Best Drama movies of 1962

Actors : Theano Ioannidou, Aleka Katselli, Giannis Fertis, Irene Papas,
Directors : Mihalis Kakogiannis,

Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.

Actors : Nick Adams, Michael Callan, James MacArthur, Cliff Robertson,
Directors : David Swift,

During their first year of internship at New North Hospital, a group of aspiring doctors undergo both personal and professional upheavals. John Paul Otis destroys his medical career when he...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Jane Fonda, Shelley Winters, 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 : Kenneth Griffith, Virginia Maskell, Mai Zetterling, Peter Sellers,
Directors : Sidney Gilliat,

John Lewis is bored by his librarian's job and henpecked at home. Then Liz, wife of a local counciller, sets her sights on him. But this is risky stuff in a Welsh valleys town - if he and ...

Actors : Anil Chatterjee, Pahadi Sanyal, Chhabi Biswas, Karuna Bannerjee,
Directors : Satyajit Ray,

An upper-class Bengali family is on vacation in Darjeeling, a popular hill station and resort near Kanchenjungha.

Actors : Vesa-Matti Loiri, Uti Saurio, Pentti Tarkiainen, Hannu Vironmäki,
Directors : Mikko Niskanen,

A group of mischievous Finnish boys experience the ups and downs of life during World War 2.

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 : 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 : France Nuyen, Yvette Mimieux, Charlton Heston, George Chakiris,
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 : 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 : 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 ...

Actors : Michel Simon, Françoise Arnoul, Claude Nollier, Lucien Baroux,
Directors : Julien Duvivier,

1) Jerôme Chambard, a retired man, taken in by nuns in a convent, swears like a trooper. 2) Françoise takes a lover because he has promised her a diamond necklace. 3) Denis, a seminarist, ...

Actors : Gyanesh Mukherjee, Ruma Guha Thakurta, Soumitra Chatterjee, Waheeda Rehman,
Directors : Satyajit Ray,

A taxi driver attempts to introduce his cab service in rural Bengal against many odds.

Actors : Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gig Young, Anthony Perkins, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Anatole Litvak,

Lisa Macklin, an Italian woman, has a fight with her American husband Robert in a Paris night club. He leaves the next day for a business trip and Lisa says she does not want to see him ...

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.