1972 Movies

An early drag parody of ALL ABOUT EVE.

A handsome stranger strolls into a casino one evening and all but cleans out the house, beating 160-1 odds at dice by getting three of a kind. He informs beautiful…

A hitchhiking runaway tells the man who picks her up about her friends’ sexual escapades.

Teenage runaway Cheryl splits from Ohio and ends up in Los Angeles staying at an old rundown hotel full of weirdos. The weirdest of all is George and he has…

Charming, blithely amoral devil-may-care rogue Jesse Smith and peaceful, devout straight-arrow Mormon Lester O’Hara are estranged half brothers who are reunited after receiving a sizable inheritance from their deceased mother….

The movie was inspired by real life test driver Yukio Fukuzawa, who on 12 February 1969 lost control of his Toyota 7 at Fuji Speedway near Nakahinata, Japan and fatally…

The first part of Bill Douglas’ influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-’40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape – he paid for it with the money…

A photographer convinces a model to use sex to obtain what she desires.

The townsfolk of Trinity decide to hire a notorious bounty hunter to protect them from a fierce band of Mexican outlaws who are terrorizing the area.

Three sisters live alienated existences in modern day Tokyo. One works as a secretary, one is a prostitute, and one is a criminal. The secretary is cynically unhappy with the…

A documentary about the 1972 Winter Olympic Games in Sapporo, Japan.

An “adults only” retelling of the legend of Zorro.

Embodying Rainer’s aesthetic rigor and wit, the film combines fiction and documentary, script readings, dance snippets, still photos, and tableaux vivants to explore issues of power and gender that influence…

After avenging the death of his teacher, a Shaolin monk flees China to the American West and helps people while being pursued by bounty hunters.

Well off widow working Mother “Mona” is struggling raising 6 kids at different ages ranging from elementary school to University graduating students. The day she thinks to bring a new…

The week-days of a youth-camp, playing democracy, are depicted in this documentarist satire. Due to faulty organisation, the Budapest high-school students get only working tools, but no work to do….

While Sakura and Hiroshi struggle to save funds to build a house, Torajiro befriends three young women on vacation during his travels.

When Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor occupying his room. The professor and Tora-san become rivals for the affection of Chiyo.

An ode to rural France and the simple joys of life, Dominique Benicheti’s glorious masterpiece Cousin Jules captures the daily routine and rituals of Jules, a blacksmith, living with his…

Attacking Asao Uchida’s lonely, clifftop mansion in no-holds barred massacre.

A fearless man confronts a yakuza organization pushing the envelope of extravagant & all sorts of violence.

Hot action and lust in the steamy tropical jungle, as heroines break out of a women’s prison and start a local revolution.

When Marile is a little girl, she sees her father murder the two lovers and then shoot himself in the head. About 30 years later, she lives in a mansion…

The teenage tiger that ripped off the mob and left the cops with their pants down! Only Baby could heist a million from the mob!

A 1971–72 documentary film by Jonas Mekas. It revolves around Mekas’ trip back to Semeniškiai, the village of his birth.

Set in the 1890s on the Hungarian plains, a group of farm workers go on strike in which they face harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt, oppression, morality and…

Domingos is a member of an African liberation movement, arrested by the Portuguese secret police, after bloody events in Angola. His wife goes from a prison station to another, trying…

Two twenty-something women dream of the ideal man and slowly realize that reality is very different from their fantasies.

Charlie Tully and womanising Reggie Peek con two rich Italians out of £500,000 but during their flight out Charlie is arrested for coning an American and a dog. Reggie stores…

Documentary about the dancer Rudolf Nureyev.

Armitage runs a chemical company that is on the verge of producing a gas that causes temporary disability. Clearly the military want it but it is also sought by a…

When she finds out what her philandering phone company boss husband has been up to, a feminist plots revenge.

Essene is about daily life in a Benedictine monastery and the resolution of conflict between personal needs and the institutional and organizational priorities of the community. In the Order, where…

Sexploitation legend Doris Wishman directs this fun-filled nudie cutie concerning a fake marriage counselor who dispenses sexual advice to his neighbors, and the lecherous maintenance man who keeps a close…

When it looks like the plane that Cristiana is traveling on is about to crash, she makes a pledge to become a nun if her life is spared. The plane…

A young policeman and a small-time crook are both involved with the same girl.

The story of an apartment in Paris and the various people that occupy it over the years.

The comedic tale of two minions of the devil who crash a Harlem party thrown by Miss Maybell with high hopes of destroying its festive atmosphere. The first of the…

Tien Lung, the best fighter at the Ching Te martial arts school, gets into a fight with the Hook Gang, part of a local opium-dealing and prostitution ring run by…

Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon was Australia’s first animated feature film,[2] released in 1972 and directed by Eric Porter. The two sequence directors were Porter’s animation director Cam…