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Doomsday Machine (1976)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Spies discover that the Red Chinese have built a "doomsday machine" capable of destroying the surface of the Earth, and that they plan to use it within a matter of days. Meanwhile, Project Astra, a manned U.S. space mission to Venus, is in ...
Style: psychotronic, independent film
Plot: space travel, astronaut, sexism, end of the world, venus the planet, radiation, outer space, apocalypse, distopia, epidemic, threat, macabre ...
Time: year 1972
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 4.9
 445
Sweet Kill (1972)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Horror and suspense in the story of a psychotic maniac who literally "loves" women to death.
Style: slasher, psychotronic, erotic, independent film, detective
Plot: sleaze, serial killer, exploitation, sexual dysfunction, gym teacher, sexual frustration, killing spree, misogyny, sociopath, maniac, dead woman, murder ...
Time: year 1972
Place: venice california, california
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 6.6
 6K
Chato's Land (1972)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A posse pursues Pardon Chato (Charles Bronson) a mestizo indian after he killed a US marshal in self-defense. As they get deeper into Indian territory, just who is hunting who.
Style: spaghetti western, atmospheric, brutal, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: attempted rape, female nudity, native, native american, rape, manhunt, racism, cowboy, vengeance, redsploitation, revenge, guy ...
Time: year 1972, 20th century, 70s, 1870s
Place: arizona, sonora, new mexico, mexico
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Demons of the Mind (1972)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A physician discovers that two children are being kept virtually imprisoned in their house by their father. He investigates, and discovers a web of sex, incest and satanic possession.
Style: gothic, gothic horror, suspenseful, atmospheric, scary ...
Plot: incest, murder, family secret, parents and children, losing-it hero, mentally unstable, danger, estate, siblings relations, manipulation, life is a bitch, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: year 1972, 19th century, 18th century
Place: germany, europe, central europe
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Eagle in a Cage (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: 1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, period drama
Plot: napoleon bonaparte, napoleonic wars, fortress, exile, french revolution, combat, island, battles, soldier, unfulfilled love, wartime life, escape ...
Time: 19th century, year 1972, 1810s, 1800s
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Endless Night (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A shiftless dreamer, Michael Rogers (Hywel Bennett) fantasizes about a lifestyle above his means and marries a wealthy, young girl, Ellie Thomsen (Hayley Mills) who just came of age. They hire a famous architect to build their dream home amidst a ...
Style: slasher, pastoral, black and white, neo noir, tension ...
Plot: murder, fear, serial killer, perfect crime, libertine, plot twist, whodunit, murder of a nude woman, woman in jeopardy, investigation, curse, female nudity ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: england, amsterdam, london, milan italy
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An all-star cast highlights this vibrant musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's immortal tale. One day, plucky young Alice follows a white rabbit down a hole and discovers a world of bizarre characters.
Style: mysterious, feel good, offbeat, stylized, humorous ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: alice in wonderland, queen, youth, mind control, fantasy world, basement, folklore, underground, magical, child, disorder, teenage life ...
Time: 20th century, year 1972
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 6.9
 5K
Bad Company (1972)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Jeff Bridges stars as young con man named Jake Rumsey in this highly original Western. After Drew Dixon (Barry Brown), an upright young man, is sent west by his religious family to avoid being drafted into the Civil War, he drifts across the land ...
Style: realistic, bleak, atmospheric, political, offbeat ...
Plot: civil war, american civil war, betrayal, hanging, prostitution, homeless, cowboy, wild west, drifter, acid, shootout, buddy ...
Time: year 1972, 19th century, 1860s
Place: usa
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 6.8
 552
Black Girl (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An aspiring dancer and her wicked sister's resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.
Style: social, independent film, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: blaxploitation, black, orphan, black history, african, adoption, siblings, sister sister relationship, black american, family relations, redemption, foster home ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
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 5.8
 863
Black Gunn (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A successful and popular nightclub owner who believes financial independence is the path to equality and success, must act as a go-between for militant-minded brother and the white gang syndicate his brother has attacked and robbed. Their ...
