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Best Movies of 1962, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
68 films from 1962 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Harakiri ('1962), at 8.6 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.7. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Mutiny on the Bounty, 7.2 on IMDb against 48 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harakiri '1962 | Action / Drama | 8.6 | 100% | 85 | 8.5 | Masaki Kobayashi |
| 2 | Lawrence of Arabia '1962 | War | 8.3 | 93% | 100 | 8.0 | David Lean |
| 3 | To Kill a Mockingbird '1962 | Drama | 8.2 | 93% | 88 | 8.0 | Robert Mulligan |
| 4 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance '1962 | Western | 8.1 | 95% | 94 | 7.8 | John Ford |
| 5 | La Jetée '1962 | Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi | 8.2 | 90% | - | 7.9 | Chris Marker |
| 6 | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? '1962 | Horror / Thriller | 8.0 | 91% | 75 | 7.9 | Robert Aldrich |
| 7 | Ivan's Childhood '1962 | Drama / War | 8.0 | 100% | - | 7.8 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| 8 | Sanjuro '1962 | Drama / Action / Comedy | 8.0 | 100% | 83 | 7.9 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 9 | The Miracle Worker '1962 | Drama | 8.1 | 96% | 83 | 7.9 | Arthur Penn |
| 10 | Il Sorpasso '1962 | Drama / Comedy | 8.2 | - | - | 8.2 | Dino Risi |
| 11 | The Manchurian Candidate '1962 | Thriller / Drama | 7.9 | 96% | 94 | 7.5 | John Frankenheimer |
| 12 | Viridiana '1962 | Drama | 8.0 | 97% | - | 7.7 | Luis Buñuel |
| 13 | The Exterminating Angel '1962 | Comedy / Drama / Fantasy | 7.9 | 94% | - | 7.9 | Luis Buñuel |
| 14 | Vivre Sa Vie '1962 | Drama | 7.8 | 92% | - | 7.7 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 15 | An Autumn Afternoon '1962 | Drama | 8.0 | 95% | 91 | 7.9 | Yasujirō Ozu |
| 16 | Cléo from 5 to 7 '1962 | Drama | 7.8 | 93% | 87 | 7.7 | Agnès Varda |
| 17 | Birdman of Alcatraz '1962 | Drama / Crime | 7.8 | 88% | 76 | 7.5 | John Frankenheimer |
| 18 | The Given Word '1962 | Drama | 8.3 | - | - | 8.1 | Anselmo Duarte |
| 19 | The Longest Day '1962 | War / Drama | 7.7 | 83% | 75 | 7.6 | Ken Annakin |
| 20 | Cape Fear '1962 | Thriller / Drama / Crime | 7.7 | 89% | 76 | 7.4 | J. Lee Thompson |
| 21 | Mamma Roma '1962 | Drama | 7.8 | 95% | - | 7.9 | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| 22 | The Music Man '1962 | Comedy / Musical / Romance | 7.7 | 94% | 76 | 7.1 | Morton DaCosta |
| 23 | Jules and Jim '1962 | Drama / Romance | 7.6 | 94% | 97 | 7.5 | François Truffaut |
| 24 | Le Doulos '1962 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 7.7 | 96% | - | 7.4 | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| 25 | The Trial '1962 | Crime / Drama / Mystery | 7.6 | 84% | - | 7.4 | Orson Welles |
| 26 | L'Eclisse '1962 | Drama / Romance | 7.6 | 87% | - | 7.6 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| 27 | Advise & Consent '1962 | Drama | 7.7 | 79% | - | 7.2 | Otto Preminger |
| 28 | The Girls '1962 | Comedy / Romance | 7.8 | - | - | 7.5 | Yuri Chulyukin |
| 29 | Lolita '1962 | Drama / Comedy / Romance | 7.5 | 89% | 79 | 7.3 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 30 | Placido '1962 | Comedy | 7.8 | 100% | - | 7.7 | Luis García Berlanga |
| 31 | The Tale of Zatoichi '1962 | Action / Drama | 7.6 | 100% | - | 7.3 | Kenji Misumi |
| 32 | The Fabulous Baron Munchausen '1962 | Animation / Fantasy / Comedy | 7.7 | - | - | 7.4 | Karel Zeman |
| 33 | Lonely are the Brave '1962 | Western | 7.5 | 93% | - | 7.4 | David Miller |
| 34 | The Intruder '1962 | Drama | 7.6 | 80% | - | 7.2 | Roger Corman |
| 35 | The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner '1962 | Drama | 7.5 | 73% | - | 7.2 | Tony Richardson |
| 36 | Pitfall '1962 | Mystery / Fantasy / Crime | 7.5 | 100% | - | 7.3 | Hiroshi Teshigahara |
| 37 | Knife in the Water '1962 | Drama / Thriller | 7.4 | 97% | 83 | 7.3 | Roman Polanski |
| 38 | Ride the High Country '1962 | Western / Drama | 7.4 | 89% | 92 | 7.0 | Sam Peckinpah |
| 39 | Antoine and Colette '1962 | Romance / Drama / Comedy | 7.4 | - | - | 7.2 | François Truffaut |
| 40 | A Monkey in Winter '1962 | Drama / Comedy | 7.4 | - | - | 7.6 | Henri Verneuil |
| 41 | War of the Buttons '1962 | Comedy / Drama | 7.4 | - | - | 7.2 | Yves Robert |
| 42 | Salvatore Giuliano '1962 | Crime / Drama | 7.3 | 100% | - | 7.5 | Francesco Rosi |
| 43 | Experiment in Terror '1962 | Thriller / Crime | 7.3 | 100% | 69 | 7.1 | Blake Edwards |
| 44 | The Tale of Zatoichi Continues '1962 | Action / Drama | 7.2 | 100% | - | 7.1 | Kazuo Mori |
| 45 | Totò diabolicus '1962 | Comedy | 6.7 | - | - | 7.1 | Steno |
| 46 | Amphibian Man '1962 | Sci-Fi / Romance | 6.9 | - | - | 6.8 | Vladimir Chebotaryov |
| 47 | Mutiny on the Bounty '1962 | Drama | 7.2 | 70% | 48 | 7.1 | Lewis Milestone |
| 48 | Sweet Bird of Youth '1962 | Drama | 7.1 | 74% | 53 | 6.7 | Richard Brooks |
| 49 | Boccaccio '70 '1962 | Comedy / Romance | 7.0 | 50% | - | 6.9 | Vittorio De Sica |
| 50 | Night of the Eagle '1962 | Horror | 6.9 | 88% | 73 | 6.7 | Sidney Hayers |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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