Drama Movies
Five Miles to Midnight (1962)
American ex-Air Force man and current businessman Bob Macklin is married to the impoverished Italian-born Lisa. Bob’s jealousy and immaturity irks Lisa, who tells him she’s planning to file for…
A Prize of Arms (1962)
A criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll.
Come Tomorrow… (1962)
“Come Tomorrow” (1963), directed by Yevgeny Tashkov, is a much-loved comedy about Frosya Burlakova, a talented young woman from a remote Siberian village who comes to Moscow with dreams of…
Stark Fear (1962)
A marriage falls apart when a dutiful wife becomes the breadwinner after her husband loses his job. This angers him and after reveling in her humiliation, he leaves her. Fortunately,…
Wild Guitar (1962)
A young rock & roll hopeful is given a shot at the big time by the unscrupulous owner of a small record company.
Kid Galahad (1962)
After completing his military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the owner of which sees potential in Walter as a professional fighter—and takes…
Two for the Seesaw (1962)
After leaving his wife, lawyer Jerry Ryan moves from Omaha, Nebraska to New York City to start a new life. While studying for the New York Bar Examination and working…
Taras Bulba (1962)
Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for his family and his folk and…
The L-Shaped Room (1962)
Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby’s father or getting an abortion. After renting a room in a dingy London…
An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
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…
Clash of Steel (1962)
In 16th-century France, the Chevalier de Pardaillan rescues the beautiful gypsy “Violetta”, in reality Isabelle, daughter of the Comte d’Entraigues and prey of his sworn enemy, the Duke Henri de…
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…
Farm Girls (1962)
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