Best Drama movies of 1972

Actors : Sayuri Ichijo, Hiroko Isayama, Gô Awazu, Kazuko Shirakawa,
Directors : Tatsumi Kumashiro,

The story is about a stripper's relationships with two men: her boyfriend and a club owner.

Actors : Jaya Bhaduri, Kamini Kaushal, Manoj Kumar, Prem Nath,
Directors : Manoj Kumar,

Shankar (Manoj Kumar), his lovely wife Geeta (Nanda) and Deepak (Master Satyajeet) are a poor but happy family. Tragedy strikes one day, when Deepak wonders over to the railway tracks. When...

Actors : Lee de Broux, Jon Shank, Michael Pataki, Paul Carr,
Directors : Jerry Jameson,

A film crew shooting in the desert is terrorized by a vicious outlaw motorcycle gang (on dirt bikes, no less) who are after the women in the company.

Actors : Boris Tokarev, Anatoliy Kuznetsov, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Vadim Spiridonov,
Directors : Gavriil Egiazarov,

In November, 1942, near the Volga, Stanlingrad is under siege of Commander Friederich Paulus and his 330,000 men. The Russian high command unleashes an operation to protect the Mishkova ...

Actors : Uschi Glas, Fabio Testi, Jean Gabin, Jacques Richard,
Directors : Denys de La Patellière,

Whilst being transferred to a psychiatric hospital, a ruthless serial killer Gassot makes a break and goes on the run. He arrives in Marseilles, intending to escape abroad. Here, he falls for a young prostitute, Gerda.

Actors : Martin Balsam, Burgess Meredith, Lew Ayres, James Earl Jones,
Directors : Joseph Sargent,

An African-American senator becomes the designated survivor of a tragic accident that kills the President of the United States. Now the first black President, he attempts to end the bigotry and divide standing in his way.

Actors : Christos Kalavrouzos, Antonis Papadopoulos, Efi Roditi, Thanasis Vengos,
Directors : Dinos Katsouridis,

A wretch jobber tries to find the money to build the house promised to groom, to repay the truck he drives and help a poor girl, who has been eviction, find somewhere to stay.

Actors : Vanda Lacerda, Nildo Parente, Isabel Ribeiro, Othon Bastos,
Directors : Leon Hirszman,

The story of Paulo Honório, a poor kid who becomes a rich farmer. Obsessed by his desire to get even richer, he doesn't pay much attention to his wife, Madalena, a teacher who reacts against his tyrannical ways.

Actors : Paola Tedesco, Telly Savalas, Giuliano Persico, Antonio Sabato,
Directors : Alberto De Martino,

Organized crime; Don Vincenzo leads the pack and his faced with a huge struggle.

Actors : Klaus Maria Brandauer, Barry Newman, Karen Jensen, Anna Karina,
Directors : Lee H. Katzin,

A list of agents and collaborators, hidden by the Nazis in an Austrian lake in 1945, is sought after by various interested parties during the Cold War.

Actors : Charlene Jones, Sid Haig, Pat Woodell, John Ashley,
Directors : Eddie Romero,

A foreign correspondent is kidnapped and used for human prey.

Actors : Jan Englert, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Franciszek Pieczka, Lucja Kowolik,
Directors : Kazimierz Kutz,

Film set during the Silesian Uprising in the 1920's. The German owners of a mine decide that it is unprofitable and want to close it by flooding it. The miners go on strike.

Actors : Maurizio Degli Esposti, Lucia Bosé, Rosaria, Tina Aumont,
Directors : Giulio Questi,

A Sicilian widow earns her living as a clairvoyant, in Milan, but she hasn't got any power at all. Her son instead holds supernatural powers and with the help of his mother he becomes a ...

Actors : Charlotte Rampling, Robert Blake, Patrick O'Neal, Christopher Connelly,
Directors : Leonard Horn,

A country boy wants to make it big as a stockcar racer.

Actors : Meral Taygun, Yesim Tan, Sadri Alisik, Zeynep Degirmencioglu,
Directors : Atif Yilmaz,

Actors : Cüneyt Arkin, Fatma Belgen, Sükriye Atav, Mümtaz Ener,
Directors : Orhan Aksoy,

Actors : Rika Aoki, Kazuko Nagamoto, Masami Souda, Michi Nono,
Directors : Kô Nakahira,

First film of a trilogy following the dramatic life of Rika, a half-Japanese/half-American woman who becomes the tough-as-nails leader of an all-girl crime gang.

Actors : Ulrike von Zerboni, Manja Behrens, Erwin Geschonneck, Günther Simon,
Directors : Konrad Wolf,

Actors : Franco Jamonte, Mark Damon, Claudia Gravy, Aldo Bufi Landi,
Directors : Leopoldo Savona,

A boy is possessed by Byleth, the demon of the incest. He wants to madly love his sister, but his tragic end will be the natural epilogue of this morbid tale.

Actors : Martin Balsam, Paola Pitagora, Terence Hill, Adalberto Maria Merli,
Directors : Eriprando Visconti,

Luisa Latin, betrayed by her husband, is imprisoned for the murder of her husband's mistress - who is still alive. When Luisa is released from prison, she kills her.