The Nearly Good B-Pictures of the 1960s
by Akira_Chimera | created - 06 Nov 2014 | updated - 2 months ago | PublicCan there even be a thing like 'nearly good B-pictures'? At first I wasn't so sure either. But after years of watching B-movies, more often than not I stumbled across a B-picture which I wouldn't exactly consider to be a good (or even brillant) one. On the other hand it didn't reach the absolute bottoms of z-grade moviedom that connoisseurs of this kind of pictures are used to either. It was simply a movie which, in terms of B-pictures, was competently done, had all those ingredients we love so much in this kind of movies, yes, possibly it was even done bad for all the right reasons. But nevertheless, it didn't click with me, didn't offer that special something which makes B-pictures so enjoyable. What you can expect on this list are B-pictures which are not bad per se, they are more like near misses which can still offer plenty for the B-movie fan. Especially if you are a fan of a certain subgenre, actor or whatever. So have fun browsing through the nearly, but not quite, good B-pictures of the 1960s.
If you're up to it, don't hesitate to leave a comment.
PS: The movies are sorted by year and not necessarily by my preference. This list is by no means complete as I will add new worthwhile films as I stumble across them.
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1. The Playgirls and the Vampire (1960)
Not Rated | 70 min | Horror
Five beautiful showgirls are trapped by a storm and find refuge in a creepy old castle. The owner of the castle, a strange nobleman, has a secret laboratory in the basement and has his own plans for the girls.
Director: Piero Regnoli | Stars: Lyla Rocco, Walter Brandi, Maria Giovannini, Alfredo Rizzo
Votes: 590
2. The Vampire and the Ballerina (1960)
Not Rated | 85 min | Horror
A troupe of beautiful young dancers find themselves stranded in a sinister, spooky old castle, not knowing that it is home to a group of vampires.
Director: Renato Polselli | Stars: Hélène Rémy, Tina Gloriani, Walter Brandi, Isarco Ravaioli
Votes: 644
3. Tarzan the Magnificent (1960)
Approved | 82 min | Action, Adventure
A clever crook and a romantic triangle complicate Tarzan's efforts to bring a wanted criminal to justice.
Director: Robert Day | Stars: Gordon Scott, Jock Mahoney, Betta St. John, John Carradine
Votes: 764
4. The Revolt of the Slaves (1960)
TV-PG | 102 min | Adventure
During the later years of the Roman Empire, the daughter of a wealthy patrician falls in love with a Christian slave.
Director: Nunzio Malasomma | Stars: Rhonda Fleming, Lang Jeffries, Darío Moreno, Ettore Manni
Votes: 310
5. Messalina (1960)
84 min | Drama
Scheming Messalina marries Roman Emperor Claudius but goes too far with a gladiator.
Director: Vittorio Cottafavi | Stars: Belinda Lee, Spyros Fokas, Carlo Giustini, Giancarlo Sbragia
Votes: 265
6. Goliath and the Dragon (1960)
Approved | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A warrior returning home to his country must battle giant bats, three-headed dogs and a vicious dragon to save his wife, and his people, from the machinations of an evil ruler.
Director: Vittorio Cottafavi | Stars: Mark Forest, Broderick Crawford, Gaby André, Renato Terra
Votes: 615
7. The Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete (1960)
Not Rated | 105 min | Adventure, Fantasy
A mythological hero attempts to rescue a princess from being sacrificed to a half-man, half-bull creature.
Director: Silvio Amadio | Stars: Bob Mathias, Rosanna Schiaffino, Alberto Lupo, Rik Battaglia
Votes: 387
8. The Hand (1960)
Not Rated | 61 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A Police Inspector follows the trail and circumstances of the murder of a one-handed man back to a prisoner-of-war camp in Burma in 1946.
Director: Henry Cass | Stars: Derek Bond, Reed De Rouen, Bryan Coleman, Walter Randall
Votes: 325
9. The Giants of Thessaly (1960)
86 min | Adventure, Fantasy
In order to placate the angry gods, who have allowed Thessaly to be overrun with barbarian invaders and beset with natural disasters, King Jason takes his Argonauts on a search for the ... See full summary »
Director: Riccardo Freda | Stars: Roland Carey, Ziva Rodann, Alberto Farnese, Nadia Sanders
Votes: 381
10. First Spaceship on Venus (1960)
Unrated | 79 min | Sci-Fi
When an alien artifact discovered on Earth is found to have come from Venus, an international team of astronauts embarks to investigate its origins.
