1964: Year's Best Movies

A mentally unstable American general orders a hydrogen bomb attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to global nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.

While investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve.

An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.

A technical malfunction sends American bombers to Moscow to deliver a nuclear attack. Can all-out war be averted?

A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling.

Surprised that their contract victim didn't try to run away from them, two professional hit men try to find out who hired them and why.

In turn of the century London, a magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.

A young woman separated from her lover by war faces a life-altering decision.

Over two "typical" days in the life of The Beatles, the boys struggle to keep themselves and Sir Paul McCartney's mischievous grandfather in check while preparing for a live TV performance.

Mark marries Marnie although she is a habitual thief and has serious psychological problems, and tries to help her confront and resolve them.

A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge.

In 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make a crude flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, presentable in high society.

Now middle-aged, mobster Murray looks back at his humble beginnings as a bootlegger, and his rise to becoming wealthy and highly influential. Through it all, he talks about how much of his success and happiness is due to the support of his "friend" Joe. Unfortunately, the only one who blindly believes that Joe is anything close to a friend is Murray himself, because it's obvious to everyone else that Joe not only back-stabs him at every chance, but is also sleeping with his wife.

Reality movie of a few days in the life of a Czech teenager when he starts work.

A Jewish pawnbroker, victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions.

When a spaceship lands on the moon, it is hailed as a new accomplishment, before it becomes clear that a Victorian party completed the journey in 1899, leading investigators to that mission's last survivor.

In the elegant world of artists and musicians, Gertrud ends her marriage to Gustav and takes a lover, the composer Erland Jansson.

Bumbling Inspector Jacques Clouseau falls in love with murder suspect Maria Gambrelli and tries to clear her name.

The author of a best-selling fishing guide is actually extremely inexperienced in the sport, which causes mayhem when he is entered into a competition.

An entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.

The two front runners for their party's presidential nomination, one principled and the other ruthless, vie for the former president's endorsement.

Jealous piano teacher Orville Spooner sends his beautiful wife Zelda away for the night while he tries to sell a song to famous nightclub singer Dino, who is stranded in town.

An experimental film from Stan Brakhage in which a man and his dog ascend a wooded mountain.

In an industrial area, unstable Giuliana attempts to cope with life by starting an affair with a co-worker at the plant her husband manages.

The life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew. Film shows Christ as a Marxist avant-la-lettre and therefore uses half of the text of Matthew.