Best movies of 1972

Actors : Mayumi Nagisa, Bunta Sugawara, Noboru Andô, Asao Koike,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

A yakuza, who has an untamed rage and lack of respect for authority, finds himself leading the remnants of the gang he once belonged to in order to secure an area of their own.

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 : Antonio Iranzo, Alberto Dalbés, Claudio Undari, Emma Cohen,
Directors : Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent,

A wagon load of convicts on their way to prison is being escorted through the mountains by a cavalry troop. They are attacked by a bandit gang, and only a sergeant, his beautiful young ...

Actors : Judy Geeson, Simon Oates, John Paul, Ian Bannen,
Directors : Peter Sasdy,

The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.

Actors : Cristian Sofron, Amza Pellea, Gheorghe Dinica, Ion Besoiu,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

In order to avoid reprisals from the Wehrmacht for the murder of a soldier, intellectuals from a Romanian village try to convince Ipu, the village idiot, to take the blame for the murder and save everybody.

Actors : Roberto Maldera, Cinzia De Carolis, Gianni Garko, Agostina Belli,
Directors : Giorgio Ferroni,

The patriarch of a wealthy family fears that he will show up one day in vampire form. Should this happen, he warns his family not to let him back in his house, no matter how much he begs them.

Actors : Jaya Bhaduri, A.K. Hangal, Jeetendra, Pran,
Directors : Gulzar,

In desperate need of a job, unemployed Ravi (Jeetendra) goes to his maternal uncle (A.K. Hangal) and aunt (Leela Mishra) in their village for a few days. His uncle decides that he can be a ...

Actors : Michel Constantin, Claudia Cardinale, Enrique Lucero, Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Directors : José Giovanni,

Episodic portrait of a criminal, from 1934 until after the war. Roberto Borgo is tough, cool, sardonic, loyal, and deadly. He comes to Marseilles to help his friend Xavier Saratov get out ...

Actors : Spike Milligan, Barry Crocker, Peter Cook, Barry Humphries,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

Young Australian, Barry McKenzie, travels to England with his Aunt Edna after his father dies and a request is revealed in his will.

Actors : Nina Divísková, Josef Abrhám, Iva Janzurová, Petr Cepek,
Directors : Juraj Herz,

Klara and Viktoria are sisters. Their father dies, leaving most of his property to Klara. When Klara becomes involved with a man that her sister loves, Viktoria begins to plot her murder.

Actors : Jacques Herlin, Fabio Garriba, Carla Tatò, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Marco Bellocchio,

A populist right-wing tabloid newspaper tries to derail the official police investigation of a brutal murder of a young girl in order to help the fascist and right-wing candidates it supports in the upcoming elections.

Actors : Johnny Whitaker, Jodie Foster, Michael Douglas, Will Geer,
Directors : Bernard McEveety,

Two young children, who, rather than part with an old pet lion who was once a circus performer, go on a perilous mountain trek to stay with a recluse friend.

Actors : Shinjirô Ebara, Isao Natsuyagi, Tetsurô Tanba, Sachiko Hidari,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

One woman's search to find the truth about her husband's death in World War II.

Actors : Marilù Tolo, Salvo Randone, George Hilton, William Berger,
Directors : Tonino Valerii,

A mysterious decapitation leads Inspector Peretti into a case of blackmail, deceit and the unsolved kidnapping of a young girl.

Actors : Sally Geeson, Diana Coupland, Peter Butterworth, Sidney James,
Directors : Gerald Thomas,

1970s English suburbia: middle-aged homeowner Sid Abbot just wants to get on with building his illegal whisky still, but is frustrated by his workshy son, and otherworldly daughter. Then ...

Actors : Jean Sarrus, Gérard Filipelli, Jean-Guy Fechner, Gérard Rinaldi,
Directors : Claude Zidi,

Les Charlots, a French rock group, continue their adventures, in the manner of the Beatles in Hard Day's Night. This is their second adventure. The foursome are on holiday, camping outside ...

Actors : Anthony May, Brian Deacon, Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Michael Apted,

Deserting soldier dresses as a woman to escape detection; liking the female role he goes to a dance with another soldier and is exposed.

Actors : Thanos Grammenos, Vangelis Kazan, Kostas Pavlou, Giorgos Kyritsis,
Directors : Theodoros Angelopoulos,

It is 1936 in Greece, shortly before the Metaxas' dictatorship. A former drug trafficker and police informer, Sofianos, is in prison because of the assassination of a trade unionist during ...

Actors : David Chiang, Mario Milano, Kuan Tai Chen, Li Ching,

Leaving the poverty of his life in Shantung to seek fortune in Shanghai, The Boxer is instead drawn into a world of corruption, gang warfare and evil... Where his only protection is his famed fighting technique.

Actors : Shane Briant, Katya Wyeth, James Bolam, Rita Tushingham,
Directors : Peter Collinson,

A timid, withdrawn woman meets a man she believes is finally the love of her life, unaware that he is a vicious serial killer.