# List of American films of 1960

A list of American films released in 1960.
The Apartment won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

## A-C

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre/Note | |
| The 3rd Voice | Hubert Cornfield | Edmond O'Brien, Laraine Day, Julie London | Mystery | 20th Century Fox |
| 12 to the Moon | David Bradley | Ken Clark, Tom Conway, Michi Kobi | Science fiction | Columbia |
| 13 Fighting Men | Harry W. Gerstad | Grant Williams, Carole Matthews, Brad Dexter | War | 20th Century Fox |
| 13 Ghosts | William Castle | Charles Herbert, Jo Morrow, Rosemary DeCamp | Horror | Columbia; remade in 2001 |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Michael Curtiz | Tony Randall, Patty McCormack, Eddie Hodges, Archie Moore | Family | MGM. From Mark Twain book |
| The Alamo | John Wayne | John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Chill Wills, Frankie Avalon, Richard Boone | Biography, Western | United Artists. 7 Oscar nominations |
| All the Fine Young Cannibals | Michael Anderson | Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner, George Hamilton | Drama | MGM |
| All the Young Men | Hall Bartlett | Alan Ladd, Sidney Poitier, James Darren | War | Columbia |
| The Amazing Transparent Man | Edgar G. Ulmer | Marguerite Chapman, Douglas Kennedy, James Griffith | Science fiction | AIP |
| The Angel Wore Red | Nunnally Johnson | Ava Gardner, Dirk Bogarde, Joseph Cotten | War | MGM |
| The Apartment | Billy Wilder | Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, Edie Adams | Drama, Comedy | United Artists. 10 Oscar nominations; Best Picture |
| Because They're Young | Paul Wendkos | Dick Clark, Tuesday Weld, Victoria Shaw (actress) | Drama | Columbia |
| The Bellboy | Jerry Lewis | Jerry Lewis, Bob Clayton, Milton Berle | Comedy | Paramount |
| Bells Are Ringing | Vincente Minnelli | Judy Holliday, Dean Martin, Fred Clark | Musical comedy | MGM. Based on stage show |
| Beyond the Time Barrier | Edgar G. Ulmer | Darlene Tompkins, Robert Clarke, Vladimir Sokoloff | Sci-fi | AIP |
| The Big Night | Sidney Salkow | Venetia Stevenson, Randy Sparks, Dick Contino | Drama | Paramount |
| The Boy and the Pirates | Bert I. Gordon | Charles Herbert, Susan Gordon, Murvyn Vye | Adventure | United Artists |
| The Bramble Bush | Daniel Petrie | Richard Burton, Angie Dickinson, Barbara Rush | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| A Breath of Scandal | Michael Curtiz | Sophia Loren, Maurice Chevalier, John Gavin | Drama | Paramount |
| Butterfield 8 | Daniel Mann | Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Eddie Fisher, Dina Merrill | Drama | MGM. Oscar for Taylor |
| Cage of Evil | Edward L. Cahn | Ron Foster, Pat Blair | Crime | United Artists |
| Can-Can | Walter Lang | Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Juliet Prowse | Musical | 20th Century Fox. Based on stage show |
| The Cape Canaveral Monsters | Phil Tucker | Scott Peters, Jason Johnson | Science-fiction | |
| Cash McCall | Joseph Pevney | James Garner, Natalie Wood, Nina Foch, E. G. Marshall | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| Chartroose Caboose | William Reynolds | Molly Bee, Ben Cooper | Comedy | Universal |
| Cimarron | Anthony Mann | Glenn Ford, Maria Schell, Anne Baxter | Western | MGM. Remake of 1931 film |
| Cinderfella | Frank Tashlin | Jerry Lewis, Ed Wynn, Anna Maria Alberghetti | Musical comedy | Paramount |
| College Confidential | Albert Zugsmith | Steve Allen, Mamie Van Doren, Herbert Marshall, Jayne Meadows | Teen | Universal |
| Comanche Station | Budd Boetticher | Randolph Scott, Nancy Gates, Claude Akins | Western | Columbia |
| Crack in the Mirror | Richard Fleischer | Orson Welles, Juliette Gréco, Bradford Dillman | Drama | 20th Century Fox |
| The Crowded Sky | Joseph Pevney | Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming | Drama | Warner Bros. |

