PT 109

1963

English

6.7

♡ 6

64%

Leslie H. Martinson Director

Robert Blake as Charles 'Bucky' Harris

Chuck Hicks as Cook

Sheb Wooley as Edmund Drewitch's Scream

Clyde Howdy as Leon Drawdy

Dramatization of President John F. Kennedy's war time experiences during which he captained a PT boat, took it to battle and had it sunk by a Japanese destroyer. He and the survivors had to make their way to an island, find food and shelter and signal the Navy for rescue.

The Balcony

1963

English

5.9

♡ 5

60%

Joseph Strick Director

Lee Grant as Carmen

Kent Smith as General

Joyce Jameson as Penitent

Peter Falk as Police Chief

The Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is sweeping the nation. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

Les cinq cent balles

1963

French

6.1

♡ 1

Melvin Van Peebles Director

A boy sees a 500-franc note under a sewer grate and tries to retrieve it.

Sweet Skin

1963

French

6.2

♡ 5

Drama

Jacques Poitrenaud Director

Umberto Orsini as Dancer / Ariane's Dance Partner

Darry Cowl as Paul

Serge Gainsbourg as Pianist / Le pianiste

Dominique Zardi as Un consommateur-dragueur au Blue Note

Strip-tease has a pleasing Paris setting and a convincing strip club atmosphere, where a roster of exotic dancers do their thing. Making the club atmosphere work is the animated Dany Saval, as a charming gossip and outspoken cheerleader for the art of the strip-tease. Berthe encourages Ariane to loosen up and enjoy what she's doing.

Kings of the Sun

1963

English

6.1

♡ 5

32%

J. Lee Thompson Director

Richard Basehart as Ah Min

Barry Morse as Ah Zok

Leo Gordon as Hunac Ceel

Chuck Hayward as Indian warrior friend to chief Yul Bryner

In order to flee from powerful enemies, young Mayan king Balam leads his people north across the Gulf of Mexico to the coast of what will become the United States. They build a home in the new land but come into conflict with a tribe of Native Americans led by their chief, Black Eagle, while both Balam and Black Eagle fall in love the beautiful Mayan princess Ixchel.

Dead Ringer

1963

English

7.3

♡ 9

100%

Paul Henreid Director

Bert Remsen as Daniel 'Dan' Lister, Bartender

George Chandler as George, Chauffeur

Henry Beckman as Prosecutor

Karl Malden as Sergeant Jim Hobbson

The working class twin sister of a callous wealthy woman impulsively murders her out of revenge and assumes the identity of the dead woman. But impersonating her dead twin is more complicated and risky than she anticipated.

Scum of the Earth

1963

English

5.2

♡ 9

11%

Action

Drama

Thriller

Herschell Gordon Lewis Director

Doug Brennan as Carl

Lawrence J. Aberwood as Lang

Edward Mann as Mr. Sherwood

Christina Castel as Shirley

An innocent teenager is blackmailed into nude modeling for a photographer in league with a gang boss who sells illicit photos of terrorized young women.

The Wheeler Dealers

1963

English

6.5

♡ 11

58%

securities, stocks and bonds

Arthur Hiller Director

John Marley as Achilles Dimitros

Walter Burke as Billy Joe

Bernie Kopell as Fawning Art Fan

William O'Connell as Paid Weeper

Henry J. Tyroon leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. He meets stock analyst Molly Thatcher, who tries to ignore the lavish attention he spends on her but, in the end, she falls for his charm.

Maniac

1963

English

5.9

♡ 1

52%

psychological thriller

Romance

Thriller

Michael Carreras Director

Justine Lord as Grace

George Pastell as Inspector Etienne

Kerwin Mathews as Jeff Farrell

André Maranne as Salon

When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder.

The Kiss of the Vampire

1963

English

6.2

♡ 6

Don Sharp Director

Brian Oulton as 1st disciple

Jennifer Daniel as Marianne Harcourt

John Harvey as Police Sergeant

Sheilah Wells as Theresa Stangher

Honeymooning in Bavaria, a young couple becomes stranded and is forced to stay the night in the area. Doctor Ravna, owner of the impressive chateau that sits imposingly above the village, invites them to dinner that evening. Their association with Ravna and his charming, beautiful family is to prove disastrous.

