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  • Oliver Reed and Shirley Anne Field in The Damned (1962)

    1. The Damned

    19621h 27mApproved72Metascore
    6.6 (4.4K)
    An American tourist, a youth gang leader, and his troubled sister find themselves trapped in a top secret government facility experimenting on children.
    DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsMacdonald CareyShirley Anne FieldViveca Lindfors
  • La Jetée (1962)

    2. La Jetée

    196228mNot RatedShort
    8.2 (39K)
    The story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images.
    DirectorChris MarkerStarsÉtienne BeckerJean NégroniHélène Chatelain
  • Jean-Pierre Léaud and Marie-France Pisier in Antoine and Colette (1962)

    3. Antoine and Colette

    196232mShort
    7.4 (6.8K)
    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.
    DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsJean-Pierre LéaudMarie-France PisierPatrick Auffay
  • David and Lisa (1962)

    4. David and Lisa

    19621h 35mNot Rated
    7.2 (3.5K)
    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.
    DirectorFrank PerryStarsKeir DulleaJanet MargolinHoward Da Silva
  • An Autumn Afternoon (1962)

    5. An Autumn Afternoon

    19621h 53mNot Rated91Metascore
    8.0 (11K)
    An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.
    DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsChishû RyûShima IwashitaKeiji Sada
  • Orson Welles, Anthony Perkins, Romy Schneider, and Jeanne Moreau in The Trial (1962)

    6. The Trial

    19621h 59mNot Rated
    7.6 (26K)
    An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.
    DirectorOrson WellesStarsAnthony PerkinsArnoldo FoàJess Hahn
  • Ivan's Childhood (1962)

    7. Ivan's Childhood

    19621h 35mNot Rated
    8.0 (42K)
    During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.
    DirectorsAndrei TarkovskyEduard AbalovStarsNikolay BurlyaevValentin ZubkovEvgeniy Zharikov
  • Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea in Ride the High Country (1962)

    8. Ride the High Country

    19621h 34mApproved92Metascore
    7.4 (16K)
    An ex-union soldier is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him.
    DirectorSam PeckinpahStarsJoel McCreaRandolph ScottMariette Hartley
  • Herk Harvey and Candace Hilligoss in Carnival of Souls (1962)

    9. Carnival of Souls

    19621h 18mPG
    7.0 (30K)
    After a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival.
    DirectorHerk HarveyStarsCandace HilligossFrances FeistSidney Berger
  • A Woman's Place (1962)

    10. A Woman's Place

    19621h 51m
    7.5 (202)
    Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
    DirectorMikio NaruseStarsHideko TakamineYôko TsukasaYuriko Hoshi
  • The Exterminating Angel (1962)

    11. The Exterminating Angel

    19621h 35mNot Rated
    8.0 (37K)
    The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave.
    DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsSilvia PinalJacqueline AndereEnrique Rambal
  • Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)

    12. Cléo from 5 to 7

    19621h 30mNot Rated87Metascore
    7.8 (30K)
    Cleo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor.
    DirectorAgnès VardaStarsCorinne MarchandAntoine BourseillerDominique Davray
  • The Tale of Zatoichi (1962)

    13. The Tale of Zatoichi

    19621h 35mNot Rated
    7.6 (6.2K)
    The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur who also happens to be a master swordsman.
    DirectorKenji MisumiStarsShintarô KatsuMasayo BanriRyûzô Shimada
  • The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (1962)

    14. The Tale of Zatoichi Continues

    19621h 12mNot Rated
    7.2 (2.9K)
    The blind masseur and swordsman, Zatoichi, learns of a powerful political figure's secret and is quickly tailed by a group of killers.
    DirectorKazuo MoriStarsShintarô KatsuYaeko MizutaniMasayo Banri
  • Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1961)

    15. Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

    196128mNot RatedShort
    8.1 (4.4K)
    In 1862, during the American Civil War, a Southern civilian is about to be hanged for attempting to sabotage a railway bridge. When the execution takes place from the bridge, the rope breaks and he begins his escape toward home.
    DirectorRobert EnricoStarsRoger JacquetAnne CornalyAnker-Spang Larsen
  • Gusarskaya ballada (1962)

