Best Comedy movies of 1972

Actors : Ninetto Davoli, Hugh Griffith, Franco Citti, Laura Betti,
Directors : Pier Paolo Pasolini,

Pasolini's artistic, sometimes violent, always vividly cinematic retelling of some of Chaucer's most erotic tales.

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 : Marcello Mastroianni, Romolo Valli, Hugh Griffith, Sydne Rome,
Directors : Roman Polanski,

A young American woman (Sydne Rome) traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where nothing seems right. Her visit becomes an absurd, decadent, oversexed ...

Actors : Jaya Bhaduri, Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Rajesh Khanna, Usha Kiran,
Directors : Hrishikesh Mukherjee,

Squabbling Sharma family has a dubious reputation of not having any cook last there for more than a few months. Word spreads out about this family to such an extent that no person wants to ...

Actors : Louis Gossett Jr., Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Alec McCowen,
Directors : George Cukor,

At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure as she ...

Actors : Strother Martin, Paul Newman, Lee Marvin, Wayne Rogers,
Directors : Stuart Rosenberg,

Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy gets mixed up in some shady dealings with a crooked rancher.

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

A group of holidaymakers head for the Spanish resort of Elsbels for a 4-day visit. When they get there, they find the Hotel still hasn't been finished being built, and the weather is awful....

Actors : Jim Backus, Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Cesar Romero,
Directors : Robert Butler,

A chemistry student invents a spray that makes its wearer invisible. A crook finds out about it, and plans to steal it for himself.

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 ...

Actors : Lino Ventura, Jacques Brel, Johnny Hallyday, Charles Denner,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

When they realize the times are changing, five crooks decide to switch from bank robberies to personality abductions. Among their hostages are singer Johnny Hallyday and an ambassador in ...

Actors : Gregory Walcott, Terence Hill, Yanti Somer, Dominic Barto,
Directors : Enzo Barboni,

In the Wild West, a dead Englishman's greenhorn son joins his father's old gang and becomes a real frontier-man.

Actors : Ariane Heller, Barbra Streisand, Terry Smith, David Selby,
Directors : Irvin Kershner,

A bored housewife takes refuge in a fantasy world.

Actors : Roosevelt Grier, Don Marshall, Roger Perry, Ray Milland,
Directors : Lee Frost,

Doctors are forced to transplant the head of a dying, racist surgeon onto the body of a black death row inmate.

Actors : Metin Akpinar, Halit Akçatepe, Filiz Akin, Tarik Akan,
Directors : Ertem Egilmez,

Traditional love story of a ladies' man falling for an ingenue from the village and discovering what true love is.

Actors : Claude Brasseur, Bernadette Lafont, Guy Marchand, Charles Denner,
Directors : François Truffaut,

Stanislas Previne is a young sociologist, preparing a thesis on criminal women. He meets in prison Camille Bliss to interview her. Camille is accused to have murdered her lover Arthur and ...

Actors : Hedda Lubin, Frank Kress, Amy Farrell, Henny Youngman,
Directors : Herschell Gordon Lewis,

A young reporter enlists the help of a top notch private eye to solve the murder of a female stripper at a Chicago nightclub.

Actors : Joyce Van Patten, Yaphet Kotto, Andrew Duggan, Jeannie Berlin,
Directors : Larry Cohen,

A thief breaks into the home of a wealthy, happily married Beverly Hills couple. He soon finds out, though, that the couple is neither as wealthy as he thought they were and are not as ...

Actors : Michael Sullivan, Luana Anders, George Morgan, Albert Henderson,
Directors : Robert Downey Sr.,

A parable based on the life of Christ. This ain't your father's Bible story, full of references about the destruction of the world through massive constipation and a New Mexican setting.

Actors : Joseph Cotten, Silvana Mangano, Alberto Sordi, Bette Davis,
Directors : Luigi Comencini,

Every year, a Countess invites a poor Italian family to play in a card game.

Actors : Pat Ast, Andrea Feldman, Sylvia Miles, Joe Dallesandro,
Directors : Paul Morrissey,

"Heat" is a parody of "Sunset Boulevard." Joey Davis, an unemployed ex-child actor, uses sex to get his landlady, Lydia, to reduce his rent, and then tries to exert his influence on Sally ...