Best movies of 1962

Actors : Richard Egan, Ralph Richardson, Barry Coe, Diane Baker,
Directors : Rudolph Maté,

A small army of Greeks spearheaded by 300 Spartans do battle with the whole invading Persian army.

Actors : Tadao Takashima, Yû Fujiki, Kenji Sahara, Ichirô Arishima,
Directors : Ishirô Honda,

A pharmaceutical company captures King Kong and brings him to Japan, where he escapes from captivity and battles a recently released Godzilla.

Actors : Marisa Solinas, Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider, Sophia Loren,

Four directors tell tales of Eros fit for a 1970s Decameron. Working-class lovers, Renzo and Luciana, marry but must hide it from her employer; plus, they need a room of their own. A ...

Actors : Mary Mitchel, Jean Hagen, Frankie Avalon, Ray Milland,
Directors : Ray Milland,

A family of four leaves Los Angeles for a camping trip just before a nuclear bomb destroys the city. As lawlessness prevails, the father must fight to keep his family alive.

Actors : Frederico Zardi, Sennuccio Benelli, Frank Wolff, Salvo Randone,
Directors : Francesco Rosi,

The unclear and complicated twists between governal powers, independentist party and Mafia in the Sicily of the '40s culminate with the death of Salvatore Giuliano.

Actors : Karl Malden, Natalie Wood, Rosalind Russell, Paul Wallace,
Directors : Mervyn LeRoy,

Based on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose.

Actors : Stefanie Powers, Glenn Ford, Roy Poole, Lee Remick,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

A man with an asthmatic voice telephones bank clerk Kelly Sherwood at home and coerces her into helping him steal a large sum from her bank.

Actors : Arch Hall Jr., Marilyn Manning, Arch Hall Sr., Richard Kiel,
Directors : Arch Hall Sr.,

Teenagers stumble across a prehistoric caveman, who goes on a rampage.

Actors : Leona Gage, Vincent Price, Maggie Pierce, Peter Lorre,
Directors : Roger Corman,

Three tales of terror involve a grieving widower and the daughter he abandoned; a drunkard and his wife's black cat; and a hypnotist who prolongs the moment of a man's death.

Actors : Hazel Court, Heather Angel, Richard Ney, Ray Milland,
Directors : Roger Corman,

An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational horror of premature burial consumes him.

Actors : Hardy Krüger, Patricia Gozzi, Daniel Ivernel, Nicole Courcel,
Directors : Serge Bourguignon,

After killing a child when his plane crashes in a Vietnamese village, Pierre suffers from delayed stress and partial amnesia. Returning to France, he lives like a vegetable until he meets a...

Actors : Howard Da Silva, Keir Dullea, Janet Margolin, Neva Patterson,
Directors : Frank Perry,

The emotional story of a young man in a mental institution for teens who begins to understand his psychosis in the environment of others with mental and emotional problems. He finds ...

Actors : Jason Robards, Dean Stockwell, Ralph Richardson, Katharine Hepburn,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

Over the course of one day in August 1912, the family of retired actor James Tyrone grapples with the morphine addiction of his wife Mary, the illness of their youngest son Edmund and the ...

Actors : Susan Kohner, Larry Parks, Montgomery Clift, Susannah York,
Directors : John Huston,

This pseudobiographical movie depicts five years from 1885 on in the life of the Viennese psychologist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). At this time, most of his colleagues refuse to cure ...

Actors : Hideo Kanze, Hisashi Igawa, Sen Yano, Sumie Sasaki,
Directors : Hiroshi Teshigahara,

A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of lost souls.

Actors : Masayo Banri, Hajime Mitamura, Ryûzô Shimada, Shintarô Katsu,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur who also happens to be a master swordsman.

Actors : Lola Albright, Elvis Presley, Joan Blackman, Gig Young,
Directors : Phil Karlson,

When he completes his military service Walter Gulick returns to his birthplace, Cream Valley, New York. He was orphaned as an infant and grew up elsewhere but always wanted to return to ...

Actors : Melvyn Douglas, Robert Ryan, Paul Rogers, Peter Ustinov,
Directors : Peter Ustinov,

Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.

Actors : Mickey Rooney, Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Julie Harris,
Directors : Ralph Nelson,

Mountain Rivera, a punchy has-been managed by the unprincipled Maish, is mauled in a fight and forced to quit boxing. Can his devoted cutman and a sympathetic social worker help him find a ...

Actors : Alan Bates, June Ritchie, Bert Palmer, Thora Hird,
Directors : John Schlesinger,

After his girlfriend's pregnancy forces him to marry her, a young man must adjust to his new life and contend with his domineering mother-in-law.