Director: Kurt Maetzig | Stars: Yôko Tani, Oldrich Lukes, Ignacy Machowski, Julius Ongewe
Votes: 3,144
11. The Warrior Empress (1960)
Not Rated | 89 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
He-man Phaon impresses Sappho of Lesbos at the temple of Aphrodite, circa 600 B.C.
Director: Pietro Francisci | Stars: Tina Louise, Kerwin Mathews, Riccardo Garrone, Antonio Battistella
Votes: 149
12. Daughter of Cleopatra (1960)
109 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Cleopatra, after the civil war that followed the assassination of Caesar, met with Marc Antony in Assyria where they planned the defense of Egypt against the Romans. Before leaving, ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Cerchio | Stars: Debra Paget, Ettore Manni, Erno Crisa, Corrado Pani
Votes: 228
13. La Llorona (1960)
75 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Felipe and Margarita get married and have a boy named Jorgito. Her uncle Gerardo tell them about a curse that affects the first born boy in the family.
Director: René Cardona | Stars: María Elena Marqués, Eduardo Fajardo, Luz María Aguilar, Carlos López Moctezuma
Votes: 147
14. Conquistador de la luna (1960)
80 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
A couple travels by accident to the Moon and have to deal with aliens lurking for the earth's destruction.
Director: Rogelio A. González | Stars: Antonio Espino, Ana Luisa Peluffo, Andrés Soler, Óscar Ortiz de Pinedo
Votes: 59
15. This Rebel Breed (1960)
90 min | Drama
Damon's in black-face as blacks take on whites who take on Hispanics in this very entertaining teenage gang war extravaganza. Teenage punks slice and dice each other, turn innocent young ... See full summary »
Directors: Richard L. Bare, William Rowland | Stars: Rita Moreno, Mark Damon, Gerald Mohr, Jay Novello
Votes: 196
16. Terror of the Red Mask (1960)
88 min | Adventure, History, Romance
In 16th century Italy, mercenary Marco is hired by cruel duke Astolfo whose unjust reign is threatened by the notorious outlaw the Red Mask.
Director: Luigi Capuano | Stars: Lex Barker, Chelo Alonso, Livio Lorenzon, Liana Orfei
Votes: 80
17. Cage of Evil (1960)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama
A detective falls in love with the diamonds--and the girlfriend--of a thief he's pursuing.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Ron Foster, Patricia Blair, Harp McGuire, John Maxwell
Votes: 484
18. Gorgo (1961)
Unrated | 78 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus, inciting the wrath of the creature's mother.
Director: Eugène Lourié | Stars: Bill Travers, William Sylvester, Vincent Winter, Christopher Rhodes
Votes: 4,234
19. Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory (1961)
Approved | 83 min | Horror, Mystery
At a girls' school, several students are murdered by a snarling, wolf/man-like creature. Suspicion falls upon a newly-arrived teacher.
Director: Paolo Heusch | Stars: Barbara Lass, Carl Schell, Curt Lowens, Maurice Marsac
Votes: 1,313
20. The Devil's Messenger (1962)
Approved | 72 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Satan enlists the help of a suicide victim in Hell to lure unsuspecting earthly victims to their eternal doom. Contains three somewhat unrelated Twilight Zone-esque stories.
Directors: Herbert L. Strock, Curt Siodmak | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Karen Kadler, Michael Hinn, Ralph Brown
Votes: 534
21. The Devil's Hand (1961)
Approved | 71 min | Horror
A man is haunted by visions of a beautiful woman. When he finally meets her, he winds up involved in a Satanic cult.
Director: William J. Hole Jr. | Stars: Linda Christian, Robert Alda, Ariadne Welter, Neil Hamilton
Votes: 1,427
22. Reptilicus (1961)
Passed | 82 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After copper miners discover a piece of the frozen tail of a giant prehistoric reptile in Lapland, scientists inadvertently bring it back to life.
Directors: Poul Bang, Sidney W. Pink | Stars: Bent Mejding, Asbjørn Andersen, Povl Wøldike, Ann Smyrner
Votes: 4,374
23. Valley of the Dragons (1961)
Approved | 82 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
In 1881, in Algeria, Michael Denning and Hector Servadac are fighting a duel when a comet brushing Earth takes the two men to the Moon where they discover a prehistoric civilization.
