Best Movies of 1962 by Rank
30
1
David Lean
Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif
Adventure / War / Drama / Epic
UK
English
45
2
François Truffaut
Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Vanna Urbino, Boris Bassiak
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
112
3
John Frankenheimer
Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva
Drama / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
352
7
Michelangelo Antonioni
Monica Vitti, Alain Delon, Francisco Rabal, Lilla Brignone, Rossana Rory
Drama
Italy / France
Italian
478
9
Luis Buñuel
Silvia Pinal, Enrique Rambal, Claudio Brook
Drama / Comedy / Mystery / Fantasy / Experimental
Mexico
Spanish
488
10
Robert Aldrich
Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Wesley Addy
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
510
11
Agnès Varda
Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray
Drama
France / Italy
French
558
12
Stanley Kubrick
James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon, Peter Sellers, Gary Cockrell
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA / UK
English
646
13
Arthur Penn
Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory, Inga Swenson
Drama / Biography / Family
USA
English
757
14
Sam Peckinpah
Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, Mariette Hartley, Ron Starr, Edgar Buchanan
Western
USA
English
785
15
Morton DaCosta
Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett
Musical / Comedy / Family / Romance
USA
English
805
16
Chris Marker
Jean Négroni, Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich
Sci-Fi / Short / Experimental / Romance / Fantasy
France
French
856
17
Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki, Darryl F. Zanuck
John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Rod Steiger
Action / Drama / War / Epic / Family
USA
English
889
18
Blake Edwards
Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford, Jack Klugman
Romance / Drama
USA
English
899
19
Yasujiro Ozu
Chishu Ryu, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada, Mariko Okada
Drama / Comedy / Romance
Japan
Japanese
913
20
Sidney Lumet
Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards, Dean Stockwell
Drama
USA
English
1031
21
Tony Richardson
Michael Redgrave, Tom Courtenay, Avis Bunnage, Alec McCowen, James Bolam
Drama / Sports
UK
English
1215
23
Ingmar Bergman
Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Gunnel Lindblom
Drama / Religion
Sweden
Swedish
1241
24
Orson Welles
Anthony Perkins, Arnoldo Foà, Jess Hahn, Billy Kearns
Drama
France / Italy / West Germany / Yugoslavia
English
1319
25
Terence Young
Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord
Action / Adventure / Thriller / Spy / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
1323
26
Andrei Tarkovsky, Eduard Abalov
Nikolai Burlyayev, Valentin Zubkov, Yevgeni Zharikov, Stepan Krylov
Drama / War
Soviet Union
Russian
1400
27
John Schlesinger
Alan Bates, June Ritchie, Thora Hird, Bert Palmer, Malcolm Patton, Gwen Nelson
Drama / Romance
UK
English
1453
28
Peter Ustinov
Robert Ryan, Peter Ustinov, Melvyn Douglas, Paul Rogers
Adventure / Drama
UK
English
1484
29
John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, Richard Thorpe
Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck, John Wayne, James Stewart, Carroll Baker
Western / Adventure / Drama / Epic
USA
English
1498
30
Bryan Forbes
Leslie Caron, Anthony Booth, Avis Bunnage, Patricia Phoenix
Drama
UK
English
1554
31
Lewis Milestone, Carol Reed
Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris
Adventure / Drama
USA
English
1634
32
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti, Silvana Corsini
Drama / Crime
Italy
Italian
1759
33
Anselmo Duarte
Leonardo Villar, Glória Menezes, Dionísio Azevedo
Drama / Religion
Brazil / Portugal
Portuguese
1781
34
Stan Brakhage
Stan Brakhage, Jane Brakhage
Short / Experimental
USA
English
1793
35
Francesco Rosi
Salvo Randone, Frank Wolff
Crime / Drama / Gangster
Italy
Italian
1848
36
John Frankenheimer
Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter, Neville Brand
Drama / Biography
USA
English
1859
37
J. Lee Thompson
Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Lori Martin, Martin Balsam
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Post-Noir
USA
English
1866
38
John Huston
Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks, Susan Kohner
