# List of American films of 1965

A list of American films released in 1965.
The Sound of Music won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

## A–D

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
| 36 Hours | George Seaton | James Garner, Rod Taylor, Eva Marie Saint | War drama | MGM |
| The Agony and the Ecstasy | Carol Reed | Rex Harrison, Charlton Heston, Diane Cilento | Drama, biography | Fox |
| Andy | Richard C. Sarafian | Norman Alden, Ann Wedgeworth | Drama | Universal |
| Apache Uprising | R. G. Springsteen | Rory Calhoun, Corinne Calvet, John Russell | Western | Paramount |
| Arizona Raiders | William Witney | Audie Murphy, Michael Dante, Gloria Talbott | Western | Columbia |
| The Art of Love | Norman Jewison | Dick Van Dyke, James Garner, Elke Sommer, Angie Dickinson | Comedy | Universal |
| Baby the Rain Must Fall | Robert Mulligan | Steve McQueen, Lee Remick, Don Murray | Drama | Columbia |
| Bad Girls Do Cry | Sid Melton | Misty Ayers, William Page, William Marks | Sexploitation | Independent. Filmed in 1954. |
| Bad Girls Go to Hell | Doris Wishman | Gigi Darlene, George La Rocque | Sexploitation | Independent |
| Battle of the Bulge | Ken Annakin | Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan, Ty Hardin, Pier Angeli, Telly Savalas, Charles Bronson | War drama | Warner Bros. |
| Beach Ball | Lennie Weinrib | Edd Byrnes, Chris Noel, Gail Gilmore | Comedy | Paramount |
| Beach Blanket Bingo | William Asher | Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Paul Lynde, Don Rickles | Comedy, Musical | A.I.P. |
| The Bedford Incident | James B. Harris | Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Martin Balsam, Wally Cox | Drama | Columbia |
| Billie | Don Weis | Patty Duke, Jim Backus, Jane Greer | Musical | United Artists |
| Black Spurs | R. G. Springsteen | Rory Calhoun, Terry Moore, Linda Darnell | Western | Paramount |
| Bloody Pit of Horror | Massimo Pupillo | Mickey Hargitay, Walter Bigari, Luisa Baratto | Horror | Italian-American co-production |
| Boeing Boeing | John Rich | Tony Curtis, Jerry Lewis, Dany Saval | Comedy | Paramount |
| The Bounty Killer | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Dan Duryea, Audrey Dalton, Richard Arlen | Western | Embassy Pictures |
| Brainstorm | William Conrad | Anne Francis, Dana Andrews, Jeffrey Hunter | Suspense | Warner Bros. |
| Bus Riley's Back in Town | Harvey Hart | Ann-Margret, Michael Parks, Kim Darby, Janet Margolin | Drama | Universal |
| Cat Ballou | Elliot Silverstein | Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, Dwayne Hickman, Michael Callan, Nat King Cole, Stubby Kaye | Western comedy | Columbia. Academy Award for Marvin |
| The Cincinnati Kid | Norman Jewison | Steve McQueen, Ann-Margret, Edward G. Robinson, Karl Malden, Tuesday Weld, Rip Torn, Cab Calloway, Joan Blondell | Drama | MGM |
| City Under the Sea | Jacques Tourneur | Vincent Price, Tab Hunter, Susan Hart | Sci-fi | A.I.P. Tourneur's final film |
| Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion | Andrew Marton | Marshall Thompson, Betsy Drake, Richard Haydn | Family | MGM. Inspired TV's Daktari |
| The Collector | William Wyler | Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar, Mona Washbourne | Thriller | Columbia |
| Convict Stage | Lesley Selander | Harry Lauter, Don "Red" Barry, Hanna Landy | Western | 20th Century Fox |
| Crack in the World | Andrew Marton | Dana Andrews, Janette Scott, Kieron Moore | Drama | Paramount |
| Dark Intruder | Harvey Hart | Leslie Nielsen, Mark Richman, Judi Meredith | Horror | Universal |
| Deadwood '76 | James Landis | Arch Hall Sr. | Western | Fairway International Pictures |
| Dear Brigitte | Henry Koster | James Stewart, Fabian, Glynis Johns, Ed Wynn, Bill Mumy, Brigitte Bardot | Comedy | Fox |
| Die, Monster, Die! | Daniel Haller | Boris Karloff, Nick Adams, Suzan Farmer | Science Fiction, Horror | A.I.P. |
| The Dirty Game | Christian-Jaque, Werner Klingler, Carlo Lizzani, Terence Young | Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Vittorio Gassman | Spy anthology | A.I.P |
| Do Not Disturb | Ralph Levy | Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Hermione Baddeley | Comedy | 20th Century Fox |
| Doctor Zhivago | David Lean | Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Rod Steiger, Geraldine Chaplin, Tom Courtenay, Alec Guinness | Drama, epic | MGM. Based on the novel; 5 Oscars |
| Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine | Norman Taurog | Vincent Price, Frankie Avalon, Dwayne Hickman, Susan Hart | Comedy | A.I.P. |

