Best Mystery movies of 1962

Actors : Candace Hilligoss, Sidney Berger, Frances Feist, Art Ellison,
Directors : Herk Harvey,

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

Actors : Billy Kearns, Jess Hahn, Anthony Perkins, Arnoldo Foà,
Directors : Orson Welles,

An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.

Actors : Vincent Price, Leona Gage, Maggie Pierce, Peter Lorre,
Directors : Roger Corman,

Three tales of terror involve a grieving widower and the daughter he abandoned; a drunkard and his wife's black cat; and a hypnotist who prolongs the moment of a man's death.

Actors : Hazel Court, Heather Angel, Richard Ney, Ray Milland,
Directors : Roger Corman,

An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational horror of premature burial consumes him.

Actors : Stefanie Powers, Glenn Ford, Roy Poole, Lee Remick,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

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

Actors : Francesco Ruiu, Vincenzo Ciccora, Giancarlo De Rosa, Alfredo Leggi,
Directors : Bernardo Bertolucci,

Near the Tiber river, in a Roman park, a prostitute was killed. The police tracks down people that were inside the park during that night. They are questioned and have to explain why they ...

Actors : Lionel Jeffries, Fred Astaire, Jack Lemmon, Kim Novak,
Directors : Richard Quine,

An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.

Actors : Jack Weston, Jerry Lewis, Zachary Scott, Joan O'Brien,
Directors : Frank Tashlin,

Lester is a clumsy and awkward TV repair man who is nevertheless gifted technically. In helping out a friend, he is drawn into a mystery involving a missing heir in a rich family. He begins...

Actors : Michael Goodliffe, Yolande Donlan, 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 : Linda Ho, Vincent Price, Richard Loo, June Kyoto Lu,
Directors : Albert Zugsmith,

In 19th century San Francisco's Chinatown, American adventurer Gilbert De Quincey is saving slave girls owned by the Chinese Tong factions.

Actors : Gert Fröbe, Helmut Schmid, Senta Berger, Charles Regnier,
Directors : Werner Klingler,

German Police Inspector Lohmann investigates a string of crimes resembling Dr. Mabuse's M.O. but Mabuse is in Professor Polland's care inside an insane asylum.

Actors : Sabine Sesselmann, Eddi Arent, Heinz Drache, Pinkas Braun,
Directors : Alfred Vohrer,

A woman arrives at a lonely mansion and finds herself mixed up with a lunatic who has built his own torture chamber, which is already crowded with victims - and he plans to make her his next one.

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.

Actors : Christopher Lee, Marisa Mell, Pinkas Braun, Adrian Hoven,
Directors : Helmuth Ashley,

Rival gangsters from Chicago move to London and attempt to extort money from rich Britons.

Actors : Eric Sykes, Lionel Jeffries, Dennis Price, Terry-Thomas,
Directors : George Pollock,

Reprobate photographer and part time private investigator (Terry Thomas) is hired by a batty old woman to go undercover into a health farm managed by Eric Sykes, to investigate a suspicious...

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 : Jean-Claude Brialy, Nadja Tiller, Edith Scob, Perrette Pradier,
Directors : Julien Duvivier,

A group of people visit a weird old man who is a student of the black arts. The man lives in an ancient, cursed castle. Soon people in the group start being killed off.

Actors : Madan Puri, Biswajeet, Waheeda Rehman, Manmohan Krishna,
Directors : Biren Nag,

After a lusty Thakur rapes a young girl, she kills herself. Thereafter, the Thakur is killed by what the local people call the girl's vengeful spirit. Then the Thakur's son is also killed ...

Actors : Geneviève Grad, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Françoise Dorléac,
Directors : Édouard Molinaro,

André Laroche, an industrialist, has just passed away. Face to his grave, as he is being buried, Anne de Vierne, the wife of a magistrate, confesses to her son François that Laroche was in ...

Actors : Karl-Arne Holmsten, Jan Malmsjö, Nils Asther, Anita Björk,
Directors : Arne Mattsson,

A ghost called Vita Frun (White Lady) is accused of several murders. Detective Hillman is contacted to resolve the case.