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First Spaceship on Venus
First Spaceship on Venus (1960) on 31 october 1962
, 1h33
Directed by Kurt Maetzig
Origin Pologne
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Films about music and musicians, Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Musical films, Space opera, Venus in film, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films, Disaster films
Actors Günther Simon, Eduard von Winterstein, Yoko Tani, Lucyna Winnicka, Ruth Maria Kubitschek
Rating46% 2.3053152.3053152.3053152.3053152.305315
The film begins in 1985, when engineers involved in an industrial project to irrigate the Gobi Desert accidentally unearth a mysterious and apparently artificial "spool". When found to be made of a material unknown on Earth, the spool is circumstantially linked to the Tunguska explosion of 1908. The "spool" is seized on as evidence that the explosion, originally blamed on a meteor, was actually caused by a spaceship. Professor Harringway deduces the alien craft must have come from Venus. The spool itself is determined to be a flight recorder, and partially decoded by an international team of scientists led by Professor Sikarna and Dr. Tchen Yu. When radio greetings sent to Venus go unanswered, Harringway announces that a journey to Venus is Earth's only alternative. The recently completed Soviet spaceship Cosmostrator I (Kosmokrator in the original), intended to voyage to Mars, is redirected to Venus, a 30–31 day trip. During the voyage, Sikarna works furiously to translate the alien message on the disc using the ship's computer.
The Vampire and the Ballerina
The Vampire and the Ballerina (1960) on 31 october 1962

Directed by Renato Polselli
Genres Horror
Actors Hélène Rémy, Isarco Ravaioli
Rating56% 2.805762.805762.805762.805762.80576
Un soir, une troupe de danse découvre qu'une comtesse et son majordome, qui sont en fait deux vampires, vivent à proximité dans un château en ruines . L'homme est habitué à vampiriser de jeunes et belles victimes tandis que la comtesse, qui vampirise le majordome, reste jeune et belle au fil des ans. Après avoir été approchée par le majordome, une fille du corps de danse, commence à montrer des signes d'instabilité .
Escape from East Berlin
Escape from East Berlin (1962) on 1 november 1962
, 1h29
Directed by Robert Siodmak
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Political films
Actors Don Murray, Christine Kaufmann, Ingrid van Bergen, Werner Klemperer, Horst Janson, Edith Schultze-Westrum
Rating65% 3.288263.288263.288263.288263.28826
The story takes place in East Berlin soon after the Berlin Wall is built, and is based on an actual escape on January 28, 1962. Kurt Schröder is a chauffeur to East German Major Eckhardt and his seductive wife Heidi, and lives within sight of the Wall. Kurt is having an affair with Heidi. One night he sees a friend, Günther Jurgens, who works at the garage where Kurt has the Major's car maintained, drive his truck into the wall, and get killed trying to escape to the west. Günther's sister, Erika, comes looking for Günther when he doesn't return, and is told that Kurt saw him last night. She then goes to Kurt's house, where he lives with his mother, Uncle Albrecht (a musician), sister Ingeborg and kid brother Helmut. Erika is intent on escaping to West Berlin, thinking that her brother made it. Kurt, reasonably satisfied with his life, has no intention of risking his life to attempt an escape. Erika then looks out beyond the barbed wire, but Kurt catches her as she tries to crawl under, and they pretend to be lovers to hide her intentions from suspicious guards. Kurt then hides her in his house. A piece of Erika's clothing is caught in the barbed wire, and the guards track her to the Schröder's house. She hides in a room without a floor, and narrowly escapes the guards after they conclude that she could not be in the room.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) on 31 october 1962
, 2h8
Directed by Robert Aldrich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about films, Films about families, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about television, Vieillesse, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Gina Gillespie, Wesley Addy, Maidie Norman
Rating79% 3.99923.99923.99923.99923.9992
In 1917, Baby Jane Hudson is a vaudevillian child star while her sister Blanche Hudson is not famous and overlooked by their father. By 1935, both sisters are movie actors, but Blanche has achieved stardom, while Jane’s films have flopped, leading Jane to drink heavily. One night, returning from a party, one of the sisters (implied to be Blanche) gets out of the car to open the garage door, while the driver (implied to be Jane) attempts to run her over, misses, and crashes into the garage. The accident leaves Blanche paralyzed.
The Main Attraction
The Main Attraction (1962) on 1 november 1962
, 1h25
Directed by Daniel Petrie
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Circus films
Actors Pat Boone, Nancy Kwan, Mai Zetterling, Yvonne Mitchell, Kieron Moore, John Le Mesurier
Rating49% 2.4853352.4853352.4853352.4853352.485335
An unscrupulous drifter causes problems for a small European circus.
Period of Adjustment
Period of Adjustment (1962) on 31 october 1962
, 1h52
Directed by George Roy Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Christmas films, Théâtre, Films based on plays, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre de Tennessee Williams
Actors Anthony Franciosa, Jane Fonda, Jim Hutton, Lois Nettleton, John McGiver, Mabel Albertson
Rating61% 3.097623.097623.097623.097623.09762
On Christmas Eve, two married couples are both having a period of difficulty in their relationship. Newlyweds Isabel (Jane Fonda) and George Haverstick (Jim Hutton) are having a problem because George has bouts of performance anxiety. The second couple, Ralph (Anthony Franciosa) and Dorothea Baitz (Lois Nettleton), have their problems based on the fact that he married her for her money—and she knows it.
Gigot
Gigot (1962) on 1 november 1962
, 1h44
Directed by Gene Kelly
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Jackie Gleason, Katherine Kath, Gabrielle Dorziat, Jean Lefebvre, Orangey, Jacques Marin
Rating70% 3.5458253.5458253.5458253.5458253.545825
Gigot (Gleason) is a mute Frenchman living in a cellar in the Ménilmontant district of Paris in the 1920s. He ekes out a hand-to-mouth existence as a janitor at his landlady's apartment building. He is routinely treated with condescension by neighbors and often is made the butt of practical jokes. However, he is a decent and kindhearted fellow, traits not unnoticed by children and the animals he often feeds. Gigot has one unusual predilection: he is attracted by funeral processions and finds himself attending, whether or not he ever knew the departed. He can't help but cry along with all the other mourners.
Gypsy
Gypsy (1962) on 1 november 1962
, 2h23
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, Striptease
Actors Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Parley Baer, Morgan Brittany, Jack Benny
Rating70% 3.544933.544933.544933.544933.54493
Determined to make her young, blonde, and beautiful daughter June a vaudeville headliner, willful, resourceful, domineering stage mother Rose Hovick will stop at nothing to achieve her goal. She drags the girl and her shy, awkward, and decidedly less-talented older sister Louise around the country in an effort to get them noticed, and with the assistance of agent Herbie Sommers, she manages to secure them bookings on the prestigious Orpheum Circuit.
Buddies Thicker Than Water
Buddies Thicker Than Water (1962) on 1 november 1962

Directed by Leonard Maltin, Gene Deitch
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about cats, Mise en scène d'un rongeur, Mise en scène d'une souris, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Allen Swift
Rating56% 2.80952.80952.80952.80952.8095
On a snowy night in New York City, Jerry is comfortably asleep in his hole inside a penthouse, while Tom tries to keep from freezing to death in the alley below, after being thrown out by his owner. He writes a note, slips it into a bottle, and throws it up to hit the penthouse window. Jerry, awakened by the noise, goes out to the balcony and finds both this note and a second one sent up by Tom: