Best Drama movies of 1972

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

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

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 : Jane Asher, Charlotte Rampling, Donald Pleasence, Keith Michell,
Directors : Waris Hussein,

On his deathbed, King Henry VIII looks back over his eventful life and his six marriages.

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

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

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Alan Bates, Peter Bowles, Sheila Gish, Janet Suzman,
Directors : Peter Medak,

A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain dead. They take turns doing the daughter's voice and stare into the eyes of death ...

Actors : Luce Garcia-Ville, Jeanne Moreau, Lucia Bosé, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Marguerite Duras,

This art film has no conventional dialog between the main characters. This tells a strangely compelling story of two women in a suburban home who are listening to radio news broadcasts about a missing child in their area.

Actors : Tammy Grimes, Adam Roarke, Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld,
Directors : Frank Perry,

A Hollywood actress undergoes a psychic breakdown and recalls the traumatic events which led to her stay at a sanitarium.

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Claudine Berg, Corinne Marchand, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Marco Ferreri,

Liza slowly replaces Melampo, Giorgio's dog. While she accepts it, Giorgio forces her to wear collars and leashes.

Actors : Ediz Hun, Sezer Inanoglu, Nevzat Okçugil, Hülya Koçyigit,
Directors : Memduh Ün,

Cyprus War

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 : 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 : John Heyl, William Roerick, Parker Stevenson, Peter Brush,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

Gene and Finny are two boys who are best friends living in 1943, at the height of World War II. The idea that the boys will most likely be drafted when they turn eighteen is surrounding ...

Actors : Telly Savalas, Anne Francis, Clint Walker, Chuck Connors,
Directors : Eugenio Martín,

A double-cross in an arms deal prompts Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa to raid a US Army weapons depot in Columbus, New Mexico.