* Ref: New York Times Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made
Here are the movies in their list that were released through 1960:
- 12 Angry Men (1957)
- 39 Steps, The (1935)
- 400 Blows, The (1959)
- A Nous La Liberte (1931)*
- Adam’s Rib (1949)
- Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938)
- African Queen, The (1951)
- Alexander Nevsky (1938)*
- All About Eve (1950)
- All Quiet On the Western Front (1930)
- All That Heaven Allows (1955)
- All the King’s Men (1949)
- American In Paris, An (1951)
- Anastasia (1956)*
- Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
- Angry Silence, The (1960)*
- Anna and the King of Siam (1946)*
- Anna Christie (1930)*
- Apartment, The (1960)
- Apu, The World of (1959)
- Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
- Asphalt Jungle, The (1950)*
- Awful Truth, The (1937)
- Baby Doll (1956)*
- Bad and the Beautiful, The (1952)*
- Bad Day At Black Rock (1955)*
- Baker’s Wife, The (1938)*
- Ball of Fire (1941)*
- Bambi (1942)
- Band Wagon, The (1953)
- Bank Dick, The (1940)
- Beauty and the Beast (1946)
- Ben-Hur (1959)
- Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946)
- Bicycle Thief, The (1948)
- Big Clock, The (1948)*
- Big Deal On Madonna Street (1958)*
- Big Heat, The (1953)*
- Big Sky, The (1952)*
- Big Sleep, The (1946)
- Black Narcissus (1947)
- Black Orpheus (1959)*
- Bob le Flambeur (1956)*
- Born Yesterday (1950)*
- Bread, Love, and Dreams (1953)*
- Breathless (1960)
- Bridge On the River Kwai, The (1957)
- Brief Encounter (1945)
- Bringing Up Baby (1938)
- Bus Stop (1956)*
- Caine Mutiny, The (1954)
- Camille (1936)
- Captains Courageous (1937)*
- Carmen Jones (1954)*
- Casablanca (1942)
- Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (1958)*
- Cavalcade (1933)
- Children of Paradise (1945)
- Citadel, The (1938)*
- Citizen Kane (1941)
- Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)*
- Conquest of Everest, The (1953)*
- Count of Monte Cristo, The (1934)*
- Country Girl, The (1954)*
- Cranes Are Flying, The (1957)*
- Crossfire (1947)*
- Cry, the Beloved Country (1952)*
- Damn Yankees! (1958)*
- Dark Victory (1939)
- David Copperfield (1935)*
- Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951)
- Dead End (1937)*
- Dead of Night (1945)*
- Death of a Salesman (1951)*
- Defiant Ones, The (1958)*
- Destry Rides Again (1939)*
- Diabolique (1955)
- Dial M For Murder (1954)*
- Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
- Dinner At Eight (1933)*
- Disraeli (1929)*
- Dodsworth (1936)
- Double Indemnity (1944)
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)*
- Dracula (1931)
- Duck Soup (1933)
- Dumbo (1941)
- Earrings of Madame de… , The (1953)
- East of Eden (1955)
- Easy Living (1937)*
- Elmer Gantry (1960)*
- Entertainer , The (1960)
- Face In the Crowd, A (1957)*
- Fantasia (1940)
- Father of the Bride (1950)*
- Fly, The (1958)*
- For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)*
- Forbidden Games (1952)*
- Force of Evil (1948)*
- Foreign Affair, A (1948)*
- Frankenstein (1931)
- Friendly Persuasion (1956)*
- From Here To Eternity (1953)
- Fugitive, The (1947)*
- Funny Face (1957)
- Fury (1936)*
- Gaslight (1944)
- Genevieve (1953)*
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)*
- Giant (1956)
- Gigi (1958)
- Gion Bayashi (1953)*
- Girl Can’t Help It, The (1956)*
- Going My Way (1944)
- Gone With the Wind (1939)
- Good Earth, The (1937)*
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)*
- Grand Hotel (1932)
- Grand Illusion (1937)
- Grapes of Wrath, The (1940)
- Great Dictator, The (1940)
- Great Expectations (1946)
- Great Man, The (1956)*
- Great McGinty, The (1940)*
- Greatest Show On Earth, The (1952)
- Green For Danger (1946)*
- Gunfighter, The (1950)
- Gunga Din (1939)
- Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)*
- Hamlet (1948)
- Hatful of Rain, A (1957)*
- Heiress, The (1949)*
- Henry V (1944)
- Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)*
- High and the Mighty, The (1954)*
- High Noon (1952)
- High Sierra (1941)*
- Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)*
- His Girl Friday (1940)
- How Green Was My Valley (1941)
- How To Marry a Millionaire (1953)*
- I Know Where I’m Going! (1945)*
- I Remember Mama (1948)
- I Want To Live! (1958)*
- Ikiru (1952)
- Il Generale Della Rovere (1959)*
- I’m All Right Jack (1959)*
- Imitation of Life (1959)
- Informer, The (1935)*
- Inherit the Wind (1960)*
- It Happened One Night (1934)
- It’s a Gift (1934)
- It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
- Jailhouse Rock (1957)
- Jazz Singer, The (1927)
- Jigokumon (1953)*
- Johnny Guitar (1954)*
- Killers, The (1946)
- Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
- King and I, The (1956)*
- King Kong (1933)
- La Chienne (1931)*
- La Dolce Vita (1960)
- La Strada (1954)
- La Terra Trema (1948)
- Lady Eve, The (1941)
- Lady Vanishes, The (1938)
- L’Age D’Or (1930)
- L’Atalante (1934)
- Laura (1944)
- Lavender Hill Mob, The (1951)*
- L’Avventura (1960)
- Les Cousins (1959)*
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (1959)*
- Les Miserables (1935)*
- Letter To Three Wives, A (1949)*
- Letter, The (1940)*
- Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The (1943)
- Life of Emile Zola, The (1937)
- Life With Father (1947)*
- Lili (1953)*
- Little Caesar (1931)*
- Little Foxes, The (1941)*
- Little Fugitive (1953)*
- Little Kidnappers, The (1953)*
- Little Women (1933)
- Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The (1935)*
- Lola Montes (1955)*
- Long Voyage Home, The (1940)*
- Look Back In Anger (1959)*
- Los Olvidados (1950)
- Lost Horizon (1937)
- Lost Weekend, The (1945)
- Love Affair (1939)*
- Love In the Afternoon (1957)*
- Lovers, The (1958)*
- Lust For Life (1956)*
- M (1931)
- Major and the Minor, The (1942)*
- Major Barbara (1941)*
- Make Way For Tomorrow (1937)*
- Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
- Man Hunt (1941)*
- Man Who Came To Dinner, The (1942)*
- Man With the Golden Arm, The (1955)*
- Marrying Kind, The (1952)*
- Marty (1955)
- Matter of Life and Death, A (1946)
- Mayerling (1936)*
- Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)
- Men, The (1950)*
- Midnight (1939)*
- Miracle of Morgan’s Creek, The (1944)
- Miracle On 34th Street (1947)
- Mister Roberts (1955)
- Mon Oncle (1958)*
- Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
- More the Merrier, The (1943)*
- Mortal Storm, The (1940)*
- Moulin Rouge (1952)
- Mouthpiece, The (1932)*
- Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936)
- Mr. Hulot’s Holiday (1953)
- Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)
- Mrs. Miniver (1942)
- Mutiny On the Bounty (1935)
- My Darling Clementine (1946)
- My Man Godfrey (1936)
- National Velvet (1944)
- Never On Sunday (1960)*
- Night of the Hunter, The (1955)
- Night To Remember, A (1958)*
- Ninotchka (1939)
- North By Northwest (1959)
- Notorious (1946)
- Now, Voyager (1942)
- Nun’s Story, The (1959)*
- Odd Man Out (1947)*
- Of Mice and Men (1939)*
- Oklahoma! (1955)
- Oliver Twist (1948)*
- On the Beach (1959)*
- On the Town (1949)*
- On the Waterfront (1954)
- One Foot In Heaven (1941)*
- One Hour With You (1932)*
- One Night of Love (1934)*
- Only Angels Have Wings (1939)*
- Ossessione (1943)*
- Othello (1952)*
- Our Town (1940)*
- Out of the Past (1947)
- Overlanders, The (1946)*
- Ox-Bow Incident, The (1943)
- Paisan (1946)
- Palm Beach Story, The (1942)
- Pather Panchali (1955)
- Paths of Glory (1957)
- Philadelphia Story, The (1940)
- Pickup On South Street (1953)
