A list of thriller films released in the 1960s.
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Sub-Genre/Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | ||||||
| The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse | Fritz Lang | Gert Fröbe, Dawn Addams, Albert Bessler | Crime thriller | |||
| Classe Tous Risques | Claude Sautet | Lino Ventura, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Sandra Milo | Crime thriller | |||
| Key Witness | Phil Karlson | Jeffrey Hunter, Dennis Hopper, Joby Baker | ||||
| Midnight Lace | David Miller | Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin | ||||
| Paris Belongs to Us | Jacques Rivette | Betty Schneider, Gianni Esposito, Françoise Prevost | Psychological thriller | |||
| Peeping Tom | Michael Powell | Karl Heinz Böhm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey | ||||
| Portrait in Black | Michael Gordon | Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn, Sandra Dee | Crime thriller | |||
| Psycho | Alfred Hitchcock | Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles | ||||
| Purple Noon | René Clément | Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt | ||||
| The Sinister Urge | Edward D. Wood, Jr. | Carl Anthony, Conrad Brooks, Kenne Duncan | Psychological thriller | |||
| 1961 | ||||||
| Blast of Silence | Allen Baron | Allen Baron, Molly McCarthy, Larry Tucker | Crime thriller | |||
| Five Minutes to Live | Bill Karn | Johnny Cash, Donald Woods, Cay Forester | ||||
| Lemmy pour les dames | Bernard Borderie | Eddie Constantine, Françoise Brion, Robert Berri | ||||
| Night Tide | Curtis Harrington | Dennis Hopper, Linda Lawson, Gavin Muir | ||||
| Pleins feux sur l'assassin | Georges Franju | Pierre Brasseur, Pascale Audret, Marianne Koch | Psychological thriller | |||
| Taste of Fear | Seth Holt | Susan Strasberg, Ronald Lewis, Ann Todd | ||||
| Underworld U.S.A. | Samuel Fuller | Cliff Robertson, Dolores Dorn, Beatrice Kay | Crime thriller | |||
| 1962 | ||||||
| The Burning Court | Julien Duvivier | Jean-Claude Brialy, Perette Pradier, Nadja Tiller | ||||
| The Cabinet of Caligari | Roger Kay | Glynis Johns, Dan O'Herlihy, Dick Davalos | Psychological thriller | |||
| Cape Fear | J. Lee Thompson | Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum | ||||
| Carnival of Souls | Herk Harvey | Candace Hilligoss, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger | Psychological thriller, supernatural thriller | |||
| Le Doulos | Jean-Pierre Melville | Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Monique Hennessy | Crime thriller | |||
| Experiment in Terror | Blake Edwards | Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers | ||||
| The Manchurian Candidate | John Frankenheimer | Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh | ||||
| Tales of Terror | Roger Corman | Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone, Debra Paget | ||||
| What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | Robert Aldrich | Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono | ||||
| 1963 | ||||||
| Charade | Stanley Donen | Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau | Comedy thriller | |||
| Children of the Damned | Tony Leader | Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris | ||||
| Le meurtrier | Claude Autant-Lara | Robert Hossein, Marina Vlady, Yvonne Furneaux | ||||
| The Girl Who Knew Too Much | Mario Bava | Valentina Cortese, Gianni di Benedetto, Dante DiPaolo | ||||
| Maniac | Michael Carreras | Kerwin Mathews, Nadia Gray, Donald Houston | ||||
| The Mind Benders | Basil Dearden | Dirk Bogarde, Mary Ure, John Clements | Paranoid thriller | |||
| The Prize | Mark Robson | Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer | ||||
| The Sadist | James Landis | Arch Hall, Jr., Helen Hovey, Richard Alden | ||||
| Shock Corridor | Samuel Fuller | Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans | Psychological thriller | |||
| Judex | Georges Franju | Channing Pollock, Francine Bergé, Edith Scob | Crime thriller | |||
| X: The Man with X-Ray Eyes | Roger Corman | Ray Milland, Diana Van Der Vlis, Harold J. Stone | Supernatural thriller | |||