Style: independent film, neo noir, fast, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, vietnam war, organized crime, black, gangster, racism, nightclub, injustice, chase, gang, fighting the system, chases and races ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: vietnam, asia, los angeles
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Buck and the Preacher (1972)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
Style: black comedy, action adventure, realistic, semi serious, black cinema
Plot: blaxploitation, black, african american, american civil war, lgbt, black history, civil war, con man, preacher, old west, interracial relations, partner ...
Time: 1860s, year 1972, 19th century
Place: kansas, louisiana, usa
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Butterflies Are Free (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Striving to be independent, the blind but determined Don Baker (Edward Albert) moves away from his overprotective mother (Eileen Heckart, who won an Oscar). After settling into his new San Francisco digs, Don meets kooky neighbor Jill Tanner (Goldie ...
Style: touching, melancholic, sentimental, emotional, intense ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: blindness, blind man, disability, neighbor, overprotective mother, fall in love, happy ending, love story, manic pixie dream girl, couple relations, actress, blonde ...
Time: 20th century, year 1972, 70s
Place: san francisco, usa, los angeles
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Cancel My Reservation (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Bob Hope is a stressed out talk show host who is sent on a vacation to Arizona on doctor's orders and has to play Sherlock Holmes with his wife, the lovely Eva Marie Saint, to solve a series of murders that has Bob as the prime suspect.
Style: freeze frame
Plot: talk show host, native american, murder, taxi, dead woman, framed for murder, arizona desert, husband wife relationship, on the run, sheriff, prime suspect, female stockinged legs ...
Time: year 1972
Place: arizona
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The Carey Treatment (1972)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Dr. Peter Carey is a pathologist at a Boston hospital. The daughter of the hospital's Chief of Staff dies after an illegal abortion goes wrong, and Carey's friend and colleague Dr. David Tao is accused of performing the abortion. Carey ...
Plot: doctor, medical, cover up, murder, drug addict, blackmail, investigation, police detective, autopsy, teenage pregnancy, stepmother, masseur ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: boston
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The Valachi Papers (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When Joe Valachi (Charles Bronson) has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese (Lino Ventura), he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful attempt to slit his throat puts him over the edge to break the ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, bleak, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, italian mafia, mafia, cosa nostra, mobster, hitman, organized crime, criminal, bad guy, spy, gangster, murder ...
Time: 1940s, year 1972, 1920s, 1930s, 1950s ...
Place: europe, italy, new york
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The Mattei Affair (1972)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Enrico Mattei helped change Italy's future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ENI, a state body formed for the development of oil ...
Style: realistic, political, detective, historical drama, serious ...
Plot: politics, italian mafia, justice, entrepreneur, love letter, desire, business, world war two, economist, conspiracy, corporate crime, biopic ...
Time: 1940s, year 1972, 60s, 20th century, 50s ...
Place: sicily, italy, europe, russia, iran ...
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A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: 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 and emotional trauma with a humour that hides their pain.
Style: psychedelic, surreal, mind bending, black comedy, independent film ...
Plot: railway, medicine, grief, psychopath, female nudity, college, suffocated to death, bare chested male, mother love, entrapment, dream, police officer ...
Time: year 1972
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Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A Harvard graduate transports a load of marijuana from Boston to Berkeley, California.
Plot: marijuana, drug, drug dealer, college, graduation, ambush, university, airport, heroin, police raid, money, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: year 1972
Place: boston
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Raw Meat (1972)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: There's something pretty grisly going on under London in the Tube tunnels between Holborn and Russell Square. When a top civil servant becomes the latest to disappear down there Scotland Yard start to take the matter seriously. Helping them are ...
Style: slasher, grindhouse, detective, retro, underground horror ...
Plot: cannibal, subway, cannibalism, serial killer, exploitation, feral man, gory, railway, rape, inspector, macabre, post apocalyptic ...
Time: year 1972, 20th century, 70s
Place: scotland yard, london, europe, united kingdom, england
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Scoundrel in White (1972)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Jean-Paul Belmondo plays Paul, a former womanizer who marries the head of the medical department's "unattractive" daughter Christine because he thinks attractive women can't be trusted and make poor wives. A car accident leaves ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, clever, sex comedy ...
