List of science fiction films of the 1960s

A list of science fiction films released in the 1960s. These films include core elements of science fiction, but can cross into other genres. They have been released to a cinema audience by the commercial film industry and are widely distributed with reviews by reputable critics. Collectively, the science fiction films from the 1960s received five Academy Awards, a Hugo Award and a BAFTA Award.

List

Years

• 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969

1960
Title	Director	Cast	Country	Subgenre/Notes
12 to the Moon	David Bradley	Ken Clark, Michi Kobi, Tom Conway		[1][2]
Mistress of the World	William Dieterle	Martha Hyer, Micheline Presle, Carlos Thompson
Toter hing im Netz, Ein (aka It's Hot in Paradise; Horrors of Spider Island)	Fritz Böttger	Harald Maresch, Helga Franck, Alexander D'Arcy
The Amazing Transparent Man	Edgar G. Ulmer	Marguerite Chapman, Douglas Kennedy, James Griffith
Atomic War Bride	Veljko Bulajić	Antun Vrdoljak, Zlatko Madunić, Ljubiša Jovanović		[3]
Beyond the Time Barrier	Edgar G. Ulmer	Robert Clarke, Darlene Tompkins, Arianne Ulmer		[4][5]
Cape Canaveral Monsters, The	Phil Tucker	Scott Peters, Linda Connell, Jason Johnson, Katherine Victor
Dinosaurus!	Irvin Yeaworth	Ward Ramsey, Paul Lukather, Kristina Hanson
Human Vapor, The	Ishirō Honda	Tatsuya Mihashi, Kaoru Yachigusa, Yoshio Tsuchiya
Last Woman on Earth	Roger Corman	Betsy Jones-Moreland, Anthony Carbone, Robert Towne
Lost World, The	Irwin Allen	Michael Rennie, Jill St. John, David Hedison		Adventure
Man in the Moon	Basil Dearden	Kenneth More, Shirley Anne Field, Michael Hordern		[6]
The Secret of the Telegian	Jun Fukuda	Kōji Tsuruta, Akihiko Hirata, Yoshio Tsuchiya
Der Schweigende Stern (USA title: First Spaceship on Venus)	Kurt Maetzig	Yoko Tani, Oldřich Lukeš, Ignacy Machowski
Space Men (USA title: Assignment Outer Space)	Antonio Margheriti	Rik Van Nutter, Gabriella Farinon, David Montresor
The Time Machine	George Pal	Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux		[nb 1]
Visit to a Small Planet	Norman Taurog	Jerry Lewis, Joan Blackman, Earl Holliman
The Wasp Woman	Roger Corman, Jack Hill	Susan Cabot, Anthony Eisley, Barboura Morris
1961
Title	Director	Cast	Country	Subgenre/Notes
Atlantis, the Lost Continent	George Pal	Sal Ponti, Joyce Taylor, John Dall
Battle of the Worlds	Antonio Margheriti	Claude Rains, Bill Carter, Umberto Orsini
The Beast of Yucca Flats	Coleman Francis	Douglas Mellor, Barbara Francis, Bing Stafford
The Day the Earth Caught Fire	Val Guest	Edward Judd, Janet Munro, Leo McKern		[nb 2]
The Flight that Disappeared	Reginald Le Borg	Craig Hill, Paula Raymond
Gorgo	Eugène Lourié	Bill Travers, William Sylvester, Vincent Winter
Invasion of the Neptune Men	Koji Ota	Sonny Chiba, Ryûko Minakami, Mitsue Komiya
The Last War	Shūe Matsubayashi	Frankie Sakai, Akira Takarada, Yuriko Hoshi
Master of the World	William Witney	Vincent Price, Charles Bronson, Henry Hull
The Most Dangerous Man Alive (made in 1958)	Allan Dwan	Ron Randall, Debra Paget, Morris Ankrum
Mothra	Ishirō Honda	Frankie Sakai, Hiroshi Koizumi, Kyôko Kagawa
Mysterious Island	Cy Endfield	Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan
The Phantom Planet	William Marshall	Dean Fredericks, Coleen Gray, Anthony Dexter
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea	Irwin Allen	Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine, Barbara Eden
S-a furat o bombă	Ion Popescu-Gopo	Iurie Darie, Liliana Tomescu, Haralambie Boros		Comedy
1962
Title	Director	Cast	Country	Subgenre/Notes
The Amphibian Man	Gennadiy Kazansky	Vladimir Korenev, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Mikhail Kozakov
The Brain That Wouldn't Die	Joseph Green	Herb Evers, Adele Lamont
Creation of the Humanoids	Wesley Barry	Don Megowan, Erica Elliott, Dudley Manlove
The Day of the Triffids	Steve Sekely	Howard Keel, Kieron Moore, Janette Scott
Gorath	Ishirō Honda	Ryo Ikebe, Yumi Shirakawa, Takashi Shimura
