1972
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1. The Dawns Here Are Quiet (1972)
PG-13 | 188 min | Drama, History, War
During World War II in a small village outpost, a Soviet sergeant has his troop replaced by an all female unit. As they finally begin to appreciate one another, German paratroopers are spotted nearby and the realities of war emerge.
Director: Stanislav Rostotskiy | Stars: Andrey Martynov, Irina Dolganova, Elena Drapeko, Ekaterina Markova
Votes: 4,762
2. Ukroshcheniye ognya (1972)
166 min | Biography, Drama, History
About Soviet space program and missile industry, and it's founder Sergei P. Korolev, from the 1920s to the first man in space in 1961.
Director: Daniil Khrabrovitsky | Stars: Kirill Lavrov, Ada Rogovtseva, Igor Gorbachyov, Andrei Popov
Votes: 402
3. Love in the Afternoon (1972)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Though he has an adoring wife, a bourgeois man is still tempted to pursue other women.
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Bernard Verley, Zouzou, Françoise Verley, Daniel Ceccaldi
Votes: 9,325
4. Endless Night (I) (1972)
Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A working-class young Englishman marries an affable American heiress, but their marital bliss is soon interrupted when they begin constructing a home on land alleged to be cursed.
Director: Sidney Gilliat | Stars: Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Britt Ekland, Per Oscarsson
Votes: 2,407
5. A Free Woman (1972)
100 min | Drama
A divorced woman in her thirties fights a losing battle in Munich to attain belated self-fulfillment. The die is cast in a briskly impersonal society geared to male dominance and early training for career women.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Margarethe von Trotta, Friedhelm Ptok, Martin Lüttge, Walter Sedlmayr
Votes: 209
6. Der Fall (1972)
102 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Kurt Früh | Stars: Walo Lüönd, Katrin Buschor, Annemarie Düringer, Fred Haltiner
Votes: 69
7. What's Up, Doc? (1972)
G | 94 min | Comedy, Romance
The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.
Director: Peter Bogdanovich | Stars: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars
Votes: 26,980 | Gross: $10.47M
8. Iduschie za gorizont (1972 TV Movie)
Director: Nikolai Kalinin | Stars: Ivan Gavrilyuk, Nikolai Kryukov, Irina Azer, Valentin Nikulin
Votes: 6
9. The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (1972)
101 min | Drama, Sport
Goalkeeper Josef Bloch is ejected during a game for foul play. He leaves the field and goes to spend the night with a cinema cashier.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Arthur Brauss, Kai Fischer, Erika Pluhar, Libgart Schwarz
Votes: 2,254
10. Solaris (1972)
PG | 167 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet, Vladislav Dvorzhetskiy
Votes: 98,126
11. The Exorcism of Hugh (1972)
R | 110 min | Fantasy, Horror, Romance
This movie takes place on the Isle of Jersey where a troubled wife has come to sort out the tumult of her life. She encounters a pilot there and they quickly become lovers. Together they ... See full summary »
Director: Fred Burnley | Stars: Susan Hampshire, Frank Finlay, Michael Petrovitch, Michael Craze
Votes: 406
12. Play It As It Lays (1972)
R | 99 min | Drama
A Hollywood actress undergoes a psychic breakdown and recalls the traumatic events which led to her stay at a sanitarium.
Director: Frank Perry | Stars: Tuesday Weld, Anthony Perkins, Tammy Grimes, Adam Roarke
Votes: 781 | Gross: $0.47M
13. Ciao Manhattan (1972)
R | 84 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
This parallels the life of Andy Warhol Factory star Edie Sedgwick. The film chronicles "Susan Superstar's" (Sedgwick) glory days in the late 1960s through her inevitable downfall and the tragic addiction that would claim her life only weeks after filming wrapped in 1971.
Directors: John Palmer, David Weisman | Stars: Edie Sedgwick, Wesley Hayes, Isabel Jewell, Jeff Briggs
Votes: 1,192
14. Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972)
G | 88 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
A chemistry student invents a spray that makes its wearer invisible. A crook finds out about it, and plans to steal it for himself.
Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn, Jim Backus
Votes: 2,288
15. Frenzy (1972)
R | 116 min | Thriller
A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Anna Massey
Votes: 49,344 | Gross: $12.60M
16. Images (1972)
R | 104 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Whilst writing a children's book, a woman interrupted by images unsure if they may, or may not be real
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Susannah York, Rene Auberjonois, Marcel Bozzuffi, Hugh Millais
Votes: 7,729
17. Eolomea (1972)
82 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Eight space cargo-ships disappear without a trace within three days. And the orbit station "Margot" has suddenly fallen silent. The space council is faced with a mystery and the scientist ... See full summary »
Director: Herrmann Zschoche | Stars: Cox Habbema, Ivan Andonov, Rolf Hoppe, Vsevolod Sanaev
Votes: 635
18. Kansas City Bomber (1972)
PG | 99 min | Drama, Sport
Roller derby skater K.C. Carr tries to balance her desire for a happy personal life and her dreams of stardom.
Director: Jerrold Freedman | Stars: Raquel Welch, Kevin McCarthy, Helena Kallianiotes, Norman Alden
Votes: 1,504
19. What Have You Done to Solange? (1972)
R | 107 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A teacher who is having an affair with one of his students is reluctant to present an alibi when his lover witnesses the first in a series of murders connected to their school.
