Best Drama movies of 1972

Actors : Adib Qadurah, Nadia Arsalan, Hany Fawzy, Tawfik El Deken,
Directors : Rida Myassar,

Stylized horror melodrama about a man who has his wife murdered so he can be with his lover only to have her ghost return to haunt him.

Actors : Nikolai Plotnikov, Lyudmila Saveleva, Alla Demidova, Vladimir Chetverikov,
Directors : Yuli Karasik,

Based on chehov's homonymus play the seagull narrates the story of a disturbed family and their aquiantances during summer time in the countryside. Mixed feeling resurface in the authentic chehovian atmosphere

Actors : Patrick O'Connell, Jane Wood, Simon Rouse, Victoria Tennant,
Directors : Harold Becker,

A cheese warehouse worker with wife and two kids hates his dull life. He reminisces about the time he met the late love of his life and the days they spent riding around on his motorbike and her horse committing petty thievery.

Actors : Sonia Furió, Maricruz Olivier, Guillermo Murray, Silvia Mariscal,
Directors : Carlos Enrique Taboada,

The story concerns a young woman named Elena who ascends from rags to riches when she inherits a substantial fortune; having no one else with whom she can share the monies, she invites her ...

Actors : Arun Mukherjee, Soumitra Chatterjee, Tanuja, Subhendu Chatterjee,
Directors : Salil Sen,

Though betrothed at childhood, they never meet. Later, the boy goes abroad to study, the girl, after mother's death,by drunkard father and stepmother is forced to flee. She become part of a gang and ends up blackmailing her own husband.

Actors : Sherry Bain, Jason Ledger, Marty Allen, Ray Danton,
Directors : Ken Osborne,

An emotionally touching story of a man who's life was in seeming disrepair, yet God turned it into one of redemption and atonement.

Actors : Hedges Capers, Percy Rodrigues, Severn Darden, Susan Strasberg,
Directors : John Newland,

A wandering ballad singer in the Appalachians meets an ugly bird-type creature, is transported back in time, finds himself involved in the Devil's work.

Actors : Glen Lee, Carmen de Lirio, Lucia Bosé, Ornella Muti,
Directors : Claudio Guerín,

The widow Alexandra and her schoolgirl daughter Sandra live together in a luxurious villa in Spain. When Fernando, an old love of Alexandra's, appears in town the two rekindle their love ...

Actors : Jeong-hie Yun, No-shik Park,

An omnibus of three stories all taking place in the Myeongdong district of Seoul.

Actors : Ching Po Chang, Hsi Chang, Chuan Chen, Shao-Hung Chan,

3 martial arts directors united for this unique anthology film. Yueh Feng writes and directs a clever love-and-kung-fu triangle, Cheng Kang both writes and directs kung-fu courtesans ...

Actors : Giovanni Rosselli, Mimsy Farmer, François Simon, Lino Capolicchio,
Directors : Fabio Carpi,

A father and son, separated by the "generation gap," discover kinship in their common affection for a young woman washed up onto their shore. Their bond is then strongly reinforced when, together, they kill a dangerous intruder.

Actors : Stefan Stefanov, Ivan Nestorov, Kolio Donchev, Kristiyan Fokov,
Directors : Kiril Ilinchev,

Three thematically related novels. The first one is "Peter". In a room of provincial railway station, two men guard the prisoner Peter. Peter observes the life from behind the bars. Soon ...

Actors : Harbans Darshan M. Arora, Agha, Chandrima Bhaduri, Jalal Agha,
Directors : Saawan Kumar Tak,

Sameer lives a poor lifestyle in Bombay along with his mother, Ganga, and maternal uncle, Nekiram. While Nekiram works at a Petrol Pump, his mother paints pictures and statuettes of Hindu ...

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Om Prakash, Mumtaz, Jagdeep,
Directors : Jambulingam,

Akash is a honest and educated young man, employed by the Bombay Municipal Corporation as a clerk. He lives with his equally honest brother, his sister-in-law, a niece, Sharda, and a nephew...

Actors : Morteza Aghili, Mehdi Fakhimzadeh, Homayoon, Tahere Ghaffari,
Directors : Reza Mirlohi,

It is loosely based on the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and is the story of Topoli a young retarded guy who lives by his nephew Essi and their life.

Actors : Changiz, Iran Daftari, Pouri Baneai, Kamran Bakhtar,
Directors : Robert Ekhart,

Rahim (Bahman Mofid) is after Seyf to get revenge on him for what he has done to his fiance Golbanoo (Pouri Banai) years ago. On the other hand Seyf is want to marry Hourie and is putting ...

Actors : Yeong-gyun Shin, Jeong-hie Yun, Gye-hyeon Jeon,
Directors : Won-se Lee,

A psychologist becomes involved in an unprofessional relationship with a schizophrenic patient.

Actors : Lucita Soriano, Nora Aunor, Tirso Cruz III, Luis Gonzales,

Winner of 8 major awards in the 3rd Quezon City Film Festival - Manuel L Quezon Award for Best Picture; Best Actress (Nora Aunor); Best Actor (Tirso Cruz III); Best Supporting Actress (...

Actors : Keith Sykes, Kazuo Kitamura, Reisen Ri, Toshiko Kobayashi,
Directors : Hiroshi Teshigahara,

A Vietnam veteran deserts from the US Army while on leave in Japan.

Actors : Diana Leblanc, Sam Waterston, Maud Adams, Alexis Kanner,

A man decides to move to the countryside and live on his own piece of land.