Best Drama movies of 1972

Actors : Betty Pei Ti, Lin Tung, Lily Ho, Hua Yueh,
Directors : Yuen Chor,

The Four Seasons Brothel is run by a ruthless madam, Lady Chun Yi. Countless young girls have been kidnapped or bought and then sold into a life of servitude, prostitution, and torture at ...

Actors : Rosemary Murphy, Richard Thomas, Patty Duke, Sian Barbara Allen,
Directors : Lamont Johnson,

Francesa Kinsolving, a very pregnant widow whose husband was rescently killed in action in Vietnam, travels to visit her late husband's mother in a snowy Minnesota town only to get snowed ...

Actors : Rolf Hoppe, Vsevolod Sanaev, Ivan Andonov, Cox Habbema,
Directors : Herrmann Zschoche,

Eight space cargo-ships disappear without a trace within three days. And the orbit station "Margot" has suddenly fallen silent. The space council is faced with a mystery and the scientist ...

Actors : Nigel Davenport, Geoffrey Keen, Susan Hampshire, Edward Judd,
Directors : Jack Couffer,

When Elsa's three mischievous cubs begin wreaking havoc on the nearby villages, Joy and her husband are forced to move them hundreds of miles to a game preserve.

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 : David Chiang, Chung Wang, Kuan Tai Chen, Lung Ti,

Tells the story of the 108 Heroes who stood up against a corrupt government. Each hero has his own unique fighting skill, but they are all willing to die to uphold justice.

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 : Nico, Christian Päffgen, Philippe Garrel, Daniel Pommereulle,
Directors : Philippe Garrel,

A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images.

Actors : Alain Cuny, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Mimsy Farmer, Ugo Tognazzi,
Directors : Aleksandar Petrovic,

The Master and Margaret (1972) is based on the eponymous book by Mikhail A. Bulgakov. The film is set in the Soviet Union under Stalin, it has several story-lines, that are intertwined. ...

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 : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Robert Ryan, 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 : Sashka Bratanova, Nevena Kokanova, Kiril Gospodinov, Filip Trifonov,
Directors : Lyudmil Kirkov,

The action centers on Ran and his schoolmates who are in the last year of school. They are only a few days away from the day when they will have to make a decisive choice: what are they ...

Actors : Vito Cipolla, Daniele Dublino, Giulio Brogi, Renato Cestiè,

Sentenced to life imprisonment for illegal activities, Italian International member Giulio Manieri holds on to his political ideals while struggling against madness in the loneliness of his...

Actors : Jon Finch, Sarah Miles, John Mills, Richard Chamberlain,
Directors : Robert Bolt,

A noblewoman doomed to a loveless marriage falls into a scandalous affair with the dashing Lord Byron.

Actors : Lavrentis Dianellos, Ketty Panou, Labros Konstadaras, Yorgos Moutsios,
Directors : Kostas Karagiannis,

Loukas has been living in Africa for many many years, working hard to send money to his family who has stayed in Greece. When the time has come to return home, he decides to surprise his ...

Actors : Frederic Forrest, Richard Widmark, Vito Scotti, Luana Anders,
Directors : Stuart Millar,

A young, rebellious Ute Indian joins the rodeo circuit and falls in with a drunken mentor who teaches him the ways of the ring and the world.

Actors : Topol, Mia Farrow, Margaret Rawlings, Michael Jayston,
Directors : Carol Reed,

When a straight-laced British accountant marries a free-spirited American, he starts trying to change her. His wife doesn't keep regular hours, so he suspects an affair and hires a ...

Actors : Zeljko Mataija, Slavko Stimac, Ivan Stimac, Boro Ivanisevic,
Directors : Obrad Gluscevic,

A boy finds a large wolf-like dog in the mountain and they befriend. The local peasants think that it may be a real wolf responsible for the sheep pestilence. They decide to kill the animal...

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 : Claudia Cardinale, Enzo Jannacci, Michel Piccoli, Ugo Tognazzi,
Directors : Marco Ferreri,

A young man from north Italy named Amedeo decides to come to Rome.He has a crazy idea in his head to meet the pope.