This is a list of the 120 highest-ranked films on Letterboxd in the decade of the 1960s, within certain qualifications, as of 14 February 2025.

To make a list like this meaningful, you need to set a threshold for numbers of ratings before including a film, mitigating the effect of spurious high ratings and helping ensure the rankings really do represent a significant consensus of viewers. The current threshold for the overall Letterboxd Top 250 is 15,000 ratings, but on average fewer people rate older films and with such a high bar the list would be heavily slanted towards well-known Hollywood productions with a good few interesting films excluded. So I've set a threshold of 2,000 to allow a sufficiently varied list, revised up from 1,000 in February 2025 in line with an overall increase in the number of ratings.

Another difference from the Letterboxd 250 is that I've included shorts, documentaries, non-narrative films and one-off television dramas and miniseries besides narrative features. But I've excluded music videos; videos of live music, theatre, comedy and dance performances; and making-of documentaries and similar material as in these cases the ratings are more likely to be based on viewers' liking for the subject rather than the production in itself; and the few episodes of ongoing television series that have found their way to Letterboxd but are only fully appreciated in the context of the series. I've made a few discretionary exceptions for films that might otherwise fall into these categories but have been widely released and critically acclaimed in their own right.

There are 120 titles because I figure that the world's film industry should be able to manage at least one really great film per month on average.

My own recommendations for 1960s films to watch are here.

This is one of a series of work-in-progress decade by decade lists along similar lines. See letterboxd.com/desdemoor/tag/highest-rated-by-decade/lists/

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Pedant's corner: I personally believe the 1960s began on 1 January 1961, but sadly most of the rest of the world seems to disagree with me, including Letterboxd. So to make life easier, all the films listed were released between 1960 and 1969 inclusive.

List first posted 30 March 2021.