Drama Movies of 1962
Advise and Consent
The first of Allen Drury "all names changed to protect the guilty" political novels, Advise and Consent was brought to ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
Sweet Bird of Youth
Paul Newman recreates his Broadway role in the 1962 film version of Tennessee Williams' Sweet ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
Walk on the Wild Side
This moody and controversial drama takes place in Depression-era New Orleans. Dove (Laurence Harvey) has traveled by bus from Texas to ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
High and Low
Based on King's Ransom, an "87th Precinct" novel by Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter), High and Low stars Toshiro Mifune as Gondo, a wealthy industrialist. Gondo is contacted by a gang of ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
Birdman of Alcatraz
In this film based on a true story, Burt Lancaster plays Robert Stroud, a withdrawn prison inmate who cures a sick bird that flies into ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
War Hunt
Robert Redford makes his big-screen debut in this off-beat war ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
Requiem for a Heavyweight
One of the most memorable sports dramas because of its strong character development, Requiem for a Heavyweight is carried by Anthony Quinn as the washed-up boxer Mountain ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
Taras Bulba
The spectacular hordes of Cossack horsemen flying across the steppes to do battle with first one enemy and then another are the highlights of this otherwise thinly scripted costume drama set in the 16th century in the Ukraine. After the ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
L'eclisse
In this challenging drama by Michelangelo Antonioni, his characteristic long, significant periods of silence punctuate the message that people just cannot seem to communicate with each other. Capping off Antonioni's previous two films ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
Damn the Defiant!
Damn the Defiant! is an 18th-century seafaring drama from director Lewis Gilbert. Alec Guinness plays the stern but compassionate captain of a British warship, engaged in the Napoleonic wars. Guinness is popular with his ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
Days of Wine and Roses
In this addiction melodrama, Joe Clay (Jack Lemmon), a promising adman, meet his future wife Kirsten (Lee ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
Kid Galahad
This musical boxing drama finds Walter (Elvis Presley) as a recently discharged soldier looking forwork in New York's Catskill Mountains. He happens across Grogan's Gym, a boxing emporium ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
Miracle of the White Stallions
In a rather confusing and slow-paced manner, this wartime drama about a real-life dilemma is meant to highlight the dedication of Colonel Alois ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiographical ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
Pressure Point
Unable to get through to a particularly hostile patient, psychiatrist Peter Falk goes to gray-haired senior shrink Sidney Poitier for advice. This prompts ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
Satan Never Sleeps
Director Leo McCarey returned to the religious themes of his classics Going My Way (1944) and The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) for this action drama, his final film. William Holden stars as Father O'Banion, a Catholic priest ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
Billy Budd
Herman Melville's short novel Billy Budd is adapted for ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
The Miracle Worker
Based on William Gibson's Broadway play and retaining its acclaimed cast, Arthur Penn's The Miracle Worker tells the true story of Helen Keller (Patty Duke), an ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
Eva
Joseph Losey's turbulent melodrama concerns a phony writer, Tyvian Jones (Stanley Baker), who has recently sold the film rights to his autobiography as a Welsh coal miner (actually penned by his deceased ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
Diamond Head
Charlton Heston, portraying swaggering bigot land-baron ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
The War Lover
Loosely based on a novel by John Hersey, this standard wartime drama stars Steve McQueen ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
Jules and Jim
Acclaimed French director François Truffaut's third and, for many viewers, best film is an adaptation of a semi-autobiographical novel by Henri-Pierre Roché. Set between 1912 and ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
David and Lisa
This stark and spare look at the world of the mentally disturbed was one of the beacons of the new American ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
One of the key "angry young man" films which helped define the British "Kitchen Sink Drama" style of the late 1950's and early 60's, this story centers on Colin Smith (Tom Courtenay), a bitter young man from a working-class family. ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
No Man Is an Island
This is a routine docudrama on the life of George R. Tweed, a World War II hero played by Jeffrey Hunter. Tweed was trapped on Guam from the day when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and began their Pacific campaign. Tweed ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
Cleo from 5 to 7
Cleo From 5 to 7 (Cleo de cinq a sept), per its title, ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
Sweet Ecstasy
Prolific French director Max Pecas guides this wooden sexual drama through its slow paces. The story is ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
El Pecado de Una Madre
The unbeatable combination of both Dolores del Rio and Libertad Lamarque co-starring in this three-hanky melodrama about the self-sacrificing love of a mother makes this otherwise unexceptional film a ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
Mamma Roma
Anna Magnani stars as Mamma Roma, a rural Italian hooker ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
Electra
This excellent adaptation by Michael Cacoyannis of the famous tragedy by Euripides garnered him his first international success and an award at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival. Irene Papas plays Electra, the daughter of King Agememnon and ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
Free, White, and 21
This fact-based drama from the early 1960s takes a documentary approach to the true story of the African-American owner of a Dallas motel who is tried on charges of ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
Knife in the Water
Noz w Wodzie was not only Polanski's first feature-length film, but it also marked the first screen appearance of Polish actor Zygmunt Malanowicz who played a young ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
Ring of Terror
In this early '60s drama that serves as an expose to the problem of campus hazing, a undergrad who is deathly ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
Wild Guitar
This low-budget, mediocre teen rock 'n roll tale features a raft of unknowns, headed by Arch Hall, Jr. as Bud Eagle who leaves ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
The Primitives
In this crime drama, a dancer and her assistants don interesting disguises to pull off a jewel theft. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
Satan in High Heels
Sleaziness abounds in this grim drama about a stripper who starts a new life without her drug-addicted husband. While working at a posh downtown nightclub she becomes ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
Cielo Rojo
A rebellious young man sets out to find himself in this melodrama by Roberto Rodríguez (of the brothers Rodríguez, well-established in Mexican cinema). The setting is Acapulco and the young ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
La Risa de la Ciudad
Hampered by a low budget, this otherwise well-acted and excellently directed drama (Gilberto Gazcon is at the helm) takes an understanding look at a group of people ... [ Drama movie - 1962 ]
The Saint: Season 01
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