Most Popular Movies 1965
This chart shows the 1965 movie releases that have attracted the most interest on The Numbers web site over the past 24 hours. A share of 100 corresponds to 1 percent of the total views for all 1965 releases.
See also: Domestic Release Schedule for 1965 - Top 1965 Worldwide
| Most Popular Overall | 1966 → |
1
| The Sound of Music |
| Director: Robert Wise |
| Lead Roles: Julie Andrews as Maria |
| Initial Theatrical Release: January 1, 1965 (Wide), released as Sound of Music, The (Australia) |
| Keywords: Widow/Widower, 1966 Oscars Best Picture Nominee, Oscars Best Picture Winner, Nazis, 1940s, Family Musical, Autobiographical, Inspired by a True Story |
| Classification: Based on Musical or Opera, Musical, Live Action, Historical Fiction |
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Domestic BO: $163,214,286 |
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International BO: $122,998,947 |
2
| The Art of Love |
| Director: Norman Jewison |
| Lead Roles: James Garner as Casey Barnett, Dick Van Dyke as Paul, Elke Sommer as Nikki, Angie Dickinson as Laurie Gibson, Ethel Merman as Madame Coco La Fontaine |
| Initial Theatrical Release: June 23, 1965 (Wide) by Universal |
| Classification: Original Screenplay, Comedy, Live Action |
3
| Cat Ballou |
| Director: Elliot Silverstein |
| Initial Theatrical Release: June 24, 1965 (Wide) by Sony Pictures |
| Keywords: Comedy Westerns, Non-Chronological, Same Actor, Multiple Roles, Twins, Dysfunctional Family |
| Classification: Based on Fiction Book/Short Story, Comedy, Live Action, Historical Fiction |
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Domestic BO: $20,666,667 |
4
| Major Dundee |
| Director: Sam Peckinpah |
| Initial Theatrical Release: April 7, 1965 (Wide) by Sony Pictures |
| Classification: Based on Fiction Book/Short Story, Western, Live Action, Historical Fiction |
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Domestic BO: $14,873 |
5
| That Darn Cat! |
| Initial Theatrical Release: December 2, 1965 (Wide) |
| Keywords: Family Comedy, Bank Robbery, Animal Lead |
| Classification: Based on Fiction Book/Short Story, Comedy, Live Action, Contemporary Fiction |
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Domestic BO: $28,062,222 |
6
| Onna Bakari No Yoru |
| Director: Kinuyo Tanaka |
| Initial Theatrical Release: September 5, 1965 (Limited) (Japan) |
| Classification: Original Screenplay, Drama, Live Action, Contemporary Fiction |
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International BO: $2,604 |
7
| Thunderball |
| Initial Theatrical Release: December 11, 1965 (Limited), released as Thunderball (007 サンダーボール作戦) (Japan) |
| Keywords: Secret Agent, Underwater, Action Thriller |
| Classification: Based on Fiction Book/Short Story, Action, Live Action |
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Domestic BO: $63,600,000 |
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International BO: $77,600,000 |
8
| The Saragossa Manuscript |
| Director: Wojciech J. Has |
| Initial Theatrical Release: February 9, 1965 (Wide), released as Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie (Poland) |
| Classification: Based on Fiction Book/Short Story, Comedy, Live Action, Fantasy |
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Domestic BO: $119,981 |
9
| Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution |
| Director: Jean-Luc Godard |
| Lead Roles: Eddie Constantine as Lemmy Caution, Anna Karina as Natasha Von Braun |
| Initial Theatrical Release: May 5, 1965 (Wide), released as Alphaville (France) |
| Keywords: Film Noir, Secret Agent, Private Investigator, Avant Garde, Dystopia, Mad Scientist, Artificial Intelligence, Sexism |
| Classification: Original Screenplay, Drama, Live Action, Science Fiction |
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Domestic BO: $43,729 |
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International BO: $16,967 |
10
| The Spy Who Came in from the Cold |
| Director: Martin Ritt |
| Initial Theatrical Release: December 16, 1965 (Wide) by Paramount Pictures |
| Keywords: Political Thriller, Secret Agent, Undercover, Cold War, East Germany, Surprise Twist, Romance, MI6, Double Agent |
| Classification: Based on Fiction Book/Short Story, Thriller/Suspense, Live Action, Contemporary Fiction |
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Domestic BO: $7,600,000 |
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International BO: $342 |
11
| Inside Daisy Clover |
| Director: Robert Mulligan |
| Lead Roles: Natalie Wood as Daisy Clover, Christopher Plummer as Raymond Swan |
| Initial Theatrical Release: December 22, 1965 (Limited) by Warner Bros. |
| Keywords: Romance, Set in Hollywood |
| Classification: Based on Fiction Book/Short Story, Drama, Live Action, Contemporary Fiction |
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| Le Bonheur |
| Director: Agnès Varda |
| Initial Theatrical Release: February 10, 1965 (Wide) (France) |
| Classification: Original Screenplay, Drama, Live Action, Contemporary Fiction |
Synopsis
Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker.
