Best Drama movies of 1962

Actors : Richard Basehart, Martin Kosleck, Maria Emo, Cordula Trantow,
Directors : Stuart Heisler,

Richard Basehart stars as one of the most influential and one of the most reviled men in history in this probing psychological study of a man who nearly gained dominance over the entire ...

Actors : Madiha Yousri, Nadia Lutfi, Abdel Halim Hafez, Imad Hamdi,
Directors : Hassan Al Imam,

A drama plot about a wife trying to balance her husband's love towards their adopted child (sin child of the wife) and their natural child.

Actors : Vincent Price, Stuart Whitman, Ben Gazzara, Ray Walston,
Directors : Millard Kaufman,

A semi-fictionalized version of John Resko's incarceration is presented. John is on death row at Sing Sing for murder. In December 1930, he killed a toy store shopkeeper over a teddy bear ...

Actors : Vagelis Voulgaridis, Eleni Zafeiriou, Kostas Voutsas, Zoi Laskari,
Directors : Giannis Dalianidis,

Maria falls in love with George who is a student of her strict father, Andreas Economou. Dolly, a classmate of Maria spends a night with George and the next morning tells Maria about it. ...

Actors : Susan Hayward, Diane Cilento, Cyril Cusack, Peter Finch,
Directors : Robert Stevens,

A physician Christine Allison)is employed by an attorney, played by Peter Finch, who formerly prosecuted her on charges of euthanasia to watch over his mentally ill wife.

Actors : Harry Andrews, Michael Anderson Jr., Oliver Grimm, Kay Walsh,
Directors : Philip Leacock,

During World War II, in a small English coastal town, teenage boys eager to join the army but unable to do so participate in their own homemade private brutal war games with tragic results.

Actors : Hideko Takamine, Daisuke Katô, Keiju Kobayashi, Akira Takarada,
Directors : Mikio Naruse,

Woman can't find a decent job, meanwhile being dumped by her boyfriend and writing on the side. people say her writing on poverty is good... See full synopsis »

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 : Masayo Banri, Mayumi Nagisa, Shiho Fujimura, Raizô Ichikawa,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

A samurai seeks revenge and redemption after his family is executed by a rival clan.

Actors : Ljuba Tadic, Bojan Stupica, Kapitalina Eric, Olivera Markovic,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

In what might be termed Russo-Shakespearean noir, a ruthless woman's adulterous affair with a drifter sets in motion a chain-reaction of murder and deception in a remote village in 19th Century Mtsensk.

Actors : Vasilis Andreopoulos, Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Spyros Kalogirou, Thanasis Vengos,
Directors : Roviros Manthoulis,

Two very good friends, Anestis and Panagis, meet again after many years during an excursion to the countryside. Their joy is great as they both thought one another was dead. So they start ...

Actors : Shadia, Shukry Sarhan, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Samir Sabri,
Directors : Kamal El Sheikh,

After four years in prison, the young thief Said Mahran come out of jail & seek revenge against those who betrayed him,his beloved wife and his trusted henchman, who conspired to turn him ...

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Rik Battaglia, Dominique Wilms, Ivica Pajer,
Directors : Tanio Boccia,

Julius Caesar leads the Roman army to battle against rebels in Gaul.

Actors : Maureen Stapleton, Raf Vallone, Jean Sorel, Carol Lawrence,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman is unhappily married to Beatrice and unconsciously in love with Catherine, the niece that they have raised from childhood. Into his house come two ...

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 : Jean Marais, Basil Rathbone, Letícia Román, Jeanne Crain,

The events that culminated with the Passion of Christ seen from the perspective of Pontius Pilate, the Procurator of Judea who unwillingly condemned Christ to death. Based on the biblical Gospel of John.

Actors : Robert Yuro, Mike Keene, Grayson Hall, Meg Myles,
Directors : Jerald Intrator,

A carnival burlesque dancer robs her junkie ex-husband, goes to New York, gets a job at a high-class club where she becomes the mistress of the wealthy owner. She seduces his son and causes...

Actors : Leslie Caron, David Niven, James Robertson Justice, David Opatoshu,
Directors : Anthony Asquith,

An English couple and a deposed ruler head for the border during a South American revolution.

Actors : Fujiko Yamamoto, Kumeko Urabe, Hiroo Suzuki, Eiji Funakoshi,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

The trials, tribulations, and joys of raising a child. The film follows the everyday events of a family with one boy, coming up to his second birthday, interspersed with occasional thoughts...