1963 Chronicle of The Cinema
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1. 8½ (1963)
Not Rated | 138 min | Drama
A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Claudia Cardinale, Sandra Milo
Votes: 125,228 | Gross: $0.05M
2. Billy Liar (1963)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A lazy, irresponsible young clerk (Sir Tom Courtenay) in provincial Northern England lives in his own fantasy world and makes emotionally immature decisions as he alienates friends and family.
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles, Mona Washbourne
Votes: 7,103 | Gross: $0.04M
3. Contempt (1963)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Romance
A French writer's marriage deteriorates while working on Fritz Lang's version of "The Odyssey", as his wife accuses him of using her to court favor with the film's brash American producer.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Michel Piccoli, Giorgia Moll
Votes: 36,047 | Gross: $0.04M
4. The Third Shadow Warrior (1963)
104 min | Action, Drama
A warlords' retainer offers a farmer the chance to become a samurai, but he is instead forced to serve as a double of the warlord at expense of his freedom.
Director: Umetsugu Inoue | Stars: Raizô Ichikawa, Hizuru Takachiho, Masayo Banri, Katsuhiko Kobayashi
Votes: 262
5. High and Low (1963)
Not Rated | 143 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Yutaka Sada, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyôko Kagawa
Votes: 53,232
6. The Insect Woman (1963)
Not Rated | 123 min | Drama
Life story of a woman born in poverty trying to succeed. Through her many schemes, she faces her ups and downs in a cyclical nature, fueled mostly by self-interest.
Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Seizaburô Kawazu, Kazuo Kitamura, Tanie Kitabayashi, Teruko Kishi
Votes: 2,502
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7. The Big City (1963)
Not Rated | 122 min | Drama
Life at home changes when a house-wife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a saleswoman.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Anil Chatterjee, Madhavi Mukherjee, Jaya Bachchan, Haren Chatterjee
Votes: 4,965
8. An Actor's Revenge (1963)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama
Yukinojo, a Kabuki actor, seeks revenge by destroying the three men who caused the deaths of his parents. Also involved are the daughter of one of Yukinojo's targets, two master thieves, and a swordsman who himself is out to kill Yukinojo.
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao, Eiji Funakoshi
Votes: 2,870
9. Shock Corridor (1963)
Approved | 101 min | Drama, Mystery
Bent on winning a Pulitzer Prize, a journalist commits himself to a mental institution to solve a strange and unclear murder.
Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans, James Best
Votes: 13,067
10. The Silence (1963)
R | 96 min | Drama
Two estranged sisters, Ester and Anna, and Anna's 10-year-old son travel to the Central European country on the verge of war. Ester becomes seriously ill and the three of them move into a hotel in a small town called Timoka.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Birger Malmsten, Håkan Jahnberg
Votes: 21,341
11. This Sporting Life (1963)
Not Rated | 134 min | Drama, Sport
Despite success on the field, a rising rugby star senses the emerging emptiness of his life as his inner angst begins to materialize through aggression and brutality, so he attempts to woo his landlady in hopes of finding reason to live.
Director: Lindsay Anderson | Stars: Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, Alan Badel, William Hartnell
Votes: 7,135
12. Tom Jones (1963)
Not Rated | 129 min | Adventure, Comedy, History
The romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th-century England.
Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Albert Finney, Susannah York, George Devine, Rachel Kempson
Votes: 14,263 | Gross: $37.60M
13. Winter Light (1963)
Not Rated | 81 min | Drama
A small-town priest struggles with his faith.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Gunnel Lindblom, Max von Sydow
Votes: 27,101
14. Dry Summer (1963)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
A farmer has a violent dispute with his fellow villagers by claiming ownership of the water that comes out of his land. He is as sexually frustrated as greedy.
Director: Metin Erksan | Stars: Erol Tas, Hülya Koçyigit, Ulvi Dogan, Alaettin Altiok
Votes: 5,698
15. The Haunting (1963)
G | 112 min | Horror
Hill House has stood for about 90 years and appears haunted: its inhabitants have always met strange, tragic ends. Now Dr. John Markway has assembled a team of people who he thinks will prove whether or not the house is haunted.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn
Votes: 42,498 | Gross: $2.62M
16. Charade (1963)
Passed | 113 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Romance and suspense ensue in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Whom can she trust?
Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, James Coburn
Votes: 85,590 | Gross: $13.47M
Trailers / Film 103
17. Lilies of the Field (1963)
Unrated | 94 min | Drama
A travelling handyman becomes the answer to the prayers of nuns who wish to build a chapel in the desert.
Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Lisa Mann, Isa Crino
Votes: 13,585
18. Hud (1963)
Passed | 112 min | Drama, Western
Honest, hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant, egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash.
Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde
Votes: 23,946 | Gross: $10.00M
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19. Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)
Passed | 126 min | Comedy, Drama, War
In 1944, an Army doctor is in charge of a neuropsychiatric ward at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona, and he must deal with a variety of tough cases.
Director: David Miller | Stars: Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, Eddie Albert
Votes: 2,920
20. The Cardinal (1963)
Approved | 175 min | Drama, History, War
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Tom Tryon, John Huston, Romy Schneider, Carol Lynley
Votes: 2,904
21. Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)
Unrated | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A salesclerk at Macy's department store finds herself pregnant after a one-night stand with a musician who does not even remember her.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Natalie Wood, Steve McQueen, Edie Adams, Herschel Bernardi
Votes: 5,484
22. Irma la Douce (1963)
Approved | 147 min | Comedy, Romance
When a policeman falls in love with a prostitute, he doesn't want her to see other men, so he creates an alter-ego who will be her only customer.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Lou Jacobi, Bruce Yarnell
Votes: 21,406 | Gross: $25.25M
23. The V.I.P.s (1963)
Not Rated | 119 min | Drama
As fog delays departure for a group of travelers bound for New York City, they wait at the lounge of London's Heathrow airport, each passenger at a moment of crisis in his or her life.
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Louis Jourdan, Elsa Martinelli
Votes: 4,208 | Gross: $10.21M
24. America America (1963)
Approved | 174 min | Adventure, Drama
A young Greek stops at nothing to secure a passage to America.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Stathis Giallelis, Frank Wolff, Elena Karam, Harry Davis
Votes: 5,994
25. Toys in the Attic (1963)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
Julian Berniers and his bride Lily leave Chicago to visit his two spinster sisters, Carrie and Anna, in New Orleans but Lily's jealousy combined with Carrie's possessiveness of Julian threaten to destroy the whole family.
Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Dean Martin, Geraldine Page, Yvette Mimieux, Wendy Hiller
Votes: 1,338
26. The Great Escape (1963)
Approved | 172 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson
Votes: 258,983 | Gross: $12.10M
27. Twin Sisters of Kyoto (1963)
107 min | Drama
Two twin girls are separated at birth. One grows up in a loving family. The other one doesn't. They finally meet by complete accident on a town fair. No one ever told them about the other one so they begin familiarizing with each other.
Director: Noboru Nakamura | Stars: Shima Iwashita, Hiroyuki Nagato, Seiji Miyaguchi, Teruo Yoshida
Votes: 216
Rare Filmm / Film 103
28. 55 Days at Peking (1963)
Unrated | 154 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
During the 1900 Boxer Rebellion, U.S. marine, Maj. Matt Lewis, along with British consul, Sir Arthur Robertson, develop a plan to keep the rebels at bay until an international military relief force can arrive.
Directors: Nicholas Ray, Guy Green, Andrew Marton | Stars: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven, Flora Robson
Votes: 7,422
29. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)
Not Rated | 119 min | Comedy, Romance
Stories about three very different women and the men they attract.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Giuffrè, Agostino Salvietti
Votes: 10,126
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30. The Pink Panther (1963)
Approved | 115 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
The bumbling Inspector Clouseau travels to Rome to catch a notorious jewel thief known as "The Phantom" before he conducts his most daring heist yet: a princess' priceless diamond with one slight imperfection, known as "The Pink Panther".
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine
Votes: 56,685 | Gross: $10.88M
31. The Organizer (1963)
Not Rated | 126 min | Drama, History
A former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a late 19th Century textile factory.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Gabriella Giorgelli, Folco Lulli
Votes: 3,286
32. From Russia with Love (1963)
PG | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
James Bond willingly falls into an assassination plot involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by S.P.E.C.T.R.E.
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Sean Connery, Robert Shaw, Lotte Lenya, Daniela Bianchi
Votes: 145,401 | Gross: $24.80M
33. All the Way Home (1963)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Romance
Mary Follet, a wife and mother in 1915 Tennessee, copes with the loss of her husband and the necessity of raising their children alone.
Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Jean Simmons, Robert Preston, Pat Hingle, Aline MacMahon
Votes: 462
34. Hallelujah the Hills (1963)
Not Rated | 82 min | Comedy
After courting a woman called Vera for seven years, friends Jack and Leo decide to seclude themselves in the Vermont woods near her home, when she finally decides to accept a third man called Gideon.
Director: Adolfas Mekas | Stars: Peter Beard, Sheila Finn, Martin Greenbaum, Peggy Steffans
Votes: 210
35. Le joli mai (1963)
Not Rated | 165 min | Documentary
Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme's LE JOLI MAI (The Lovely Month of May) is a portrait of Paris and Parisians during May 1962, the first springtime of peace after the ceasefire with Algeria ... See full summary »
Directors: Chris Marker, Pierre Lhomme | Stars: Chris Marker, Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Jean-Luc Godard
Votes: 878 | Gross: $0.02M
36. Kertes házak utcája (1963)
80 min | Drama
Palotás a fire inspector meets his old friend József Máté in a small town. Máté a proud manager spoils his beautiful young wife, Panni. She is bored and wants to work, but her husband won't... See full summary »
Director: Tamás Fejér | Stars: Margit Bara, Miklós Gábor, György Pálos, Éva Schubert
Votes: 44
37. Magnet of Doom (1963)
102 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Broke French ex-paratrooper turned amateur boxer Michel Maudet becomes bodyguard for the fugitive corrupt banker Ferchaux.
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Vanel, Michèle Mercier, Malvina Silberberg
Votes: 1,762
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38. Muriel (1963)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama
In the seaside town of Boulogne, no one seems to be able to cope with their past, least of all Hélène, an antique furniture saleswoman, her stepson Bernard, and her former lover Alphonse.
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Delphine Seyrig, Jean-Pierre Kérien, Nita Klein, Jean-Baptiste Thiérrée
Votes: 3,736
39. Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963)
Not Rated | 122 min | Comedy, Drama
Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life.
Directors: Jean-Luc Godard, Ugo Gregoretti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Rosanna Schiaffino, Bruce Balaban, Maria Pia Schiaffino, Jean-Marc Bory
Votes: 2,255
40. The Servant (1963)
Unrated | 116 min | Drama
Upper-class Tony hires servant Hugo Barrett, who turns out to have a hidden agenda.
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig, James Fox
Votes: 13,829 | Gross: $0.04M
41. The Terrace (1963)
90 min | Drama
Adapted from a story by Beatriz Guido. A group of young people from high society are enclosed, for fun, on a terrace in a charming building in Buenos Aires. His parents try to get them out,... See full summary »
Director: Leopoldo Torre Nilsson | Stars: Graciela Borges, Leonardo Favio, Marcela López Rey, Héctor Pellegrini
Votes: 113
42. Alone on the Pacific (1963)
104 min | Adventure
Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his careful planning many unforeseen events will test his determination.
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Yûjirô Ishihara, Masayuki Mori, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ruriko Asaoka
Votes: 504
Nova / Film 103
43. Hands Over the City (1963)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama
Prior to a city council election, the collapse of a building leaves a land developer and his political backers defending themselves against a scandal.
Director: Francesco Rosi | Stars: Rod Steiger, Salvo Randone, Guido Alberti, Marcello Cannavale
Votes: 3,287
CRITERION
44. Passenger (1963)
62 min | Drama, War
While aboard a transatlantic passenger ship, a German woman, Liza, notices someone who looks like Marta, a former inmate at Auschwitz, where Liza used to be a guard.
Directors: Andrzej Munk, Witold Lesiewicz | Stars: Aleksandra Slaska, Anna Ciepielewska, Jan Kreczmar, Marek Walczewski
Votes: 2,131
Rare Filmm
45. She and He (1963)
110 min | Drama
In a sterile building complex, a woman gains a sense of altruism after encountering a street beggar and his blind orphan, much to her husband's disapproval.
Director: Susumu Hani | Stars: Sachiko Hidari, Kikuji Yamashita, Eiji Okada, Akio Hasegawa
Votes: 230
Rare Filmm / Film 104
46. The Little Soldier (1963)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, War
During the Algerian War, a man and woman from opposing sides fall in love with one another.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Anna Karina, Michel Subor, Henri-Jacques Huet, Paul Beauvais
Votes: 8,154 | Gross: $0.02M
47. The Birds (1963)
PG-13 | 119 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette
Votes: 204,575 | Gross: $11.40M
48. The Nutty Professor (1963)
Not Rated | 107 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
A timid chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome womanizer.
