Best award winning movies with a novel concept from 1964

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a novel concept from 1964! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a novel concept from 1964, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Zorba the Greek (1964)

An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2004.

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1964-12-14 | Drama

Cast

Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates

Rating

rating icon 7.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #84 for
    wallflower
  2. Ranked #108 for
    tetchy
  3. Ranked #134 for
    extrovert

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2 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike.

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1964-01-29 | Comedy / War

Cast

Peter Sellers, George C. Scott

Rating

rating icon 8.117
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #57 for
    poindexter
  2. Ranked #65 for
    Black Comedy
  3. Ranked #92 for
    seriocomedy

Trailer

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3 My Fair Lady (1964)

A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

Info

1964-10-21 | Music / Comedy

Cast

Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison

Rating

rating icon 7.512
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #18 for
    with cockney accent
  2. Ranked #29 for
    deservedly won awards
  3. Ranked #43 for
    great soundtrack

Trailer

My Fair Lady trailer
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4 Mary Poppins (1964)

Mr Banks is looking for a nanny for his two mischievous children and comes across Mary Poppins, an angelic nanny. She not only brings a change in their lives but also spreads happiness.

Info

1964-12-17 | Comedy / Family

Cast

Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke

Rating

rating icon 7.578
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #16 for
    with cockney accent
  2. Ranked #27 for
    great soundtrack
  3. Ranked #50 for
    wonderful

Trailer

Mary Poppins trailer
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5 Red Desert (1964)

In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.

Info

1964-09-04 | Drama

Cast

Monica Vitti, Richard Harris

Rating

rating icon 7.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #40 for
    ramshackle house
  2. Ranked #115 for
    juxtaposition
  3. Ranked #122 for
    impressionistic

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6 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)

This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.

Info

1964-02-19 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo

Rating

rating icon 7.361
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #4 for
    grease monkey
  2. Ranked #39 for
    prosaic
  3. Ranked #49 for
    critically acclaimed

Trailer

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg trailer
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7 Becket (1964)

King Henry II of England has trouble with the Church. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, he has a brilliant idea. Rather than appoint another pious cleric loyal to Rome and the Church, he will appoint his old drinking and wenching buddy, Thomas Becket, technically a deacon of the church, to the post. Unfortunately, Becket takes the job seriously and provides abler opposition to Henry.

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1964-03-11 | Drama / History

Cast

Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole

Rating

rating icon 7.162
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #29 for
    Oscar nomination deserving
  2. Ranked #67 for
    Period Drama
  3. Ranked #78 for
    harsh sound

Trailer

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8 Seven Days in May (1964)

A U.S. Army colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.

Info

1964-02-01 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas

Rating

rating icon 7.238
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #30 for
    cat-and-mouse
  2. Ranked #48 for
    with mercenaries
  3. Ranked #62 for
    like The Twilight Zone

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9 What a Way to Go! (1964)

A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.

Info

1964-07-31 | Comedy / Romance

Cast

Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman

Rating

rating icon 6.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #72 for
    glitzy
  2. Ranked #135 for
    vaudevillian
  3. Ranked #141 for
    seriocomedy

Trailer

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10 Marriage Italian Style (1964)

When Domenico meets Filumena Marturano in Naples during World War II, he is instantly smitten. Flash forward to the postwar years, and the two meet again, sparking a passionate affair that spans two decades. But when Filumena — who has now become Domenico's kept woman and has secretly borne his children — learns that her lover plans to wed another, she will stop at nothing to hook him into marrying her instead.

Info

1964-12-18 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni

Rating

rating icon 7.724
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #40 for
    tetchy
  2. Ranked #63 for
    sluttish character
  3. Ranked #110 for
    neo-realism

Trailer

Marriage Italian Style trailer
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