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Best Movies of 1963, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
78 films from 1963 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is High and Low ('1963), at 8.4 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.5. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Le Petit Soldat, 7.1 on IMDb against 97 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | High and Low '1963 | Drama / Crime / Thriller / Mystery | 8.4 | 97% | 90 | 8.4 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 2 | The Great Escape '1963 | Drama / War | 8.2 | 94% | 86 | 7.9 | John Sturges |
| 3 | 8½ '1963 | Drama | 8.0 | 97% | 93 | 8.1 | Federico Fellini |
| 4 | Winter Light '1963 | Drama | 8.0 | 77% | - | 7.9 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 5 | The Leopard '1963 | Drama | 7.9 | 100% | 100 | 7.7 | Luchino Visconti |
| 6 | Charade '1963 | Comedy / Mystery / Romance | 7.8 | 95% | 83 | 7.7 | Stanley Donen |
| 7 | Hud '1963 | Drama / Western | 7.8 | 86% | 62 | 7.3 | Martin Ritt |
| 8 | The Birds '1963 | Horror / Thriller | 7.6 | 95% | 90 | 7.5 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 9 | Dinner for One '1963 | Comedy | 8.0 | - | - | 7.4 | Heinz Dunkhase |
| 10 | The Big City '1963 | Drama | 8.3 | 93% | - | 7.8 | Satyajit Ray |
| 11 | Days of Wine and Roses '1963 | Drama / Romance | 7.8 | 100% | 74 | 7.5 | Blake Edwards |
| 12 | The Silence '1963 | Drama / Romance | 7.7 | 85% | - | 7.5 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 13 | The Servant '1963 | Drama | 7.7 | 90% | 94 | 7.6 | Joseph Losey |
| 14 | The Fire Within '1963 | Drama | 7.8 | 82% | - | 7.6 | Louis Malle |
| 15 | The Executioner '1963 | Comedy / Drama | 7.9 | - | - | 7.6 | Luis García Berlanga |
| 16 | Dry Summer '1963 | Drama / Crime | 7.8 | - | - | 7.5 | Metin Erksan |
| 17 | The House Is Black '1963 | Documentary | 7.8 | - | - | 7.4 | Forugh Farrokhzad |
| 18 | Crooks in Clover '1963 | Comedy / Crime | 7.7 | - | - | 7.7 | Georges Lautner |
| 19 | America America '1963 | Drama | 7.7 | 67% | 72 | 7.0 | Elia Kazan |
| 20 | The Organizer '1963 | Drama / Crime / Comedy | 8.0 | 90% | - | 7.5 | Mario Monicelli |
| 21 | Lilies of the Field '1963 | Comedy / Drama | 7.5 | 92% | 61 | 7.2 | Ralph Nelson |
| 22 | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World '1963 | Comedy / Crime | 7.4 | 71% | 59 | 7.0 | Stanley Kramer |
| 23 | The Haunting '1963 | Horror | 7.4 | 88% | 74 | 7.1 | Robert Wise |
| 24 | Contempt '1963 | Drama / Romance | 7.4 | 92% | - | 7.0 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 25 | From Russia with Love '1963 | Action / Thriller | 7.3 | 97% | 83 | 7.1 | Terence Young |
| 26 | This Sporting Life '1963 | Drama | 7.5 | 96% | - | 7.0 | Lindsay Anderson |
| 27 | Jason and the Argonauts '1963 | Fantasy | 7.3 | 85% | 69 | 7.2 | Don Chaffey |
| 28 | Hands Over the City '1963 | Drama | 7.6 | - | - | 7.4 | Francesco Rosi |
| 29 | Irma la Douce '1963 | Romance / Comedy | 7.3 | 75% | 63 | 7.4 | Billy Wilder |
| 30 | The Trial of Joan of Arc '1963 | Drama | 7.4 | 100% | - | 7.2 | Robert Bresson |
| 31 | Shock Corridor '1963 | Drama / Thriller / Mystery | 7.3 | 94% | - | 7.0 | Samuel Fuller |
| 32 | Barren Lives '1963 | Drama / Western | 7.5 | - | - | 7.4 | Nelson Pereira dos Santos |
| 33 | The Monsters '1963 | Comedy | 7.4 | - | - | 7.4 | Dino Risi |
| 34 | Any Number Can Win '1963 | Crime | 7.3 | - | - | 7.2 | Henri Verneuil |
| 35 | Youth of the Beast '1963 | Thriller / Crime / Action / Mystery | 7.3 | 86% | - | 6.9 | Seijun Suzuki |
| 36 | Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow '1963 | Comedy / Romance | 7.2 | 78% | - | 7.4 | Vittorio De Sica |
| 37 | Billy Liar '1963 | Comedy / Romance / Drama | 7.2 | 92% | 79 | 6.8 | John Schlesinger |
| 38 | Murder at the Gallop '1963 | Comedy / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 7.2 | 100% | - | 7.1 | George Pollock |
| 39 | The Bakery Girl of Monceau '1963 | Romance / Drama | 7.2 | - | - | 6.9 | Éric Rohmer |
| 40 | Bay of Angels '1963 | Romance / Drama | 7.2 | 86% | 76 | 6.7 | Jacques Demy |
| 41 | Le Petit Soldat '1963 | Drama / Romance | 7.1 | 80% | 97 | 6.9 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 42 | McLintock! '1963 | Western / Comedy | 7.1 | 50% | 62 | 6.6 | Andrew V. McLaglen |
| 43 | The Sword in the Stone '1963 | Animation / Fantasy | 7.1 | 65% | 61 | 7.2 | Wolfgang Reitherman |
| 44 | Muriel, or the Time of Return '1963 | Drama | 7.0 | 80% | - | 6.9 | Alain Resnais |
| 45 | Ro.Go.Pa.G. '1963 | Comedy / Drama | 6.9 | - | - | 7.2 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 46 | The Incredible Journey '1963 | - | 7.0 | 89% | 87 | 6.7 | Fletcher Markle |
| 47 | Ikarie XB 1 '1963 | Sci-Fi | 6.9 | 100% | - | 6.8 | Jindřich Polák |
| 48 | My Wife's Husband '1963 | Comedy | 6.5 | - | - | 6.7 | Gilles Grangier |
| 49 | Black Sabbath '1963 | Horror | 7.0 | 89% | 82 | 7.2 | Mario Bava |
| 50 | The Girl Who Knew Too Much '1963 | Horror / Thriller / Mystery | 6.9 | 71% | - | 6.9 | Mario Bava |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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