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Films from 1962 — 13 films

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Original illustration for Harakiri: An empty severe Japanese manor courtyard with exact raked-gravel perspective and one dark suit of samurai armour on its stand framed in a distant alcove.
Harakiri
1962 · Masaki Kobayashi133 min · Drama

A ronin requests ritual suicide and calmly opens a clan’s polished history.

BleakTensePatient
Original illustration for Cléo from 5 to 7: Paris late-afternoon street unfolds from an elegant oval cafe mirror into layered pavement arcs, plane-tree leaves and a giant clock dial whose only numerals are 5 and 7.
Cléo from 5 to 7
1962 · Agnès Varda89 min · Drama

Ninety anxious minutes in Paris, measured by mirrors, streets, and attention.

GentleBeautifulModerate
Ivan's Childhood: A small boy stands among engraved birch trees, marsh reflections and a ruined windmill.
Ivan's Childhood
1962 · Andrei Tarkovsky95 min · War

A child scout crosses wartime marshes while dreams preserve a world already lost.

BleakBeautifulModerate
Original illustration: Three overlapping paper bicycle wheels, river scenes and postcards beneath Jules and Jim lettering.
Jules and Jim
1962 · François Truffaut105 min · Romantic drama

Two friends love the same mercurial woman across years of art, war, marriage, travel, and changing agreements.

RomanticBeautifulEasy
Knife in the Water: Huge blue and ivory lettering rises above a small sailboat and a dark knife-shaped reflection.
Knife in the Water
1962 · Roman Polanski94 min · Thriller

A couple invite a young stranger onto their yacht, where status and rivalry have nowhere to escape.

TenseBleakModerate
L’eclisse 1962
L’eclisse
1962 · Michelangelo Antonioni126 min

After ending one relationship, a woman drifts into another amid the spaces and distances of modern Rome.

RomanticStrangePatient
Sanjuro 1962
Sanjuro
1962 · Akira Kurosawa

A scruffy, experienced samurai helps a group of idealistic young warriors confront corruption within their clan. His methods make their ideas of proper conduct look dangerously naive.
Strongroom 1962
Strongroom
1962 · Vernon Sewell79 min · Crime

Bank robbers must return to free the two people they have locked in an airtight vault.
Original illustration for The Exterminating Angel: An extravagant dining room viewed through an enormous completely open doorway: empty table setting, chandelier, rugs and doors that loop into further doors, all precise overlapping paper planes.
The Exterminating Angel
1962 · Luis BuñuelSurrealist satire

After an elegant dinner, a group of wealthy guests discover that none of them can bring themselves to leave the room.

StrangeFunnyPatient
The House Is Black — A white flower and a child's slate sit in a stark black-and-ivory classroom.
The House Is Black
1962 · Forugh Farrokhzad22 min · Documentary short

Poetry, daily routine, and direct observation meet inside an Iranian leper colony.

BleakBeautifulModerate
A lone runner follows a red track from an institutional yard into open countryside.
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
1962 · Tony RichardsonDrama

A young offender’s talent for distance running becomes a reform-school governor’s favourite proof of success.

BleakTenseModerate
The Manchurian Candidate — Large ivory lettering and repeated queen-of-diamonds cards form a hypnotic pattern.
The Manchurian Candidate
1962 · John FrankenheimerPolitical thriller

A decorated soldier returns from war with a heroic story that his former commander cannot make fit his dreams.

MysteryTenseModerate
A dense spiral of desks and papers dwarfs one small central human figure.
The Trial
1962 · Orson WellesDrama

A man is arrested without being detained and drawn through a legal system that never states the charge against him.

StrangeMysteryPatient

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