1963 Movies

Omicron

Directed by: Ugo Gregoretti

Starring: Renato Salvatori, Ugo Gregoretti, Rosemary Dexter, Calisto Calisti

Country: Italy

The Great Escape

Directed by: John Sturges

Starring: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson

Country: United States of America

Outline: Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.

Charade

Directed by: Stanley Donen

Starring: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, James Coburn

Country: United States of America

Outline: Romance and suspense ensue in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Whom can she trust?

Irma la Douce

Directed by: Billy Wilder

Starring: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Lou Jacobi, Bruce Yarnell

Country: United States of America

Outline: In Paris, a former policeman falls in love with a prostitute, and tries to get her out of that life by paying for all of her time.

Tom Jones

Directed by: Tony Richardson

Starring: Albert Finney, Susannah York, George Devine, Rachel Kempson

Country: United States of America

Outline: The romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th century England.

Bye Bye Birdie

Directed by: George Sidney

Starring: Dick Van Dyke, Ann-Margret, Janet Leigh, Maureen Stapleton

Country: United States of America

Outline: A rock singer travels to a small Ohio town to make his "farewell" television performance and kiss his biggest fan before he is drafted.

Son of Flubber

Directed by: Robert Stevenson

Starring: Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk

Outline: When Professor Brainard experiments further on Flubber derivatives, he gets in trouble and only his students can help.

Come Blow Your Horn

Directed by: Bud Yorkin

Starring: Frank Sinatra, Lee J. Cobb, Molly Picon, Barbara Rush

Outline: Leaving home, young Buddy Baker arrives unannounced at the luxurious Manhattan apartment of his older brother, Alan, a swinging girl chasing bachelor who prefers his carefree life to ...

High and Low

Directed by: Akira Kurosawa

Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Yutaka Sada, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyôko Kagawa

Country: United States of America

Outline: An executive of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.

The Big City

Directed by: Satyajit Ray

Starring: Anil Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Jaya Bhaduri, Haren Chatterjee

Outline: Life at home changes when a house-wife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a saleswoman.

Winter Light

Directed by: Ingmar Bergman

Starring: Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Gunnel Lindblom, Max von Sydow

Country: United States of America

Outline: A small town priest struggles with his faith.

The Leopard

Directed by: Luchino Visconti

Starring: Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale, Paolo Stoppa

Country: United States of America

Outline: The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860's Sicily.

The Fire Within

Directed by: Louis Malle

Starring: Maurice Ronet, Léna Skerla, Yvonne Clech, Hubert Deschamps

Country: United States of America

Outline: Alain Leroy is having a course of treatment in a private hospital because of his problem with alcohol. Although he is constantly distressed, he leaves the hospital and tries to meet good ...

The Silence

Directed by: Ingmar Bergman

Starring: Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Birger Malmsten, Håkan Jahnberg

Country: United States of America

Outline: Two estranged sisters, Ester and Anna, and Anna's 10-year-old son travel to the Central European country on the verge of war. Ester becomes seriously ill and the three of them move into a hotel in a small town called Timoka.

Le Doulos

Directed by: Jean-Pierre Melville

Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Jean Desailly, René Lefèvre

Country: United States of America

Outline: A burglar betraying other criminals, prepares for a big heist with a trusted friend that might be as untrustworthy as he.

Hud

Directed by: Martin Ritt

Starring: Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde

Country: United States of America

Outline: Honest and hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant and egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash.

The Servant

Directed by: Joseph Losey

Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig, James Fox

Country: United States of America

Outline: An upper-class man hires a servant who turns out to have a hidden agenda.

Monsieur Gangster

Directed by: Georges Lautner

Starring: Lino Ventura, Bernard Blier, Francis Blanche, Claude Rich

Outline: Ex-gangster Fernand (Lino Ventura) receives a call from a dying friend, a mob boss nicknamed "The Mexican". The doomed mobster talks Fernand into taking care of some criminal business and ...

This Sporting Life

Directed by: Lindsay Anderson

Starring: Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, Alan Badel, William Hartnell

Country: United States of America

Outline: Despite success on the field, a rising rugby star senses the emerging emptiness of his life as his inner angst begins to materialize through aggression and brutality, so he attempts to woo his landlady in hopes of finding reason to live.

America, America

Directed by: Elia Kazan

Starring: Stathis Giallelis, Frank Wolff, Elena Karam, Harry Davis

Country: United States of America

Outline: A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to the United States.

The Birds

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock

Starring: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette

Country: United States of America

Outline: A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.

Lilies of the Field

Directed by: Ralph Nelson

Starring: Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Lisa Mann, Isa Crino

Country: United States of America

Outline: A traveling handyman becomes the answer to the prayers of nuns who wish to build a chapel in the desert.

Contempt

Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard

Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Michel Piccoli, Giorgia Moll

Country: United States of America

Outline: Screenwriter Paul Javal's marriage to his wife Camille disintegrates during movie production as she spends time with the producer. Layered conflicts between art and business ensue.

The Haunting

Directed by: Robert Wise

Starring: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn

Country: United States of America

Outline: A scientist doing research on the paranormal invites two women to a haunted mansion. One of the participants soon starts losing her mind.