The 40 most popular 1960s music movies, ranked. Click any film for ratings, reviews, trailers, and where to watch.


The Sound of Music
1965 · 2h 54m
country: United States
In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children and brings a new love of life and music into the home.


My Fair Lady
1964 · 2h 53m
country: United States
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.


A Hard Day's Night
1964 · 1h 28m
country: United Kingdom
Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul's troublemaking grandfather and Ringo's arrest.


Koroghlu
1960 · 1h 33m
country: Soviet Union
The heroic Koroghlu is a poor youngster who leads a peasants' revolt against the tyrannic Khan.


Paint Your Wagon
1969 · 2h 44m
country: United States
A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnapping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boom town. Along the way there is plenty of drinking, gambling, and singing. They even find time to do some creative gold mining.


The Angel
1969
country: Spain
A Spanish singer, known as "El Ángel", owner of a nightclub, lives a double life as an expert in alarms for gangs of thieves. In his last robbery, he betrays his partners, and his lover is kidnapped and he is blackmailed. Thinking that she has betrayed him, he abandons her to her fate. Finally, she committed suicide. El Ángel reconsiders his life and decides to become a monk. But his former life will meet him within the walls of the monastery.


Cucurrucucú Paloma
1965 · 1h 39m
country: Unknown
Biography of a fictional ranchera singer whose career trajectory seems to parallel that of the actress performing the role.


Viva Las Vegas
1964 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Lucky Jackson arrives in Las Vegas with his car literally in tow ready for the first Grand Prix — once he has the money for an engine. He gets the cash easily enough but mislays it when the pretty pool manageress takes his mind off things. It seems he'll lose both race and girl, problems complicated by rivalry from womanizing fellow racer Elmo Mancini.


The Cave of the Silken Web
1967 · 1h 22m
country: Hong Kong
Monkey King, Pig and Friar Sand must rescue his master Buddhist monk from seven witches / spiders who believe themselves to be immortal if they eat the monk's flesh. The third part of the Shaw Brothers film series about Monkey King after the novel "Journey to the West."


Paris Blues
1961 · 1h 38m
country: United States
During the 1960s, two American jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls and must decide between music and love.


Europa canta
1966 · 1h 20m
country: Liechtenstein
Little Europe, a town in the American West, is chosen as the site for a European Music Festival to be internationally broadcast via television. The peace of the village is put in jeopardy when it comes to electing judges because the dormant antagonisms of the descendants of Italian, Spanish, French and Germans will be awakened, but the good sheriff easily resolves the dispute. Then the problem becomes more acute when the lawyer Betty, a comely young lady, who is late in coming to the event because she was seized by the henchmen of an industry bully who wants to influence the victory of one of his favorite songs.


Yellow Submarine
1968 · 1h 30m
country: United Kingdom
The wicked Blue Meanies take over Pepperland, eliminating all color and music. As the only survivor, the Lord Admiral escapes in the yellow submarine and journeys to Liverpool to enlist the help of the Beatles.


Bye Bye Birdie
1963 · 1h 52m
country: United States
A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted.


Adios cuñado
1967 · 1h 30m
country: Mexico
The classic family with more sisters and one brother who has to deal with all the naughty words about being the brother in law of many.


Girl Happy
1965 · 1h 36m
country: United States
Chicago mobster Big Frank hires rock & roll singer Rusty Wells and his band to keep an eye on his daughter during Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale.


The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
1960 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Doctor Gulliver is poor, so nothing - not even his charming fiancée Elisabeth - keeps him in the town he lives. He signs on to a ship to India, but in a storm he's washed off the ship and ends up on an island, which is inhibitated by very tiny people. After he managed to convince them he's harmless and is accepted as one of their citizens, their king wants to use him in war against a people of giants. Compared to them, even Gulliver is a gnome.


Özleyiş
1961 · 1h 42m
country: Turkey
This romantic comedy revolves around a blind compeser played by Muzaffer Tema.


A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
1966 · 1h 37m
country: United States
A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.


Thoroughly Modern Millie
1967 · 2h 32m
country: United States
Millie Dillmount, a fearless young lady fresh from Salina, Kansas, determined to experience Life, sets out to see the world in the rip-roaring Twenties. With high spirits and wearing one of those new high hemlines, she arrives in New York to test the "modern" ideas she had been reading about back in Kansas: "I've taken the girl out of Kansas. Now I have to take Kansas out of the girl!"


The Music Man
1962 · 2h 31m
country: United States
Traveling con artist Harold Hill targets the naïve residents of a small town in 1910s Iowa by posing as a boys' bandleader to raise money before he can skip town.


Help!
1965 · 1h 32m
country: United Kingdom
An obscure Eastern cult that practices human sacrifice pursues Ringo after he unknowingly puts on a ceremonial ring (that, of course, won't come off). On top of that, a pair of mad scientists, members of Scotland Yard, and a beautiful but dead-eyed assassin all have their own plans for the Fab Four.


