A timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo. The Jekyll and Hyde game works well enough until the concoction starts to wear off at the most embarrassing times.

Apache Gold

1963

German

6.8

♡ 15

Harald Reinl Director

Branko Spoljar as Bancroft

Niksa Stefanini as Bullock

Mario Adorf as Frederick Santer

Lex Barker as Old Shatterhand

The construction of the Great Western Railroad creates heavy conflict between the railway company and neighboring Indian tribes. Worse, criminal gang leader Santer sets his eyes on a gold mine located on holy Indian land and influences the construction supervisor to re-rout the planned railroad straight through Apache land. Old Shatterhand, who works as a measurement technician, discovers the evil plan and searches contact with the Apaches in an effort to avert war.

The Sword in the Stone

1963

English

7.1

♡ 62

65%

based on novel or book

Clyde Geronimi Director

Thurl Ravenscroft as Black Bart

Tudor Owen as Knight in Crowd

Karl Swenson as Merlin

Norman Alden as Sir Kay

Wart is a young boy who aspires to be a knight's squire. On a hunting trip he falls in on Merlin, a powerful but amnesiac wizard who has plans for him beyond mere squiredom. He starts by trying to give him an education, believing that once one has an education, one can go anywhere. Needless to say, it doesn't quite work out that way.

A Killing Success

1963

French

6.1

♡ 1

Action

ambition

based on novel or book

Marcel Bluwal Director

Guy Bedos as

Alain Delon as Lambert

Louis de Funès as Norbert Charolais

Albert Dinan as Un homme

Paul Martin is the subservient brown-nosing youngster who needs quick advancement up the hierarchy to pay for the modern lifestyle he is buying on credit. Seeing that marrying his immediate superior's daughter will not get him the results he wants, he begins plotting the demise of the head of the company. The company itself specializes in holiday travel and unscrupulously brutalizes its customers for maximum profit, spending more thought on publicity gimmicks than customer service...

Contempt

1963

French

7.4

♡ 27

92%

85%

Action

based on novel or book

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Brigitte Bardot as Camille Javal

Jack Palance as Jeremy Prokosch

Jean-Luc Godard as Lang's Assistant Director

Michel Piccoli as Paul Javal

A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb at the box office, he brings in a screenwriter to energize the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife.

The Fire Within

1963

French

7.8

♡ 15

82%

Louis Malle Director

Maurice Ronet as Alain Leroy

Micha Bayard as Bit part

Henri Serre as Frédéric

Alexandra Stewart as Solange

Although his alcoholism has been treated, Alain still feels he is deeply unwell and does not feel he can leave the detoxification clinic once and for all. His wife, living in New York, continues to pay for his treatment, but no longer contacts him directly. He intends to commit suicide, but first takes a ride to Paris to catch up with old friends.

Love Is a Ball

1963

English

6.0

♡ 1

David Swift Director

Telly Savalas as Dr. Christian Gump - Millie's Uncle

John Wood as Julian Soames

André Luguet as Maurice Zoltan

Hope Lange as Millicent 'Millie' Mehaffey

Etienne makes a good living out of marrying off poor but titled young men to rich but untitled young ladies. Millicent is now in his sights on the Riviera, and Grand Duke Gaspar is the bait. But what if Millicent starts to fancy planted chauffeur John instead, and Gaspar takes a shine to Etienne's secretary Janine?

The Great Escape

1963

English

8.2

♡ 154

94%

95%

Action

Adventure

based on a true story

John Sturges Director

Nigel Stock as Cavendish 'The Surveyor'

Charles Bronson as Danny 'Tunnel King'

Steve McQueen as Hilts 'The Cooler King'

Gordon Jackson as MacDonald 'Intelligence'

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.

Dry Summer

1963

Turkish

7.8

♡ 8

85%

Action

cruel

Drama

husband wife relationship

summer

turkey

western

Metin Erksan Director

Adnan Uygur as

Alev Koral as Bahar

Sadettin Erbil as Hasan

Erol Tas as Kocabas Osman

A scheming tobacco farmer sets out to ruin his competition by diverting the local water to his own property.

