# List of British films of 1962

A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1962 (see 1962 in film):

## 1962

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 1962 |||||||
| All Night Long | Basil Dearden | Richard Attenborough | Drama/music | Updated retelling of Othello |
| Ambush in Leopard Street | J. Henry Piperno | James Kenney, Michael Brennan | Crime | |
| The Amorous Prawn | Anthony Kimmins | Ian Carmichael, Joan Greenwood | Comedy | |
| Band of Thieves | Peter Bezencenet | Acker Bilk, Geoffrey Sumner, Jennifer Jayne | Musical | |
| The Barber of Stamford Hill | Caspar Wrede | John Bennett, Megs Jenkins | Drama | |
| Billy Budd | Peter Ustinov | Terence Stamp, Robert Ryan | Drama | BAFTA nominations |
| Boy and Bicycle | Ridley Scott | Tony Scott | Short film | Not shown in theatres until 1997 |
| The Boys | Sidney J. Furie | Richard Todd, Robert Morley | Crime | |
| The Brain | Freddie Francis | Anne Heywood, Peter van Eyck | Crime | |
| The Cabinet of Caligari | Roger Kay | Glynis Johns, Dan O'Herlihy | Drama | |
| Captain Clegg | Peter Graham Scott | Peter Cushing, Yvonne Romain | Horror | |
| Carry On Cruising | Gerald Thomas | Sid James, Kenneth Williams | Comedy | |
| The Cool Mikado | Michael Winner | Frankie Howerd, Stubby Kaye | Musical | |
| Crooks Anonymous | Ken Annakin | Leslie Phillips, Stanley Baxter, Julie Christie | Comedy | |
| Crosstrap | Robert Hartford-Davis | Laurence Payne, Jill Adams | Crime | |
| Danger by My Side | Charles Saunders | Anthony Oliver, Maureen Connell | Crime | |
| The Day of the Triffids | Steve Sekely | Howard Keel, Kieron Moore, Janette Scott | Sci-fi | |
| Dead Man's Evidence | Francis Searle | Conrad Phillips, Jane Griffiths | Drama | |
| The Devil's Agent | John Paddy Carstairs | Peter van Eyck, Marianne Koch | Drama | |
| Dilemma | Peter Maxwell | Ingrid Hafner, Peter Halliday | Thriller | |
| Dr. No | Terence Young | Sean Connery, Joseph Wiseman, Ursula Andress | Spy/action | The first James Bond film; Number 41 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films |
| Don't Talk to Strange Men | Pat Jackson | Christina Gregg, Janina Faye, Cyril Raymond | Crime/drama | |
| Emergency | Francis Searle | Glyn Houston, Zena Walker | Drama | |
| The Fast Lady | Ken Annakin | Stanley Baxter, Julie Christie | Comedy | |
| Fate Takes a Hand | Max Varnel | Ronald Howard, Christina Gregg | Drama | |
| The Fur Collar | Lawrence Huntington | John Bentley, Martin Benson | Thriller | |
| Gaolbreak | Francis Searle | Peter Reynolds, Avice Landone | Drama | |
| Go to Blazes | Michael Truman | Dave King, Robert Morley, Dennis Price | Comedy | |
| The Golden Rabbit | David MacDonald | Timothy Bateson, Willoughby Goddard | Comedy | |
| Guns of Darkness | Anthony Asquith | David Niven, Leslie Caron | Drama | |
| H.M.S. Defiant | Lewis Gilbert | Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde | Drama | released under the title Damn the Defiant! in the U.S. |
| Hair of the Dog | Terry Bishop | Reginald Beckwith, Dorinda Stevens | Comedy | |
| I Thank a Fool | Robert Stevens | Susan Hayward, Peter Finch | Crime/drama | |
| In the Doghouse | Darcy Conyers | Leslie Phillips, Peggy Cummins | Comedy | |
| The Inspector | Philip Dunne | Stephen Boyd, Dolores Hart | Drama | |
| The Iron Maiden | Gerald Thomas | Michael Craig, Anne Helm | Comedy | |
| It's Trad, Dad! | Richard Lester | Helen Shapiro, Craig Douglas | Musical | released under the title Ring-A-Ding Rhythm in the U.S. |
| Jigsaw | Val Guest | Jack Warner, Ronald Lewis | Crime | |
| Kill or Cure | George Pollock | Terry-Thomas, Eric Sykes | Comedy | |
| A Kind of Loving | John Schlesinger | Alan Bates, June Ritchie, Thora Hird | Drama | Golden Bear winner at Berlin |
| The L-Shaped Room | Bryan Forbes | Leslie Caron, Tom Bell | Drama | |
| Lawrence of Arabia | David Lean | Peter O'Toole | Historical Biography | Number 3 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films; winner of seven Academy Awards |
| Life for Ruth | Basil Dearden | Michael Craig, Patrick McGoohan | Drama | |
| Live Now, Pay Later | Jay Lewis | Ian Hendry, June Ritchie | Thriller | |
| Locker Sixty-Nine | Norman Harrison | Eddie Byrne, Paul Daneman, Edward Underdown | Crime | |
| Lolita | Stanley Kubrick | James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon | Drama/romance | |
