Best Crime movies of 1972

Actors : Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Marlon Brando, James Caan,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.

Actors : Riccardo Cucciolla, Richard Crenna, Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Jean-Pierre Melville,

Bank robbery in small town ends with one of the robbers being wounded. The loot from the robbery is just an asset for the even more spectacular heist. Simon, gang leader and Paris night ...

Actors : Lucy Grantham, Fred J. Lincoln, Sandra Peabody, David Hess,
Directors : Wes Craven,

Two teenage girls head to a rock concert for one's birthday. While trying to score marijuana in the city, they are kidnapped and brutalized by a gang of psychotic convicts.

Actors : Mink Stole, Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce, David Lochary,
Directors : John Waters,

Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".

Actors : Carl Bradshaw, Jimmy Cliff, Ras Daniel Hartman, Janet Bartley,
Directors : Perry Henzell,

Wishing to become a successful Reggae singer, a young Jamaican man finds himself tied to corrupt record producers and drug pushers.

Actors : Barbara Hershey, Barry Primus, David Carradine, Bernie Casey,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

During the Great Depression, a union leader and a young woman become criminals to exact revenge on the management of a railroad.

Actors : Nora Miao, Bruce Lee, Ping Ou Wei, Chuck Norris,
Directors : Bruce Lee,

A man visits his relatives at their restaurant in Italy and has to help them defend against brutal gangsters harassing them.

Actors : Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Steve McQueen, Sally Struthers,
Directors : Sam Peckinpah,

A recently released ex-con and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes awry.

Actors : Ron O'Neal, Sheila Frazier, Carl Lee, Julius Harris,
Directors : Gordon Parks Jr.,

The daily routine of cocaine dealer Priest who wants to score one more super deal and retire.

Actors : Robert Redford, Ron Leibman, Paul Sand, George Segal,
Directors : Peter Yates,

Dortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it...

Actors : Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Keenan Wynn, Jan-Michael Vincent,
Directors : Michael Winner,

An aging hitman befriends a young man who wants to be a professional killer. Eventually it becomes clear that someone has betrayed them.

Actors : Frank Adu, Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, Anthony Franciosa,
Directors : Barry Shear,

Two New York City cops go after amateur crooks who are trying to rip off the Mafia and start a gang war.

Actors : Angel Tompkins, Sissy Spacek, Gene Hackman, Lee Marvin,
Directors : Michael Ritchie,

A vicious Kansas City slaughterhouse owner and his hick family are having a bloody "beef" with the Chicago crime syndicate over profits from their joint illegal operations. Top enforcer Nick Devlin is sent to straighten things out.

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 : 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 : Barbara Bouchet, Frank Wolff, Gastone Moschin, Mario Adorf,
Directors : Fernando Di Leo,

Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden...

Actors : Rie Yokoyama, Meiko Kaji, Yôko Mihara, Yayoi Watanabe,
Directors : Shun'ya Itô,

After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.

Actors : Candice Roman, Anitra Ford, Teda Bracci, Pam Grier,
Directors : Jack Hill,

Grier and Haig are thieving mercenaries who engineer a prison break from the outside.

Actors : Charles Bronson, Lino Ventura, Jill Ireland, Walter Chiari,
Directors : Terence Young,

When Joe Valachi (Charles Bronson) has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese (Lino Ventura), he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful attempt ...

Actors : Charles Hawtrey, Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims,
Directors : Gerald Thomas,

A gang of thieves plan to make their fortune by stealing a shipment of contraceptive pills from Finisham maternity hospital. They assume disguises and infiltrate the hospital, but ...