In Search of the Castaways	Robert Stevenson	Hayley Mills, Maurice Chevalier, George Sanders, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Invasion of the Star Creatures	Bruno VeSota	Bob Ball, Frankie Ray, Gloria Victor, Dolores Reed
La jetée	Chris Marker	Jean Négroni, Etienne Becker
Journey to the 7th Planet	Sidney Pink	John Agar, Greta Thyssen, Ann Smyrner
King Kong vs. Godzilla	Ishirō Honda, Thomas Montgomery	Michael Keith, James Yagi, Tadao Takashima
The Manster	George Breakston, Kenneth G. Crane	Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton, Satoshi Nakamura, Terri Zimmern		[7][8]
Moon Pilot	James Neilson	Tom Tryon, Dany Saval		[9]
Panic in Year Zero!	Ray Milland	Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, Frankie Avalon
Planeta Bur	Pavel Klushantsev	Vladimir Yemelyanov, Georgiy Zhzhenov, Gennadi Vernov		[10]
The Planets Against Us	Romano Ferrara	Michel Lemoine, Maria Pia Luzi, Jany Clair		[11]
Varan the Unbelievable		Myron Healey, Tsuruku Kobayashi, Derick Shimatsu
1963
Title	Director	Cast	Country	Subgenre/Notes
Atom Age Vampire	Anton Giulio Majano	Alberto Lupo, Susanne Loret, Sergio Fantoni
Atragon	Ishirō Honda	Tadao Takashima, Yoko Fujiyama, Yu Fujiki
The Crawling Hand	Herbert L. Strock	Peter Breck, Kent Taylor
The Damned	Joseph Losey	MacDonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Viveca Lindfors
The Day Mars Invaded Earth	Maury Dexter	Betty Beall, Lowell Brown, Troy Melton		[12]
Ikarie XB-1	Jindřich Polák	Otto Lackovič, Radovan Lukavský, Zdeňek Štepánek, František Smolík		[13][14]
Kalai Arasi	A. Kasilingam	M. G. Ramachandran, P. Bhanumathi, M. N. Nambiar
Matango	Ishirō Honda	Yoshio Tsuchiya, Kenji Sahara, Hiroshi Tachikawa
No Survivors, Please	Hans Albin, Peter Berneis	Karen Blanguernon, Burr Jerger, Wolfgang Zilzer, Teddy Turner, Stefan Schnabel		[15]
The Nutty Professor	Jerry Lewis	Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens
Unearthly Stranger	John Krish	John Neville, Gabriella Licudi, Phillip Stone		[16]
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes	Roger Corman	Ray Milland, Diana Van Der Vlis, Harold J. Stone
1964
Title	Director	Cast	Country	Subgenre/Notes
Dogora	Ishirō Honda	Yosuke Natsuki, Yōko Fujiyama
First Men in the Moon	Nathan H. Juran	Edward Judd, Lionel Jeffries, Martha Hyer
The Flesh Eaters	Jack Curtis	Martin Kosleck
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster	Ishirō Honda	Yuriko Hoshi, Takashi Shimura, Yumi Ito, Emi Ito
Kiss Me Quick!	Peter Perry	Frank A. Coe, Max Gardens, Althea Currier
The Last Man on Earth	Ubaldo Ragona, Sidney Salkow	Vincent Price, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Tony Cerevi
Monstrosity	Joseph Mascelli	Frank Gerstle, Erika Peters, Judy Bamber		[nb 3]
Mothra vs. Godzilla	Ishirō Honda	Akira Takarada, Yuriko Hoshi, Hiroshi Koizumi
Pajama Party	Don Weis	Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Elsa Lanchester, Jody McCrea
Robinson Crusoe on Mars	Byron Haskin	Paul Mantee, Victor Lundin, Adam West
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians	Nicholas Webster	Pia Zadora, Charles G. Renn, Doris Rich
The Time Travelers	Ib Melchior	Preston S. Foster, Philip Carey, Merry Anders
1965
Title	Director	Cast	Country	Subgenre/Notes
The 10th Victim	Elio Petri	Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli
Alphaville	Jean-Luc Godard	Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff		[nb 4]
Crack in the World	Andrew Marton	Dana Andrews, Janette Scott, Kieron Moore, Alexander Knox
Curse of the Fly	Don Sharp	Brian Donlevy, Carole Gray, George Baker
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine	Norman Taurog	Vincent Price, Frankie Avalon, Dwayne Hickman
Dr. Who and the Daleks	Gordon Flemyng	Peter Cushing, Roy Castle, Jennie Linden
The Eye Creatures	Larry Buchanan	John Ashley, Chet Davis, Warren Hammack
Frankenstein Conquers the World	Ishirō Honda	Nick Adams, Tadao Takashima, Kumi Mizuno
Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster	Robert Gaffney	James Karen, Marilyn Hanold, Lou Cutell, Robert Reilly
Gamera	Noriaki Yuasa	Eiji Funakoshi, Harumi Kiritachi
The Human Duplicators	Hugo Grimaldi	Richard Kiel, George Macready
Invasion	Alan Bridges	Edward Judd
Invasion of Astro-Monster	Ishirō Honda	Nick Adams, Jun Tazaki, Akira Takarada
It Happened Here	Andrew Mollo, Kevin Brownlow	Pauline Murray, Sebastian Shaw, Nicolette Bernard
Monster a Go-Go!	Sheldon Seymour, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Bill Rebane	Bill Rebane, June Travis
Mutiny in Outer Space	Hugo Grimaldi	William Leslie (actor), Dolores Faith
Night Caller from Outer Space	John Gilling	John Saxon, Alfred Burke
Planet of the Vampires	Mario Bava	Barry Sullivan, Norma Bengell, Angel Aranda
Space Monster	Leonard Katzman	Francine York, James Brown, Russ Bender		[nb 5][17]
Star Pilot	Pietro Francisci	Leonora Ruffo
Village of the Giants	Bert I. Gordon	Tommy Kirk, Johnny Crawford, Beau Bridges
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet	Pavel Klushantsev, Curtis Harrington	Basil Rathbone, Faith Domergue, Marc Shannon
War Gods of the Deep	Jacques Tourneur	Vincent Price, Tab Hunter, Susan Hart
Wild, Wild Planet	Antonio Margheriti	Tony Russel, Lisa Gastoni, Massimo Serato
1966
Title	Director	Cast	Country	Subgenre/Notes
Agent for H.A.R.M.	Gerd Oswald	Martin Kosleck, Donna Michelle, Alizia Gur
Around the World Under the Sea	Andrew Marton	Lloyd Bridges, Brian Kelly
Cyborg 2087	Franklin Adreon	Michael Rennie, Karen Steele, Wendell Corey
Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150 AD	Gordon Flemyng	Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribbins, Ray Brooks
The Face of Another	Hiroshi Teshigahara	Tatsuya Nakadai, Machiko Kyō, Kyoko Kishida
Fahrenheit 451	François Truffaut	Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack
Fantastic Voyage	Richard Fleischer	Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien		[nb 6]
Gamera vs. Barugon	Shigeo Tanaka	Kojiro Hongo, Kyoko Enami
Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster	Jun Fukuda	Akira Takarada, Toru Watanabe
Island of Terror	Terence Fisher	Peter Cushing, Edward Judd, Carole Gray
The Navy vs. the Night Monsters	Michael A. Hoey	Mamie Van Doren, Anthony Eisley, Billy Gray		[18]
Queen of Blood	Curtis Harrington	John Saxon, Basil Rathbone, Dennis Hopper, Judi Meredith
Seconds	John Frankenheimer	Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, John Randolph, Will Geer
Terror Beneath the Sea	Hajime Sato	Sonny Chiba, Peggy Neal, Franz Gruber		[19]
War of the Gargantuas	Ishirō Honda	Russ Tamblyn, Ikio Sawamura, Kenji Sahara
Who Wants to Kill Jessie?	Václav Vorlíček	Jiří Sovák, Dana Medřická, Olga Schoberová
Women of the Prehistoric Planet	Arthur C. Pierce	Wendell Corey, Keith Larsen, John Agar
Zontar, the Thing from Venus	Larry Buchanan	John Agar
1967
Title	Director	Cast	Country	Subgenre/Notes
The Andromeda Nebula	Yevgeny Sherstobitov	Via Artmane, Sergei Stolyarov, Nikolai Kryukov
Gamera vs. Gyaos	Noriyaki Yuasa	Kojiro Hongo, Kichijiro Ueda
Journey to the Center of Time	David L. Hewitt	Scott Brady, Anthony Eisley, Abraham Sofaer, Gigi Perreau
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon	Don Sharp	Burl Ives, Terry-Thomas, Gert Fröbe		Also called Those Fantastic Flying Fools
King Kong Escapes	Ishirō Honda	Rhodes Reason, Mie Hama, Linda G. Miller
Mars Needs Women	Larry Buchanan	Tommy Kirk, Yvonne Craig
Mission Mars	Nicholas Webster	Darren McGavin, Nick Adams, George de Vries, Shirley Parker		[20]
Mission Stardust	Primo Zeglio	Lang Jeffries, Essy Persson		[21][22]
Night of the Big Heat	Terence Fisher	Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee
Privilege	Peter Watkins	Paul Jones, Jean Shrimpton, Mark London
Quatermass and the Pit	Roy Ward Baker	James Donald, Barbara Shelley, Andrew Kier
In The Year 2889	Larry Buchanan	Paul Petersen, Quinn O'Hara, Neil Fletcher	Azalea Pictures
