1965

Film Decades: 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

  • The 10th Victim (La decima vittima), starring Marcello Mastroianni and Ursula Andress – (Italy/France)
  • 36 Hours, starring James Garner, Rod Taylor and Eva Marie Saint
  • The 317th Platoon (La 317e Section) – (France)
  • Abashiri Prison (Abashiri Bangaichi), starring Ken Takakura – (Japan)
  • Adventures of a Dentist (Pokhozhdyeniya zubnovo vracha), directed by Elem Klimov – (U.S.S.R.)
  • The Adventures of the Smurfs (Les Aventures des Schtroumpfs) – (Belgium)
  • The Agony and the Ecstasy – directed by Carol Reed, starring Charlton Heston & Rex Harrison
  • The Alphabet Murders, directed by Frank Tashlin, starring Tony Randall and Anita Ekberg
  • Alphaville (Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution), directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Eddie Constantine – Golden Bear winner – (France)
  • Always Further On (Tarahumara (Cada vez más lejos)) – (Mexico)
  • The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders, starring Kim Novak, Richard Johnson, Angela Lansbury
  • The Art of Love, directed by Norman Jewison, starring James Garner, Angie Dickinson, Elke Sommer, Dick Van Dyke, Ethel Merman, & Carl Reiner
  • Arzoo (Wish), starring Sadhana – (India)
  • The Ashes (Popioły), directed by Andrzej Wajda – (Poland)
  • Baby the Rain Must Fall, starring Steve McQueen and Lee Remick
  • Bad Girls Go to Hell, directed by Doris Wishman
  • Battle of the Bulge – directed by Ken Annakin, starring Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan, Charles Bronson, Ty Hardin, Pier Angeli
  • The Battle of the Villa Fiorita – directed by Delmer Daves, starring Maureen O’Hara, Rossano Brazzi, Olivia Hussey
  • Beach Blanket Bingo, directed by William Asher, starring Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon, Deborah Walley, Don Rickles
  • The Bedford Incident – starring Richard Widmark & Sidney Poitier – (US/UK)
  • Behind the Mask of Zorro
  • Billie, starring Patty Duke
  • Black Humor
  • Black Wind (Viento negro) – (Mexico)
  • Boeing Boeing, starring Jerry Lewis and Tony Curtis
  • La Bohème – West Germany
  • Brainstorm, directed by William Conrad, starring Anne Francis and Jeffrey Hunter
  • The Brigand of Kandahar, starring Oliver Reed and Yvonne Romain
  • Bunny Lake Is Missing – directed by Otto Preminger, starring Laurence Olivier & Carol Lynley – (U.K.)
  • Bus Riley’s Back in Town, starring Ann-Margret and Michael Parks
  • The Camp Followers (Le soldatesse), starring Anna Karina – (Italy)
  • Carry On Cowboy, starring Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale – (U.K.)
  • Casanova 70, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Virna Lisi – (Italy)
  • Cat Ballou – directed by Elliot Silverstein, starring Jane Fonda & Lee Marvin
  • Catch Us If You Can (.k.a. Having a Wild Weekend), starring The Dave Clark Five
  • Chronicle of a Boy Alone (Crónica de un niño solo) – (Argentina)
  • The Cincinnati Kid – directed by Norman Jewison, starring Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson, Ann-Margret, Karl Malden, Tuesday Weld, Joan Blondell, Rio Torn, & Jack Weston
  • City Under the Sea – starring Vincent Price & Tab Hunter – aka War-Gods of the Deep
  • Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion, starring Marshall Thompson and Betsy Drake
  • The Collector – directed by William Wyler, starring Terence Stamp & Samantha Eggar – (UK/US)
  • Cup Fever, starring Bernard Cribbins – (U.K.)
  • Curse of the Fly, starring Brian Donlevy, George Baker, Carole Gray
  • Darling, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Laurence Harvey, Dirk Bogarde, Julie Christie – (U.K.)
