Favorite Films of 1972
by bertramsharp | created - 26 Jun 2011 | updated - 16 Aug 2022 | PublicUpdated: 08/16/2022
I have watched 58 films with a 1972 release date. I have listed them here ranked from best to worst (in my opinion).
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1. The Godfather (1972)
R | 175 min | Crime, Drama
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton
Votes: 2,008,810 | Gross: $134.97M
2. Deliverance (1972)
R | 109 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
Director: John Boorman | Stars: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox
Votes: 119,092 | Gross: $7.06M
3. Images (1972)
R | 104 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Whilst writing a children's book, a woman interrupted by images unsure if they may, or may not be real
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Susannah York, Rene Auberjonois, Marcel Bozzuffi, Hugh Millais
Votes: 7,730
4. Frenzy (1972)
R | 116 min | Thriller
A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Anna Massey
Votes: 49,347 | Gross: $12.60M
5. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
PG | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A group of passengers must embark on a harrowing struggle for survival after a rogue wave capsizes their cruise ship at sea.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Shelley Winters, Red Buttons
Votes: 49,166 | Gross: $84.56M
6. Cabaret (1972)
PG | 124 min | Drama, Music, Musical
A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.
Director: Bob Fosse | Stars: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Joel Grey
Votes: 59,308 | Gross: $42.77M
7. The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
PG | 120 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In Vinegaroon, Texas, former outlaw Roy Bean appoints himself the judge for the region and dispenses his brand of justice as he sees fit.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Paul Newman, Ava Gardner, Roy Jenson, Gary Combs
Votes: 9,325 | Gross: $16.53M
8. Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)
Not Rated | 105 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
When a southern Italian town is rocked by a string of child murders, the police and two urban outcasts search for the culprit amid scapegoating within the superstitious community.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Florinda Bolkan, Barbara Bouchet, Tomas Milian, Irene Papas
Votes: 10,679
9. What Have You Done to Solange? (1972)
R | 107 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A teacher who is having an affair with one of his students is reluctant to present an alibi when his lover witnesses the first in a series of murders connected to their school.
Director: Massimo Dallamano | Stars: Fabio Testi, Karin Baal, Cristina Galbó, Joachim Fuchsberger
Votes: 5,918
10. Private Parts (1972)
R | 87 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Young Cheryl moves into her estranged aunt Martha's rundown King Edward Hotel. One of its offbeat residents, disturbed photographer George, takes special interest in her. Cheryl begins suspecting that a resident was murdered.
Director: Paul Bartel | Stars: Ayn Ruymen, Lucille Benson, John Ventantonio, Laurie Main
Votes: 1,869
11. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1972)
G | 13 min | Animation, Short
John Carradine narrates the Washington Irving story of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman.
Director: Sam Weiss | Star: John Carradine
Votes: 155
12. The Last House on the Left (1972)
R | 84 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
Two teenage girls heading to a rock concert for one's birthday try to score marijuana in the city, where they are kidnapped and brutalized by a gang of psychopathic convicts.
Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Sandra Peabody, Lucy Grantham, David Hess, Fred J. Lincoln
Votes: 40,238 | Gross: $3.10M
13. Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
GP | 108 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by the Crow tribe and proves to be a match for their warriors in single combat on the early frontier.
Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Robert Redford, Will Geer, Delle Bolton, Josh Albee
Votes: 34,951 | Gross: $47.74M
14. The Blood Spattered Bride (1972)
R | 82 min | Horror
Newlywed Susan is haunted by visions of Mircalla Karnstein, a centuries-old bride who murdered her husband on their wedding night.
Director: Vicente Aranda | Stars: Simón Andreu, Maribel Martín, Alexandra Bastedo, Dean Selmier
Votes: 2,365
15. Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A series of murders are committed near the estate of a degenerate author and his mistreated wife.
Director: Sergio Martino | Stars: Edwige Fenech, Anita Strindberg, Luigi Pistilli, Ivan Rassimov
Votes: 4,680
16. Snoopy Come Home (1972)
G | 80 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
When Snoopy receives a letter from a girl named Lila, who's in a hospital, he goes on a journey with Woodstock to see her.
Director: Bill Melendez | Stars: Chad Webber, Robin Kohn, Stephen Shea, David Carey
Votes: 5,177 | Gross: $0.19M
17. Tragic Ceremony (1972)
82 min | Crime, Horror
Four young people witness a black mass at a remote English estate, and find themselves terrorized while they attempt to make sense of what they witnessed.
