Top Movies of 1972


The top movies of 1972 list is calculated by community movie ratings and members' "Top Movies List". Lists are updated daily.

31. Last Tango in Paris

Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NC-17
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Actors: Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Maria Michi, Giovanna Galletti, Gitt Magrini, Catherine Allégret
Plot: A young Parisienne woman and a middle-aged American businessman, mourning
his wife's suicide, begin a passionate love affair where they don't reveal
names and agree their relationship will be based solely around sex.

32. The Culpepper Cattle Co.

Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Dick Richards
Actors: Gary Grimes, Billy Green Bush, Luke Askew, Geoffrey Lewis, Bo Hopkins, Charles Martin Smith

33. Silent Running

Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Douglas Trumbull
Actors: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint, Mark Persons, Cheryl Sparks
Plot: This is an old-school sci-fi flick from the 1970s. The story involves a series of spaceships carrying and preserving various ecosystems from earth, waiting for the day when they can return and repopulate the polluted planet. A crew member (Bruce Dern) from one of the ships becomes attached to the forest ecosystem, and is chooses to defend it when the program is canceled and the order comes to destroy the preserved ecosystems.

34. What's Up, Doc?

Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Actors: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars, Austin Pendleton, Michael Murphy

35. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* But Were Afraid to Ask

Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Woody Allen
Actors: Woody Allen, John Carradine, Lou Jacobi, Tony Randall, Lynn Redgrave, Gene Wilder
Plot: Woody Allen's take on sex and relationships through several separate stories.

36. Mary, Queen of Scots

Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Charles Jarrott
Actors: Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, Patrick McGoohan, Timothy Dalton, Ian Holm, Trevor Howard

37. Prime Cut

Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Ritchie
Actors: Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Sissy Spacek, Angel Tompkins, Gregory Walcott, Janit Baldwin

38. Emigrants, The ( Utvandrarna )

Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jan Troell
Actors: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg, Sven-Olof Bern, Aina Alfredsson, Allan Edwall

39. ...And Give My Love to the Swallows ( ...a pozdravuji vlastovky )

Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Other
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jaromil Jires
Actors: Magda Vásáryová, Viera Strnisková, Július Vasek, Hana Pastejríková, Dagmar Bláhová, Eva Jirousková

40. Bad Company

Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Robert Benton
Actors: Jeff Bridges, Barry Brown, Jim Davis, John Savage, David Huddleston, Geoffrey Lewis
Plot: During the Civil War, Drew Dixon leaves his home in the north and goes west to avoid the draft.There he gets involved with con artist Jake Rumsey and joins his gang of bandits.

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