iCM Forum's Favorite Movies from 1962

When a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord's palace is told of the brutal suicide of another ronin who previously visited, he reveals how their pasts are intertwined - and in doing so challenges the clan's integrity.

The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.

The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave.

The story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images.

A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature.

A senator returns to a Western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins.

An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.

During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.

A couple pick up a hitchhiker on the way to their yacht. The husband invites the young man to come along for their day's sailing. As the voyage progresses, the antagonism between the two men grows. A violent confrontation is inevitable.

An American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.

A widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama defends a black man against a false rape charge while teaching his young children about the sad reality of prejudice.

An impulsive braggart takes a shy law student with him for a two-day road trip from Rome to Tuscany.

Cleo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor.

Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.

A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a 14-year-old girl.

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

A former vaudeville child star torments her paraplegic sister, who eclipsed her as a movie star, in their decaying Hollywood mansion while desperately clinging to hopes of a comeback.

An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.

A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen trying to save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.

After a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival.

Feature-documentary "pointing up a thousand facets of this world and probing to determine what may lie beneath the surface".

A lawyer's family is stalked by a man he once helped put in jail.

Story of a lonely young girl who is befriended by an innocent but emotionally disabled veteran of the French Indochina War.

A fiercely independent cowboy gets himself locked up in prison to escape with an old friend.

A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of lost souls.