1965

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The Sound of Music

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Should have wonFor a Few Dollars More poster

For a Few Dollars More

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For a Few Dollars More (1965)

⭐ Top-rated🏛️ All-time great

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Dir. Sergio Leone · Clint Eastwood · Lee Van Cleef · Gian Maria Volonté · Luigi Pistilli

IMDb 8.2 (300,728 votes) · TMDB 8.023

Two bounty hunters both pursue the brutal and sadistic bandit, El Indio, who has a large bounty on his head.

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The Sound of Music (1965)

🏆 Winner⭐ Top-rated🏛️ All-time great💰 Box office #1

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Dir. Robert Wise · Julie Andrews · Christopher Plummer · Eleanor Parker · Charmian Carr

IMDb 8.1 (291,637 votes) · TMDB 7.7

In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children and brings a new love of life and music into the home.

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Doctor Zhivago (1965)

🎬 Nominee⭐ Top-rated💰 Box office #3

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Dir. David Lean · Omar Sharif · Julie Christie · Geraldine Chaplin · Rod Steiger

IMDb 7.9 (87,421 votes) · TMDB 7.6

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

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Red Beard (1965)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Akira Kurosawa · Toshirō Mifune · Yūzō Kayama · Tsutomu Yamazaki · Reiko Dan

IMDb 8.3 (23,474 votes) · TMDB 8.1

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.

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Repulsion (1965)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Roman Polanski · Catherine Deneuve · Ian Hendry · John Fraser · Yvonne Furneaux

IMDb 7.5 (61,428 votes) · TMDB 7.377

Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.

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Operation 'Y' & Other Shurik's Adventures (1965)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Leonid Gaidai · Aleksandr Demyanenko · Aleksei Smirnov · Mikhail Pugovkin · Vladimir Basov

IMDb 8.4 (16,533 votes) · TMDB 7.499

The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik, the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets into ludicrous situations but always finds a way out very neatly.

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Pierrot le Fou (1965)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Jean-Luc Godard · Jean-Paul Belmondo · Anna Karina · Graziella Galvani · Aicha Abadir

IMDb 7.4 (40,221 votes) · TMDB 7.3

Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.

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The Hill (1965)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Sidney Lumet · Sean Connery · Harry Andrews · Ian Bannen · Alfred Lynch

IMDb 7.8 (16,507 votes) · TMDB 7.512

North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.

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War and Peace (1965)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Sergey Bondarchuk · Ludmila Savelyeva · Sergey Bondarchuk · Vyacheslav Tikhonov · Viktor Stanitsyn

IMDb 8.3 (9,701 votes) · TMDB 7.6

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.

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A Patch of Blue (1965)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Guy Green · Sidney Poitier · Shelley Winters · Elizabeth Hartman · Wallace Ford

IMDb 8.0 (10,272 votes) · TMDB 7.6

A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.

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The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Robert Aldrich · James Stewart · Richard Attenborough · Peter Finch · Hardy Krüger

IMDb 7.5 (24,259 votes) · TMDB 7.224

A cargo aircraft crashes in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for a replacement aircraft they need to build before their food and water run out.

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Guide (1965)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Vijay Anand · Dev Anand · Waheeda Rehman · Leela Chitnis · Anwar Hussain

IMDb 8.4 (12,532 votes) · TMDB 6.705

A tourist guide meets an unhappy married woman who wants to take up dancing. With his motivation, she becomes a successful dancer but success corrupts the man's mind.

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#13
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Martin Ritt · Richard Burton · Claire Bloom · Oskar Werner · Sam Wanamaker

IMDb 7.5 (20,743 votes) · TMDB 7.079

British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.

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The Shop on Main Street (1965)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Ján Kadár · Ida Kamińska · Jozef Kroner · František Zvarík · Hana Slivková

IMDb 8.2 (10,490 votes) · TMDB 7.096

In a small town in Nazi-occupied Slovakia during World War II, decent but timid carpenter Tono is named "Aryan comptroller" of a button store owned by an old Jewish widow, Rozalie. Since the post comes with a salary and standing in the town's corrupt hierarchy, Tono wrestles with greed and guilt as he and Rozalie gradually befriend each other. When the authorities order all Jews in town to be rounded up, Tono faces a moral dilemma unlike any he's known before.

