Best Movies of 1972
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Best Movies of 1972
TOP Movies: The Godfather (1972), Cabaret (1972), Asylum (1972), The Mechanic (1972), The Heartbreak Kid (1972), Tales from the Crypt (1972), Vampire Circus (1972), The Poseidon Adventure (1972), Deliverance (1972), Horror Express (1972), The Getaway (1972), Frenzy (1972), Fist of Fury (1972), Jeremiah Johnson (1972), Sleuth (1972), The Doberman Gang (1972), The Cowboys (1972), Play It Again, Sam (1972), What's Up, Doc? (1972), The Candidate (1972).
List of Best Movies
2.2M
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the ...
Style:
serious, captivating, atmospheric, epic, dramatic ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, chick flick, adult
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, gangster, revenge, crime family, betrayal, mob boss, wedding, greed, pride and honor, cosa nostra, violence ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s, 20th century, 50s, year 1972 ...
Place:
italy, new york, bronx new york city, manhattan new york city, sicily ...
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64K
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.
Style:
satirical, stylized, atmospheric, period piece, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
nazi, gay, fascism, lgbtq, cabaret, gay interest, decadence, world war two, closeted homosexual, dancing, politics, lgbt ...
Time:
1930s, year 1931, 20th century, year 1972
Place:
berlin germany, europe, germany, new york
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum, and must pass a test by interviewing four patients. He must figure out which of the patients, is in fact, the doctor that he would be replacing if hired.
Style:
anthology, atmospheric, scary, suspenseful, gothic ...
Plot:
insanity, mental illness, mad scientist, uxoricide, serial killer, supernatural, murder, occult, dismemberment, tailor, psychiatric hospital, multiple personality disorder ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s, 20th century
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Arthur Bishop is a veteran hit man who, owing to his penchant for making his targets' deaths seem like accidents, thinks himself an artist. It's made him very rich, but as he hits middle age, he's so depressed and lonely that he takes ...
Style:
exciting, tense, suspenseful, surprise ending, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, assassin, hired killer, professional killer, contract killer, contract killing, killer, murder, car chase, death, betrayal, revenge ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1972
Place:
naples italy, los angeles, ireland
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
apocalyptic, saga, social, slasher, depressing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
post apocalypse, planet of the apes, ape, rebellion, slavery, time travel, revolution, monkey, apocalypse, mutant, survival, gorilla ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, near future, 80s, future ...
Place:
usa, los angeles, tokyo
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Three days into his Miami honeymoon, Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly. This confirms him in his opinion that he has made a serious mistake and he decides he wants Kelly instead.
Style:
clever, funny, absurd, talky, witty ...
Plot:
wedding, honeymoon, obsessive love, love triangle, marriage, bride and groom, adultery, infidelity, bittersweet, cheating, groom, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1972
Place:
florida, minnesota, miami, minneapolis minnesota, middle east ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Five people find themselves in a tomb. The Crypt keeper explains why they are there through a series of frightening stories. Based on the classic comic book.
Style:
anthology, christmas horror, scary, mind twisting, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens, horror for children
Plot:
zombie, valentine's day, murder, crypt, nightmare, killer santa claus, blindness, supernatural, hell, cursed object, christmas, revenge ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, future
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
After a spate of murders, the villagers of Schtettel kill the depraved perpetrator, Count Mitterhouse. Fifteen years later the Circus of Nights appeared in the plague-ridden village and its performers include Mitterhouse's mistress, children ...
Style:
sexy, gothic, suspenseful, scary, suspense ...
Plot:
vampire, forest, supernatural, circus, female vampire, dracula, curse, sexual perversion, mysterious character, deadly creature, criminal's revenge, danger ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, year 1972
Place:
bosnia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The Poseidon Adventure was one of the first Catastrophe films and began the Disaster Film genre. Director Neame tells the story of a group of people that must fight for their lives aboard a sinking ship. Based on the novel by Paul Gallico.