| Youth of the Beast | Seijun Suzuki | Joe Shishido | Crime thriller | |||
| 1964 | ||||||
| Blood and Black Lace | Mario Bava | Cameron Mitchell, Eva Bartok, Thomas Reiner | ||||
| Dead Ringer | Paul Henreid | Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford | ||||
| Dr. Orloff's Monster | Jesús Franco | Marcelo Arroita-Jauregui, Hugo Blanco, Perla Cristal | Psychological thriller | |||
| Fail-Safe | Sidney Lumet | Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton | ||||
| Fantômas | André Hunebelle | Jean Marais, Louis de Funè, Mylène Demongeot | Comedy thriller | |||
| Du grabuge chez les veuves' | Jacques Poitrenaud | Danielle Darrieux, Dany Carrel, Pascale de Boysson | Comedy thriller | |||
| Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte | Robert Aldrich | Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten | ||||
| Joy House | René Clément | Alain Delon, Jane Fonda, Lola Albright | ||||
| Lady in a Cage | Walter E. Grauman | Olivia de Havilland, Ann Sothern, Jeff Corey | ||||
| Marnie | Alfred Hitchcock | Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker | Psychological thriller | |||
| Le monocle rit jaune | Georges Lautner | Paul Meurisse, Robert Dalban, Olivier Despax | Comedy thriller | |||
| Night Must Fall | Karel Reisz | Albert Finney, Susan Hampshire, Mona Washbourne | ||||
| The Night Walker | William Castle | Robert Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck, Judi Meredith | ||||
| Nightmare | Freddie Francis | David Knight, Moira Redmond, Brenda Bruce | ||||
| Seven Days in May | John Frankenheimer | Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March | ||||
| Shock Treatment | Denis Sanders | Stuart Whitman, Lauren Bacall, Carol Lynley | ||||
| Strait-Jacket | William Castle | Joan Crawford, Diane Baker, Leif Erickson | ||||
| Woman of Straw | Basil Dearden | Gina Lollobrigida, Sean Connery, Ralph Richardson | ||||
| 1965 | ||||||
| The Bedford Incident | James B. Harris | Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, James MacArthu | ||||
| Bunny Lake Is Missing | Otto Preminger | Carol Lynley, Keir Dullea, Laurence Olivier | Psychological thriller | |||
| The Collector | William Wyler | Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar, Maurice Dallimore | ||||
| Fanatic | Silvio Narizzano | Tallulah Bankhead, Stefanie Powers, Peter Vaughan | ||||
| Fantômas se déchaîne | André Hunebelle | Jean Marais, Louis de Funès, Mylène Demongeot | Comedy thriller | |||
| Hysteria | Freddie Francis | Robert Webber, Anthony Newlands, Jennifer Jayne | ||||
| I Saw What You Did | William Castle | Joan Crawford, John Ireland, Leif Erickson | ||||
| The IPCRESS File | Sidney J. Furie | Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman | ||||
| La Métamorphose des cloportes | Pierre Granier-Deferre | Lino Ventura, Charles Aznavour, Maurice Biraud | Crime thriller | |||
| Mirage | Edward Dmytryk | Gregory Peck, Diane Bake, Walter Matthau | Psychological thriller | |||
| The Nanny | Seth Holt | Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett | ||||
| Repulsion | Roman Polanski | Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser | ||||
| The Sleeping Car Murders | Costa-Gavras | Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Pierre Mondy | ||||
| Ten Little Indians | George Pollock | Hugh O'Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian | ||||
| Thunderball | Terence Young | Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi | Action thriller | |||
| 1966 | ||||||
| Arabesque | Stanley Donen | Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel | ||||
| Blow-Up | Michelangelo Antonioni | David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles | Psychological thriller | |||
| Cul-de-sac | Roman Polanski | Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac, Lionel Stander | Comedy thriller | |||
| Le Deuxième souffle | Jean-Pierre Melville | Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin | Crime thriller | |||
| Funeral in Berlin | Guy Hamilton | Michael Caine, Paul Hubschmid, Oscar Homolka | ||||
| Gambit | Ronald Neame | Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Herbert Lom | Comedy thriller | |||
