Best Movies of 1964 by Rank
39
1
Stanley Kubrick
Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens
Comedy / War / Drama / Cult
UK
English
116
2
Richard Lester
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Wilfrid Brambell
Comedy / Musical / Family / Cult
UK
English
135
3
George Cukor
Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison
Comedy / Family / Musical / Romance / Drama
USA
English
152
4
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, Susanna Pasolini, Marcello Morante
Drama / Religion
France / Italy
Italian
230
5
Guy Hamilton
Sean Connery, Honor Blackman, Gert Fröbe, Harold Sakata, Bernard Lee
Action / Thriller / Adventure / Spy / Family / Cult
UK
English
250
6
Jacques Demy
Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, Marc Michel, Ellen Farner
Drama / Musical / Romance
France / West Germany
French
405
7
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Eiji Okada, Kyôko Kishida
Drama / Experimental
Japan
Japanese
409
8
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Nina Pens Rode, Bendt Rothe, Ebbe Rode, Baard Owe
Drama
Denmark
Danish
543
9
Robert Stevenson
Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns, Hermione Baddeley
Family / Comedy / Musical / Fantasy / Drama
USA
English
588
10
Michelangelo Antonioni
Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti, Xenia Valderi, Rita Renoir
Drama
Italy / France
Italian
696
11
Jean-Luc Godard
Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Danièle Girard, Louisa Colpeyn
Crime / Drama / Romance
France
French
762
12
Peter Glenville
Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud, Donald Wolfit, Martita Hunt
Drama / History / Epic / Biography
UK / USA
English
871
13
Masaki Kobayashi
Rentarô Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe, Kenjirô Ishiyama
Horror / Fantasy / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
874
14
Sidney Lumet
Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters, Jaime Sánchez
Drama
USA
English
969
15
John Frankenheimer, Arthur Penn
Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon
Thriller / War / Action / Adventure
USA / France / Italy
English
1150
16
Glauber Rocha
Othon Bastos, Maurício do Valle, Geraldo Del Rey,
Drama / Crime
Brazil
Portuguese
1173
17
Alfred Hitchcock
Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker, Martin Gabel
Drama / Thriller / Mystery / Romance
USA
English
1194
18
Jules Dassin
Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell, Robert Morley
Adventure / Crime / Comedy / Thriller / Caper
USA
English
1321
19
Kaneto Shindô
Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Sato, Jukichi Uno, Taiji Tonoyama
Drama / Horror
Japan
Japanese
1342
20
Michael Cacoyannis
Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates
Drama / Romance
USA / UK / Greece
English
1350
21
Roger Corman
Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher, David Weston, Nigel Green, Patrick Magee
Horror
UK
English
1362
22
Kenneth Anger
Bruce Byron, Johnny Sapienza, Ernie Allo, Frank Carifi, Steve Crandell
Short / Experimental
USA
English
1376
23
Mikhail Kalatozov
Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, José Gallardo, Raúl García
Drama / Experimental / History / Epic
Soviet Union / Cuba
Russian
1389
24
Sergio Leone
Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, Gian Maria Volontè, Wolfgang Lukschy
Action / Western
West Germany / Spain / Italy
English
1437
25
Sidney Lumet
Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton, Ed Binns, Fritz Weaver, Henry Fonda
Drama / Sci-Fi / War / Thriller
USA
English
1438
26
George Roy Hill
Peter Sellers, Merrie Spaeth, Paula Prentiss, Angela Lansbury
Comedy / Music / Drama
USA
English
1482
27
Blake Edwards
Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders, Herbert Lom
Comedy / Mystery / Crime / Thriller / Detective / Family
UK / USA
English
1523
28
Luis Buñuel
Jeanne Moreau, Georges Géret, Daniel Ivernel
Drama
France / Italy
French
1540
29
John Frankenheimer
Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien
Thriller / Drama
USA
English
1548
30
Clive Donner
Alan Bates, Denholm Elliott, Harry Andrews, Millicent Martin
Comedy / Crime
UK
English
1606
31
Jack Clayton
Anne Bancroft, Peter Finch, James Mason, Janine Gray, Cedric Hardwicke
Drama
UK
English
1610
32
Bryan Forbes
Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough, Margaret Lacey, Nanette Newman
Crime / Drama
UK
English
1636
33
Grigori Kozintsev, Iosif Shapiro
Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Mikhail Nazvanov
Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
1654
34
John Huston
Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, Sue Lyon
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1692
35
Joseph Losey
Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay, Leo McKern, Barry Foster, Peter Copley
Drama / War
UK
English
1695
36
Vittorio De Sica
Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Italy / France
Italian
