87 English films of 1960 ranked by box office. #1: Spartacus ($60 million).
| # | Film | Lead | Director | Budget | Box office | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spartacus | Stanley Kubrick | $12 million | $60 million | 5.00x | |
| 2 | Psycho | Alfred Hitchcock | $800,000 | $50 million | 62.50x | |
| 3 | Swiss Family Robinson | Ken Annakin | $5 million | $40 million | 8.00x | |
| 4 | The Apartment | Billy Wilder | $3 million | $24.6 million | 8.20x | |
| 5 | Exodus | Otto Preminger | $4.5 million | $20 million | 4.44x | |
| 6 | La Dolce Vita | Federico Fellini | $19.5 million | |||
| 7 | BUtterfield 8 | Daniel Mann | $2.8 million | $10 million | 3.57x | |
| 7 | The Bellboy | Jerry Lewis | $900,000 | $10 million | 11.11x | |
| 9 | The Magnificent Seven | John Sturges | $2 million | $9.8 million | 4.88x | |
| 10 | Portrait in Black | Michael Gordon | $1.4 million | $9.2 million | 6.57x | |
| 11 | The Alamo | John Wayne | $12 million | $7.9 million | 0.66x | |
| 12 | The World of Suzie Wong | Richard Quine | $2 million | $7.3 million | 3.65x | |
| 13 | Please Don't Eat the Daisies | Charles Walters | $1.8 million | $7 million | 3.97x | |
| 14 | Let's Make Love | George Cukor | $3.6 million | $6.5 million | 1.81x | |
| 15 | The Grass Is Greener | Stanley Donen | $6 million | |||
| 16 | Ocean's 11 | Lewis Milestone | $2.8 million | $5.5 million | 1.96x | |
| 17 | Elmer Gantry | Richard Brooks | $3 million | $5.2 million | 1.73x | |
| 17 | From the Terrace | Mark Robson | $3 million | $5.2 million | 1.73x | |
| 19 | Home from the Hill | Vincente Minnelli | $2.4 million | $5.1 million | 2.16x | |
| 20 | North to Alaska | John Wayne | $3.8 million | $5 million | 1.32x | |
| 21 | Cimarron | Charles Walters | $5.4 million | $4.8 million | 0.89x | |
| 22 | Pepe | George Sidney | $5 million | $4.8 million | 0.96x | |
| 23 | G.I. Blues | Norman Taurog | $4.3 million | |||
| 24 | Can-Can | Walter Lang | $5 million | $4.2 million | 0.84x | |
| 25 | Never on Sunday | Jules Dassin | $150,000 | $4 million | 26.67x | |
| 26 | The Sundowners | Fred Zinnemann | $3.8 million | |||
| 27 | Pollyanna | David Swift | $2.5 million | $3.8 million | 1.50x | |
| 28 | The Wackiest Ship in the Army | Richard Murphy | $3.6 million | |||
| 28 | Bells Are Ringing | Vincente Minnelli | $3.2 million | $3.6 million | 1.13x | |
| 30 | Midnight Lace | David Miller | $3.5 million | $3.5 million | 1.00x | |
| 30 | Where the Boys Are | Henry Levin | $2 million | $3.5 million | 1.75x | |
| 32 | Strangers When We Meet | Richard Quine | $3.4 million | |||
| 32 | The Rat Race | Robert Mulligan | $3.4 million | |||
| 34 | The Unforgiven | John Huston | $5 million | $3.2 million | 0.64x | |
| 34 | The Facts of Life | Melvin Frank | $3.2 million | |||
| 34 | Visit to a Small Planet | Norman Taurog | $3.2 million | |||
| 37 | Who Was That Lady? | George Sidney | $3.1 million | |||
| 37 | Toby Tyler | Charles Barton | $3.1 million | |||
| 39 | Sink the Bismarck! | Lewis Gilbert | $1.3 million | $3 million | 2.26x | |
| 39 | The Story of Ruth | Henry Koster | $2.9 million | $3 million | 1.02x | |
| 39 | The Bramble Bush | Daniel Petrie | $3 million | |||
| 39 | The Great Impostor | Robert Mulligan | $3 million | |||
| 43 | The Millionairess | Anthony Asquith | $2.9 million | |||
