Best Movies of 1962
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Best Movies of 1962
TOP Movies: Lawrence of Arabia (1962), The Longest Day (1962), Dr. No (1962), To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), The Miracle Worker (1962), How the West Was Won (1962), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), The Music Man (1962), Days of Wine and Roses (1962), Lolita (1962), Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), Cape Fear (1962), Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), Sweet Bird of Youth (1962), Ride the High Country (1962), That Touch of Mink (1962), Lonely Are the Brave (1962), Advise & Consent (1962), Carnival of Souls (1962), Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962).
List of Best Movies
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 227 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
epic, breathtaking, visually appealing, visually stunning, historical drama ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, date night, kids
Plot:
world war one, desert, military, british empire, camel, islam, great war, imperialism, politics, historical character, battles, quicksand ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, 1930s, 1920s, year 1962 ...
Place:
middle east, saudi arabia, arabia, ottoman empire, jordan ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 179 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
epic, black and white, factual, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
world war two, military, french resistance, machine gun, nazi, courage, war, combat, beach, world war, brutality, allies ...
Time:
year 1962, 20th century, year 1944, 1940s
Place:
normandy, english channel, america, europe, france ...
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193K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Jamaica
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
sexy, saga, witty, action packed, stylized ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
james bond, 007, spy, sex, blood, vigilante, cold war, fight, spider, woman with a gun, mad scientist, undercover ...
Time:
20th century, year 1962, 60s, future
Place:
caribbean, west indies, jamaica, fictional island, england ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
touching, thought provoking, gothic, compassionate, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, manly, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
lawyer, courtroom, courtroom drama, trial, racism, small town, legal, single father, coming of age, rape, justice, childhood ...
Time:
1930s, year 1932, 20th century, year 1962
Place:
alabama, usa, southern usa, america, africa ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
inspirational, period piece, emotional, black and white, touching ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night
Plot:
blindness, blind character, teacher, deafness, disability, mute or deaf, tutor, human spirit, deaf, mentor, children, childhood ...
Time:
1880s, 19th century, year 1962, 1800s
Place:
alabama, southern usa, persia, usa, boston ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Two aging film actresses live as virtual recluses in an old Hollywood mansion. Jane Hudson, a successful child star, cares for her crippled sister Blanche, whose career in later years eclipsed that of Jane. Now the two live together, their ...
Style:
gothic, psychological, psychological horror, black comedy, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
mental illness, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, beach, sibling rivalry, child star, jealousy, actress, filmmaking, dysfunctional family, murder, rat ...
Time:
year 1935, 20th century, 1930s, year 1917, 1910s ...
Place:
los angeles, california, america, usa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 164 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
exciting, epic, intense, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
old west, native american, wilderness, american civil war, civil war, usa history, small town, gold, marriage proposal, native american attack, train, outlaw ...
Time:
19th century, 1830s, 1880s, 1840s, 1870s ...
Place:
california, missouri, arizona, ohio, usa ...
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
melancholic, suspense, atmospheric, serious, meditative ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
politics, lawyer, funeral, wild west, old west, small town, senator, cowboy, friendship, bully, romantic rivalry, election ...
Time:
19th century, year 1962, 1910s, 1880s, 1800s ...
Place:
america
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
The Manchurian Candidate is a political thriller from American director John Frankenheimer. An American soldier is brainwashed into being a killer for the communist Russians during the Korean War.
Style:
political thriller, psychological, political, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
conspiracy, cold war, political conspiracy, brainwashing, assassin, manipulation, nightmare, senator, cold war era, communism, korean war, election ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, year 1962, 50s, year 1952
Place:
new york, north korea, china, washington d.c., korea ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
A con man comes to an Iowa town with a scam using a boy's marching band program, but things don't go according to plan.
Style:
period piece, sentimental, entertaining, retro, aesthetic ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, family outing, date night
Plot:
librarian, small town, dance, library, dancing, broadway, con artists, love, traveling salesman, fall in love, american history, town ...
Time:
1910s, year 1962, 20th century
Place:
iowa, indiana, america, midwest, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.
Style:
sexy, poignant, realistic, depressing, black and white ...
Plot:
addiction, alcoholic, alcoholism, alcoholics anonymous, alcohol abuse, rehabilitation, dysfunctional marriage, drunkenness, secretary, amor, recovery, love ...
Time:
year 1962, 60s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, usa, texas, california, houston texas
Is relevant?
115K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
erotic, disturbing, sexual, psychological, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
forbidden love, lolita, age difference, girl man relationship, seduction, pedophilia, lust, mother daughter relationship, obsession, older man younger woman relationship, nymphet, sexualized violence ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1962, near future ...
Place:
new hampshire, usa, ohio
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
black and white, realistic, serious, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot:
prison, bird, warden, life sentence, alcatraz, redemption, medical, pet bird, biopic, rebel, self discovery, isolation ...
Time:
20th century, year 1962, 1910s, 1920s, 1940s ...
Place:
san francisco, bay area, kansas, usa
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34K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
neo noir, tense, noir, disturbing, tension ...
Plot:
psychopath, stalking, revenge, lawyer, danger, manic, murder, obsession, stalker, serial killer, family in danger, swamp ...
Time:
year 1962, 60s, 20th century
Place:
southern usa, savannah georgia
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
costume drama, epic, suspense, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mutiny, ship, ocean, brutality, corporal punishment, betrayal, captain, native tribe, language barrier, discipline, leadership, tyrant ...
Time:
18th century, 1780s, victorian era, year 1962, georgian era ...
Place:
tahiti, england, persia, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Gigolo and drifter, Chance Wayne, returns to his home town as the accompaniment of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter ...
