Best Crime movies of 1972

Actors : Miyoko Aoyama, Hiroko Isayama, Jôji Sawada, Keiko Aikawa,
Directors : Yukihiro Sawada,

A prison inmate is notified that his sister, whom he idolized, has been raped and murdered by a group of drunken soldiers. Furious, he breaks out of jail to take his revenge upon her ...

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Shin'ichi Chiba, Reiko Ike, Tatsuya Fuji,
Directors : Buichi Saitô,

Attacking Asao Uchida's lonely, clifftop mansion in no-holds barred massacre.

Actors : Miki Sugimoto, Reiko Ike, Masataka Naruse, Natsuko Miura,
Directors : Noribumi Suzuki,

Delinquent girl boss meets and conflicts with an orphan girl who lives an isolated life after the dramatic deaths of her parents. She plays the piano, but stands up against her lecherous guardian, who is also a school official.

Actors : Kôji Tsuruta, Junko Fuji, Ken Takakura, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Masahiro Makino,

It is almost unheard of for a ninkyô or jitsuroku yakuza to have an even halfway happy ending.

Actors : Vera Budilová, Eva Burkotová, Pavel Brabec, Viktorie Cermáková,
Directors : Josef Pinkava,

Teenager Petr doesn't get on very well with his strict father, and when his father sells his beloved female dog Irina, he feels very much alone. He therefore easily falls under the ...

Actors : Cüneyt Arkin, Sükran Yamakoglu, Yildirim Önal, Ahmet Mekin,
Directors : Lütfi Akad,

Ali gets out from prison more recently. He needs money to go to Germany. Therefore, he accepts the offer to kill a businessman. When he completes mission there is a huge trickery: money is fake.

Actors : Rakhee Gulzar, Bipin Gupta, Anwar Ali, Krishan Dhawan,
Directors : Ramanna,

Alcoholic womanizer Shyam meets with Shanti and gets married to her. On their wedding night, a friend of Shyam's lures Shanti away on the pretext that Shyam is hospitalized due to an ...

Actors : Ryôji Hayama, Shin'ichi Chiba, Makoto Satô, Kôji Nanbara,
Directors : Ryuichi Takamori,

One of Chiba's most enjoyable films.

Actors : Roberto Bustamante, Billy Davis, Rosângela Alves, Jose Pinheiro De Carvalho,
Directors : Carlos Roberto Bini,

An unhappily married woman becomes the mistress to a sleaze-ball who introduces her to a group of satanists who are willing to kill her rich husband.

Actors : Lewis J. Stadlen, David Doyle, Russ Thacker, Brad Sullivan,
Directors : Robert J. Siegel,

An American soldier sent to Vietnam goes AWOL and returns to his hometown. His parents turn him over to military authorities. He is court-martialled and sent to the toughest military prison...

Actors : Luciana Paluzzi, Anita Strindberg, George Hilton, Fernando Rey,
Directors : Tulio Demicheli,

A professor's wife falls in love with her husband's assistant. When she learns he's planning to move to another city, she does everything she can to avoid it, with no success. Soon ...

Actors : Franco Fabrizi, Marilù Tolo, Frederick Stafford, Reinhard Kolldehoff,
Directors : Camillo Bazzoni,

A journalist is attacked and killed. Inspector Luca Micheli investigates the crime, and finds a suspect named Delogo but, though the suspect himself confesses that he murdered Galiardin, ...

Actors : Lingfeng Shangguan, Lang-Fung Chang, Lenin Marlina, Deteso Tomo,
Directors : Sai King Yang,

When someone kills a woman's father and steals his sword, she sets off for revenge. She believes that Ghostly Face is the killer, but when she rescues a girl who was taken by raiders and ...

Actors : Peter Ehrlich, Senta Berger, Margarethe von Trotta, Helmut Griem,
Directors : Volker Schlöndorff,

Ruth Halbfass has been married to the industrialist Erich Halbfass for sixteen years in a loveless marriage and they have a fourteen year-old teenage daughter, Aglaia. Ruth has a love ...

Actors : Hristos Nomikos, Kostas Karagiorgis, Rita Bensousan, Eleni Anousaki,
Directors : Omiros Efstratiadis,

A female hotel manager and her male accomplice, murder a German gangster to steal his diamonds. Soon, other members of the gang arrive to find out what went on.

Actors : Eun-a Ko, Mu-ryong Choi, Jeong-hun Kim, Ji-mee Kim,
Directors : Jang-ho Byeon,

Yeong-hun drowns his friend because he has been lusting after his wife, In-ae, for years. In-ae flees, but Yeong-hun tracks her down and spends the night with her. She escapes from him ...

Actors : Thelma Biral, Alfredo Alcón, José Slavin, China Zorrilla,
Directors : Leopoldo Torre Nilsson,

A thinly disguised account of the story of the Galiffi mafia family of Rosario, Argentina, their decadent loves and brutal crimes.

Actors : June Seymour, Diane Ridler, Gé Korsten, Maudie Adendorff,
Directors : Ivan Hall,

Precios diamonds gets stolen,put on a boat.The police wants it back,A lot of obstacles in the way(beautiful women and annoying orphan girl and A murderer)How wil everything play out..........

Actors : Gary Kemp, Robin Askwith, Eileen Fletcher, Peter Newby,
Directors : David Eady,

A young boy runs away from an approved school to meet up with his father in the hope that he can persuade his dad to allow him to travel to Canada with him. He also meets up with two local ...

Actors : Jesse James Barbosa, Roberto Bataglin, Dick Cardoso, Anita Aveno,
Directors : Clery Cunha,

The problematic son of a wealthy businessman becomes obsessed by his stepmother and gets involved with a group of criminals as he tries to eliminate her lover - but can he remain unscathed?