Best 1963 movies

Stacker compiled a list of the best 1963 movies of all time based on our own Stacker score, a weighted index split evenly between IMDb user rating and Metascore. The top movie on this list has a Stacker score of 100; the remaining movies are ranked relative to it. To qualify, the film had at least 10,000 IMDb user votes and a Metascore. Any ties were broken by number of IMDb votes.

#20. King Kong vs. Godzilla
- Stacker score: 56.1
- IMDb user rating: 5.7 (votes: 12,000)
- Metascore: 40
- Director: Ishirô Honda, Tom Montgomery
- Actors: Tadao Takashima, Kenji Sahara, Yû Fujiki
- Runtime: 1 hour 31 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A

#19. The Pink Panther
- Stacker score: 72.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.0 (votes: 60,000)
- Metascore: 55
- Director: Blake Edwards
- Actors: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner
- Runtime: 1 hour 55 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: $10,878,107

#18. Cleopatra
- Stacker score: 75.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.0 (votes: 40,000)
- Metascore: 60
- Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Rouben Mamoulian
- Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison
- Runtime: 5 hours 20 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: $57,777,778

#17. Donovan's Reef
- Stacker score: 75.7
- IMDb user rating: 6.7 (votes: 10,000)
- Metascore: 64
- Director: John Ford
- Actors: John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Elizabeth Allen
- Runtime: 1 hour 49 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A

#16. The Sword in the Stone
- Stacker score: 76.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.1 (votes: 112,000)
- Metascore: 61
- Director: Wolfgang Reitherman, Clyde Geronimi, David Hand
- Actors: Rickie Sorensen, Sebastian Cabot, Karl Swenson
- Runtime: 1 hour 19 minutes
- Rating: G
- Box office: $12,000,000

#15. McLintock!
- Stacker score: 76.9
- IMDb user rating: 7.1 (votes: 18,000)
- Metascore: 62
- Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
- Actors: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Patrick Wayne
- Runtime: 2 hours 6 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A

#14. It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
- Stacker score: 77.5
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 50,000)
- Metascore: 59
- Director: Stanley Kramer
- Actors: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Ethel Merman
- Runtime: 3 hours 30 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: $46,332,858

#13. Lilies of the Field
- Stacker score: 78.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 15,000)
- Metascore: 61
- Director: Ralph Nelson
- Actors: Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Lisa Mann
- Runtime: 1 hour 34 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A

#12. Lord of the Flies
- Stacker score: 78.6
- IMDb user rating: 6.9 (votes: 21,000)
- Metascore: 67
- Director: Peter Brook
- Actors: James Aubrey, Tom Chapin, Hugh Edwards
- Runtime: 1 hour 32 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: N/A

#11. Irma la Douce
- Stacker score: 78.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 23,000)
- Metascore: 63
- Director: Billy Wilder
- Actors: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Lou Jacobi
- Runtime: 2 hours 27 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A

#10. Hud
- Stacker score: 80.9
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 25,000)
- Metascore: 62
- Director: Martin Ritt
- Actors: Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal
- Runtime: 1 hour 52 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A

#9. Tom Jones
- Stacker score: 81.5
- IMDb user rating: 6.4 (votes: 15,000)
- Metascore: 77
- Director: Tony Richardson
- Actors: Albert Finney, Susannah York, George Devine
- Runtime: 2 hours 9 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: N/A

#8. Jason and the Argonauts
- Stacker score: 82.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 33,000)
- Metascore: 69
- Director: Don Chaffey
- Actors: Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack, Gary Raymond
- Runtime: 1 hour 44 minutes
- Rating: G
- Box office: N/A

#7. The Haunting
- Stacker score: 85.5
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 45,000)
- Metascore: 74
- Director: Robert Wise
- Actors: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson
- Runtime: 1 hour 52 minutes
- Rating: G
- Box office: N/A

#6. From Russia with Love
- Stacker score: 90.2
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 153,000)
- Metascore: 83
- Director: Terence Young
- Actors: Sean Connery, Robert Shaw, Lotte Lenya
- Runtime: 1 hour 55 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $24,796,765

#5. Charade
- Stacker score: 93.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 91,000)
- Metascore: 83
- Director: Stanley Donen
- Actors: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau
- Runtime: 1 hour 53 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A

#4. The Birds
- Stacker score: 96.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 215,000)
- Metascore: 90
- Director: Alfred Hitchcock
- Actors: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy
- Runtime: 1 hour 59 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: N/A

#3. The Great Escape
- Stacker score: 97.1
- IMDb user rating: 8.2 (votes: 272,000)
- Metascore: 86
- Director: John Sturges
- Actors: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough
- Runtime: 2 hours 52 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A

#2. The Servant
- Stacker score: 99.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 15,000)
- Metascore: 94
- Director: Joseph Losey
- Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig
- Runtime: 1 hour 56 minutes
- Rating: Unrated
- Box office: $45,522

#1. 8½
- Stacker score: 100.0
- IMDb user rating: 8.0 (votes: 130,000)
- Metascore: 93
- Director: Federico Fellini
- Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Claudia Cardinale
- Runtime: 2 hours 18 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: $151,951