Director: Riccardo Freda | Stars: Camille Keaton, Tony Isbert, Máximo Valverde, Luigi Pistilli
Votes: 639
18. Silent Running (1972)
G | 89 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In a future where all flora is extinct on Earth, an astronaut is given orders to destroy the last of Earth's botany, kept in a greenhouse aboard a spacecraft.
Director: Douglas Trumbull | Stars: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint
Votes: 31,424 | Gross: $0.69M
19. The Ruling Class (1972)
PG | 154 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A member of the House of Lords dies, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son thinks he is Jesus Christ. Their other, somewhat more respectable family members plot to steal the estate from him; murder and mayhem ensue.
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe, Hugh Owens
Votes: 6,796
20. Death Line (1972)
Unrated | 87 min | Horror, Mystery
When a government official disappears in the London tunnels, after several reports of missing people in the same location, Scotland Yard start to take the matter seriously, along with a couple who stumble into a victim by accident.
Director: Gary Sherman | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Norman Rossington, David Ladd, Sharon Gurney
Votes: 5,418
21. My Dear Killer (1972)
100 min | Mystery, Thriller
A mysterious decapitation leads Inspector Peretti into a case of blackmail, deceit, and the unsolved kidnapping of a young girl.
Director: Tonino Valerii | Stars: George Hilton, Salvo Randone, William Berger, Manuel Zarzo
Votes: 1,655
22. Who Saw Her Die? (1972)
Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Between a four-year gap in the murder of a young girl, the daughter of a well-known sculptor is discovered dead, and her parents conduct an investigation, only to discover they are much out of their depth.
Director: Aldo Lado | Stars: George Lazenby, Anita Strindberg, Adolfo Celi, Dominique Boschero
Votes: 2,914
23. They're Coming to Get You! (1972)
R | 87 min | Horror, Thriller
A woman recovering from a car accident in which she lost her unborn child finds herself pursued by a coven of devil worshipers.
Director: Sergio Martino | Stars: George Hilton, Edwige Fenech, Ivan Rassimov, Julián Ugarte
Votes: 4,594
24. Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972)
PG | 101 min | Horror
Medieval knights executed for their black magic rituals come back as zombies to torment a group of vacationing college kids.
Director: Amando de Ossorio | Stars: Lone Fleming, César Burner, María Elena Arpón, José Thelman
Votes: 6,401
25. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
PG | 88 min | Action, Sci-Fi
In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, Caesar, the son of the late simians Cornelius and Zira, surfaces after almost twenty years of hiding out from the authorities, and prepares for a slave revolt against humanity.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Roddy McDowall, Don Murray, Ricardo Montalban, Natalie Trundy
Votes: 35,788 | Gross: $9.81M
26. The Flesh and Blood Show (1972)
R | 96 min | Horror
Actors rehearsing a show at a mysterious seaside theater are being killed off by an unknown maniac.
Director: Pete Walker | Stars: Ray Brooks, Jenny Hanley, Luan Peters, Robin Askwith
Votes: 1,137
27. Horror Express (1972)
R | 88 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
While on the Trans-Siberian Express, an anthropologist and his rival must contain the threat posed by the former's cargo: a prehistoric ape which is the host for a parasitic life-form.
Director: Eugenio Martín | Stars: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Alberto de Mendoza, Telly Savalas
Votes: 12,725
28. Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Billy Pilgrim has mysteriously become unstuck in time. He goes on an uncontrollable trip back and forth from his birth in New York to life on a distant planet and back again to the horrors of the 1945 fire-bombing of Dresden.
Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans
Votes: 13,893 | Gross: $0.57M
29. Gargoyles (1972 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 74 min | Horror
An anthropologist/paleontologist and his daughter, while travelling through the southwestern U.S., stumble upon a colony of living, breathing gargoyles.
Director: Bill Norton | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Jennifer Salt, Grayson Hall, Bernie Casey
Votes: 3,761
30. Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)
PG | 89 min | Comedy, Horror
The vengeful doctor rises again, seeking the Scrolls of Life in an attempt to resurrect his deceased wife.
Director: Robert Fuest | Stars: Vincent Price, Robert Quarry, Valli Kemp, Peter Cushing
Votes: 7,102
31. The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972)
G | 87 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A documentary-style drama about the "Fouke Monster", a Bigfoot-type creature that has been sighted in and around Fouke, Arkansas since the 1950s.