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Cesare Danova, Sean McClory, Joan Staley, Danielle De Metz
Votes: 762
24. Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)
Unrated | 63 min | Comedy, Horror
A crook decides to bump off members of his inept crew and blame their deaths on a legendary sea creature. What he doesn't know is that the creature is real.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Antony Carbone, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Robert Towne, Beach Dickerson
Votes: 3,302
25. Atlantis: The Lost Continent (1961)
Approved | 90 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Welcome to Atlantis, where royal guardsmen wear uniforms that could easily be from the wardrobe of Ming the Merciless and some unfortunate slaves are turned into bovine-headed beasts.
Director: George Pal | Stars: Sal Ponti, Joyce Taylor, John Dall, William Smith
Votes: 2,147
26. Romulus and the Sabines (1961)
98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
The classic story from the early days of Rome where there are no women. Romulus, the founder of Rome, finds women to be wives from Sabina where there are a lot of women. The Sabine men, of ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Pottier | Stars: Roger Moore, Mylène Demongeot, Giorgia Moll, Scilla Gabel
Votes: 358
27. Most Dangerous Man Alive (1961)
Approved | 82 min | Sci-Fi
After wandering in a nuclear testing area in the desert, escaped mobster Ron Candell starts mutating and seeks revenge on his former crime partners.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Ron Randell, Debra Paget, Elaine Stewart, Anthony Caruso
Votes: 309
28. Doctor Blood's Coffin (1961)
Unrated | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
People are mysteriously disappearing near a remote Cornish village, where a scientist is experimenting; reviving the dead.
Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Kieron Moore, Hazel Court, Ian Hunter, Kenneth J. Warren
Votes: 1,064
29. Flight That Disappeared (1961)
Approved | 71 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A cross-country airliner, whose passengers include a nuclear physicist, a rocket expert, and a mathematical genius, is drawn beyond radar range by an unknown, unbreakable force.
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Craig Hill, Paula Raymond, Dayton Lummis, Gregory Morton
Votes: 829
30. The Snake Woman (1961)
Unrated | 68 min | Horror
In 1890 England a doctor, in order to cure his wife's "sick mind", injects her with snake venom. She later gives birth to a daughter the villagers begin to call "The Devil's Baby". They ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: John McCarthy, Susan Travers, Geoffrey Denton, Elsie Wagstaff
Votes: 567
31. Sword of the Conqueror (1961)
Not Rated | 96 min | Adventure, History, War
A cruel Lombard ruler marries the daughter of another king, kills her father, beats her lover but he ultimately faces a major popular revolt against him.
Director: Carlo Campogalliani | Stars: Jack Palance, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Guy Madison, Carlo D'Angelo
Votes: 260
32. Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World (1961)
80 min | Adventure, Drama
Sam must rescue a beautiful Chinese princess from a marauding horde of warriors.
Director: Riccardo Freda | Stars: Gordon Scott, Yôko Tani, Dante DiPaolo, Gabriele Antonini
Votes: 314
33. Valley of the Lions (1961)
94 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The evil dictator Ajak sends his armies to attack a neighboring kingdom, and during the battle, the besieged King Annurius orders one of his subjects to take his son Ursus to a place of ... See full summary »
Director: Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | Stars: Ed Fury, Moira Orfei, Alberto Lupo, Giacomo Furia
Votes: 216
34. The Invincible Gladiator (1961)
Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Drama
A Roman warrior leads a revolt against an evil ruler.
Directors: Alberto De Martino, Antonio Momplet | Stars: Richard Harrison, Isabelle Corey, Livio Lorenzon, Leo Anchóriz
Votes: 116
35. The Vengeance of Ursus (1961)
85 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Sira shall marry Zagro, King of Licia, for political reasons.
Director: Luigi Capuano | Stars: Samson Burke, Wandisa Guida, Livio Lorenzon, Nadia Sanders
Votes: 143
36. Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules (1961)
Not Rated | 95 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Maciste arranges for himself and his new friend Bangor to be captured by a mysterious band of white-clad marauders and taken to an underground city. There the two are forced to turn an ... See full summary »
Director: Antonio Leonviola | Stars: Mark Forest, Moira Orfei, Paul Wynter, Gianni Garko
Votes: 377
37. Muñecos infernales (1961)
Approved | 81 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Four men are cursed by a voodoo priest for stealing a sacred idol from his temple. Soon a band of murderous "doll men" are after the men and their families.
