Most Popular Movies 1960
This chart shows the 1960 movie releases that have attracted the most interest on The Numbers web site over the past 24 hours. A share of 100 corresponds to 1 percent of the total views for all 1960 releases.
See also: Domestic Release Schedule for 1960 - Top 1960 Worldwide
| Most Popular Overall | 1961 → |
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| Psycho |
| Director: Alfred Hitchcock |
| Lead Roles: Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates, Janet Leigh as Marion Crane |
| Initial Theatrical Release: March 8, 1960 (Wide) |
| Keywords: Surprise Twist, Mental Illness, Hallucinations, Serial Killer, White Collar Crime, Fugitive / On the Run, Cross-Dressing, Psychological Horror |
| Classification: Original Screenplay, Horror, Live Action, Contemporary Fiction |
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Domestic BO: $32,000,000 |
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International BO: $2,177 |
| Spartacus |
| Director: Stanley Kubrick |
| Lead Roles: Kirk Douglas as Spartacus, Laurence Olivier as Marcus Licinius Crassus, Jean Simmons as Varinia, Charles Laughton as Sempronius Gracchus, Peter Ustinov as Lentulus Batiatus, John Gavin as Julius Caesar, Tony Curtis as Antonius |
| Initial Theatrical Release: October 7, 1960 (Wide) by Universal |
| Keywords: Inspired by a True Story, Historical Drama, Slavery, Revolution, Ancient Rome, Romance, Political, Government Corruption |
| Classification: Based on Fiction Book/Short Story, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
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Domestic BO: $30,000,000 |
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International BO: $30,000,000 |
| The Fugitive Kind |
| Director: Sidney Lumet |
| Lead Roles: Marlon Brando as Valentine “Snakeskin” Xavier , Anna Magnani as Lady Torrance, Joanne Woodward as Carol Cutrere |
| Initial Theatrical Release: April 14, 1960 (Limited) by United Artists |
| Keywords: Romance |
| Classification: Based on Play, Drama, Live Action, Contemporary Fiction |
Synopsis
A smoldering, snakeskin-jacketed Brando is Val Xavier, a drifter trying to go straight. He finds work and solace in a small-town southern variety store run by the married, sexually frustrated Lady Torrance, who proves as much a temptation for Val as does local wild child Carol Cutrere. Lumet captures the intense, fearless performances and Williams’s hot-blooded storytelling and social critique with his customary restraint, resulting in a drama of uncommon sophistication and craft.
| Tunes of Glory |
| Director: Ronald Neame |
| Lead Roles: Alec Guinness, John Mills |
| Initial Theatrical Release: December 20, 1960 (Limited) by Lopert Pictures Corporation |
| Classification: Based on Fiction Book/Short Story, Drama, Live Action, Contemporary Fiction |
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| à bout de souffle |
| Director: Jean-Luc Godard |
| Initial Theatrical Release: March 16, 1960 (Limited) (France) |
| Classification: Original Screenplay, Drama, Live Action, Contemporary Fiction |
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Domestic BO: $425,941 |
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International BO: $166,516 |
Synopsis
Small-time crook Michel steals a car and murders a policeman. While on the run, he reconnects with Patricia, a journalism student living in Paris, and tries to convince her to go on the lam with him.
