Best movies of 1972

Actors : Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Marlon Brando, James Caan,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.

Actors : Joel Grey, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Liza Minnelli,
Directors : Bob Fosse,

A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.

Actors : Giovanna Galletti, Maria Schneider, Marlon Brando, Maria Michi,
Directors : Bernardo Bertolucci,

A young Parisian woman meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex.

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 : Louise Lasser, Woody Allen, Gene Wilder, John Carradine,
Directors : Woody Allen,

Seven segments related to one another only in that they all purport to be based on sections of the book by David Reuben. The segments range from "Do Aphrodisiacs Work?" in which a court ...

Actors : Bulle Ogier, Paul Frankeur, Delphine Seyrig, Fernando Rey,
Directors : Luis Buñuel,

A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.

Actors : Roddy McDowall, Natalie Trundy, Don Murray, Ricardo Montalban,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, Caesar, the son of the late simians Cornelius and Zira, surfaces after almost twenty years of hiding out from the authorities, and prepares for a slave revolt against humanity.

Actors : Ronny Cox, Ned Beatty, Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds,
Directors : John Boorman,

Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.

Actors : Riccardo Cucciolla, Richard Crenna, Catherine Deneuve, Alain Delon,
Directors : Jean-Pierre Melville,

Bank robbery in small town ends with one of the robbers being wounded. The loot from the robbery is just an asset for the even more spectacular heist. Simon, gang leader and Paris night ...

Actors : Clint Eastwood, John Saxon, Robert Duvall, Don Stroud,
Directors : John Sturges,

An ex-bounty hunter reluctantly helps a wealthy landowner and his henchmen track down a Mexican revolutionary leader.

Actors : Jon Finch, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Anna Massey, Barry Foster,
Directors : Alfred Hitchcock,

A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man.

Actors : Lucy Grantham, Fred J. Lincoln, Sandra Peabody, David Hess,
Directors : Wes Craven,

Two teenage girls head to a rock concert for one's birthday. While trying to score marijuana in the city, they are kidnapped and brutalized by a gang of psychotic convicts.

Actors : Mink Stole, Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce, David Lochary,
Directors : John Waters,

Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".

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 : Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Shelley Winters,

A group of passengers struggle to survive and escape when their ocean liner completely capsizes at sea.

Actors : Bruce Dern, Jesse Vint, Ron Rifkin, Cliff Potts,
Directors : Douglas Trumbull,

In a future where all flora is extinct on Earth, an astronaut is given orders to destroy the last of Earth's botany, kept in a greenhouse aboard a spacecraft.

Actors : Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars,
Directors : Peter Bogdanovich,

The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.

Actors : Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Jerry Lacy, Tony Roberts,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

A neurotic film critic obsessed with the movie Casablanca (1942) attempts to get over his wife leaving him by dating again with the help of a married couple and his illusory idol, Humphrey Bogart.

Actors : Robert Redford, Delle Bolton, Josh Albee, Will Geer,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by Indians, and proves to be a match for their warriors in one-on-one combat on the early frontier.

Actors : Melvyn Douglas, Peter Boyle, Robert Redford, Don Porter,
Directors : Michael Ritchie,

Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.