Cannes 1962 - Compétition
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1. The Given Word (1962)
98 min | Drama
A simple yet devout Christian makes a vow to Saint Barbara after she saves his donkey, but everyone he meets seems determined to misunderstand his intentions. Will he be able to keep his promise in the end?
Director: Anselmo Duarte | Stars: Leonardo Villar, Glória Menezes, Dionísio Azevedo, Geraldo Del Rey
Votes: 3,940
Palme d'or
2. Electra (I) (1962)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.
Director: Michael Cacoyannis | Stars: Irene Papas, Giannis Fertis, Aleka Katselli, Theano Ioannidou
Votes: 1,813
Grand Prix de la Commission Supérieure Technique du cinéma français Prix de la meilleure transposition cinématographique
3. The Magnificent Concubine (1962)
103 min | Biography, Drama, History
Lady Yuhuan Yang is the beloved Imperial Concubine of the Chinese Emperor. Her brother Yang, the Prime Minister, is corrupt and the Fanyang Chief revolts and imperils the throne. This has grave consequences for the Yangs and the Emperor.
Director: Han Hsiang Li | Stars: Li Hua Li, Chun Yen, Hsiang Chun Li, Lei Zhao
Votes: 87
Grand Prix de la Commission Supérieure Technique du cinéma français
4. Les Amants de Teruel (1962)
90 min | Musical
In a troupe of poor traveling comedians who perform in the public square, Isa dances the role of Isabelle in the legend of "Lovers of Teruel".
Director: Raymond Rouleau | Stars: Ludmilla Tchérina, Milko Sparemblek, Milenko Banovitch, Stevan Grebel
Votes: 82
Grand Prix de la Commission Supérieure Technique du cinéma français
5. The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Fantasy
The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere, Enrique Rambal, José Baviera
Votes: 35,565
Prix de la Critique Internationale - F.I.P.R.E.S.C.I.
6. Divorce Italian Style (1961)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.
Director: Pietro Germi | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli, Leopoldo Trieste
Votes: 14,182
Prix de la meilleure comédie
7. L'Eclisse (1962)
Not Rated | 126 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Monica Vitti, Alain Delon, Francisco Rabal, Lilla Brignone
Votes: 22,084
Prix spécial du Jury Ex-aequo
8. The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962)
64 min | Biography, Drama, History
A Joan of Arc's trial reconstruction concerning her imprisonment, interrogation and final execution at the hands of the English. Filmed in a spare, low-key fashion.
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Florence Delay, Jean-Claude Fourneau, Roger Honorat, Marc Jacquier
Votes: 5,972
Prix spécial du Jury Ex-aequo
9. A Taste of Honey (1961)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama
A pregnant teenage girl must fend for herself when her mother remarries, leaving the girl with only a new male friend for support.
Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Rita Tushingham, Dora Bryan, Robert Stephens, Murray Melvin
Votes: 6,366
Prix le Premier Regard - Un Certain Regard
10. Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)
Not Rated | 174 min | Drama
At the end of a long and hot summer day, members of one family gather in a large house. Everyone has something painful and offensive to say, and their silence is even worse.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards, Dean Stockwell
Votes: 5,931
Prix le Premier Regard - Un Certain Regard
11. Advise & Consent (1962)
Not Rated | 139 min | Drama, Thriller
The polarizing search for a new Secretary of State has far-reaching consequences.
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Franchot Tone, Lew Ayres, Henry Fonda, Walter Pidgeon
Votes: 7,512
12. All Fall Down (1962)
Approved | 111 min | Drama
Ralph (Karl Malden) and Annabell Willart (Dame Angela Lansbury) are a feuding couple who are constantly bickering over their worthless, good-for-nothing son Berry-Berry (Warren Beatty). ... See full summary »
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Eva Marie Saint, Warren Beatty, Karl Malden, Angela Lansbury
Votes: 2,315
14. Joseph the Dreamer (1962)
80 min | Drama, Animation
The story of the Biblical Joseph and his coat of many colors.
Directors: Alina Gross, Yoram Gross | Stars: Shmuel Atzmon, Shlomo Bar-Shavit, Shraga Friedman, Illi Gorlitzky
Votes: 21
15. Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Cleo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor.
Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray, Dorothée Blanck
Votes: 27,329
16. Kyûpora no aru machi (1962)
99 min | Drama
Set in Kawaguchi, just north of Tokyo in the early 60s, the movie chronicles the lives of poor foundry workers and their families; and one girl's dreams of self-improvement through going on to higher education.
Director: Kiriô Urayama | Stars: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Mitsuo Hamada, Eijirô Tôno, Shôichi Ozawa
Votes: 200
17. The Bread of Those Early Years (1962)
84 min | Drama
A young electrical engineer, engaged to his boss's daughter and on the way to a secure existence, breaks out of his usual life when he meets a childhood friend.
Director: Herbert Vesely | Stars: Christian Doermer, Karen Blanguernon, Vera Tschechowa, Eike Siegel
Votes: 137
18. The Goddess (1960)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama
A young woman is deemed a goddess when her father-in-law, a rich feudal land-lord, has a dream envisioning her as an avatar of Kali.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Sharmila Tagore, Soumitra Chatterjee, Chhabi Biswas, Karuna Bannerjee
Votes: 2,809 | Gross: $0.09M
19. Dom bez okien (1962)
98 min | Drama
The story is set in a smalltime circus. On the edge of failure, the show is further endangered by a new mime who almost wrecks the operation by destroying the other performers' faith in their talents.