Director: Jerry Lewis | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens, Del Moore, Kathleen Freeman
Votes: 19,427 | Gross: $7.63M
49. Blonde Cobra (1963)
33 min | Short
An experimental short film that variously features singing and storytelling, touching upon topics such as nations, death, religion, sex, and evil.
Director: Ken Jacobs | Stars: Ken Jacobs, Jack Smith
Votes: 973
50. The Cool World (1963)
105 min | Crime, Drama
A look at the horrors of Harlem ghetto slum life filled with drugs, violence, human misery, and a sense of despair due to the racial prejudices of American society.
Director: Shirley Clarke | Stars: Rony Clanton, Carl Lee, Yolanda Rodríguez, Clarence Williams III
Votes: 663
51. Flaming Creatures (1963)
45 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
An experimental film that features graphic sexual imagery, an earthquake, and a lipstick commercial.
Director: Jack Smith | Stars: Francis Francine, Sheila Bick, Joel Markman, Mario Montez
Votes: 1,662
52. Mediterranean (1963)
44 min | Documentary, Short
A short film documenting the seas and shores of the Mediterranean Sea.
Director: Jean-Daniel Pollet
Votes: 885
53. The House Is Black (1963)
20 min | Documentary, Short
Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness", of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude.
Director: Forugh Farrokhzad | Stars: Forugh Farrokhzad, Ebrahim Golestan, Hossein Mansouri
Votes: 5,567
Rare Filmm / Film 104
54. Scorpio Rising (1963)
28 min | Short, Music
A gang of Nazi bikers prepares for a race as sexual, sadistic, and occult images are cut together.
Director: Kenneth Anger | Stars: Ernie Allo, Bruce Byron, Frank Carifi, Steve Crandell
Votes: 5,709
55. The Carabineers (1963)
80 min | Comedy, Drama, War
During a war in an imaginary country, unscrupulous soldiers recruit poor farmers with promises of an easy and happy life. Two of these farmers write to their wives of their exploits.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Patrice Moullet, Marino Masé, Geneviève Galéa, Catherine Ribeiro
Votes: 3,614
56. Cleopatra (1963)
G | 192 min | Biography, Drama, History
Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.
Directors: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Pamela Brown
Votes: 37,421 | Gross: $57.78M
57. Lord of the Flies (1963)
Not Rated | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Schoolboys marooned on a Pacific island create their own savage civilization.
Director: Peter Brook | Stars: James Aubrey, Tom Chapin, Hugh Edwards, Roger Elwin
Votes: 20,419
58. The Love Eterne (1963)
126 min | Fantasy, Musical, Romance
The story about the life of the students at a university in Hangchow. Chu Ying-Tai is a female who has to be disguised as a man in order to gain entry into the school.
Director: Han Hsiang Li | Stars: Betty Loh Ti, Ivy Ling Po, Li-Chu Chang, Yanyan Chen
Votes: 516
59. The Leopard (1963)
PG | 186 min | Drama, History
The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily.
Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale, Paolo Stoppa
Votes: 28,835
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60. Carambolages (1963)
88 min | Comedy, Crime
The story takes place in a luxury building of about ten floors where the "321" agency has its headquarters. The company watches over the holidays of its customers.
Director: Marcel Bluwal | Stars: Louis de Funès, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Serrault, Sophie Daumier
Votes: 1,008
61. The Other Christopher (1963)
115 min | Drama, Fantasy
The dictator Anastasio rules with an iron fist backed by business-men making deals and speeches about building canals, completely disconnected from the chaos amongst the population. ... See full summary »
Director: Armand Gatti | Stars: Jean Bouise, Marc Dudicourt, Alden Knight, Bertina Acevedo
Votes: 46
62. Of Whales, the Moon, and Men (1963)
105 min | Documentary
At the instigation of the filmmakers, the young men of the Ile-aux-Coudres in the middle of the St-Lawrence River try as a memorial to their ancestors to revive the fishing of the belugas interrupted in 1924.
