1. For a Few Dollars More ( Per qualche dollaro in più )
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Western/Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sergio Leone
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volontè, Mara Krupp, Benito Stefanelli, Klaus Kinski
Plot: A man with no name teams up with another bounty hunter to catch an outlaw, in which they both have different stories as to why they want to catch him.
2. The Sound of Music
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Biography
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Robert Wise
Actors: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Charmian Carr, Nicholas Hammond, Peggy Wood, Angela Cartwright
Plot: A young woman travels from home town in Austria to become a maid/nanny for a widowed naval officer. She teaches his children how to sing and enjoy life better. Musical.
3. A Charlie Brown Christmas
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Bill Melendez
Actors: Peter Robbins, Sally Dryer, Geoffrey Ornstein, Karen Mendelson, Christopher Shea, Tracy Stratford
Plot: Charlie Brown seeks the true meaning of Christmas beyond the materialism that seems to be all around him. When its suggested he direct the school play, he takes on the task, hoping to restore the spirit of Christmas.
4. Doctor Zhivago
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: David Lean
Actors: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin
Plot: During a Russian revolution a Russian Doctor falls for a political activist?s wife even though he himself is married. They are separated and joined many times while they suffer hardships.
5. Red Beard ( Akahige )
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Yuzo Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Reiko Dan, Miyuki Kuwano, Kyôko Kagawa
Plot: In 19th-century Japan, a young doctor reluctantly goes to work at a rural hospital. There, he first rebels against, then comes to respect and learn from, "Red Beard," the head doctor.
6. Kwaidan
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Horror/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Actors: Rentaro Mikuni, Katsuo Nakamura, Kanemon Nakamura, Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Keiko Kishi
Plot: Four Japanese tales revolving around the supernatural: A poor samurai disowns his wife in order to marry for money only to regret the decision and return home, but something has changed; a woodcutter is rescued from a snowstrom by an ice spirit who saves him on condition he never tell anyone about her - 10 years later he breaks the promise; a blind musician in a monastery is commissioned by a ghostly host to sing their ballad, but as his lifeforce is drained the monks rush to save him; finally, a writer recounts the story of man who keeps seeing a mysterious face in his cup of tea.
7. Onibaba
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kaneto Shindô
Actors: Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Sato, Jukichi Uno, Taiji Tonoyama
Plot: As a feudal war ravages Japan, a soldier leaves behind his wife and mother. Together they scrounge by waylaying tired and wounded soldiers and selling their arms to a greedy merchant. An old friend returns and spells out the fate of the missing husband and son - soon the young widow gives into lust and the mother is left lonely, jealous and plotting her revenge.
8. Lonely Wife, The ( Charulata )
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Bengali
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Satyajit Ray
Actors: Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Shailen Mukherjee, Shyamal Ghoshal, Gitali Roy, Bholanath Koyal
Plot: Charulata is attractive, intellectual and a bit unfulfilled as her husband, Bhupati seems more interested in his newspaper job than in her. When his bohemian brother, Amal, returns from college - she connects with him on many levels.
9. The Sons of Katie Elder
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Henry Hathaway
Actors: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Dennis Hopper, Martha Hyer, Michael Anderson Jr., Earl Holliman
Plot: With their mother gone, the Elder brothers return to Clearwater, TX for the funeral. The eldest boy, a gunfighter, has trouble follow wherever he goes. Yet the boys have a mission - to get back the family farm their father lost in card game (and shortly after, wound up murdered). But the troubles that come with the Elder name are certain to complicate things.
10. The Collector
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Wyler
Actors: Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar, Mona Washbourne, Maurice Dallimore
Plot: Freddie, a withdrawn, socially awkward bank clerk decides collecting butterflies isn't enough and starts collecting humans. Yet art student Miranda Grey isn't afraid to match wits with him in order to win back her freedom.