Style:
southern gothic, emotional, intense, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
adultery, hollywood, betrayal, true love, loneliness, drug addiction, character study, tragedy, justice, movie star, unlikely couple, actor's life ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 1930s
Place:
florida, southern usa, usa, california, london
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy's reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks of the institution through his prowess as a long distance runner. During his solitary runs, reveries of his life and times before his ...
Style:
political, social, black and white, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
kitchen sink realism, prison, runner, prison life, running, juvenile delinquent, loser, working class, rebellion, social realism, coming of age, angry ...
Time:
year 1962, 20th century, 60s
Place:
london, england
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him.
Style:
spaghetti western, realistic, sentimental, aesthetic, retro ...
Plot:
horse, aging, friendship, brother brother relationship, gold rush, judge, gunfight, runaway, wild west, betrayal, shootout, redemption ...
Time:
year 1962, 19th century, 1890s, 70s
Place:
california, america, idaho, texas
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A rich businessman and a young woman are attracted to each other, but he only wants an affair while she wants to save her virginity for marriage.
Style:
witty, romantic comedy, retro, sex comedy, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
new york yankees, unemployment office, insider trading, screwball, love, idealism, fall in love, farce, hotel, psychiatrist, mistaken identity, marriage ...
Time:
year 1962, 20th century, 60s, 80s, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, baltimore, philadelphia, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.
Style:
black and white, existential, retro, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison escape, chase, friendship, truck, modern west, on the run, escape, wilderness, idealism, small town, cowboy, anarchist ...
Time:
20th century, year 1962, 1950s, 60s, year 1952 ...
Place:
albuquerque new mexico, new mexico, california, texas
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A Senate investigation into the President's newly-nominated Secretary of State gives light to a secret from the past, which may not only ruin the candidate, but the President's character as well.
Style:
political, black and white, realistic, clever, thought provoking ...
Plot:
closeted homosexual, politics, gay bar, courtroom drama, president, cold war, political corruption, journalism, american politics, corruption, government, secret past ...
Time:
year 1962, 60s, 20th century, 70s, 1930s
Place:
washington d.c., new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
atmospheric, cult classic, dark, gothic, creepy ...
Plot:
carnival, afterlife, female protagonist, ghost, supernatural, car accident, surrealism, nervous breakdown, american horror, boarding house, spirit, coffee ...
Time:
year 1962
Place:
salt lake city utah, utah, usa, kansas
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min.
Story:
The film follows one day in the lives of the Tyrone family, each member is troubled and has been damaged by alcohol and/or drugs. In addition, they have issues with each other that lead to fights and an inability to reconcile completely with one ...
Style:
grim, tense, depressing, talky, serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, addiction, drug addiction, redemption, actor, family life, alcohol abuse, human nature, actor's life, lifestyle, morphine, family problems ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s, year 1912, year 1962, 60s ...
Place:
connecticut, ireland
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.
Style:
tense, emotional, serious, suspenseful, historical drama ...
Plot:
mutiny, napoleonic wars, ship, british navy, ship captain, injustice, navy, courtroom drama, male male relationship, ocean, betrayal, life is a bitch ...
Time:
18th century, year 1962, 1790s, georgian era
Is relevant?
16K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
A group of men trap wild animals in Africa and sell them to zoos. Will the arrival of a female wildlife photographer change their ways?
Style:
exciting, humorous, black and white, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
safari, male bonding, friendship between men, romantic rivalry, female photographer, wildlife, rhinoceros, rocket, jungle, chase, hunter, hunting ...
Time:
year 1962, 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
africa, california
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The emotional story of a young man in a mental institution for teens who begins to understand his psychosis in the environment of others with mental and emotional problems. He finds intimacy with Lisa, a young woman suffering from schizophrenia.
Style:
psychological, mind bending, surreal, psychedelic, spiritual ...
Plot:
mental illness, multiple personality disorder, angst, mental disorder, insanity, schizophrenia, mental institution, teenage love, coming of age, young lovers, psychiatric hospital, homosexual subtext ...
Time:
60s, 50s, 1950s
Place:
philadelphia
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Mountain Rivera is at the end of his boxing career after a knockout by Cassius Clay in the seventh round. His left eye is one punch from permanent trauma, his ears turned to cauliflower, his speech slurred from "being hit a million times," ...
Style:
black and white, bleak, atmospheric, retro, contemplative ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
boxing, boxer, second chance, social worker, aging, boxing match, drunkenness, troubled, martial arts, wrestling, champion, prizefight ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, future
Place:
new york, usa
Is relevant?
7K
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Based on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose.
Style:
retro, realistic, semi serious, captivating, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
stripper, burlesque, dancing, mother daughter relationship, mother, theater, fame, domineering mother, ambition, broadway, based on broadway musical, theatrical agent ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century, 1950s, 50s ...
Place:
kansas
Is relevant?
89K
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Peace in 17th-century Japan causes the Shogunate's breakup of warrior clans, throwing thousands of samurai out of work and into poverty. An honorable end to such fate under the samurai code is ritual suicide, or hara-kiri.
Style:
black and white, philosophical, jidai geki, melancholic, captivating ...
Plot:
samurai, suicide, poverty, revenge, seppuku, duel, japanese culture, tragedy, life & death, courage, sword fight, society ...
Time:
17th century, year 1962
Place:
japan, asia, east asia, tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Kelly Sherwood is terrorized by a man with an asthmatic voice who plans to use her to steal $100,000 from the bank where she works. He threatens to kill her teenage sister Toby, if she tells the police. However she manages to contact F.B.I. agent ...
Style:
neo noir, psychological thriller, retro, noir, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
psychopath, fbi agent, extortion, psycho killer, woman in jeopardy, threat, disguise, kidnapping, phone terror, home invasion, danger, fear ...
Time:
year 1962, 60s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, california, usa
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