Director: Benito Alazraki | Stars: Elvira Quintana, Ramón Gay, Roberto G. Rivera, Quintín Bulnes
Votes: 363
38. Journey Beneath the Desert (1961)
105 min | Adventure, Fantasy
A helicopter crashes in the desert, and the crew winds up in the underground city of Atlantis and get mixed up in a slave revolt.
Directors: Edgar G. Ulmer, Frank Borzage | Stars: Haya Harareet, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Georges Rivière, James Westmoreland
Votes: 164
39.
Kraft Mystery Theater (1961–1963)
Episode:
House of Mystery
(1961)
56 min | Crime, Mystery
A young couple go to check out a house they're thinking of buying. A somewhat mysterious woman tells the couple several stories of the fates that befell the house's previous owners.
Director: Vernon Sewell | Stars: Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton, Nanette Newman, Maurice Kaufmann
Votes: 199
40. The Mongols (1961)
105 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
During the Mongol invasion of Poland, a conflict between Mongol Emperor Genghis Khan and his oldest son Ogotai ensues when the former aims for peace and the latter itches for war and conquest.
Directors: André De Toth, Leopoldo Savona, Riccardo Freda | Stars: Jack Palance, Anita Ekberg, Antonella Lualdi, Franco Silva
Votes: 363
41. Goliath Against the Giants (1961)
90 min | Adventure
Muscleman fights sea monsters, a horde of giants and a tribe of Amazonian warriors.
Director: Guido Malatesta | Stars: Brad Harris, Gloria Milland, Fernando Rey, Barbara Carroll
Votes: 147
42. The Choppers (1961)
Not Rated | 66 min | Crime, Drama
A gang of teenage delinquents terrorize a small community by stealing cars and stripping them for parts, then selling the parts to a crooked junkyard owner. The police and an insurance company investigator set out to break up the gang.
Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: Arch Hall Jr., Robert Paget, Burr Middleton, Rex Holman
Votes: 443
43. Hypnosis (1962)
86 min | Horror, Thriller
A hypnotist is murdered in his dressing room; the only "witness" seems to be his ventriloquist puppet, and a boxer and part-time delivery boy is blamed for the murder. Soon another murder ... See full summary »
Director: Eugenio Martín | Stars: Jean Sorel, Götz George, Heinz Drache, Georgi Georgiev-Getz
Votes: 208
44. The Burning Court (1962)
110 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A group of people visit a weird old man who is a student of the black arts. The man lives in an ancient, cursed castle. Soon people in the group start being killed off.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Nadja Tiller, Jean-Claude Brialy, Perrette Pradier, Edith Scob
Votes: 418
45. The Bloody Vampire (1962)
110 min | Horror
Count Cagliostro, whose family has tried for generations to rid the world of vampires, instructs his daughter and her fiance to protect several valuable documents.
Director: Miguel Morayta | Stars: Begoña Palacios, Erna Martha Bauman, Raúl Farell, Bertha Moss
Votes: 265
46. The Brainiac (1962)
Approved | 77 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In 1661 Mexico, the Baron Vitelius of Astara is sentenced to be burned alive by the Holy Inquisition of Mexico for witchcraft, necromancy, and other crimes. As he dies, the Baron swears ... See full summary »
Director: Chano Urueta | Stars: Abel Salazar, Ariadne Welter, David Silva, Germán Robles
Votes: 1,311
47. Curse of the Blood Ghouls (1962)
G | 72 min | Horror
In 19th century Austria, a newlywed couple in an old castle soon are targeted by a savage vampire who is hellbent on destroying both their entire lives when he centers his main focus on the bride. Complications ensue for everyone involved.
Director: Roberto Mauri | Stars: Walter Brandi, Dieter Eppler, Graziella Granata, Luigi Batzella
Votes: 581
48. Varan the Unbelievable (1962)
Unrated | 70 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Heavily alerted American version of Japan's Varan. A prehistoric behemoth is unwittingly awoken from hibernation due to a U.S-Japanese military experiment for economic means on it's watery lair.
Directors: Jerry A. Baerwitz, Ishirô Honda, Motoyoshi Oda | Stars: Myron Healey, Tsuruko Kobayashi, Clifford Kawada, Derick Shimatsu
Votes: 848
49. The Magic Sword (1962)
Approved | 80 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
The son of a sorceress, armed with weapons, armour and six magically summoned knights, embarks on a quest to save a princess from a vengeful wizard.