Son of Godzilla	Jun Fukuda	Akira Kubo, Tadao Takashima, Bibari Maeda
They Came from Beyond Space	Freddie Francis	Robert Hutton, Jennifer Jayne, Michael Gough		[23]
The X from Outer Space	Kazui Nihonmatsu	Eiji Okada, Toshiya Wazaki
Yonggary	Kim Ki-duk	Moon Kang, Kwang Ho Lee, Soonjai Lee
1968
Title	Director	Cast	Country	Subgenre/Notes
2001: A Space Odyssey	Stanley Kubrick	Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester		[nb 7]
The Astro-Zombies	Ted V. Mikels	Wendell Corey, John Carradine, Tom Pace
Barbarella	Roger Vadim	Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg
Charly	Ralph Nelson	Cliff Robertson, Claire Bloom		[nb 8]
Countdown	Robert Altman	James Caan, Robert Duvall
Destroy All Monsters	Ishirō Honda	Akira Kubo, Jun Tazaki, Yoshio Tsuchiya
Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell	Hajime Sato
The Green Slime	Kinji Fukasaku	Robert Horton, Luciana Paluzzi, Richard Jaeckel
Je t'aime, je t'aime	Alain Resnais	Claude Rich, Olga Georges-Picot, Anouk Ferjac		[24]
Planet of the Apes	Franklin J. Schaffner	Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans
The Power	Byron Haskin	George Hamilton, Suzanne Pleshette, Richard Carlson
Project X	William Castle	Christopher George, Greta Baldwin, Henry Jones		[25]
Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women	Peter Bogdanovich	Mamie Van Doren, Mary Marr, Paige Lee
Wild in the Streets	Barry Shear	Christopher Jones, Shelley Winters, Richard Pryor
1969
Title	Director	Cast	Country	Subgenre/Notes
All Monsters Attack	Ishirō Honda	Tomonori Yazaki, Eisei Amamoto, Sachio Sakai, Kazuo Suzuki, Kenji Sahara
Captain Nemo and the Underwater City	James H. Hill	Robert Ryan, Chuck Connors, Nanette Newman
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes	Robert Butler	Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn
Crimes of the Future	David Cronenberg	Ronald Mlodzik, Paul Mulholland, Jack Messinger
Doppelgänger	Robert Parrish	Roy Thinnes, Patrick Wymark, Ian Hendry		[nb 9] A Gerry Anderson production
The Gladiators	Peter Watkins	Arthur Pentelow, Frederick Danner, Hans Bendrik
Gamera vs. Guiron	Noriyaki Yuasa	Nobuhiro Kashima, Chris Murphy
I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen	Oldřich Lipský	Jiří Sovák, Jana Brejchová, Lubomír Lipský, Iva Janžurová, Petr Čepek
The Illustrated Man (film)	Jack Smight	Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, Robert Drivas		[26]
Latitude Zero	Ishirō Honda	Joseph Cotten, Cesar Romero, Akira Takarada
The Mad Doctor of Blood Island	Gerardo de León, Eddie Romero	John Ashley, Angelique Pettyjohn, Ronald Remy		[27]
The Man Who Thought Life	Jens Ravn	John Price, Preben Neergaard, Lotte Tarp
Marooned	John Sturges	Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, James Franciscus		[nb 10]
The Monitors	Jack Shea	Guy Stockwell, Susan Oliver, Avery Schreiber		Satire
Moon Zero Two	Roy Ward Baker	James Olson, Catherine Schell, Warren Mitchell
Night of the Bloody Apes (aka La horripilante bestia humana)	René Cardona	José Moreno, Armando Silvestre
Stereo	David Cronenberg	Jack Messinger, Iain Ewing, Clara Mayer
A Time of Roses	Risto Jarva	Arto Tuominen, Ritva Vepsä, Tarja Markus
The Valley of Gwangi	Jim O'Connolly	James Franciscus, Gila Golan, Laurence Naismith

See also

• History of science fiction films

Notes

1. Won an Academy Award for Visual Effects.
2. Winner of a BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay.
3. Alternate title: The Atomic Brain
4. Won the Golden Bear award at the 1965 Berlin Film Festival.
5. Alternate title Space Probe Taurus
6. Won Academy Awards for Art Direction and Visual Effects.
7. Won an Academy Award for Visual Effects and a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.
8. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Actor.
9. Alternate title: Journey to the Far Side of the Sun.
10. Won an Academy Award for Visual Effects.

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