11. The Bedford Incident
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: James B. Harris
Actors: Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, James MacArthur, Martin Balsam, Wally Cox, Michael Kane
Plot: A reporter is given access to the American destroyer the USS Bedford and the cold-war hardened Captain Finlander. But when a Soviet sub is discovered, things get entirely too real as the captain pursues the enemy at any cost.
12. The Hill
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sidney Lumet
Actors: Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Ossie Davis, Alfred Lynch, Roy Kinnear
Plot: In a British disciplinary camp in the middle of the Libyan desert, Staff Sergeant Williams delights in persecuting his prisoners by constantly making them climb a man-made hill in the middle of the camp. Five new prisoners arrive and will deal with authority in their own ways.
13. Repulsion
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Roman Polanski
Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Yvonne Furneaux, Patrick Wymark, Renee Houston
Plot: A mentally unbalanced young woman descends into madness when she is left alone in her flat when her sister goes on vacation.
14. Alphaville, a Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution ( Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution )
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Mystery/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Actors: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff
Plot: A American detective is sent to a distant planet where logic rules but emotion and freedom has been suppressed. His intrusion threatens to bring Alphaville down.
15. The Train
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Frankenheimer
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon, Michel Simon, Albert Rémy
Plot: A railroad boss and the French Resistance join forces in Paris during the German occupation, to thwart the Germans' plan.
16. Juliet of the Spirits ( Giulietta degli spiriti )
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Federico Fellini
Actors: Giulietta Masina, Sandra Milo, Mario Pisu, Valentina Cortese, Valeska Gert, José Luis de Villalonga
Plot: A middle-aged woman turns to spirituality and mysticism and her life becomes a series of visions mixed with memory. In the end, the journey will help her find emotional independence from her cheating husband.
17. The Flight of the Phoenix
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Aldrich
Actors: James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Ernest Borgnine, Hardy Krüger, Ian Bannen
Plot: When a cargo plane crashes in the desert, one of the survivors says he is an airplane designer and can make a new aircraft from the wreckage - even as food and water are quickly in short supply.
18. Cat Ballou
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Elliot Silverstein
Actors: Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, Michael Callan, Dwayne Hickman, Nat 'King' Cole, Stubby Kaye
Plot: Having just returned home from college Cat Ballou finds her father at odds with the towns people. She hires an alcoholic gunfighter to help. But when events take a turn for the worst she turns to a life of crime.
Nat King Cole and Stubby Kaye appear as a kind of narrators for the film.
19. A Patch of Blue
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Guy Green
Actors: Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman, Wallace Ford, Ivan Dixon, Elisabeth Fraser
Plot: A blind white girl becomes friends with a black man, despite her bigoted mother's interference.
20. Red Desert, The ( deserto rosso, Il )
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Actors: Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti, Xenia Valderi, Rita Renoir, Aldo Grotti