Style:
exciting, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids, girls' night
Plot:
disaster, ship, natural disaster, survival, ocean liner, race against time, underwater, sea disaster, cruise ship, sea, sinking ship, ocean ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
israel, atlantic ocean, mediterranean sea
Is relevant?
128K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
Style:
disturbing, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, gothic ...
Plot:
wilderness, rape, survival, friendship, canoe, rape and revenge, nature, forest, river, nightmare, camping, revenge ...
Time:
70s, year 1972, 20th century
Place:
georgia, southern usa, usa, appalachia
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Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Mysterious and unearthly deaths start to occur while Professor Saxton is transporting the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature he found in Manchuria back to Europe.
Style:
gothic, medical horror, suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
creature, train, supernatural, monster, macabre, goth, anthropologist, mad scientist, railway, trapped in a building, holiday horror, gory ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century, prehistory, 80s, 70s
Place:
siberia, england, europe, asia, shanghai ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A recently released ex-con and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes awry.
Style:
neo noir, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, road movie ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, on the run, robbery, heist, betrayal, car chase, gangster, bank robbery, hotel, organized crime, gunfight, infidelity ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1972
Place:
texas, el paso texas, austin texas, san antonio texas, persia ...
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53K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man.
Style:
black comedy, suspense, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
serial killer, rape, strangulation, killer, dark humor, murder, man kills a woman, psycho killer, mistaken identity, truck, violent, sexual perversion ...
Time:
year 1972, 20th century, 60s, 70s
Place:
london, britain, england, europe, united kingdom ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Chen Zhen returns to the international compound of China only to learn of his beloved teacher's death. This is compounded by the continual racist harassment by the Japanese population in the area. Unlike his friends, he confronts it head on ...
Style:
serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
martial arts, violence, murder, revenge, kung fu classic, vengeance, vigilante, fight scenes, kung fu, kung fu master, hand to hand combat, wuxia ...
Time:
20th century, year 1972, 1910s, 70s
Place:
japan, bolivia, asia, china, shanghai ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by Indians when he proves to be the match of their warriors in one-to-one combat on the early frontier.
Style:
atmospheric, scenic, epic, meditative, factual ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
wilderness, survival, native, hunting, mountain man, native american, revenge, mountain, rocky mountains, grizzly bear, indians, trapper ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, 1850s, year 1972
Place:
colorado, persia, usa, north america
Is relevant?
52K
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A mystery novelist devises an insurance scam with his wife’s lover - but things aren’t exactly as they seem.
Style:
suspense, psychological, enigmatic, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
murder mystery, twists and turns, maze, writers, extramarital affair, revenge, mind game, adultery, frame up, rivalry, insurance, romantic rivalry ...
Time:
year 1972, future, 70s, 20th century
Place:
england, persia, london
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After a failed bank robbery, an ex-con, an ex-waitress and a few of their friends train a pack of doberman dogs to rob a bank for them.
Style:
independent film, grindhouse, action thriller, ironic, semi serious ...
Plot:
doberman, dog, bank, bank robbery, heist, canine, money, dog training, waitress, bulldog, bank robber, robbery ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s, 20th century
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
When his cattlemen abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his cowboys in order to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job ...
Style:
harsh, serious, captivating, exciting, suspense ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens
Plot:
coming of age, cattle, gunfight, male male relationship, underage drinking, vengeance, old west, buddies, on the road, gold, good versus evil, wild west ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
montana, texas, california
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A mild mannered film critic is dumped by his wife and his ego is crushed. His hero persona is the tough guy played by Humphrey Bogart in many of his movies and the apparition of Bogart begins showing up to give him advice. With the encouragement of ...
Style:
funny, parody, talky, humorous, witty ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
dating, nymphomaniac, love, infidelity, divorce, imaginary friend, adultery, farce, art, friendship, filmmaking, best friend ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1972
Place:
san francisco, usa, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Two researchers have come to San Francisco to compete for a research grant in Music. One seems a bit distracted, and that was before he meets her. A strange woman seems to have devoted her life to confusing and embarrassing him. At the same time a ...