Directors: Michel Brault, Pierre Perrault | Stars: Léopold Tremblay, Alexis Tremblay, Abel Harvey, Louis Harvey
Votes: 710
63. La cage (1963)
85 min | Drama
After studying medicine in France, David comes back to his native Gabon to treat his compatriots. He meets Oyana, his former sweetheart, and both laugh at the old-fashioned traditions. The ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Darène | Stars: Marina Vlady, Jean Servais, Philippe Mory, Muriel David
Votes: 23
64. The Dark Room of Damocles (1963)
Not Rated | 119 min | Drama, War
The fainthearted cigar trader Ducker keeps himself quiet during World War II. That changes when parachutist Dorbeck lands in his backyard. It turns out the parachutist bears a remarkable ... See full summary »
Director: Fons Rademakers | Stars: Lex Schoorel, Nan Los, Van Doude, Guus Verstraete
Votes: 767
65. Los venerables todos (1963)
85 min | Drama
Ismael is a shy, awkward young man who belongs to a group of conspirators. The leader, Lucas, constantly abuses and ridicules him. Precariously held together by a romantic relationship, Ismael struggles to assert himself.
Director: Manuel Antin | Stars: Lautaro Murúa, Fernanda Mistral, Walter Vidarte, Leonardo Favio
Votes: 59
66. The Conjugal Bed (1963)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy, Drama
A forty-year-old employee marries a seemingly quiet girl who turns into a mantis after the wedding.
Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Marina Vlady, Walter Giller, Linda Sini
Votes: 808
67. Rat Trap (1963)
94 min | Adventure, Drama
This adventure drama finds Charles (Charles Aznavour), a youthful Frenchman traveling to Paraguay to start a new life. Seeking out a rich uncle, the idealistic nephew is rejected by his ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Gabriel Albicocco | Stars: Charles Aznavour, Marie Laforêt, Franco Fabrizi, Richard Badouh
Votes: 57
68. Optimisticheskaya tragediya (1963)
120 min | Drama, History, War
As the communist revolt progresses in Russia, a female commissar is dispatched to some anarchist sailors to get them on board the party bandwagon.
Director: Samson Samsonov | Stars: Margarita Volodina, Boris Andreyev, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Vsevolod Sanaev
Votes: 164
69. The Depths (1963)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A bourgeois family, who is harassed and humiliated, ruins their young maids without pay for several years.
Director: Nikos Papatakis | Stars: Francine Bergé, Colette Bergé, Pascale de Boysson, Colette Régis
Votes: 307
70. Jak byc kochana (1963)
92 min | Drama
An actress traveling to Paris reflects on her life during the Nazi occupation of Poland.
Director: Wojciech Has | Stars: Barbara Krafftówna, Zbigniew Cybulski, Artur Mlodnicki, Wienczyslaw Glinski
Votes: 752
How To Be Loved
71. Empress Wu (1963)
120 min | Drama, History
Wu Ze Tian rules as empress during the Tang and Wu Zhao dynasties.
Director: Han Hsiang Li | Stars: Li Hua Li, Chun Yen, Lei Zhao, Diana Chung-Wen Chang
Votes: 263
72. The Evil Eye (1963)
Not Rated | 86 min | Horror, Mystery, Romance
A mystery novel-loving American tourist witnesses a murder in Rome, and soon finds herself and her suitor caught up in a series of killings.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: John Saxon, Letícia Román, Valentina Cortese, Titti Tomaino
Votes: 5,369
73. El-Lailah el-Akhirah (1963)
120 min | Mystery, Thriller
Faten Hamama plays a wife who wakes up one morning to discover she is married to her brother-in-law in this suspenseful drama. The confused woman soon learns that fifteen years have gone by... See full summary »
Director: Kamal El-Shaikh | Stars: Faten Hamamah, Ahmad Mazhar, Mahmoud Moursy, Kamal Yaseen
Votes: 327
74. Mujhe Jeene Do (1963)
95 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A notorious bandit continues to elude the authorities and strikes terror in the region.
Director: Moni Bhattacharjee | Stars: Sunil Dutt, Waheeda Rehman, Nirupa Roy, Rajendranath Malhotra
Votes: 105
75. Sweet and Sour (1963)
93 min | Comedy
Gerard, a young man from a "good family," dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows everywhere his sister Frédérique who is infatuated with cinéma vérité.
Director: Jacques Baratier | Stars: Guy Bedos, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Francis Blanche, Jean-Marc Bory
Votes: 154
76. The Fiances (1963)
Not Rated | 77 min | Drama
Despite his fiancee's reluctance, a young man moves to Sicily for a better job, but soon starts questioning his decision.