Director: Massimo Dallamano | Stars: Fabio Testi, Karin Baal, Cristina Galbó, Joachim Fuchsberger
Votes: 5,918
20. Goryachiy sneg (1972)
99 min | Drama, War
In November, 1942, near the Volga, Stanlingrad is under siege of Commander Friederich Paulus and his 330,000 men. The Soviet high command unleashes an operation to protect the Mishkova ... See full summary »
Director: Gavriil Egiazarov | Stars: Georgi Zhzhyonov, Anatoliy Kuznetsov, Vadim Spiridonov, Boris Tokarev
Votes: 584
21. Carry on Matron (1972)
Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy, Crime
A gang of thieves plans to make their fortune by stealing a shipment of contraceptive pills from Finisham maternity hospital. They assume disguises and infiltrate the hospital, but everything doesn't go according to plan.
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims
Votes: 3,326
22. What the Peeper Saw (1972)
R | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A wealthy author's second wife begins to suspect that her 12-year-old stepson may have murdered his mother, who mysteriously died in a bathtub accident.
Directors: James Kelley, Andrea Bianchi | Stars: Mark Lester, Britt Ekland, Hardy Krüger, Lilli Palmer
Votes: 1,684
23. Summertime Killer (1972)
PG | 110 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A six-year-old boy witnesses mobsters beat his father to death. Twenty years later, the now-grown boy begins to track down and eliminate the men who did it, determined to wipe out the ... See full summary »
Director: Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi | Stars: Karl Malden, Olivia Hussey, Christopher Mitchum, Raf Vallone
Votes: 454
24. The War Between Men and Women (1972)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
A sarcastic, near-sighted cartoonist averse to commitment, falls for an eye-catching brunette single mother of three, the only woman who can stand his strong anti-feminist opinions, and eventually moves in with her and proposes.
Director: Melville Shavelson | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Barbara Harris, Jason Robards, Herb Edelman
Votes: 832 | Gross: $1.40M
25. Cybernetica (1972)
20 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Peter Sims | Star: Michael Aspel
Votes: 11
26. Au Pair Girls (1972)
R | 86 min | Comedy, Romance
Four sexy foreign girls come to England as au pairs, and quickly become quite intimate with their employers, host families, and everyone else they encounter.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Astrid Frank, Johnny Briggs, Gabrielle Drake, Me Me Lai
Votes: 910
27. The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
PG | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A newlywed man on his honeymoon has second thoughts about his marriage and falls for a different woman.
Director: Elaine May | Stars: Charles Grodin, Cybill Shepherd, Jeannie Berlin, Audra Lindley
Votes: 5,634 | Gross: $12.21M
28. Play It Again, Sam (1972)
PG | 85 min | Comedy, Romance
A neurotic film critic obsessed with the movie Casablanca (1942) attempts to get over his wife leaving him by dating again with the help of a married couple and his illusory idol, Humphrey Bogart.
Director: Herbert Ross | Stars: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Jerry Lacy
Votes: 27,975 | Gross: $2.30M
29. Just Another Job (1972)
29 min | Documentary, Short, Sport
A look inside the Quebec Nordiques as they play their first game in the World Hockey Association.
Director: Pierre Letarte
Votes: 14
30. Straight on Till Morning (1972)
R | 96 min | Thriller
A timid, withdrawn woman meets a man she believes is finally the love of her life, unaware that he is a vicious serial killer.
Director: Peter Collinson | Stars: Rita Tushingham, Shane Briant, James Bolam, Katya Wyeth
Votes: 1,419
31. Petka v kosmose (1972)
63 min | Family
Schoolboy Petya an amateur inventor and dreamer, built a space elevator, and soon designed an unusual food. This resulted in a complete delight and his teacher suggested sending him to the technical creativity exhibition.
Director: Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich | Stars: Vladimir Balon, Tatyana Chernova, Andrei Filimonov, Misha Khukalenko
Votes: 16
32. Pete 'n' Tillie (1972)
PG | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Tillie Shlai is not looking forward to meeting yet another blind date. This one's name is Pete Seltzer. Pete and Tillie are not a match made in heaven; he uses wisecracking and constant ... See full summary »
Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett, Geraldine Page, Barry Nelson
Votes: 1,158 | Gross: $18.97M
33. The Swinging Co-eds (1972)
R | 87 min | Comedy
Young women come to Munich for fun and work during the '72 Olympics and invariably wind up naked.
Director: Walter Boos | Stars: Karin Götz, Ulrike Butz, Dorit Henke, Britt Lindberg
Votes: 161
34. Naughty Nymphs (1972)
R | 90 min | Comedy
When their straight-laced sister loses her job and returns home, Maria and Christel's sex lives grinds to a halt. They conspire, with the aid of a "potency pill," to change her views about sex. But little goes as planned.
Directors: Franz Antel, Michel Caputo | Stars: Sybil Danning, Eva Garden, Alena Penz, Christiane Maybach
Votes: 218
35. Campus Swingers (1972)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A fake documentary about the sex lives of teenage girls.
Director: Ernst Hofbauer | Stars: Judith Armbrüster, Marina Blümel, Ulrike Butz, Walter Feuchtenberg
Votes: 409
36. A Cop (1972)
PG | 98 min | Crime, Thriller
After a shaky first heist, a group of thieves plan an even more elaborate and risky second heist.
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville | Stars: Alain Delon, Richard Crenna, Catherine Deneuve, Riccardo Cucciolla
Votes: 10,724 | Gross: $0.05M
37. Fear in the Night (1972)
PG | 94 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young woman recovering from a nervous breakdown moves with her husband to a boys' school, and finds herself being terrorized by a mysterious one-armed man, but nobody believes her.
Director: Jimmy Sangster | Stars: Judy Geeson, Joan Collins, Ralph Bates, Peter Cushing
Votes: 2,386
38. Posledniy fort (1972)
War
Four soldiers of different nationalities serve in small garrison on the territory of post-war Germany.
Director: Vasile Brescanu | Stars: Ints Burans, Valentin Zubkov, Lina Braknyte, Bolot Beyshenaliev
Votes: 8
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