Best Crime movies of 1963

Actors : David Niven, Capucine, Robert Wagner, Peter Sellers,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

Inspector Clouseau travels to Rome to catch a notorious jewel thief known as "The Phantom" before he conducts his most daring heist yet--a princess' priceless diamond with one slight imperfection, known as "The Pink Panther."

Actors : Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yutaka Sada, Toshirô Mifune,
Directors : Akira Kurosawa,

An executive of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.

Actors : Jean Desailly, Jean-Paul Belmondo, René Lefèvre, Serge Reggiani,
Directors : Jean-Pierre Melville,

Burglar Maurice Faugel has just finished his sentence. He murders Gilbert Vanovre, a receiver, and steals the loot of a break-in. He is also preparing a house-breaking, and his friend ...

Actors : Elke Sommer, Edward G. Robinson, Paul Newman, Diane Baker,
Directors : Mark Robson,

As the Nobel Prize winners come to Stockholm to receive their awards, their lives are overturned and perturbed in various ways.

Actors : Flora Robson, Stringer Davis, Robert Morley, Margaret Rutherford,
Directors : George Pollock,

When a wealthy old man appears to have been "frightened to death" by a cat, Miss Marple suspects one of his four relatives, all heirs to his estate, of his murder.

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 : Claude Cerval, Jean Gabin, Viviane Romance, Alain Delon,
Directors : Henri Verneuil,

Charles (Jean Gabin), a sixtyish career criminal fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cellmate, Francis (Alain Delon)...

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 : 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 : Bernard Cribbins, Lionel Jeffries, Davy Kaye, Peter Sellers,
Directors : Cliff Owen,

The crooks in London know how it works. No one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a new gang appears that go one better. They dress as police and steal from the crooks. This ...

Actors : Charles Vanel, Michèle Mercier, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Malvina Silberberg,
Directors : Jean-Pierre Melville,

Broke French ex-paratrooper turned amateur boxer Michel Maudet becomes bodyguard for the fugitive corrupt banker Ferchaux.

Actors : Horst Buchholz, José Ferrer, Valerie Gearon, Don Borisenko,
Directors : Mark Robson,

Fictional narrative of Hindu militant activist Nathuram Godse's plan to kill Mahatma Gandhi and of police officer Gopal Das' task to find the killer before it's too late.

Actors : Michèle Morgan, Danielle Darrieux, Juliette Mayniel, Hildegard Knef,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Follows a family-man who meets women through lonely hearts ads.

Actors : Gisela Uhlen, Corny Collins, Klaus Kinski, Heinz Drache,
Directors : Alfred Vohrer,

When a wealthy man dies, his avaricious relatives look forward to inheriting all his money. However, he leaves a provision in his will that they all must spend a week together in his castle...

Actors : Liliane Brousse, Nadia Gray, Kerwin Mathews, Donald Houston,
Directors : Michael Carreras,

An American painter has an affair with a bar owner is a French village and agrees to help her murderer husband escape from a prison for the criminally insane.

Actors : Jean-Claude Brialy, Sophie Daumier, Louis de Funès, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Marcel Bluwal,

Actors : Alan Bates, Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick, Felix Aylmer,
Directors : Carol Reed,

Hard up and with a grudge against insurance companies, Rex Black feigns his death and meets up with his wife and the money in Malaga when things seemed to have quietened down. But when the ...

Actors : Charles Regnier, Grit Boettcher, Dieter Borsche, Joachim Fuchsberger,
Directors : Franz Josef Gottlieb,

Several employees on a nobleman's estate show up at a former abbey, reputed to be haunted, to search for a hidden treasure. Howver, a mysterious hooded figure begins killing off those who may have figured out where the treasure is hidden.

Actors : Jan Hendriks, Günter Pfitzmann, Barbara Rütting, Heinz Drache,
Directors : Alfred Vohrer,

Scotland Yard investigates a series of murders where the victims have died by snake venom poisoning.