  • Dear Brigitte – directed by Henry Koster, starring James Stewart, Bill Mumy, Glynis Johns, Ed Wynn, Brigitte Bardot
  • A Devilish Homicide (Salinma) – (South Korea)
  • Die! Die! My Darling! (aka Fanatic), starring Tallulah Bankhead and Stefanie Powers
  • Dingaka, starring Stanley Baker – (South Africa)
  • Doctor Zhivago – directed by David Lean, starring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness—winner of 5 Academy Awards – (U.K.)
  • Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine – starring Vincent Price & Frankie Avalon
  • Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors, starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee – (U.K.)
  • Dr. Who and the Daleks, starring Peter Cushing – (U.K.)
  • The Early Bird, starring Norman Wisdom – (U.K.)
  • The Family Jewels, starring Jerry Lewis
  • Fantômas se déchaîne (Fantômas Unleashed), starring Jean Marais – (France)
  • Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! – directed by Russ Meyer
  • Ferry Cross the Mersey, starring Gerry and the Pacemakers – (U.K.)
  • Fists in the Pocket (I pugni in tasca) – (Italy)
  • The Flight of the Phoenix – directed by Robert Aldrich, starring James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Hardy Krüger, Ernest Borgnine, Peter Finch
  • For a Few Dollars More, directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood – (Italy)
  • Frankenstein vs. Baragon – directed by Ishirō Honda, starring Nick Adams, Kumi Mizuno, Tadao Takashima, Koji Furuhata, & Haruo Nakajima – Japan
  • Funny Things Happen Down Under, starring Olivia Newton-John – (Australia)
  • Il Gaucho, starring Vittorio Gassman and Nino Manfredi – (Italy/Argentina)
  • Genghis Khan – starring Omar Sharif, Stephen Boyd, James Mason
  • Girl Happy, starring Elvis Presley
  • The Glory Guys – directed by Arnold Laven, starring Tom Tryon, & Harve Presnell
  • Goldstein, comedy ensemble film, with actors from The Second City, including Severn Darden
  • The Great Race – directed by Blake Edwards, starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk, Ross Martin
  • The Greatest Story Ever Told – directed by George Stevens, starring Max von Sydow, Charlton Heston, Dorothy McGuire, David McCallum, Martin Landau, Telly Savalas
  • Guide, directed by Vijay Anand, starring Dev Anand – (India)
  • Gumnaam (Unknown), starring Manoj Kumar – (India)
  • The Hallelujah Trail – directed by John Sturges, starring Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Jim Hutton, Pamela Tiffin
  • Happiness (Le bonheur), directed by Agnès Varda – France
  • Harlow – directed by Gordon Douglas, starring Carroll Baker, Peter Lawford, Red Buttons, Mike Connors, Leslie Nielsen, Angela Lansbury
  • Harlow – directed by Alex Segal, starring Carol Lynley, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Barry Sullivan, Hurd Hatfield, Ginger Rogers
  • Harum Scarum, aka Harem Holiday, starring Elvis Presley, Mary Ann Mobley, Fran Jeffries
  • Help! – directed by Richard Lester, starring The Beatles – (U.K.)
  • The Heroes of Telemark – directed by Anthony Mann, starring Kirk Douglas & Richard Harris
  • A High Wind in Jamaica, starring Anthony Quinn and James Coburn – (U.K.)
  • The Hill – directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Sean Connery, Ian Bannen, Ossie Davis – (U.K.)
  • The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga (A Hora e a Vez de Augusto Matraga) – (Brazil)
  • How to Murder Your Wife – starring Jack Lemmon & Virna Lisi
  • How to Stuff a Wild Bikini, starring Annette Funicello, Dwayne Hickman, Buster Keaton, Beverly Adams, Mickey Rooney
  • I Knew Her Well (Io la conoscevo bene), starring Stefania Sandrelli, Nino Manfredi, Franco Nero – (Italy)
  • I’ll Take Sweden, starring Bob Hope, Dina Merrill, Frankie Avalon, Tuesday Weld
  • Impossible on Saturday (Pas question le samedi) – (Italy/France/Israel)
  • In Harm’s Way – directed by Otto Preminger, starring John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon deWilde, Paula Prentiss, Henry Fonda
  • Inside Daisy Clover, starring Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Christopher Plummer
  • Inside the Forbidden City (Song gong mi shi) – (Hong Kong)
  • Intimate Lighting (Intimní osvětlení), directed by Ivan Passer – (Czechoslovakia)
  • Invasion of Astro-Monster – directed by Ishirō Honda, starring Akira Takarada, Nick Adams, Kumi Mizuno, Akira Kubo, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Haruo Nakajima, Masaki Shinohara, & Shoichi Hirose -Japan
  • The Ipcress File – directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Michael Caine – BAFTA Award for Best British Film – (U.K.)
