Movie Theatrical Release Schedule for 1965

Release DateMovieDistributorDomestic
Box Office
to Date
January 1965
January 1 The Legend of Blood Mountain (Wide) $1,200,000
 
January 13 Two on a Guillotine (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
January 16 Our Man Flint (Wide) $16,000,000
 
January 20 The Tomb of Ligeia (Limited) American International Pictures  
 
January 26 How to Murder Your Wife (Limited) $12,000,000
February 1965
February 4 Onibaba (Limited)  
 
February 15 The Greatest Story Ever Told (Wide) MGM $15,473,333
 
February 22 Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella (Limited)  
 
February 24 Crack in the World (Limited) Paramount Pictures  
March 1965
March 2 The Sound of Music (Wide) 20th Century Fox $164,815,523
 
March 5 The Rounders (Limited)  
 
March 7 The Train (Wide) $6,800,000
April 1965
April 1 Operation Crossbow (Limited) MGM  
 
April 6 In Harm’s Way (Limited) Paramount Pictures  
 
April 7 Major Dundee (Wide) Sony Pictures $14,873
Blood and Black Lace (Limited) Allied Artists  
 
April 14 Girl Happy (Wide) $3,100,000
 
April 15 Genghis Khan (Limited) Columbia  
 
April 20 The Pawnbroker (Limited) Allied Artists  
 
April 28 Young Dillinger (Limited) Samuel Goldwyn Films  
May 1965
May 5 Brainstorm (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
May 19 Go Go Mania (Limited) American International Pictures  
Your Cheatin Heart (Limited)  
 
May 26 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (Limited)  
Mirage (Limited) $3,000,000
June 1965
June 3 Shenandoah (Wide) Universal $17,268,889
 
June 16 Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying... (Wide) $31,111,111
 
June 22 What's New, Pussycat (Wide) MGM $18,820,000
 
June 23 The Art of Love (Wide) Universal  
The Sandpiper (Wide) MGM $13,691,111
Von Ryan's Express (Wide) $17,111,111
The Hallelujah Trail (Limited)  
 
June 24 Cat Ballou (Wide) Sony Pictures $20,666,667
 
June 30 Ski Party (Limited)  
July 1965
July 1 The Great Race (Wide) $25,333,333
The Sons of Katie Elder (Wide) $13,333,333
 
July 7 The Glory Guys (Limited)  
 
July 14 Dark Intruder (Limited) Universal  
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (Limited) American International Pictures  
 
July 28 Ship of Fools (Limited)  
August 1965
August 2 The Ipcress File (Limited) Universal  
 
August 3 Darling (Limited) Embassy $21,172
 
August 6 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Wide) Eve Productions $36,122
 
August 9 Help! (Wide) MGM $12,066,667
 
August 12 Motorpsycho! (Limited) Eve Productions  
 
August 25 The Skull (Limited)  
That Funny Feeling (Limited) Universal  
October 1965
October 3 Repulsion (Limited) $5,000
 
October 7 The Agony and the Ecstasy (Wide) 20th Century Fox $8,000,000
 
October 13 Color Me Blood Red (Limited) Self Distributed  
 
October 15 The Cincinnati Kid (Wide) MGM  
 
October 27 Die, Monster, Die! (Limited)  
November 1965
November 3 Juliet of the Spirits (Wide) $89,326
 
November 6 Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (Limited)  
 
November 9 Red Line 7000 (Limited)  
 
November 24 Harum Scarum (Wide) MGM $1,500,000
December 1965
December 2 That Darn Cat! (Wide) $28,062,222
 
December 13 A Thousand Clowns (Limited)  
 
December 16 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Wide) Paramount Pictures $7,600,000
 
December 21 The Inspector (Special Engagement)  
 
December 22 Do Not Disturb (Wide) 20th Century Fox $8,000,000
Doctor Zhivago (Wide) MGM $111,897,830
Inside Daisy Clover (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
December 29 Thunderball (Wide) MGM $63,600,000