The 14 Amazons (Shi si nu ying hao), starring Lisa Lu – (Hong Kong)

1776, starring William Daniels, Howard Da Silva, John Cullum, Ken Howard, Blythe Danner

Across 110th Street, starring Anthony Quinn and Yaphet Kotto

The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, directed by Bruce Beresford, starring Barry Crocker, Barry Humphries, Peter Cook, Spike Milligan – (Australia)

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes), directed by Werner Herzog, starring Klaus Kinski- (West Germany)

The Amazing Mr. Blunden, starring Laurence Naismith and Lynne Frederick – (U.K.)

Angry Guest (E ke), directed by Chang Cheh – (Hong Kong)

Another Nice Mess, starring Rich Little

Antony and Cleopatra, directed by and starring Charlton Heston, with Hildegarde Neil – (U.K.)

Apna Desh (Our Country), starring Rajesh Khanna and Mumtaz – (India)

The Assassination of Trotsky, starring Richard Burton and Alain Delon – (Italy)

Asylum, starring Britt Ekland, Barbara Parkins, Charlotte Rampling, Peter Cushing, Barry Morse

Avanti!, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills

Les aventures galantes de Zorro

Bad Company, directed by Robert Benton, starring Jeff Bridges and Barry Brown

Baharo Phool Barsao – (Pakistan)

Baron Blood (Gli orrori del castello di Norimberga), directed by Mario Bava, starring Joseph Cotten and Elke Sommer – (Italy)

Bartleby, starring Paul Scofield – (U.K.)

Bawarchi (The Chef), starring Rajesh Khanna – (India)

Be-Imaan – (India)

Ben, starring Lee Montgomery

The Big Bird Cage, starring Pam Grier

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, starring Hanna Schygulla – (West Germany)

Black Gunn

Blacula, starring William Marshall and Vonetta McGee

Blanche, directed by Walerian Borowczyk, starring Michel Simon, Georges Wilson, Jacques Perrin, Ligia Branice – (France)

Bluebeard, directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring Richard Burton, Joey Heatherton, Raquel Welch, Virna Lisi, Sybil Danning

Bone, starring Yaphet Kotto

Boxcar Bertha, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Barbara Hershey and David Carradine

The Boy Turns Man (Momcheto si otiva), directed by Lyudmil Kirkov, starring Nevena Kokanova, Kiril Gospodinov, Sashka Bratanova – (Bulgaria)

Brother Sun, Sister Moon (Fratello Sole, Sorella Luna), directed by Franco Zeffirelli – (Italy/U.K.)

Buck and the Preacher, directed by and starring Sidney Poitier, with Harry Belafonte and Ruby Dee

Butterflies Are Free, starring Goldie Hawn, Edward Albert, Eileen Heckart (Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress)

Cabaret, directed by Bob Fosse, starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Joel Grey – 8 Academy Awards, including Best Director, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor

The Candidate, directed by Michael Ritchie, starring Robert Redford, Peter Boyle, Melvyn Douglas

The Canterbury Tales (I racconti di Canterbury), by Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring Hugh Griffith – Golden Bear winner – (Italy)

The Carey Treatment, directed by Blake Edwards, starring James Coburn and Jennifer O'Neill

Carry On Matron, starring Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques – (U.K.)

The Castle of Purity (El castillo de la pureza) – (Mexico)

Cats' Play (Macskajáték) – (Hungary)

Chato's Land, starring Charles Bronson, Jack Palance, James Whitmore, Richard Basehart, Ralph Waite

Child's Play, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring James Mason, Robert Preston, Beau Bridges

Cheongchun gyosa (The Young Teacher) – (South Korea)

Cisco Pike, starring Kris Kristofferson, Karen Black, Gene Hackman

Come Back, Charleston Blue, starring Godfrey Cambridge and Raymond St. Jacques

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, starring Roddy McDowall, Ricardo Montalbán, Natalie Trundy, Don Murray

Corky, starring Robert Blake and Charlotte Rampling

The Cowboys, directed by Mark Rydell, starring John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern

Cries and Whispers (Viskningar och rop), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Harriet Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Liv Ullmann – (Sweden)

The Cruel Sea (Bas ya Bahar) – (Kuwait)

The Culpepper Cattle Co., directed by Dick Richards, starring Gary Grimes

Cu mâinile curate (With Clean Hands) – (Romania)

Daigoro vs. Goliath – (Japan)

Daughters of Satan, starring Tom Selleck

The Dawns Here Are Quiet (A zori zdes tikhie) – (U.S.S.R.)

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, starring Alan Bates – (U.K.)

Days of '36, directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos

The Dagger – drama romance film directed by Fereydun Gole (Iran)

Deep Throat, – adult film directed by Gerard Damiano

Deliverance, directed by John Boorman, starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox

Dirty Little Billy, starring Michael J. Pollard

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Stephane Audran – Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film – (France)

Don't Torture a Duckling (Non si sevizia un paperino) – (Italy)

Dr. Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo (Dr. Jekyll and the Wolfman), starring Paul Naschy – (Spain)

Dr. Phibes Rises Again, starring Vincent Price and Robert Quarry – (U.K.)