Director: Charles B. Pierce | Stars: Willie E. Smith, John P. Hixon, Vern Stierman, Chuck Pierce Jr.
Votes: 3,633 | Gross: $0.34M
32. Dear Dead Delilah (1972)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
A sickly matriarch of a dysfunctional family living in an old Southern mansion teases her siblings about finding a long lost treasure hidden in the premises, little did she know that there is someone ready to kill to get their hands on it.
Director: John Farris | Stars: Agnes Moorehead, Will Geer, Michael Ansara, Dennis Patrick
Votes: 499
33. Blacula (1972)
PG | 93 min | Fantasy, Horror, Romance
An 18th-century African prince, turned into a vampire by Dracula, finds himself in modern-day Los Angeles.
Director: William Crain | Stars: William Marshall, Vonetta McGee, Denise Nicholas, Thalmus Rasulala
Votes: 7,849 | Gross: $3.00M
34. Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972)
PG | 87 min | Comedy, Horror
Six friends in a theatrical troupe dig up a corpse on an abandoned island to use in a mock Satanic rite. It backfires with deadly consequences.
Director: Bob Clark | Stars: Alan Ormsby, Valerie Mamches, Jeff Gillen, Anya Ormsby
Votes: 5,007
35. Night of the Dark Full Moon (1972)
R | 81 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A man inherits a mansion which once was a mental home. He visits the place and begins to investigate some crimes that happened in old times, scaring the people living in the region.
Director: Theodore Gershuny | Stars: Patrick O'Neal, James Patterson, Mary Woronov, Astrid Heeren
Votes: 4,882
36. When Michael Calls (1972 TV Movie)
73 min | Horror, Thriller
A woman begins to receive ominous phone calls from her nephew, who died 15 years earlier. With each phone call, a family member dies. Will she be the next in line?
Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Ben Gazzara, Elizabeth Ashley, Michael Douglas, Al Waxman
Votes: 1,000
37. Home for the Holidays (1972 TV Movie)
73 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
An ailing man summons his four daughters home for Christmas and asks them to kill his new wife, who he suspects is poisoning him.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Sally Field, Jill Haworth, Julie Harris, Eleanor Parker
Votes: 1,335
38. Beware My Brethren (1972)
R | 92 min | Horror
A religious sect called the Brethren has taken control of widow Birdy, sending her unstable son, Kenny, into a spiraling descent into madness. No woman is safe when Kenny's religious mania overpowers him and leads to murder and chaos.
Director: Robert Hartford-Davis | Stars: Ann Todd, Patrick Magee, Tony Beckley, Madeleine Hinde
Votes: 653
39. The Case of the Bloody Iris (1972)
Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
Having recently escaped the clutches of a hippie sex cult, a beautiful model is pursued by a serial killer whose previous victims include former occupants of her new apartment.
Director: Giuliano Carnimeo | Stars: Edwige Fenech, George Hilton, Paola Quattrini, Giampiero Albertini
Votes: 3,296
40. Pink Flamingos (1972)
NC-17 | 93 min | Comedy, Crime
Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".
Director: John Waters | Stars: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole
Votes: 27,846 | Gross: $0.18M
41. Daughters of Satan (1972)
R | 90 min | Horror
An antique dealer living in the Philippines buys an ancient painting of witches burning because one witch looks identical to his Wife.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse | Stars: Tom Selleck, Barra Grant, Tani Guthrie, Paraluman
Votes: 1,273
42. The Witches Mountain (1973)
Unrated | 86 min | Horror
A photojournalist traveling through the Pyrenees on assignment with a beautiful writer stays overnight at an ancient Spanish castle and hears that the adjoining mountain is occupied by a coven of witches.
Director: Raúl Artigot | Stars: Patty Shepard, Cihangir Gaffari, Mónica Randall, Guillermo Bredeston
Votes: 526
43. Baron Blood (1972)
PG | 90 min | Horror
A young man, visiting the castle of a murderous ancestor in Austria, accidentally brings his dead relative back to life - searching for new victims.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Joseph Cotten, Elke Sommer, Massimo Girotti, Luciano Pigozzi
Votes: 4,205
44. The Thing with Two Heads (1972)
PG | 91 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
Doctors are forced to transplant the head of a dying, racist surgeon onto the body of a black death row inmate.
