Best Drama movies of 1972

Actors : Chieko Baishô, Hisashi Igawa, Chishû Ryû, Gin Maeda,
Directors : Yôji Yamada,

On a beautiful island in Seto Inner Sea, Seichi and Minko make their living by transporting rocks to construction sites by boat. They cherish the deepest affection for this piece of land ...

Actors : Alfiero Vincenti, Donyale Luna, Carmelo Bene, Lydia Mancinelli,
Directors : Carmelo Bene,

A psychedelic re-telling of the biblical story. Salome is the daughter of the second wife of King Herod. The King is infatuated with her and after she fails to seduce the prophet John (The ...

Actors : Barbara Mills, Inga Maria, Jeff Gall, Alain Patrick,
Directors : Alain Patrick,

Handsome and successful Jim appears to have it all: he's married to the beautiful and supportive Lisa, has a healthy baby, and works a cool gig as the director of hardcore porno fare. Jim's...

Actors : Colin Blakely, Shelley Winters, John Stride, Peter Finch,
Directors : Alastair Reid,

A man having marital problems with his shrewish wife picks up a young, pretty and pregnant hitchhiker. Before he knows it, he's in over his head and mixed up in violence and murder.

Actors : Zita Duarte, João Guedes, Laura Soveral, Ruy Furtado,
Directors : Fernando Lopes,

Actors : Seif Abol Naga, Dawlad Abiad, Ahmed Mazhar, Faten Hamama,
Directors : Hussein Kamal,

Well off widow working Mother "Mona" is struggling raising 6 kids at different ages ranging from elementary school to University graduating students. The day she thinks to bring a new ...

Actors : Annik Borel, Maria Arnold, Tracy Handfuss, Jacqueline Giroux,
Directors : Tom DeSimone,

Six female prisoners are given a weekend furlough to prepare them for their upcoming parole. While out, they all have miscellaneous sexual experiences, some good, some bad. One returns to ...

Actors : Fernando Torres, Paulo César Peréio, Luiz Linhares, José Wilker,
Directors : Joaquim Pedro de Andrade,

A film version of the Minas Gerais Conspiracy, a separatist movement that took place on the year 1789, from its beginning to the execution of Tiradentes.

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 : Kayo Matsuo, Sanae Kitabayashi, Atsuo Nakamura, Yoshio Harada,
Directors : Kazuo Ikehiro,

Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after protecting a woman in distress: they marry...

Actors : Vitali Solomin, Yefim Kopelyan, Petr Shelokhonov, Mikhail Kokshenov,
Directors : Viktor Tregubovich,

Epic about Cossacks in the Siberian province of Dauria. Cossacks are living in their village like one big family under the guidance of a strong leader - Ataman.

Actors : Orchidea de Santis, Erika Blanc, Ezio Marano, Peter Lee Lawrence,
Directors : Sauro Scavolini,

German ornithologist rents old Villa, in which supposedly has many years no one lived. Walking around the neighborhood, he finds a crumpled foil. Purging them and after listening, he learns...

Actors : Ebrahim Naderi, Fourouzan, Hosein Gil, Behrouz Vossoughi,
Directors : Fereydun Gole,

Banafsheh, a young prostitute who has fled with a man to the seaside in hope of starting a new life has to return to her profession as she learns about the betrayal of her lover. Penniless ...

Actors : Luis Arroyo, Marcia Forbes, Harlan Cary Poe, Evelyn Kingsley,
Directors : Stanley H. Brassloff,

Emotionally stunted child woman Jamie Godard not only suffers from an unhealthy fixation on her long absent father, but also has an obsession with all the toys he gave her as a little girl....

Actors : Hale Soygazi, Cüneyt Arkin, Seyyal Taner, Kahraman Kiral,
Directors : Osman F. Seden,

Actors : Joanne Moore Jordan, Greg Mullavey, Geri Reischl, Zooey Hall,
Directors : Paul Leder,

Albert tried to kill his rich snobby mother once. Then he was institutionalized. Now he's escaped. Albert is after his mother again. And he will torture and kill anything that lays in the ...

Actors : José Luis López Vázquez, Enrique Ávila, Julieta Serrano, Antonio Ferrandis,
Directors : Jaime de Armiñán,

A 43-year-old woman discovers she is actually a man...

Actors : Manolo Fábregas, Sara García, Lucha Villa, Héctor Suárez,
Directors : Luis Alcoriza,

A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an elderly person.

Actors : Akiko Koyama, Tsunehiko Watase, Meiko Kaji, Tatsuo Umemiya,
Directors : Kazuhiko Yamaguchi,

Nami is an ex-convict who becomes a hostess to support a sick woman who bailed her out. In doing so, she gets involved in a local gangster's scheme to take over the bar she works for.

Actors : Leo Phillips, Carol Kane, Doris Petrie, Donald Pleasence,
Directors : William Fruet,

A father will do anything to protect his family's reputation when his unmarried teenage daughter becomes pregnant because she was raped by her brother's friend.