Best movies of 1972

Actors : Sophia Loren, Peter O'Toole, James Coco, Harry Andrews,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

The funny story of mad but kind and chivalrous elderly nobleman Don Quixote who, aided by his squire Sancho Panza, fights windmills that are seen as dragons to save prostitute Dulcinea who is seen as a noblewoman.

Actors : Alan Ormsby, Valerie Mamches, Jeff Gillen, Anya Ormsby,
Directors : Bob Clark,

Six friends in a theatrical troupe dig up a corpse on an abandoned island to use in a mock Satanic ritual. It backfires with deadly consequences.

Actors : Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun, DeForest Kelley,
Directors : William F. Claxton,

Giant mutant rabbits terrorize the southwest!!

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee,

A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Jorge Luke, Bruce Davison, Richard Jaeckel,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

After fierce war chief Ulzana and a small war party jump the reservation bent on murder and terror, an inexperienced young lieutenant is assigned to track him down.

Actors : Katrin Schaake, Eva Mattes, Hanna Schygulla, Margit Carstensen,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

An arrogant fashion designer falls in love with an icy beauty who wants to be a model.

Actors : Donald Pleasence, Norman Rossington, Sharon Gurney, David Ladd,
Directors : Gary Sherman,

There's something pretty grisly going on under London in the Tube tunnels between Holborn and Russell Square. When a top civil servant becomes the latest to disappear down there Scotland ...

Actors : Fumio Watanabe, Tomoko Mayama, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

The story of a Ronin (i.e. a masterless samurai) who wanders the countryside of Japan with his small child, having various adventures.

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 : Ninetto Davoli, Hugh Griffith, Franco Citti, Laura Betti,
Directors : Pier Paolo Pasolini,

Pasolini's artistic, sometimes violent, always vividly cinematic retelling of some of Chaucer's most erotic tales.

Actors : Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Carlos Muñoz,
Directors : Giuseppe Colizzi,

The "Trinity" crew makes another modern era film. Plata and Salud are pilots ditching aircraft for insurance money. They wind up crashing for real in the jungles of South America. The plot ...

Actors : Daniel Ceccaldi, Zouzou, Bernard Verley, Françoise Verley,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

Though he has an adoring wife, a bourgeois man is still tempted to pursue other women.

Actors : Lizabeth Scott, Mickey Rooney, Michael Caine, Lionel Stander,
Directors : Mike Hodges,

A seedy writer of sleazy pulp novels is recruited by a quirky, reclusive ex-actor to help him write his biography at his house in Malta.

Actors : José Thelman, Lone Fleming, María Elena Arpón, César Burner,
Directors : Amando de Ossorio,

In the 13th century there existed a legion of evil knights known as the Templars, who quested for eternal life by drinking human blood and committing sacrifices. Executed for their unholy ...

Actors : Jane Fonda, Elizabeth Chauvin, Vittorio Caprioli, Yves Montand,

Godard examines the structure of movies, relationships and revolutions through the life of a couple in Paris.

Actors : Moses Gunn, Richard Roundtree, Drew Bundini Brown, Joseph Mascolo,
Directors : Gordon Parks,

Shaft is back to find the murderer of an old friend on the cold hard city streets with a little help from his new friends.

Actors : Sylvia Syms, Peter Cushing, Barbara Parkins, Richard Todd,
Directors : Roy Ward Baker,

In order to secure a job at a mental institution, a young psychiatrist must interview four patients inside the asylum.

Actors : Uta Hagen, Diana Muldaur, Chris Udvarnoky, 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 : Kayo Matsuo, Minoru Ôki, Akiji Kobayashi, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Trailed by a clan of female ninja, Ogami is paid to assassinate a clan traitor accompanied by three killers known as the Gods of Death.

Actors : Simon Oakland, Charles Bronson, James Whitmore, Jack Palance,
Directors : Michael Winner,

In 1870s New Mexico, a half-breed kills a bigoted sheriff in self-defense but the posse that eventually hunts him finds itself in dangerous territory.