Best Drama 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 : Daniel Ceccaldi, Zouzou, Bernard Verley, Françoise Verley,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

Though he has an adoring wife, a bourgeois man is still tempted to pursue other women.

Actors : Jane Fonda, Elizabeth Chauvin, Vittorio Caprioli, Yves Montand,

Godard examines the structure of movies, relationships and revolutions through the life of a couple in Paris.

Actors : Moses Gunn, Richard Roundtree, Drew Bundini Brown, Joseph Mascolo,
Directors : Gordon Parks,

Shaft is back to find the murderer of an old friend on the cold hard city streets with a little help from his new friends.

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 : Kayo Matsuo, Minoru Ôki, Akiji Kobayashi, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Trailed by a clan of female ninja, Ogami is paid to assassinate a clan traitor accompanied by three killers known as the Gods of Death.

Actors : Uta Hagen, Chris Udvarnoky, Diana Muldaur, Martin Udvarnoky,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

Down in the farm country of the US twins are born. One of them turns out to be good, while the other becomes rather evil.

Actors : Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Pierre Lindstedt, Eddie Axberg,
Directors : Jan Troell,

A Swedish immigrant family struggle to establish a new life for themselves in the forest of Minnesota in the mid 19th Century.

Actors : Robert Shaw, Ronald Hines, Simon Ward, Peter Cellier,
Directors : Richard Attenborough,

This historical drama is an account of the early life of the future British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Simon Ward), including his childhood, his time as a war correspondent in South ...

Actors : O.E. Hasse, Renato Salvatori, Jacques Weber, Yves Montand,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

In Uruguay in the early 1970s, an official of the US Agency for International Development (a group used as a front for training foreign police in counterinsurgency methods) is kidnapped by ...

Actors : Klaus Löwitsch, Hans Hirschmüller, Hanna Schygulla, Irm Hermann,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

Hans Epp is a self-destructive man who lives a dissatisfied life. He tries to find meaning as a fruit vendor, but a heart attack impedes his ability to work, which turns his dissatisfaction into despair.

Actors : Isao Yamagata, Yûko Hama, Gô Katô, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by the yakuza to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain.

Actors : Jeff Bridges, Barry Brown, David Huddleston, Jim Davis,
Directors : Robert Benton,

A god-fearing Ohio boy dodging the Civil War draft arrives in Jefferson City where he joins up with a hardscrabble group of like runaways heading west.

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 : Elena Drapeko, Ekaterina Markova, Andrey Martynov, Irina Dolganova,
Directors : Stanislav Rostotskiy,

During WWII in a small village outpost, a commander has his troop replaced by an all female unit. As they finally begin to appreciate one another, German paratroopers are spotted nearby and the realities of war emerge.

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 : Isabel Jewell, Jeff Briggs, Edie Sedgwick, Wesley Hayes,

CIAO! MANHATTAN parallels Andy Warhol Factory star Edie Sedgwick's glory days in the late 1960s through her inevitable downfall and the tragic addiction that would take her life only weeks after filming wrapped in 1971.

Actors : Rie Yokoyama, Meiko Kaji, Yôko Mihara, Yayoi Watanabe,
Directors : Shun'ya Itô,

After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.

Actors : Chuck Pierce Jr., John P. Hixon, Vern Stierman, Willie E. Smith,
Directors : Charles B. Pierce,

A documentary-style drama about the "Fouke Monster", a Bigfoot-type creature that has been sighted in and around Fouke, Arkansas since the 1950s.

Actors : Candice Roman, Anitra Ford, Teda Bracci, Pam Grier,
Directors : Jack Hill,

Grier and Haig are thieving mercenaries who engineer a prison break from the outside.