Best Drama movies of 1962

Actors : Austin Green, George E. Mather, Norman Ollestad, Esther Furst,
Directors : Clark L. Paylow,

A group of medical students undertake some silly and frightening endeavors in order to pledge a fraternity.

Actors : Dirk Bogarde, Maria Perschy, Nigel Stock, Alfred Lynch,
Directors : Andrew L. Stone,

A World War II British officer named Charles Coward, having been captured by the Germans, tries everything he can to escape. In the process, among many other adventures he gets awarded the ...

Actors : Fabian, Red Buttons, Barbara Eden, Cedric Hardwicke,
Directors : Irwin Allen,

In 1862, the British commission inventor Fergusson to claim uncharted land in West Africa for Britain by flying his giant hot air balloon there.

Actors : Hiroyuki Nagato, Jûkichi Uno, Sô Yamamura, Mariko Okada,
Directors : Yoshishige Yoshida,

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Brigitte Bardot, Nicolas Bataille, Dirk Sanders,
Directors : Louis Malle,

When Jill becomes a movie star, she soon discovers that her private life is destroyed by persistent fans that won't leave her alone. Her mother's ex-lover, Fabio, tries to protect her.

Actors : Sidney Poitier, Carl Benton Reid, Peter Falk, Bobby Darin,

A black prison psychiatrist is assigned the distasteful task of helping a paranoid American Nazi charged with sedition.

Actors : Aubrey Martin, Thayer Roberts, Mary Morlas, Seamon Glass,
Directors : Fredric Gadette,

A highway patrolman stops motorists on a highway after he hears news reports of a possible nuclear attack.

Actors : Keith Michell, Patrick McGoohan, Paul Harris, Betsy Blair,
Directors : Basil Dearden,

The film, based on Othello, is neatly positioned as a vehicle to showcase some of the best jazz musicians of the period - including Dave Brubeck and Charles Mingus.

Actors : Aleksey Batalov, Nikolai Plotnikov, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Tatyana Lavrova,
Directors : Mikhail Romm,

Two young scientists are exploring new fields of nuclear physics. Dmitry Gusev and Ilya Kulikov are good friends, but rivals in love. Dmitry marries Lyolya and they live happily together. ...

Actors : James Farley, Betty Rowland, Gil Barreto, Timothy Carey,
Directors : Timothy Carey,

A bored insurance salesman quits his job to go into politics. He first starts preaching about how man is greater than he thinks and that man can live forever. He ends up forming his own ...

Actors : Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Shelley Winters, Jane Fonda, Claire Bloom,
Directors : George Cukor,

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 ...

Actors : Claude Brasseur, O.E. Hasse, Claude Rich, Jean-Pierre Cassel,
Directors : Jean Renoir,

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...

Actors : France Nuyen, Yvette Mimieux, George Chakiris, Charlton Heston,
Directors : Guy Green,

Rich Hawaiian pineapple grower and US Senatorial candidate Richard Howland tries to control everything and everyone around him, including his headstrong sister, Slone. Howland learns the ...

Actors : Fikret Hakan, Nurhan Nur, Sadiye Arcýman, Aliye Rona,
Directors : Metin Erksan,

Karaagac was a small village and Bayram had an ordinary life with his mother Irazca, wife Hatice and children in there until Haceli take a place front of his house to make a new building.

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Salvo Randone, Jacques Perrin, Sylvie,
Directors : Valerio Zurlini,

1945. Enrico Corsi, in Rome, reflects on his relationship with his eight year younger brother, Lorenzo Corsi, following Lorenzo's recent passing from a long and debilitating illness at age ...

Actors : Sydney Pollack, Charles Aidman, John Saxon, Tommy Matsuda,
Directors : Denis Sanders,

Dispatched to the front lines during the Korean War, an idealistic American soldier discovers the horrors of combat and comes at odds with a psychopathic member of his platoon.

Actors : Georgiy Vitsin, Rostislav Plyatt, Aleksei Smirnov, Yuriy Nikulin,
Directors : Leonid Gayday,

Two bandits learn that kidnapping is a very profitable business. So they decide to kidnap local rich person's son in hope to get a substantial ransom.

Actors : Glenn Corbett, Christopher Lee, Peter Arne, Kerwin Mathews,
Directors : John Gilling,

A group of ruthless pirates attack a 17th Century Huguenot settlement on the Isle of Devon in search of treasure and will stop at nothing to obtain it.

Actors : Nancy Czar, Arch Hall Jr., Ray Dennis Steckler, Arch Hall Sr.,
Directors : Ray Dennis Steckler,

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).

Actors : Klaus Kinski, Elisabeth Flickenschildt, Brigitte Grothum, Joachim Fuchsberger,
Directors : Alfred Vohrer,

A serial killer named The Shark is terrorizing London by killing his victims with a speargun and then, dressed in a scruba-diver's wetsuit, using the city's sewer tunnels to make his ...