Best Revenge movies of 1972

Actors : John Saxon, Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, Don Stroud,
Directors : John Sturges,

An ex-bounty hunter reluctantly helps a wealthy landowner and his henchmen track down a Mexican revolutionary leader.

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 : Robert Redford, Delle Bolton, Josh Albee, Will Geer,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by Indians, and proves to be a match for their warriors in one-on-one combat on the early frontier.

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 : 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 : Burt Lancaster, Jorge Luke, Bruce Davison, Richard Jaeckel,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

After fierce war chief Ulzana and a small war party jump the reservation bent on murder and terror, an inexperienced young lieutenant is assigned to track him down.

Actors : Simon Oakland, Charles Bronson, James Whitmore, Jack Palance,
Directors : Michael Winner,

In 1870s New Mexico, a half-breed kills a bigoted sheriff in self-defense but the posse that eventually hunts him finds itself in dangerous territory.

Actors : Adrienne Corri, Thorley Walters, John Moulder-Brown, Anthony Higgins,
Directors : Robert Young,

A village in Nineteenth Century Europe is at first relieved when a circus breaks through the quarantine to take the local's minds off the plague. But their troubles are only beginning as ...

Actors : Michi Azuma, Akihiro Tomikawa, Yoichi Hayashi, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Buichi Saitô,

Ogami is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin. Gunbei Yagyu, an enemy samurai, happens upon Ogami's son, and sees his chance for revenge.

Actors : Kayoko Shiraishi, Meiko Kaji, Yukie Kagawa, Fumio Watanabe,
Directors : Shun'ya Itô,

After spending a year in solitary confinement, Matsu escapes from prison with six more convicts, followed by the guards led by the vengeful warden who wants her dead at all costs.

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Rip Torn, Stella Stevens, Jim Brown,
Directors : Jack Starrett,

Slaughter, a former Green Beret, avenges the killing of loved ones by the Mob, and in so doing is coerced by the Feds into traveling to Mexico to finish off surviving mobsters.

Actors : Yukiji Asaoka, Shintarô Katsu, Mari Atsumi, Kô Nishimura,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Hanzo Itami is an incorruptible Edo officer who learns that an infamous killer has fled from his island prison. Hanzo begins tracking him down using his unorthodox interrogation techniques.

Actors : Barry Newman, Dolph Sweet, John Vernon, Suzy Kendall,
Directors : Michael Tuchner,

Following the death of his family in an aeroplane crash, a man plots an elaborate revenge scheme on those responsible. By setting himself up as a criminal, he plans to get close to a ...

Actors : Richard Basehart, Barnard Hughes, George C. Scott, Martin Sheen,
Directors : George C. Scott,

An accidental nerve gas leak by the military kills not only a rancher's livestock, but also his son. When he tries to hold the military accountable for their actions, he runs up against a wall of silence.

Actors : Yeh Tien, Hsin Tang, Yu Wang, Fei Lung,
Directors : Yu Wang,

After his schoolmate and master is killed and he loses an arm, student Tien Lung has to learn the art of one-arm boxing.

Actors : Luciana Paluzzi, Brenda Sykes, Martin Landau, Jim Brown,
Directors : Robert Hartford-Davis,

A successful and popular nightclub owner who believes financial independence is the path to equality and success, must act as a go-between for militant-minded brother and the white gang ...

Actors : Steve Alaimo, Susan Carroll, Chris Robinson, Alex Rocco,
Directors : William Grefé,

A young Seminole Indian uses his rattlesnake to take revenge on all those he believes have wronged him.

Actors : Yi Chang, Kyung-Ah Oh, Ying Bai, Angela Mao,
Directors : Feng Huang,

Tien arrives in town looking to exact revenge on Ling for abandoning her pregnant sister and thus driving said sister to commit suicide. Although Tien agrees to help Ling take down the ...

Actors : Dixie Peabody, Clyde Ventura, Joanne Moore Jordan, Terry Mace,
Directors : Barbara Peeters,

Tautly directed biker film, told from the woman's point of view. The heroine sets out on the road to avenge her brother's murder, toting a shotgun and meaning business.

Actors : Hung Pai, Fei Meng, Lin Lin Li, Yasuaki Kurata,
Directors : Yang Ming Tsai,

A gifted but proud young martial arts student injures and kills an opponent. In retaliation , his father is killed. The young student vows revenge and begins to prepare for his epic face-off.