1963 Top Ten List

  • High and Low (Akira Kurosawa)
  • The Big City (Satyajit Ray)
  • The Great Escape (John Sturges)
  • The Servant (Joseph Losey)
  • Hud (Martin Ritt)
  • The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
  • Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller)
  • The Organizer (Mario Monicelli)
  • Charade (Stanley Donen)
  • 8½ (Federico Fellini)

    • Additional 1963 Films By Rating

  • Youth of the Beast (Seijun Suzuki)
  • Judex (Georges Franju)
  • Billy Liar (John Schlesinger)
  • The Leopard (Luchino Visconti)
  • Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (no director credited)
  • Le Petit Soldat (Jean-Luc Godard)
  • X (Roger Corman)
  • Black Sabbath (Mario Bava)
  • The Haunted Palace (Roger Corman)
  • The Insect Woman (Shohei Imamura)
  • America, America (Elia Kazan)
  • The Haunting (Robert Wise)
  • Any Number Can Win (Henri Verneuil)
  • Cleopatra (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
  • Dementia 13 (Francis Coppola)
  • From Russia With Love (Terence Young)
  • Donovan's Reef (John Ford)
  • This Sporting Life (Lindsay Anderson)
  • Hands Over the City (Francesco Rosi)
  • An Actor's Revenge (Kon Ichikawa)
  • Suzanne's Career (Eric Rohmer)
  • I fidanzati (Ermanno Olmi)
  • Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)
  • It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Stanley Kramer)
  • Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards! (Seijun Suzuki)
  • The Pink Panther (Blake Edwards)
  • Irma la Douce (Billy Wilder)
  • The Silence (Ingmar Bergman)
  • Tom Jones (Tony Richardson)
  • The Executioner (Luis G. Berlanga)
  • Lord of the Flies (Peter Brook)
  • The Fire Within (Louis Malle)
  • Bye Bye Birdie (George Sidney)
  • Come Blow Your Horn (Bud Yorkin)
  • Muriel, or The Time of Return (Alain Resnais)
  • Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman)