82 English films of 1962 ranked by box office. #1: The 300 Spartans ($76.5 million).
| # | Film | Lead | Director | Budget | Box office | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The 300 Spartans | Rudolph Maté | £500,000 | $76.5 million | ||
| 2 | Lawrence of Arabia | David Lean | $15 million | $70 million | 4.67x | |
| 3 | Dr. No | Terence Young | $1.1 million | $59.5 million | 54.09x | |
| 4 | The Longest Day | Ken Annakin | $10 million | $50.1 million | 5.01x | |
| 5 | How the West Was Won | George Marshall | $14.4 million | $50 million | 3.47x | |
| 6 | Billy Budd | Peter Ustinov | $1.2 million | $25 million | 20.83x | |
| 7 | In Search of the Castaways | Robert Stevenson | $21.7 million | |||
| 8 | That Touch of Mink | Delbert Mann | $17.6 million | |||
| 9 | The Music Man | Morton DaCosta | $4.2 million | $15 million | 3.54x | |
| 10 | Mutiny on the Bounty | Carol Reed | $19 million | $13.7 million | 0.72x | |
| 11 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Robert Mulligan | $2 million | $13.1 million | 6.55x | |
| 12 | Hatari! | Howard Hawks | $12.9 million | |||
| 13 | Gypsy | Mervyn LeRoy | $4 million | $11.1 million | 2.78x | |
| 14 | The Interns | David Swift | $1.4 million | $9.2 million | 6.59x | |
| 15 | Lolita | Stanley Kubrick | $2 million | $9.2 million | 4.60x | |
| 16 | Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | Vincente Minnelli | $7.2 million | $9.2 million | 1.28x | |
| 17 | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | Robert Aldrich | $1 million | $9 million | 9.00x | |
| 18 | The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm | Henry Levin | $6.2 million | $8.9 million | 1.42x | |
| 19 | Days of Wine and Roses | Blake Edwards | $2 million | $8.1 million | 4.05x | |
| 20 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | John Ford | $3.2 million | $8 million | 2.50x | |
| 21 | The Manchurian Candidate | John Frankenheimer | $2.2 million | $7.7 million | 3.50x | |
| 22 | Bon Voyage! | James Neilson | $3 million | $5 million | 1.67x | |
| 23 | Diamond Head | Guy Green | $3 million | $4.5 million | 1.50x | |
| 24 | Sergeants 3 | John Sturges | $4.3 million | |||
| 25 | Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation | Henry Koster | $2 million | $4 million | 2.00x | |
| 25 | Period of Adjustment | George Roy Hill | $1.9 million | $4 million | 2.11x | |
| 25 | Billy Rose's Jumbo | Charles Walters | $5.3 million | $4 million | 0.76x | |
| 28 | State Fair | José Ferrer | $4.5 million | $3.5 million | 0.78x | |
| 28 | Moon Pilot | James Neilson | $3.5 million | |||
| 30 | Taras Bulba | J. Lee Thompson | $7 million | $3.4 million | 0.49x | |
| 30 | Boys' Night Out | Michael Gordon | $1.5 million | $3.4 million | 2.27x | |
| 32 | Walk on the Wild Side | Edward Dmytryk | $2 million | $3 million | 1.50x | |
| 32 | Night of the Eagle | Sidney Hayers | £50,000 | $3 million | ||
| 32 | Birdman of Alcatraz | John Frankenheimer | $2.6 million | $3 million | 1.13x | |
| 35 | Follow That Dream | Gordon Douglas | $2.8 million | |||
| 36 | 40 Pounds of Trouble | Norman Jewison | $2.8 million | |||
| 37 | The Counterfeit Traitor | George Seaton | $2.7 million | |||
| 37 | The Notorious Landlady | Richard Quine | $2.7 million | |||