1725
37
Cy Endfield
Stanley Baker, Michael Caine, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson
War / Drama / Action / Epic / History
UK
English
1756
38
Satyajit Ray
Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Shailen Mukherjee, Shyamal Ghoshal
Drama / Romance / Period Film
India
Bengali
1807
39
Don Siegel
Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes, Clu Gulager, Claude Akins
Crime / Drama / Post-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
1848
40
Arthur Hiller
James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas, James Coburn
Comedy / Drama / War / Romance
USA
English
1946
41
Franklin J. Schaffner
Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Edie Adams, Margaret Leighton, Shelley Berman
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
2039
42
Michael Roemer
Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln, Julius Harris, Gloria Foster
Drama
USA
English
2040
43
Shirley Clarke
Hampton Clanton, Yolanda Rodríguez, Bostic Felton
Drama / Crime
USA
English
2101
44
Bernardo Bertolucci
Adriana Asti, Francesco Barilli, Allen Midgette, Morando Morandini
Drama
Italy
Italian
2122
45
Larry Peerce
Barbara Barrie, Harry Bellaver, Faith Burwell, Vinnette Carroll
Drama
USA
English
2133
46
John Ford
Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Sal Mineo, Dolores del Rio
History / Western / Epic
USA
English
2169
47
Robert Rossen
Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg, Peter Fonda, Kim Hunter, Anne Meacham
Drama
USA
English
2174
48
Jean-Luc Godard
Bernard Noël, Macha Méril, Philippe Leroy, Christophe Bourseiller
Drama
France
French
2187
50
Stan Brakhage
Jane Brakhage, Stan Brakhage
Drama / Short / Experimental
USA
English
2227
51
Anthony Mann
Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, James Mason, Christopher Plummer
Drama / History / Epic / War
USA
English
2237
52
Philippe de Broca
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Françoise Dorléac, Jean Servais
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Romance
Italy / France
French
2286
53
Ralph Nelson
Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard, Jack Good
Adventure / Comedy / Romance / War
USA
English
2294
54
Charles Walters
Debbie Reynolds, Harve Presnell, Ed Begley, Jack Kruschen
Musical / Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2305
55
Pietro Germi
Stefania Sandrelli, Saro Urzì, Aldo Puglisi
Comedy / Drama
Italy / France
Italian
2343
56
Desmond Davis
Peter Finch, Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave, Maire Kean
Drama / Romance
UK
English
2381
57
Ronald Neame
Deborah Kerr, Hayley Mills, John Mills, Edith Evans
Drama
UK / USA
English
2393
58
Emile de Antonio
Roy M. Cohn, Joseph McCarthy, Joseph N. Welch
Documentary / History
USA
English
2402
59
Paul Almond
Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Symon Basterfield
Documentary / Short
UK
English
2472
60
Stan Brakhage
Jane Brakhage, Stan Brakhage
Short / Drama / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2489
61
François Truffaut
Jean Desailly, Françoise Dorléac, Nelly Benedetti
Drama / Romance
France / Portugal
French
2511
62
Ephraim Kishon
Topol, Geula Nuni, Gila Almagor, Albert Cohen
Comedy
Israel
Hebrew
2525
63
Jan Nemec
Ladislav Jánsky, Antonín Kumbera, Irma Bischofova, Ivan Asic
Drama / War
Czechoslovakia
Czech
2553
64
Billy Wilder
Dean Martin, Kim Novak, Ray Walston, Felicia Farr, Cliff Osmond, Barbara Pepper
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2597
65
Howard Hawks
Rock Hudson, Paula Prentiss, Maria Perschy, John McGiver, Charlene Holt
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2605
66
George Pollock
Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, William Mervyn
Comedy / Crime / Mystery / Detective
UK
English
2605
66
Masahiro Shinoda
Ryô Ikebe, Mariko Kaga, Takashi Fujiki, Chisako Hara
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Gangster / Post-Noir
Japan
Japanese
2672
68
Zbynek Brynych
Miroslav Machacek, Jiri Adamira, Josef Vinklar, Ladislav Potmesil
Drama / War
Czechoslovakia
Czech
2688
69
Gerald Thomas
Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims
Comedy
UK
English
2689
70
Edward Dmytryk
George Peppard, Alan Ladd, Robert Cummings, Martha Hyer, Elizabeth Ashley
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2689
70
David Swift
Jack Lemmon, Romy Schneider, Edward G. Robinson, Dorothy Provine, Edward Andrews
Comedy
USA
English
2689
70
Robert Aldrich
Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Cecil Kellaway
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
2689
70
Arthur Lubin
Don Knotts, Carole Cook, Jack Weston, Andrew Duggan, Larry Keating
Animation / Comedy / Family / War / Fantasy
USA
English
2689
70
Jack Cardiff
Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn, Rosanna Schiaffino, Oskar Homolka
Action / Adventure
UK / Yugoslavia
English
2689
70
George Pal
Tony Randall, Barbara Eden, Arthur O'Connell, John Ericson, Noah Beery Jr.
