Best Fantasy movies of 1972

Actors : Vonetta McGee, Thalmus Rasulala, William Marshall, Denise Nicholas,
Directors : William Crain,

An ancient African prince, turned into a vampire by Dracula himself, finds himself in modern Los Angeles.

Actors : Peter Cushing, Christopher Neame, Christopher Lee, Stephanie Beacham,
Directors : Alan Gibson,

Johnny Alucard raises Count Dracula from the dead in London in 1972. The Count goes after the descendants of Van Helsing.

Actors : Sophia Loren, Peter O'Toole, James Coco, Harry Andrews,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

The funny story of mad but kind and chivalrous elderly nobleman Don Quixote who, aided by his squire Sancho Panza, fights windmills that are seen as dragons to save prostitute Dulcinea who is seen as a noblewoman.

Actors : Keith Buckley, Paul Hennen, Patsy Puttnam, Arthur Hewlett,
Directors : Jacques Demy,

Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter's wedding to the Baron's son. He wants...

Actors : Michael Crawford, Fiona Fullerton, Hywel Bennett, Michael Jayston,
Directors : William Sterling,

Alice (Fiona Fullerton) falls down a rabbit hole and into a magical dream world populated by surreal characters and bewildering adventures. It's a journey of self-discovery for Alice as she...

Actors : Bob O'Connell, Pat Morrell, Jay Ripley, Shay Garner,
Directors : R. Winer,

When Santa's sleigh gets stuck in Florida, he tells a group of kids the story of Thumbelina.

Actors : Petra Cernocká, Vlastimil Zavrel, Jan Hrusínský, Jan Kraus,
Directors : Václav Vorlícek,

Saxana has the enthusiasm, but lacks the right talent to become a witch. So she's kept in for 300 years - nothing unusual for a sorceress' school. Being bored, she skims through the ...

Actors : Benjamin Smith, Graham Crowden, Dorothy Alison, Laurence Naismith,
Directors : Lionel Jeffries,

A mysterious, very old solicitor Mr. Blunden visits Mrs. Allen and her young children in her squalid, tiny Camden Town flat and makes her an offer she cannot refuse. The family become the ...

Actors : Nico, Philippe Garrel, Christian Päffgen, Daniel Pommereulle,
Directors : Philippe Garrel,

A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images.

Actors : Alain Cuny, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Mimsy Farmer, Ugo Tognazzi,
Directors : Aleksandar Petrovic,

The Master and Margaret (1972) is based on the eponymous book by Mikhail A. Bulgakov. The film is set in the Soviet Union under Stalin, it has several story-lines, that are intertwined. ...

Actors : Colleen Niday, Maryann Rachford, Patty Dunning, Mike Niday,
Directors : Donald W. Thompson,

The story of Patty, a young woman caught up in living for the present with little concern for the future. She meets and marries a young man and her life seems great, until one moment she ...

Actors : Ivan Mykolaichuk, Lidiya Belozyorova, Fyodor Strigun, Zemfira Tsakhilova,
Directors : Boris Ivchenko,

A Soviet musical-tragicomedy film by Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kiev. The movie is considered a pearl of Soviet and Ukrainian cinema. The film is based on the novella by Nikolay Gogol.

Actors : Mariya Kapnist, Natalya Petrova, Vladimir Fyodorov, Valeri Kozinets,
Directors : Aleksandr Ptushko,

Based on Russian poet Alexander Pushkin's fairy tale poem of the same name. In the midst of the wedding party of Prince Ruslan and Ludmila, Ludmila is kidnapped by an evil sorcerer. Her ...

Actors : Margaret Brewster, Susan Blakely, Thayer David, Neil Fitzgerald,
Directors : James Ivory,

An allegory about humankind progresses from a savage state to a civilized form, that is only a cover for it's innate barbarism.

Actors : Helen Weir, Brian Worth, Mark Dightam, Robert Eddison,
Directors : Michael Powell,

John and his class go on a school trip to the Tower of London. While he is there he loses his pet mouse and vows to return and find her later. Back in school, he is not very attentive and ...

Actors : Bambi Allen, John Dullaghan, Ron Darby, William Howard,
Directors : Zoltan G. Spencer,

A young couple on a European vacation get mixed up with a countess and a hunchbacked servant at a castle where black masses are held.

Actors : Frank Wolff, Fiammetta Baralla, Senta Berger, Mario Adorf,
Directors : Pasquale Festa Campanile,

Two tribes of dimwitted cavemen prepare for war against each other.

Actors : Kavi Alexander, Alain Bellaïche, Jérôme Baboulène, Georges Bécot,
Directors : Jean-Michel Barjol,

Actors : Gina Romand, Roberto Cañedo, Santo, Anel,
Directors : Miguel M. Delgado,

A mad female scientist needs Santo's blood for a youth serum; and she has Frankenstein's reliable old monster to help her get it.

Actors : Michael Craze, Michael Petrovitch, Frank Finlay, Susan Hampshire,
Directors : Fred Burnley,

This movie takes place on the Isle of Jersey where a troubled wife has come to sort out the tumult of her life. She encounters a lighthouse-keeper there and they quickly become lovers. ...