## D-H

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
| The Dark at the Top of the Stairs | Delbert Mann | Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire, Eve Arden, Shirley Knight, Angela Lansbury | Drama | Warner Bros.; from William Inge play |
| Desire in the Dust | Robert L. Lippert | Raymond Burr, Martha Hyer, Joan Bennett | Drama | 20th Century Fox |
| Dinosaurus! | Irvin Yeaworth | Ward Ramsey, Paul Lukather, Kristina Hanson | Sci-fi | Universal |
| Elmer Gantry | Richard Brooks | Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley Jones, Dean Jagger, Patti Page | Drama | United Artists. From novel by Sinclair Lewis; Oscars for Lancaster, Jones, screenplay |
| Esther and the King | Raoul Walsh | Joan Collins, Richard Egan, Denis O'Dea | Biblical | 20th Century Fox |
| Exodus | Otto Preminger | Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Sal Mineo, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb, Jill Haworth, Hugh Griffith, John Derek | Drama | United Artists. From the Leon Uris novel; 3 Oscar nominations |
| The Facts of Life | Melvin Frank | Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Ruth Hussey | Comedy | United Artists. 5 Oscar nominations |
| Five Branded Women | Martin Ritt | Silvana Mangano, Jeanne Moreau, Vera Miles, Barbara Bel Geddes, Carla Gravina | War drama | Paramount |
| Five Guns to Tombstone | Edward L. Cahn | James Brown, Walter Coy | Western | United Artists |
| Flaming Star | Don Siegel | Elvis Presley, Steve Forrest, Barbara Eden, John McIntire, Dolores del Río, Richard Jaeckel | Western | 20th Century Fox |
| Four Fast Guns | William J. Hole Jr. | Martha Vickers, James Craig | Western | Universal |
| Freckles | Andrew V. McLaglen | Carol Christensen | Drama | 20th Century Fox |
| From the Terrace | Mark Robson | Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Myrna Loy, Ina Balin, Leon Ames, George Grizzard | Drama | 20th Century Fox. From John O'Hara novel |
| G.I. Blues | Norman Taurog | Elvis Presley, Juliet Prowse, Robert Ivers, Leticia Roman | Musical | Paramount |
| The Gallant Hours | Robert Montgomery | James Cagney, Dennis Weaver | Biography, War | United Artists. Story of "Bull" Halsey |
| The Giant of Marathon | Jacques Tourneur | Steve Reeves, Mylène Demongeot, Sergio Fantoni | Epic | MGM |
| Girl of the Night | Joseph Cates | Anne Francis, Lloyd Nolan, Kay Medford | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| The Grass Is Greener | Stanley Donen | Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons | Comedy | Universal. Based on the play |
| Gunfighters of Abilene | Edward L. Cahn | Buster Crabbe, Barton MacLane, Judith Ames | Western | United Artists |
| Guns of the Timberland | Robert D. Webb | Alan Ladd, Jeanne Crain, Gilbert Roland | Western | Warner Bros. |
| Hell Bent for Leather | George Sherman | Audie Murphy, Felicia Farr, Stephen McNally | Western | Universal |
| Hell to Eternity | Phil Karlson | Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Vic Damone | War | Allied Artists |
| Heller in Pink Tights | George Cukor | Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn, Margaret O'Brien, Steve Forrest | Western | Paramount |
| The High Powered Rifle | Maury Dexter | Allison Hayes, Willard Parker | Western | 20th Century Fox |
| High Time | Blake Edwards | Bing Crosby, Fabian, Tuesday Weld, Nicole Maurey | Musical | 20th Century Fox |
| Home from the Hill | Vincente Minnelli | Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard, George Hamilton | Drama | MGM. From William Humphrey novel |
| The Horse with the Flying Tail | Larry Lansburgh | George Fenneman (narrator) | Documentary | Academy Award winner |
| House of Usher | Roger Corman | Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey | Horror | AIP |
| Hyde and Go Tweet | Friz Freleng | | Animated | |
| The Hypnotic Eye | George Blair | Jacques Bergerac, Allison Hayes | Sci-fi | Allied Artists |

