Best Movies of 1963 by Rank
9
1
Federico Fellini
Anouk Aimée, Marcello Mastroianni, Bruno Agostini, Guido Alberti
Drama / Comedy
Italy / France
Italian
106
2
Jean-Luc Godard
Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Giorgia Moll, Fritz Lang
Drama
France / Italy
French
227
3
Luchino Visconti
Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale
Drama / War / Epic / History / Period Film
Italy / France
English
230
4
Tony Richardson
Albert Finney, Susannah York
Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
381
5
Alfred Hitchcock
Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette
Drama / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
398
6
Martin Ritt
Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde, Whit Bissell
Drama / Western / Action
USA
English
537
7
Samuel Fuller
Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans, James Best
Drama / Mystery / Cult
USA
English
601
8
John Sturges
Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Coburn
Adventure / War / Action / Drama / History / Family
USA
English
685
9
Lindsay Anderson
Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, Alan Badel, William Hartnell
Drama / Sports
UK
English
705
10
Joseph Losey
Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig, James Fox
Drama / Cult
UK
English
709
11
John Schlesinger
Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles, Mona Washbourne
Comedy / Drama / Fantasy
UK
English
1032
13
Robert Wise
Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn
Horror / Thriller
USA
English
1122
14
Stanley Donen
Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy
Comedy / Mystery / Romance / Thriller
USA
English
1244
15
Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens, Del Moore, Kathleen Freeman
Comedy / Sci-Fi / Romance
USA
English
1284
18
Blake Edwards
Peter Sellers, David Niven, Robert Wagner, Capucine
Comedy / Crime / Caper / Detective / Family
UK / USA
English
1330
19
Ingmar Bergman
Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Birger Malmsten
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
1367
20
Vittorio De Sica
Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Giuffrè, Agostino Salvietti
Comedy / Crime / Romance / Religion
Italy / France
Italian
1443
21
Don Chaffey
Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack, Gary Raymond, Laurence Naismith
Action / Family / Fantasy / Adventure
UK / USA
English
1449
22
Terence Young
Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Pedro Armendáriz, Robert Shaw
Thriller / Adventure / Action / Drama / Spy / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
1476
23
Louis Malle
Maurice Ronet, Léna Skerla, Yvonne Clech, Hubert Deschamps
Drama
Italy / France
French
1551
24
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyôko Kagawa
Thriller / Drama / Post-Noir
Japan
Japanese
1606
25
Alain Resnais
Delphine Seyrig, Jean-Pierre Kérien, Nita Klein
Drama
France / Italy
French
1688
26
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Rouben Mamoulian, Darryl F. Zanuck
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton
Drama / Romance / Epic / History / Biography
UK / USA / Switzerland
English
1833
28
Kon Ichikawa
Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao, Eiji Funakoshi
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
1880
29
Jacques Demy
Jeanne Moreau, Claude Mann, Paul Guers, Henri Nassiet, André Certes
Drama / Romance
France
French
1944
30
Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Átila Iório, Maria Ribeiro, Orlando Macedo, Jofre Soares
Drama
Brazil
Portuguese
2075
32
Otto Preminger
Tom Tryon, John Huston, Carol Lynley
Drama / Religion
USA
English
2228
33
Billy Wilder
Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Lou Jacobi, Bruce Yarnell
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2279
34
Francisco Rovira Beleta
Carmen Amaya, Sara Lezana, Daniel Martín
Drama / Romance
Spain
Spanish
2281
35
Alex Segal
Jean Simmons, Robert Preston, Pat Hingle, Aline MacMahon
Drama
USA
English
2308
36
Witold Lesiewicz, Andrzej Munk
Aleksandra Slaska, Anna Ciepielewska, Janusz Bylczynski, Krystyna Dubielowna
