Best Drama movies of 1972

Actors : Tammy Grimes, Adam Roarke, Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld,
Directors : Frank Perry,

A Hollywood actress undergoes a psychic breakdown and recalls the traumatic events which led to her stay at a sanitarium.

Actors : Zeljko Mataija, Slavko Stimac, Ivan Stimac, Boro Ivanisevic,
Directors : Obrad Gluscevic,

A boy finds a large wolf-like dog in the mountain and they befriend. The local peasants think that it may be a real wolf responsible for the sheep pestilence. They decide to kill the animal...

Actors : Alain Cuny, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Mimsy Farmer, Ugo Tognazzi,
Directors : Aleksandar Petrovic,

The Master and Margaret (1972) is based on the eponymous book by Mikhail A. Bulgakov. The film is set in the Soviet Union under Stalin, it has several story-lines, that are intertwined. ...

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Robert Ryan, Lea Massari, Aldo Ray,
Directors : René Clément,

A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned.

Actors : Franco Fabrizi, Enrico Maria Salerno, Mariangela Melato, Mario Adorf,
Directors : Steno,

This is a story of a secret organization of former police officers, who go beyond the law, to kill notorious criminals without trial. One police inspector, (intense performance: Enrico ...

Actors : Telly Savalas, Anne Francis, Clint Walker, Chuck Connors,
Directors : Eugenio Martín,

A double-cross in an arms deal prompts Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa to raid a US Army weapons depot in Columbus, New Mexico.

Actors : Hardy Krüger, Lilli Palmer, Mark Lester, Britt Ekland,

A wealthy author's second wife begins to suspect that her 12 year old stepson may have murdered his mother, who mysteriously died in a bathtub accident.

Actors : Nigel Davenport, Geoffrey Keen, Edward Judd, Susan Hampshire,
Directors : Jack Couffer,

When Elsa's three mischievous cubs begin wreaking havoc on the nearby villages, Joy and her husband are forced to move them hundreds of miles to a game preserve.

Actors : Ediz Hun, Sezer Inanoglu, Hülya Koçyigit, Nevzat Okçugil,
Directors : Memduh Ün,

Cyprus War

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, Enzo Jannacci, Michel Piccoli, Ugo Tognazzi,
Directors : Marco Ferreri,

A young man from north Italy named Amedeo decides to come to Rome.He has a crazy idea in his head to meet the pope.

Actors : Robin Mattson, Scott Brady, Steve Sandor, Tiffany Bolling,
Directors : Arthur Marks,

Sisters Myra and Ellie have finally had enough of their miserable, dead-end lives. When their step-father Charley (The Bonnie from the title being long dead) tried to rape Myra, Ellie ...

Actors : Silvano Tranquilli, Sylva Koscina, Annabella Incontrera, Farley Granger,
Directors : Roberto Bianchi Montero,

A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves compromising photographs at the crime scene.

Actors : Luce Garcia-Ville, Lucia Bosé, Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Marguerite Duras,

This art film has no conventional dialog between the main characters. This tells a strangely compelling story of two women in a suburban home who are listening to radio news broadcasts about a missing child in their area.

Actors : Jon Finch, Sarah Miles, John Mills, Richard Chamberlain,
Directors : Robert Bolt,

A noblewoman doomed to a loveless marriage falls into a scandalous affair with the dashing Lord Byron.

Actors : Lavrentis Dianellos, Ketty Panou, Yorgos Moutsios, Labros Konstadaras,
Directors : Kostas Karagiannis,

Loukas has been living in Africa for many many years, working hard to send money to his family who has stayed in Greece. When the time has come to return home, he decides to surprise his ...

Actors : John Heyl, William Roerick, Parker Stevenson, Peter Brush,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

Gene and Finny are two boys who are best friends living in 1943, at the height of World War II. The idea that the boys will most likely be drafted when they turn eighteen is surrounding ...

Actors : Vito Cipolla, Daniele Dublino, Giulio Brogi, Renato Cestiè,

Sentenced to life imprisonment for illegal activities, Italian International member Giulio Manieri holds on to his political ideals while struggling against madness in the loneliness of his...

Actors : Vonetta McGee, William Smith, Bernie Hamilton, Fred Williamson,
Directors : Bruce D. Clark,

A dock worker becomes a prizefighter, but gets mixed up with a crooked manager. A sympathetic L.A. detective tries to set him straight, but he won't listen. His manager, who is also a drug ...

Actors : Alan Bates, Peter Bowles, Sheila Gish, Janet Suzman,
Directors : Peter Medak,

A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain dead. They take turns doing the daughter's voice and stare into the eyes of death ...

Actors : Nico, Philippe Garrel, Christian Päffgen, Daniel Pommereulle,
Directors : Philippe Garrel,

A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images.