Best Mystery movies of 1972

Actors : Jüri Järvet, Natalya Bondarchuk, Vladislav Dvorzhetskiy, Donatas Banionis,
Directors : Andrei Tarkovsky,

A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.

Actors : Pinchoo Kapoor, Shashi Kapoor, Romesh Sharma, Simi Garewal,
Directors : Conrad Rooks,

The story of a young Indian who embarks upon a journey to find the meaning of existence. Based on the novel by Hermann Hesse.

Actors : Laurence Olivier, John Matthews, Michael Caine, Alec Cawthorne,
Directors : Joseph L. Mankiewicz,

A man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.

Actors : Joan Van Ark, Adam Roarke, Sam Elliott, Ray Milland,
Directors : George McCowan,

A group of hapless victims celebrate a birthday on an island estate crawling with killer amphibians, birds, insects, and reptiles.

Actors : William Finley, Margot Kidder, Charles Durning, Jennifer Salt,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

A journalist witnesses a brutal murder in a neighboring apartment, but the police do not believe that the crime took place. With the help of a private detective, she seeks out the truth.

Actors : Mireille Darc, Bernard Blier, Pierre Richard, Jean Rochefort,
Directors : Yves Robert,

A hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.

Actors : Barbara Bouchet, Tomas Milian, Florinda Bolkan, Irene Papas,
Directors : Lucio Fulci,

A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town that's rife with superstition and distrust of outsiders.

Actors : Uta Hagen, Chris Udvarnoky, Diana Muldaur, Martin Udvarnoky,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

Down in the farm country of the US twins are born. One of them turns out to be good, while the other becomes rather evil.

Actors : Cristina Galbó, Fabio Testi, Karin Baal, Joachim Fuchsberger,
Directors : Massimo Dallamano,

In London, the Italian gym teacher Enrico 'Henry' Rosseni is having a love affair with his eighteen year-old student Elizabeth Seccles, who is the daughter of the owner of the Catholic ...

Actors : Chuck Pierce Jr., John P. Hixon, Vern Stierman, Willie E. Smith,
Directors : Charles B. Pierce,

A documentary-style drama about the "Fouke Monster", a Bigfoot-type creature that has been sighted in and around Fouke, Arkansas since the 1950s.

Actors : Patrick O'Neal, Mary Woronov, James Patterson, Astrid Heeren,
Directors : Theodore Gershuny,

A man inherits a mansion, which once was a mental home. He visits the place and begins to investigate some crimes that happened in old times, scaring the people living in the region.

Actors : George Peppard, Christine Belford, Cliff Potts, Michael Sarrazin,
Directors : Lamont Johnson,

A government investigator tries to find out the truth behind the break-in at a top secret research facility.

Actors : Hedda Lubin, Frank Kress, Amy Farrell, Henny Youngman,
Directors : Herschell Gordon Lewis,

A young reporter enlists the help of a top notch private eye to solve the murder of a female stripper at a Chicago nightclub.

Actors : Edwige Fenech, Paola Quattrini, Annabella Incontrera, George Hilton,
Directors : Giuliano Carnimeo,

Beautiful young model Jennifer Lansbury and her goofy friend Marilyn Ricci move into a swanky high-rise apartment after the previous tenant gets brutally murdered. Pretty soon Jennifer is ...

Actors : George Lazenby, Anita Strindberg, Adolfo Celi, Dominique Boschero,
Directors : Aldo Lado,

A young girl is brutally murdered somewhere in France. Sometime later, the same thing happens to the daughter of a well-known sculptor. This time the parents (the sculptor and his wife) ...

Actors : Pier Paolo Capponi, Uschi Glas, Rossella Falk, Antonio Sabato,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

A woman, a survivor of a failed murder attempt by a person dubbed "The Half-Moon Killer" by the police, and her husband must find the connecting thread between herself, six other women, and...

Actors : Barbara Bouchet, Ugo Pagliai, Marina Malfatti, Marino Masé,
Directors : Emilio Miraglia,

When two sisters inherit their family castle, a string of murders committed by a mysterious dark haired woman in a red cloak decimates their circle of friends. Is the killer their ancestor,...

Actors : Masao Adachi, Rie Yokoyama, Ken Yoshizawa, Yuki Aresa,
Directors : Kôji Wakamatsu,

The movie focuses on the actions of a revolutionary movement.

Actors : Pat Hingle, Jennifer O'Neill, James Coburn, Skye Aubrey,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

At a Boston hospital, Dr. Carey becomes an amateur sleuth to help clear a colleague who's accused of botching an illegal abortion that kills a 15 year old girl.

Actors : Carmen Young, Rita Calderoni, Mickey Hargitay, Raul Lovecchio,
Directors : Renato Polselli,

A respected doctor becomes the prime suspect in a series of gruesome murders.