Director: Bert I. Gordon | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Estelle Winwood, Gary Lockwood, Anne Helm
Votes: 2,605
50. Maciste contro lo sceicco (1962)
95 min | Adventure
In the late 1500s, forces of the Duke of Malaga topple the Sacred Obelisk in the North African city of Melida before they're defeated by the local Sheik. The Shiek's men then sail to Spain ... See full summary »
Director: Domenico Paolella | Stars: Ed Fury, Erno Crisa, Gisella Arden, Piero Lulli
Votes: 97
51. Tarzan Goes to India (1962)
Approved | 88 min | Action, Adventure
Summoned to India by a dying maharajah, Tarzan attempts to remove an elephant herd from a valley to be flooded upon completion of a modern dam.
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Jock Mahoney, Leo Gordon, Mark Dana, Feroz Khan
Votes: 592
52. The Seven Tasks of Ali Baba (1962)
90 min | Adventure
A wizard summons Ali Baba to transport a sacred crown to a nearby country. An evil ruler has taken over the land, and the crown is needed to free the people from his influence.
Director: Emimmo Salvi | Stars: Iloosh Khoshabe, Bella Cortez, Furio Meniconi, Caridad Fuentes
Votes: 43
53. Gladiators 7 (1962)
Unrated | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Framed for the escape of five gladiators from the arena, the son of one of Sparta's leading citizens is sentenced to the arena as gladiator himself and forced to fight for his life in the ... See full summary »
Director: Pedro Lazaga | Stars: Richard Harrison, Loredana Nusciak, Livio Lorenzon, Gérard Tichy
Votes: 203
54. The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)
Approved | 82 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A doctor experimenting with transplant techniques keeps his girlfriend's head alive when she is decapitated in a car crash, then goes hunting for a new body.
Director: Joseph Green | Stars: Jason Evers, Virginia Leith, Anthony La Penna, Adele Lamont
Votes: 7,576
55. Tiger of the Seven Seas (1962)
90 min | Adventure
Tigre is the skipper of the Santa Maria, a pirate-ship, but he feels tired and decides to leave the command of the ship. Unfortunately he has only a daughter, Consuelo. So he will leave the... See full summary »
Director: Luigi Capuano | Stars: Gianna Maria Canale, Anthony Steel, Maria Grazia Spina, Andrea Aureli
Votes: 172
56. Vulcan, Son of Jupiter (1962)
76 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
A superhero battles lizard men and other monsters that are terrorizing the countryside.
Director: Emimmo Salvi | Stars: Bella Cortez, Iloosh Khoshabe, Liliana Zagra, Furio Meniconi
Votes: 224
57. Alone Against Rome (1962)
100 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A Roman Consul, on his way to fight a border war, stations a garrison of soldiers in a provincial town. The townspeople aren't happy with this situation but decide it's in their best ... See full summary »
Directors: Luciano Ricci, Riccardo Freda | Stars: Lang Jeffries, Rossana Podestà, Philippe Leroy, Gabriele Tinti
Votes: 115
58. Caesar Against the Pirates (1962)
Not Rated | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Julius Caesar flees Rome because of a conspirary against him and is given refuge the king of Bithnyia. He finds a woman there and while he escorts her to Rhodes their ship is attacked. ... See full summary »
Director: Sergio Grieco | Stars: Gustavo Rojo, Abbe Lane, Gordon Mitchell, Piero Lulli
Votes: 112
59. The Avenger (1962)
95 min | Adventure, Drama
Aeneas leads escapees from the Trojan war to new land in Italy, and must deal with new threats to his people.
Director: Giorgio Venturini | Stars: Steve Reeves, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Carla Marlier, Mario Ferrari
Votes: 477
60. La mano de un hombre muerto (1962)
Approved | 95 min | Horror
When violent crime strikes a tiny hamlet, the townsfolk suspect the distant relative of a sadistic 17th century baron who cursed the village.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Ana Castor, Howard Vernon, Paula Martel, Georges Rollin
Votes: 666
61. The Three Stooges in Orbit (1962)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
The Stooges must battle alien spies to safeguard a goofy scientist's revolutionary new vehicle.
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Joe DeRita, Carol Christensen
Votes: 1,025
62. Planeta bur (1962)
78 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Cosmonauts land on the planet Venus. However, they find themselves in danger from the voracious monsters they find on it.