Sparrows Can't Sing

1963

English

6.2

♡ 6

83%

Joan Littlewood Director

Stephen Lewis as Caretaker

Roy Kinnear as Fred Gooding

Murray Melvin as Georgie

Eve Eden as Stripper

Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up with married bus driver Bert and a toddler, and they all watch with more than a little interest at the trail of mayhem Charlie leaves as he goes about sorting things out.

Diary of a Madman

1963

English

6.3

♡ 7

55%

Reginald Le Borg Director

Stuart Holmes as Magistrate

Vincent Price as Magistrate Simon Cordier

Ian Wolfe as Pierre

George Sawaya as Wagon Driver

Simon Cordier, a French magistrate and amateur sculptor comes into contact with a malevolent entity. The invisible - yet corporeal - being, called a "horla" is capable of limited psychokinesis and complete mind control.

Tarzan's Three Challenges

1963

English

5.6

♡ 9

46%

Action

Adventure

tarzan

Robert Day Director

George Pastell as Khan

Earl Cameron as Mang

Jock Mahoney as Tarzan

Anthony Chinn as Tor

The spiritual leader of an oriental country is dying. The leader's evil brother Khan is plotting to prevent Kashi, the youthful heir, from assuming his rightful position. Tarzan is summoned to protect Kashi and, in doing so, he must face Khan in three tests of strength.

Voyage to the End of the Universe

1963

Czech

6.9

♡ 17

100%

Jindrich Polák Director

Frantisek Smolík as Anthony Hopkins - mathematician

Zdenek Stepánek as Captain Vladimir Abajev

Dana Medrická as Nina Kirova - sociologist

Ladislav Mrkvicka as Romeo in movie

The year is 2163. Starship Ikaria XB 1 embarks on a mission deep into space in search of alien life. During their perilous journey the crew confront the effects of a malignant dark star, the destructive legacy of the 20th century and, ultimately, the limits of their own sanity.

The Guest

1963

English

7.1

♡ 8

Clive Donner Director

Robert Shaw as Aston

Donald Pleasence as Mac Davies / Bernard Jenkins

Harold Pinter as Man

Alan Bates as Mick

Aston, a quiet, reserved man, lives alone in a top-floor cluttered room of a small abandoned house in a poor London district. He befriends and takes in Mac Davies, an old derelict who has been fired from a menial job in a café. In time Aston offers him a job as caretaker of the house. Aston's brother, Mick - a taunting, quasi-sadist - harasses the derelict when his brother is away, countermanding his orders...

Hallelujah the Hills

1963

English

6.1

♡ 5

Action

Comedy

love triangle

Adolfas Mekas Director

Lillian Gish as Anna Moore

Richard Barthelmess as David Bartlett

Peter Beard as Jack

David C. Stone as Pickpocket

Jack and Leo vie for the affections of Vera – who appears a little differently to each man – over the course of a series of energetic sketches, flashbacks and homages.

Ophélia

1963

French

6.5

♡ 4

Action

Drama

Claude Chabrol Director

Robert Burnier as Andre Lagrange

Alida Valli as Claudia Lesurf

Juliette Mayniel as Lucie

André Jocelyn as Yvan Lesurf

A young man becomes enraged when his mother remarries his wealthy uncle after his father dies.

A New Kind of Love

1963

English

5.7

♡ 8

13%

Melville Shavelson Director

Robert Clary as Frenchman at Restaurant

Thelma Ritter as Lena O'Connor

Joanne Woodward as Samantha Blake

Paul Newman as Steve Sherman

A down-and-out reporter and a fashion designer fall in love in Paris.

The Mind Benders

1963

English

6.4

♡ 7

27%

Basil Dearden Director

Wendy Craig as Annabella

Geoffrey Keen as Calder

Michael Bryant as Dr. Danny Tate

Roger Delgado as Dr. Jean Bonvoulois

A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might have brainwashed him by a sensory deprivation technique, but he doesn’t know if someone really can be convinced to act against their strongest feelings. So he agrees to be the subject in an experiment in which others will try to make him stop loving his wife.