Best Drama movies of 1962

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Shima Iwashita, Akira Ishihama, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Masaki Kobayashi,

An elder ronin samurai arrives at a feudal lord's home and requests an honorable place to commit suicide. But when the ronin inquires about a younger samurai who arrived before him things take an unexpected turn.

Actors : Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti, Silvana Corsini,
Directors : Pier Paolo Pasolini,

After many years working in the streets of Roma, the middle-age whore Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani) saves money to buy an upper class apartment, a fruit stand and retires from the prostitution....

Actors : Keiji Sada, Chishû Ryû, Shima Iwashita, Mariko Okada,
Directors : Yasujirô Ozu,

An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.

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 : Shirley Knight, Ed Begley, Paul Newman, Geraldine Page,
Directors : Richard Brooks,

Drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown after many years of trying to make it in the movies. Arriving with him is a faded film star he picked up along the way, Alexandra Del Lago. ...

Actors : Gena Rowlands, Michael Kane, Kirk Douglas, Walter Matthau,
Directors : David Miller,

A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Victor Jory, Patty Duke, Inga Swenson,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

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

Actors : Richard Harris, Hugh Griffith, Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard,

In 1787, British ship Bounty leaves Portsmouth to bring a cargo of bread-fruit from Tahiti but the savage on-board conditions imposed by Captain Bligh trigger a mutiny led by officer Fletcher Christian.

Actors : Henry Fonda, Lew Ayres, Franchot Tone, Walter Pidgeon,
Directors : Otto Preminger,

Senate investigation into the President's newly nominated Secretary of State, gives light to a secret from the past, which may not only ruin the candidate, but the President's character as well.

Actors : Antoine Bourseiller, Corinne Marchand, Dorothée Blanck, Dominique Davray,
Directors : Agnès Varda,

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

Actors : Steve McQueen, Harry Guardino, Fess Parker, Bobby Darin,
Directors : Don Siegel,

Small squad must hold off German attack.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Spaak, Claudio Gora, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Dino Risi,

An impulsive braggart takes a shy law student for a two-day ride through the Roman and Tuscany countries.

Actors : Richard Egan, Ralph Richardson, Barry Coe, Diane Baker,
Directors : Rudolph Maté,

A small army of Greeks spearheaded by 300 Spartans do battle with the whole invading Persian army.

Actors : Frederico Zardi, Sennuccio Benelli, Frank Wolff, Salvo Randone,
Directors : Francesco Rosi,

The unclear and complicated twists between governal powers, independentist party and Mafia in the Sicily of the '40s culminate with the death of Salvatore Giuliano.

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 : Keir Dullea, Howard Da Silva, Janet Margolin, Neva Patterson,
Directors : Frank Perry,

The emotional story of a young man in a mental institution for teens who begins to understand his psychosis in the environment of others with mental and emotional problems. He finds ...

Actors : Rosalind Russell, Karl Malden, Paul Wallace, Natalie Wood,
Directors : Mervyn LeRoy,

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

Actors : Hardy Krüger, Patricia Gozzi, Daniel Ivernel, Nicole Courcel,
Directors : Serge Bourguignon,

After killing a child when his plane crashes in a Vietnamese village, Pierre suffers from delayed stress and partial amnesia. Returning to France, he lives like a vegetable until he meets a...

Actors : Jason Robards, Dean Stockwell, Ralph Richardson, Katharine Hepburn,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

Over the course of one day in August 1912, the family of retired actor James Tyrone grapples with the morphine addiction of his wife Mary, the illness of their youngest son Edmund and the ...

Actors : Masayo Banri, Hajime Mitamura, Ryûzô Shimada, Shintarô Katsu,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur who also happens to be a master swordsman.