Best award winning movies with lavish production from 1965

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with lavish production from 1965! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with lavish production from 1965, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Doctor Zhivago (1965)

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

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1965-12-22 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Omar Sharif, Julie Christie

Rating

rating icon 7.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #22 for
    critically acclaimed
  2. Ranked #33 for
    sad
  3. Ranked #64 for
    deservedly won awards

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2 The Great Race (1965)

Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie's arch-rival, the mustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to the finish line in a car of Fate's own invention.

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1965-07-01 | Comedy / Adventure

Cast

Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis

Rating

rating icon 7.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #15 for
    madcap comedy
  2. Ranked #58 for
    third wheel
  3. Ranked #67 for
    shenanigans

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3 The Gospel According to Matthew (1965)

This biblical drama from the Catholic Marxist director focuses on the teachings of Jesus, including the parables that reflect their revolutionary nature. As Jesus travels along the coast of the Sea of Galilee, he gradually gathers more followers, leading him into direct conflict with the authorities.

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1965-03-03 | Drama

Cast

Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso

Rating

rating icon 7.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #27 for
    blasphemous
  2. Ranked #52 for
    neo-realism
  3. Ranked #75 for
    with biblical reference

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4 Juliet of the Spirits (1965)

Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a seance amongst his friends, Giulietta gets in touch with spirits and learns more about herself and her painful past. Slightly skeptical, but intrigued, she visits a mystic who gives her more information -- and nudges her toward the realization that her husband is indeed a philanderer.

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1965-10-22 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Giulietta Masina, Sandra Milo

Rating

rating icon 7.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #59 for
    oneiric
  2. Ranked #71 for
    with marital problems
  3. Ranked #81 for
    impressionistic

Trailer

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5 The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)

During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes his mind and asks the sculptor to paint a mural in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo doubts his painting skills and abandons the project. Divine inspiration returns Michelangelo to the mural, but his artistic vision clashes with the pope's demanding personality and threatens the success of the historic painting.

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1965-09-16 | Drama / History

Cast

Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison

Rating

rating icon 7.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #16 for
    tetchy
  2. Ranked #35 for
    locking horns
  3. Ranked #41 for
    diorama

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6 The Sound of Music (1965)

In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2003.

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1965-03-29 | Drama / Family

Cast

Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer

Rating

rating icon 7.73
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #46 for
    great soundtrack
  2. Ranked #72 for
    schmaltzy
  3. Ranked #72 for
    tuneful

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7 Kwaidan (1965)

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.

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1965-01-06 | Horror / Fantasy

Cast

Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe

Rating

rating icon 7.698
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #25 for
    lovecraftian
  2. Ranked #40 for
    symmetry plots
  3. Ranked #41 for
    impressionistic

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8 Cat Ballou (1965)

A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects.

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1965-06-24 | Western / Comedy

Cast

Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin

Rating

rating icon 6.318
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #16 for
    gun-for-hire
  2. Ranked #88 for
    extraordinary
  3. Ranked #112 for
    westernized

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9 Darling (1965)

The swinging London, early sixties. Beautiful but shallow, Diana Scott is a professional advertising model, a failed actress, a vocationally bored woman, who toys with the affections of several men while gaining fame and fortune.

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1965-08-03 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde

Rating

rating icon 6.66
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #23 for
    decadent
  2. Ranked #47 for
    gold digger
  3. Ranked #52 for
    remarkable

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10 Thunderball (1965)

A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to once again save the world.

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1965-12-11 | Adventure / Action

Cast

Sean Connery, Claudine Auger

Rating

rating icon 6.652
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #42 for
    bloated
  2. Ranked #95 for
    globetrotting
  3. Ranked #122 for
    femme fatale

Trailer

Thunderball trailer
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