Best movies of 1972 that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Marcel Bozzuffi, Hugh Millais, Rene Auberjonois, Susannah York,
Directors : Robert Altman,

Schizophrenic housewife, engulfed by terrorizing apparitions, kills off each, unknowing if these demons are merely figments of her hallucinatory imagination or part of reality.

Actors : Rosemary Murphy, Joseph Campanella, Arthur O'Connell, Lee Montgomery,
Directors : Phil Karlson,

A lonely boy befriends Ben, the leader of a violent pack of killer rats.

Actors : Robert Shaw, Ronald Hines, Simon Ward, Peter Cellier,
Directors : Richard Attenborough,

This historical drama is an account of the early life of the future British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Simon Ward), including his childhood, his time as a war correspondent in South ...

Actors : Louis Gossett Jr., Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Alec McCowen,
Directors : George Cukor,

At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure as she ...

Actors : Joanne Woodward, Nell Potts, Judith Lowry, Roberta Wallach,
Directors : Paul Newman,

From the Pullizer Prize winning play by Paul Zindel, this is the story of Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters, Ruth and Matilda. A middle-aged widowed eccentric, Beatrice is looking for ...

Actors : Geraldine Page, Carol Burnett, Walter Matthau, Barry Nelson,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

Unassuming and single thirty-three year old Tillie Shlain is at that phase of her life of being known as a soon to be spinster if she doesn't marry soon. She isn't looking forward to ...

Actors : Norman Alden, Kevin McCarthy, Raquel Welch, Helena Kallianiotes,
Directors : Jerrold Freedman,

Roller-derby skater K. C. Carr tries to balance her desire for a happy personal life and her dreams of stardom.

Actors : Johnny Whitaker, Jodie Foster, Michael Douglas, Will Geer,
Directors : Bernard McEveety,

Two young children, who, rather than part with an old pet lion who was once a circus performer, go on a perilous mountain trek to stay with a recluse friend.

Actors : Tammy Grimes, Adam Roarke, Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld,
Directors : Frank Perry,

A Hollywood actress undergoes a psychic breakdown and recalls the traumatic events which led to her stay at a sanitarium.

Actors : Rosemary Murphy, Richard Thomas, Patty Duke, Sian Barbara Allen,
Directors : Lamont Johnson,

Francesa Kinsolving, a very pregnant widow whose husband was rescently killed in action in Vietnam, travels to visit her late husband's mother in a snowy Minnesota town only to get snowed ...

Actors : Frederic Forrest, Richard Widmark, Vito Scotti, Luana Anders,
Directors : Stuart Millar,

A young, rebellious Ute Indian joins the rodeo circuit and falls in with a drunken mentor who teaches him the ways of the ring and the world.

Actors : Nigel Davenport, Geoffrey Keen, Susan Hampshire, Edward Judd,
Directors : Jack Couffer,

When Elsa's three mischievous cubs begin wreaking havoc on the nearby villages, Joy and her husband are forced to move them hundreds of miles to a game preserve.

Actors : Katherine Justice, Alejandro Rey, John Anderson, Larry Linville,
Directors : Howard Avedis,

Returning home late one night from a business trip to Mexico, architect Frank Delgado finds the car of wealthy client Alan Richmond in his driveway. Suspecting that his wife Margo and ...

Actors : Yvonne Mitchell, Nigel Patrick, Horst Buchholz, Mary Costa,
Directors : Andrew L. Stone,

Composer Johann Strauss becomes the "Waltz-King" and woos a baron's mistress in 19th-century Austria.

Actors : Melvyn Douglas, Trish Van Devere, Monte Markham, Janet Leigh,
Directors : Mel Stuart,

A young woman has difficulty understanding why her husband walks out on her. Alone for the first time, she finds life difficult to cope with and for a time lives with the hope that her ...

Actors : Philip Frame, Max Croiset, Theodore Bikel, Geneviève Ambas,
Directors : James B. Clark,

Two children are trapped in the tower of a church during a flood. Local fishermen attempt to rescue them.