Director: Pavel Klushantsev | Stars: Vladimir Emelyanov, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Gennadi Vernov, Yuriy Sarantsev
Votes: 1,477
63. This Is Not a Test (1962)
Not Rated | 73 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A deputy sheriff stops motorists on a mountain road after police dispatch reports of a possible nuclear attack.
Director: Fredric Gadette | Stars: Seamon Glass, Thayer Roberts, Aubrey Martin, Mary Morlas
Votes: 893
64. Face of Terror (1962)
83 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
A scientist develops a serum that can eradicate scar tissue. He tries it on a girl with a horribly disfigured face. It succeeds, but then he discovers the girl is an escaped mental patient from a local asylum.
Directors: Isidoro M. Ferry, William J. Hole Jr. | Stars: Lisa Gaye, Fernando Rey, Virgilio Teixeira, Gérard Tichy
Votes: 150
65. The Day Mars Invaded Earth (1962)
Not Rated | 70 min | Sci-Fi
Martians replace a scientist and his family to pave the way for their invasion of Earth.
Director: Maury Dexter | Stars: Kent Taylor, Marie Windsor, William Mims, Betty Beall
Votes: 1,138
66. Ring-A-Ding Rhythm! (1962)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Musical
Two teens organize a jazz festival despite objections from the mayor.
Director: Richard Lester | Stars: Helen Shapiro, Craig Douglas, John Leyton, The Brook Brothers
Votes: 421
67. The Terror (1963)
TV-PG | 81 min | Horror, Thriller
A young French soldier cut off from his unit is beguiled by a mysterious woman, whom he learns is the wife of the local Baron - and that she seemingly died twenty years earlier.
Directors: Roger Corman, Francis Ford Coppola, Jack Hale, Monte Hellman, Jack Hill, Dennis Jakob, Jack Nicholson | Stars: Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight, Dick Miller
Votes: 8,489
68. Tomb of Torture (1963)
Not Rated | 88 min | Horror
A woman is tormented by dreams that she is the reincarnation of a dead countess. Her father, trying to get her to stop the dreams, takes her to a village near the castle of the late ... See full summary »
Director: Antonio Boccaci | Stars: Annie Alberti, Adriano Micantoni, Marco Mariani, Flora Carosello
Votes: 288
69. Maniac (1963)
Not Rated | 86 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
An American painter has an affair with a bar owner in a French village and agrees to help murder her husband, who has escaped from a prison for the criminally insane.
Director: Michael Carreras | Stars: Kerwin Mathews, Nadia Gray, Donald Houston, Liliane Brousse
Votes: 1,551
70. Terrified (1962)
Approved | 81 min | Horror
A masked lunatic kills off people in a haunted house.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Rod Lauren, Steve Drexel, Tracy Olsen, Stephen Roberts
Votes: 516
71. Tarzan's Three Challenges (1963)
Approved | 100 min | Action, Adventure
The spiritual leader of an oriental country is dying. The leader's evil brother is plotting to prevent the youthful heir from assuming his rightful position. Tarzan is summoned to protect him and he must face three tests of strength.
Director: Robert Day | Stars: Jock Mahoney, Woody Strode, Tsuruko Kobayashi, Earl Cameron
Votes: 593
72. Goliath and the Sins of Babylon (1963)
80 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Goliath battles for the freedom of the Babylonian people.
Director: Michele Lupo | Stars: Mark Forest, José Greci, Giuliano Gemma, Erno Crisa
Votes: 303
73. Le verdi bandiere di Allah (1963)
100 min | Adventure, Drama
Saracen pirates aboard the "Black Eagle" attack Christians strongholds along the coast of Spain. When they stop off in Sheba to re-supply, they also buy female slaves and end up fighting over them.
Directors: Giacomo Gentilomo, Guido Zurli | Stars: José Suárez, Linda Cristal, Cristina Gaioni, Mimmo Palmara
Votes: 52
74. OSS 117 se déchaîne (1963)
104 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
An American agent disappears after a scuba diving reconnaissance mission in Corsica. The Secret Service sends agent code name OSS 117 to investigate.