    16. Gusarskaya ballada

    19621h 34mNot Rated
    7.4 (1.8K)
    A young girl decides to join a Husar squadron and fight against Napoleon. Dressed as a man she has a hard time adjusting to the rude Husar life styles.
    DirectorEldar RyazanovStarsLarisa GolubkinaYuriy YakovlevIgor Ilyinsky
  • Sundays and Cybèle (1962)

    17. Sundays and Cybèle

    19621h 51mNot Rated
    7.8 (5K)
    Story of a lonely young girl who is befriended by an innocent but emotionally disabled veteran of the French Indochina War.
    DirectorSerge BourguignonStarsHardy KrügerNicole CourcelPatricia Gozzi
  • Frankie Avalon, Ray Milland, Richard Bakalyan, Neil Burstyn, Joan Freeman, Jean Hagen, Rex Holman, and Mary Mitchel in Panic in Year Zero! (1962)

    18. Panic in Year Zero!

    19621h 33mApproved
    6.6 (5.3K)
    A family leaves Los Angeles for a camping trip just before hydrogen bombs destroy the city. In the midst of the chaos, the father must fight to keep his family alive along the highway.
    DirectorRay MillandStarsRay MillandJean HagenFrankie Avalon
  • Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Gabin in A Monkey in Winter (1962)

    19. A Monkey in Winter

    19621h 45m
    7.4 (3.6K)
    Albert is an inn owner who vowed never to drink again if he and his wife survived the war. They did, and the reformed alcoholic keeps his vow. But times have changed and soon after the war, Albert comes in contact with Gabriel, a young man prone to heavy bouts with the bottle. Gabriel is conflicted over visiting his young daughter in a nearby school and in a moment of nostalgia, Albert takes off with him on one major binge -- and havoc results.
    DirectorHenri VerneuilStarsJean GabinJean-Paul BelmondoSuzanne Flon
  • The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962)

    20. The Fabulous Baron Munchausen

    19621h 23mNot Rated
    7.7 (3.4K)
    The outrageous Baron Munchausen tells of his many adventures, from meeting the Man in the Moon to defeating a Turkish army all by himself.
    DirectorKarel ZemanStarsMilos KopeckýRudolf JelínekJana Brejchová
  • Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962)

    21. Requiem for a Heavyweight

    19621h 35mApproved
    7.8 (5.1K)
    After suffering a brutal defeat and being told he can no longer fight, 37-year-old, scar-ridden prizefighter Louis 'Mountain' Rivera struggles to find a new direction in life.
    DirectorRalph NelsonStarsAnthony QuinnJackie GleasonMickey Rooney
  • Confessions of an Opium Eater (1962)

    22. Confessions of an Opium Eater

    19621h 25mNot Rated
    6.2 (829)
    In 19th-century San Francisco's Chinatown, American adventurer Gilbert De Quincey saves slave girls owned by the Chinese Tong factions.
    DirectorAlbert ZugsmithStarsVincent PriceLinda HoRichard Loo
  • Ray Milland, Heather Angel, Hazel Court, Alan Napier, and Richard Ney in The Premature Burial (1962)

    23. The Premature Burial

    19621h 21mUnrated
    6.5 (5.2K)
    Based on Edgar Allan Poe's story about a cataleptic Englishman obsessed with the fear of being buried alive.
    DirectorRoger CormanStarsRay MillandHazel CourtRichard Ney
  • The Awful Dr. Orlof (1962)

    24. The Awful Dr. Orlof

    19621h 30mApproved
    6.1 (1.9K)
    Dr. Orlof, a former prison doctor, abducts beautiful women from nightclubs and tries to use their skin to repair his daughter's fire-scarred face.
    DirectorJesús FrancoStarsHoward VernonPerla CristalRicardo Valle
  • A Bomb Was Stolen (1962)

    25. A Bomb Was Stolen

    19621h 14m
    6.7 (335)
    A dialogue free Romanian science-fiction spy-comedy that draws upon farce, satire and surrealism as it subversively deconstructs the spy thriller with the protagonist's accidental discovery of a nuclear suitcase bomb and the subsequent fight over ownership between the rival powers of the criminals and the military.
    DirectorIon Popescu-GopoStarsIurie DarieLiliana TomescuHaralambie Boros

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