| Made in U.S.A | Jean-Luc Godard | Anna Karina, Jean-Pierre Léaud, László Szabó | Crime thriller | |||
| Seconds | John Frankenheimer | Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, John Randolph | ||||
| Tokyo Drifter | Seijun Suzuki | Tetsuya Watari, Tamio Kawachi, Hideaki Nitani | Crime thriller | |||
| Torn Curtain | Alfred Hitchcock | Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova | ||||
| 1967 | ||||||
| Branded to Kill | Seijun Suzuki | Joe Shishido, Koji Nanbara, Annu Mari, Mariko Ogawa | Crime thriller | |||
| The Champagne Murders | Claude Chabrol | Anthony Perkins, Maurice Ronet, Yvonne Furneaux | Psychological thriller | |||
| Col Cuore in Gola | Tinto Brass | Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ewa Aulin, Roberto Bisacco | ||||
| Diabolically Yours | Julien Duvivier | Senta Berger, Alain Delon, Sergio Fantoni | ||||
| Fantômas contre Scotland Yard | André Hunebelle | Jean Marais, Louis de Funès, Mylène Demongeot | Comedy thriller | |||
| Games | Curtis Harrington | Simone Signoret, James Caan, Katharine Ross | ||||
| Grand Slam | Giuliano Montaldo | Edward G. Robinson | Crime thriller | |||
| The Incident | Larry Peerce | Tony Musante, Martin Sheen, Beau Bridges | ||||
| The Night of the Generals | Anatole Litvak | Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay | Psychological thriller | |||
| Point Blank | John Boorman | Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn | Crime thriller | |||
| La route de Corinthe | Claude Chabrol | Maurice Ronet, Jean Seberg, Michel Bouquet | ||||
| Le Samouraï | Jean-Pierre Melville | Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon, Cathy Rosier | ||||
| Tony Rome | Gordon M. Douglas | Frank Sinatra, Jill St. John, Richard Conte | ||||
| Wait Until Dark | Terence Young | Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna | ||||
| 1968 | ||||||
| Adieu l'ami | Jean Herman | Alain Delon, Charles Bronson, Olga Georges-Picot | ||||
| The Bride Wore Black | François Truffaut | Jeanne Moreau, Claude Rich, Jean-Claude Brialy | ||||
| Bullitt | Peter Yates | Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset | ||||
| Il dolce corpo di Deborah | Romolo Guerrieri | Carroll Baker, Jean Sorel, Evelyn Stewart | ||||
| Il giorno della civetta | Damiano Damiani | Claudia Cardinale, Franco Nero, Lee J. Cobb | Crime thriller | |||
| Ice Station Zebra | John Sturges | Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan | Action thriller | |||
| Lady In Cement | Gordon M. Douglas | Frank Sinatra, Raquel Welch, Richard Conte | ||||
| Madigan | Don Siegel | Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Inger Stevens | ||||
| No Way to Treat a Lady | Jack Smight | Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, George Segal | Comedy thriller | |||
| Nude... si muore | Anthony M. Dawson | Michael Rennie, Mark Damon, Eleanora Brown | ||||
| Pretty Poison | Noel Black | Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld, Beverly Garland | ||||
| Psych-Out | Richard Rush | Susan Strasberg, Dean Stockwell, Jack Nicholson | Crime thriller | |||
| Rosemary's Baby | Roman Polanski | Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon | Psychological thriller | |||
| Targets | Peter Bogdanovich | Boris Karloff, Tim O'Kelly, Nancy Hsueh | ||||
| Twisted Nerve | Roy Boulting | Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Billie Whitelaw | ||||
| 1969 | ||||||
| The Bird with the Crystal Plumage | Dario Argento | Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Eva Renzi | ||||
| Paroxismus | Jesús Franco | James Darren, Barbara McNair, Klaus Kinski | ||||
| A Quiet Place in the Country | Elio Petri | Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave, Georges Géret | ||||
| This Man Must Die | Claude Chabrol | Michel Duchaussoy, Caroline Cellier, Jean Yanne | ||||
| Topaz | Alfred Hitchcock | Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, John Vernon | Political thriller | |||
| What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? | Lee H. Katzin | Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon, Rosemary Forsyth | ||||
| Z | Costa-Gavras | Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant | ||||
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