Director: André Hunebelle | Stars: Kerwin Mathews, Nadia Sanders, Irina Demick, Henri-Jacques Huet
Votes: 334
75. 13 Frightened Girls (1963)
Passed | 88 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
While attending a school for diplomats' daughters, the teen-aged daughter of the American ambassador uses her access to various embassies to engage in espionage.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Murray Hamilton, Joyce Taylor, Hugh Marlowe, Kathy Dunn
Votes: 888
76. Violent Midnight (1963)
Not Rated | 93 min | Horror
A war veteran from a wealthy but troubled New England family is suspected in a series of brutal murders in his small town.
Director: Richard Hilliard | Stars: Lee Philips, Shepperd Strudwick, Jean Hale, Lorraine Rogers
Votes: 377
77. The Lion of St. Mark (1963)
106 min | Adventure
In 1620 pirates are terrorizing the Adriatic coast. Our hero sets out to defeat them.
Director: Luigi Capuano | Stars: Gordon Scott, Gianna Maria Canale, Rik Battaglia, Alberto Farnese
Votes: 141
78. The Ten Gladiators (1963)
104 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Roccia and a band of fellow gladiators join forces with a patrician named Glaucus Valerius to replace Nero, (and his evil henchman, Tigelinus), with a new emperor: Servius Galba. During the... See full summary »
Director: Gianfranco Parolini | Stars: Roger Browne, José Greci, Dan Vadis, Franca Parisi
Votes: 130
79. The Beast of Babylon Against the Son of Hercules (1963)
98 min | Adventure
The rightful heir to the throne of Babylon leads a slave revolt against an evil ruler.
Director: Siro Marcellini | Stars: Gordon Scott, Geneviève Grad, Moira Orfei, Piero Lulli
Votes: 139 | Gross: $1.80M
80. The Fall of Rome (1963)
89 min | Drama
After the death of Emperor Constantine in Rome, the persecutions of the Christians threaten the centurion Marco forced to become a gladiator.
Director: Antonio Margheriti | Stars: Carl Möhner, Loredana Nusciak, Ida Galli, Andrea Aureli
Votes: 96
81. Conquest of Mycene (1963)
Not Rated | 102 min | Adventure, Fantasy
A prince passes himself off as Hercules and does battle with an evil queen and her bloodthirsty religious cult in Mycene, in order to free the people of a neighboring kingdom.
Director: Giorgio Ferroni | Stars: Gordon Scott, Alessandra Panaro, Rosalba Neri, Arturo Dominici
Votes: 309
82. Gunfight in the Red Sands (1963)
Not Rated | 97 min | Action, Drama, Romance
An avenging stranger guns down a gang of ruthless bandits in revenge for the murder of his family.
Director: Ricardo Blasco | Stars: Richard Harrison, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Mikaela, Sara Lezana
Votes: 392
83. Just for Fun (1963)
72 min | Comedy, Musical
With an election approaching, the two major political parties in England work desperately to capture the enthusiasm of teenagers, who have been granted the right to vote. When the prime ... See full summary »
Director: Gordon Flemyng | Stars: Mark Wynter, Cherry Roland, Alan Caddy, Bobby Vee
Votes: 75
84. The Black Torment (1964)
Not Rated | 85 min | Horror, Mystery
A lord returns to his manor with his new wife, to hear rumors that he had already secretly returned and had committed several murders. Has he lost his mind, or is something dark afoot?
Director: Robert Hartford-Davis | Stars: Heather Sears, John Turner, Ann Lynn, Peter Arne
Votes: 825
85. The Mistresses of Dr. Jekyll (1964)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A mad scientist creates a hideous monster to carry out his murderous plans.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Hugo Blanco, Agnès Spaak, Perla Cristal, Magda Maldonado
Votes: 640
86. The Thrill Killers (1964)
Unrated | 70 min | Action, Crime, Horror
Three psychotic murderers escape from a mental institution and stalk women in Los Angeles.
Director: Ray Dennis Steckler | Stars: Ray Dennis Steckler, Liz Renay, Joseph Bardo, Carolyn Brandt
Votes: 523
87. The Curse of the Living Corpse (1964)
Approved | 84 min | Horror
Relatives gather in an old house for the reading of a will, but the "dead" man comes back to life and starts killing.
Director: Del Tenney | Stars: Roy Scheider, Helen Waren, Robert Milli, Margot Hartman
Votes: 840
88. Pyro... The Thing Without a Face (1964)
Not Rated | 99 min | Horror, Thriller
A married man has a brief affair, then goes back to his wife and children. His jilted mistress, believing that if he had no more family he'd come back to her, sets fire to his house, hoping... See full summary »
Directors: Julio Coll, Luis García | Stars: Barry Sullivan, Martha Hyer, Sherry Moreland, Luis Prendes
Votes: 279
89. Night of the Vampires (1964)
Approved | 86 min | Horror
A mad scientist and his bevy of vampires terrorize a German village. A detective and a witch set out to stop them.
