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Top Movies of 1963

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  • Toshirô Mifune, Kenjirô Ishiyama, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, and Tatsuya Nakadai in High and Low (1963)

    1. High and Low

    19632h 23mNot Rated90Metascore
    8.4 (60K)
    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.
    DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneYutaka SadaTatsuya Nakadai
  • 8½ (1963)

    2. 8½

    19632h 18mNot Rated93Metascore
    8.0 (129K)
    A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.
    DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMarcello MastroianniAnouk AiméeClaudia Cardinale
  • Madhavi Mukherjee in The Big City (1963)

    3. The Big City

    19632h 2mNot Rated
    8.3 (5.3K)
    Life at home changes when a house-wife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a saleswoman.
    DirectorSatyajit RayStarsAnil ChatterjeeMadhavi MukherjeeJaya Bachchan
  • Winter Light (1963)

    4. Winter Light

    19631h 21mNot Rated
    8.0 (28K)
    A small-town priest struggles with his faith.
    DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsIngrid ThulinGunnar BjörnstrandGunnel Lindblom
  • Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, and Alain Delon in The Leopard (1963)

    5. The Leopard

    19633h 6mPG100Metascore
    7.9 (32K)
    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.
    DirectorLuchino ViscontiStarsBurt LancasterAlain DelonClaudia Cardinale
  • Paul Newman in Hud (1963)

    6. Hud

    19631h 52mApproved62Metascore
    7.8 (25K)
    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.
    DirectorMartin RittStarsPaul NewmanMelvyn DouglasPatricia Neal
  • Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in Charade (1963)

    7. Charade

    19631h 53mApproved83Metascore
    7.8 (90K)
    Romance and intrigue ensue in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want to get their hands on a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. She soon loses trust in those who claim they want to help her.
    DirectorStanley DonenStarsCary GrantAudrey HepburnWalter Matthau
  • The Silence (1963)

    8. The Silence

    19631h 36mR
    7.7 (22K)
    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.
    DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsIngrid ThulinGunnel LindblomBirger Malmsten
  • Passenger (1963)

    9. Passenger

    19631h 2m
    7.4 (2.3K)
    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.
    DirectorsAndrzej MunkWitold LesiewiczStarsAleksandra SlaskaAnna CiepielewskaJan Kreczmar
  • Sean Connery, Martine Beswick, Daniela Bianchi, Robert Shaw, Lisa Guiraut, and Aliza Gur in From Russia with Love (1963)

    10. From Russia with Love

    19631h 55mPG83Metascore
    7.3 (151K)
    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 the organization Spectre.
    DirectorTerence YoungStarsSean ConneryRobert ShawLotte Lenya
  • Alfred Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren in The Birds (1963)

    11. The Birds

    19631h 59mPG-1390Metascore
    7.6 (213K)
    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.
    DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsRod TaylorTippi HedrenJessica Tandy
  • Richard Attenborough, Steve McQueen, and James Garner in The Great Escape (1963)

    12. The Great Escape

    19632h 52mApproved86Metascore
    8.2 (269K)
    Allied officers in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II making a daring plan for a mass escape by hundreds of their men, hoping to draw German personnel and resources away from combat operations.
    DirectorJohn SturgesStarsSteve McQueenJames GarnerRichard Attenborough
  • America America (1963)

    13. America America

    19632h 54mApproved72Metascore
    7.7 (6.3K)
    A young Greek stops at nothing to secure a passage to America.
    DirectorElia KazanStarsStathis GiallelisFrank WolffElena Karam
  • Lilies of the Field (1963)

    14. Lilies of the Field

    19631h 34mApproved61Metascore
    7.5 (15K)
    A travelling handyman becomes the answer to the prayers of nuns who wish to build a chapel in the desert.
    DirectorRalph NelsonStarsSidney PoitierLilia SkalaLisa Mann
  • Spencer Tracy, Peter Falk, Jim Backus, Milton Berle, Norman Fell, Mickey Rooney, Buddy Hackett, Jonathan Winters, Edie Adams, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Ben Blue, Joe E. Brown, Sid Caesar, Alan Carney, Chick Chandler, Barrie Chase, Lloyd Corrigan, William Demarest, Andy Devine, Selma Diamond, Paul Ford, Stan Freberg, Ethel Merman, Dorothy Provine, Phil Silvers, and Terry-Thomas in It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)

    15. It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

    19633h 30mApproved59Metascore
    7.5 (49K)
    Several different motorists witness a single car crash in the California desert and, after the driver's dying words indicate the location of a hidden stash of loot, turn against each other in a mad dash across the state to get to it.
    DirectorStanley KramerStarsSpencer TracyMilton BerleEthel Merman

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