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 Train |
| Director: Arthur Penn, John Frankenheimer |
| Initial Theatrical Release: March 7, 1965 (Wide) |
| Keywords: Action Thriller, Inspired by a True Story, Heist, Trains, World War II, French Resistance, Nazis |
| Classification: Based on Factual Book/Article, Thriller/Suspense, Live Action, Historical Fiction |
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Domestic BO: $6,800,000 |
3
| 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 |
4
| 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 |
5
| Marie Chantal contre Dr. Kha |
| Director: Claude Chabrol |
| Initial Theatrical Release: August 25, 1965 (Limited) (France) |
| Classification: Original Screenplay, Action, Live Action, Contemporary Fiction |
6
| 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 |
7
| Do Not Disturb |
| Director: Ralph Levy, George Marshall |
| Initial Theatrical Release: December 22, 1965 (Wide) by 20th Century Fox |
| Keywords: Romantic Comedy, Romance, Relationships Gone Wrong, Infidelity |
| Classification: Based on Play, Romantic Comedy, Live Action, Contemporary Fiction |
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Domestic BO: $8,000,000 |
8
| 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 |
9
| The Greatest Story Ever Told |
| Director: David Lean, George Stevens |
| Initial Theatrical Release: February 15, 1965 (Wide) by MGM |
| Keywords: Religious, Faith-Based Drama, Faith-Based Film, Bible Epic, Ancient Rome |
| Classification: Based on Fiction Book/Short Story, Drama, Live Action, Historical Fiction |
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Domestic BO: $15,473,333 |
10
| 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 |
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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.”
11
| Shenandoah |
| Director: Andrew V. McLaglen |
| Lead Roles: James Stewart as Charlies Anderson, Doug McClure as Lieutenant Sam, Glenn Corbett as Jacob Anderson, Patrick Wayne as James Anderson, Katharine Ross as Mrs. Ann Anderson, Rosemary Forsyth as Jennie Anderson, Phillip Alford as Boy Anderson, Paul Fix as Dr. Tom Witherspoon, James Best as Carter |
| Initial Theatrical Release: June 3, 1965 (Wide) by Universal |
| Keywords: The Civil War, 1860s, Revisionist Western, Anti-war, Death of a Spouse or Fiancée / Fiancé, Young Child Dealing with the Death of a Parent, Death of a Son or Daughter, POW, Novel or Other Work Adapted by Author |
| Classification: Original Screenplay, Western, Live Action, Historical Fiction |
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Domestic BO: $17,268,889 |
12
| Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine |
| Director: Norman Taurog |
| Initial Theatrical Release: November 6, 1965 (Limited) |
| Classification: Original Screenplay, Comedy, Live Action, Science Fiction |
13
| Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors |
| Director: Freddie Francis |
| Initial Theatrical Release: February 23, 1965 (Limited) (United Kingdom) |
| Classification: Original Screenplay, Horror, Live Action, Contemporary Fiction |
14
| The Legend of Blood Mountain |
| Initial Theatrical Release: January 1, 1965 (Wide) |
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Domestic BO: $1,200,000 |
15
| 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 |
16
| 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 |
17
| 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 |
18
| The Agony and the Ecstasy |
| Director: Sir Carol Reed |
| Initial Theatrical Release: October 7, 1965 (Wide) by 20th Century Fox |
| Keywords: Biography, Biographical Drama, Artists, 1500s, Religious, Christians |
| Classification: Based on Fiction Book/Short Story, Drama, Live Action, Dramatization |
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Domestic BO: $8,000,000 |
19
| Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying... |
| Director: Ken Annakin |
| Initial Theatrical Release: June 16, 1965 (Wide) |
| Keywords: Chase Adventure, 1910s, Miscellaneous Racing, Prologue, Voiceover/Narration, In a Plane, Ensemble |
| Classification: Original Screenplay, Adventure, Live Action, Historical Fiction |
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Domestic BO: $31,111,111 |
20
| 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 |
21
| 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 |