Drama Movies of 1972
Deliverance
Adapted from James Dickey's popular novel, John Boorman's 1972 movie recounts the grueling psychological and physical journey taken by four city slickers down a river in the backwoods of Georgia. At the behest of Iron ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Junior Bonner
Sam Peckinpah eschews his slow-motion bullet ballets for this quiet character study of ex-rodeo cowboy turned ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Tout Va Bien
After collaborating on a series of small-scale political films under the alias of the Dziga Vertov Group, pioneering French director Jean-Luc Godard and filmmaker and activist Jean-Pierre Gorin attempted to fuse their ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
The Candidate
"What do we do now?" Director Michael Ritchie and executive producer/star Robert Redford satirically explore the machinations and manipulations of media-age political campaigns in this cynical political drama. ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
The Assassination of Trotsky
This film is Joseph Losey's mood piece that delves into the psychological makeup of Frank Jackson (Alain Delon), the assassin of exiled Russian Communist leader Leon Trotsky (Richard Burton). The tale chronicles the final few months of Trotsky's ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Last Tango in Paris
In Bernardo Bertolucci's art-house classic, Marlon Brando delivers one of his characteristically idiosyncratic performances as Paul, a middle-aged American in "emotional exile" who comes to Paris when his estranged wife commits ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
The Master and Margaret
This strident Yugoslavian/Italian film is a very uneven adaptation of a small portion of the famous and much-loved whimsical novel The Master and Margarita by Mikhail ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Cry of the Prostitute
Barbara Bouchet stars as a reformed hooker in this gang-war thriller. For reasons uniquely her own, Bouchet joins forces with professional assassin Henry Silva. Her aim is ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Heat
Heat is one of the more mainstream films produced by Andy Warhol's "Factory" and directed by Paul Morrissey. It is something of a send-up of Sunset Boulevard, with male beauty Joe Dallesandro in the William Holden part. In the ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Journey
Genevieve Bujold stars as a girl who is rescued from the brink of drowning by a Quebecois pioneer (John ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Pope Joan
Liv Ullman portrays a female pope -- based on a long-held rumor that the papacy was held by a woman between the reigns of Leo IV and Benedict ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Cries and Whispers
Cries and Whispers stars Liv Ullman and Ingrid Thulin as the sisters of dying cancer patient Harriet ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
The Waltons: Season 01
Introduced to viewers in the 1971 TV movie The Homecoming: A Christmas Story, the Walton family of Jefferson County, VA, began showing up on a weekly basis as The Waltons had ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
The King of Marvin Gardens
Dreams die hard in wintry Atlantic City in Bob Rafelson's downbeat character drama. Depressive deejay David Staebler (Jack Nicholson) tends to his grandfather as he philosophizes on late-night Philadelphia talk radio. When his huckster older ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Lady Caroline Lamb
Screenwriter Robert Bolt's directorial debut is a lushly romantic saga concerning the 1812 love affair between the wife of William Lamb, Lord of Melbourne, and the author ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Fear in the Night
Peter Cushing took time off from his Frankenstein and Dracula duties to star in the standard-issue melodrama Fear in the Night. Cushing plays ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
The Biscuit Eater
In this touching adventure, a remake of the popular 1940 film, two Georgia boys ignore their racial differences to team up and befriend a feral bird dog, whom they train to ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Fat City
With a screenplay adapted by Leonard Gardner from his own novel, John Huston's drama examines the meager hopes and resigned dreams of small-time boxers. In limbo between ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Kansas City Bomber
While Raquel Welch was a household name and an international sex symbol through much of the 1960s'and 1970s, Hollywood didn't seem sure about what to do with her; this was one of her more ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
The Pied Piper
The Pied Piper eschews the romanticism of Robert Browning's poem and returns to the grim Grimm Brothers source. Pop singer Donovan plays the 14th century piper hired by duplicitous burgomaster Donald Pleasance to rid the ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Lady Sings the Blues
Diana Ross plays the magnificent, tragic song stylist Billie Holiday, who while writhing in a strait jacket in a prison cell, awaiting ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant
This tale of intermingled love and hate is directed by Rainer ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Payday
A musician finds his life and his career jumping off the rails in this moody, intelligent drama. Maury Dann (Rip Torn) is a singer and songwriter struggling to hold onto his footing as one of the top names in country & ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Sounder
Martin Ritt's big-screen adaptation of William H. ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Images
A woman walks a razor's edge between reality and madness in this impressionistic drama written and directed by Robert Altman. Cathryn (Susannah York) is a woman who begins to suspect that her marriage to ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
The Final Comedown
When an underqualified white man is given the job that Johnny Johnson (Billy Dee Williams) is infinitely more qualified for, the young black man becomes ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Tomorrow
Horton Foote was the adapting hand behind this ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Call of the Wild
Director Ken Annakin and an international cast including Charlton Heston and George ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
