Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8092 Films to Buy & Rent
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
- Dir. Robert Mulligan
Feat. Gregory Peck, Mary Badham
- Moving adaptation stars Gregory Peck in an Oscar–winning performance as the genial lawyer who defends an innocent Negro accused of rape in the…
Trial of Joan of Arc, The (Procès de Jeanne d'Arc) (1962)
- Dir. Robert Bresson
- One of dir. Bressons' more difficult works, depicting the final days of 15th century French religious patriot Joan of Arc and utilising the actual…
Trial, The (1962)
- Dir. Orson Welles
Feat. Anthony Perkins
- Orson Welles makes a visual and intellectual feast of Kafka's novel about a man accused of crimes that remain unexplained. Anthony Perkins is…
Two For The Seesaw (1962)
- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Shirley Maclaine, Edmon Ryan…
- 'Odd couple' comedy set in NYC, where a Nebraskan lawyer (Mitchum) moves to start life anew and hits the romantic playground in the company of kooky…
Virginian, The (TV Series) (1962-1971)
- Feat. James Drury, Doug McClure, Lee J. Cobb
- Television adaptation of Owen Wister's novel, where Jame's Drury's 'The Virginian' tries to maintain order on the Shiloh Ranch in the Wyoming…
Vivre Sa Vie (My Life to Live) (1962)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Anna Karina
- While filtered through dir. Godard's preoccupations with genre, this series of twelve vignettes about a Parisian woman's marriage breakup and gradual…
Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Laurence Harvey, Jane Fonda, Capucine…
- A schlocky tease–fest with Laurence Harvey as a penniless cowboy who hitches to New Orleans with a drifter (Jane Fonda) searching for his…
Waltz of the Toreadors (1962)
- Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. Peter Sellers, Dany Robin, Margaret Leighton…
- Bruising comedy with an elderly general struggling to come to terms with impending retirement and his ruinous personal life.
Who's Got The Action? (1962)
- Dir. Daniel Mann
Feat. Dean Martin, Lana Turner, Eddie Albert…
- Comedy drama with Dean Martin playing a lawyer with a bad gambling habit whose behaviour concerns both his wife and his law partner.
Winter Light (1962)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Gunnel Lindblom…
- The second in Bergman's faith trilogy, in which a village priest finds himself drawn towards atheism after the death of his wife. Crisp, reflective…