## I-M

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
| I Aim at the Stars | J. Lee Thompson | Curd Jürgens, Herbert Lom, Gia Scala | Biography | Columbia. Based on life of Wernher von Braun |
| Ice Palace | Vincent Sherman | Richard Burton, Robert Ryan, Martha Hyer, Jim Backus, Carolyn Jones | Drama | Warner Bros. Based on a novel by Edna Ferber |
| I'll Give My Life | William F. Claxton | Angie Dickinson, Ray Collins | Drama | |
| Inherit the Wind | Stanley Kramer | Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Harry Morgan, Claude Akins, Dick York | Drama | United Artists. Based on the play; 4 Oscar nominations |
| It Started in Naples | Melville Shavelson | Clark Gable, Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica | Romantic comedy | Paramount |
| Key Witness | Phil Karlson | Jeffrey Hunter, Pat Crowley, Dennis Hopper | Crime | MGM |
| The Last Voyage | Andrew L. Stone | Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, George Sanders, Woody Strode, Jack Kruschen | Adventure | MGM |
| Last Woman on Earth | Roger Corman | Betsy Jones-Moreland, Antony Carbone, Robert Towne | Science-fiction | Filmgroup |
| The Leech Woman | Edward Dein | Grant Williams, Coleen Gray, Phillip Terry, Gloria Talbott | Science-fiction | Universal |
| Let's Make Love | George Cukor | Marilyn Monroe, Yves Montand, Tony Randall, Frankie Vaughan, Milton Berle, Gene Kelly, Bing Crosby | Musical comedy | 20th Century Fox. Monroe's last musical |
| Let No Man Write My Epitaph | Philip Leacock | Burl Ives, Shelley Winters, James Darren, Jean Seberg | Drama | Columbia |
| The Little Shop of Horrors | Roger Corman | Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles, Dick Miller, Jack Nicholson | Sci-fi comedy | remade in 1986 |
| The Lost World | Irwin Allen | Michael Rennie, Jill St. John, David Hedison, Fernando Lamas, Claude Rains | Science-fiction | 20th Century Fox |
| Macumba Love | Douglas Fowley | Walter Reed, Ziva Rodann | Horror | United Artists |
| The Magnificent Seven | John Sturges | Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn, Brad Dexter, Horst Buchholz | Western | United Artists. Based on Seven Samurai; inspired 3 sequels and remake |
| Man on a String | André de Toth | Ernest Borgnine, Kerwin Mathews | Crime, Drama | Columbia; Remade in 1972 |
| Mice Follies | Robert McKimson | | Animated | |
| Midnight Lace | David Miller | Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin, Roddy McDowall, Myrna Loy | Suspense | Universal |
| Moment of Danger | Laszlo Benedek | Trevor Howard, Dorothy Dandridge | Drama | |
| The Mountain Road | Daniel Mann | James Stewart, Lisa Lu, Glenn Corbett, Harry Morgan | War | Columbia |
| Murder, Inc. | Stuart Rosenberg | Stuart Whitman, May Britt, Peter Falk, Henry Morgan | Crime | 20th Century Fox |
| The Music Box Kid | Edward L. Cahn | Ron Foster, Luana Patten | Crime | United Artists |