Director: Ermanno Olmi | Stars: Anna Canzi, Carlo Cabrini
Votes: 2,303
Film 103 / Criterion
77. Au coeur de la vie (1963)
95 min | Drama, War
This Civil War anthology adapts three Ambrose Bierce stories "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", "Chickamauga" and "The Mockingbird".
Director: Robert Enrico | Stars: Roger Jacquet, Anne Cornaly, Stéphane Fey, Pierre Boffety
Votes: 127
78. Blood Feast (1963)
Not Rated | 67 min | Horror
An Egyptian caterer kills various women in suburban Miami to use their body parts to revive a dormant Egyptian goddess while an inept police detective tries to track him down.
Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis | Stars: William Kerwin, Mal Arnold, Connie Mason, Lyn Bolton
Votes: 7,341 | Gross: $4.00M
79. It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
Approved | 210 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A group of motorists witnesses a car crash in the California desert, and after the driver's dying words indicate the location of a hidden stash of loot, they turn against each in a race across the state to get to it.
Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney
Votes: 46,142 | Gross: $46.30M
Los Movies
80. Vice and Virtue (1963)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, War
Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of France, VICE AND VIRTURE is a stylized retelling of the Marquis de Sade's Justine, as envisioned by one of cinema's most provocative filmmakers Roger Vadim.
Director: Roger Vadim | Stars: Annie Girardot, Robert Hossein, Catherine Deneuve, O.E. Hasse
Votes: 426
81. The Accident (1963)
91 min | Crime, Drama
A young beautiful teacher is transfered to a remote island's school, where her colleague (also the principal of the school) falls in love with her. This banned love provokes the jealousy of the principal's wife and makes her seek revenge.
Director: Edmond T. Gréville | Stars: Magali Noël, Georges Rivière, Danik Patisson, Roland Lesaffre
Votes: 61
Rare Filmm
82. La parmigiana (1963)
111 min | Comedy, Drama
Dora, driven away from her town by malicious gossip following her first love affair, has a series of short-lived adventures until she falls in love with Nino, a small time crook. In Parma, a police officer courts her but she keeps thinking of Nino and makes up her mind to join him. But he has found a new lover.
Director: Antonio Pietrangeli | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Catherine Spaak, Didi Perego, Lando Buzzanca
Votes: 344
83. To Die in Madrid (1963)
85 min | Documentary
To Die in Madrid (French: Mourir à Madrid) is a 1963 French documentary film about the Spanish Civil War, directed by Frédéric Rossif. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Director: Frédéric Rossif | Stars: Irene Worth, John Gielgud, Suzanne Flon, Germaine Montero
Votes: 423
Film 101
84. Los Tarantos (1963)
83 min | Drama, Romance
A boy and a girl from two rival Gypsy families fall in love.
Director: Francisco Rovira Beleta | Stars: Carmen Amaya, Sara Lezana, Daniel Martín, Antonio Gades
Votes: 399
Film 101
85. Codine (1963)
98 min | Crime, Drama, Music
An ex-convict struggles to survive by brute force alone in a turn-of-the-century slum in Braila. Codine (Alexandre Virgil Platon) is the thug who served 10 years for murdering a friend. He ... See full summary »
Director: Henri Colpi | Stars: Alexandru Virgil Platon, Razvan Petrescu, Françoise Brion, Nelly Borgeaud
Votes: 329
Film 101
86. Any Number Can Win (1963)
118 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A career con artist reunites with his wife but has already planned his next move: one daring last heist that will set him up for life. However, there is no such thing as a foolproof plan.
Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Claude Cerval, Viviane Romance
Votes: 4,152 | Gross: $1.00M
Film 101
87. Los inocentes (1963)
105 min | Drama, Romance
After his wife tragically dies in a car accident with a wealthy industrialist, a world comes crashing down for a simple bank clerk. But he decides to create something new out of the grief and changes his life in a radical way.