| 37 | Sweet Bird of Youth | Richard Brooks | $2 million | $2.7 million | 1.35x | |
| 40 | Girls! Girls! Girls! | Norman Taurog | $2.6 million | |||
| 40 | The Road to Hong Kong | Melvin Frank | $2 million | $2.6 million | 1.30x | |
| 42 | Two Weeks in Another Town | Vincente Minnelli | $4 million | $2.5 million | 0.63x | |
| 42 | Sodom and Gomorrah | Robert Aldrich | $4.5 million | $2.5 million | 0.56x | |
| 42 | The Chapman Report | George Cukor | $2.5 million | |||
| 42 | Kid Galahad | Phil Karlson | $2.5 million | |||
| 46 | David and Lisa | Frank Perry | $183,000 | $2.3 million | 12.57x | |
| 47 | Swordsman of Siena | Étienne Périer | $1.1 million | $2.2 million | 2.11x | |
| 48 | Light in the Piazza | Guy Green | $1.3 million | $2.2 million | 1.74x | |
| 49 | The Miracle Worker | Arthur Penn | $1.3 million | $2 million | 1.54x | |
| 49 | The Pigeon That Took Rome | Melville Shavelson | $2 million | |||
| 49 | Advise & Consent | Otto Preminger | $2 million | |||
| 49 | Ride the High Country | Sam Peckinpah | $813,000 | $2 million | 2.46x | |
| 49 | If a Man Answers | Henry Levin | $2 million | |||
| 49 | The Spiral Road | Robert Mulligan | $2 million | |||
| 49 | The Three Stooges Meet Hercules | Edward Bernds | $420,000 | $2 million | 4.76x | |
| 56 | The Horizontal Lieutenant | Richard Thorpe | $1 million | $1.9 million | 1.81x | |
| 57 | Cape Fear | J. Lee Thompson | $35 million | $1.8 million | 0.05x | |
| 58 | Two for the Seesaw | Robert Wise | $3 million | $1.8 million | 0.58x | |
| 59 | Gigot | Gene Kelly | $1.5 million | $1.6 million | 1.07x | |
| 59 | Merrill's Marauders | Samuel Fuller | $1 million | $1.6 million | 1.60x | |
| 59 | Who's Got the Action? | Daniel Mann | $1.6 million | |||
| 62 | Satan Never Sleeps | Leo McCarey | $2.9 million | $1.5 million | 0.52x | |
| 62 | Tales of Terror | Roger Corman | $1.5 million | |||
| 62 | The Three Stooges in Orbit | Edward Bernds | $450,000 | $1.5 million | 3.33x | |
| 65 | Escape from Zahrain | Ronald Neame | $1.4 million | |||
| 65 | Hell Is for Heroes | Don Siegel | $1.4 million | |||
| 65 | Experiment in Terror | Blake Edwards | $1.4 million | |||
| 65 | A Girl Named Tamiko | John Sturges | $1.4 million | |||
| 69 | Requiem for a Heavyweight | Ralph Nelson | $1.1 million | $1.3 million | 1.18x | |
| 70 | Tender Is the Night | Henry King | $3.9 million | $1.2 million | 0.32x | |
| 71 | The War Lover | Philip Leacock | $1.2 million | |||
| 71 | Five Weeks in a Balloon | Irwin Allen | $2.4 million | $1.2 million | 0.51x | |
| 73 | Tarzan Goes to India | John Guillermin | $1.1 million | |||
| 74 | The L-Shaped Room | Bryan Forbes | $1 million | |||
| 74 | The Premature Burial | Roger Corman | $1 million | |||
| 76 | The Trial | Orson Welles | $1.3 million | $998,779 | 0.77x | |
| 77 | Pressure Point | Hubert Cornfield | $1 million | $665,000 | 0.67x | |
| 78 | Eegah | Arch Hall Sr. | $15,000 | $3,274 | 0.22x | |
| A Kind of Loving | John Schlesinger | £155,590 | £450,000 | 2.89x | ||
| It's Trad, Dad! | Richard Lester | £50,000 | £300,000 | 6.00x | ||
| Life for Ruth | Basil Dearden | £126,800 | £53,788 | 0.42x | ||
| A Prize of Arms | Cliff Owen | £258,149 | £43,000 | 0.17x |
Figures are shown in the currency they were reported in (Wikipedia, Wikidata or TMDB); no conversion.