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1. The Music Man (1962)

G | 151 min | Comedy, Family, Musical

76 Metascore

Traveling con artist Harold Hill targets the naïve residents of a small town in 1910s Iowa by posing as a boys' band leader to raise money before he can skip town.

Director: Morton DaCosta | Stars: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Hermione Gingold

Votes: 19,162 | Gross: $14.95M

2. Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)

Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

87 Metascore

Cleo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor.

Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray, Dorothée Blanck

Votes: 27,270

3. Days of Wine and Roses (1962)

Approved | 117 min | Drama

74 Metascore

An alcoholic marries a young woman and systematically addicts her to booze so that they can share his "passion" together.

Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford, Jack Klugman

Votes: 14,053

4. Cape Fear (1962)

Passed | 106 min | Drama, Thriller

76 Metascore

A lawyer's family is stalked by a man he once helped put in jail.

Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Lori Martin

Votes: 31,876

5. La voglia matta (1962)

110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A middle-aged and slightly conservative businessman meets a band of rowdy youths and is smitten by one named Francesca. He is pursuaded to join their party and even pay for most of it, as ... See full summary »

Director: Luciano Salce | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Catherine Spaak, Béatrice Altariba, Gianni Garko

Votes: 544

6. The Traitors (1962)

71 min | Drama, Thriller

Espionage story telling how British and American security agents outwit ruthless and cunning traitors trying to steal secret project plans.

Director: Robert Tronson | Stars: Patrick Allen, Jacqueline Ellis, James Maxwell, Zena Walker

Votes: 177

7. The Easy Life (1962)

Not Rated | 108 min | Comedy, Drama

An impulsive braggart takes a shy law student with him for a two-day road trip from Rome to Tuscany.

Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Claudio Gora

Votes: 12,408

8. Boys' Night Out (1962)

Unrated | 115 min | Comedy

Four men bored with their Thursday nights out from their wives (and mom) rent a love nest in New York City, equipped with a blonde. What they don't know is that she's writing a postgraduate thesis on sexual fantasies of urban men.

Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: Kim Novak, James Garner, Tony Randall, Howard Duff

Votes: 2,428

9. The Damned (1962)

Approved | 87 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

72 Metascore

An American tourist, a youth gang leader, and his troubled sister find themselves trapped in a top secret government facility experimenting on children.

Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Viveca Lindfors, Alexander Knox

Votes: 4,014

10. Carnival of Souls (1962)

Approved | 78 min | Horror, Mystery

After a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival.

Director: Herk Harvey | Stars: Candace Hilligoss, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger, Art Ellison

Votes: 27,811

11. Experiment in Terror (1962)

Not Rated | 123 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

69 Metascore

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

Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers, Roy Poole

Votes: 6,632

12. Two and Two Make Six (1962)

89 min | Comedy, Romance

A US airman stationed in the UK strikes down his commanding officer. Believing he killed him, the airman goes on the run with a woman. They run into a couple that looks like them and a mix up happens.

Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: George Chakiris, Janette Scott, Alfred Lynch, Jocelyn Lane

Votes: 92

13. Sundays and Cybèle (1962)

Not Rated | 111 min | Drama

Story of a lonely young girl who is befriended by an innocent but emotionally disabled veteran of the French Indochina War.

Director: Serge Bourguignon | Stars: Hardy Krüger, Nicole Courcel, Patricia Gozzi, Daniel Ivernel

Votes: 4,797

14. Ihr schönster Tag (1962)

94 min | Comedy, Drama

Concierge Anni Wiesner runs a strict regiment in her basement apartment in Berlin. Not only her husband Karl, but also the other tenants knows that order is the top priority.

Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Inge Meysel, Rudolf Platte, Brigitte Grothum, Götz George

Votes: 72

15. Jigsaw (1962)

Not Rated | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

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 Hove but also further afield.