| Exodus |
| Lead Roles: Paul Newman as Ari Ben Canaan |
| Initial Theatrical Release: December 15, 1960 (Limited) |
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Domestic BO: $21,750,000 |
| Le testament d'Orphée, ou ne me demandez pas pourquoi! |
| Director: Jean Cocteau |
| Initial Theatrical Release: February 18, 1960 (Wide) (France) |
| Classification: Based on Real Life Events, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
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International BO: $1,849 |
| Shadows |
| Director: John Cassavetes |
| Initial Theatrical Release: October 14, 1960 (Limited) (United Kingdom) |
| Keywords: Romance, Set in New York City |
| Classification: Original Screenplay, Drama, Live Action, Contemporary Fiction |
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International BO: $1,937 |
| Rocco e i suoi fratelli |
| Director: Luchino Visconti |
| Initial Theatrical Release: October 14, 1960 (Limited) (Italy) |
| Classification: Original Screenplay, Drama, Live Action, Contemporary Fiction |
| Park Sa-bang |
| Director: Dae-jin Kang |
| Initial Theatrical Release: October 5, 1960 (Wide) (South Korea) |
| Classification: Original Screenplay, Drama, Live Action |
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International BO: $13,670 |
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| The Magnificent Seven |
| Director: John Sturges |
| Initial Theatrical Release: October 12, 1960 (Limited) |
| Keywords: Remake, Foreign-Language Remake, Remade |
| Classification: Based on Movie, Western, Live Action, Historical Fiction |
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International BO: $17,235 |
| Ruten No Ôhi |
| Director: Kinuyo Tanaka |
| Initial Theatrical Release: January 27, 1960 (Limited) (Japan) |
| Classification: Original Screenplay, Drama, Live Action, Contemporary Fiction |
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International BO: $2,033 |
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| Le Trou |
| Director: Jacques Becker |
| Initial Theatrical Release: March 18, 1960 (Limited) (France) |
| Keywords: Prison, Prison Break, Film Noir, Non Professional Actor, Limited Dialogue |
| Classification: Based on Fiction Book/Short Story, Thriller/Suspense, Live Action, Contemporary Fiction |
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Domestic BO: $30,973 |
| The Walking Target |
| Director: Edward L. Cahn |
| Initial Theatrical Release: October, 1960 (Limited) |
| Classification: Original Screenplay, Documentary, Live Action, Contemporary Fiction |
| Seishun zankoku monogatari |
| Director: Nagisa Ôshima |
| Initial Theatrical Release: June 3, 1960 (Wide) (Japan) |
| Classification: Original Screenplay, Drama, Live Action, Contemporary Fiction |
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International BO: $2,492 |
| Peeping Tom |
| Director: Michael Powell |
| Lead Roles: Carl Boehm as Mark Lewis |
| Initial Theatrical Release: April 7, 1960 (Limited) (United Kingdom) |
| Classification: Original Screenplay, Thriller/Suspense, Live Action, Contemporary Fiction |
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Domestic BO: $121,055 |
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International BO: $32,575 |
Synopsis
Sensitive film studio focus puller Mark Lewis moonlights as a private photographer of scantily-clad women, while obsessively working on his own “documentary” of the women he murders.
| Circus of Horrors |
| Director: Sidney Hayers |
| Initial Theatrical Release: August 31, 1960 (Limited) by American International Pictures |
| Classification: Horror, Live Action |
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| Un Rayo De Luz |
| Director: Luis Lucia |
| Initial Theatrical Release: September 9, 1960 (Wide) (Spain) |
| Classification: Based on Fiction Book/Short Story, Musical, Live Action, Contemporary Fiction |
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International BO: $6,539 |
| Flaming Star |
| Initial Theatrical Release: December 20, 1960 (Limited) |
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Domestic BO: $900 |
| The Apartment |
| Director: Billy Wilder |
| Lead Roles: Jack Lemmon as Calvin Clifford Baxter, Shirley MacLaine as Fran Kubelik, Fred MacMurray as Jeff D. Sheldrake |
| Initial Theatrical Release: June 15, 1960 (Limited) by United Artists |
| Keywords: Romance, Voiceover/Narration, Corporate Life, Infidelity, Suicide, Love Triangle, Relationships Gone Wrong, Christmas |
| Classification: Original Screenplay, Romantic Comedy, Live Action |
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Domestic BO: $18,600,000 |
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International BO: $5,999,998 |
Synopsis
C.C. Baxter knows the way to success in business...it's through the door of his apartment! By providing a perfect hideaway for philandering bosses, the ambitious young employee reaps a series of undeserved promotions. But when Bud lends the key to big boss J.D. Sheldrake, he not only advances his career, but his own love life as well. For Sheldrake's mistress is the lovely Fran Kubelik, elevator girl and angel of Bud's dreams. Convinced that he is the only man for Fran, Bud must make the most important executive decision of his career: lose the girl...or his job.
| La legge |
| Initial Theatrical Release: November 11, 1960 (Wide), released as Where the Hot Wind Blows! |
| Classification: Based on Fiction Book/Short Story, Drama, Live Action, Contemporary Fiction |
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Domestic BO: $17,351 |
| La maschera del demonio |
| Initial Theatrical Release: August 12, 1960 (Wide) (Italy) |
| Classification: Original Screenplay, Horror, Live Action, Fantasy |
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| Brides of Dracula |
| Director: Terence Fisher |
| Lead Roles: Peter Cushing |
| Initial Theatrical Release: September 5, 1960 (Limited) by Universal |
| Classification: Original Screenplay, Horror, Live Action, Science Fiction |