| 43 | Cinderfella | Frank Tashlin | $3 million | $2.9 million | 0.97x | |
| 45 | Hell to Eternity | Phil Karlson | $800,000 | $2.8 million | 3.50x | |
| 46 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Michael Curtiz | $1.4 million | $2.8 million | 2.03x | |
| 47 | The Time Machine | George Pal | $829,000 | $2.6 million | 3.15x | |
| 48 | The Lost World | Irwin Allen | $1.5 million | $2.5 million | 1.65x | |
| 48 | High Time | Blake Edwards | $2.8 million | $2.5 million | 0.89x | |
| 50 | It Started in Naples | Melville Shavelson | $2.3 million | |||
| 50 | Jungle Cat | James Algar | $2.3 million | |||
| 52 | Village of the Damned | Wolf Rilla | $320,000 | $2.2 million | 6.80x | |
| 53 | The Last Voyage | Andrew L. Stone | $1.4 million | $2.1 million | 1.50x | |
| 54 | Flaming Star | Don Siegel | $1.7 million | $2 million | 1.18x | |
| 54 | Inherit the Wind | Stanley Kramer | $2 million | $2 million | 1.00x | |
| 54 | All the Young Men | Hall Bartlett | $1 million | $2 million | 2.00x | |
| 54 | Wake Me When It's Over | Mervyn LeRoy | $2 million | |||
| 54 | Private Property | Leslie Stevens | $59,000 | $2 million | 33.90x | |
| 59 | All the Fine Young Cannibals | Michael Anderson | $1.6 million | $1.8 million | 1.11x | |
| 60 | Cash McCall | Joseph Pevney | $1.8 million | |||
| 61 | Tall Story | Joshua Logan | $1.7 million | |||
| 61 | I Passed for White | Fred M. Wilcox | $1.7 million | |||
| 63 | Ice Palace | Vincent Sherman | $3.5 million | $1.6 million | 0.47x | |
| 64 | Pay or Die | Richard Wilson | $900,000 | $1.5 million | 1.67x | |
| 64 | Song Without End | George Cukor | $3.5 million | $1.5 million | 0.43x | |
| 64 | The Mountain Road | Daniel Mann | $1.5 million | |||
| 64 | Once More, with Feeling! | Stanley Donen | $1.5 million | |||
| 64 | The Gallant Hours | Robert Montgomery | $1.5 million | |||
| 64 | 13 Ghosts | William Castle | $1.5 million | |||
| 70 | House of Usher | Roger Corman | $300,000 | $1.4 million | 4.83x | |
| 71 | Surprise Package | Stanley Donen | $1.1 million | |||
| 72 | Five Branded Women | Martin Ritt | $1 million | |||
| 72 | Crack in the Mirror | Richard Fleischer | $1 million | |||
| 72 | Under Ten Flags | Carlo Lizzani | $1 million | |||
| 75 | The Angel Wore Red | Nunnally Johnson | $1.8 million | $935,000 | 0.51x | |
| 76 | Key Witness | Phil Karlson | $857,000 | $810,000 | 0.95x | |
| 77 | Sons and Lovers | Jack Cardiff | $805,000 | $800,000 | 0.99x | |
| 78 | Purple Noon | René Clément | $618,090 | |||
| 79 | Platinum High School | Charles F. Haas | $627,000 | $570,000 | 0.91x | |
| 80 | Scent of Mystery | Jack Cardiff | $2 million | $300,000 | 0.15x | |
| 81 | Peeping Tom | Michael Powell | £125,000 | $149,495 | ||
| 82 | Battle of Blood Island | Joel Rapp | $51,579 | $28,828 | 0.56x | |
| 83 | The Little Shop of Horrors | Roger Corman | $30,000 | $25,066 | 0.84x | |
| 84 | The Savage Eye | Joseph Strick | $65,000 | $16,366 | 0.25x | |
| Saturday Night and Sunday Morning | Karel Reisz | £116,848 | £401,825 | 3.44x | ||
| The Entertainer | Tony Richardson | £247,716 | £57,323 | 0.23x | ||
| The Boy Who Stole a Million | Charles Crichton | £115,802 | £7,525 | 0.06x |
Figures are shown in the currency they were reported in (Wikipedia, Wikidata or TMDB); no conversion.