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| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hatari! | Howard Hawks | John Wayne, Red Buttons, Elsa Martinelli, Hardy Krüger, Michele Girardon, Gerard Blain, Bruce Cabot | Action, Comedy | The title means "danger" in Swahili |
| Heaven and Earth Magic | Harry Everett Smith | Animated | ||
| Hell Is for Heroes | Don Siegel | Steve McQueen, Fess Parker, James Coburn, Bobby Darin | War drama | Paramount |
| High Steaks | Gene Deitch | Tom and Jerry | Animated short | MGM |
| The Horizontal Lieutenant | Richard Thorpe | Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Jack Carter, Jim Backus | Military comedy | |
| How the West Was Won | John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall | James Stewart, Debbie Reynolds, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Gregory Peck, Richard Widmark, John Wayne | Epic western | MGM; nominated for 8 Academy Awards |
| In Search of the Castaways | Robert Stevenson | Hayley Mills, Maurice Chevalier, George Sanders | Family | |
| The Intruder | Roger Corman | William Shatner | Drama | |
| It Happened In Athens | Andrew Marton | Jayne Mansfield | Comedy | Fox |
| It's Only Money | Frank Tashlin | Jerry Lewis, Zachary Scott, Joan O'Brien | Comedy | Paramount |
| Jack the Giant Killer | Nathan H. Juran | Kerwin Mathews, Torin Thatcher | Family fantasy | |
| The Jet Cage | Friz Freleng | Looney Tunes | Animated short | Warner |
| Kid Galahad | Phil Karlson | Elvis Presley, Gig Young, Charles Bronson | Musical drama | remake of 1937 film |
| Lawrence of Arabia | David Lean | Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, Alec Guinness, José Ferrer, Arthur Kennedy, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains | epic, Biopic | won 7 Academy Awards; top-grossing film of 1962 |
| Lolita | Stanley Kubrick | James Mason, Sue Lyon, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers | Comedy, Drama | from Vladimir Nabokov novel |
| Lonely Are the Brave | David Miller | Kirk Douglas, Walter Matthau, Gena Rowlands | Western | screenplay by Dalton Trumbo |
| Long Day's Journey Into Night | Sidney Lumet | Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards | Drama | based on Eugene O'Neill play |
| The Longest Day | Ken Annakin | John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Richard Burton, Sean Connery, Robert Ryan, George Segal | War drama | Fox; nominated for 5 Academy Awards |
| The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | John Ford | James Stewart, John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Vera Miles, Edmond O'Brien, Woody Strode, Andy Devine | Western | Paramount |
| The Manchurian Candidate | John Frankenheimer | Frank Sinatra, Janet Leigh, Laurence Harvey, Angela Lansbury, Leslie Parrish, James Gregory, Henry Silva | Political thriller | from Richard Condon novel; Golden Globe for Lansbury |
| The Manster | George Breakston | Peter Dyneley, Tetsu Nakamura, Terri Zimmern, Jane Hylton | Horror | U.S./Japan |
| Merrill's Marauders | Samuel Fuller | Jeff Chandler, Ty Hardin, Claude Akins | War | |
| The Miracle Worker | Arthur Penn | Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory | Drama | Academy Award for Duke |
| Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol | Abe Levitow | Jim Backus, Morey Amsterdam, Jack Cassidy, Royal Dano | Animated | |
| Mouse Into Space | Gene Deitch | Tom and Jerry | Animated short | MGM |
| Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation | Henry Koster | James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Fabian | Comedy | Fox |
| The Music Man | Morton DaCosta | Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Ron Howard, Hermione Gingold, Paul Ford, Pert Kelton, | Musical | based on Meredith Willson play; 5 Oscar nominations |
| Mutiny on the Bounty | Lewis Milestone | Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris | Adventure | remake of 1935 film |
| My Geisha | Jack Cardiff | Shirley MacLaine, Yves Montand, Edward G. Robinson | Comedy | Paramount |
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