## N-S

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
| Never on Sunday | Jules Dassin | Melina Mercouri, Jules Dassin, Giorgos Fountas | Drama | United Artists. Greek/US production; 5 Oscar nominations |
| None but the Brave | George Sherman | Richard Basehart, Stuart Erwin, Arthur Shields | Western | 20th Century Fox |
| Noose for a Gunman | Edward L. Cahn | Jim Davis, Lyn Thomas | Western | United Artists |
| North to Alaska | Henry Hathaway | John Wayne, Stewart Granger, Capucine, Fabian, Ernie Kovacs, Mickey Shaughnessy | Western comedy | 20th Century Fox |
| Ocean's 11 | Lewis Milestone | Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop, Angie Dickinson, Richard Conte, George Raft, Cesar Romero, Henry Silva, Norman Fell | Crime, Drama | Rat Pack; Warner Bros.; remade in 2001 |
| Oklahoma Territory | Edward L. Cahn | Bill Williams, Gloria Talbott, Ted de Corsia | Western | United Artists |
| Once More, with Feeling! | Stanley Donen | Yul Brynner, Kay Kendall, Gregory Ratoff | Comedy | Columbia; based on Henry Kurnitz play |
| One Foot in Hell | James B. Clark | Alan Ladd, Dan O'Herlihy | Western | 20th Century Fox |
| Pay or Die | Richard Wilson | Ernest Borgnine, Zohra Lampert | Crime | Allied Artists |
| Pepe | George Sidney | Cantinflas, Dan Dailey, Shirley Jones | Comedy | Columbia |
| Platinum High School | Charles F. Haas | Mickey Rooney, Dan Duryea | Drama | MGM |
| Please Don't Eat the Daisies | Charles Walters | Doris Day, David Niven, Janis Paige | Comedy | MGM. From Jean Kerr book; inspired TV series |
| The Plunderers | Joseph Pevney | Jeff Chandler, John Saxon, Dolores Hart | Western | Allied Artists; Remake of 1948 film |
| Pollyanna | David Swift | Hayley Mills, Jane Wyman, Richard Egan, Karl Malden | Family comedy | from Eleanor Porter book; Disney |
| Portrait in Black | Michael Gordon | Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehart, Sandra Dee, John Saxon | Suspense | Universal |
| Pretty Boy Floyd | Herbert J. Leder | John Ericson, Barry Newman | Drama | |
| The Private Lives of Adam and Eve | Mickey Rooney | Mickey Rooney, Mamie Van Doren, Mel Tormé, Tuesday Weld, Fay Spain, Paul Anka | Comedy | Universal |
| Private Property | Leslie Stevens | Corey Allen, Warren Oates | Crime drama | lost film, re-released 2016 |
| The Purple Gang | Frank McDonald | Barry Sullivan, Robert Blake | Crime | Allied Artists |
| Psycho | Alfred Hitchcock | Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, John McIntire, Martin Balsam | Suspense | Paramount. From Robert Bloch novel; remade in 1998 |
| The Pusher | Gene Milford | Robert Lansing, Felice Orlandi | Crime | United Artists |
| The Rat Race | Robert Mulligan | Tony Curtis, Debbie Reynolds, Don Rickles | Drama | Paramount |
| Raymie | Frank McDonald | David Ladd, Julie Adams, Charles Winninger | Drama | Allied Artists |
| The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond | Budd Boetticher | Ray Danton, Karen Steele, Elaine Stewart | Crime | Warner Bros. Based on Jack Diamond |
| The Savage Innocents | Nicholas Ray | Anthony Quinn, Peter O'Toole, Yoko Tani | Drama | Paramount |
| Scent of Mystery | Jack Cardiff | Denholm Elliott, Peter Lorre | Mystery | |
| The Secret of the Purple Reef | William Witney | Richard Chamberlain, Peter Falk, Margia Dean | Adventure | 20th Century Fox |
| September Storm | Byron Haskin | Joanne Dru, Mark Stevens, Robert Strauss | Adventure | 20th Century Fox. Filmed in 3-D |
| Sergeant Rutledge | John Ford | Jeffrey Hunter, Woody Strode, Constance Towers | Western | Warner Bros. |
| Seven Thieves | Henry Hathaway | Edward G. Robinson, Rod Steiger, Joan Collins | Film noir | 20th Century Fox |
| Seven Ways from Sundown | Harry Keller | Audie Murphy, Barry Sullivan | Western | Universal |
| Sex Kittens Go to College | Albert Zugsmith | Mamie Van Doren, Tuesday Weld, John Carradine | Comedy | Allied Artists |
| Song Without End | Charles Vidor, George Cukor | Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Patricia Morison | Biography | Columbia |
| Spartacus | Stanley Kubrick | Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Tony Curtis, Peter Ustinov, Charles Laughton, John Gavin, Woody Strode, John Ireland, John Dall | Epic | Universal; from Howard Fast novel; won 4 Oscars |
| Squad Car | Ed Leftwich | Vici Raaf, Paul Bryar | Crime | 20th Century Fox |
| Stop!, Look and Laugh | | | Animated film | |
| The Story of Ruth | Henry Koster | Stuart Whitman, Tom Tryon, Peggy Wood, Elana Eden | Biblical | 20th Century Fox |
| Strangers When We Meet | Richard Quine | Kirk Douglas, Kim Novak, Ernie Kovacs | Drama | Columbia |
| Studs Lonigan | Irving Lerner | Frank Gorshin, Jack Nicholson, Venetia Stevenson | Drama | United Artists |
| The Subterraneans | Ranald MacDougall | Leslie Caron, George Peppard, Janice Rule | Drama | MGM; based on Jack Kerouac book |
| Summer of the Seventeenth Doll | Leslie Norman | Ernest Borgnine, Anne Baxter, John Mills, Angela Lansbury | Adventure | set in Australia |
| The Sundowners | Fred Zinnemann | Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum | Drama | Warner Bros. Set in Australia; 5 Oscar nominations |
| Sunrise at Campobello | Vincent J. Donehue | Ralph Bellamy, Greer Garson | Biography | Warner Bros. Story of FDR |
| Swiss Family Robinson | Ken Annakin | John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, Tommy Kirk | Adventure | Disney |

