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The Best Movies of 1962 - Original Release   (103 Most Notable)

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 RATING    TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
# 1 for 1962, # 24 Overall Lawrence of Arabia 1962 Lean, David UK BDS
# 2 for 1962, # 44 Overall Jules and Jim 1962 Truffaut, François France DS
# 3 for 1962, # 93 Overall The Manchurian Candidate 1962 Frankenheimer, John USA BD
# 4 for 1962, # 213 Overall To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Mulligan, Robert USA BDS
# 5 for 1962, # 292 Overall Knife in the Water 1962 Polanski, Roman Poland D
# 6 for 1962, # 356 Overall The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 Ford, John USA D
# 7 for 1962, # 458 Overall Vivre sa vie 1962 Godard, Jean-Luc France BD
# 8 for 1962, # 461 Overall What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 Aldrich, Robert USA BD
# 9 for 1962, # 478 Overall L'Eclisse 1962 Antonioni, Michelangelo Italy / France Y
# 10 for 1962, # 578 Overall Lolita 1962 Kubrick, Stanley USA / UK BD
# 11 for 1962, # 586 Overall The Exterminating Angel 1962 Buñuel, Luis Mexico D
# 12 for 1962, # 745 Overall Ride the High Country 1962 Peckinpah, Sam USA D
# 13 for 1962, # 748 Overall The Miracle Worker 1962 Penn, Arthur USA D
# 14 for 1962, # 798 Overall The Longest Day 1962 Annakin, Ken / Marton, Andrew / Wicki, Bernhard / Zanuck, Darryl F. USA BDS
# 15 for 1962, # 832 Overall Days of Wine and Roses 1962 Edwards, Blake USA DS
# 16 for 1962, # 852 Overall The Music Man 1962 DaCosta, Morton USA BD
# 17 for 1962, # 881 Overall Long Day's Journey Into Night 1962 Lumet, Sidney USA BD
# 18 for 1962, # 1045 Overall The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 1962 Richardson, Tony UK D
# 19 for 1962, # 1144 Overall An Autumn Afternoon 1962 Ozu, Yasujiro Japan D
# 20 for 1962, # 1150 Overall The Trial 1962 Welles, Orson France / Italy / West Germany / Yugoslavia Y
# 21 for 1962, # 1162 Overall Sundays and Cybele 1962 Bourguignon, Serge France Y
# 22 for 1962, # 1170 Overall Winter Light 1962 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden Y
# 23 for 1962, # 1180 Overall La Jetée 1962 Marker, Chris France BD
# 24 for 1962, # 1348 Overall Dr. No 1962 Young, Terence UK / USA BDS
# 25 for 1962, # 1385 Overall Mamma Roma 1962 Pasolini, Pier Paolo Italy Y
# 26 for 1962, # 1440 Overall My Name Is Ivan 1962 Tarkovsky, Andrei / Abalov, Eduard Soviet Union Y
# 27 for 1962, # 1467 Overall A Kind of Loving 1962 Schlesinger, John UK
# 28 for 1962, # 1494 Overall How the West Was Won 1962 Ford, John / Hathaway, Henry / Marshall, George / Thorpe, Richard USA BDS
# 29 for 1962, # 1520 Overall Mutiny on the Bounty 1962 Milestone, Lewis / Reed, Carol USA BDS
# 30 for 1962, # 1581 Overall Keeper of Promises 1962 Duarte, Anselmo Brazil / Portugal
# 31 for 1962, # 1588 Overall Billy Budd 1962 Ustinov, Peter UK D
# 32 for 1962, # 1599 Overall Dog Star Man: Part I 1962 Brakhage, Stan USA BD
# 33 for 1962, # 1646 Overall The L-Shaped Room 1962 Forbes, Bryan UK
# 34 for 1962, # 1650 Overall Le Doulos 1962 Melville, Jean-Pierre France / Italy D
# 35 for 1962, # 1708 Overall Salvatore Giuliano 1962 Rosi, Francesco Italy Y
# 36 for 1962, # 1745 Overall The Four Days of Naples 1962 Loy, Nanni Italy
# 37 for 1962, # 1812 Overall Cape Fear 1962 Thompson, J. Lee USA BD
# 38 for 1962, # 1815 Overall Freud 1962 Huston, John USA S
# 39 for 1962, # 1862 Overall Chushingura 1962 Inagaki, Hiroshi Japan D
# 40 for 1962, # 1910 Overall Carnival of Souls 1962 Harvey, Herk USA DS
# 41 for 1962, # 1926 Overall Only Two Can Play 1962 Gilliat, Sidney UK
# 42 for 1962, # 1938 Overall Lonely Are the Brave 1962 Miller, David USA D
# 43 for 1962, # 1972 Overall Advise & Consent 1962 Preminger, Otto USA DS
# 44 for 1962, # 1992 Overall Birdman of Alcatraz 1962 Frankenheimer, John USA DS
# 45 for 1962, # 2012 Overall Harakiri 1962 Kobayashi, Masaki Japan BD
# 46 for 1962, # 2076 Overall Mondo cane 1962 Jacopetti, Gualtiero / Cavara, Paolo / Prosperi, Franco Italy D
# 47 for 1962, # 2095 Overall Heaven and Earth Magic 1962 Smith, Harry USA
# 48 for 1962, # 2145 Overall Prelude: Dog Star Man 1962 Brakhage, Stan USA BD
# 49 for 1962, # 2165 Overall That Touch of Mink 1962 Mann, Delbert USA D
# 50 for 1962, # 2178 Overall Eva 1962 Losey, Joseph France / Italy D
# 51 for 1962, # 2180 Overall The Important Man 1962 Rodríguez, Ismael Mexico
# 52 for 1962, # 2186 Overall David and Lisa 1962 Perry, Frank USA D
# 53 for 1962, # 2202 Overall Cartouche 1962 de Broca, Philippe France / Italy D
# 53 for 1962, # 2202 Overall Hatari! 