best movies 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 man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.

When a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man.

Rancher Wil Andersen is forced to hire inexperienced boys as cowhands in order to get his cattle herd to market on time but the rough drive is full of dangers and a gang of rustlers is trailing them.

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

A fluid, unconnected and sometimes chaotic procession of scenes detailing the various people and events of life in Italy's capital, most of it based on director Federico Fellini's life.

A country bumpkin martial artist visits his relatives in Rome, Italy, where he must defend them and their restaurant against harassment from brutal gangsters.

A successful businessman goes to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon father's body--and discovers that Dad died with his long-time mistress.

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.

A group of passengers must embark on a harrowing struggle for survival after a rogue wave capsizes their cruise ship at sea.

After a shaky first heist, a group of thieves plan an even more elaborate and risky second heist.

After fierce war chief Ulzana and a small war party jump the reservation bent on murder and terror, an inexperienced young lieutenant is assigned to track him down.

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

A small-time reporter tries to convince the police she saw a murder in the apartment across from hers.

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.