Best Drama movies of 1972

Actors : Turi Ferro, Massimo Ranieri, Martin Balsam, Valentina Cortese,
Directors : Mauro Bolognini,

During a clash between demonstrating laborers, a policeman and a student are both killed. In charge of the case are a magistrate and two commissioners.

Actors : Mayumi Ogawa, Kôji Moritsugu, Kazuo Kitamura, Kiyoshi Atsumi,
Directors : Tadashi Imai,

Nishiyama (Atsumi) is the only one to survive in his platoon in WWII Japan. After the war is over, he begins a long voyage of 8 years throughout Japan to deliver 12 letters left by his ...

Actors : Ike Lozada, Vilma Santos, Walter Navarro, Lillian Laing,
Directors : Manuel Songco,

For the first time Vilma and Walter in a movie as sweet as love's first kiss.

Actors : Dev Anand, Sujit Kumar, Sharmila Tagore, Pran,
Directors : Atma Ram,

Vijay has been assigned the task of building a bridge in a small community, that will link China with India. Vijay finds out that the task is an uphill one, as people living on both sides ...

Actors : Maurice Ronet, Josephine Chaplin, Vittorio De Sica, Raymond Pellegrin,
Directors : Richard Balducci,

Marc, is a reporter in a tabloid. At the "Bongo Club", he photographs a young blond woman kissing a black man. This woman is the daughter of Senator Linden, head of the segregationist movement of USA.

Actors : Ayhan Isik, Nazan Soray, Kenan Pars, Hülya Darcan,
Directors : Osman F. Seden,

Released from jail after a twenty-year stretch, Nazim returns to Istanbul to find life in turmoil, his family life ruined, and has to deal with a series of personal disasters in the process.

Actors : Hugo Carvana, Odete Lara, Rogério Duarte, Antonio Pitanga,
Directors : Glauber Rocha,

This film shows people with constant psychological and social conflicts: the violence among outlaws, conflicts between man and woman, police and society.

Actors : Balraj Sahni, Rajni Gupta, Parikshat Sahni, Pran,
Directors : Prabhat Mukherjee,

Biography of Kashmiri poet Ghulam Ahmed Mahjoor.

Actors : Raphael Britten, Rena Bergen, Peter Baumgartner, Chitta Coray,
Directors : Erwin C. Dietrich,

A gang of white slavers lure beautiful young women into prostitution by staging beauty contests in which the "prize" is a Hollywood contract. The "winners" are then drugged and sold to international sex traffickers.

Actors : Mohsen Arasteh, Akbar Janati-Shirazi, Iran Ghaderi, Hossein Eshragh,
Directors : Fereydun Gole,

Mehdi Kafar gets released from the prison after six months. He goes after his friends and asks them to help him going after Hassan Tala's gang who caused him to be jailed to get revenge. ...

Actors : Hiroshi Chô, Moeko Ezawa, Hitomi Kozue, Eimei Esumi,
Directors : Chûsei Sone,

A nobleman with a barren wife finds a mistress who is fertile and able to give him the heir he desperately wants. When his mistress gives birth to twins (a boy and a girl). The nobleman ...

Actors : Whit Bissell, Gary Crosby, Don Murray, R.G. Armstrong,
Directors : Hollingsworth Morse,

The circumstances that lead to the origination of the first American Bred Horse, the Morgan Horse.

Actors : Ute Illmann, Lutz Fremde, Horst Schulze, Lyudmila Kasyanova,
Directors : Günter Reisch,

Biographical war drama about the life of German socialist Karl Liebknecht.

Actors : Suzy Arruda, Rodolfo Arena, Sadi Cabral, Sandra Barsotti,
Directors : Pedro Camargo,

Anxious to please his boss, Roberto agrees to host the chief's lover in his own home, unaware of the problems this could cause among his family.

Actors : Kerim Afsar, Kadir Inanir, Aynur Aydan, Fatma Girik,
Directors : Duygu Sagiroglu,

It is the classical love story between the daughter of the sultan, Leyla, and the poor peasant, Mecnun.

Actors : Jeong-hun Kim, Ye-chun Lee,
Directors : In-yeob Jeong,

A boy runs away from an orphanage to begin a search for his birth mother with the help of an elderly man.

Actors : Devagi, T.S. Balaiah, Chandrababu, O. Ak Devar,
Directors : A.P. Subbaraav,

Chronicling the life of Shivji's creation Agastya Muni, one of the Saat-Rishis, who was born to Bhargava and Indumati in Gujarat; went on to marry Rajkumari Lopamudra, and sired two sons. ...

Actors : John Vernon, Geneviève Bujold, George Sperdakos, Elton Hayes,
Directors : Paul Almond,

A woman with a troubled past is saved from drowning in a river and brought to a strange community hidden in the woods.

Actors : Hiram Keller, Micaela Pignatelli, Macha Méril, Jürgen Drews,
Directors : Gian Vittorio Baldi,

The logical consequences of unrestrained hedonism are explored in this Italian drama.

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Helen, Sadhana, Ashok Kumar,
Directors : Prem Narayan Arora,

Udharchand Shikarpuri is a homeless man who lives in Bombay albeit under the roof of multi-millionaire Seth Kalidas, who six months away in his palatial house in Mussoorie. For the 4th time...