelo Antonioni
15. L’Eclisse (1962) Michelangelo Antonioni
16. Harakiri (1962) Masaki Kobayashi
17. Red Beard (1965) Akira Kurosawa
18. L’Avventura (1960) Michelangelo Antonioni
19. The War Game (1965) Peter Watkins
20. Repulsion (1965) Roman Polanski
21. Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) Blake Edwards
22. Days of Wine and Roses (1962) Blake Edwards
23. The Battle of Algiers (1966) Gillo Pontecorvo
24. Alphaville (1965) Jean-Luc Godard
25. Pierrot le Fou (1965) Jean-Luc Godard
26. Viridiana (1961) Luis Bunuel
27. I Am Cuba (1964) Mikhail Kalatozov
28. The Hustler (1961) Robert Rossen
29. Plein Soleil (1960) René Clément
30. Ivan’s Childhood (1962) Andrey Tarkovsky
31. La Dolce Vita (1960) Federico Fellini
32. The Apartment (1960) Billy Wilder
33. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960) Mikio Naruse
34. The Innocents (1961) Jack Clayton
35. Ride the High Country (1962) Sam Peckinpah
36. Lolita (1962) Stanley Kubrick
37. King & Country (1964) Joseph Losey
38. The Sound of Music (1965) Robert Wise
39. Three Outlaw Samurai (1964) Hideo Gosha
40. Through a Glass Darkly (1961) Ingmar Bergman
41. The Naked Island (1960) Kaneto Shindo
42. Peeping Tom (1960) Michael Powell
43. Marnie (1964) Alfred Hitchcock
44. Yojimbo (1961) Akira Kurosawa
45. Brides of Dracula (1960) Terence Fisher
46. The Children’s Hour (1961) William Wyler
47. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) David Lean
48. Long Day’s Journey into Night (1962) Sidney Lumet
49. An Autumn Afternoon (1962) Yasujiro Ozu
50. Seven Days in May (1964) John Frankenheimer