Best Movies of 1972 – page 5

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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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Once Upon a Mattress (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The second television adaptation of Once Upon a Mattress was broadcast on December 12, 1972, on CBS. This production, videotaped in color, included original Broadway cast members Burnett, Gilford and White, and also featured Bernadette Peters as ...
Style: fairy tale
Plot: princess, broadway, royalty, king, curse, unplanned pregnancy, queen, marriage, prince, royal romance
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The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A documentary-style drama based on true accounts of the Fouke Monster in Arkansas. It focuses on the lives of back country people and their culture while detailing certain sightings of the monster. This title was a drive-in B movie favorite for ...
Style: scary, independent film, mockumentary, grindhouse, southern gothic ...
Plot: bigfoot, found footage, sasquatch, monster, swamp, exploitation, danger, small town, cryptozoology, creature feature, cryptid, forest ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: arkansas, usa
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The Way of the Dragon (1972)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Tang Lung arrives in Rome to help his cousins in the restaurant business. They are being pressured to sell their property to the syndicate, who will stop at nothing to get what they want. When Tang arrives he poses a new threat to the syndicate, and ...
Style: breathtaking, humorous, stylized, talky, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, fight, gangster, master warrior, combat, tough heroes, karate, honor, vengeance, gang, culture clash ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: rome italy, china, hong kong, italy, europe ...
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They Only Kill Their Masters (1972)
Genre: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An enigmatic young woman has been murdered in a small California coast town. The investigation by the local sheriff uncovers a complex web of relationships centering on the victim; the scattered trail of evidence ranges from a mysterious photograph ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: doberman, murder investigation, dog, killer dog, mysticism, canine, investigation, murder, chief of police, police detective, animal life, uncover truth ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: california, usa
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Up the Sandbox (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young wife and mother, bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into the apartment, an explorer's demonstration of tribal fertility music at a ...
Style: hilarious, independent film, surreal, semi serious, offbeat ...
Plot: children, pregnancy, terrorism, young mother, captivity, family problems, family relations, couples, crumbling marriage, hopes, adventurer, gender ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: new york, usa, new jersey, africa, manhattan new york city
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Trick Baby (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two Phildelphia con men try to evade gangsters they have conned and cops who are trying to put them in jail.
Style: semi serious, realistic, cynical, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: blaxploitation, con artists, organized crime, hustler, gangster, pimp, disorder, injustice, babies and infants, dishonesty, criminal heroes, society ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: philadelphia
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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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Sitting Target (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Imprisoned Harry Lomart is a vicious, brute of a man and yet he is prepared to do his long jail term as he is confident that on his release his beautiful wife Pat will be waiting for him, but a visit from Pat brings him his worst nightmare.
Style: neo noir, offbeat, grindhouse, cult classic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: exploitation, prison, criminal, affair, erotica, underworld, revenge killing, escape, vengeance, confined, couple relations, rivalry ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
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Mutiny on the Buses (1972)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Bus driver Stan Butler agrees to marry Suzy, much to the anguish of Mum, her son-in-law, Arthur, and daughter Olive. How, they wonder, will they ever manage without Stan's money coming in? Then Arthur is sacked, and Stan agrees to delay the ...
Style: independent film, slapstick, biting, cynical, semi serious ...
Plot: bus, working class, strike, lechery, workplace, ego clash, rivalry, dishonesty, society, couples, disorder, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: britain, england
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Wedding in White (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A young girl's brother comes home from the army, and brings an army buddy with him. The three of them go out that night to celebrate, and after much drinking has been done, the brother's friend rapes the sister. After the two men have gone ...
Style: independent film, crying
Plot: teenage pregnancy, world war two, dysfunctional family, rape, parent child relationship, daughter, father, redhead girl, older man younger woman romance, priest, staircase, store ...
Time: 1940s, year 1972, post world war two
Place: canada
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Play It As It Lays (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A Hollywood actress undergoes a psychic breakdown and recalls the traumatic events which led to her stay at a sanitarium.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: mental institution, mental breakdown, mental illness, best friend, family relations, hollywood, showbiz, infidelity, filmmaking, drug abuse, alienation, forced abortion ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: los angeles, usa, beverly hills, las vegas, california
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Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An American soldier manages to endure his captivity in a Vietnamese POW camp by keeping alive the memories of life in his home town. When he is finally released from the camp, and is discharged from the military, he goes back to his town - but he ...
Plot: vietnam war, explosions, ptsd, aeroplane, flashback, psychiatrist, airplane, cell, prisoner, pow, awol, repressed memory ...
Time: 70s
Place: vermont, vietnam, philadelphia
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Greaser's Palace (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A parable based on the life of Christ. This ain't your father's Bible story, full of references about the destruction of the world through massive constipation and a New Mexican setting.
Style: cult classic, independent film, semi serious, offbeat, humorous ...
Plot: surrealism, acid, religion, jesus, underground, christ allegory, miraculous event, old west, wild west, partner, friends, religions or cults ...
