Best Crime movies of 1962

Actors : Frank Villard, Madeleine Robinson, Jean Gabin, Jean Lefebvre,
Directors : Gilles Grangier,

The story takes place in the racecourses around Paris. A so-called major sells his tips to naive characters.

Actors : Sabine Sesselmann, Eddi Arent, Heinz Drache, Pinkas Braun,
Directors : Alfred Vohrer,

A woman arrives at a lonely mansion and finds herself mixed up with a lunatic who has built his own torture chamber, which is already crowded with victims - and he plans to make her his next one.

Actors : Norma Bengell, Per Aabel, Hugo Carvana, Lucy de Carvalho,
Directors : Ruy Guerra,

This film captures the criminal behavior of two young Copacabana thugs (the "cafajestes"). The two plan a blackmail coup against a rich old man, using nude pictures of a lady on a deserted ...

Actors : Yolande Donlan, Michael Goodliffe, Ronald Lewis, Jack Warner,
Directors : Val Guest,

A woman is found murdered in a house along the coast from Brighton. Local detectives Fellows and Wilks lead an investigation methodically following up leads and clues mostly in Brighton and...

Actors : Stanley Baxter, Julie Christie, Leslie Phillips, Wilfrid Hyde-White,
Directors : Ken Annakin,

Forsdyke, a pathological petty thief subjects himself to a strict correction course run by a wealthy ex-con Widdowes and his Crooks Anonymous organization. Forsdyke's young and innocent ...

Actors : Minoru Ôki, Junko Kanô, Machiko Kyô, Hiroshi Kawaguchi,
Directors : Umetsugu Inoue,

A jeweler hires detective Akechi to find his daughter kidnapped by a famous thief known as the Black Lizard.

Actors : Helmut Schmid, Stanley Baker, John Phillips, Tom Bell,
Directors : Cliff Owen,

A criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll.

Actors : Shakila, Helen, Shammi Kapoor, Madan Puri,
Directors : Shakti Samanta,

A Darjeeling-based singer is asked to impersonate and take over the life of a Calcutta-based China Town gangster.

Actors : Siegfried Lowitz, Rudolf Fernau, Lex Barker, Karin Dor,
Directors : Harald Reinl,

Evil mastermind Dr. Mabuse seeks Professor Erasmus' secret invention, a device that makes one invisible, but a murder in a revue theatre brings the German police and the FBI into the mix.

Actors : Dudley Sutton, Robert Morley, Ronald Lacey, Richard Todd,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

When the night watchman of a garage is found murdered, 4 young men are arrested and put on trial. Under cross-examination, suspects and witnesses give differing accounts of the same ...

Actors : Geneviève Grad, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Françoise Dorléac,
Directors : Édouard Molinaro,

André Laroche, an industrialist, has just passed away. Face to his grave, as he is being buried, Anne de Vierne, the wife of a magistrate, confesses to her son François that Laroche was in ...

Actors : Constance Ford, Barbara Nichols, Andrew Duggan, Shirley Knight,

Drama about a young woman, Erica, who is wrongly implicated in a crime and sent to prison for five years, where she faces deplorable conditions. With the aid of the warden, she sets out to prove her innocence.

Actors : Hideo Takamatsu, Jirô Tamiya, Junko Kanô, Eiji Funakoshi,
Directors : Yasuzô Masumura,

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.

Actors : Ab Abspoel, Chris Baay, Henk Admiraal, Hetty Beck,
Directors : Paul Rotha,

1944. Resistance-fighter Bakker gets send to a prison in Leeuwarden by the Gestapo. There he and other resistance-fighters are about to be rescued in a giant prison escape by their companions.

Actors : Ruth Stephan, Elfie Pertramer, Heinz Rühmann, Hans Clarin,
Directors : Imo Moszkowicz,

Max, a small time pick-pocket, has nothing to do with the "big" crimes. But then he must find the murderer of Fred, his wife's brother.

Actors : Cecil Parker, Bernard Lee, Peter van Eyck, Anne Heywood,
Directors : Freddie Francis,

A millionaire businessman's brain is kept alive after a fatal accident, and communicates clues to a doctor on the trail of the killer.

Actors : Jean-Claude Brialy, Nadja Tiller, Edith Scob, Perrette Pradier,
Directors : Julien Duvivier,

A group of people visit a weird old man who is a student of the black arts. The man lives in an ancient, cursed castle. Soon people in the group start being killed off.

Actors : Derren Nesbitt, Colin Gordon, Ann Lynn, John Chappell,
Directors : Vernon Sewell,

During a bank robbery, the manager and a cashier are locked in the strongroom while the crooks escape. Later when the gang realise that their plan to release the pair has gone wrong, they ...

Actors : Karin Dor, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Antonio Casas, Joachim Fuchsberger,
Directors : Harald Reinl,

An evil genius uses poison gas to avenge himself on his enemies.

Actors : Cyril Raymond, Janina Faye, Christina Gregg, Gillian Lind,
Directors : Pat Jackson,

An innocent girl is "groomed" over the telephone, and nearly becomes the victim of the attacker only to put her younger sisters life in grave danger.