Drama / War
Poland
Polish
2314
37
Mark Robson
Paul Newman, Elke Sommer, Edward G. Robinson, Diane Baker, Micheline Presle
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Spy
USA
English
2329
38
Robert Mulligan
Natalie Wood, Steve McQueen, Edie Adams, Herschel Bernardi, Anne Hegira
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2334
39
Francesco Rosi
Rod Steiger, Salvo Randone, Guido Alberti, Dany París, Carlo Fermariello
Drama / Crime
Italy / France
Italian
2338
40
Peter Brook
James Aubrey, Tom Chapin, Hugh Edwards, Roger Elwin
Adventure / Drama / Horror / Thriller
UK
English
2354
41
Stan Brakhage
Stan Brakhage
Short / Drama / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2380
42
Bo Widerberg
Thommy Berggren, Emy Storm, Keve Hjelm, Christina Frambäck
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
2431
43
George Sidney
Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke, Ann-Margret, Maureen Stapleton
Musical / Family / Comedy
USA
English
2431
43
David Miller
Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, Eddie Albert
Comedy / Drama / War
USA
English
2448
44
Henri Verneuil
Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Viviane Romance
Crime / Drama / Caper / Thriller
France / Italy
French
2453
45
John Huston
George C. Scott, Dana Wynter, Clive Brook, Gladys Cooper, Herbert Marshall
Crime / Mystery / Drama / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
2453
45
Michael Gordon
Doris Day, James Garner, Polly Bergen, Thelma Ritter, Fred Clark, Don Knotts
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2505
46
Gian Luigi Polidoro
Alberto Sordi, Ulf Palme, Ulla Smidje, Lauritz Falk
Comedy
Italy
Italian
2532
47
Stanley Kramer
Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett
Adventure / Action / Comedy / Crime
USA
English
2536
48
Robert Youngson
Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Douglas Fairbanks
Comedy / Documentary / Family
USA
English (Silent Scenes)
2564
49
Luis García Berlanga
Nino Manfredi, Emma Penella, José Isbert, Angel Alvarez
Drama / Comedy
Spain / Italy
Spanish
2592
50
Richard Lester
Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Bernard Cribbins, David Kossoff, Terry-Thomas
Comedy / Family
UK
English
2592
50
George Pollock
Margaret Rutherford, Stringer Davis, Robert Morley, Flora Robson
Comedy / Crime / Mystery / Detective
UK
English
2608
51
Vassilis Georgiadis
Jenny Karezi, Mary Chronopoulou, George Foundas
Drama
Greece
Greek
2608
51
Noboru Nakamura
Shima Iwashita, Hiroyuki Nagato, Seiji Miyaguchi, Teruo Yoshida
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2631
52
William Asher
Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Robert Cummings, Dorothy Malone, Morey Amsterdam
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2631
52
Bud Yorkin
Frank Sinatra, Lee J. Cobb, Molly Picon, Barbara Rush, Jill St. John, Tony Bill
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2631
52
John Ford
John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Elizabeth Allen, Jack Warden, Cesar Romero
Action / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2631
52
Nicholas Ray, Guy Green, Andrew Marton
Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven, Flora Robson, John Ireland
Drama / History / War / Action / Adventure / Epic
USA
English
2631
52
Andrew V. McLaglen
John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Patrick Wayne, Stefanie Powers, Jack Kruschen
Comedy / Western / Romance
USA
English
2631
52
Roger Corman
Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Hazel Court, Olive Sturgess
Comedy / Fantasy / Horror
USA
English
2631
52
Ralph Nelson
Jackie Gleason, Steve McQueen, Tuesday Weld, Tony Bill, Tom Poston
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2631
52
Franklin J. Schaffner
Joanne Woodward, Richard Beymer, Claire Trevor, Carol Lynley, Robert Webber
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2631
52
Peter Tewksbury
Rod Taylor, Jane Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Robert Culp, Jo Morrow
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2631
52
Wolfgang Reitherman
