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Movies: Popular Movies of 1962

Movies in chronological context: 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1962nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 962nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 62nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1960s decade. The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. ()

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Dr. No(1962)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 50min | Adventure, Action, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 1,553 votes)

In the film that launched the James Bond saga, Agent 007 battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica, where he encounters beautiful Honey Ryder, to confront a megalomaniacal villain in his massive island headquarters.

Lawrence of Arabia(1962)

FSK: 12+ years
| 3h 47min | Adventure, Drama, History, War
4.0/5 (with 1,261 votes)

The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.

To Kill a Mockingbird(1962)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 9min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 1,110 votes)

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.

Lolita(1962)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 34min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 859 votes)

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance(1962)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 3min | Western
3.9/5 (with 456 votes)

A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed.

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?(1962)

2h 15min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
4.0/5 (with 452 votes)

A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.

Jules and Jim(1962)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 50min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 414 votes)

In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim and both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine.

The Longest Day(1962)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 58min | War, Action, Drama
3.8/5 (with 398 votes)

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day".

Harakiri(1962)

FSK: 18+ years
| 2h 15min | Action, Drama, History
4.2/5 (with 377 votes)

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual. The senior counselor for the Iyi clan questions the ronin’s resolve and integrity, suspecting Hanshirō of seeking charity rather than an honorable end. What follows is a pair of interlocking stories which lay bare the difference between honor and respect, and promises to examine the legendary foundations of the Samurai code.

La Jetée(1962)

4.0/5 (with 370 votes)

A man is sent back and forth and in and out of time in an experiment that attempts to unravel the fate and the solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world during the aftermath of WW3. The experiment results in him getting caught up in a perpetual reminiscence of past events that are recreated on an airport’s viewing pier.

Il Sorpasso(1962)

1h 45min | Drama, Comedy
4.1/5 (with 309 votes)

Roberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who takes him for a drive through the Roman and Tuscany countries in the summer. When their journey starts to blend into their daily lives though, the pair’s newfound friendship is tested.

The Manchurian Candidate(1962)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 6min | Thriller, Drama, Mystery
3.8/5 (with 291 votes)

Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.

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Ivan's Childhood(1962)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 35min | Drama, War
3.9/5 (with 290 votes)

In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.

The Exterminating Angel(1962)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 34min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
4.0/5 (with 279 votes)

After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves mysteriously unable to leave the room.

Cléo from 5 to 7(1962)

1h 30min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 265 votes)

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.

Vivre Sa Vie(1962)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 24min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 265 votes)

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

Sanjuro(1962)

1h 36min | Drama, Action, Comedy
4.0/5 (with 246 votes)

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.

Cape Fear(1962)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 45min | Drama, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 239 votes)

Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.

Carnival of Souls(1962)

1h 18min | Horror, Mystery
3.5/5 (with 207 votes)

Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man. As the visions begin to occur more frequently, Mary finds herself drawn to the deserted carnival on the outskirts of town. The strangely alluring carnival may hold the secret to her tragic past.

L'Eclisse(1962)

3.9/5 (with 196 votes)

This romantic drama by Michelangelo Antonioni follows the love life of Vittoria, a beautiful literary translator living in Rome. After splitting from her writer boyfriend, Riccardo, Vittoria meets Piero, a lively stockbroker, on the hectic floor of the Roman stock exchange. Though Vittoria and Piero begin a relationship, it is not one without difficulties, and their commitment to one another is tested during an eclipse.

The Trial(1962)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 58min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
3.7/5 (with 193 votes)

Josef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused of. In order to find out about the reason for this accusation and to protest his innocence, he tries to look behind the façade of the judicial system. But since this remains fruitless, there seems to be no chance for him to escape from this Kafkaesque nightmare.

How the West Was Won(1962)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 42min | Western
3.5/5 (with 179 votes)

The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.

Mamma Roma(1962)

1h 50min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 178 votes)

After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a respectable middle-class life and reestablish contact with the 16-year-old son she abandoned when he was an infant. But her former pimp threatens to expose her sordid past, and her troubled son seems destined to fall into a life of crime and violence.

Knife in the Water(1962)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 34min | Drama, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 177 votes)

On their way to an afternoon on the lake, husband and wife Andrzej and Krystyna nearly run over a young hitchhiker. Inviting the young man onto the boat with them, Andrzej begins to subtly torment him; the hitchhiker responds by making overtures toward Krystyna. When the hitchhiker is accidentally knocked overboard, the husband's panic results in unexpected consequences.

The Miracle Worker(1962)

1h 46min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 126 votes)

The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard her mother's voice or expressed her innermost feelings. Then Annie Sullivan, a 20-year-old teacher from Boston, arrives. Having just recently regained her own sight, the no-nonsense Annie reaches out to Helen through the power of touch, the only tool they have in common, and leads her bold pupil on a miraculous journey from fear and isolation to happiness and light.

Mutiny on the Bounty(1962)

FSK: 16+ years
| 3h 5min | Adventure, Drama, History
3.5/5 (with 122 votes)

The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a strict discipline. When they arrive at Tahiti, it is like a paradise for the crew, something completely different than the living hell aboard the ship. On the way back to England, officer Fletcher Christian becomes the leader of a mutiny.

Birdman of Alcatraz(1962)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 27min | Crime, Drama
3.8/5 (with 120 votes)

After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to become a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind bars than most people find in the outside world.

War of the Buttons(1962)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 30min | Comedy, Drama
3.7/5 (with 116 votes)

For generations, two rival French villages, Longueverne and Velrans, have been at war. But this is no ordinary conflict, for the on-going hostilities are between two armies of young schoolboys. When he is beaten by his father for having lost his buttons, the leader of the Longueverne army, Lebrac, has an idea which will give his side the advantage: next time, he and his brave soldiers will go in battle without their clothes...

An Autumn Afternoon(1962)

1h 54min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 110 votes)

Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.

Antoine and Colette(1962)

3.6/5 (with 104 votes)

Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her. Later, Antoine goes to extraordinary lengths to please his new girlfriend and her parents, but Colette still only regards him as a casual friend. First segment of “Love at Twenty” (1962).

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