Best movies of 1972

The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.

A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.

A young Parisian woman meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex.

In the late 1960s, a pretentious, womanizing young cat drops out of college, starts a riot in Harlem, hits the road with an ex-girlfriend and gets mixed up with domestic terrorists.

The venomous and amoral wife of a wealthy architect tries, any way she can, to break up the blossoming romance between her husband and his new mistress; a good-natured young widow who holds a dark past.

A film critic obsessed with Casablanca (1942) seeks to get over his wife leaving him by dating again with the help of a married couple and his illusory idol, Humphrey Bogart.

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.

The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.

In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.

A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.

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.

A recently-released ex-con and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes awry.

A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.

A husband and wife in a loveless marriage struggle to remain ignorant to their failed relationship.

A burnt-out British police detective finally snaps whilst interrogating a suspected child molester.

Seven stories are trying to answer the question: what is sex? Or maybe they are not trying.

Though he has an adoring wife, a bourgeois man is still tempted to pursue other women.

The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.

During the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, the star pupil of a recently-deceased martial arts teacher battles a Japanese dojo which seeks the demise of his master's fighting school.

Using the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas.

Whilst writing a children's book, a woman interrupted by images unsure if they may, or may not be real

A troubled fashion designer strikes up a romance with a much younger woman.

Falsely accused Warsaw art museum assistant goes into hiding as a woman.

Two youngsters in their early teens go hitchhiking all over Poland. Adventures ensue...

The young couple love each other. The boy is in constant work which will fit him, and in the end becomes a petty thief who cannot pay his debts anymore and decides to steal from homes where he pays scheduled visits to lonely housewifes. The girl works a nurse but is too sensitive in extreme cases. Running parallel to their story is a metaphor involving a castaway on a junkyard, who tries every means possible to get rid of the dog which becomes attached to him. In the end he attaches sticks of dynamite to the dog, but he breaks loose and the explosion wipes them both.