Director: Val Guest | Stars: Jack Warner, Ronald Lewis, Yolande Donlan, Michael Goodliffe

Votes: 1,572

16. The Chapman Report (1962)

Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, Romance

Based on the best-selling novel by Irving Wallace that was inspired by the Kinsey Report on the sexual mores of suburban women, the film follows the personal (read sexual) lives of four ... See full summary »

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Shelley Winters, Jane Fonda, Claire Bloom

Votes: 1,045

17. The Password Is Courage (1962)

Approved | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, War

British N.C.O. Sergeant Major Charles Coward (Sir Dirk Bogarde) escapes from the Stalag VIII-B P.O.W. camp, and is mistakenly awarded with the Iron Cross by the Germans.

Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Maria Perschy, Alfred Lynch, Nigel Stock

Votes: 1,529

18. Der 42. Himmel (1962)

90 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Wendelin Pfannstil is promoted from receptionist at City Hall to his dream job of marriage registrar. When a pretty young bride is dumped by her groom, he falls in love with her and sabotages the couple's second attempt to marry.

Director: Kurt Früh | Stars: Walter Roderer, Rudolf Platte, Waltraut Haas, Gardy Granass

Votes: 44

19. Vive le tour (1962)

18 min | Documentary, Short, Sport

Chronicles the cyclists of the Tour de France and their daily trails along the race.

Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Jean Bobet, Jacques Anquetil, Raymond Poulidor

Votes: 980

20. Lonely Are the Brave (1962)

Approved | 107 min | Drama, Western

A fiercely independent cowboy gets himself locked up in prison to escape with an old friend.

Director: David Miller | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau, Michael Kane

Votes: 9,946

21. The Interns (1962)

Approved | 120 min | Drama

Medical drama that focuses on the personal and professional conflicts of medical interns working under senior surgeons at a major hospital.

Director: David Swift | Stars: Michael Callan, Cliff Robertson, James MacArthur, Nick Adams

Votes: 367

22. Walk in the Shadow (1962)

93 min | Drama

When John Harris's daughter is badly injured in an boating accident, the hospital tells him that she will need an urgent blood transfusion. Due to his religious beliefs Harris refuses ... See full summary »

Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Michael Craig, Patrick McGoohan, Janet Munro, Paul Rogers

Votes: 298

23. The Miracle Worker (1962)

Approved | 106 min | Biography, Drama

83 Metascore

The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.

Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory, Inga Swenson

Votes: 20,497 | Gross: $5.45M

24. Jane (1962)

53 min | Documentary

Documentary focusing on 25 year-old actress Jane Fonda as she and her director Andreas Voutsinas prepare a stage play called The Fun Couple for Broadway.

Director: D.A. Pennebaker | Stars: Jane Fonda, Dyan Cannon, Bradford Dillman, Walter Kerr

Votes: 35

25. Lisa (1962)

Approved | 112 min | Drama, History, Romance

At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.

Director: Philip Dunne | Stars: Stephen Boyd, Dolores Hart, Leo McKern, Hugh Griffith

Votes: 461

26. Lolita (1962)

Not Rated | 153 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

79 Metascore

A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a 14-year-old girl.

Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon, Gary Cockrell

Votes: 108,762 | Gross: $9.25M

27. Schneewittchen und die sieben Gaukler (1962)

116 min | Comedy, Musical

Swiss-German musical inspired by the story of Snow White, featering the then very popular italian singer Caterina Valente.

Director: Kurt Hoffmann | Stars: Caterina Valente, Walter Giller, Hanne Wieder, Georg Thomalla

Votes: 79

28. The Quare Fellow (1962)

Not Rated | 85 min | Crime, Drama

In Ireland, a newly hired prison guard has to deal with the realities of prison work and to face the grim issue of death-row executions.

Director: Arthur Dreifuss | Stars: Patrick McGoohan, Sylvia Syms, Walter Macken, Dermot Kelly

Votes: 402

29. Kalde spor (1962)

96 min | Drama, War

Wartime 1944. Oddmund stays at a remote cabin in the high mountains, about to lead 12 refugees out of the country. But he also awaits the most important person is his life, Ragnhild, which isn't coming.