1962 Hawks, Howard USA D
# 53 for 1962, # 2202 Overall Sweet Bird of Youth 1962 Brooks, Richard USA D
# 54 for 1962, # 2214 Overall Requiem for a Heavyweight 1962 Nelson, Ralph USA Y
# 55 for 1962, # 2226 Overall The Connection 1962 Clarke, Shirley USA
# 55 for 1962, # 2226 Overall The Counterfeit Traitor 1962 Seaton, George USA D
# 55 for 1962, # 2226 Overall The Great Chase 1962 Killiam, Paul / Cort, Harvey / Turell, Saul J. USA V
# 55 for 1962, # 2226 Overall Light in the Piazza 1962 Green, Guy USA
# 55 for 1962, # 2226 Overall The Outcast 1962 Ichikawa, Kon Japan
# 55 for 1962, # 2226 Overall The Quare Fellow 1962 Dreifuss, Arthur UK D
# 55 for 1962, # 2226 Overall The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler:
Black Fox
1962 Stoumen, Louis Clyde USA V
# 56 for 1962, # 2230 Overall Sanjuro 1962 Kurosawa, Akira Japan BD
# 57 for 1962, # 2254 Overall Mafioso 1962 Lattuada, Alberto Italy D
# 58 for 1962, # 2262 Overall Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man 1962 Ritt, Martin USA DS
# 59 for 1962, # 2286 Overall Confessions of an Opium Eater 1962 Zugsmith, Albert USA
# 60 for 1962, # 2323 Overall Electra 1962 Cacoyannis, Michael Greece Y
# 61 for 1962, # 2329 Overall Cronaca familiare 1962 Zurlini, Valerio France / Italy
# 62 for 1962, # 2342 Overall Le Caporal épinglé 1962 Renoir, Jean France D
# 63 for 1962, # 2350 Overall Boccaccio '70 1962 De Sica, Vittorio / Fellini, Federico / Monicelli, Mario / Visconti, Luchino Italy / France BS
# 63 for 1962, # 2350 Overall Boys' Night Out 1962 Gordon, Michael USA Y
# 63 for 1962, # 2350 Overall Gypsy 1962 LeRoy, Mervyn USA D
# 64 for 1962, # 2353 Overall Term of Trial 1962 Glenville, Peter UK
# 64 for 1962, # 2353 Overall Thérèse Desqueyroux 1962 Franju, Georges France S
# 64 for 1962, # 2353 Overall Vstupleniye 1962 Talankin, Igor Soviet Union
# 65 for 1962, # 2355 Overall Barabbas 1962 Fleischer, Richard Italy Y
# 65 for 1962, # 2355 Overall War Hunt 1962 Sanders, Denis USA Y
# 66 for 1962, # 2357 Overall Phaedra 1962 Dassin, Jules France / Greece / USA
# 67 for 1962, # 2366 Overall The Best of Enemies 1962 Hamilton, Guy Italy / USA
# 67 for 1962, # 2366 Overall Billy Rose's Jumbo 1962 Walters, Charles USA YS
# 67 for 1962, # 2366 Overall The Chapman Report 1962 Cukor, George USA D
# 67 for 1962, # 2366 Overall Girls! Girls! Girls! 1962 Taurog, Norman USA D
# 67 for 1962, # 2366 Overall If a Man Answers 1962 Levin, Henry USA Y
# 67 for 1962, # 2366 Overall Lisa 1962 Dunne, Philip UK / USA
# 67 for 1962, # 2366 Overall Period of Adjustment 1962 Hill, George Roy USA Y
# 67 for 1962, # 2366 Overall The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm 1962 Levin, Henry / Pal, George USA Y
# 68 for 1962, # 2376 Overall Adieu Philippine 1962 Rozier, Jacques France / Italy
# 69 for 1962, # 2378 Overall The Trial of Joan of Arc 1962 Bresson, Robert France
# 70 for 1962, # 2383 Overall Car 54, Where Are You? 1962 Hiken, Nat / De Caprio, Al / Prager, Stanley USA D
# 70 for 1962, # 2383 Overall Elfego Baca 1962 Nyby, Christian USA D
# 70 for 1962, # 2383 Overall Kid Galahad 1962 Karlson, Phil USA D
# 70 for 1962, # 2383 Overall Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol 1962 Levitow, Abe USA
# 70 for 1962, # 2383 Overall Now Hear This 1962 Jones, Chuck / Noble, Maurice USA D
# 71 for 1962, # 2403 Overall Day of the Triffids 1962 Sekely, Steve / Francis, Freddie UK D
# 71 for 1962, # 2403 Overall Gay Purr-ee 1962 Levitow, Abe USA DS
# 71 for 1962, # 2403 Overall Gigot 1962 Kelly, Gene USA
# 71 for 1962, # 2403 Overall Hell Is for Heroes 1962 Siegel, Don USA D
# 71 for 1962, # 2403 Overall The Interns 1962 Swift, David USA V
# 71 for 1962, # 2403 Overall The Road to Hong Kong 1962 Panama, Norman UK D
# 71 for 1962, # 2403 Overall Two for the Seesaw 1962 Wise, Robert USA V
# 72 for 1962, # 2406 Overall The Witch's Curse 1962 Freda, Riccardo Italy Y
NR Antoine and Colette 1962 Truffaut, François France DS
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T   Theaters (US)
B   Blu-ray Disc
D   DVD
V   VHS
Y   Yes (DVD or VHS, unspecified)
S   Soundtrack
 
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