Best Crime movies of 1972

Actors : Lisa Moore, Bhetty Waldron, Pam Grier, Bernie Casey,
Directors : George Armitage,

A lawyer whose brother was murdered winds up getting involved with gangsters and the world of porno movies.

Actors : Aud Schønemann, Sverre Holm, Arve Opsahl, Carsten Byhring,
Directors : Knut Bohwim,

Egon vender denne gangen tilbake fra fengslet med nøkkelen til den store fangsten. En skatt fra tyskertiden som en tysk general har stukket unna på Sørlandet i håp om å nyte sitt liv basert...

Actors : Julie Parrish, Hal Reed, Simmy Bow, 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.

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 : 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 : 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 : Gordon Jackson, Denholm Elliott, Bette Davis, Robert Wagner,
Directors : David Greene,

A CIA agent is used as a pawn in an insane woman's plan to steal a Polaris submarine.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Roy Scheider, Angie Dickinson, Ann-Margret,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

Jean-Louis Trintignant plays a French contract assassin hired by a Los Angeles crime family, ostensibly to perform a hit on some other mafia target. But simultaneously, as he arrives to do ...

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 : Robert Ryan, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Lea Massari, Aldo Ray,
Directors : René Clément,

A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned.

Actors : Franco Fabrizi, Enrico Maria Salerno, Mariangela Melato, Mario Adorf,
Directors : Steno,

This is a story of a secret organization of former police officers, who go beyond the law, to kill notorious criminals without trial. One police inspector, (intense performance: Enrico ...

Actors : Giuliano Gemma, Wolfgang Preiss, Florinda Bolkan, Kirk Douglas,
Directors : Michele Lupo,

A just released from prison professional thief decides to do one last high-risk heist, which could settle him for life or land him behind bars again.

Actors : Silvano Tranquilli, Sylva Koscina, Annabella Incontrera, Farley Granger,
Directors : Roberto Bianchi Montero,

A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves compromising photographs at the crime scene.

Actors : Hardy Krüger, Lilli Palmer, Mark Lester, Britt Ekland,

A wealthy author's second wife begins to suspect that her 12 year old stepson may have murdered his mother, who mysteriously died in a bathtub accident.

Actors : Luciana Paluzzi, Brenda Sykes, Martin Landau, Jim Brown,
Directors : Robert Hartford-Davis,

A successful and popular nightclub owner who believes financial independence is the path to equality and success, must act as a go-between for militant-minded brother and the white gang ...

Actors : Kiel Martin, Mel Stewart, Dallas Edward Hayes, Beverly Ballard,
Directors : Larry Yust,

Two Phildelphia con men try to evade gangsters they have conned and cops who are trying to put them in jail.

Actors : Vonetta McGee, William Smith, Bernie Hamilton, Fred Williamson,
Directors : Bruce D. Clark,

A dock worker becomes a prizefighter, but gets mixed up with a crooked manager. A sympathetic L.A. detective tries to set him straight, but he won't listen. His manager, who is also a drug ...

Actors : Robin Mattson, Scott Brady, Tiffany Bolling, Steve Sandor,
Directors : Arthur Marks,

Sisters Myra and Ellie have finally had enough of their miserable, dead-end lives. When their step-father Charley (The Bonnie from the title being long dead) tried to rape Myra, Ellie ...

Actors : Michel Constantin, Michael Lonsdale, Daniel Ivernel, Alain Delon,
Directors : Georges Lautner,

For a special mission to destroy drug dealers in Nice, hardcore bachelor inspector Campana has to don the role of a married man with a child. He adjusts himself well but will have to fight a lot before being able to achieve final victory.

Actors : Sondra Locke, Robert Shaw, Sally Kellerman, Mary Ure,
Directors : William A. Fraker,

A disturbed young girl starts believing that there is something very sinister at work after her estranged father visits her at her mother and grandmother's house with the woman he plans to marry.