Best Crime movies of 1972

Actors : Ralph Waite, William Smithers, Robert Hooks, Paul Winfield,
Directors : Ivan Dixon,

It seems that masked men are knocking over the floating crap games of Chalky and Pete. Chalky and Pete hire the cool, loose, elegant Mr. T to fix things. Then, the masked manipulators set ...

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 : 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 : George Peppard, Christine Belford, Michael Sarrazin, Cliff Potts,
Directors : Lamont Johnson,

A government investigator tries to find out the truth behind the break-in at a top secret research facility.

Actors : Jacques Balutin, Georges Atlas, Jacques Careuil, Nadine Basile,
Directors : Raymond Leblanc,

Tintin and his friends visit Professor Calculus at his country laboratory, only to find him and a pair of local children threatened by criminals after the inventor's work.

Actors : Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, George C. Scott, Jane Alexander,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

An idealistic rookie cop joins the LAPD to make ends meet while finishing law school, and is indoctrinated by a seasoned veteran. As time goes on, he loses his ambitions and family as police work becomes his entire life.

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 : Bill Cosby, Ta-Ronce Allen, Rosalind Cash, Robert Culp,
Directors : Robert Culp,

Bill Cosby and Robert Culp ("I Spy") are united again as private eyes in this Walter Hill-scripted "film noir." Searching for a missing girl, they find themselves involved with vicious criminals and precipitating a string of deaths.

Actors : Woody Strode, Henry Silva, Adolfo Celi, Mario Adorf,
Directors : Fernando Di Leo,

When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but ...

Actors : Jack Weston, Raquel Welch, Burt Reynolds, Tom Skerritt,
Directors : Richard A. Colla,

Police in Boston search for a mad bomber trying to extort money from the city.

Actors : Britt Ekland, Hywel Bennett, Hayley Mills, Per Oscarsson,
Directors : Sidney Gilliat,

Based on an Agatha Christie suspense novel; a newly-wed couple are threatened after building their dream home on cursed land.

Actors : Poul Bundgaard, Kirsten Walther, Ove Sprogøe, Morten Grunwald,
Directors : Erik Balling,

After his usual stay behind bars, Egon has another cunning plan involving millions. They rob over 4 million from a money transport. The gang keeps a low profile and hide the money. But it's...

Actors : Richard Burton, Virna Lisi, Raquel Welch, Nathalie Delon,
Directors : Edward Dmytryk,

A World War I pilot whom everybody envies as a "ladykiller" actually is one - after he beds the women he's after, he murders them.

Actors : James Woods, Steve Railsback, Patrick McVey, Patricia Joyce,
Directors : Elia Kazan,

Bill, Martha and their little child Hal are spending a quiet winter Sunday in their cosy house when they get an unexpected visit from Mike Nickerson and Tony Rodriguez. Mike and Tony are ...

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 : Ian McShane, Jill St. John, Edward Woodward, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Douglas Hickox,

Imprisoned Harry Lomart is a vicious, brute of a man and yet he is prepared to do his long jail term as he is confident that on his release his beautiful wife Pat will be waiting for him, but a visit from Pat brings him his worst nightmare.

Actors : Pat Hingle, Jennifer O'Neill, James Coburn, Skye Aubrey,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

At a Boston hospital, Dr. Carey becomes an amateur sleuth to help clear a colleague who's accused of botching an illegal abortion that kills a 15 year old girl.

Actors : Emma Cohen, Eusebio Poncela, Charly Bravo, Vicente Parra,
Directors : Eloy de la Iglesia,

A young man, Marco, working as a butcher, accidentally kills a taxi driver. His girlfriend Paula wants to go to the police so he has to kill her too. He then has to kill his brother, his ...

Actors : Sergiu Nicolaescu, Ilarion Ciobanu, Gheorghe Dinica, Alexandru Dobrescu,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

Set in post war Romania, a communist who was tortured by the fascists during the war is now a police detective and sets about clearing his city of gangsters and black marketeers.

Actors : Julie Parrish, Simmy Bow, Hal Reed, Byron Mabe,
Directors : Byron Chudnow,

After a failed bank robbery, an ex-con, an ex-waitress and a few of their friends train a pack of doberman dogs to rob a bank for them.