Director: Arne Skouen | Stars: Toralv Maurstad, Henny Moan, Alf Malland, Ragnhild Hald

Votes: 123

30. Some People (1962)

93 min | Drama, Musical

The story of three teenaged tearaways Johnnie, Bill and Bert who find themselves at odds with society. Following a brush with the law they have a chance meeting with a local choirmaster who offers them a way of making good.

Director: Clive Donner | Stars: Kenneth More, Ray Brooks, Anneke Wills, David Andrews

Votes: 325

31. Come Tomorrow (1962)

98 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Young girl from the country come to Moscow, she wants to get into University, but it's too late. Anyway, she won't give up and will do everything to get a meeting with dean and sing for him.

Director: Evgeniy Tashkov | Stars: Anatoliy Papanov, Ekaterina Savinova, Boris Bibikov, Antonina Maksimova

Votes: 633

32. Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt (1962)

88 min | Drama

A mother is sentenced to one year in prison for matchmaking her underage daughter with her adult boyfriend.

Director: Jürgen Goslar | Stars: Wolfgang Preiss, Götz George, Elke Sommer, Agnes Fink

Votes: 43

33. The Cabinet of Caligari (1962)

Approved | 106 min | Horror, Thriller

When young Jane Lindstorm's (Glynis Johns) car breaks down, she makes her way to a somewhat frightening-looking mansion for help. Once there, however, her problems go from bad worse.

Director: Roger Kay | Stars: Glynis Johns, Dan O'Herlihy, Richard Davalos, Lawrence Dobkin

Votes: 986

34. Waldrausch (1962)

89 min | Drama

After years of absence, engineer Lutz Ambross returns to his home village Maria Schnee with the job to build a dam. He can persuade most of the residents to accept the offered compensation ... See full summary »

Director: Paul May | Stars: Marianne Hold, Gerhard Riedmann, Ingeborg Schöner, Sieghardt Rupp

Votes: 46

35. A Prize of Arms (1962)

Not Rated | 105 min | Crime, Drama

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

Director: Cliff Owen | Stars: Stanley Baker, Helmut Schmid, Tom Bell, John Phillips

Votes: 414

36. Strangers in the City (1962)

83 min | Drama

A father loses his job, which puts his family in a crisis situation. So the son goes out to find work as a delivery boy and the daughter eventually lapses into prostitution. Trouble brews ... See full summary »

Director: Rick Carrier | Stars: Robert Gentile, Camilo Delgado, Rosita De Triano, Greta Margos

Votes: 70

37. The L-Shaped Room (1962)

126 min | Drama, Romance

A single, pregnant woman moves into a London boarding house where she meets a group of fellow misfits.

Director: Bryan Forbes | Stars: Leslie Caron, Anthony Booth, Avis Bunnage, Patricia Phoenix

Votes: 2,230

38. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Approved | 129 min | Crime, Drama

88 Metascore

Atticus Finch, a widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama, defends a Black man against an undeserved rape charge, and tries to educate his young children against prejudice.

Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy

Votes: 332,775

39. Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Sport

Knockout performances by Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney and Julie Harris highlight this hard-hitting drama of corruption in the ring. Featuring Muhammad Ali.

Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, Julie Harris

Votes: 4,834

40. Dr. No (1962)

PG | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

78 Metascore

A resourceful British government agent seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program.

Director: Terence Young | Stars: Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Bernard Lee, Joseph Wiseman

Votes: 179,357 | Gross: $16.07M

41. Only Two Can Play (1962)

106 min | Comedy, Drama

A frustrated librarian (Sellers) in Swansea, Wales is torn between his wife Jean (Markell) and a glamorous married woman, Liz (Zetterling), who wants to have an affair.