Director: Stanislaw Jedryka | Stars: Wieslaw Golas, Danuta Szaflarska, Józef Kondrat, Elzbieta Czyzewska
Votes: 34
20. And Love Has Vanished (1961)
88 min | Drama, Romance
A young man falls in love with the girl who he met by accident.
Director: Aleksandar Petrovic | Stars: Beba Loncar, Miha Baloh, Milos Zutic, Borislav Radovic
Votes: 226
21. Harry and the Butler (1961)
105 min | Comedy, Family
Set in the late fifties in Denmark the poor junk yard assistant Harry inherits some money. He decides to use the money to hire a butler. The butler isn't too keen on the job at first, but ... See full summary »
Director: Bent Christensen | Stars: Osvald Helmuth, Ebbe Rode, Gunnar Lauring, Henning Moritzen
Votes: 502
22. Adorable Julia (1962)
97 min | Comedy
A successful and married, although not quite young, actress at a London theatre, falls for a young man, only a little older than her son, involved with a young actress who uses him to advance her career and upstage the leading lady.
Director: Alfred Weidenmann | Stars: Lilli Palmer, Charles Boyer, Jean Sorel, Jeanne Valérie
Votes: 166
23. When the Trees Were Tall (1962)
95 min | Drama, Romance
The story of a man who routinely dodges all responsibility, bemoans fate, spends his days boozing, and refuses to work. The act of playing long-lost father to a pretty teenager spurs him to turn over a new leaf.
Director: Lev Kulidzhanov | Stars: Inna Gulaya, Yuriy Nikulin, Leonid Kuravlyov, Yekaterina Mazurova
Votes: 788
24. Konga Yo (1962)
108 min | Adventure
A clash of political forces creates turmoil in the Congo.
Director: Yves Allégret | Stars: Nicole Courcel, Roger Pigaut, Jean Lefebvre, Guy Dikolo
Votes: 11
25. Al gharib al saghir (1962)
Drama
The film follows the journey of a young boy from childhood to adolescence, as he begins to feel manhood growing inside of him, while the world around him treats him as a young child. He ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Nasser | Stars: Gaston Chikhani, Shakib Khouri, Suzette Stellwy
Votes: 13
26. Les enfants du soleil (1962)
185 min | Drama
A little fellow has set his heart on buying a sewing machine for his mother. Like the other shoe-shine boys, his goal of saving up money is almost impossible to meet yet after much work, he... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Séverac | Stars: Abdelkader Abderrahmane, Aziz Afifi, Mustapha Brick, Mohammed Zubir
27. Liberté 1 (1962)
89 min | Drama
A Senegalese couple struggle to balance traditional and modern values as their country becomes independent.
Director: Yves Ciampi | Stars: Hassane Fall, Corinne Marchand, Maurice Ronet, Nanette Senghor
28. A Dog's Life (1962)
Approved | 108 min | Documentary, Horror
A "shockumentary" consisting of a collection of mostly real archive footage displaying mankind at its most depraved and perverse, displaying bizarre rites, cruel behavior and bestial violence.
Directors: Paolo Cavara, Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi | Stars: Stefano Sibaldi, Rossano Brazzi, Yves Klein, Henning Skaarup
Votes: 4,410
29. The Man from the First Century (1962)
85 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A workman is accidentally sent into outer space, where he meets an alien that can make himself invisible. They return to Earth in the year 2447. Complications ensue.
Director: Oldrich Lipský | Stars: Milos Kopecký, Radovan Lukavský, Anita Kajlichova, Otomar Krejca
Votes: 183
30. Placido (1961)
85 min | Comedy, Drama
In a small Spanish town, a group of old ladies decides to celebrate Christmas Eve with a "seat a poor man at your table" dinner: each wealthy household of the town will have a homeless ... See full summary »
Director: Luis García Berlanga | Stars: Cassen, José Luis López Vázquez, Elvira Quintillá, Manuel Alexandre
Votes: 3,771
31. Pleneno yato (1962)
91 min | Drama
The film deals with the anti-fascist resistance theme.
Director: Ducho Mundrov | Stars: Dimitar Buynozov, Stefan Iliev, Asen Kisimov, Kiril Kovachev
Votes: 15
32. A Bomb Was Stolen (1962)
74 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A dialogue free Romanian science-fiction spy-comedy that draws upon farce, satire and surrealism as it subversively deconstructs the spy thriller with the protagonist's accidental discovery... See full summary »
Director: Ion Popescu-Gopo | Stars: Iurie Darie, Liliana Tomescu, Haralambie Boros, Eugenia Balaure
Votes: 314
33. The Female: Seventy Times Seven (1962)
R | 92 min | Drama
Melodrama about a prostitute who remembers her ill-fated romances.
Director: Leopoldo Torre Nilsson | Stars: Isabel Sarli, Francisco Rabal, Jardel Filho, Hilda Suárez
Votes: 118
34. The Innocents (1961)
Not Rated | 100 min | Horror
A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted.
Director: Jack Clayton | Stars: Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins, Michael Redgrave
Votes: 33,078 | Gross: $2.62M
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