Camelot
1967 · 3h
country: United States
The plot of his illegitimate son Mordred to gain the throne, and Guinevere's growing attachment to Sir Lancelot, threatens to topple King Arthur and destroy his "round table" of knights.


Winter
1964 · 10m
country: France
Impressions on the topic of plastics set to Vivaldi's Winter: blizzard, dancing moons, beats ice, sparkling silver crystals, petrified wood frozen.


Cinderella
1965 · 1h 18m
country: United States
After the success of the live 1957 Cinderella on CBS (with Julie Andrews), the network decided to produce another television version. The new script hewed closer to the traditional tale, although nearly all of the original songs were retained and performed in their original settings. Added to the Rodgers and Hammerstein score was "Loneliness of Evening", which had been composed for South Pacific but not used.


It Happened at the World's Fair
1963 · 1h 45m
country: United States
Mike Edwards and Danny Burke fly a cropduster, but due to Danny's gambling debts, a local sheriff takes custody of it. Trying to earn money, they hitchhike to the World's Fair in Seattle and, while Danny tries to earn money playing poker, Mike cares for a small girl whose father has disappeared.


Spinout
1966 · 1h 33m
country: United States
Band singer/race driver Mike McCoy must choose between marrying a beautiful girl and driving her father's car in a prestigious race.


Girls! Girls! Girls!
1962 · 1h 39m
country: United States
When he learns that his boss is retiring to Arizona, sailor Ross Carpenter has to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he and his father built. Meanwhile, he's also caught between two women: insensitive club singer Robin and sweet Laurel.


El 7 de Copas
1960 · 1h 35m
country: Mexico
Professional gambler finds metaphysical meanings in the way he manages the workings of chance.


Babes in Toyland
1961 · 1h 46m
country: United States
All roads lead to magical, merry Toyland as Mary Contrary and Tom Piper prepare for their wedding! But villainous Barnaby wants Mary for himself, so he kidnaps Tom, setting off a series of comic chases, searches, and double-crosses! The "March Of The Wooden Soldiers" helps put Barnaby in his place, and ensures a "happily ever after" for Tom and Mary!


Head
1968 · 1h 26m
country: United States
In this surrealistic and free-form follow-up to the Monkees' television show, the band frolic their way through a series of musical set pieces and vignettes containing humor and anti-establishment social commentary.


Gypsy
1962 · 2h 23m
country: United States
Gypsy's mother Rose dreams of a life in show business for her daughters, but Louise becomes a huge burlesque star. Stage musical loosely based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee.


Roustabout
1964 · 1h 41m
country: United States
After losing his job at a coffee shop, Charlie Rogers finds employment at a struggling carnival, but his attempted romance with a teenager leads to friction with her father.


Blue Hawaii
1961 · 1h 42m
country: United States
Just discharged GI Chad Gates returns to Hawaii, where he becomes a tour guide, defying his mother's wishes for him to join the family business.


Frankie and Johnny
1966 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Johnny is a riverboat entertainer with a big gambling problem. After a psychic tells Johnny how he can change his luck, the appearance of a new 'lady luck' soon causes a catfight with Johnny's girlfriend, Frankie.


Double Trouble
1967 · 1h 31m
country: United States
When singer Guy Lambert goes on tour in Europe, he is pursued by two beautiful women, bumbling jewel thieves, and a mysterious killer.


The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
1962 · 2h 20m
country: Germany
The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. Wilhelm fights to write something entertaining amongst the sea of dry, non-fiction books they write and he sets about collecting oral-tradition fairy tales to put into print. Their life story is countered with reenactments of three of their stories including "The Dancing Princess," "The Cobbler and the Elves" and "The Singing Bone."


Harum Scarum
1965 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Johnny Tyronne, action movie star and ladies' man, is traveling through the Middle East on a goodwill tour to promote his latest film. Upon arrival, however, he's kidnapped by a gang of assassins so impressed with his cinematic adventures that they want him to carry out an assassination for them.


G.I. Blues
1960 · 1h 44m
country: United States
Stationed in West Germany, soldier Tulsa McLean hopes to open a nightclub once he's discharged. Although he may lack the capital for such a venture, a chance to raise the cash comes his way through a friendly wager. Local dancer Lili is a notorious ice queen, and Tulsa bets everything he has that a friend of his can earn her affections. But when the friend is dispatched to Alaska, it's up to Tulsa to melt Lili's heart.


Mad Monster Party?
1967 · 1h 35m
country: United States
When Dr Frankenstein decides to retire from the monster-making business, he calls an international roster of monsters to a creepy convention to elect his successor. Everyone is there including Dracula, The Werewolf, The Creature, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and many more. But Frankenstein's title is not all that is at stake. The famous doctor has also discovered the secret of total destruction that must not fall into the wrong hands!


Star!
1968 · 2h 56m
country: United States
Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness.
The 1960s broke the old rules everywhere at once — the French New Wave, the collapse of the Hollywood Production Code, and new waves across Europe and Japan reshaping what a film could show and say.
Music films cover concert documentaries, biopics, and musicals — anything where performance drives the picture. The genre lives or dies on whether the filmmaking can match the energy of the sound.