Time: year 1972, 19th century
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Fear Is the Key (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After his family are killed in a plane crash, a man plots an elaborate revenge scheme on those responsible. He sets himself up as a criminal in order to get close to a tycoon who has been approached by the culprits to help them retrieve the cargo of ...
Style: neo noir, independent film, exciting, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car chase, vengeance, chase, mafia, animal, creature, revenge, gangster, investigation, rescue, danger, murder ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: louisiana
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Dirty Little Billy (1972)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Clearly influenced by the darker, more sinister style of spaghetti westerns, Dirty Little Billy offers a unique insight into the beginnings of the notorious outlaw Billy The Kid.
Style: independent film
Plot: billy the kid, gunfight, card playing, massacre, teenager, friendship, horse, prostitute, blood, train, funeral, violence ...
Time: year 1972
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The Victim (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A wealthy woman is trapped during a storm in a house with no electricity or phone. A killer has murdered her sister, stuffed the body in the basement, and is now after her.
Style: suspense, crime thriller, slasher, spooky
Plot: sister sister relationship, female protagonist, trapped in a building, house, victim, isolation, trapped, stranded, storm, maniac, stalker, bell ...
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The Gore Gore Girls (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A ditsy reporter enlists the help of a sleazy private eye to solve a series of gory killings of female strippers at a Chicago nightclub.
Style: slasher, bloody, controversial, disturbing, classic horror ...
Plot: stripper, torture, exploitation, serial killer, gory, evil man, sadistic psychopath, mysterious villain, bloody violence, extreme violence, strip club, murder ...
Time: 70s
Place: chicago
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Napoleon and Samantha (1972)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two young children, who, rather than part with an old pet lion who was once a circus performer, go on a perilous mountain trek to stay with a recluse friend.
Style: feel good, touching, emotional, semi serious
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot: aging, youth, animal, runaway, motorcycle, camp, camping trip, camping, child, grief, wildlife, family relations ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
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A Reflection of Fear (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young girl lives with her mother and grandmother. One day her estranged father returns home with a female companion he introduces as his fiance. Soon the girl finds herself in the midst of strange goings-on, which evolve into a web of crime and ...
Style: slasher, psychotronic, surprise ending, atmospheric, grindhouse ...
Plot: imaginary friend, father, plot twist, incest, hell, mental disorder, creepy child, divorce, incestuous desire, evil doll, estranged husband, killer doll ...
Time: year 1972
Place: canada
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Straight on Till Morning (1972)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Brenda moved to London to begin living those intoxicated fantasies that all young women imagine city life to offer. Soon after her arrival she begins a relationship with Peter with whom she is tremendously happy. When she becomes pregnant ...
Style: psychotronic, noir, independent film, psychological thriller, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, female psychopath, castle, dog, woman in danger, psychopath, nudity, murder of a nude woman, female nudity, kidnapping, pregnancy ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: london, england, europe, united kingdom, liverpool
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When Michael Calls (1972)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Helen keeps on receiving phone calls from a child, who claims being her nephew Michael - but Michael died 15 years ago! In these calls he scolds on acquaintances, who then die in suspicious accidents. Soon Helen has to fear to be the next victim.
Style: spooky, psychotronic, disgusting, crime thriller, suspense
Plot: serial killer, telephone call, cell phone, darkness, haunting, mysterious telephone call, dead body, killer bee, psychotic, mute, ex husband ex wife relationship, therapist ...
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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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The Man (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When the President and Speaker of the House are killed in a building collapse, and the Vice-President declines the office due to age and ill-health, Senate President pro tempore Douglas Dilman (James Earl Jones) suddenly becomes the first black man ...
Style: independent film
Plot: u.s. president, president, racism, american politics, blaxploitation, election, government, campaign, african, campaigning, candidate, intrigue ...
Time: year 1972
Place: america
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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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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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The Last Goon Show of All (1972)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
Story: Sellers, Secombe and Milligan reunite for one last show.
Style: parody, sketch comedy
Plot: sketch, shakespeare, entertainment, orchestra, perversion, water, british, impersonation, satire, royal family, television, surrealism ...
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Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A recently widowed research doctor is convinced by a colleague to join him in an inner-city clinic. Susan Hayward's final film.
Style: medical drama
Plot: airplane crash, doctor, treatment, medical experiment, grief, widow, clinic, leukemia, aeroplane, restaurant, airplane, nurse ...
Time: 70s
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The Big Bird Cage (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Grier and Haig are thieving mercenaries who engineer a prison break from the outside.
Style: grindhouse, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, women in prison, exploitation, sexploitation, blaxploitation, women's prison, gang rape, voyeur, tropical island, violent, woman with a gun, rebellion ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: the philippines, asia
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When the Legends Die (1972)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: An elderly rodeo rider becomes mentor to a young man attempting to make his own name in the business.
Style: realistic, serious, touching
Plot: rodeo, cowboy, native american reservation, modern west, mentor, redsploitation, drug, native, rodeo cowboy, human nature, hopes, rivalry ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
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