Plot: doctor nurse relationship, sexy nurse, dangerous attraction, prejudice, sexual relations, love triangle, love and romance, obsession, satire, doctor, nurse, marriage ...
Time: 70s, year 1972
Place: tunisia, france, africa
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 5.5
 1K
Doomwatch (1972)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.
Style: psychotronic, depressing, independent film, serious, scary ...
Plot: monster, folk horror, european, lost soul, virus, environmental, infected, contamination, fish, heroes, violence spree, danger ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: england
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 6.2
 14K
Fritz the Cat (1972)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A hypocritical swinging college student cat raises hell in a satiric vision of various elements on the 1960's.
Style: psychedelic, adult animation, grindhouse, surreal, cult classic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sexual abuse, hippie, satire, sex, cat, comic book, stoner, addiction, drug, interspecies sex, sexual humor, social satire ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1972, year 1966
Place: new york, usa
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 4.4
 8K
Frogs (1972)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Jason Crockett is an aging, grumpy, physically disabled millionaire who invites his family to his island estate for his birthday celebration. Pickett Smith is a free-lance photographer who is doing a pollution layout for an ecology magazine. Jason ...
Style: surprise ending, natural horror, grindhouse, cult classic, suspense ...
Plot: swamp, nature, creature feature, leech, bird attack, island, monster, dysfunctional family, revenge, disaster, animal attack, killer animal ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: florida, usa
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Fuzz (1972)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Police in Boston search for a mad bomber trying to extort money from the city.
Style: exciting, rough, realistic, semi serious, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blackmail, police investigation, survival, partners against crime, undercover, law enforcement, buddies, dishonesty, partner, police protagonist, buddy cop, cop ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: boston, usa
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Georgia, Georgia (1972)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The great Diana Sands stars as a African American pop star with few political ideas, and no need for black-activist war deserters who want her voice for their cause--much to the dismay of the quietly seething white-hating Minnie Gentry. ...
Style: independent film
Plot: vietnam war, black, blaxploitation, love, interracial, defector, veteran, interracial relations, impotence, singer, airport, strangulation ...
Time: year 1972
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young businessman goes to a magic expert to learn hardness and skill with his cynical and greedy collaborators. He becomes a very good tap dancer, but will he be able to get free of his old boss?
Style: surreal, cult classic, independent film, cynical, semi serious ...
Plot: magic, tap dance, filmmaking, rabbit, satire, dull life, wizards and magicians, lifestyle, starting over, actor's life, innocence lost, workplace ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
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 5.6
 41
Glass Houses (1972)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The film's plot centres around the libidinous sexual shenanigans of a middle-class Californian family, and deftly explores themes such as marital discord, middle age, adultery, and incestuous desire.
Style: independent film
Plot: father daughter incest, older man younger woman relationship, girl man relationship, wife, love, business, social commentary, hitchhiker, sex scene, cheating wife, dysfunctional family, business partner ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: southern california, los angeles
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 6.1
 393
The Honkers (1972)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An over-the-hill rodeo champion is so self-centered that he ignores his wife, son, and best friend.
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous
Plot: rodeo, rodeo cowboy, cowboy, stoner, marital problem, family problems, couple relations, athlete's life, family in crisis, country, beer, oil well ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: new mexico, usa
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Horror on Snape Island (1972)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A group of experienced archeologists are searching for an old and mystic Phoenician treasure when they are surprised by a series of mysterious murders...
Style: slasher, gothic horror, sexy, classic horror, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: male nudity, lighthouse, fog, treasure, zombie, underground, relic hunter, stoner, occult, 666, lost soul, feral man ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: england, europe
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 6.8
 7K
The Hot Rock (1972)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Dortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it...
Style: humorous, talky, suspense, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: heist, robbery, bank robbery, storytelling, revenge, organized crime, police corruption, crime gone awry, museum, jewel thief, criminal heroes, dishonesty ...
Time: 20th century, year 1972, 70s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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