  • I Saw What You Did, starring Joan Crawford
  • John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!, starring Shirley MacLaine, Richard Crenna, Peter Ustinov
  • Joy in the Morning, starring Richard Chamberlain and Yvette Mimieux
  • Juliet of the Spirits (Giulietta degli spiriti) – directed by Federico Fellini – (Italy/France)
  • King Rat, starring George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox
  • The Knack …and How to Get It – directed by Richard Lester, starring Ray Brooks, Rita Tushingham, Michael Crawford – Cannes Grand Prize – (U.K.)
  • Lady L – directed by Peter Ustinov, starring Sophia Loren, Paul Newman, David Niven
  • Licensed to Kill, starring Tom Adams- (U.K.)
  • Life at the Top – directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Laurence Harvey & Jean Simmons – (U.K.)
  • The Liquidator, directed by Jack Cardiff and starring Rod Taylor and Trevor Howard (U.K.)
  • La Loba (The She-Wolf) – (Mexico)
  • Lord Jim – directed by Richard Brooks, starring Peter O’Toole – (UK/US)
  • Love Has Many Faces, starring Lana Turner, Hugh O’Brian, Cliff Robertson, Ruth Roman, Stefanie Powers
  • The Loved One, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Robert Morse, Anjanette Comer, Jonathan Winters, Rod Steiger, Paul Williams, Liberace
  • Loves of a Blonde – directed by Miloš Forman – aka Lásky jedné plavovlásky – Czechoslovakia
  • A Maiden for a Prince, directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile, starring Virna Lisi and Vittorio Gassman (Italian: Una vergine per il principe, comedy) (Italy)
  • Major Dundee – directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton, James Coburn, Michael Anderson Jr., Mario Adorf, Brock Peters, Senta Berger, Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, R.G. Armstrong, L.Q. Jones, Slim Pickens, & Dub Taylor
  • The Man from Button Willow
  • Man Is Not a Bird (Čovek nije tica) – (Yugoslavia)
  • Marriage on the Rocks, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Deborah Kerr
  • McHale’s Navy Joins the Air Force
  • Mickey One, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Warren Beatty
  • Mirage, directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring Gregory Peck, Diane Baker and Walter Matthau
  • The Money Trap – starring Glenn Ford, Rita Hayworth, Ricardo Montalbán, Joseph Cotten, Elke Sommer
  • The Monkey’s Uncle, starring Annette Funicello and Tommy Kirk
  • Morituri – starring Marlon Brando & Yul Brynner
  • The Nanny, starring Bette Davis – (U.K.)
  • The Naked Prey, directed by and starring Cornel Wilde – (U.S./South Africa)
  • Never Too Late, starring Paul Ford, Maureen O’Sullivan, Connie Stevens, Jim Hutton
  • Nightmare Castle, starring Barbara Steele – (Italy)
  • Nightmare in the Sun, starring Ursula Andress, John Derek, Aldo Ray, Sammy Davis Jr.
  • None but the Brave, directed by and starring Frank Sinatra, with Clint Walker, Tommy Sands
  • Once a Thief, starring Alain Delon and Ann-Margret – (United States/France)
  • Operation C.I.A. – starring Burt Reynolds & Danielle Aubry
  • Operation Crossbow, starring Sophia Loren – (U.K.)
  • Operation Y and Shurik’s Other Adventures (Operatsiya „Y“ i drugie priklyucheniya Shurika), starring Aleksandr Demyanenko – (U.S.S.R.)