## E–I

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
| The Family Jewels | Jerry Lewis | Jerry Lewis, Sebastian Cabot, Donna Butterworth | Comedy | Paramount |
| Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! | Russ Meyer | Tura Satana, Haji, Lori Williams | Sexploitation | Independent |
| Finger on the Trigger | Sidney W. Pink | Rory Calhoun, Aldo Sambrell, James Philbrook | Western | Allied Artists |
| The Flight of the Phoenix | Robert Aldrich | James Stewart, Peter Finch, Richard Attenborough, Hardy Kruger, Dan Duryea, George Kennedy, Ernest Borgnine | Drama | 20th Century Fox. From Elleston Trevor novel; 2 Oscar nominations |
| Fluffy | Earl Bellamy | Tony Randall, Shirley Jones, Celia Kaye | Family | Universal |
| The Fool Killer | Servando González | Anthony Perkins, Edward Albert, Dana Elcar | Adventure | Allied Artists |
| Fort Courageous | Lesley Selander | Don "Red" Barry, Hanna Landy, Harry Lauter | Western | 20th Century Fox |
| Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster | Robert Gaffney | James Karen, Marilyn Hanold | Science fiction | Allied Artists |
| Genghis Khan | Henry Levin | Omar Sharif, James Mason, Eli Wallach | Adventure | Columbia |
| Girl Happy | Boris Sagal | Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, Harold Stone, John Fiedler, Nita Talbot, Mary Ann Mobley, Gary Crosby | Musical | MGM |
| The Girls on the Beach | William N. Witney | Noreen Corcoran, Martin West, Linda Marshall | Comedy | Paramount |
| Git! | Ellis Kadison | Heather North, Leslie Bradley, Richard Webb | Drama | Embassy Pictures |
| The Glory Guys | Arnold Laven | Tom Tryon, Harve Presnell, Senta Berger, James Caan | Western | United Artists |
| Goldstein | Philip Kaufman | Lou Gilbert, Ellen Madison, Tom Erhart | Comedy | |
| The Great Race | Blake Edwards | Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon, Peter Falk | Comedy | Warner Bros.; 5 Oscar nominations |
| The Great Sioux Massacre | Sidney Salkow | Joseph Cotten, Darren McGavin, Philip Carey | Western | Columbia |
| The Greatest Story Ever Told | George Stevens | Max von Sydow, Charlton Heston, José Ferrer, Claude Rains, Angela Lansbury, David McCallum, Martin Landau, Ed Wynn, Telly Savalas, Sidney Poitier, John Wayne | Biblical epic | United Artists; 5 Oscar nominations; Rains' final film |
| Guns of Diablo | Boris Sagal | Charles Bronson, Kurt Russell | Western | MGM |
| The Hallelujah Trail | John Sturges | Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Jim Hutton, Pamela Tiffin | Western comedy | United Artists |
| Harlow | Gordon Douglas | Carroll Baker, Raf Vallone, Angela Lansbury, Peter Lawford | Drama, biography | Paramount Pictures; story of Jean Harlow |
| Harlow | Alex Segal | Carol Lynley, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Ginger Rogers | Biography | Independent. Rogers' final film |
| Harum Scarum | Gene Nelson | Elvis Presley, Mary Ann Mobley, Fran Jeffries | Musical | MGM |
| Having a Wild Weekend | John Boorman | The Dave Clark Five | Musical | Boorman's first film |
| Harvey Middleman, Fireman | Ernest Pintoff | Patricia Harty, Arlene Golonka, Hermione Gingold | Comedy | Columbia |
| How to Murder Your Wife | Richard Quine | Jack Lemmon, Terry-Thomas, Virna Lisi | Comedy | United Artists |
| How to Stuff a Wild Bikini | William Asher | Annette Funicello, Dwayne Hickman, Beverly Adams | Comedy | A.I.P. |
| The Human Duplicators | Hugo Grimaldi | George Nader, Barbara Nichols, Dolores Faith | Sci-fi | Independent |
| I Saw What You Did | William Castle | Joan Crawford, John Ireland | Thriller | Universal |
| I'll Take Sweden | Frederick de Cordova | Bob Hope, Tuesday Weld, Frankie Avalon | Comedy | United Artists |
| In Harm's Way | Otto Preminger | John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal, Henry Fonda, Brandon deWilde, Paula Prentiss, Burgess Meredith, Carroll O'Connor, Tom Tryon, Dana Andrews, George Kennedy | War drama | Paramount; from James Bassett novel; BAFTA award for Neal |
| Indian Paint | Norman Foster | Johnny Crawford, Jay Silverheels, Pat Hogan | Western | Crown |
| Inside Daisy Clover | Robert Mulligan | Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Christopher Plummer | Drama | Warner Bros. 4 Oscar nominations |

