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Best Movies of 1964, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
86 films from 1964 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ('1964), at 8.3 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.5. Biggest split between audiences and critics: A Hard Day's Night, 7.5 on IMDb against 96 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb '1964 | Comedy / War | 8.3 | 98% | 97 | 8.1 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 2 | Woman in the Dunes '1964 | Drama / Thriller | 8.4 | 100% | - | 8.2 | Hiroshi Teshigahara |
| 3 | A Fistful of Dollars '1964 | Western | 7.9 | 98% | 65 | 7.8 | Sergio Leone |
| 4 | Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer '1964 | Animation / Fantasy | 8.0 | 95% | - | 7.4 | Larry Roemer |
| 5 | Mary Poppins '1964 | Comedy / Fantasy | 7.8 | 95% | 88 | 7.5 | Robert Stevenson |
| 6 | Fail Safe '1964 | Thriller / Drama / War | 8.0 | 93% | 75 | 7.8 | Sidney Lumet |
| 7 | I Am Cuba '1964 | Drama | 8.2 | 100% | 91 | 7.9 | Mikhail Kalatozov |
| 8 | Goldfinger '1964 | Action / Thriller | 7.7 | 99% | 87 | 7.4 | Guy Hamilton |
| 9 | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg '1964 | Drama / Romance | 7.8 | 97% | 86 | 7.4 | Jacques Demy |
| 10 | My Fair Lady '1964 | Comedy / Musical / Drama | 7.7 | 94% | 95 | 7.5 | George Cukor |
| 11 | Onibaba '1964 | Horror | 7.8 | 90% | - | 7.7 | Kaneto Shindō |
| 12 | Zulu '1964 | Drama / War | 7.7 | 97% | 77 | 7.4 | Cy Endfield |
| 13 | The Train '1964 | War / Thriller | 7.8 | 94% | 80 | 7.6 | John Frankenheimer |
| 14 | Charulata '1964 | Drama / Romance | 8.1 | 93% | - | 7.5 | Satyajit Ray |
| 15 | Seven Days in May '1964 | Drama / Thriller | 7.8 | 92% | 73 | 7.4 | John Frankenheimer |
| 16 | Becket '1964 | Drama | 7.7 | 75% | 68 | 7.2 | Peter Glenville |
| 17 | Band of Outsiders '1964 | Crime / Drama / Comedy | 7.6 | 94% | 93 | 7.5 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 18 | Zorba the Greek '1964 | Drama | 7.6 | 79% | - | 7.5 | Mihalis Kakogiannis |
| 19 | A Hard Day's Night '1964 | Comedy / Musical | 7.5 | 98% | 96 | 7.3 | Richard Lester |
| 20 | Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte '1964 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 7.5 | 84% | - | 7.3 | Robert Aldrich |
| 21 | The Night of the Iguana '1964 | Drama / Romance | 7.5 | 75% | - | 7.2 | John Huston |
| 22 | Seduced and Abandoned '1964 | Comedy / Drama | 7.9 | - | - | 7.7 | Pietro Germi |
| 23 | Seance on a Wet Afternoon '1964 | Crime / Thriller / Drama | 7.6 | 82% | - | 7.2 | Bryan Forbes |
| 24 | Welcome, or No Trespassing '1964 | Comedy | 7.8 | - | - | 7.6 | Elem Klimov |
| 25 | Red Desert '1964 | Drama | 7.4 | 94% | - | 7.3 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| 26 | The Soft Skin '1964 | Drama / Romance | 7.5 | 90% | 78 | 7.2 | François Truffaut |
| 27 | Pale Flower '1964 | Crime / Romance | 7.7 | 92% | - | 7.4 | Masahiro Shinoda |
| 28 | Marriage Italian Style '1964 | Drama / Romance / Comedy | 7.4 | 86% | - | 7.7 | Vittorio De Sica |
| 29 | A Shot in the Dark '1964 | Comedy / Mystery / Crime | 7.3 | 94% | 70 | 7.2 | Blake Edwards |
| 30 | Three Outlaw Samurai '1964 | Action / Drama | 7.6 | 80% | - | 7.5 | Hideo Gosha |
| 31 | Father Goose '1964 | Comedy / Romance | 7.3 | 79% | - | 7.0 | Ralph Nelson |
| 32 | Diary of a Chambermaid '1964 | Drama / Comedy | 7.3 | 88% | - | 7.1 | Luis Buñuel |
| 33 | Gertrud '1964 | Drama / Romance | 7.3 | 71% | - | 7.3 | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
| 34 | Dead Ringer '1964 | Crime / Drama / Horror | 7.3 | 100% | 66 | 6.9 | Paul Henreid |
| 35 | The Naked Kiss '1964 | Crime / Drama | 7.2 | 93% | 83 | 7.0 | Samuel Fuller |
| 36 | Black God, White Devil '1964 | Western / Drama | 7.2 | 100% | - | 7.1 | Glauber Rocha |
| 37 | Marnie '1964 | Thriller / Mystery / Romance | 7.1 | 78% | 73 | 7.1 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 38 | Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez '1964 | Comedy | 7.1 | - | - | 7.0 | Jean Girault |
| 39 | Blood and Black Lace '1964 | Crime / Horror / Mystery | 7.1 | 75% | - | 7.3 | Mario Bava |
| 40 | Murder Most Foul '1964 | Comedy / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 7.1 | - | - | 7.1 | George Pollock |
| 41 | 7 Faces of Dr. Lao '1964 | Fantasy / Western / Comedy | 7.1 | 88% | - | 6.9 | George Pal |
| 42 | The Married Woman '1964 | Drama / Romance | 7.1 | 86% | - | 6.9 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 43 | The Little Priest '1964 | Comedy | 7.2 | - | - | 8.2 | Miguel M. Delgado |
| 44 | Greed in the Sun '1964 | Action / Comedy | 7.0 | - | - | 7.1 | Henri Verneuil |
| 45 | Joy House '1964 | Thriller / Crime | 7.0 | 33% | - | 6.4 | René Clément |
| 46 | Murder Ahoy '1964 | Drama / Thriller / Crime / Mystery / Comedy | 7.0 | - | - | 7.1 | George Pollock |
| 47 | Man's Favorite Sport? '1964 | Comedy / Romance | 7.0 | 60% | - | 7.0 | Howard Hawks |
| 48 | That Man from Rio '1964 | Action / Comedy | 7.0 | 79% | - | 7.3 | Philippe de Broca |
| 49 | The Killers '1964 | Crime / Mystery | 7.0 | 83% | 72 | 6.9 | Don Siegel |
| 50 | Weekend at Dunkirk '1964 | Drama / War | 6.9 | - | - | 6.9 | Henri Verneuil |
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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