The Black Abbot

1963

German

5.8

♡ 8

Franz Josef Gottlieb Director

Joachim Fuchsberger as Dick Alford

Friedrich Schoenfelder as Dr. Loxon

Grit Boettcher as Leslie Gine

Klaus Kinski as Thomas Fortuna

Several employees on a nobleman's estate show up at a former abbey, reputed to be haunted, to search for a hidden treasure. Howver, a mysterious hooded figure begins killing off those who may have figured out where the treasure is hidden.

The Indian Scarf

1963

German

6.6

♡ 3

89%

Alfred Vohrer Director

Heinz Drache as Frank Tanner

Hans Clarin as Lord Edward Lebanon

Hans Nielsen as Mr. Tilling

Klaus Kinski as Peter Ross

When a wealthy man dies, his avaricious relatives look forward to inheriting all his money. However, he leaves a provision in his will that they all must spend a week together in his castle before they will be able to inherit anything. At the castle (which is cut off from the outside world), the relatives soon begin to be killed off one by one, each strangled with an Indian scarf.

From Russia with Love

1963

English

7.3

♡ 99

97%

based on novel or book

Terence Young Director

Aileen Lewis as Chess Tournament Spectator

Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny

Arthur Goodman as Train Passenger

Martine Beswick as Zora

Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.

Squeak-squeak

1963

French

6.5

♡ 4

62%

Jean Girault Director

Christian Marin as Charles

Louis de Funès as Léonard Monestier

Mireille Darc as Patricia Monestier

Philippe Nicaud as Simon Guilbaud

Léonard Monestier owns a large fortune, alas his wife Cynthia made a bad investment in a worthless oil concession. Far from letting this get him down, Léonard decides to find a sucker to buy this concession from him. Right on cue appears Antoine Brévin, a befuddled billionaire who is very interested in Léonard's beautiful daughter Patricia and would do anything to win her hand...

Doctor of Doom

1963

Spanish

4.9

♡ 5

René Cardona Director

Armando Silvestre as Armando Campos

Elizabeth Campbell as Golden Rubi

Gerardo Zepeda as Gomar

Roberto Cañedo as Prof. Ruiz

A mad scientist terrorizes a city by kidnapping young women with his ape-man Gomar and then using them as subjects in sadistic brain transplant experiments. A female wrestler whose sister was one of the victims swears vengeance against the Mad Doctor.

America America

1963

English

7.7

♡ 3

Action

Adventure

american dream

based on novel or book

Elia Kazan Director

Robert H. Harris as Aratoon Kebabian

John Marley as Garabet

Joanna Frank as Vartuhi

Tom Holland as Voice Overs

A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to America.

The Haunted Palace

1963

English

6.7

♡ 27

75%

Roger Corman Director

Vincent Price as Charles Dexter Ward / Joseph Curwen

Leo Gordon as Edgar Weeden / Ezra Weeden

Guy Wilkerson as Gideon Leach / Mr. Leach

Elisha Cook Jr. as Peter Smith / Micah Smith

A warlock burned at the stake comes back and takes over the body of his great grandson to take his revenge on the descendents of the villages that burned him.

Donovan's Reef

1963

English

6.7

♡ 13

67%

John Ford Director

Edgar Buchanan as Boston Attorney Francis X. O'Brien

Frank Hagney as Chief Petty Officer

Ron Nyman as Naval Officer

Lee Marvin as Thomas Aloysius 'Boats' Gilhooley

After her great aunt's death, a high-society woman arrives on a Hawaiian island in search of the heir - the father she has never met.

The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman

1963

Japanese

7.0

♡ 5

Action

based on novel or book

Kihachi Okamoto Director

Tatsuyoshi Ehara as

Hiroshi Tachikawa as

Eijirô Tôno as

Tadao Nakamaru as

A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.

Heavens Above!

1963

English

6.7

♡ 3

71%

Comedy

satire

vicar

John Boulting Director

Cecil Parker as Archdeacon Aspinall

Roy Kinnear as Fred Smith

Arnold Bell as Stockbroker Renshaw

John Harvey as Wilson

A clerical error leads to the appointment of a left-leaning small-town priest to a rich village, where he immediately horrifies his snobby parishioners by appointing a dustman and a black man as vicar's wardens and throwing open the vicarage to the sprawling, disreputable Smith family, who have just been evicted from their caravan site. He converts the dowager aristocrat to works of absurd charity but he soon has the town and much of the country in uproar.