Best Drama movies of 1972

Actors : Emma Cohen, Charly Bravo, Eusebio Poncela, 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 : Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith, Stephen Archibald, Karl Fieseler,
Directors : Bill Douglas,

The second part (My ain folk) of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the ...

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 : Michael Gothard, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Jérôme Beauvarlet, Monique Giraudy,
Directors : Barbet Schroeder,

Filmmaker Barbet Schroeder explores themes of sexual freedom, mind alteration, and pursuit of paradise against the backdrop of an early 70's encounter with the Mapuga rain forest tribe in upland New Guinea.

Actors : Norman Alden, Kevin McCarthy, Raquel Welch, Helena Kallianiotes,
Directors : Jerrold Freedman,

Roller-derby skater K. C. Carr tries to balance her desire for a happy personal life and her dreams of stardom.

Actors : Harry Dean Stanton, Gene Hackman, Kris Kristofferson, Karen Black,
Directors : Bill Norton,

A down on his luck former drug dealer is forced by a corrupt LAPD policeman to sell 100 keys of confiscated marijuana in one weekend.

Actors : Perry King, Shirley MacLaine, Lisa Kohane, David Elliott,
Directors : Waris Hussein,

A woman begins to suspect that her brother is possessed by a voodoo spirit.

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 : Rentarô Mikuni, Shintarô Katsu, Hisaya Morishige, Etsushi Takahashi,
Directors : Kazuo Mori,

On the road, Zatoichi meets a dying pregnant woman and delivers the child moments before she passes. Honor bound, he sets out to find the next-of-kin who he discovers have their own problems.

Actors : Yeh Tien, Hsin Tang, Yu Wang, Fei Lung,
Directors : Yu Wang,

After his schoolmate and master is killed and he loses an arm, student Tien Lung has to learn the art of one-arm boxing.

Actors : Robert Mitchum, John Colicos, Frank Langella, Rita Hayworth,
Directors : Ralph Nelson,

Set in the 1920s, several foreigners held by a South American military group are offered possible freedom if they accept to topple a local crazed military leader.

Actors : James Mason, Robert Preston, Ron Weyand, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

At an exclusive boys' school, a new gym teacher is drawn into a feud between two older instructors, and he discovers that everything at the school is not quite as staid, tranquil and harmless as it seems.

Actors : Petar Peychev, Ivaylo Dzhambazov, Krasimir Marianov, Emil Petrov,
Directors : Dimitar Petrov,

A film about the funny adventures of a group of children, spending their holidays at the seaside.

Actors : Eric Porter, Hildegard Neil, John Castle, Charlton Heston,
Directors : Charlton Heston,

After the murder of her lover Caesar, Egypt's queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony. This develops into real love and slowly leads to a war with the other possible successor: Octavius.

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 : Jaya Bhaduri, A.K. Hangal, Jeetendra, Pran,
Directors : Gulzar,

In desperate need of a job, unemployed Ravi (Jeetendra) goes to his maternal uncle (A.K. Hangal) and aunt (Leela Mishra) in their village for a few days. His uncle decides that he can be a ...

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 : Vangelis Kazan, Thanos Grammenos, Kostas Pavlou, Giorgos Kyritsis,
Directors : Theodoros Angelopoulos,

It is 1936 in Greece, shortly before the Metaxas' dictatorship. A former drug trafficker and police informer, Sofianos, is in prison because of the assassination of a trade unionist during ...

Actors : Shubha, Arathi, Aswath, Vishnuvardhan,
Directors : S.R. Puttana Kanagal,

This is the tale of an angry young man with flavours of Teacher-student relationship, the stubbornness of Ramachari(protagonist) and his attempts at having a romantic relationship.

Actors : Anthony May, Brian Deacon, Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Michael Apted,

Deserting soldier dresses as a woman to escape detection; liking the female role he goes to a dance with another soldier and is exposed.