Style:
hilarious, funny, romantic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
hotel, car chase, screwball, love story, chase, judge, destiny, manic pixie dream girl, farce, mistaken identity, love triangle, eternal love ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1972, prehistoric times, 1930s
Place:
san francisco, usa, california
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.
Style:
political, witty, cynical, thought provoking, biting ...
Plot:
politics, election, american politics, satire, father son relationship, underdog, political campaign, campaign, political rally, candidate, election campaign, idealism ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1972
Place:
california, usa, san francisco, north america, san diego california ...
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The Morgans, a loving and strong family of Black sharecroppers in Louisiana in 1933, face a serious family crisis when the husband and father, Nathan Lee Morgan, is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp. After some weeks or months, ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic, independent film ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
dog, coming of age, racism, african american, poverty, civil rights, black, great depression, school, youth, family relations, bittersweet ...
Time:
1930s, year 1972, 1900s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
louisiana, southern usa, america, usa, africa
Is relevant?
11K
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Two men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take opposite momentum.
Style:
realistic, neo noir, serious, captivating, cynical ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
boxing, friendship, comeback, boxer, ambition, rivalry, athlete's life, introspection, unfulfillment, alcoholism, drug addiction, alcohol abuse ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1972
Place:
california, usa, northern california, north america
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person ...
Style:
controversial, underground film, black comedy, independent film, erotic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
nudity, lesbian, obsession, animal abuse, arson, perversion, dysfunctional family, murder, egg, transgression, controversy, sadism ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, maryland, baltimore, idaho, california
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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, neighbor, disability, overprotective mother, fall in love, love story, happy ending, actress, blonde, manic pixie dream girl, couple relations ...
Time:
20th century, year 1972, 70s, labor day
Place:
san francisco, usa, los angeles, new york, new jersey
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A collection of seven vignettes, which each address a question concerning human sexuality.
Style:
anthology, parody, sex comedy, sexy, surreal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
zoophilia, satire, sex, mad scientist, surrealism, sarcasm, sex scene, bestiality, sexology, transsexuality, looking for sex, nudity ...
Time:
60s, 70s
Place:
new york
Is relevant?
11K
Genre: Drama, Family, History, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
The film focuses on the representatives of the Thirteen original colonies who participated in the Second Continental Congress. 1776 depicts the three months of deliberation (and, oftentimes, acrimonious debate) that led up to the signing of one of ...
Style:
humorous, suspense, patriotic, stylized, surreal ...
Plot:
independence, broadway, revolution, american revolution, dancing, president, american history, slavery, politics, freedom, medieval, war for independence ...
Time:
1770s, georgian era, 18th century, 1930s
Place:
philadelphia, massachusetts, pennsylvania, usa, new jersey ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of gruesome murders in Las Vegas. It seems that each victim has been bitten in the neck and drained of all their blood. Kolchak is sure that it is a vampire. He's hot on the trail, but ...
Style:
scary, slasher, suspense, crime thriller, thrilling ...
Plot:
vampire, dracula, supernatural, serial killer, reporter, occult, murder, stalking, investigation, politics, amateur detective, murder investigation ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
nevada, las vegas, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 125 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, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
italian mafia, prison, mafia, mobster, hitman, organized crime, crime family, criminal, cosa nostra, good guy, professional killer, italian gangster ...
Time:
1940s, year 1972, 1920s, 1950s, 1930s ...
Place:
bronx new york city, europe, italy, new york
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In a future Earth barren of all flora and fauna, the planet's ecosystems exist only in large pods attached to spacecraft. When word comes in that the pods are to be jettisoned into space and destroyed so that the spacecraft can be reused for ...
Style:
philosophical, visually stunning, futuristic, apocalyptic, thought provoking ...
Plot:
robot, dystopia, space travel, space opera, distopia, space and aliens, spaceship, post apocalypse, spacecraft, dystopian future, artificial intelligence, isolation ...
Time:
future, year 1972
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