Director: Sidney Gilliat | Stars: Peter Sellers, Mai Zetterling, Virginia Maskell, Kenneth Griffith

Votes: 1,415

42. Term of Trial (1962)

Approved | 130 min | Drama

A British high-school girl becomes infatuated with her English teacher, but after he rejects her amorous advances, she goes to the police and accuses him of indecent assault.

Director: Peter Glenville | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Simone Signoret, Roland Culver, Frank Pettingell

Votes: 866

43. Girl on Approval (1962)

Not Rated | 75 min | Drama

1961. Drama. Stars Oscar nominated. Rachel Roberts, James Maxwell and Annette Whiteley. A key example of British new wave, a great study of the uneasy life of 14 year old Sheila.

Director: Charles Frend | Stars: Rachel Roberts, James Maxwell, Annette Whiteley, Ellen McIntosh

Votes: 146

45. If a Man Answers (1962)

Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Romance

Rich socialite Chantal marries Eugene, a photographer, and everything seems blissful until her envious friend attempts to break them up. In desperation, she turns to her mother, but the advice she receives may do more harm than good.

Director: Henry Levin | Stars: Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin, Micheline Presle, John Lund

Votes: 1,261

46. The Longest Day (1962)

G | 178 min | Action, Drama, History

75 Metascore

The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.

Directors: Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Gerd Oswald, Bernhard Wicki, Darryl F. Zanuck | Stars: John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Richard Burton, Henry Fonda

Votes: 59,052 | Gross: $39.10M

47. Diamond Head (1962)

Not Rated | 107 min | Drama, Romance

In 1950s Hawaii, a bigoted and ruthless land baron, with political ambitions, bans his sister from marrying a native even though he himself has secretly impregnated a native woman.

Director: Guy Green | Stars: Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, George Chakiris, France Nuyen

Votes: 1,013

48. Love on a Pillow (1962)

Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Romance

A young girl rescues a man from a suicide attempt. He turns out to be a sociopath, who begins to take over her life, abusing her both verbally and emotionally, yet she can't seem to tear herself away from him.

Director: Roger Vadim | Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Robert Hossein, Jean-Marc Bory, Michel Serrault

Votes: 731

49. Ivan's Childhood (1962)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, War

During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.

Directors: Andrei Tarkovsky, Eduard Abalov | Stars: Nikolay Burlyaev, Valentin Zubkov, Evgeniy Zharikov, Stepan Krylov

Votes: 39,921

50. The Bread of Those Early Years (1962)

84 min | Drama

A young electrical engineer, engaged to his boss's daughter and on the way to a secure existence, breaks out of his usual life when he meets a childhood friend.

Director: Herbert Vesely | Stars: Christian Doermer, Karen Blanguernon, Vera Tschechowa, Eike Siegel

Votes: 137

51. Kid Galahad (1962)

Approved | 96 min | Drama, Musical, Sport

After completing his military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the owner of which sees potential in Walter as a professional fighter and takes him under his wing.

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Elvis Presley, Gig Young, Lola Albright, Joan Blackman

Votes: 3,112 | Gross: $1.80M

52. Patty (1962)

93 min | Drama

After suffering a brutal rape, a young woman discovers that she's pregnant and must resort to illicit means in order to obtain an abortion.

Director: Leo A. Handel | Stars: Merry Anders, J. Edward McKinley, Dani Lynn, Joe Conley

Votes: 76

53. Danger on My Side (1962)

63 min | Crime, Drama

With the help of the Metropolitan Police, a girl starts to track down the gang who had her detective brother killed by a speeding car. The trail leads to Nicky's club in Soho and to diamond smuggling.

Director: Charles Saunders | Stars: Anthony Oliver, Maureen Connell, Alan Tilvern, Bill Nagy

Votes: 159

54. Ring-A-Ding Rhythm! (1962)

Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Musical

Two teens organize a jazz festival despite objections from the mayor.