Drama / Biography
USA
English
1903
39
Hiroshi Inagaki
Koshiro Matsumoto, Yuzo Kayama, Tatsuya Mihashi, Akira Takarada, Yosuke Natsuki
Drama / Epic / History
Japan
Japanese
1943
40
Nanni Loy
Raffaele Barbato, Charles Belmont, Regina Bianchi
Drama / War
Italy
Italian
1959
41
Gualtiero Jacopetti, Paolo Cavara, Franco Prosperi
Rossano Brazzi, Stefano Sibaldi
Documentary
Italy
Italian
1976
42
David Miller
Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau, Michael Kane, Carroll O'Connor
Drama / Western
USA
English
2001
43
Jean-Pierre Melville
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Jean Desailly, René Lefèvre
Crime / Thriller / Post-Noir / Gangster
France / Italy
French
2002
44
Frank Perry
Keir Dullea, Janet Margolin, Howard Da Silva, Neva Patterson
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2008
45
Otto Preminger
Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lawford
Drama
USA
English
2021
46
Ralph Nelson
Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, Julie Harris
Drama / Sports
USA
English
2033
47
Herk Harvey
Candace Hilligoss, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger, Art Ellison, Stan Levitt
Thriller / Horror / Cult
USA
English
2074
48
Sidney Gilliat
Peter Sellers, Mai Zetterling, Virginia Maskell, Richard Attenborough
Comedy / Romance
UK
English
2131
49
Howard Hawks
John Wayne, Hardy Krüger, Elsa Martinelli, Red Buttons, Gérard Blain
Adventure / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2194
50
Delbert Mann
Cary Grant, Doris Day, Gig Young, Audrey Meadows
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2205
51
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi
Action / Adventure / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2234
52
Philippe de Broca
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claudia Cardinale, Jess Hahn, Marcel Dalio, Jean Rochefort
Action / Comedy / Adventure / Drama / Romance
France / Italy
French
2234
52
Richard Brooks
Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight, Ed Begley, Rip Torn, Mildred Dunnock
Drama
USA
English
2253
53
Masaki Kobayashi
Tatsuya Nakadai, Rentaro Mikuni, Shima Iwashita
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2401
55
Jean Renoir
Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Brasseur, O.E. Hasse, Claude Rich, Jacques Jouanneau
Comedy / Drama / War / Adventure
France
French
2489
56
Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli, Luchino Visconti
Sophia Loren, Luigi Giuliani, Anita Ekberg, Peppino De Filippo
Comedy / Fantasy
Italy / France
Italian
2489
56
Michael Gordon
Kim Novak, James Garner, Tony Randall, Howard Duff
Comedy
USA
English
2489
56
Mervyn LeRoy
Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Paul Wallace
Musical / Drama / Comedy / Biography
USA
English
2518
57
Ismael Rodríguez
Toshirô Mifune, Columba Domínguez, Flor Silvestre
Drama
Mexico
Spanish
2559
58
Joseph Losey
Jeanne Moreau, Stanley Baker, Virna Lisi, Giorgio Albertazzi, James Villiers
Drama / Romance
France / Italy
English
2611
59
Shirley Clarke
Warren Finnerty, Jerome Raphael, Garry Goodrow, James Anderson, Carl Lee
Drama
USA
English
2611
59
George Seaton
William Holden, Lilli Palmer, Hugh Griffith, Carl Raddatz, Ernst Schröder
Thriller / Spy / War
USA
English
2611
59
Paul Killiam, Harvey Cort, Saul J. Turell
Buster Keaton, Douglas Fairbanks, Lillian Gish, William S. Hart, Mack Sennett
Documentary / Action / Comedy / Family
USA
English (Silent Scenes)
2611
59
Guy Green
Olivia de Havilland, Rossano Brazzi, Yvette Mimieux, George Hamilton, Isabel Dean
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2611
59
Kon Ichikawa
Raizô Ichikawa, Rentaro Mikuni, Hiroyuki Nagato, Shiho Fujimura
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2611
59
Arthur Dreifuss
Patrick McGoohan, Sylvia Syms, Walter Macken, Dermot Kelly, Jack Cunningham
Drama / Crime
UK
English
2611
59
Louis Clyde Stoumen
Marlene Dietrich, Adolf Hitler
Documentary / Biography / War / History
USA
English
2615
60
Stan Brakhage
Jane Brakhage, Stan Brakhage
Short / Drama / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2668
61
Martin Ritt
Richard Beymer, Diane Baker, Corinne Calvet, Paul Newman
Drama / Adventure
USA
English
2695
62
Steve Sekely, Freddie Francis
Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey, Janette Scott, Kieron Moore, Mervyn Johns
Horror / Sci-Fi
UK
English
2695
62
Abe Levitow
