Best Crime movies of 1962

Actors : Betty Beckers, Paul Cambo, Gisel Berteau, Nelly Charbotel,
Directors : E.G. de Meyst,

Dishonest smugglers hide their stuff in old Mazier's cafe.

Actors : Georgi Georgiev-Getz, Stefan Pejchev, Lilyana Doneva, Nikola Galabov,
Directors : Anton Marinovich,

Captain Lipovanski has been badly wounded in the World War II. The German takes him prisoner. After the end of the war, he is set free in a foreign country. He has been deceived that he has...

Actors : Chris Warfield, Erin O'Donnell, Virginia Christine, Harp McGuire,
Directors : Edward L. Cahn,

Based on a short story by Rod Serling ("The Twilight Zone"), a cop "mistakenly" kills a 14-year-old boy during a robbery. Although acquitted for the shooting, the cop is haunted by his crime.

Actors : Jerzy Kozakiewicz, Elzbieta Kepinska, Hanna Zembrzuska, Wieslaw Golas,
Directors : Stanislaw Bareja,

Film inspired by true events. Roman Jacenko (played by Jerzy Kozakiewicz), a small village local photographer, lives in a shabby garret, which serves also as his lab and studio. He loves ...

Actors : Helmut Schmid, Sonja Ziemann, Don Barrigo, Tony Wright,
Directors : Denis Scully,

Ricky and Maria, desperate for money, undertake an insurance fraud. After getting involved with a thug, it ends in tragedy.

Actors : Kyôji Aoyama, Hitoshi Miyazaki, Minako Katsuki,
Directors : Isamu Kosugi,

This may be a sequel to TOKYO DANGER MAP.

Actors : David Davies, Eira Heath, Sean Kelly, Sean Sullivan,
Directors : Frank Marshall,

During the early 60s, a Chicago mobster and a Londoner try to get involved in a jukebox racket.

Actors : Sebastião Vasconcelos, Augusto Cesar Vanucci, Eva Wilma, Oswaldo Loureiro,
Directors : Alberto Pieralisi,

Foreign country wants to perpetrate a "coup" in Brazil. They employ a new technique of subliminal messages, which are transported along with radio and TV waves. In no time, the population ...

Actors : Peter Reynolds, Carol White, David Kernan, Avice Landone,
Directors : Francis Searle,

A family of burglars and safecrackers plan a heist at a jewelry store. When one of the family--who is the safecracking expert--gets arrested and jailed, they hatch a plan to break him out so he can take part in the robbery.

Actors : Bina Rai, Nishi, Abhi Bhattacharya, Shammi Kapoor,
Directors : Hari Walia,

A gambler with a big heart becomes a suspect after a child goes missing.

Actors : Norma Angélica, Armando Silvestre, Xavier Loyá, June Wilkinson,

Tito is a swindler who plans to appropriate a large sum of money supposedly sent abroad by airplane, with the complicity of Carlos, the cashier of a big company, who must put a time bomb ...

Actors : Allan Cuthbertson, Yvonne Buckingham, Michael Coles, Michael Caine,
Directors : Gordon Flemyng,

A group of crooks accidentally kill an elderly shop assistant while stealing the keys to the jewelry shop where she works.

Actors : Seok-hun Kim, Hae Hwang, Mi-ryeong Jo,
Directors : Muk Kim,

A detective's case against a murder suspect is derailed wehn the suspect's girlfriend supplies an alibi. Knowing that the woman is lying, but unable to prove it, the investigation is forced to start from scratch.

Actors : Maurice Ronet, Sacha Pitoëff, Nicole Berger, Françoise Brion,
Directors : Jacques Doniol-Valcroze,

A traitor considered a hero after WW2.

Actors : Kôji Tsuruta, Hideo Kô, Tatsuo Umemiya, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

Mizuhara did his time in jail for Boss Komori. Now that he is out, the old gang wants to say welcome back with a bullet.

Actors : Seok-hun Kim, Hae Hwang, Aeng-ran Eom,
Directors : Muk Kim,

Although they successfully rob a jewelry store, the thieves botch the getaway and are forced to take shelter in a hotel--taking the guests and staff hostage in the process.

Actors : Francine York, Edmund Tontini, Jonathan Karle, Robert Blair,
Directors : Rudolph Cusumano,

A gang murders an ex-con and forces his wife to help them find $250,000 he had buried in the desert.

Actors : Patrick Holt, Emrys Jones, Bruce Beeby, Honor Blackman,
Directors : Peter Maxwell,

Scotland Yard investigate when a woman, apparently the estranged wife of a London painter, is murdered with a shotgun in rural Surrey at the same time as the artist's striking model with ...

Actors : Roberto Ramírez Garza, Begoña Palacios, Fernando Casanova, Ana Bertha Lepe,
Directors : Federico Curiel,

El Santo and his loyal friends will try to disarm a dangerous criminal organization.

Actors : Mayumi Shimizu, Kôji Wada, Masako Izumi, Hideki Takahashi,
Directors : Kô Nakahira,

More taiyozoku (sun tribe) + yakuza style craziness? Seemingly so.