Best movies of 1972

Actors : Rosemary Murphy, Joseph Campanella, Arthur O'Connell, Lee Montgomery,
Directors : Phil Karlson,

A lonely boy befriends Ben, the leader of a violent pack of killer rats.

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 : Luke Askew, Robert Duvall, R.G. Armstrong, Cliff Robertson,
Directors : Philip Kaufman,

The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces for a bungled robbery of the bank in Northfield, MN.

Actors : Adrienne Corri, Thorley Walters, John Moulder-Brown, Anthony Higgins,
Directors : Robert Young,

A village in Nineteenth Century Europe is at first relieved when a circus breaks through the quarantine to take the local's minds off the plague. But their troubles are only beginning as ...

Actors : Yûko Hama, Isao Yamagata, 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 : 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 : 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 : Cristina Galbó, Fabio Testi, Karin Baal, Joachim Fuchsberger,
Directors : Massimo Dallamano,

In London, the Italian gym teacher Enrico 'Henry' Rosseni is having a love affair with his eighteen year-old student Elizabeth Seccles, who is the daughter of the owner of the Catholic ...

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 : Michi Azuma, Yoichi Hayashi, Akihiro Tomikawa, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Buichi Saitô,

Ogami is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin. Gunbei Yagyu, an enemy samurai, happens upon Ogami's son, and sees his chance for revenge.

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Hugh Griffith, Romolo Valli, 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 : Yuriko Hishimi, Minoru Takashima, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Tomoko Umeda,
Directors : Jun Fukuda,

A man begins to suspect that something is wrong about his employers; meanwhile, Godzilla and Anguirus are alerted to something strange going on.

Actors : Barry Brown, Jeff Bridges, 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, Rajesh Khanna, Harindranath Chattopadhyay, 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 : 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 : 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 : Robert Powell, Alex Scott, Robert Stephens, Jane Lapotaire,
Directors : Peter Newbrook,

English country squire Sir Hugo Cunningham searches for immortality by literally 'bottling up' the Spirit of the Dead, or Asphyx.

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 : 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.