Judy Garland, Robert Goulet, Red Buttons, Paul Frees, Hermione Gingold
Animation / Family / Musical / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
2695
62
Gene Kelly
Jackie Gleason, Katherine Kath, Gabrielle Dorziat, Jean Lefebvre, Jacques Marin
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2695
62
Don Siegel
Steve McQueen, Bobby Darin, Fess Parker, Harry Guardino, James Coburn
War / Drama
USA
English
2695
62
David Swift
Michael Callan, Cliff Robertson, James MacArthur, Nick Adams, Suzy Parker
Drama
USA
English
2695
62
Norman Panama
Bob Hope, Elke Sommer, Phyllis Diller, Cesare Danova, Marjorie Lord
Comedy / Adventure
UK
English
2695
62
Robert Wise
Robert Mitchum, Shirley MacLaine, Edmon Ryan, Elisabeth Fraser, Eddie Firestone
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2715
63
Michael Cacoyannis
Irene Papas, Yannis Fertis, Aleka Katselli, Theano Ioannidou
Drama
Greece
Greek
2745
64
Richard Fleischer
Anthony Quinn, Silvana Mangano, Arthur Kennedy, Katy Jurado
Adventure / Drama / Epic / Religion
Italy
English
2745
64
Denis Sanders
John Saxon, Robert Redford, Charles Aidman, Sydney Pollack
War / Drama
USA
English
2746
65
Jules Dassin
Melina Mercouri, Anthony Perkins, Raf Vallone, Elizabeth Ercy, Olympia Papadouka
Drama
France / Greece / USA
English
2751
66
Albert Zugsmith
Vincent Price, Linda Ho, Richard Loo, June Kyoto Lu
Drama / Action / Adventure
USA
English
2776
68
Valerio Zurlini
Marcello Mastroianni, Jacques Perrin, Salvo Randone, Sylvie
Drama
France / Italy
French
2793
69
Peter Glenville
Laurence Olivier, Simone Signoret, Sarah Miles, Terence Stamp
Drama
UK
English
2793
69
Georges Franju
Emmanuelle Riva, Philippe Noiret, Edith Scob, Sami Frey
Drama
France
French
2793
69
Igor Talankin
Boris Tokarev, Nina Urgant, Yuri Volkov, Nikolai Burlyayev
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2794
70
Guy Hamilton
David Niven, Michael Wilding, Harry Andrews, Noel Harrison
Adventure / War / Comedy
Italy / USA
English
2794
70
Charles Walters
Doris Day, Jimmy Durante, Stephen Boyd, Martha Raye
Comedy / Musical / Action / Romance
USA
English
2794
70
George Cukor
Shelley Winters, Jane Fonda, Claire Bloom, Glynis Johns
Drama
USA
English
2794
70
Norman Taurog
Elvis Presley, Stella Stevens, Jeremy Slate, Laurel Goodwin
Musical / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2794
70
Henry Levin
Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin, Micheline Presle, John Lund
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2794
70
Philip Dunne
Stephen Boyd, Dolores Hart, Leo McKern, Hugh Griffith
Thriller / Drama / Romance
UK / USA
English
2794
70
Alberto Lattuada
Alberto Sordi, Norma Bengell, Gabriella Conti, Ugo Attanasio
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Gangster
Italy
Italian
2794
70
George Roy Hill
Anthony Franciosa, Jane Fonda, Jim Hutton, Lois Nettleton
Drama / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2794
70
Henry Levin, George Pal
Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Karlheinz Böhm, Walter Slezak
Fantasy / Musical / Family
USA
English
2797
71
Jacques Rozier
Jean-Claude Aimini, Daniel Descamps, Stefania Sabatini
Drama / Romance
France / Italy
French
2805
72
Robert Bresson
Florence Delay, Jean-Claude Fourneau, Roger Honorat
Drama / History / Biography / Religion / Period Film
France
French
2812
73
Nat Hiken, Al De Caprio, Stanley Prager
Joe E. Ross, Fred Gwynne, Paul Reed, Al Lewis, Beatrice Pons, Hank Garrett
Comedy
USA
English
2812
73
Christian Nyby
Robert Loggia, Annette Funicello, Jay C. Flippen, Patric Knowles, Lynn Bari
Western / Action / Family / Serial
USA
English
2812
73
Phil Karlson
Elvis Presley, Gig Young, Lola Albright, Joan Blackman, Charles Bronson
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Sports / Musical
USA
English
2812
73
Abe Levitow
Jim Backus, Morey Amsterdam, Jack Cassidy, Royal Dano, Paul Frees, Joan Gardner
Animation / Family / Musical / Fantasy
USA
English
2812
73
Chuck Jones, Maurice Noble
Mel Blanc
Animation / Family / Short / Comedy
USA
English
2856
74
Dino Risi
Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Claudio Gora
Comedy / Drama
Italy
Italian
2865
75
Riccardo Freda
Kirk Morris, Hélène Chanel, Vira Silenti
Adventure / Fantasy / Horror
Italy
Italian
NR
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François Truffaut
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Patrick Auffay, Rosy Varte
Drama / Romance
France
French
