Best award winning movies with a cruel twist from 1963

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a cruel twist from 1963! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a cruel twist from 1963, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 This Sporting Life (1963)

In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.

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1963-02-07 | Drama

Cast

Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts

Rating

rating icon 6.972
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #73 for
    social realism
  2. Ranked #77 for
    blue-collar
  3. Ranked #125 for
    eschatological

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2 Hud (1963)

Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and his stern and highly principled father, Homer. Hud's nephew Lon admires Hud's cheating ways, though he soon becomes too aware of Hud's reckless amorality to bear him anymore. In the world of the takers and the taken, Hud is a winner. He's a cheat, but, he explains, "I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner."

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1963-05-28 | Drama / Western

Cast

Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas

Rating

rating icon 7.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #25 for
    devil-may-care
  2. Ranked #30 for
    hubristic
  3. Ranked #55 for
    hard-nosed

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3 Tom Jones (1963)

Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?

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1963-08-24 | Comedy / Adventure

Cast

Albert Finney, Susannah York

Rating

rating icon 5.927
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #51 for
    raucous
  2. Ranked #54 for
    remarkable
  3. Ranked #59 for
    Oscar nomination deserving

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4 The Pink Panther (1963)

The trademark of The Phantom, a renowned jewel thief, is a glove left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Clouseau, an expert on The Phantom's exploits, feels sure that he knows where The Phantom will strike next and leaves Paris for the Tyrolean Alps, where the famous Lugashi jewel 'The Pink Panther' is going to be. However, he does not know who The Phantom really is, or for that matter who anyone else really is...

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1963-12-18 | Comedy / Crime

Cast

David Niven, Peter Sellers

Rating

rating icon 6.893
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #28 for
    madcap comedy
  2. Ranked #81 for
    shenanigans
  3. Ranked #93 for
    anachronistic

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5 The Great Escape (1963)

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.

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1963-07-03 | Adventure / Drama

Cast

Steve McQueen, James Garner

Rating

rating icon 7.95
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #210 for
    like Inside Llewyn Davis
  2. Ranked #213 for
    barbed dialogue
  3. Ranked #231 for
    escapist fun

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6 Irma la Douce (1963)

When a naive policeman falls in love with a prostitute, he doesn’t want her seeing other men and creates an alter ego who’s to be her only customer.

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1963-06-05 | Romance

Cast

Shirley MacLaine, Jack Lemmon

Rating

rating icon 7.423
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #69 for
    sluttish character
  2. Ranked #75 for
    madcap comedy
  3. Ranked #117 for
    headscratcher

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7 High and Low (1963)

In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his servant's son is kidnapped.

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1963-03-01 | Drama / Crime

Cast

Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai

Rating

rating icon 8.333
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #77 for
    pulpy
  2. Ranked #85 for
    cat-and-mouse
  3. Ranked #108 for
    showing underbelly

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8 Charade (1963)

After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband's World War II cronies, Tex, Scobie and Gideon, who are after a quarter of a million dollars the quartet stole while behind enemy lines.

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1963-12-01 | Comedy / Mystery

Cast

Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn

Rating

rating icon 7.686
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #77 for
    cat-and-mouse
  2. Ranked #106 for
    like Knives Out
  3. Ranked #155 for
    smooth talker

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9 America America (1963)

A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to America.

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1963-12-15 | Drama / History

Cast

Stathis Giallelis, Frank Wolff

Rating

rating icon 6.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #27 for
    monomaniacal
  2. Ranked #50 for
    misty
  3. Ranked #76 for
    lowbrow

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10 The Executioner (1963)

An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement.

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1963-08-31 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Nino Manfredi, Emma Penella

Rating

rating icon 7.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #124 for
    grease monkey
  2. Ranked #138 for
    watching indispensably
  3. Ranked #164 for
    tragicomic

Trailer

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