Crime Movies of 1972
The Godfather
Popularly viewed as one of the best American films ever made, the multi-generational crime saga ... [ Crime movie - 1972 ]
Boxcar Bertha
Produced by Roger Corman and directed by Martin Scorsese, Boxcar Bertha is a Bonnie and Clyde-like yarn set during the ... [ Crime movie - 1972 ]
The Gore Gore Girls
Infamous exploitation icon Herschell Gordon Lewis wrapped up his lengthy foray into low-budget gore epics with this coda, ... [ Crime movie - 1972 ]
Un Flic
Parisian police commissioner Coleman (Alain Delon) is not a happy man, but he does what he can to get through each day. He has recently started having an affair with Cathy (Catherine Deneuve), and that helps a ... [ Crime movie - 1972 ]
The Getaway
In Sam Peckinpah's version of Walter Hill's script, from Jim Thompson's novel, an ex-con and his wife go on the lam after a Texas bank heist. ... [ Crime movie - 1972 ]
The Hot Rock
Peter Yates directs the early '70s comedy caper The Hot Rock, based on the Donald Westlake novel and adapted for the screen by William Goldman. Robert Redford stars as John ... [ Crime movie - 1972 ]
Across 110th Street
Across 110th Street is a violent urban thriller about a corrupt, ... [ Crime movie - 1972 ]
Bluebeard
Bluebeard is the retelling of the now familiar story of a wealthy aristocrat who marries and murders and marries again. Baron Von Sepper (Richard Burton), the ... [ Crime movie - 1972 ]
Prime Cut
Michael Ritchie, better known for his gentle satires of American social institutions, enters Don Siegel territory in the unusual crime thriller Prime Cut. Lee Marvin is surly collection agent ... [ Crime movie - 1972 ]
The Master Touch
Despite the objections of his wife (Florinda Bolkan), a safe-cracker recently released from jail (Kirk Douglas) decides to try one last job. With the help of a circus gymnast (Giuliano Gemma), the thief ... [ Crime movie - 1972 ]
The Valachi Papers
This crime action movie is based on Peter Maas' best-selling book The Valachi Papers. That ... [ Crime movie - 1972 ]
Piazza Pulita
Any 1972 film starring Richard Conte was like as not produced in Italy. Despite its title, 1931: Once Upon a Time in New York is no exception to this rule. Conte and Adolfo Celi play rival Chicago gangsters, fighting tooth ... [ Crime movie - 1972 ]
The Mechanic
Charles Bronson re-teams with director Michael Winner -- sandwiched between their first pairing in the underrated Chato's Land and their seminal collaboration in Death ... [ Crime movie - 1972 ]
Crime Boss
In this Italian crime drama, a new Don takes over ... [ Crime movie - 1972 ]
La Tarantola dal ventre nero
This frightening horror-thriller stars Giancarlo Giannini as Inspector Tellini, chasing a killer whose victims are paralyzed with a poisoned acupuncture needle, ... [ Crime movie - 1972 ]
Superfly
An African-American man finds that leaving behind his life of crime is harder than he imagined in this groundbreaking crime ... [ Crime movie - 1972 ]
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
The second in a series of exploitation films based on a Japanese adult manga magazine, this over-the-top ... [ Crime movie - 1972 ]
Trick Baby
The Double Con is an alternate title for the blaxploitationer Trick Baby. Jan Leighton and Byron Sander star as a pair of African American con artists. One of the slicksters can pass for white, enabling the two to pull off any number ... [ Crime movie - 1972 ]
The Abductors
Don Schain directed this second installment in the Ginger series starring Cheri Caffaro as the blond heroine. In this episode, Ginger must rescue three cheerleaders who have been forced ... [ Crime movie - 1972 ]
Angels' Wild Women
Speed (Ross Hagen) is the leader of a rowdy biker ... [ Crime movie - 1972 ]
The Big Bird Cage
In this exploitative women's prison drama, the "birds" in "the big bird cage" are, clearly, women. ... [ Crime movie - 1972 ]
Chain Gang Women
A model prisoner and a desperate thug become unwilling partners in this low-budget action picture. Weed ... [ Crime movie - 1972 ]
The Harder They Come
Reggae star Jimmy Cliff is the principal reason that The Harder They Come was one of the first truly successful films to come out of Jamaica. Cliff plays ... [ Crime movie - 1972 ]
The Mad Bomber
In this crime drama, a hard-nosed cop is assigned to find a psychotic rapist in order to stop a mad ... [ Crime movie - 1972 ]
The Wolves
Wolves is set in Japan in the 1920s. The disintegration of the ancient samurai traditions is paralleled with the rise of the Yakuza, Japan's equivalent of the Mafia. Three ... [ Crime movie - 1972 ]
Acapulco Gold
This crime drama is set on the beautiful Hawaiian island of Kauai and follows the ... [ Crime movie - 1972 ]
Doomsday Voyage
In this grim, violent crime drama, a hit man murders a politician and then boards a ship to New York. During the voyage, the assassin abducts ... [ Crime movie - 1972 ]
Hammer
In this African-American boxing drama, a pugilistic stevedore becomes a professional fighter ... [ Crime movie - 1972 ]
The Stoolie
Comedian Jackie Mason made one of his many comeback attempts after the 1966 Ed Sullivan Show "flipping the finger" debacle with the low-budget The Stoolie. Mason plays a cheap ... [ Crime movie - 1972 ]
Trouble Man
An inner-city point man is on the run from both the cops and the crooks in this ... [ Crime movie - 1972 ]
Street Mobster
Legendary director Kinji Fukasaku (Battle Royale, The Black Lizard) takes the helm for this stylish and violent take on the life of a ... [ Crime movie - 1972 ]