## T-Z

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
| Tall Story | Joshua Logan | Anthony Perkins, Jane Fonda, Ray Walston | Comedy | Warner Bros. Fonda's first film |
| Tarzan the Magnificent | Robert Day | Gordon Scott, Alexandra Stewart | Adventure | Paramount |
| A Terrible Beauty | Tay Garnett | Robert Mitchum, Anne Heywood, Dan O'Herlihy | Drama | United Artists |
| Tess of the Storm Country | Paul Guilfoyle | Diane Baker, Jack Ging | Drama | 20th Century Fox |
| This Rebel Breed | Richard L. Bare | Rita Moreno, Gerald Mohr, Dyan Cannon | Crime drama | Warner Bros. |
| The Threat | Charles R. Rondeau | Robert Knapp, Linda Lawson, Mary Castle | Crime | Warner Bros. |
| The Three Worlds of Gulliver | Jack Sher | Kerwin Mathews, June Thorburn | Fantasy | Columbia. Based on Gulliver's Travels |
| Thunder in Carolina | Paul Helmick | Rory Calhoun, Connie Hines | Drama | |
| The Time Machine | George Pal | Rod Taylor, Sebastian Cabot, Yvette Mimieux, Alan Young | Science fiction | MGM. From H. G. Wells book; special effects Oscar |
| Three Came to Kill | Edward L. Cahn | Cameron Mitchell, Lyn Thomas | Crime | United Artists |
| Toby Tyler | Charles Barton | Kevin Corcoran | Family | Disney |
| Too Hot to Handle | Terence Young | Jayne Mansfield, Leo Genn, Karlheinz Böhm | Comedy | |
| Tormented | Bert I. Gordon | Richard Carlson, Lugene Sanders | Horror | Allied Artists |
| Twelve Hours to Kill | Edward L. Cahn | Nico Minardos, Barbara Eden, Russ Conway | Crime drama | 20th Century Fox |
| The Unforgiven | John Huston | Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Audie Murphy | Western | United Artists |
| Valley of the Redwoods | William Witney | John Hudson, Ed Nelson | Action | 20th Century Fox |
| Vice Raid | Edward L. Cahn | Mamie Van Doren, Richard Coogan | Crime | United Artists |
| Village of the Damned | Wolf Rilla | George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin Stephens | Horror, Sci-fi | MGM; Remade in 1995 |
| Visit to a Small Planet | Norman Taurog | Jerry Lewis, Joan Blackman, Earl Holliman | Comedy | Paramount |
| The Wackiest Ship In the Army | Richard Murphy | Jack Lemmon, Ricky Nelson | Comedy | Columbia; became TV series |
| Wake Me When It's Over | Mervyn LeRoy | Ernie Kovacs, Dick Shawn, Margo Moore | Comedy | 20th Century Fox |
| Walk Like a Dragon | James Clavell | Jack Lord, Nobu McCarthy, Mel Tormé | Drama | Paramount |
| Walk Tall | Maury Dexter | Willard Parker, Joyce Meadows | Western | 20th Century Fox |
| The Walking Target | Edward L. Cahn | Joan Evans, Merry Anders | Crime | United Artists |
| The Wasp Woman | Roger Corman, Jack Hill | Susan Cabot, Anthony Eisley | Sci-fi | Filmgroup |
| Weddings and Babies | Morris Engel | Viveca Lindfors | Drama | 20th Century Fox |
| Where the Boys Are | Henry Levin | George Hamilton, Connie Francis, Yvette Mimieux, Paula Prentiss | Comedy | MGM; Remade in 1984 |
| Who Was That Lady? | George Sidney | Dean Martin, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh | Comedy | Columbia; nominated for 2 Golden Globes |
| Why Must I Die? | Roy Del Ruth | Terry Moore, Debra Paget | Crime | A.I.P. |
| The Wild Ride | Harvey Berman | Jack Nicholson | Drama | |
| Wild River | Elia Kazan | Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick | Drama | 20th Century Fox |
| The World of Suzie Wong | Richard Quine | William Holden, Nancy Kwan, Sylvia Syms | Romance | Paramount |
| Young Jesse James | William F. Claxton | Ray Stricklyn, Willard Parker, Merry Anders | Western | 20th Century Fox |
| The Young One | Luis Buñuel | Zachary Scott, Bernie Hamilton | Drama | |