Best movies of 1972

Actors : Joanne Woodward, Nell Potts, Judith Lowry, Roberta Wallach,
Directors : Paul Newman,

From the Pullizer Prize winning play by Paul Zindel, this is the story of Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters, Ruth and Matilda. A middle-aged widowed eccentric, Beatrice is looking for ...

Actors : Gregory Walcott, Terence Hill, Yanti Somer, Dominic Barto,
Directors : Enzo Barboni,

In the Wild West, a dead Englishman's greenhorn son joins his father's old gang and becomes a real frontier-man.

Actors : Ralph Waite, William Smithers, Robert Hooks, Paul Winfield,
Directors : Ivan Dixon,

It seems that masked men are knocking over the floating crap games of Chalky and Pete. Chalky and Pete hire the cool, loose, elegant Mr. T to fix things. Then, the masked manipulators set ...

Actors : Ariane Heller, Barbra Streisand, Terry Smith, David Selby,
Directors : Irvin Kershner,

A bored housewife takes refuge in a fantasy world.

Actors : Roosevelt Grier, Don Marshall, Roger Perry, Ray Milland,
Directors : Lee Frost,

Doctors are forced to transplant the head of a dying, racist surgeon onto the body of a black death row inmate.

Actors : Sami Frey, Romy Schneider, Bernard Le Coq, Yves Montand,
Directors : Claude Sautet,

Rosalie is amicably divorced, dividing her time between her mother's house, with her siblings and small daughter, and César's. He's self made, a scrap iron king, outgoing, amiable, in love ...

Actors : Jess Hahn, Lee Van Cleef, Alberto Dentice, Horst Frank,
Directors : Giancarlo Santi,

A grizzled ex-sheriff helps a man framed for murder to confront the powerful trio of brothers who want him dead.

Actors : Mariette Hartley, Stefanie Powers, Michael Callan, Lee Van Cleef,
Directors : George McCowan,

Marshal Chris Adams turns down a friend's request to help stop the depredations of a gang of Mexican bandits. When his wife is killed by bank robbers and his friend is killed capturing the ...

Actors : Michael Caine, Margaret Leighton, Elizabeth Taylor, Susannah York,
Directors : Brian G. Hutton,

The venomous and amoral wife of a wealthy architect tries, any way she can, to break up the blossoming romance between her husband and his new mistress; a good-natured young widow who holds a dark past.

Actors : Neda Spasojevic, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Rade Markovic, Ljubisa Samardzic,
Directors : Hajrudin Krvavac,

A man who tried to stop Nazi soldiers in World War II.

Actors : Edwige Fenech, Ivan Rassimov, George Hilton, Julián Ugarte,
Directors : Sergio Martino,

A woman recovering from a car accident in which she lost her unborn child finds herself pursued by a coven of devil worshipers.

Actors : Pat Ast, Andrea Feldman, Sylvia Miles, Joe Dallesandro,
Directors : Paul Morrissey,

"Heat" is a parody of "Sunset Boulevard." Joey Davis, an unemployed ex-child actor, uses sex to get his landlady, Lydia, to reduce his rent, and then tries to exert his influence on Sally ...

Actors : Telly Savalas, Bud Spencer, James Coburn, Georges Géret,
Directors : Tonino Valerii,

Branded a coward for surrendering his New Mexico fort to the Confederates without firing a shot, a Union colonel attempts to redeem himself by leading a band of condemned prisoners on a suicide mission to recapture it.

Actors : Michael Sullivan, Luana Anders, George Morgan, Albert Henderson,
Directors : Robert Downey Sr.,

A parable based on the life of Christ. This ain't your father's Bible story, full of references about the destruction of the world through massive constipation and a New Mexican setting.

Actors : Ta-Ronce Allen, Bill Cosby, Rosalind Cash, Robert Culp,
Directors : Robert Culp,

Bill Cosby and Robert Culp ("I Spy") are united again as private eyes in this Walter Hill-scripted "film noir." Searching for a missing girl, they find themselves involved with vicious criminals and precipitating a string of deaths.

Actors : Sudie Bond, Richard McConnell, Olga Bellin, Robert Duvall,
Directors : Joseph Anthony,

A lonely farmer takes in a pregnant woman and looks after her. After she gives birth, tragedy strikes.

Actors : Joseph Cotten, Silvana Mangano, Alberto Sordi, Bette Davis,
Directors : Luigi Comencini,

Every year, a Countess invites a poor Italian family to play in a card game.

Actors : Claude Akins, Yvette Mimieux, James Brolin, Charlton Heston,
Directors : John Guillermin,

A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 in this disaster film filled with the usual early '70s stereotypes, and demands to be taken to Russia.

Actors : Woody Strode, Henry Silva, Adolfo Celi, Mario Adorf,
Directors : Fernando Di Leo,

When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but ...

Actors : Joyce Van Patten, Yaphet Kotto, Andrew Duggan, Jeannie Berlin,
Directors : Larry Cohen,

A thief breaks into the home of a wealthy, happily married Beverly Hills couple. He soon finds out, though, that the couple is neither as wealthy as he thought they were and are not as ...