Best award winning movies with sheerly powerful directing from 1968

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with sheerly powerful directing from 1968! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with sheerly powerful directing from 1968, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Romeo and Juliet (1968)

Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young lovers defy their destiny and elope, only to suffer the ultimate tragedy.

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1968-04-02 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey

Rating

rating icon 7.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #73 for
    callow
  2. Ranked #112 for
    like Pride & Prejudice
  3. Ranked #235 for
    immediately falling in love

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2 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.

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1968-04-02 | Science Fiction / Mystery

Cast

Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood

Rating

rating icon 8.073
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #43 for
    interplanetary
  2. Ranked #118 for
    game changer
  3. Ranked #142 for
    trailblazer

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3 Funny Girl (1968)

The life of Fanny Brice, famed comedian and entertainer of the early 1900s. We see her rise to fame as a Ziegfeld girl, her subsequent career, and her personal life, particularly her relationship with Nick Arnstein.

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1968-09-19 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Barbra Streisand, Omar El-Sherif

Rating

rating icon 7.185
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #10 for
    immensely talented
  2. Ranked #48 for
    vaudevillian
  3. Ranked #111 for
    waggish

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4 Rosemary's Baby (1968)

A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.

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1968-06-12 | Drama / Horror

Cast

Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes

Rating

rating icon 7.828
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #6 for
    lovecraftian
  2. Ranked #46 for
    Occult
  3. Ranked #50 for
    poindexter

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5 The Lion in Winter (1968)

Henry II and his estranged queen battle over the choice of an heir.

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1968-10-30 | Drama / History

Cast

Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn

Rating

rating icon 7.403
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #29 for
    backstabbing
  2. Ranked #59 for
    arthurian
  3. Ranked #79 for
    Period Drama

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6 The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)

Singer is a deaf-mute whose small world brings him in contact with a young girl, Mick, who cherishes a seemingly hopeless dream of becoming a concert pianist. At first hostile, Mick soon becomes friends with Singer, hoping to enlarge his small world. Three other central characters come to Singer for help also, each of them seeing in him a powerful force.

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1968-07-31 | Drama

Cast

Sondra Locke, Alan Arkin

Rating

rating icon 7.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #30 for
    underacting
  2. Ranked #100 for
    like The Last Picture Show
  3. Ranked #129 for
    scrawny

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7 Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.

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1968-12-21 | Drama / Western

Cast

Claudia Cardinale, Henry Fonda

Rating

rating icon 8.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #25 for
    Spaghetti Western
  2. Ranked #46 for
    gun-for-hire
  3. Ranked #56 for
    horse opera

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8 Where Eagles Dare (1968)

World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it's too late.

Info

1968-12-04 | Action / Adventure

Cast

Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood

Rating

rating icon 7.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #17 for
    with mercenaries
  2. Ranked #102 for
    barn-burner
  3. Ranked #105 for
    cat-and-mouse

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9 Planet of the Apes (1968)

Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist.

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1968-02-07 | Science Fiction / Adventure

Cast

Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall

Rating

rating icon 7.652
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #43 for
    like The Twilight Zone
  2. Ranked #105 for
    interplanetary
  3. Ranked #132 for
    antiquated

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10 Oliver! (1968)

Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.

Info

1968-09-26 | Drama / Family

Cast

Ron Moody, Shani Wallis

Rating

rating icon 6.974
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #46 for
    deservedly won awards
  2. Ranked #64 for
    jukebox musical
  3. Ranked #65 for
    memorable tune

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