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Best Movies of 1965, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
83 films from 1965 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is For a Few Dollars More ('1965), at 8.2 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.5. Biggest split between audiences and critics: The Sound of Music, 8.1 on IMDb against 63 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | For a Few Dollars More '1965 | Western | 8.2 | 92% | 74 | 8.0 | Sergio Leone |
| 2 | A Charlie Brown Christmas '1965 | Animation / Comedy | 8.3 | 94% | - | 7.7 | Bill Melendez |
| 3 | The Sound of Music '1965 | Drama / Musical / Romance | 8.1 | 83% | 63 | 7.7 | Robert Wise |
| 4 | Red Beard '1965 | Drama | 8.3 | 73% | 90 | 8.2 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 5 | Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures '1965 | Comedy | 8.4 | - | - | 7.5 | Leonid Gaidai |
| 6 | Doctor Zhivago '1965 | Drama / Romance / War | 7.9 | 82% | 69 | 7.6 | David Lean |
| 7 | The Shop on Main Street '1965 | Drama / War | 8.2 | 100% | - | 7.1 | Ján Kadár |
| 8 | Kwaidan '1965 | Horror / Fantasy / Drama | 7.9 | 91% | - | 7.7 | Masaki Kobayashi |
| 9 | A Patch of Blue '1965 | Drama / Romance | 8.0 | 89% | 73 | 7.6 | Guy Green |
| 10 | The Hill '1965 | Drama / War | 7.8 | 75% | 81 | 7.5 | Sidney Lumet |
| 11 | Simon of the Desert '1965 | Comedy / Drama / Fantasy | 7.8 | 100% | - | 7.6 | Luis Buñuel |
| 12 | Time to Love '1965 | Drama / Romance | 7.9 | - | - | 7.5 | Metin Erksan |
| 13 | Repulsion '1965 | Drama / Thriller / Horror | 7.5 | 96% | 91 | 7.4 | Roman Polanski |
| 14 | Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors '1965 | Drama / Romance | 7.8 | 93% | - | 7.5 | Sergei Parajanov |
| 15 | The Gospel According to St. Matthew '1965 | Drama | 7.6 | 89% | - | 7.4 | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| 16 | The Flight of the Phoenix '1965 | Drama | 7.5 | 86% | - | 7.2 | Robert Aldrich |
| 17 | Happiness '1965 | Drama / Romance | 7.6 | 88% | - | 7.4 | Agnès Varda |
| 18 | The Spy Who Came In from the Cold '1965 | Drama / Thriller | 7.5 | 86% | - | 7.1 | Martin Ritt |
| 19 | The Pawnbroker '1965 | Drama | 7.6 | 88% | 69 | 7.1 | Sidney Lumet |
| 20 | Chimes at Midnight '1965 | Comedy / Drama / War | 7.6 | 96% | 94 | 7.2 | Orson Welles |
| 21 | Pierrot le Fou '1965 | Drama / Romance / Crime | 7.4 | 88% | - | 7.3 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 22 | The Collector '1965 | Thriller | 7.5 | 81% | - | 7.4 | William Wyler |
| 23 | Juliet of the Spirits '1965 | Comedy / Drama / Fantasy | 7.4 | 79% | 84 | 7.2 | Federico Fellini |
| 24 | Loves of a Blonde '1965 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.4 | 94% | - | 7.0 | Miloš Forman |
| 25 | Fists in the Pocket '1965 | Drama | 7.5 | 93% | - | 7.8 | Marco Bellocchio |
| 26 | I Knew Her Well '1965 | Drama | 7.6 | 91% | - | 7.5 | Antonio Pietrangeli |
| 27 | In Harm's Way '1965 | War / Drama | 7.3 | 37% | - | 6.6 | Otto Preminger |
| 28 | Shenandoah '1965 | Western / War | 7.3 | 100% | - | 7.0 | Andrew V. McLaglen |
| 29 | Bunny Lake Is Missing '1965 | Mystery / Thriller | 7.3 | 87% | 77 | 7.2 | Otto Preminger |
| 30 | The Sucker '1965 | Comedy / Crime | 7.3 | - | - | 7.4 | Gérard Oury |
| 31 | The Bedford Incident '1965 | Action / Drama / Thriller / War | 7.3 | 87% | - | 7.0 | James B. Harris |
| 32 | Love Meetings '1965 | Documentary | 7.5 | - | - | 8.2 | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| 33 | The Naked Prey '1965 | Thriller | 7.3 | 86% | 64 | 6.7 | Cornel Wilde |
| 34 | The Great Race '1965 | Comedy / Romance | 7.2 | 68% | 71 | 7.1 | Blake Edwards |
| 35 | The Cincinnati Kid '1965 | Drama | 7.2 | 86% | 67 | 7.0 | Norman Jewison |
| 36 | The Agony and the Ecstasy '1965 | Drama | 7.2 | 86% | - | 7.0 | Carol Reed |
| 37 | Mirage '1965 | Mystery / Thriller | 7.2 | 100% | - | 7.1 | Edward Dmytryk |
| 38 | Help! '1965 | Comedy / Musical | 7.1 | 86% | 58 | 6.9 | Richard Lester |
| 39 | The Sleeping Car Murders '1965 | Crime / Thriller / Mystery | 7.2 | - | - | 6.9 | Costa-Gavras |
| 40 | The Ipcress File '1965 | Thriller | 7.1 | 97% | 66 | 6.8 | Sidney J. Furie |
| 41 | The Sons of Katie Elder '1965 | Western | 7.1 | 100% | 72 | 7.0 | Henry Hathaway |
| 42 | Von Ryan's Express '1965 | War / Action / Thriller | 7.1 | 90% | - | 7.1 | Mark Robson |
| 43 | The Nanny '1965 | Drama / Thriller / Horror | 7.1 | 86% | - | 7.0 | Seth Holt |
| 44 | Ship of Fools '1965 | Drama / Romance / War | 7.1 | 63% | - | 6.6 | Stanley Kramer |
| 45 | Complexes '1965 | Comedy | 7.2 | - | - | 7.0 | Franco Rossi |
| 46 | El señor doctor '1965 | Comedy | 6.9 | - | - | 8.0 | Miguel M. Delgado |
| 47 | The Wise Guys '1965 | Comedy / Drama | 6.9 | - | - | 7.9 | Robert Enrico |
| 48 | Morituri '1965 | Action / Drama / Thriller / War | 7.0 | 75% | - | 6.7 | Bernhard Wicki |
| 49 | Darling '1965 | Drama / Romance | 7.0 | 74% | 62 | 6.7 | John Schlesinger |
| 50 | Don Camillo in Moscow '1965 | Comedy | 6.9 | - | - | 7.1 | Luigi Comencini |
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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