The Best Movies Of 1964

Peplum movie from 1964

When Dexter Munro (Baxter) and his new wife Juliet (Sally Smith) get married, they decide to escape Juliet's meddling father (James Robertson Justice) by buying a rundown cottage and doing it up thems...

A deck-chair attendant at a British resort promotes a film festival featuring a French sexpot.

When Bob Carey is released from prison after a long sentence for murder, begins the search for Mary, his former girlfriend. But soon he finds out that during his absence, she has married Clifford, a w...

As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. Even as the chaos of retreat descends upon them, he ...

Walter Eckland was persuaded to spy on planes passing over his island during World War II. Catherine Frenau arrives on the run from the Japanese with her pupils in tow, and he gets more than he bargai...

Those who have interfered with the Tomb of Ra-Antef are in terrible danger. Against expert advice, American showman and financial backer of the expedition, Alexander King, plans a world tour exhibitin...

The study of a youth on the edge of adulthood and his aunt, ten years older. Fabrizio is passionate, idealistic, influenced by Cesare, a teacher and Marxist, engaged to the lovely but bourgeois Clelia...

Angélique married Jeoffray de Peyrac out of convenience, but eventually she fell in love with him. When Jeoffray is arrested and then disappears, she sets out to find him. This is the first of many dr...

A psychotic killer gets in the good graces of his aging invalid employer, and worms his way into the affection of her beautiful daughter, with unpleasant results for all.

Sam the snowman tells us the story of a young red-nosed reindeer who, after being ousted from the reindeer games because of his glowing nose, teams up with Hermey, an elf who wants to be a dentist, an...

At the end of World War II, shallow, self-centered Mara is the prettiest girl in her small Italian village; Bebo is a Communist partisan who is finding it difficult to adjust to the dull banalities of...

In the early 20th century a village experienced a series of inexplicable murders. All the victims were young men who had been turned to stone. The perpetrator of these deaths was a being so repulsive ...

When they back the wrong horse in a race, they get into trouble. They have to come up with a way to pay off the winners.

Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to ra...

Yugoslavian anthology movie with three stories. "Father": Germans are taking hostages, peasants from local fields. One old man is begging for German officer to release his sons. Officer offers him rel...

In 1964, on the request of UniFrance, writer and director Philippe Labro filmed four young actresses – Mireille Darc, Marie Dubois, Catherine Deneuve, and Françoise Dorléac – in order to promote these...

A giant egg has been washed by a typhoon. Local villagers claim the egg and then sell it to greedy entrepreneurs. The Shobijin are going to plead for the return of the egg. At the same time, there is ...

In a romantic and philosophical tale of magic and love, a mischievous Sorcerer turns a bear into a young man. Unhappy in his new state, the former bear, with the help of the magician and his beautiful...

When a ransom bid results in the death of a child, the police have only one lead – the old lady who witnessed the kidnapper using a public phone box. Though her recollection is vague, she volunteers t...

A person from the United States. An army colonel warned the president of a military coup.

An Army officer returns to the Smoky Mountains tries to convince his kinfolk to allow the Army to build a missile site on their land. Once he gets there, he discovers he has a lookalike cousin.

In 1870s India, Charu lives a lonely and inactive life. Although her husband devotes more time to his newspaper than to their marriage, he sees her loneliness, and asks his brother-in-law to keep her ...

Bill and his wife, who believes she is a medium, are struggling to keep their marriage together. She has a plan to make her famous by kidnapping a little girl and then locating her.

Based on author James H. Tevis' Arizona in the 50s, The Tenderfoot stars Brandon De Wilde as young Tevis. With nothing more than a stetson, a gun, and three buddies, Tevis heads west to seek his desti...

Wife and mother Giuliana desperately tries to hide her tenuous grip on reality from those around her, especially her successful yet neglectful husband, Ugo. Corrado shows up in town on a business trip...

On the night of the wedding of Mohamed (Shukry Sarhan) with Adela (Souad Hosny), a letter arrives to Mohamed benefits that he was promoted and so moved to work in the Jabal "Ataka", but her mother, Az...

A reluctant cavalry Captain has to track a tribe that is moving.

Working class family owns a restaurant: one brother's a rising star in local soccer, one's a priest/semi-pro boxer, sister's an aspiring ranchera singer and the other brother's a waterboy at the stadi...

Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the "Melancholy Dane" was given one of its best screen treatments by Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev. Kozintsev's Elsinore was a real castle in Estonia, ...

Father Damin is the resident priest of the parish in San Jeronimo el Alto, where he is not welcomed by the community. The newcomer gradually earns the trust of the people through humor, but firmly cap...

An undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced to pay one year's back-rent. To get money he starts to kill people, which brings absurd results.

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, and then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when the...

The story was based on HG Wells. When a space craft containing a crew made up of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, the world is overjoyed. The astronauts were shocked when they found an old Br...

Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurrin...

The Magnificent Cuckold is about a hat tycoon who is ecstatically, if not hungrily, in love with his youthful wife. It is all blissful, that is, until our man, middle-aged and somewhat of a square amo...

Wrongfully imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, Minnesota Clay seeks revenge on the man who withheld evidence at his trial. There is a problem however, he is going blind.

Paparazzi explores the relationship between Brigitte Bardot and groups of invasive photographers attempting to photograph her while she works on the set of Jean-Luc Godard's film Le Mépris (Contempt)....

Α crook turns a cabaret girl into a fine lady to use her as bait for his victims.

Hercules has agreed to restore justice to Mycenae. The villain's mother is a sorceress in the Underworld. He assassinates the king and abducts Queen Ate so that he can inherit the throne. The god rest...

During Bob Dylan’s tour for his third LP, The Times They Are a-Changin’, released in January 1964, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation offered him a half-hour special in which to promote the album. ...

A short film documenting the making of Bruce Conner's Breakaway.

Industrialization brings progress, but also harmful influences on the environment. Warning of the dangers of waste materials dumped into the air and the waters.

In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, a man-of-the-people Lt. They were Chard and snooty Lieutenant. The isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's drift is being defended by a group of br...

A young married woman who is desperately unhappy is tempted into a lesbian relationship with an interior decorator.