  • Othello – directed by Stuart Burge, starring Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Frank Finlay – (U.K.)
  • A Patch of Blue – directed by Guy Green, starring Sidney Poitier, Elizabeth Hartman, Shelley Winters
  • Pierrot le Fou – directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina – (France)
  • Planet of the Vampires (Terrore nello spazio), directed by Mario Bava – (Italy/Spain)
  • Promise Her Anything, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Warren Beatty and Leslie Caron
  • The Rabbit Is Me (Das Kaninchen bin ich) – (East Germany)
  • The Railrodder, a comedy short starring Buster Keaton in his last film – (Canada)
  • Răscoala – (Romania)
  • Red Beard (Akahige) – directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune – (Japan)
  • Repulsion, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Catherine Deneuve – (U.K.)
  • Return from the Ashes, starring Maximilian Schell and Samantha Eggar
  • The Return of Mr. Moto, starring Henry Silva – (U.K.)
  • The Round-Up (Szegénylegények), directed by Miklós Jancsó – (Hungary)
  • The Rounders – directed by Burt Kennedy, starring Glenn Ford, Henry Fonda, Sue Ane Langdon, Chill Wills, Edgar Buchanan, Hope Holiday, & Kathleen Freeman
  • Samurai Spy (Ibun Sarutobi Sasuke) – (Japan)
  • Sandra (Vaghe stelle dell’Orsa), directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Claudia Cardinale – (Italy)
  • São Paulo, Sociedade Anônima (São Paulo, the Anonymous Town) – (Brazil)
  • The Saragossa Manuscript (Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie), starring Zbigniew Cybulski – (Poland)
  • The Sandpiper – directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Eva Marie Saint
  • Sands of the Kalahari, starring Stuart Whitman, Stanley Baker, Susannah York – (U.K.)
  • The Satan Bug, starring George Maharis and Anne Francis
  • Saw What You Did – directed by William Castle
  • Secrets Behind the Wall (Kabe no naka no himegoto) – (Japan)
  • Sergeant Deadhead, starring Frankie Avalon and Deborah Walley
  • Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Tini zabutykh predkiv) – (U.S.S.R.)
  • Shakespeare Wallah – directed by James Ivory, starring Shashi Kapoor, Felicity Kendal, Madhur Jaffrey
  • She, starring Ursula Andress and Peter Cushing – (U.K.)
  • Shenandoah – directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, starring James Stewart, Doug McClure, Rosemary Forsyth, Katharine Ross
  • Ship of Fools – directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, Lee Marvin, Michael Dunn, José Ferrer
  • The Shop on Main Street (Obchod na korze), directed by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos – Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film – (Czechoslovakia)
  • Simon of the Desert (Simón del desierto), directed by Luis Buñuel – (Mexico)
  • The Sin (Al Haram) – (Egypt)
  • Sindbad Alibaba Aladin
  • Situation Hopeless… But Not Serious, starring Alec Guinness, Mike Connors, Robert Redford
  • Ski Party, starring Frankie Avalon and Yvonne Craig
  • The Skull, starring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Patrick Wymark – UK
  • Sky West and Crooked – directed by John Mills, starring Hayley Mills, Ian McShane, Annette Crosbie, & Laurence Naismith
  • Slalom, starring Vittorio Gassman, Adolfo Celi, Beba Lončar, Daniela Bianchi – (Italy)
  • The Sleeping Car Murders (Compartiment tueurs), directed by Costa-Gavras, starring Yves Montand and Simone Signoret – (France)
  • The Slender Thread – directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Sidney Poitier, Anne Bancroft, Telly Savalas, Ed Asner
  • The Sons of Katie Elder – directed by Henry Hathaway, starring John Wayne & Dean Martin
  • The Sound of Music** – directed by Robert Wise, starring Julie Andrews & Christopher Plummer—winner of 5 Oscars and 2 Golden Globes
  • The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – directed by Martin Ritt, starring Richard Burton & Claire Bloom – (U.K.)