The Culpepper Cattle Company
Gary Grimes stars in this revisionist western as Ben Mockridge, a 16-year-old boy who has long dreamed of living the ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Black Gunn
This violent blaxploitation film stars Jim Brown as the owner of a Los Angeles nightclub. When his brother, ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Chloe in the Afternoon
Eric Rohmer ends his cycle of "Six Moral Tales" with this delightful film starring Bernard Verley as Frederic, a happily married man who ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
The Dawns Here Are Quiet
It is a little-known fact that during World War II a small number of Soviet ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Siddhartha
Two-time director Conrad Rooks (known for his autobiographical drug-addiction opus of 1966, Chappaqua), helms this ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Trick Baby
The Double Con is an alternate title for the ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Bad Company
Set during the Civil War, Bad Company stars Barry Brown as a Northern ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
A Brand New Life
Cloris Leachman and Martin Balsam star in this TV movie as an over-forty married couple, both of whom maintain busy outside careers. Content with their peaceful, ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Macskajatek
Love and heartbreak are not just for the young, as ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Chain Gang Women
A model prisoner and a desperate thug become unwilling partners in this low-budget action picture. Weed (Michael Sterns) is patiently waiting out the last six months of a sentence for ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things
In Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things, an above average slasher/horror film, a group of amateurs decide to experiment with witchcraft with deadly results. This film has a small cult ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Divorce His, Divorce Hers
Originally made for television, this production features divorce from two perspectives: in the first half, the husband (Richard Burton) explains his ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
A House without a Christmas Tree
Embittered by the death of his wife, James Mills (Jason Robards) refuses to buy a Christmas tree for his 10-year-old daughter Addie (Lisa Lucas). Undaunted, Addie wins ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Vengeance of the Zombies
In this spooky mystery, Scotland Yard embarks upon its most terrifying investigation that centers on a young girl's murder. Soon the hapless inspectors find London is filled with an army of ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
The Legend of Boggy Creek
A sasquatch-like creature terrorizes a small Arkansas town in this presumably fact-based docudrama from Charles Pierce. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
The Life of Leonardo Da Vinci
Everyone who knows anything about art knows that Leonardo Da Vinci was one of the Renaissance era's defining artists, ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
The Mind Snatchers
Based on the long-running Broadway play by Dennis Reardon, The Happiness Cage, a multinational filmmaking effort, is a drama about medical experimentation in the U.S. military. The experiment is a brain operation ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Wedding in White
Carol Kane makes one of her earliest screen appearances in the Canadian Wedding in White. Set during World War 2, the film costars Donald Pleasence as Kane's father. The crux of the film concerns ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Zero Population Growth
This provocative sci-fi outing is set in an over-populated, horribly polluted 21st century where ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Jesus, Maria y José
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Bleak Moments
Mike Leigh began his career as one of Britain's most interesting directors with this realistic drama about a woman looking for respite from ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Hammer
In this African-American boxing drama, a pugilistic stevedore becomes a professional fighter thanks to his mob connections. His primary backer is ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Little Mother
This film takes a version of the story of Argentine Eva Peron and translates it to Central Europe. Marina is an ambitious woman, and sleeps her way into ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Diabel
Though presumably dealing with the Prussian army's invasion of Poland in 1793, this ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
The Doomsday Machine
Poorly written, directed and photographed, The Doomsday Machine is one of those cheap sci-fi farragos which rounds up several faded stars and then gives them nothing to work with. Among the trapped former ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Seduction of Inga
In this drama, a conniving employer seduces his lovely employee. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Agent Nr 1
An obscure but important chapter in the history of World War II arrives on the screen as screenwriter Aleksander Scibor-Rylski teams with director Zbigniew Kuzminski to tell the tale of renowned Polish spy and ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
The quest of a war-widow for the truth about her husband's death during World War II serves as the backbone for this film, which portrays the Japanese militarism of that time and the ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Der Dritte
In this East German film, the third one in The Third is Margit's third ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Awake and Sing!
Walter Matthau stars in this made-for-TV adaptation of ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
The Rookies [TV Series]
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Macbeth
This performance of Guiseppe Verdi's opera Macbeth, based on the Shakespeare play of the same name, ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
Sucedio En Jalisco
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Maalik
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The Streets of San Francisco: Season 01
One week after the 2-hour pilot film for Streets of ... [ Drama movie - 1972 ]