## J–R

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
| John Goldfarb, Please Come Home | J. Lee Thompson | Shirley MacLaine, Richard Crenna, Peter Ustinov | Comedy | 20th Century Fox |
| Joy in the Morning | Alex Segal | Richard Chamberlain, Yvette Mimieux, Oskar Homolka | Drama | MGM |
| King Rat | Bryan Forbes | George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox | War drama | Columbia. From James Clavell novel |
| Love and Kisses | Ozzie Nelson | Ricky Nelson, Jerry Van Dyke, Kris Harmon | Comedy | Universal |
| Love Has Many Faces | Alexander Singer | Lana Turner, Cliff Robertson, Hugh O'Brian, Ruth Roman, Stefanie Powers | Drama, Romance | Columbia |
| The Loved One | Tony Richardson | Robert Morse, Jonathan Winters, John Gielgud, Liberace, Milton Berle, Tab Hunter, Rod Steiger | Comedy | MGM; based on novel by Evelyn Waugh |
| Major Dundee | Sam Peckinpah | Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, James Coburn | Western | Columbia |
| The Man from Button Willow | David Detiege | Dale Robertson, Howard Keel, Barbara Jean Wong | Animated western | Independent |
| Mara of the Wilderness | Frank McDonald | Adam West, Lori Saunders | Adventure | Allied Artists |
| Marriage on the Rocks | Jack Donohue | Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Deborah Kerr | Romantic comedy | Warner Bros. |
| McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force | Edward Montagne | Joe Flynn, Tim Conway | Comedy | Universal Pictures |
| Mickey One | Arthur Penn | Warren Beatty, Franchot Tone, Alexandra Stewart | Drama | Columbia |
| Mirage | Edward Dmytryk | Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau | Thriller | Universal Pictures |
| Mister Moses | Ronald Neame | Robert Mitchum, Carroll Baker, Ian Bannen | Adventure | United Artists |
| The Monkey's Uncle | Robert Stevenson | Annette Funicello, Tommy Kirk, Arthur O'Connell | Comedy | Disney; sequel to 1964 film |
| The Money Trap | Burt Kennedy | Glenn Ford, Elke Sommer, Rita Hayworth | Drama | MGM |
| Monster A Go-Go | Bill Rebane | June Travis, Phil Morton | Science fiction | |
| Morituri | Bernhard Wicki | Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Wally Cox, Janet Margolin | Action | 20th Century Fox |
| Motorpsycho | Russ Meyer | Haji, Alex Rocco | Action | Independent |
| Mudhoney | Russ Meyer | Lorna Maitland, Hal Hopper | Drama | Independent |
| My Blood Runs Cold | William Conrad | Troy Donahue, Joey Heatherton, Barry Sullivan | Thriller | Warner Bros. |
| The Naked Brigade | Maury Dexter | Shirley Eaton, Ken Scott, Mary Chronopoulou | War | Universal |
| The Naked Prey | Cornel Wilde | Cornel Wilde, Ken Gampu, Gert van den Bergh | Adventure | Paramount |
| Never Too Late | Bud Yorkin | Paul Ford, Maureen O'Sullivan, Connie Stevens | Comedy | Warner Bros. |
| Nightmare in the Sun | Marc Lawrence | John Derek, Ursula Andress, Sammy Davis, Jr. | Crime drama | Independent |
| None But The Brave | Frank Sinatra | Frank Sinatra, Tatsuya Mihashi, Clint Walker, Tommy Sands, Brad Dexter, Tony Bill | War drama | Warner Bros.; only film Sinatra directed |
| Once a Thief | Ralph Nelson | Alain Delon, Ann-Margret, Van Heflin, Jack Palance | Crime | MGM |
| One Way Wahine | William O. Brown | Joy Harmon, Anthony Eisley, Edgar Bergen | Comedy | Independent |
| Operation C.I.A. | Christian Nyby | Burt Reynolds, Danielle Aubrey, John Hoyt | Thriller | Allied Artists |
| The Outlaws Is Coming | Norman Maurer | Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe DeRita | Comedy | Columbia |
| A Patch of Blue | Guy Green | Sidney Poitier, Elizabeth Hartman, Shelley Winters | Drama | MGM. Oscar for Winters |
| Promise Her Anything | Arthur Hiller | Warren Beatty, Leslie Caron | Comedy | Paramount |
| A Rage to Live | Walter Grauman | Suzanne Pleshette, Bradford Dillman, Ben Gazzara | Drama | United Artists. From John O'Hara novel |
| Rapture | John Guillermin | Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Gozzi, Dean Stockwell | Drama | 20th Century Fox |
| The Ravagers | Eddie Romero | John Saxon, Fernando Poe Jr., Robert Arevalo | War | Independent |
| Red Line 7000 | Howard Hawks | James Caan, Laura Devon, Charlene Holt | Sports | Paramount |
| Requiem for a Gunfighter | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Rod Cameron, Stephen McNally, Mike Mazurki | Western | Embassy Pictures |
| The Reward | Serge Bourguignon | Max von Sydow, Yvette Mimieux, Gilbert Roland | Western | 20th Century Fox |
| Ride in the Whirlwind | Monte Hellman | Jack Nicholson, Millie Perkins, Harry Dean Stanton | Western | written by Nicholson |
| The Rounders | Burt Kennedy | Henry Fonda, Glenn Ford, Chill Wills, Sue Ane Langdon | Western comedy | MGM; from a novel by Max Evans |
| Runaway Girl | Hamil Petroff | Lili St. Cyr, Jock Mahoney, Laurie Mitchell | Crime | Independent |