  • Sting of Death, directed by William Grefe
  • Story of a Prostitute (Shunpuden), directed by Seijun Suzuki – (Japan)
  • Strange Bedfellows, starring Rock Hudson and Gina Lollobrigida
  • A Study in Terror, starring John Neville, Donald Houston and Anthony Quayle- (U.K.)
  • A Swingin’ Summer, starring James Stacy and Raquel Welch
  • Sword of the Beast (Kedamono no ken), directed by Hideo Gosha – (Japan)
  • Sylvia, starring Carroll Baker and George Maharis
  • Synanon, directed by Richard Quine, starring Edmond O’Brien, Chuck Connors, Stella Stevens
  • Tattooed Life (Irezumi ichidai), directed by Seijun Suzuki – (Japan)
  • Ten Little Indians – directed by George Pollock, starring Shirley Eaton, Hugh O’Brian, Daliah Lavi, Stanley Holloway, Wilfred Hyde-White, Fabian Forte – (U.K.)
  • That Darn Cat! – directed by Robert Stevenson, starring Hayley Mills, Dean Jones, Dorothy Provine, Roddy McDowall, Neville Brand, Frank Gorshin, Elsa Lanchester, & Ed Wynn
  • That Funny Feeling, starring Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee
  • The Third Day, starring George Peppard and Elizabeth Ashley
  • Thirty Three (Tridtsat tri) – (U.S.S.R.)
  • Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, directed by Ken Annakin, starring Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, Robert Morley, Gert Fröbe – (U.K.)
  • A Thousand Clowns, starring Jason Robards, Barry Gordon, Martin Balsam, Barbara Harris
  • Thunderball – starring Sean Connery (as James Bond), with Claudine Auger, Luciana
  • Paluzzi, Adolfo Celi – (U.K.)
  • Tickle Me, starring Elvis Presley
  • Tokyo Olympiad, a documentary directed by Kon Ichikawa – (Japan)
  • The Tomb of Ligeia – directed by Roger Corman, starring Vincent Price
  • The Truth About Spring, directed by Richard Thorpe, starring Hayley Mills, John Mills, James MacArthur, David Tomlinson, Lionel Jeffries, Harry Andrews, Niall MacGinnis, & Lionel Murton
  • The Uninhibited (Los pianos mecánicos), directed by Juan Antonio Bardem, starring Melina Mercouri and James Mason – (Spain)
  • Up from the Beach, starring Cliff Robertson
  • Up to His Ears
  • A Very Special Favor, starring Rock Hudson and Leslie Caron
  • Viva Maria!, directed by Louis Malle, starring Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau – (France)
  • Von Ryan’s Express, directed by Mark Robson, starring Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Edward Mulhare, Adolfo Celi
  • Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet – starring Basil Rathbone
  • Waqt, starring Sunil Dutt and Sadhana – (India)
  • The War Game, a TV docudrama directed by Peter Watkins – (U.K.)
  • The War Lord, starring Charlton Heston, Richard Boone, Rosemary Forsyth
  • What’s New Pussycat? – directed by Clive Donner, starring Peter Sellers, Peter O’Toole, Woody Allen, Romy Schneider, Paula Prentiss, Capucine
  • Who Killed Teddy Bear – directed by Joseph Cates, starring Sal Mineo, Juliet Prowse, & Elaine Stritch
  • Wild on the Beach, starring Sherry Jackson, Frankie Randall, Sonny & Cher
  • Willy McBean and his Magic Machine
  • Winter Kept Us Warm, directed by David Secter – (Canada)
  • The World of Abbott and Costello, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
  • The Yellow Rolls-Royce – directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Rex Harrison, Ingrid Bergman, Shirley MacLaine, Omar Sharif, George C. Scott, Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, & Art Carney
  • You Must Be Joking!, starring Lionel Jeffries, Denholm Elliott, Michael Callan – (U.K.)
  • Young Dillinger, starring Nick Adams and Mary Ann Mobley
  • Yo Yo, directed by and starring Pierre Étaix – (France)

Film Decades: 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969