Director: Richard Lester | Stars: Helen Shapiro, Craig Douglas, John Leyton, The Brook Brothers

Votes: 420

55. Play It Cool (1962)

82 min | Drama, Musical

Stars Billy Fury (Britain's answer to Elvis Presley) and features cameos from some other stars from the sixties, with Bobby Vee, Helen Shapiro and Shane Fenton (better known as Alvin ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Billy Fury, Michael Anderson Jr., Dennis Price, Richard Wattis

Votes: 244

56. The Boys (1962)

123 min | Crime, Drama

In 1962 London, four troublesome teenagers are charged by the police with robbing a garage and murdering the night watchman.

Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Richard Todd, Robert Morley, Dudley Sutton, Ronald Lacey

Votes: 656

57. A Kind of Loving (1962)

Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, Romance

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.

Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Alan Bates, June Ritchie, Thora Hird, Bert Palmer

Votes: 2,691 | Gross: $0.00M

58. Don't Talk to Strange Men (1962)

Not Rated | 65 min | Crime, Drama

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

Director: Pat Jackson | Stars: Christina Gregg, Janina Faye, Cyril Raymond, Gillian Lind

Votes: 471

59. Two for the Seesaw (1962)

Approved | 119 min | Drama, Romance

Robert Wise directs Robert Mitchum and Shirley MacLaine in this spicy and poignant love story about a free-spirited Greenwich Village girl who hooks up with a brooding Nebraska lawyer. In HD.

Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Shirley MacLaine, Edmon Ryan, Elisabeth Fraser

Votes: 2,057 | Gross: $3.82M

60. The War Lover (1962)

Approved | 105 min | Adventure, Drama, War

In 1943, while stationed in Britain, arrogant Captain Buzz Rickson is in command of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, but his recklessness is endangering everyone around him.

Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Steve McQueen, Robert Wagner, Shirley Anne Field, Gary Cockrell

Votes: 2,120

61. On the Beat (1962)

106 min | Comedy

Norman wants to be a policeman like his father was, but he fails the height test (amongst others). One day he gets out his father's old uniform and "walks the beat". This leads to a level of chaos that only Norman could cause.

Director: Robert Asher | Stars: Norman Wisdom, Jennifer Jayne, Raymond Huntley, David Lodge

Votes: 1,050

62. Tales of Paris (1962)

100 min | Comedy, Drama

The omnibus made of four separate romantic playlets, each with its own cast, director, and scenarist. "The Tale of Ella," directed by Jacques Poitrenaud, stars Dany Saval as an ambitious ... See full summary »

Directors: Marc Allégret, Claude Barma, Michel Boisrond, Jacques Poitrenaud | Stars: Françoise Arnoul, Françoise Brion, Catherine Deneuve, Gillian Hills

Votes: 164

63. Hitch-Hike (1962)

95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

Agathe, a sweet hitch-hiker, is en route to the Riviera. She meets many men on her way.

Director: Jacqueline Audry | Stars: Darry Cowl, Pierre Mondy, Lino Ventura, Daniel Gélin

Votes: 138

64. The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode: Escapade in Florence: Part 1 (1962)

Unrated | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Two teens get involved in intrigue in Florence, Italy, when Tommy Carpenter is given the wrong painting in an art store. A group of criminals try to get it back, causing Tommy to wonder what is so valuable about it.

Director: Steve Previn | Stars: Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Nino Castelnuovo, Clelia Matania

Votes: 85

65. Carry on Cruising (1962)

Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Romance

Captain Crowther's lot is not a happy one! Five of his crew have to be replaced and at such short notice before the voyage begins there isn't much to choose from. Not only does he get the ... See full summary »

Directors: Gerald Thomas, Ralph Thomas | Stars: Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor, Liz Fraser

Votes: 3,212

66. A Pair of Briefs (1962)

Approved | 90 min | Comedy

She's new in chambers, and he's a troublemaker. But what *is* the true status of the old lady's wartime marriage, and can the two young legal minds find the answer?

Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Michael Craig, Mary Peach, Brenda de Banzie, James Robertson Justice

Votes: 229

67. Murder Can Be Deadly (1962)

60 min | Thriller

Two con artists plan a final scam. It goes wrong when one is murdered in the other's apartment. She gets a student to hide the body but he's caught. His friends look for her to clear his name but they're seized by the killer.

Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: Liz Fraser, Kenneth Griffith, Peter Reynolds, Tony Wickert

Votes: 208

68. L'Eclisse (1962)

Not Rated | 126 min | Drama, Romance

A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature.

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Monica Vitti, Alain Delon, Francisco Rabal, Lilla Brignone

Votes: 22,061

69. Century 21 Calling... (1962)

14 min | Short

Two perky teens explore every inch of the telephone exhibit at Seattle's fair.

Director: Robert W. Larsen

Votes: 196

70. David and Lisa (1962)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama

Teenager David Clemens develops a hysterical fear that he will die if he comes into physical contact with another person. Perturbed, David's overbearing mother places him in a home for mentally disturbed young people.

Director: Frank Perry | Stars: Keir Dullea, Janet Margolin, Howard Da Silva, Neva Patterson

Votes: 3,349 | Gross: $5.01M

71. Wild Guitar (1962)

Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A young Arch Hall, Jr. is given a shot at the big time by the unscrupulous owner of a small record company played by Arch Hall, Sr. (aka William Watters).

Director: Ray Dennis Steckler | Stars: Arch Hall Jr., Nancy Czar, Arch Hall Sr., Ray Dennis Steckler

Votes: 1,087

73. Rome Adventure (1962)

Approved | 119 min | Drama, Romance

Under fire for giving a student her copy of a romance novel, Prudence resigns from her teaching position and sails for Italy.

Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Troy Donahue, Suzanne Pleshette, Rossano Brazzi, Angie Dickinson

Votes: 1,425

75. Dead Man's Evidence (1962)

67 min | Drama

Spy David Baxter is sent to Ireland to investigate the death of a defected colleague apparently found dead on a beach. But is the body really him?

Director: Francis Searle | Stars: Conrad Phillips, Jane Griffiths, Veronica Hurst, Ryck Rydon

Votes: 197

76. The Elusive Corporal (1962)

TV-PG | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, War

An upper-class corporal from Paris is captured by the Germans when they invade France in 1940. Assisted and accompanied by characters as diverse as a morose dairy farmer, a waiter, a myopic... See full summary »

Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Brasseur, O.E. Hasse, Claude Rich

Votes: 1,039

77. Don't Knock the Twist (1962)

Approved | 86 min | Musical

Many twist-dancers meet to prepare for the TV variety show "The Twist." While the special is still in the production stages, jealousies lead to problems--and a whole lot of dancing.

Director: Oscar Rudolph | Stars: Chubby Checker, Gene Chandler, Vic Dana, Linda Scott

Votes: 295

78. Stark Fear (1962)

86 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A sadistic husband mentally tortures his wife, while eventually planning to murder her. Although no one believes her, she gets help from an unexpected source.

Directors: Ned Hockman, Skip Homeier | Stars: Beverly Garland, Skip Homeier, Kenneth Tobey, Hannah Stone

Votes: 472

80. L'amore difficile (1962)

120 min | Comedy

A journalist could marry the daughter of a tycoon, but prefers a married woman. An attorney renounces her lover by greed. A soldier tries to approach a widow on a train. A German couple looking for adventure aim for the wrong target.

Directors: Alberto Bonucci, Luciano Lucignani, Nino Manfredi, Sergio Sollima | Stars: Enrico Maria Salerno, Catherine Spaak, Claudia Mori, Vittorio Gassman

Votes: 135

81. Gypsy (1962)

Approved | 143 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

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

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Paul Wallace

Votes: 6,992 | Gross: $13.01M

82. Young and Willing (1962)

110 min | Drama, Romance

University students form relationships and perform pranks with disastrous consequences all round.

Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Virginia Maskell, Paul Rogers, Ian McShane, Samantha Eggar

Votes: 181

83. The Horizontal Lieutenant (1962)

Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Romance, War

A luckless army intelligence lieutenant finds himself stationed on a remote island army outpost during World War II, where all the action is between the sheets.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Jack Carter, Jim Backus

Votes: 455

85. 40 Pounds of Trouble (1962)

Approved | 106 min | Comedy

Hilarity ensues when a casino manager spends a day at Disneyland with a cute but troublesome little girl.

Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Tony Curtis, Phil Silvers, Suzanne Pleshette, Larry Storch

Votes: 1,129

87. The Amorous Mr. Prawn (1962)

89 min | Comedy

General and Lady Fitzadam live at a remote army outpost in Scotland, their last assignment before the General retires. The General is sent abroad and in his absence, Lady Fitzadam decides ... See full summary »

Director: Anthony Kimmins | Stars: Ian Carmichael, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Dennis Price

Votes: 193

88. Kohlhiesels Töchter (1962)

96 min | Comedy

Landlord Kohlhiesel has two daughters that couldn't be more different: Liesel, the older one, is a clumsy hoyden; Gretel (Gritli), the younger, is pretty and charming. Gretel wants to marry... See full summary »

Director: Axel von Ambesser | Stars: Liselotte Pulver, Helmut Schmid, Dietmar Schönherr, Peter Vogel

Votes: 328

89. Antoine and Colette (1962)

32 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

Antoine Doinel is 17, lives in a hotel and works in a factory making records; he loves music. He falls in love with a woman he meets at a concert. She sees him as a friend, but her parents love him.

Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Patrick Auffay, Jean-François Adam

Votes: 6,346

90. Airborne (1962)

80 min | Drama

The story of a young man and his journey to become a US paratrooper.

Director: James Landis | Stars: Bobby Diamond, Robert Christian, Mikel Angel, Bill Hale

Votes: 134

92. In the Doghouse (1961)

95 min | Comedy, Drama

British comedy about the ups and downs of a London vet.

Director: Darcy Conyers | Stars: Leslie Phillips, Peggy Cummins, Hattie Jacques, James Booth

Votes: 214

93. Tonight for Sure (1962)

69 min | Comedy, Western

On a club stage reality and fiction are mixed.

Directors: Francis Ford Coppola, Jerry Schafer | Stars: Karl Schanzer, Don Kenney, Marli Renfro, Virginia Gordon

Votes: 359

94. Reach for Glory (1962)

86 min | Drama, War

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.

Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Michael Anderson Jr., Oliver Grimm, Martin Tomlinson, Alexis Kanner

Votes: 194

95. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)

Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Sport

A young thief takes up long-distance running when he is sent to a borstal.

Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Tom Courtenay, Avis Bunnage, Alec McCowen

Votes: 9,372

96. State Fair (1962)

120 min | Musical, Romance

A brother and sister find romance and good clean fun at the state fair in Dallas.

Director: José Ferrer | Stars: Pat Boone, Bobby Darin, Pamela Tiffin, Ann-Margret

Votes: 1,329 | Gross: $7.63M

98. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

Approved | 123 min | Drama, Western

94 Metascore

A senator returns to a Western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins.

Director: John Ford | Stars: James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin

Votes: 82,265

99. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Approved | 218 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

100 Metascore

The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.

Director: David Lean | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins

Votes: 314,258 | Gross: $44.82M

100. We Joined the Navy (1962)

Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Romance

This is the story of the riotous, romantic, exciting, astonishing and highly entertaining adventures of Lieutenant Commander "Bodger" Badger, R.N. (Kenneth More). An exceptionally likeable fellow, the Badger has one besetting sin, a shining honesty.

Director: Wendy Toye | Stars: Kenneth More, Lloyd Nolan, Joan O'Brien, Mischa Auer

Votes: 240



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