| The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner | Tony Richardson | Tom Courtenay, Michael Redgrave, Alec McCowen | Drama | Number 61 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films |
| The Main Attraction | Daniel Petrie | Pat Boone, Nancy Kwan | Drama | |
| Masters of Venus | Ernest Morris | Norman Wooland, Mandy Harper | Sci-fi | Serial film |
| Mix Me a Person | Leslie Norman | Anne Baxter, Donald Sinden, Adam Faith | Crime/drama | |
| Mrs. Gibbons' Boys | Max Varnel | Kathleen Harrison, Lionel Jeffries | Comedy | |
| Night of the Eagle | Sidney Hayers | Peter Wyngarde, Janet Blair | Horror | |
| Night of the Prowler | Francis Searle | Patrick Holt, Colette Wilde | Thriller | |
| On the Beat | Robert Asher | Norman Wisdom, Raymond Huntley | Comedy | |
| Only Two Can Play | Sidney Gilliat | Peter Sellers, Mai Zetterling | Comedy | |
| Operation Snatch | Robert Day | Terry-Thomas, George Sanders | Comedy | |
| Our Man in the Caribbean | | Carlos Thompson, Diana Rigg, Tracy Reed, Shirley Eaton | Action | Television episodes of The Sentimental Agent pieced together |
| Out of the Fog | Montgomery Tully | David Sumner, Susan Travers | Crime | |
| The Painted Smile | Lance Comfort | Liz Fraser, Kenneth Griffith | Thriller | |
| A Pair of Briefs | Ralph Thomas | Michael Craig, Mary Peach | Comedy | |
| The Password Is Courage | Andrew L. Stone | Dirk Bogarde, Maria Perschy, Alfred Lynch | World War II | |
| The Phantom of the Opera | Terence Fisher | Herbert Lom, Heather Sears, Michael Gough | Horror | |
| The Pirates of Blood River | John Gilling | Kerwin Mathews, Glenn Corbett, Christopher Lee | Action | |
| Playback | Quentin Lawrence | Margit Saad, Barry Foster, Nigel Green | Crime | |
| Play It Cool | Michael Winner | Billy Fury, Dennis Price | Musical | |
| The Playboy of the Western World | Brian Desmond Hurst | Gary Raymond, Siobhán McKenna | Comedy | |
| Postman's Knock | Robert Lynn | Spike Milligan, Barbara Shelley | Comedy | |
| The Pot Carriers | Peter Graham Scott | Ronald Fraser, Paul Massie | Comedy | |
| Private Potter | Casper Wrede | Tom Courtenay, Mogens Wieth | Drama | |
| A Prize of Arms | Cliff Owen | Stanley Baker, Tom Bell | Crime | |
| The Quare Fellow | Arthur Dreifuss | Patrick McGoohan, Sylvia Syms | Drama | |
| Reach for Glory | Philip Leacock | Harry Andrews, Kay Walsh | Drama | |
| The Road to Hong Kong | Norman Panama | Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Joan Collins | Comedy | |
| Serena | Peter Maxwell | Patrick Holt, Emrys Jones, Honor Blackman | Crime | |
| She Knows Y'Know | Montgomery Tully | Hylda Baker, Cyril Smith | Comedy | |
| She'll Have to Go | Robert Asher | Bob Monkhouse, Alfred Marks | Comedy | |
| Solo for Sparrow | Gordon Flemyng | Yvonne Buckingham, Michael Caine | Crime | |
| Some People | Clive Donner | Kenneth More, Ray Brooks | Drama | |
| The Spanish Sword | Ernest Morris | Ronald Howard, June Thorburn | Adventure | |
| Station Six-Sahara | Seth Holt | Carroll Baker, Ian Bannen | Drama | |
| Stork Talk | Michael Forlong | Tony Britton, Anne Heywood | Comedy | |
| Stranglehold | Lawrence Huntington | Macdonald Carey, Barbara Shelley | Action | |
| Tarnished Heroes | Ernest Morris | Dermot Walsh, Anton Rodgers | War | |
| Tarzan Goes to India | John Guillermin | Jock Mahoney, Leo Gordon | Adventure | Co-production with Switzerland and US |
| Term of Trial | Peter Glenville | Laurence Olivier, Simone Signoret | Drama | |
| Three Spare Wives | Ernest Morris | Susan Stephen, John Hewer | Comedy | |
| Tiara Tahiti | Ted Kotcheff | James Mason, John Mills | Comedy/drama | |
| Trial and Error | James Hill | Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough | Comedy | Also known as The Dock Brief |
| Twice Round the Daffodils | Gerald Thomas | Juliet Mills, Donald Sinden | Comedy/drama | |
| Two and Two Make Six | Freddie Francis | George Chakiris, Janette Scott | Comedy | |
| Two Letter Alibi | Robert Lynn | Peter Williams, Petra Davies | Crime | |
| The Valiant | Roy Ward Baker | John Mills, Ettore Manni | War | |
| Village of Daughters | George Pollock | Eric Sykes, John Le Mesuirier | Comedy | |
| The Waltz of the Toreadors | John Guillermin | Peter Sellers, Dany Robin | Comedy | |
| The War Lover | Philip Leacock | Steve McQueen, Robert Wagner | War | |
| We Joined the Navy | Wendy Toye | Kenneth More, Lloyd Nolan | Comedy | |
| What Every Woman Wants | Ernest Morris | James Fox, Hy Hazell | Comedy | |
| The Wild and the Willing | Ralph Thomas | Virginia Maskell, Ian McShane | Drama | |