Best Drama movies of 1972

Actors : Harriet Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Ingrid Thulin, Kari Sylwan,
Directors : Ingmar Bergman,

When a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface.

Actors : Nora Miao, Bruce Lee, James Tien, Maria Yi,
Directors : Wei Lo,

A young man seeks vengence for the death of his teacher.

Actors : Ken Howard, William Daniels, Howard Da Silva, Donald Madden,
Directors : Peter H. Hunt,

A musical retelling of the American Revolution's political struggle in the Continental Congress to declare independence.

Actors : Ron O'Neal, Sheila Frazier, Carl Lee, Julius Harris,
Directors : Gordon Parks Jr.,

The daily routine of cocaine dealer Priest who wants to score one more super deal and retire.

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Bruce Dern, Julia Anne Robinson, Jack Nicholson,
Directors : Bob Rafelson,

'It's Monopoly out there'. Jason Staebler, The King of Marvin Gardens, has gone directly to jail, lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is also a dreamer ...

Actors : Steve McQueen, Ben Johnson, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino,
Directors : Sam Peckinpah,

Ace Bonner returns to Arizona several years after he abandoned his family, Junior Bonner is a wild young man. Against the typical rodeo championship, family drama erupts.

Actors : Kenneth Cranham, Graham Faulkner, Leigh Lawson, Judi Bowker,
Directors : Franco Zeffirelli,

This is a dramatization of events in the life of St. Francis of Assisi from before his conversion experience through his audience with the pope, including his friendship with St. Clare.

Actors : Raymond Laine, Jan White, Ann Muffly, Joedda McClain,
Directors : George A. Romero,

A bored, unhappy suburban housewife gets mixed up in witchcraft and murder.

Actors : Frank Adu, Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, Anthony Franciosa,
Directors : Barry Shear,

Two New York City cops go after amateur crooks who are trying to rip off the Mafia and start a gang war.

Actors : Kevin Hooks, Paul Winfield, Cicely Tyson, Carmen Mathews,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.

Actors : Alastair Sim, Peter O'Toole, Hugh Owens, Arthur Lowe,
Directors : Peter Medak,

A member of the House of Lords dies, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son thinks he is Jesus Christ. The other, somewhat more respectable, members of their family plot to steal the estate from him. Murder and mayhem ensue.

Actors : Ava Gardner, Paul Newman, Roy Jenson, Gary Combs,
Directors : John Huston,

A no account outlaw establishes his own particular brand of law and order and builds a town on the edges of civilization in this farcical western. With the aid of an old law text and ...

Actors : Peter Gonzales Falcon, Pia De Doses, Britta Barnes, Fiona Florence,
Directors : Federico Fellini,

A fluid, unconnected and sometimes chaotic procession of scenes detailing the various people and events of life in Italy's capital.

Actors : Diana Ross, Richard Pryor, Billy Dee Williams, James T. Callahan,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

The story of the troubled life and career of the legendary Jazz singer, Billie Holiday.

Actors : Paul Michael Glaser, Edward Albert, Eileen Heckart, Goldie Hawn,
Directors : Milton Katselas,

A blind man moves into his own apartment against the wishes of his overprotective mother, and befriends the freethinking young woman next door.

Actors : Harry Andrews, Peter O'Toole, James Coco, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

The funny story of mad but kind and chivalrous elderly nobleman Don Quixote who, aided by his squire Sancho Panza, fights windmills that are seen as dragons to save prostitute Dulcinea who is seen as a noblewoman.

Actors : Marcel Bozzuffi, Hugh Millais, Rene Auberjonois, Susannah York,
Directors : Robert Altman,

Schizophrenic housewife, engulfed by terrorizing apparitions, kills off each, unknowing if these demons are merely figments of her hallucinatory imagination or part of reality.

Actors : Angel Tompkins, Sissy Spacek, Gene Hackman, Lee Marvin,
Directors : Michael Ritchie,

A vicious Kansas City slaughterhouse owner and his hick family are having a bloody "beef" with the Chicago crime syndicate over profits from their joint illegal operations. Top enforcer Nick Devlin is sent to straighten things out.

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee,

A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.

Actors : Katrin Schaake, Eva Mattes, Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

An arrogant fashion designer falls in love with an icy beauty who wants to be a model.