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 : John Matthews, Laurence Olivier, 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 : Barbara Bouchet, Ugo Pagliai, Marino Masé, Marina Malfatti,
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 : Uschi Glas, Pier Paolo Capponi, 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 : Laurie Main, Ayn Ruymen, John Ventantonio, Lucille Benson,
Directors : Paul Bartel,

Young Cheryl moves into her estranged aunt Martha's rundown King Edward Hotel. One of its offbeat residents, disturbed photographer George, takes special interest in her. Cheryl begins suspecting that a resident was murdered.

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 : Carlo Gentili, Nieves Navarro, Simón Andreu, Pietro Martellanza,
Directors : Luciano Ercoli,

Valentina, a beautiful fashion model, takes an experimental drug as part of a scientific experiment. While influenced by the drug, Valentina has a vision of a young woman being brutally ...