
Best 1966 movies
Stacker compiled a list of the best 1966 movies of all time based on our own Stacker score, a weighted index split evenly between IMDb user rating and Metascore. The top movie on this list has a Stacker score of 100; the remaining movies are ranked relative to it. To qualify, the film had at least 10,000 IMDb user votes and a Metascore. Any ties were broken by number of IMDb votes.
#20. Harper
- Stacker score: 66.9
- IMDb user rating: 6.8 (votes: 12,000)
- Metascore: 51
- Director: Jack Smight
- Actors: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris
- Runtime: 2 hours 1 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A
#19. What's Up, Tiger Lily?
- Stacker score: 68.0
- IMDb user rating: 5.8 (votes: 10,000)
- Metascore: 63
- Director: Woody Allen, Senkichi Taniguchi
- Actors: Woody Allen, The Lovin' Spoonful, Frank Buxton
- Runtime: 1 hour 20 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: N/A
#18. Torn Curtain
- Stacker score: 68.0
- IMDb user rating: 6.6 (votes: 31,000)
- Metascore: 55
- Director: Alfred Hitchcock
- Actors: Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova
- Runtime: 2 hours 8 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: N/A
#17. The Fortune Cookie
- Stacker score: 75.8
- IMDb user rating: 7.2 (votes: 17,000)
- Metascore: 63
- Director: Billy Wilder
- Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich
- Runtime: 2 hours 5 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A
#16. Batman: The Movie
- Stacker score: 76.4
- IMDb user rating: 6.5 (votes: 37,000)
- Metascore: 71
- Director: Leslie H. Martinson
- Actors: Adam West, Burt Ward, Lee Meriwether
- Runtime: 1 hour 45 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: N/A
#15. The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming
- Stacker score: 78.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.0 (votes: 11,000)
- Metascore: 69
- Director: Norman Jewison
- Actors: Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Alan Arkin
- Runtime: 2 hours 6 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A
#14. Alfie
- Stacker score: 78.7
- IMDb user rating: 7.0 (votes: 16,000)
- Metascore: 70
- Director: Lewis Gilbert
- Actors: Michael Caine, Shelley Winters, Millicent Martin
- Runtime: 1 hour 54 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: N/A
#13. Fantastic Voyage
- Stacker score: 78.7
- IMDb user rating: 6.8 (votes: 22,000)
- Metascore: 72
- Director: Richard Fleischer
- Actors: Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien
- Runtime: 1 hour 40 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: N/A
#12. Grand Prix
- Stacker score: 80.9
- IMDb user rating: 7.2 (votes: 12,000)
- Metascore: 72
- Director: John Frankenheimer
- Actors: James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand
- Runtime: 2 hours 56 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A
#11. Cul-de-sac
- Stacker score: 81.5
- IMDb user rating: 7.0 (votes: 15,000)
- Metascore: 75
- Director: Roman Polanski
- Actors: Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac, Lionel Stander
- Runtime: 1 hour 52 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: N/A
#10. Seconds
- Stacker score: 82.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 24,000)
- Metascore: 71
- Director: John Frankenheimer
- Actors: Rock Hudson, Frank Campanella, John Randolph
- Runtime: 1 hour 46 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: N/A
#9. The Professionals
- Stacker score: 83.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 20,000)
- Metascore: 75
- Director: Richard Brooks
- Actors: Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan
- Runtime: 1 hour 57 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $19,537,346
#8. A Man for All Seasons
- Stacker score: 83.7
- IMDb user rating: 7.7 (votes: 39,000)
- Metascore: 72
- Director: Fred Zinnemann
- Actors: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw
- Runtime: 2 hours
- Rating: G
- Box office: N/A
#7. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Stacker score: 87.1
- IMDb user rating: 8.0 (votes: 83,000)
- Metascore: 75
- Director: Mike Nichols
- Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal
- Runtime: 2 hours 11 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: $28,000,000
#6. Blow-Up
- Stacker score: 87.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 71,000)
- Metascore: 82
- Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
- Actors: David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles
- Runtime: 1 hour 51 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: N/A
#5. El Dorado
- Stacker score: 89.9
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 32,000)
- Metascore: 85
- Director: Howard Hawks
- Actors: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan
- Runtime: 2 hours 6 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A
#4. Persona
- Stacker score: 93.3
- IMDb user rating: 8.0 (votes: 138,000)
- Metascore: 86
- Director: Ingmar Bergman
- Actors: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook
- Runtime: 1 hour 23 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: N/A
#3. Masculine Feminine
- Stacker score: 93.8
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 18,000)
- Metascore: 93
- Director: Jean-Luc Godard
- Actors: Chantal Goya, Marlène Jobert, Catherine-Isabelle Duport
- Runtime: 1 hour 43 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: $200,380
#2. The Battle of Algiers
- Stacker score: 99.4
- IMDb user rating: 8.1 (votes: 72,000)
- Metascore: 96
- Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
- Actors: Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi
- Runtime: 2 hours 1 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: $879,794
#1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- Stacker score: 100.0
- IMDb user rating: 8.8 (votes: 866,000)
- Metascore: 90
- Director: Sergio Leone
- Actors: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef
- Runtime: 2 hours 58 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $25,100,000