Fantasy
USA
English
2689
70
George Sidney
Elvis Presley, Ann-Margret, Cesare Danova, William Demarest, Nicky Blair
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2689
70
J. Lee Thompson
Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin, Gene Kelly
Comedy / Romance / Musical
USA
English
2689
70
Anthony Asquith
Ingrid Bergman, Rex Harrison, Shirley MacLaine, Jeanne Moreau, George C. Scott
Drama / Romance / Comedy / Gangster
UK
English
2709
71
Vassilis Georgiadis
Nikos Kourkoulos, Mary Chronopoulou, Yannis Voglis
Drama
Greece
Greek
2709
71
Lars-Magnus Lindgren
Jarl Kulle, Christina Schollin, Helena Nilsson, Erik Hell
Drama / Romance
Sweden
Swedish
2740
72
Peter Baylis
Orson Welles, George Baker, Faith Brook, David Healy
Documentary / War / History / Biography
UK
English
2740
72
Mel Stuart
Richard Basehart, John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
2756
73
Rolf Forsberg, Tom Rook
Tom Erhart, Madhur Jaffrey, Saeed Jaffrey, Clarence Mitchell, Gordon Oarsheim
Religion / Drama / Short
USA
English (No Dialogue)
2756
73
Steve Binder
James Brown, The Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes
Documentary / Music
USA
English
2765
74
Samuel Fuller
Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley, Michael Dante, Virginia Grey, Patsy Kelly
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir
USA
English
2775
75
Andrew Marton
Keir Dullea, Jack Warden, James Philbrook, Bob Kanter, Ray Daley, Merlyn Yordan
War / Drama / Epic
USA
English
2787
76
Roger Vadim
Jane Fonda, Anna Karina, Maurice Ronet, Catherine Spaak
Drama / Romance
France / Italy
French
2788
77
Jörn Donner
Harriet Andersson, Zbigniew Cybulski, Nils Eklund, Jane Friedmann
Drama / Romance
Sweden
Swedish
2788
77
Alain Jessua
Charles Denner, Anna Gaylor, Guy Saint-Jean, Nicole Gueden
Drama / Comedy
France
French
2788
77
Rolf Thiele
Jean-Claude Brialy, Nadja Tiller, Werner Hinz, Anaid Iplicjian
Drama
West Germany
German
2789
78
Delbert Mann
Glenn Ford, Geraldine Page, Angela Lansbury, Michael Anderson Jr.
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2789
78
Sidney J. Furie
Rita Tushingham, Colin Campbell, Dudley Sutton, Gladys Henson
Drama
UK
English
2789
78
Raúl de Anda
Luis Aguilar, Sonia Furio, Dagoberto Rodriguez, Sonia Infante
Drama / Crime
Mexico
Spanish
2792
79
Frank Tashlin
Jerry Lewis, Glenda Farrell, Everett Sloane, Karen Sharpe
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2797
80
Riccardo Freda
Rosemary Dexter, Geronimo Meynier, Carlos Estrada, Tony Soler, Umberto Raho
Drama / Romance
Italy / Spain
Italian
2807
81
Byron Haskin
Paul Mantee, Victor Lundin, Adam West, Barney
Sci-Fi / Adventure
USA
English
2807
81
James Neilson
Patrick McGoohan, George Cole, Kay Cole, Alan Dobie, Eric Flynn
Family / Adventure / Drama / Documentary / Crime / Action / Serial
UK
English
2860
82
Mai Zetterling
Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom, Gio Petré,
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