13
| Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella |
| Director: Ralph Nelson |
| Initial Theatrical Release: February 22, 1965 (Limited), released as Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella |
| Classification: Based on Folk Tale/Legend/Fairytale, Concert/Performance, Live Action, Fantasy |
14
| Mirage |
| Initial Theatrical Release: May 26, 1965 (Limited) |
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Domestic BO: $3,000,000 |
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| That Funny Feeling |
| Director: Richard Thorpe |
| Lead Roles: Sandra Dee as Joan Howell, Bobby Darin as Tom Milford |
| Initial Theatrical Release: August 25, 1965 (Limited) by Universal |
| Classification: Original Screenplay, Romantic Comedy, Live Action, Contemporary Fiction |
16
| The Legend of Blood Mountain |
| Initial Theatrical Release: January 1, 1965 (Wide) |
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Domestic BO: $1,200,000 |
17
| Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine |
| Director: Norman Taurog |
| Initial Theatrical Release: November 6, 1965 (Limited) |
| Classification: Original Screenplay, Comedy, Live Action, Science Fiction |
18
| Onibaba |
| Director: Kaneto Shindo |
| Initial Theatrical Release: February 4, 1965 (Limited) |
| Classification: Original Screenplay, Horror, Live Action, Contemporary Fiction |
19
| Campanadas a medianoche |
| Director: Orson Welles |
| Lead Roles: Orson Welles as Sir John Falstaff |
| Initial Theatrical Release: December 22, 1965 (Limited) (Spain) |
| Keywords: Prince/Princess, Royalty, Voiceover/Narration, Betrayal, Monks and Nuns, Faked Death |
| Classification: Based on Play, Comedy, Live Action, Historical Fiction |
|
Domestic BO: $126,724 |
Synopsis
Chimes at Midnight returns to the screen after being unavailable for decades. This Shakespeare adaptation was the culmination of Welles’s lifelong obsession with the Bard’s ultimate rapscallion, Sir John Falstaff, the loyal, often soused childhood friend to King Henry IV’s wayward son Prince Hal. Appearing in several plays as a comic supporting figure, Falstaff is here the main event: a robustly funny and ultimately tragic screen antihero played by Welles with towering, lumbering grace. Integrating elements from both Henry IV plays as well as Richard II, Henry V, and The Merry Wives of Windsor, Welles created an unorthodox Shakespeare film that is also a gritty period piece, which he called “a lament . . . for the death of Merrie England.”
20
| Doctor Zhivago |
| Director: David Lean |
| Lead Roles: Omar Sharif as Dr. Yuri Andreyevich Zhivago, Julie Christie as Lara Antipova |
| Initial Theatrical Release: December 22, 1965 (Wide) by MGM |
| Keywords: World War I, Set in Russia, Romantic Drama, 1966 Oscars Best Picture Nominee |
| Classification: Based on Fiction Book/Short Story, Drama, Live Action, Historical Fiction |
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Domestic BO: $111,897,830 |
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International BO: $142,558 |
21
| Kiga kaikyô (飢餓海峡) |
| Director: Tomu Uchida |
| Initial Theatrical Release: January 15, 1965 (Limited) (Japan) |
| Classification: Based on Fiction Book/Short Story, Drama, Live Action, Multiple Creative Types |
22
| Pierrot le fou |
| Director: Jean-Luc Godard |
| Lead Roles: Jean-Paul Belmondo as Ferdinand Griffon (Pierrot), Anna Karina as Marianne Renoir |
| Initial Theatrical Release: November 5, 1965 (Wide) (France) |
| Keywords: Set in Paris, Dysfunctional Family, Relationships Gone Wrong, Fugitive / On the Run, Terrorism, Crime Thriller, Bonnie and Clyde romance, Set in France, Tortured for Information |
| Classification: Original Screenplay, Drama, Live Action, Contemporary Fiction |
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Domestic BO: $70,807 |
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International BO: $7,430 |
23
| The Inspector |
| Director: Friz Freleng |
| Initial Theatrical Release: December 21, 1965 (Special Engagement) |
| Classification: Compilation, Adventure, Hand Animation, Kids Fiction |
24
| Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! |
| Director: Russ Meyer |
| Initial Theatrical Release: August 6, 1965 (Wide) by Eve Productions |
| Keywords: Midnight Movie |
| Classification: Original Screenplay, Comedy, Live Action, Contemporary Fiction |
|
Domestic BO: $36,122 |
25
| The Hallelujah Trail |
| Director: John Sturges |
| Initial Theatrical Release: June 23, 1965 (Limited) |
| Classification: Western, Live Action |