Best award winning movies with straight-faced acting from 1962

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with straight-faced acting from 1962! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with straight-faced acting from 1962, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Lolita (1962)

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.

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1962-06-13 | Drama / Comedy

Cast

James Mason, Shelley Winters

Rating

rating icon 7.337
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #60 for
    sly
  2. Ranked #80 for
    scandalous
  3. Ranked #81 for
    like Pride & Prejudice

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2 The Exterminating Angel (1962)

A formal dinner party starts out normally enough, but after the bourgeois group retire to the host’s music room, they inexplicably find themselves unable to leave.

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1962-05-16 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere

Rating

rating icon 7.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #28 for
    impressionistic
  2. Ranked #46 for
    oneiric
  3. Ranked #119 for
    eschatological

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3 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.

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1962-10-31 | Thriller / Drama

Cast

Bette Davis, Joan Crawford

Rating

rating icon 7.916
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #23 for
    vaudevillian
  2. Ranked #36 for
    Grand-Guignol
  3. Ranked #49 for
    drama queen

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4 That Touch of Mink (1962)

Cathy Timberlake is en route to a job interview when a car transporting businessman Philip Shayne covers her in mud. He sends his assistant, Roger, to apologize, but upon meeting Cathy, Roger knows that she would be a suitable match for his boss. Despite their mutual attraction, Cathy and Philip want different things. Philip wants a fling, while Cathy wants a marriage. As they travel to exotic locales, their differing motivations are put to the test.

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1962-06-14 | Comedy / Romance

Cast

Cary Grant, Doris Day

Rating

rating icon 6.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #59 for
    devil-may-care
  2. Ranked #72 for
    explicit dialogue
  3. Ranked #87 for
    frivolous

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5 Lonely Are the Brave (1962)

A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.

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1962-05-24 | Western / Drama

Cast

Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands

Rating

rating icon 7.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #16 for
    iconoclast
  2. Ranked #57 for
    like The Last Picture Show
  3. Ranked #110 for
    lumberjack

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6 Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.

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1962-12-11 | Adventure / History

Cast

Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness

Rating

rating icon 8.004
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #17 for
    remarkable
  2. Ranked #52 for
    critically acclaimed
  3. Ranked #80 for
    deservedly won awards

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7 To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.

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1962-12-20 | Drama

Cast

Gregory Peck, Mary Badham

Rating

rating icon 8.003
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #14 for
    critically acclaimed
  2. Ranked #67 for
    Courtroom Drama
  3. Ranked #71 for
    extraordinary

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8 The Trial (1962)

Josef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused of. In order to find out about the reason for this accusation and to protest his innocence, he tries to look behind the façade of the judicial system. But since this remains fruitless, there seems to be no chance for him to escape from this nightmare.

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1962-12-21 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau

Rating

rating icon 7.399
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #24 for
    impressionistic
  2. Ranked #71 for
    opaque
  3. Ranked #80 for
    symmetry plots

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9 The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.

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1962-10-24 | Thriller / Drama

Cast

Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey

Rating

rating icon 7.524
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #22 for
    with mercenaries
  2. Ranked #120 for
    gaslighting
  3. Ranked #159 for
    bamboozled

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10 How the West Was Won (1962)

The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.

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1962-11-02 | Western

Cast

Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb

Rating

rating icon 7.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #41 for
    travelogue
  2. Ranked #105 for
    westernized
  3. Ranked #119 for
    Spaghetti Western

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