- Pillow Talk (1959)*
- Pinocchio (1940)
- Place In the Sun, A (1951)
- Postman Always Rings Twice, The (1946)*
- Pride and Prejudice (1940)*
- Pride of the Yankees, The (1942)*
- Prisoner, The (1955)*
- Private Life of Henry VIII, The (1933)*
- Psycho (1960)
- Public Enemy, The (1931)
- Pygmalion (1938)*
- Quiet Man, The (1952)
- Rashomon (1950)
- Rear Window (1954)
- Rebecca (1940)
- Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
- Red Badge of Courage, The (1951)*
- Red River (1948)
- Red Shoes, The (1948)
- Richard III (1955)*
- Rififi (1955)*
- Rocco and His Brothers (1960)*
- Roman Holiday (1953)
- Rome, Open City (1945)
- Romeo and Juliet (1936)*
- Room At the Top (1959)*
- Rose Tattoo, The (1955)*
- Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)*
- Rules of the Game, The (1939)
- Sahara (1943)*
- Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
- Sayonara (1957)*
- Scoundrel, The (1935)*
- Search, The (1948)*
- Searchers, The (1956)
- Sergeant York (1941)
- Set-Up, The (1949)*
- Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (1954)
- Seven Days To Noon (1950)*
- Seven Samurai, The (1954)
- Seven Year Itch, The (1955)*
- Seventh Seal, The (1957)
- Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
- Shane (1953)
- She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)*
- Shoe-Shine (1946)*
- Shoot the Piano Player (1960)*
- Shop Around the Corner, The (1940)
- Silent World, The (1956)*
- Silk Stockings (1957)*
- Singin’ In the Rain (1952)
- Sitting Pretty (1948)*
- Slight Case of Murder, A (1938)*
- Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
- Snake Pit, The (1948)*
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
- Some Like It Hot (1959)
- South Pacific (1958)*
- Spartacus (1960)
- Spellbound (1945)*
- Spiral Staircase, The (1945)*
- Stage Door (1937)*
- Stagecoach (1939)
- Stalag 17 (1953)
- Star Is Born, A (1937)
- Stars Look Down, The (1940)*
- State Fair (1933)*
- Story of G.I. Joe (1945)*
- Strangers On a Train (1951)
- Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951)
- Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)*
- Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
- Summertime (1955)*
- Sunset Boulevard (1950)
- Suspicion (1941)*
- Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
- Swing Time (1936)
- Ten Commandments , The (1956)
- Tender Trap, The (1955)*
- The Women, The (1939)
- These Three (1936)*
- They Live By Night (1948)*
- They Were Expendable (1945)*
- They Won’t Forget (1937)*
- Thief of Bagdad, The (1940)
- Thin Man, The (1934)
- Third Man, The (1949)
- Three Comrades (1938)*
- Throne of Blood (1957)
- To Be Or Not To Be (1942)
- To Catch a Thief (1955)*
- To Have and Have Not (1944)
- Tokyo Story (1953)
- Top Hat (1935)
- Touch of Evil (1958)
- Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)
- Tree Grows In Brooklyn, A (1945)
- Trouble In Paradise (1932)
- Trouble With Harry, The (1955)*
- Tunes of Glory (1960)*
- Twelve O’Clock High (1949)*
- Twentieth Century (1934)*
- Two Women (1960)*
- Ugetsu (1953)
- Umberto D (1952)
- Vertigo (1958)
- Viva Zapata! (1952)*
- Voice of the Turtle, The (1947)*
- Wages of Fear, The (1953)
- Walk In the Sun, A (1945)*
- Watch On the Rhine (1943)*
- Well-Digger’s Daughter, The (1940)*
- Whisky Galore! (1949)*
- White Heat (1949)
- Wild Strawberries (1957)
- Wilson (1944)*
- Wizard of Oz, The (1939)
- Woman of the Year (1942)*
- Written On the Wind (1956)
- Wuthering Heights (1939)
- Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
- You Only Live Once (1937)*
- Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)*
- Zero For Conduct (1933)*
* movies not on our master list
The full list is here: New York Times Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made