Director: Lee Frost | Stars: Roosevelt Grier, Ray Milland, Don Marshall, Roger Perry
Votes: 2,922
45. Endless Night (I) (1972)
Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A working-class young Englishman marries an affable American heiress, but their marital bliss is soon interrupted when they begin constructing a home on land alleged to be cursed.
Director: Sidney Gilliat | Stars: Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Britt Ekland, Per Oscarsson
Votes: 2,408
46. Season of the Witch (1972)
R | 130 min | Drama, Horror
A neglected, unhappy suburban housewife gets mixed up in witchcraft with unexpected consequences.
Director: George A. Romero | Stars: Jan White, Raymond Laine, Ann Muffly, Joedda McClain
Votes: 3,934
47. The Man with Two Heads (1972)
GP | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Serum obtained from a brain after a mass murder transforms the good Dr. Jekyll of London into the evil Mr. Blood.
Director: Andy Milligan | Stars: Denis DeMarne, Julia Stratton, Gay Feld, Jaqueline Lawrence
Votes: 318
48. Virgin Witch (1972)
R | 88 min | Horror
A pair of miniskirted birds who travel to a remote castle in order to land a contract in the modeling agency of the mysterious lesbian Sybil Waite (In HD).
Director: Ray Austin | Stars: Ann Michelle, Vicki Michelle, Keith Buckley, Patricia Haines
Votes: 1,572
49. Beware! The Blob (1972)
GP | 87 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A technician brings a frozen specimen of the original Blob back from the North Pole. When his wife accidentally defrosts the thing, it terrorizes the populace, including the local hippies, kittens, and bowlers.
Director: Larry Hagman | Stars: Robert Walker Jr., Gwynne Gilford, Richard Stahl, Richard Webb
Votes: 2,377 | Gross: $0.05M
50. Night of the Lepus (1972)
PG | 88 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Giant mutant rabbits terrorize the south-west.
Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun, DeForest Kelley
Votes: 5,452
51. Asylum of Satan (1972)
PG | 80 min | Horror
A young woman is brought to an asylum to receive special treatment from a mysterious doctor. Dr. Spector does more than just run the hospital -- he offers his patients as sacrifices to Satan.
Director: William Girdler | Stars: Charles Kissinger, Carla Borelli, Nick Jolley, Louis Bandy
Votes: 503
52. Invasion of the Blood Farmers (1972)
GP | 77 min | Horror
Somewhere in upstate New York, a secretive group of farmers are harvesting human blood for a mysterious purpose.
Director: Ed Adlum | Stars: Norman Kelley, Tanna Hunter, Bruce Detrick, Paul Craig Jennings
Votes: 1,127
53. Blue Money (1972)
R | 93 min | Drama
Handsome and successful Jim appears to have it all: he's married to the beautiful and supportive Lisa, has a healthy baby, and works a cool gig as the director of hardcore porno fare. Jim's... See full summary »
Director: Alain Patrick | Stars: Alain Patrick, Barbara Mills, Inga Maria, Jeff Gall
Votes: 295
54. Transformations (1972)
9 min | Documentary, Short
A Tribal Film. Made by a Vermont collective of women led by Barbara Hirschfeld and Julia Haines. A fascinating feminist experimental fiction shot on location in Vermont about a group of witches performing white magic.
Director: Barbara Hirschfeld
Votes: 112
55. Fury of the Wolfman (1972)
PG | 86 min | Horror
A man has had a werewolf curse cast upon him. If he doesn't get rid of it, he turns into a killer werewolf when the moon is full.
Director: José María Zabalza | Stars: Paul Naschy, Perla Cristal, Miguel de la Riva, Pasquale Simeoli
Votes: 909 | Gross: $0.19M
56. Evil Come Evil Go (1972)
66 min | Horror
A religious fanatic murders people who are engaging in sex.
Director: Walt Davis | Stars: Cleo O'Hara, Sandra Henderson, Jane Tsentas, Rick Cassidy
Votes: 479
57. What's Up, Doc? (1972)
G | 94 min | Comedy, Romance
The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.
Director: Peter Bogdanovich | Stars: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars
Votes: 26,984 | Gross: $10.47M
58. Psyched by the 4D Witch (A Tale of Demonology) (1973)
R | 81 min | Horror
Novice witch Cindy is transported into a world of safe sex by the voice of Abigail from the 17th century.
Director: Victor Luminera | Stars: Margo, Esoterica, Tom Yerian, Kelly Guthrie
Votes: 328
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