Best Drama movies of 1972

Actors : Louis Quinn, Betty Anne Rees, Claudia Jennings, Roberta Collins,
Directors : Vernon Zimmerman,

Karen wants more action out of life and quits her job at the cannery to become a skater in the roller derby. She encounters friction from the other skaters - especially Mickey, the current ...

Actors : Richard Burton, Peter Ustinov, Elizabeth Taylor, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Peter Ustinov,

The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor of dubious sanity himself. The patient (Burton) offers the innocent orderly (...

Actors : Jean Yanne, Marlène Jobert, Patricia Pierangeli, Christine Fabréga,
Directors : Maurice Pialat,

Jean has been married to Francoise for years, but his relationship with his wife has been all but over for a long time. She's hardly ever around, always traveling to Russia for work, and ...

Actors : Walter Matthau, Geraldine Page, Barry Nelson, Carol Burnett,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

Unassuming and single thirty-three year old Tillie Shlain is at that phase of her life of being known as a soon to be spinster if she doesn't marry soon. She isn't looking forward to ...

Actors : Giancarlo Giannini, Sonia Petrovna, Renato Salvatori, Alain Delon,
Directors : Valerio Zurlini,

In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months in the Liceu replacing another teacher. His ...

Actors : Turi Ferro, Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Agostina Belli,
Directors : Lina Wertmüller,

In Sicily, the mine worker Carmelo "Mimí" Mardocheo votes in the Communist Party candidate instead of in the Mafia's one believing that the suffrage is secret. After the elections, he loses...

Actors : Hema Malini, Sanjeev Kumar, Dharmendra, Manorama,
Directors : Ramesh Sippy,

Long-suffering heiress Seeta is treated worse than a servant by her abusive money-grubbing aunt. Meanwhile, her long-lost twin sister Geeta grows up to be a gutsy street-performer. One day, the girls unintentionally swap places.

Actors : Meena Kumari, Raaj Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Veena,
Directors : Kamal Amrohi,

The story of a prostitute, with a pure heart (PAKEEZAH), and grand dreams...

Actors : Jaya Bhaduri, Seema Deo, Sanjeev Kumar, Asrani,
Directors : Gulzar,

Romantic drama spaning nearly 20 years involving a deaf-mute couple, Haricharian and Aarti. Deaf and dumb bicycle messenger Haricharian meets equally deaf Aarti, and persuades her to go to ...

Actors : Britt Ekland, Hywel Bennett, Hayley Mills, Per Oscarsson,
Directors : Sidney Gilliat,

Based on an Agatha Christie suspense novel; a newly-wed couple are threatened after building their dream home on cursed land.

Actors : Malgorzata Braunek, Iga Mayr, Maciej Englert, Michal Grudzinski,
Directors : Andrzej Zulawski,

During the Prussian army's invasion to Poland in 1793, a young Polish nobleman Jakub is saved from the imprisonment by a stranger who wants in return to obtain a list of Jakub's fellow ...

Actors : Aydin Babaoglu, Rüstü Asyali, Deniz Erkanat, Alev Oraloglu,
Directors : Metin Erksan,

Keloglan (Bald Boy) is a dreamer but his only ability is talking, one day The Sultan announces a tournament and best warrior of the land will win his daughter, Keloglan wants to join the ...

Actors : Emma Cohen, Charly Bravo, Eusebio Poncela, Vicente Parra,
Directors : Eloy de la Iglesia,

A young man, Marco, working as a butcher, accidentally kills a taxi driver. His girlfriend Paula wants to go to the police so he has to kill her too. He then has to kill his brother, his ...

Actors : Kai Fischer, Erika Pluhar, Arthur Brauss, Libgart Schwarz,
Directors : Wim Wenders,

A goalkeeper Josef Bloch is ejected during a game for foul play. He leaves the field and goes to spend the night with a cinema cashier.

Actors : Norman Alden, Kevin McCarthy, Raquel Welch, Helena Kallianiotes,
Directors : Jerrold Freedman,

Roller-derby skater K. C. Carr tries to balance her desire for a happy personal life and her dreams of stardom.

Actors : Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith, Stephen Archibald, Karl Fieseler,
Directors : Bill Douglas,

The second part (My ain folk) of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the ...

Actors : Michael Gothard, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Jérôme Beauvarlet, Monique Giraudy,
Directors : Barbet Schroeder,

Filmmaker Barbet Schroeder explores themes of sexual freedom, mind alteration, and pursuit of paradise against the backdrop of an early 70's encounter with the Mapuga rain forest tribe in upland New Guinea.

Actors : Gyöngyi Bürös, Mari Csomós, Erzsi Cserhalmi, Andrea Drahota,
Directors : Miklós Jancsó,

Set in the 1890s on the Hungarian plains, a group of farm workers go on strike in-which they face harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt, oppression, morality and violence.

Actors : Osman Alyanak, Bilal Inci, Kadir Inanir, Türkan Soray,
Directors : Türkan Soray,

Story of a wife and her son waiting for her husband to come back from Germany, where he immigrated for paying his family's debts in Turkey.

Actors : Richard Burton, Virna Lisi, Raquel Welch, Nathalie Delon,
Directors : Edward Dmytryk,

A World War I pilot whom everybody envies as a "ladykiller" actually is one - after he beds the women he's after, he murders them.