## S–Z

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
| The Sandpiper | Vincente Minnelli | Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Eva Marie Saint, Robert Webber, Charles Bronson | Drama | MGM; won Oscar for Best Song |
| The Satan Bug | John Sturges | George Maharis, Anne Francis | Science fiction | from Alistair MacLean novel |
| Sergeant Deadhead | Norman Taurog | Frankie Avalon, Deborah Walley, Cesar Romero | Musical | A.I.P. |
| Shenandoah | Andrew V. McLaglen | James Stewart, Doug McClure, Katharine Ross, Glenn Corbett, Rosemary Forsyth | War, drama | Universal |
| Ship of Fools | Stanley Kramer | Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, Lee Marvin, José Ferrer, Oskar Werner, Elizabeth Ashley, George Segal, Michael Dunn (actor) | Drama | Columbia. 8 Oscar nominations; Leigh's final film |
| Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious | Gottfried Reinhardt | Alec Guinness, Mike Connors, Robert Redford | POW Comedy | Paramount |
| Ski Party | Alan Rafkin | Frankie Avalon, Dwayne Hickman, Yvonne Craig | Musical comedy | A.I.P. |
| The Slender Thread | Sydney Pollack | Sidney Poitier, Anne Bancroft, Telly Savalas | Drama | Paramount |
| Son of a Gunfighter | Paul Landres | Russ Tamblyn, Kieron Moore, Fernando Rey | Western | MGM |
| The Sons of Katie Elder | Henry Hathaway | John Wayne, Dean Martin, Earl Holliman, George Kennedy, James Gregory, Martha Hyer | Western | Paramount |
| The Sound of Music | Robert Wise | Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Peggy Wood, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn | Musical, family | 20th Century Fox; won 5 Oscars; from Maria von Trapp book |
| Space Probe Taurus | Leonard Katzman | Francine York, James Brown | Science fiction | A.I.P. |
| Strange Bedfellows | Melvin Frank | Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Gig Young | Comedy | Universal |
| A Swingin' Summer | Robert Sparr | Raquel Welch, James Stacy | Comedy | Independent. Welch's first starring role |
| The Sword of Ali Baba | Virgil W. Vogel | Jocelyn Lane, Frank McGrath, Gavin MacLeod | Adventure | Universal |
| Sylvia | Gordon Douglas | Carroll Baker, George Maharis, Peter Lawford | Drama | Paramount |
| Synanon | Richard Quine | Edmond O'Brien, Chuck Connors, Stella Stevens | Drama | Columbia |
| Taffy and the Jungle Hunter | Terry O. Morse | Jacques Bergerac, Manuel Padilla Jr. | Adventure | Allied Artists |
| That Darn Cat! | Robert Stevenson | Hayley Mills, Dean Jones, Dorothy Provine, Roddy McDowall, Neville Brand, Frank Gorshin, Elsa Lanchester, Ed Wynn, William Demarest | Family, comedy | Disney |
| That Funny Feeling | Richard Thorpe | Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin, Donald O'Connor | Comedy | Universal |
