# List of British films of 1965

A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1965 (see 1965 in film):

## 1965

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 1965 |||||||
| The Alphabet Murders | Frank Tashlin | Tony Randall, Anita Ekberg, Robert Morley | Mystery | |
| The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders | Terence Young | Kim Novak, Richard Johnson | Comedy | |
| The Battle of the Villa Fiorita | Delmer Daves | Maureen O'Hara, Richard Todd | Drama | |
| Be My Guest | Lance Comfort | David Hemmings, Avril Angers | Musical | |
| The Bedford Incident | James B. Harris | Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier | Thriller | |
| The Big Job | Gerald Thomas | Sid James, Sylvia Syms, Dick Emery | Comedy | |
| The Brigand of Kandahar | John Gilling | Ronald Lewis, Oliver Reed | Colonial adventure | |
| Bunny Lake Is Missing | Otto Preminger | Laurence Olivier, Carol Lynley, Noël Coward | Mystery/thriller | |
| Carry On Cowboy | Gerald Thomas | Sid James, Kenneth Williams | Comedy | |
| Catacombs | Gordon Hessler | Gary Merrill, Georgina Cookson | Horror | |
| Catch Us If You Can | John Boorman | Dave Clark, Julian Holloway | Drama/comedy | Boorman's first film as director |
| City of Fear | Peter Bezencenet | Paul Maxwell, Terry Moore, Marisa Mell | Thriller | Co-production with West Germany |
| City Under the Sea | Jacques Tourneur | Vincent Price, David Tomlinson, Tab Hunter | Sci-fi/adventure | |
| The Collector | William Wyler | Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar | Drama | |
| The Crooked Road | Don Chaffey | Robert Ryan, Stewart Granger | Thriller | |
| Cup Fever | David Bracknell | Bernard Cribbins, David Lodge | Sports/family | |
| Curse of the Fly | Don Sharp | Brian Donlevy, George Baker | Horror | |
| Curse of Simba | Lindsay Shonteff | Bryant Haliday, Dennis Price | Horror | |
| Darling | John Schlesinger | Julie Christie, Laurence Harvey, Dirk Bogarde | Drama | Number 83 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films; winner of three Academy Awards and an award at Moscow |
| Devils of Darkness | Lance Comfort | William Sylvester, Carole Gray | Horror | |
| Dr. Terror's House of Horrors | Freddie Francis | Christopher Lee, Max Adrian | Horror | |
| Dr. Who and the Daleks | Gordon Flemyng | Peter Cushing, Roy Castle, Jenny Linden | Science fiction | |
| Doctor Zhivago | David Lean | Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Rod Steiger | Drama | Number 27 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films; winner of five Academy Awards |
| The Early Bird | Robert Asher | Norman Wisdom, Edward Chapman, Bryan Pringle | Comedy | |
| Every Day's a Holiday | James Hill | John Leyton, Michael Sarne | Musical/comedy | |
| The Face of Fu Manchu | Don Sharp | Christopher Lee, Nigel Green | Thriller | Anglo-German co-production |
| Fanatic | Silvio Narizzano | Tallulah Bankhead, Stefanie Powers | Horror | |
| Ferry Cross the Mersey | Jeremy Summers | Gerry Marsden, Cilla Black, Jimmy Savile | Musical | |
| Four in the Morning | Anthony Simmons | Ann Lynn, Brian Phelan, Judi Dench, Norman Rodway, Joe Melia | Drama | BAFTA Film Award |
| Game for Three Losers | Gerry O'Hara | Michael Gough, Mark Eden | Drama | |
| Genghis Khan | Henry Levin | Stephen Boyd, Omar Sharif | Historical | Co-production |
| Gonks Go Beat | Robert Hartford-Davis | Kenneth Connor, Frank Thornton, Lulu | Sci-fi/musical | |
| He Who Rides a Tiger | Charles Crichton | Tom Bell, Judi Dench, Paul Rogers | Crime drama | |
| Help! | Richard Lester | The Beatles | Musical/comedy | |
| The Heroes of Telemark | Anthony Mann | Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris | World War II | |
| A High Wind in Jamaica | Alexander Mackendrick | Anthony Quinn, James Coburn | Adventure | |
| The Hill | Sidney Lumet | Sean Connery, Harry Andrews | World War II/drama | |
| Hysteria | Freddie Francis | Robert Webber, Jennifer Jayne | Thriller | |
| The Intelligence Men | Robert Asher | Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise | Spy comedy | |
| The Ipcress File | Sidney J. Furie | Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Sue Lloyd | Spy/thriller | Number 59 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films |
| Joey Boy | Frank Launder | Harry H. Corbett, Stanley Baxter | Comedy | |
