Best Action movies of 1963

Actors : Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Lotte Lenya, Robert Shaw,
Directors : Terence Young,

James Bond willingly falls into an assassination ploy involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by SPECTRE.

Actors : Mickey Rooney, Milton Berle, Ethel Merman, Spencer Tracy,
Directors : Stanley Kramer,

The dying words of a thief spark a madcap cross-country rush to find some treasure.

Actors : Ava Gardner, David Niven, Flora Robson, Charlton Heston,

During the 1900 Boxer Rebellion against foreigners in China, U.S. Marine Major Matt Lewis, aided by British Consul Sir Arthur Robertson, devises a strategy to keep the rebels at bay until an international military relief force arrives.

Actors : Bernard Blier, Lino Ventura, Claude Rich, Francis Blanche,
Directors : Georges Lautner,

Ex-gangster Fernand (Lino Ventura) receives a call from a dying friend, a mob boss nicknamed "The Mexican". The doomed mobster talks Fernand into taking care of some criminal business and ...

Actors : Misako Watanabe, Minako Katsuki, Tamio Kawaji, Jô Shishido,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

A violent thug plays opposing yakuza bosses against each other.

Actors : Edith Scob, Francine Bergé, Channing Pollock, Théo Sarapo,
Directors : Georges Franju,

Favraux, an unscrupulous banker, receives a threatening note, signed by "Judex", demanding that he pay back the people he has swindled. He refuses, and apparently dies after a midnight ...

Actors : Tawfik El Deken, Ahmed Mazhar, Mohamed Abdel Gawad, Omar El-Hariri,
Directors : Youssef Chahine,

Saladin, ruler of the kingdoms surrounding the Latin state of Jerusalem, is brought to attack the Christians in the Holy Land by the sacking of a convoy of Muslim pilgrims, a group which ...

Actors : Jim Backus, Henry Silva, Richard Anderson, Elizabeth Montgomery,
Directors : William Asher,

Exiled American gangster Colini sends his protégé-killer Giordano to the USA to eliminate Colini's mob enemies.

Actors : Ryûzô Shimada, Reiko Fujiwara, Shiho Fujimura, Shintarô Katsu,
Directors : Kimiyoshi Yasuda,

Zatoichi promises to deliver a maiden safely home but finds two dangerous gangs have a mysterious interest in the young girl.

Actors : Fujio Suga, Mikiko Tsubouchi, Shintarô Katsu, Seizaburô Kawazu,
Directors : Tokuzô Tanaka,

Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in a love triangle and finds old scores have followed him home.

Actors : Masayo Banri, Miwa Takada, Shintarô Katsu, Jun'ichirô Narita,
Directors : Tokuzô Tanaka,

A yakuza gang targets the blind masseur Zatoichi after he defeats their group in a wrestling match. Meanwhile a long lost love of Zatoichi's returns to his life.

Actors : Ryôhei Uchida, Kôtarô Satomi, Chiezô Kataoka, Takayuki Akutagawa,
Directors : Eiichi Kudô,

A group of samurai plan to assassinate a sadistic feudal lord.

Actors : Abraham Sofaer, Pedro Armendáriz, Heidi Brühl, Guy Williams,
Directors : Byron Haskin,

The peaceful kingdom of Baristan has an evil ruler named El-Carim. He plans to capture his rival, Sindbad, who will soon return from sea in order to marry Princess Jana. The Princess ...

Actors : Demeter Bitenc, Kirk Morris, Frank Leroy, Laura Brown,
Directors : Guido Malatesta,

Maciste and his people flee their volcano-ravaged island. They end up caught in between two warring tribes.

Actors : Nobuo Kaneko, Tamio Kawaji, Reiko Sassamori, Jô Shishido,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

Police detective Tajima, tasked with tracking down stolen firearms, turns an underworld grudge into a blood-bath. Suzuki transforms a colorful pot-boiler into an on-target send-up of cultural colonialism and post-war greed.

Actors : Cornel Wilde, Brian Aherne, Jean Wallace, George Baker,
Directors : Cornel Wilde,

This period action classic features Cornel Wilde, who also co-produced and directed this film, as Lancelot, the bravest knight of the Round Table.

Actors : Woody Strode, Tsu Kobayashi, Earl Cameron, Jock Mahoney,
Directors : Robert Day,

The spiritual leader of an oriental country is dying. The leader's evil brother Khan is plotting to prevent Kashi, the youthful heir, from assuming his rightful position. Tarzan is summoned...

Actors : Nadia Sanders, Irina Demick, Henri-Jacques Huet, Kerwin Mathews,
Directors : André Hunebelle,

During a scuba diving in Corsica, an American agent disappears. The Secret Service sends Hubert Bonisseur of Bath.

Actors : Toshirô Mifune, Tadao Nakamaru, Mie Hama, Kumi Mizuno,
Directors : Senkichi Taniguchi,

Sukezaemon, a pirate, is shipwrecked in a strange corner of the world. With his companion, a wizard named Sennin, Sukezaemon becomes entangled in a plot by the evil premier to succeed the dying King Raksha.

Actors : Rita Moreno, James MacArthur, Van Heflin, Leopoldo Salcedo,
Directors : Irving Lerner,

During World War II, the spoiled son of a wealthy businessman finds himself involved in the guerrilla movement fighting against the Japanese, and finds romance and adventure.