Director: Ákos Ráthonyi | Stars: Adrian Hoven, Erika Remberg, Carl Möhner, Wolfgang Preiss
Votes: 402
90. The Horror of It All (1964)
TV-PG | 75 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
When an American salesman and his English fiancee visit her eccentric family who live in a remote old mansion in the country, he discovers that someone is trying to kill everyone there to get the family fortune.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Pat Boone, Erica Rogers, Dennis Price, Andree Melly
Votes: 433
91. Museo del horror (1964)
85 min | Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Young women are being abducted by a masked killer. Graverobbers and poison darts also feature as our heroine discovers which of the men in her life is the psycho.
Director: Rafael Baledón | Stars: Julio Alemán, Patricia Conde, Joaquín Cordero, Olivia Michel
Votes: 96
92. Death on the Fourposter (1964)
90 min | Horror
A party of young people gather in a mansion for an occult experiment in which deaths are predicted by a psychic. Soon it turns into more than an experiment . . .
Directors: Jean Josipovici, Ambrogio Molteni | Stars: John Drew Barrymore, Gloria Milland, Luisa Rivelli, Antonella Lualdi
Votes: 196
93. Shadow of Evil (1964)
92 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
An American agent is killed in Bangkok while investigating suspicious virus outbreaks in south east Asia. Agent OSS 117 is sent to Thailand to unravel the mysteries behind the man called Dr. Sinn.
Director: André Hunebelle | Stars: Kerwin Mathews, Pier Angeli, Robert Hossein, Dominique Wilms
Votes: 409
94. Secret of the Sphinx (1964)
95 min | Adventure, Crime
A group of people meet under strange circumstances and one by one they are murdered.
Director: Duccio Tessari | Stars: Tony Russel, Maria Perschy, Maria Laura Rocca, Ivan Desny
Votes: 59
95. Gli schiavi più forti del mondo (1964)
96 min | Adventure
Tribune Marcus Aulus, out of favor in Rome because of his alleged sympathy for Christians, arrives to take charge of an aqueduct project on the hot, arid fringes of the Empire. Centurion ... See full summary »
Director: Michele Lupo | Stars: Roger Browne, Gordon Mitchell, Arnaldo Fabrizio, Scilla Gabel
Votes: 74
96. Hercules Against the Sons of the Sun (1964)
Not Rated | 88 min | Adventure
Hercules is rescued by Prince Maytha and his warriors. Athualpa, King of the Incas, is to sacrifice Princess Yamara to the Sun God. Hercules must save her and defeat the King.
Director: Osvaldo Civirani | Stars: Mark Forest, Anna-Maria Pace, Giuliano Gemma, Ángela Rhu
Votes: 216
97. The Three Avengers (1964)
Not Rated | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Ursus and his sword-wielding companions run head-on against a usurper of a throne,
Director: Gianfranco Parolini | Stars: Sergio Ciani, Mimmo Palmara, Rosalba Neri, Carlo Tamberlani
Votes: 74
98. The Invincible Brothers Maciste (1964)
92 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Two Hercules sized brothers try to save their prince from the clutches of an evil queen.
Director: Roberto Mauri | Stars: Iloosh Khoshabe, Mario Novelli, Claudie Lange, Anthony Steffen
Votes: 64
99. The Two Gladiators (1964)
100 min | Action, Drama
Once upon a time there were born two twin boys to Emperor Marcus Aurelius and for reasons of dynasty the birth of twins was kept secret. One of the twins was supposed to be drowned at birth... See full summary »
Director: Mario Caiano | Stars: Richard Harrison, Moira Orfei, Alberto Farnese, Mimmo Palmara
Votes: 178
100. Il magnifico gladiatore (1964)
95 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Attalus, a war prisoner by Rome, proves his valor in the arena, becomes a gladiator trainer, conquers the women's hearts and the men's envy, and saves Rome from a political plot to a usurper to occupy the throne.
Director: Alfonso Brescia | Stars: Mark Forest, Marilù Tolo, Paolo Gozlino, Jolanda Modio
Votes: 103
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