The Best Movies Of 1963

Robert Lafleur (Scaramouche) is an actor in 18th century France who spends most of his time, including when he should be on stage, having love affairs and generally enjoying life. A marquis asks him q...

The World War II. 1944. Nazis staged a cache which stores archival documents of its agents, rescued from the east during the retreat, near a small German town Ostburga.

When the light on Joan’s bicycle breaks, Mr. Grant, a hardware store owner, explains to Frank and Joan how electricity works.

Simon Ashby is a wealthy psychotic who is coddled by his aunt in their palatial mansion outside of London. One day, a long lost brother arrives at the house and is sent by the son of the attorney for ...

A policeman in Paris is in love with a sex worker.

Adrian Messenger, a famous writer, asks his friend Anthony Gethryn, a former British agent, to help him investigate the whereabouts of the people who appear on a list, without asking him the reason wh...

A short portrait of a woman.

A drama of the Korean War.

Traveling through an unnamed European country on the verge of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johannes, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to commu...

Shelley Winters is the madame of a house where customers play out their erotic fantasies, oblivious to a revolution which is sweeping the country. When her old friend, the chief of police (Peter Falk)...

A group of marines are stuck on the wrong side of the battlefield after surviving a battle with the Chinese army.

A pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman, and God.

As 85-year-old President Lorenzo Snow struggles to vanquish the two million dollar indebtedness of the Mormon church in 1899, he feels inspired to journey from Salt Lake City by train and carriage to ...

There are four short films by different directors. Rosselini's 'Chastity' deals with an attractive air hostess who gets the attention of a middle aged American. Godard's 'New World' illustrates a post...

A small group of people have to fight for their lives in a deserted city after Los Angeles is invaded by monsters.

An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, he must continue his father-in-law's profession after his retirement.

Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously enough with several men and women, mostly of indeterminate gende...

A ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches is named Hud Bannon. Out for kicks with no regard for the consequences, is the perfect embodiment of the alienated youth of today,...

A magician who has been transformed into a raven is looking for help.

prisoner Kominek is a former professional boxer, according to the Concentration camp commander. The prisoner rises to a privileged position at the camp after being made an exercise partner byKraft ove...

As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapt to the sweeping social changes that undermined their way of life. In order to mainta...

A construction worker stops at a farm in the desert to get water when his car gets too hot. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns who believe the man has been sent by God ...

During a two-day period before and after the University of Alabama integration crisis, the film uses five camera crews to follow President John F. Robert F. Kennedy was the attorney general. Kennedy, ...

Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in a love triangle and finds old scores have followed him home.

A young women is hired by a woman to seduce her son and convince him to return to home from his self-induced exile.

Five vacationers and two crewmen become stranded on a tropical island near the equator. The island has little edible food for them to use as they try to live in a fungus covered hulk while repairing K...

The film was shot entirely in a Gothic cathedral and edited to a precise counter-point. The beginning is almost somber. It is innovative for its day and even now. The entire film was an "optical print...

A doctor uses special eye drops to give himself x-ray vision, but the power he has has disastrous consequences.

A tourist witnesses a murder and finds herself in the middle of a lot of killings.

A housewife's sudden rise to fame leads to chaos in her home life.

Set in Palm Springs during a long, fun-filled weekend where several Los Angeles college students flock to spring break, centering on Jim who finds romance with Bunny, the daughter of Palm Springs harr...

A love-struck landlord tries to convince a pretty tanant to dump her fiancé and give him a chance.

In a small seaside town in the middle of tourist season, an old eccentric, Ugo Bonacic, is murdered. The homicide inspector leads the investigation, which directs him to a strange foreigner dressed in...

Wakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom. Her mother had died years ago. She spends her nights at a rundown bar, sharing drinks and cigarettes wi...

During the Algerian war for independence from France, a young Frenchman living in Geneva who belongs to a right-wing terrorist group and a young woman who belongs to a left-wing terrorist group meet a...

A parachutist mistook his sergeants house for a brothel, a hypnotized sailor thought he had changed his sex, and two GIs were captured by an African tribe.

Husband and wife Bill (Van Johnson) and Bertie Austin (Janet Leigh) and their daughter live in a low-rent apartment. He's a struggling writer, at least until agent Lucinda Ford breaks the news that sh...

In this dreamy romance set in China during the fourth-century, a young woman convinces her parents to allow her to dress as a boy and attend university.

"A dream play" - This made-for-television film constituted Bergman’s first production of Strindberg’s A Dream Play – a play he would revisit three times more. Gunnar Ollén’s Malmö crew was behind this...

The story of how a soap box derby car is built and raced, told from the perspective of Clarence Carter, Jr., a derby participant in Washington, D.C.

A short movie about a summer adventures of a boy and his dog illustrated with a lot of documentary scenes about a life of a children in Lithuania during sixties.

Absurdist short about a man with a suitcase and a man inside that suitcase.

Zorroesque adventure pitting two swordsmen against a newly-appointed governor who wastes no time in displaying his despotic tendencies. Sequel to En El Viejo California.

An escaped convict makes a remote gas station his safe haven. But soon the cunning, devious wife of the owner seeks a chance to use him to get what she wants.