| The Third Day | Jack Smight | George Peppard, Elizabeth Ashley, Roddy McDowall | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| A Thousand Clowns | Fred Coe | Jason Robards, Martin Balsam, Barbara Harris, William Daniels, Barry Gordon, Gene Saks | Comedy, Drama | United Artists; Oscar for Balsam |
| Thunderball | Terence Young | Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi | Spy | United Artists |
| Tickle Me | Norman Taurog | Elvis Presley, Julie Adams, Jocelyn Lane | Musical | Allied Artists |
| Town Tamer | Lesley Selander | Dana Andrews, Terry Moore, Pat O'Brien | Western | Paramount |
| The Truth About Spring | Richard Thorpe | Hayley Mills, John Mills, Lionel Jeffries | Drama | Universal |
| Two on a Guillotine | William Conrad | Connie Stevens, Cesar Romero, Dean Jones | Horror | Warner Bros. |
| Up from the Beach | Robert Parrish | Cliff Robertson, Red Buttons, Irina Demick | War | 20th Century Fox |
| A Very Special Favor | Michael Gordon | Rock Hudson, Leslie Caron, Charles Boyer | Romantic comedy | Universal |
| Village of the Giants | Bert I. Gordon | Tommy Kirk, Johnny Crawford, Beau Bridges, Joy Harmon | Sci-fi comedy | Embassy |
| Von Ryan's Express | Mark Robson | Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Raffaella Carrà | War | 20th Century Fox; from David Westheimer novel |
| The War Lord | Franklin J. Schaffner | Charlton Heston, Richard Boone, Rosemary Forsyth | Historical | Universal |
| War Party | Lesley Selander | Davey Davison, Don "Red" Barry | Western | 20th Century Fox |
| What's New Pussycat? | Clive Donner | Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Paula Prentiss, Romy Schneider, Woody Allen, Capucine | Comedy | United Artists; Allen's film debut |
| When the Boys Meet the Girls | Alvin Ganzer | Connie Francis, Harve Presnell, Peter Noone | Musical | MGM |
| Wild on the Beach | Maury Dexter | Frankie Randall, Sherry Jackson, Cher, Sonny Bono | Comedy | 20th Century Fox |
| Wild Seed | Brian G. Hutton | Michael Parks, Celia Kaye | Drama | Universal |
| Willy McBean and his Magic Machine | Arthur Rankin, Jr. | | Animation | Rankin-Bass Productions |
| Winter A-Go-Go | Richard Benedict | James Stacy, William Wellman Jr., Beverly Adams | Comedy | Columbia |
| The World of Abbott and Costello | Sidney Miller | Bud Abbott, Lou Costello | Compilation | Universal |
| Young Dillinger | Terry O. Morse | John Ashley, Nick Adams, Robert Conrad | Crime | Allied Artists |
| Young Fury | Christian Nyby | Rory Calhoun, Virginia Mayo | Western | Paramount |
| Zebra in the Kitchen | Ivan Tors | Jay North, Martin Milner, Andy Devine | Family | MGM |