Sebastian Cabot, Rickie Sorensen, Karl Swenson, Junius Matthews, Ginny Tyler
Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical
USA
English
2631
52
Norman Jewison
Doris Day, James Garner, Arlene Francis, Edward Andrews, Reginald Owen
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2631
52
Anthony Asquith
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Louis Jourdan, Elsa Martinelli
Drama
UK
English
2642
53
Mario Monicelli
Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Gabriella Giorgelli
Crime / Drama
Italy / France / Yugoslavia
Italian
2644
54
Satyajit Ray
Anil Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Jaya Bhaduri, Haren Chatterjee, Sefalika Devi
Drama / Comedy
India
Bengali
2645
55
Abraham Zapruder
John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, John Connally
Documentary / Short / History / Crime
USA
English
2648
56
André Cayatte
Marie-José Nat, Jacques Charrier, Michel Subor
Drama
France / Italy / West Germany
French
2660
57
Ken Hughes
Anthony Newley, Julia Foster, Robert Stephens, Wilfrid Brambell, Warren Mitchell
Drama / Crime / Gangster
UK
English
2660
57
Joseph Losey
Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Viveca Lindfors, Alexander Knox, Oliver Reed
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Romance / Sci-Fi / Thriller
UK
English
2660
57
Roger Corman
Ray Milland, Diana Van der Vlis, Harold J. Stone, John Hoyt, Don Rickles
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
2664
58
Robert Drew
John F. Kennedy, George Wallace, Robert F. Kennedy, Vivian Malone, James Hood
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2684
59
Vojtech Jasny
Václav Babka, Jirina Bohdalová, Pavel Brodsky
Family / Comedy / Fantasy
Czechoslovakia
Czech
2693
60
Tadashi Imai
Kinnosuke Nakamura, Eijirô Tôno, Kyôko Kishida, Masayuki Mori
Action / Drama / Adventure / History
Japan
Japanese
2693
60
Metin Erksan
Erol Tas, Hülya Koçyigit, Ulvi Dogan, Alaettin Altiok, Hakki Haktan
Drama
Turkey
Turkish
2698
61
Jean-Luc Godard
Albert Juross, Marino Masé, Catherine Ribeiro
Drama / War
France / Italy
French
2701
62
Clive Donner
Alan Bates, Donald Pleasence, Robert Shaw, Harold Pinter
Drama
UK
English
2701
62
Vera Chytilová
Eva Bosáková, Vera Uzelacová, Josef Langmiler
Documentary / Biography / Drama / Sports
Czechoslovakia
Czech
2703
63
Jörn Donner
Harriet Andersson, Tommy Berggren, Barbro Kollberg, Harry Ahlin
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
2703
63
Chris Marker
Chris Marker, Yves Montand, Simone Signoret
Documentary
France
French
2703
63
Juan Antonio Bardem
Antonio Casas, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Corinne Marchand
Drama
Spain / France
Spanish
2705
64
Hall Bartlett
Robert Stack, Polly Bergen, Diane McBain, Joan Crawford
Drama
USA
English
2705
64
Laurence Harvey
Laurence Harvey, Sarah Miles, Robert Walker Jr., John Ireland
Crime / Drama
Spain / USA
English
2705
64
Kon Ichikawa
Yûjirô Ishihara, Masayuki Mori, Kinuyo Tanaka
Adventure / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2705
64
George Sidney
Shirley Jones, Gig Young, Red Buttons, Carolyn Jones
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2705
64
David Swift
Jack Lemmon, Carol Lynley, Dean Jones, Edie Adams
Comedy
USA
English
2726
65
Charles F. Haas, Byron Paul, Frederick De Cordova, Robert Ellis Miller, James Goldstone
Gene Barry, Gary Conway
Action / Adventure / Crime / Drama / Detective
USA
English
2726
65
Eric Rohmer
Barbet Schroeder, Claudine Soubrier, Michèle Girardon
Romance / Short / Drama
France
French
2726
65
Norman Tokar
Brian Keith, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran, Dewey Martin, Jeff York
Western / Family / Adventure / Drama
USA
English
2726
65
Eric Rohmer
Catherine Sée, Philippe Beuzen, Christian Charrière, Diane Wilkinson
Romance / Drama
France
French
2759
67
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Orson Welles, Vittorio La Paglia, Laura Betti, Mario Cipriani
Comedy / Drama / Short / Religion
Italy / France
Italian
2784
68
Shohei Imamura
Sachiko Hidari, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Hiroyuki Nagato
Drama / Comedy
Japan
Japanese
