Best Movies of 1962
Most watched in 1962
Dr. No1962 · ★ 7.0 · 1h 50m
Lawrence of Arabia1962 · ★ 8.0 · 3h 48m
To Kill a Mockingbird1962 · ★ 8.0 · 2h 9m
Lolita1962 · ★ 7.3 · 2h 34m
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance1962 · ★ 7.8 · 2h 3m
Harakiri1962 · ★ 8.4 · 2h 15m
#1 Harakiri (1962) · ★ 8.4 · 1,233 votes · 2h 15m · action, drama, historyDown-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 wort…
#2 Il Sorpasso (1962) · ★ 8.2 · 864 votes · 1h 45m · comedy, adventure, dramaRoberto, 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 t…
#3 Lawrence of Arabia (1962) · ★ 8.0 · 3,591 votes · 3h 48m · adventure, history, warDuring World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the Turks.…
#4 To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) · ★ 8.0 · 2,961 votes · 2h 9m · dramaScout 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,…
#5 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) · ★ 7.9 · 1,193 votes · 2h 15m · thriller, drama, horrorA former vaudeville child star viciously torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.…
#6 La Jetée (1962) · ★ 7.9 · 1,049 votes · 0h 29m · romance, drama, science-fictionA man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world caused by a world war.…
#7 The Exterminating Angel (1962) · ★ 7.9 · 772 votes · 1h 33m · comedy, fantasy, dramaAfter a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they a…
#8 Sanjuro (1962) · ★ 7.9 · 749 votes · 1h 36m · action, comedy, dramaIn 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 t…
#9 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) · ★ 7.8 · 1,341 votes · 2h 3m · westernQuestions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer,…
#10 Ivan's Childhood (1962) · ★ 7.8 · 857 votes · 1h 35m · drama, warIn 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.…
#11 Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) · ★ 7.7 · 783 votes · 1h 30m · dramaAgnès 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 minu…
#12 Vivre Sa Vie (1962) · ★ 7.7 · 723 votes · 1h 24m · dramaTwelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.…
#13 Viridiana (1962) · ★ 7.7 · 569 votes · 1h 30m · dramaViridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaim…
#14 The Longest Day (1962) · ★ 7.6 · 1,058 votes · 2h 58m · action, drama, historyThe 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 p…
#15 L'Eclisse (1962) · ★ 7.6 · 572 votes · 2h 6m · romance, dramaVittoria is 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…
#16 Jules and Jim (1962) · ★ 7.5 · 1,074 votes · 1h 46m · romance, dramaIn 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 beautifu…
#17 The Manchurian Candidate (1962) · ★ 7.5 · 838 votes · 2h 6m · thriller, dramaNear 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…
#18 Cape Fear (1962) · ★ 7.5 · 655 votes · 1h 46m · thriller, drama, crimeSam 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…
#19 The Trial (1962) · ★ 7.4 · 591 votes · 1h 59m · drama, crime, mysteryArrested for an unnamed crime, Josef K. is trapped in a surreal bureaucratic maze where justice is unknowable and guilt is assumed.…
#20 Lolita (1962) · ★ 7.3 · 2,305 votes · 2h 34m · comedy, romance, dramaHumbert 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 Cha…
#21 Dr. No (1962) · ★ 7.0 · 4,165 votes · 1h 50m · action, adventure, thrillerAgent 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 encounter…
#22 Carnival of Souls (1962) · ★ 7.0 · 553 votes · 1h 18m · fantasy, horror, mysteryMary 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…
#23 How the West Was Won (1962) · ★ 7.0 · 514 votes · 2h 44m · action, western, warThe 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.…