Director: Juan Antonio Bardem | Stars: Paloma Valdés, Alfredo Alcón, Enrique Fava, Zelmar Gueñol
Votes: 133
Film 101
88. Barren Lives (1963)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama
A poor family in the Northeast of Brazil (Fabiano, the father; Sinhá Vitória, the mother; their 2 children and a dog called Baleia) wander about the barren land searching for a better place... See full summary »
Director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos | Stars: Átila Iório, Maria Ribeiro, Orlando Macedo, Jofre Soares
Votes: 2,909
Film 101
89. Smrt si ríká Engelchen (1963)
111 min | Drama, War
War may end, but scars will remain to bleed in human memory. This story of a Czechoslovak partisan at the end of World War II confirms that.
Directors: Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos | Stars: Jan Kacer, Eva Poláková, Martin Ruzek, Blazena Holisová
Votes: 239
Film 101 - Death is called Engelchen
90. Transport z ráje (1963)
93 min | Drama, War
Theresienstadt camp where Germans held prominent Jews during the World War II. The film shows last days of the camp under the Germans.
Director: Zbynek Brynych | Stars: Zdenek Stepánek, Ilja Prachar, Jirí Vrstála, Cestmír Randa
Votes: 233
Film 101 - Transport From Paradise
91. When the Cat Comes (1963)
104 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
People arrive in a small village with a strange cat wearing glasses. When someone takes them off, he can color people, according to their nature and mood. Adults consider him dangerous; children love him.
Director: Vojtech Jasný | Stars: Jan Werich, Emília Vásáryová, Vlastimil Brodský, Jirí Sovák
Votes: 2,068
Film 101
92. The Red Lanterns (1963)
132 min | Drama, Romance
The inextricably intertwined stories of five women who work as prostitutes just before the ban on brothels in Troumba.
Director: Vasilis Georgiadis | Stars: Jenny Karezi, Giorgos Foundas, Dimitris Papamichael, Manos Katrakis
Votes: 2,025
Film 101
93. The Executioner (1963)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Comedy
An undertaker marries an old executioner's daughter and must continue his father-in-law's profession after his retirement, although he doesn't like it.
Director: Luis García Berlanga | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Emma Penella, José Isbert, José Luis López Vázquez
Votes: 7,434
Criterion
94. Scorching Sands (1963)
Not Rated | 124 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Sheherazade is promised to a powerful Sultan as a gift in exchange for free passage to the Holy Land. When the Sultan's underling saves her from certain death, she falls madly in love with her hero.
Director: Pierre Gaspard-Huit | Stars: Anna Karina, Gérard Barray, Antonio Vilar, Giuliano Gemma
Votes: 207
Film 101
95. The Empty Canvas (1963)
105 min | Drama
The son of a dead Italian nobleman and a wealthy American woman forgets the disappointment of finding he has no talent for being a painter by succumbing to the sexual advances of an amoral model who believes in indiscriminate love affairs.
Director: Damiano Damiani | Stars: Bette Davis, Horst Buchholz, Catherine Spaak, Isa Miranda
Votes: 1,031
Film 101
96. All My Children (1963)
93 min | Drama
Director: Miyoji Ieki | Stars: Hitomi Nakahara, Chieko Misaki, Tomoko Mayama, Shinjiro Tomita
Votes: 23
Film 102
97. Acto da Primavera (1963)
94 min | Drama
Local people of Curalha, a small village, keep a tradition of representing the Passion of Jesus, since and according to a 16th text.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Nicolau Nunes Da Silva, Ermelinda Pires, Maria Madalena, Amélia Chaves
Votes: 289
Film 102 - Rite of Spring
98. Os Verdes Anos (1963)
91 min | Drama, Romance
19-year-old Julio has just left the provinces to settle down in the outskirts of Lisbon. He lives in a poor area with his uncle Afonso and starts working as an apprentice shoemaker. At the ... See full summary »
Director: Paulo Rocha | Stars: Rui Gomes, Isabel Ruth, Ruy Furtado, Paulo Renato
Votes: 942
Film 103 / MUBI - The Green Years
99. Raven's End (1963)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama
An aspiring young writer lives in a bleak working class block in the late 1930s.
Director: Bo Widerberg | Stars: Thommy Berggren, Keve Hjelm, Emy Storm, Ingvar Hirdwall
Votes: 1,739
Film 103
100. Ett drömspel (1963 TV Movie)
113 min | Drama, Fantasy
The god Indra's daughter descends to earth to experience firsthand people's living conditions. Bergman's first staging of Strindberg's play "Ett drömspel" ( Dream Play).
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Ingrid Thulin, Uno Henning, Allan Edwall, Olof Widgren
Votes: 276
Rare Filmm / Film 103
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