| The Knack …and How to Get It | Richard Lester | Michael Crawford, Rita Tushingham | Comedy | Won the Palme d'Or at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival |
| Lady L | Peter Ustinov | Sophia Loren, Paul Newman, David Niven | Comedy | |
| Licensed to Kill | Lindsay Shonteff | Tom Adams, John Arnatt, Peter Bull | Spy comedy/thriller | |
| Life at the Top | Ted Kotcheff | Laurence Harvey, Jean Simmons | Drama | |
| The Liquidator | Jack Cardiff | Rod Taylor, Trevor Howard, Jill St. John, David Tomlinson | Spy comedy thriller | |
| The Little Ones | Jim O'Connolly | Carl Gonzales, Kim Smith | Family | |
| Lord Jim | Richard Brooks | Peter O'Toole, James Mason, Eli Wallach | Drama/adventure | |
| Masquerade | Basil Dearden | Cliff Robertson, Jack Hawkins | Comedy/thriller | |
| Mozambique | Ralph Lynn | Steve Cochran, Hildegard Knef, Paul Hubschmid | Drama | Anglo-German co-production |
| The Murder Game | Sidney Salkow | Marla Landi, Ken Scott | Crime | |
| The Nanny | Seth Holt | Bette Davis, Wendy Craig | Horror | |
| The Night Caller | John Gilling | John Saxon, Alfred Burke, Maurice Denham, Warren Mitchell | Horror | |
| Operation Crossbow | Michael Anderson | George Peppard, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard | Spy/thriller | |
| Othello | Stuart Burge | Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Frank Finlay | Literary drama | |
| The Party's Over | Guy Hamilton | Oliver Reed, Eddie Albert | Drama | |
| The Pleasure Girls | Gerry O'Hara | Francesca Annis, Ian McShane, Klaus Kinski | Drama | |
| Promise Her Anything | Arthur Hiller | Warren Beatty, Leslie Caron | Comedy | |
| Repulsion | Roman Polanski | Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser | Thriller | Won the Jury Prize at the 15th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Return from the Ashes | J. Lee Thompson | Maximilian Schell, Samantha Eggar | Thriller | |
| The Return of Mr. Moto | Ernest Morris | Henry Silva, Terence Longdon | Thriller | |
| Rotten to the Core | John Boulting | Anton Rodgers, Charlotte Rampling, Eric Sykes | Comedy | |
| San Ferry Ann | Jeremy Summers | Wilfrid Brambell, David Lodge | Comedy | |
| Sands of the Kalahari | Cy Endfield | Stuart Whitman, Stanley Baker, Susannah York | Adventure | |
| Scruggs | David Hart | Susannah York, Ben Carruthers | Drama | |
| The Secret of My Success | Andrew L. Stone | James Booth, Shirley Jones | Comedy | |
| Shakespeare Wallah | James Ivory | Felicity Kendal, Shashi Kapoor, Madhur Jaffrey | Drama | |
| She | Robert Day | Ursula Andress, Peter Cushing, John Richardson | Adventure | Based on the novel by H. Rider Haggard |
| The Skull | Freddie Francis | Peter Cushing, Patrick Wymark | Horror | |
| Spaceflight IC-1 | Bernard Knowles | Bill Williams, Kathleen Breck | Sci-fi | |
| The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | Martin Ritt | Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner | Spy thriller | |
| A Study in Terror | James Hill | John Neville, Donald Houston, John Fraser | Mystery | |
| Ten Little Indians | George Pollock | Shirley Eaton, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White | Mystery | |
| Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines | Ken Annakin | Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox | Comedy | |
| Three Hats for Lisa | Sidney Hayers | Joe Brown, Sophie Hardy, Una Stubbs | Musical | |
| Thunderball | Terence Young | Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi | Spy/action/James Bond | |
| The Truth About Spring | Richard Thorpe | Hayley Mills, John Mills, James MacArthur | Adventure | |
| Twenty-Four Hours to Kill | Peter Bezencenet | Lex Barker, Mickey Rooney, Walter Slezak | Thriller | |
| The Uncle | Desmond Davis | Rupert Davies, Brenda Bruce | Drama | |
| Up Jumped a Swagman | Christopher Miles | Frank Ifield, Annette Andre, Suzy Kendall | Comedy/musical | |
| Walk a Tightrope | Frank Nesbitt | Dan Duryea, Patricia Owens | Crime | |
| The War Game | Peter Watkins | Michael Aspel | Docu-drama | Made for TV though released in cinemas |
| Where the Spies Are | Val Guest | David Niven, Françoise Dorléac | Spy thriller | |
| Wholly Communion | Peter Whitehead | Allen Ginsberg, Adrian Mitchell | Documentary short | |
| You Must Be Joking! | Michael Winner | Lionel Jeffries, Terry-Thomas | Comedy | |
| Young Cassidy | Jack Cardiff | Rod Taylor, Julie Christie, Maggie Smith, Michael Redgrave | Drama | |