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The Great Race (1965)

💰 Box office #6

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Dir. Blake Edwards · Jack Lemmon · Tony Curtis · Natalie Wood · Peter Falk

IMDb 7.2 (21,611 votes) · TMDB 7.1

Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie's arch-rival, the mustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to the finish line in a car of Fate's own invention.

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Thunderball (1965)

⭐ Top-rated💰 Box office #2

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Dir. Terence Young · Sean Connery · Claudine Auger · Adolfo Celi · Luciana Paluzzi

IMDb 6.9 (138,212 votes) · TMDB 6.665

A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to once again save the world.

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The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)

💰 Box office #7

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Dir. Henry Hathaway · John Wayne · Dean Martin · Martha Hyer · Michael Anderson Jr.

IMDb 7.1 (19,638 votes) · TMDB 7.1

The four sons of Katie Elder reunite in their hometown of Clearwater, Texas for her funeral and discover that the family ranch is now in the hands of Morgan Hastings, a corrupt businessman who wants to exploit the area around the town.

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Shenandoah (1965)

💰 Box office #10

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Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen · James Stewart · Doug McClure · Glenn Corbett · Patrick Wayne

IMDb 7.3 (10,518 votes) · TMDB 7.0

Charlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of the Civil War he wants nothing to do with. When his youngest boy is taken prisoner by the North, the Civil War is forced upon him.

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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes (1965)

💰 Box office #4

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Dir. Ken Annakin · Stuart Whitman · Sarah Miles · James Fox · Alberto Sordi

IMDb 7.0 (9,903 votes) · TMDB 6.777

In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,000 to the first person who can fly across the English Channel. But one of the participants, Percy, plots to sabotage his competitor's planes. Will Percy triumph?

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Darling (1965)

🎬 Nominee

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Dir. John Schlesinger · Julie Christie · Dirk Bogarde · Laurence Harvey · José Luis de Vilallonga

IMDb 7.0 (8,745 votes) · TMDB 6.726

Diana, a beautiful but shallow and easily distracted model and failed actress, toys with the affections of several men while attempting to gain fame and fortune in Swinging London.

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Ship of Fools (1965)

🎬 Nominee

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Dir. Stanley Kramer · Vivien Leigh · Simone Signoret · José Ferrer · Lee Marvin

IMDb 7.0 (7,751 votes) · TMDB 6.6

Passengers on a ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in the 1930s represent society at large in that era. The crew is German, including the ship's Dr. Schumann, who falls in love with one of the passengers, La Condesa. A young American woman, Jenny, is traveling with the man she loves, David. Jenny is fascinated and puzzled by just who some of the other passengers are.

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Cat Ballou (1965)

💰 Box office #8

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Dir. Elliot Silverstein · Jane Fonda · Michael Callan · Lee Marvin · Dwayne Hickman

IMDb 6.8 (17,485 votes) · TMDB 6.4

A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects.

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That Darn Cat! (1965)

💰 Box office #5

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Dir. Robert Stevenson · Hayley Mills · Dean Jones · Dorothy Provine · Roddy McDowall

IMDb 6.8 (8,794 votes) · TMDB 6.602

A young woman suspects foul play when her cat comes home wearing a wristwatch. Convincing the FBI, though, and catching the bad guys is tougher than she imagined.

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A Thousand Clowns (1965)

🎬 Nominee

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Dir. Fred Coe · Jason Robards · Barry Gordon · Barbara Harris · Martin Balsam

IMDb 7.3 (3,961 votes) · TMDB 6.906

Twelve-year-old Nick lives with his Uncle Murray, a Mr.Micawber-like Dickensian character who keeps hoping something won't turn up. What turns up is a social worker, who falls in love with Murray and a bit in love with Nick. As the child welfare people try to force Murray to become a conventional man (as the price they demand for allowing him to keep Nick), the nephew, who until now has gloried in his Uncle's iconoclastic approach to life, tries to play mediator. But when he succeeds, he is alarmed by the uncle's willingness to cave in to society in order to save the relationship.

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What's New Pussycat? (1965)

💰 Box office #9

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Dir. Clive Donner · Peter Sellers · Peter O'Toole · Romy Schneider · Capucine

IMDb 6.0 (11,987 votes) · TMDB 6.0

A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.

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