Best award winning movies with ratcheting up tension from 1966

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with ratcheting up tension from 1966! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with ratcheting up tension from 1966, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the middle-aged couple unload onto their guests the full force of the bitterness, dysfunction, and animosity that defines their marriage.

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1966-06-22 | Drama

Cast

Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton

Rating

rating icon 7.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #27 for
    Oscar nomination deserving
  2. Ranked #36 for
    remarkable
  3. Ranked #48 for
    deservedly won awards

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2 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.

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1966-12-22 | Western

Cast

Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach

Rating

rating icon 8.468
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #7 for
    with mercenaries
  2. Ranked #22 for
    Spaghetti Western
  3. Ranked #39 for
    gun-for-hire

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3 Blow-Up (1966)

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.

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1966-12-18 | Drama / Mystery

Cast

David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave

Rating

rating icon 7.372
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #71 for
    capturing the zeitgeist
  2. Ranked #90 for
    opaque
  3. Ranked #147 for
    obtuse

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4 Fantastic Voyage (1966)

In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream.

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1966-08-24 | Science Fiction / Adventure

Cast

Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch

Rating

rating icon 6.683
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #44 for
    antiquated
  2. Ranked #48 for
    nifty
  3. Ranked #49 for
    matte shot

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5 The Sand Pebbles (1966)

Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the 'rice-bowl' system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.

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1966-12-20 | Drama / War

Cast

Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough

Rating

rating icon 7.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #84 for
    callow
  2. Ranked #115 for
    Oscar nomination deserving
  3. Ranked #121 for
    shoo in

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6 Harper (1966)

Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring.

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1966-02-22 | Mystery / Crime

Cast

Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall

Rating

rating icon 6.676
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #23 for
    hardboiled style
  2. Ranked #78 for
    morally dubious
  3. Ranked #99 for
    noirish

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7 Persona (1966)

A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer. The time they spend together only strengthens the crushing realization that one does not exist.

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1966-10-18 | Drama

Cast

Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann

Rating

rating icon 8.196
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #73 for
    opaque
  2. Ranked #119 for
    impressionistic
  3. Ranked #134 for
    dumbfounded

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8 A Man for All Seasons (1966)

A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, who refuses to swear the Oath of Supremacy declaring Henry Supreme Head of the Church in England.

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1966-12-13 | Drama / History

Cast

Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller

Rating

rating icon 7.354
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #9 for
    remarkable
  2. Ranked #40 for
    deservedly won awards
  3. Ranked #52 for
    with marital problems

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9 The Battle of Algiers (1966)

Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in 1957. The film traces the rebels' struggle and the increasingly extreme measures taken by the French government to quell the revolt.

Info

1966-09-08 | Drama / War

Cast

Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin

Rating

rating icon 7.867
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #32 for
    cinema verite
  2. Ranked #54 for
    neo-realism
  3. Ranked #97 for
    non-professional cast

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10 Alfie (1966)

A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life.

Info

1966-03-29 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Michael Caine, Shelley Winters

Rating

rating icon 6.471
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #22 for
    devil-may-care
  2. Ranked #31 for
    critically acclaimed
  3. Ranked #34 for
    smug

Trailer

Alfie trailer
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