Drama Movies
Billy Budd (1962)
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.
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
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…
Gigot (1962)
A poignant comedy about a mute who befriends Nicole, the little daughter of a prostitute. Gleason shows his considerable talents as an actor without uttering a sound as he plays…
Gypsy (1962)
Rose Hovick lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention to her elder, less…
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
Period of Adjustment (1962)
A newlywed couple on their honeymoon visit friends who are having marital problems of their own.
The Condemned of Altona (1962)
The War Lover (1962)
Buzz Rickson is a dare-devil World War II bomber pilot with a death wish. Failing at everything not involving flying, Rickson lives for the most dangerous missions. His crew lives…
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
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…
Escape from East Berlin (1962)
East Berlin, shortly after the construction of the Berlin Wall. Kurt Schröder and his family dig a tunnel to escape to West Berlin as they struggle to overcome the obstacles…
The Swordsman of Siena (1962)
A 16th-century Spanish overlord hires Thomas Stanswood (Stuart Granger) to protect his, less than eager, fiancee (Sylva Koscina) from rebels. Thomas finds himself drawn to both the fiancee and the…
Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962)
Mountain Rivera is a veteran heavyweight and near-champion who suddenly finds himself washed up in the only trade he knows—prizefighting. Yet, threatened by gangsters for welshing on a gambling debt,…
From Evening Till Morning (1962)
During the German occupation of Estonia a young mother finds a Red Army soldier hiding in the hay in her barn.
Pressure Point (1962)
An African-American prison psychiatrist finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate with bigoted Nazi tendencies.
Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1962)
An Irish miser, his morphine addicted wife, their debauched older son, and a gravely ill younger son. A quiet Connecticut vacation home on one foggy day in August 1912 becomes…
The Chapman Report (1962)
A research psychologist gets involved in the personal lives of four women.
Eva (1962)
The Primitives (1962)
A group of night club entertainers supplement their income by being international jewel thieves
A Flame at the Pier (1962)
The Longest Day (1962)
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…
Mamma Roma (1962)
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy’s reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks of the institution by impressing its Governor through his prowess as a long distance…
No Man Is an Island (1962)
The true story of George Tweed, an American sailor who became the only serviceman on the island of Guam to avoid capture by the Japanese during the early years of…
Vivre Sa Vie (1962)
Dangerous Charter (1962)
The crew of a fishing boat discovers a deserted luxury yacht at sea with a dead body on board. They claim the yacht as salvage, not knowing that a drug…
Hero’s Island (1962)
A family shipwrecked on an island must deal with escaped convicts and pirates.
I Thank a Fool (1962)
After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison. Once she has completed her sentence, the lawyer who prosecuted…
Life for Ruth (1962)
John Harris finds himself ostracized and placed on trial for allowing his daughter Ruth to die. His religious beliefs forbade him to give consent for a blood transfusion that would…
Out of the Fog (1962)
Scotland Yard is thrown into an uproar when a mad killer begins knocking off beautiful young blondes.