Best Drama movies of 1962

Actors : Corinne Calvet, Fred Clark, Richard Beymer, Diane Baker,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

An immature young man from Middle America grows to manhood after a cross-country journey and his military service in World War I.

Actors : Yûnosuke Itô, Shiho Fujimura, Katsuhiko Kobayashi, Raizô Ichikawa,
Directors : Satsuo Yamamoto,

Ishikawa Goemon (Ichikawa Raizo), a talented young ninja, becomes ensnared in a twisted scheme to assassinate Oda Nobunaga, an evil warlord bent on ruling feudal Japan with an iron fist. ...

Actors : Gena Rowlands, Burl Ives, Rock Hudson, Geoffrey Keen,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

In 1936, a Dutch physician who treats leprosy patients in the jungles of Indonesia has a dangerous run-in with a local witch-doctor who uses black magic to kill his enemies.

Actors : Jean-Claude Aimini, Stefania Sabatini, Daniel Descamps, Yveline Céry,
Directors : Jacques Rozier,

Michel is a young technician in the fledgling TV industry and is due for military service in two months at the time of the Algerian War. Juliette and Liliane are inseparable best friends, ...

Actors : Walther Reyer, Erika Tweer, Stéphane Audran, Jacques Charrier,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

André Mercier, a journalist known as Albin Mercier, is a failed, embittered writer. Sent to cover an event in Germany, he gets to know Andreas Hartmann, another writer who, for his part, ...

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 : Simone Signoret, Sarah Miles, Laurence Olivier, Terence Stamp,
Directors : Peter Glenville,

Graham Weir is an alcoholic schoolteacher whose criminal record for refusing to fight during the Second World War has prevented him from progressing further in his teaching career. He is ...

Actors : Beryl Reid, David Lodge, Richard Attenborough, Peter Sellers,
Directors : James Hill,

An incompetent barrister is assigned to defend a wife murderer.

Actors : Dolores Dorn, Alan Ladd, Michael Callan, Rod Steiger,
Directors : Philip Leacock,

An aerospace engineer (Ladd) ignores a policeman (Steiger) and hunts down a gang of juvenile delinquents.

Actors : Philippe Noiret, Emmanuelle Riva, Edith Scob, Sami Frey,
Directors : Georges Franju,

After Thérèse is acquitted of trying to poison her husband, Bernard Desqueyroux, she recalls the events that lead to her being charged. At the beginning of her marriage to Bernard, the only...

Actors : Yul Brynner, Sal Mineo, Madlyn Rhue, Jack Warden,
Directors : Ronald Neame,

A hunted revolutionary leads a rag tag group of individuals through the desert in an attempt to elude the security forces and escape the fictitious Arab country of Zahrain.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Henri Serre, Romy Schneider, Diane Lepvrier,
Directors : Alain Cavalier,

The son of a French industrialist, Clément is a right wing extremist who belongs to a secret militant right wing organization that uses whatever means necessary, including violence, to ...

Actors : Bernard Blier, Maurice Biraud, Danièle Delorme, Francis Blanche,
Directors : Georges Lautner,

In a moment of madness a respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. Unable to take in what he has done, he flees from the scene of the crime and behaves as if nothing has happened.

Actors : Marianne Krencsey, Ilona Béres, András Csorba, Ernö Szabó,
Directors : Viktor Gertler,

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 : José Luis López Vázquez, Alberto Closas, Amparo Soler Leal, José Isbert,

Carlos Alonso and Mercedes Cebrián are parents of fifteen children of different ages. They all live with the grandfather and depend exclusively on Carlos work (moonlighting rigger) as the ...

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Sô Yamamura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Keiko Kishi,
Directors : Masaki Kobayashi,

Two-hundred million yen is up for grabs in a dying businessman's will. The businessman intends to will it to his 3 illegitimate children, but his associates scheme to take advantage of the situation.

Actors : Átila Iório, Eliezer Gomes, Reginaldo Faria, Jorge Dória,
Directors : Roberto Farias,

Film about the true events in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, when a gang having the infamous outlaw Tião Medonho as a leader performed a sensational railroad hold-up on a train carrying a small fortune.

Actors : William Holden, France Nuyen, Clifton Webb, Athene Seyler,

During the Chinese Civil War of 1949, the Communists constantly harass the two priests of a remote Catholic mission outpost.

Actors : Senta Berger, Christopher Lee, Hans Nielsen, Hans Söhnker,
Directors : Terence Fisher,

Sherlock Holmes and Watson do battle with their nemesis, Professor Moriarity, over an ancient necklace attributed to Cleopatra.