Dynamite Chicken, starring Richard Pryor

Eagle in a Cage, starring John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Billie Whitelaw, Kenneth Haigh

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, directed by Paul Newman, starring Joanne Woodward

Endless Night, directed by Sidney Gilliat, starring Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Britt Ekland – (U.K.)

The Erotic Adventures of Zorro

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask), directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Gene Wilder, Lynn Redgrave, Louise Lasser, Lou Jacobi, Heather MacRae, Tony Randall, Burt Reynolds

Fat City, directed by John Huston, starring Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrrell

Fata Morgana, directed by Werner Herzog – (West Germany)

Fear in the Night, starring Judy Geeson, Ralph Bates, Peter Cushing and Joan Collins- (U.K.)

Fellini's Roma, directed by Federico Fellini – (Italy)

Fillmore, a music documentary film featuring Santana, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane

The Final Comedown, starring Billy Dee Williams

Fist of Fury (Jīng Wǔ Mén), starring Bruce Lee – (Hong Kong)

Un flic (A Cop), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, starring Alain Delon and Catherine Deneuve – (France)

Follow Me!, starring Mia Farrow

Frenzy, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Jon Finch, Alec McCowen, Barry Foster, Anna Massey – (U.K.)

Fritz the Cat, directed by Ralph Bakshi — first animated movie to receive an X rating

Frogs, directed by George McCowan, starring Ray Milland, Sam Elliott, Joan Van Ark

Fuzz, starring Burt Reynolds, Yul Brynner and Raquel Welch

Game of Death, starring Bruce Lee and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar – (Hong Kong/U.S.A.)

Ganga Zumba

Gentlemen of Fortune (Dzhentlmeny udachi) – (U.S.S.R.)

The Getaway, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Al Lettieri, Sally Struthers, Jack Dodson, Slim Pickens

The Girl on the Broomstick (Dívka na koštěti) – (Czechoslovakia)

Glastonbury Fayre, directed by Nicolas Roeg and Peter Neal, featuring Family, Fairport Convention, Traffic and more – (U.K.)

The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty (Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter), directed by Wim Wenders – (West Germany)

The Goat Horn (Koziyat rog) – (Bulgaria)

The Godfather, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall, John Cazale, Richard Castellano, Talia Shire, Gianni Russo, Richard Conte, John Marley, Alex Rocco, Al Lettieri, Sterling Hayden – Academy Awards for best picture and best actor

Godzilla vs. Gigan, directed by Jun Fukuda – (Japan)

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid, starring Cliff Robertson and Robert Duvall

The Groundstar Conspiracy, starring George Peppard

Hammersmith Is Out, directed by and starring Peter Ustinov, with Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Beau Bridges

The Harder They Come, starring Jimmy Cliff – (Jamaica)

The Heartbreak Kid, directed by Elaine May, starring Charles Grodin, Jeannie Berlin, Cybill Shepherd, Eddie Albert

Hellé, directed by Roger Vadim – (France)

Henry VIII and His Six Wives, starring Keith Michell, Charlotte Rampling, Jane Asher – (U.K.)

Her Third (Der Dritte) – (East Germany)

Hickey & Boggs, starring Robert Culp and Bill Cosby

Hit Man, starring Bernie Casey and Pam Grier

The Hot Rock, directed by Peter Yates, starring Robert Redford, George Segal, Ron Leibman, Zero Mostel

Images, directed by Robert Altman, starring Susannah York – (U.S.A./U.K.)

Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan (Ai Nu) – (Hong Kong)

Insect Woman (Chungnyeo) – (South Korea)

J. W. Coop, starring Cliff Robertson

João and the Knife (João e a faca) – (Brazil)

Jeremiah Johnson, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Robert Redford

Joe Kidd, directed by John Sturges, starring Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, John Saxon

Junior Bonner, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino, Joe Don Baker

Kansas City Bomber, starring Raquel Welch

The King of Marvin Gardens, directed by Bob Rafelson, starring Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn

Koshish, starring Sanjeev Kumar – (India)

Lady Caroline Lamb, directed by Robert Bolt, starring Sarah Miles, Richard Chamberlain, Laurence Olivier – (U.K.)

Lady Liberty (La Mortadella), starring Sophia Loren and William Devane – (Italy)

Lady Sings the Blues, biopic of Billie Holiday, directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor

The Last House on the Left, directed by Wes Craven, starring Sandra Cassel, Lucy Grantham, David A. Hess

Last Tango in Paris (Ultimo tango a Parigi), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, starring Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider – (France/Italy)

The Legend of Nigger Charley, starring Fred Williamson

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, directed by John Huston, starring Paul Newman, Anthony Perkins, Ava Gardner, Roddy McDowall, Victoria Principal

Limbo, directed by Mark Robson, starring Kate Jackson

Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (Kozure Ōkami: Kowokashi udekashi tsukamatsuru) – (Japan)

Los Amigos (AKA Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears), starring Anthony Quinn and Franco Nero – (Italy/U.S.)

Love in the Afternoon (L'Amour l'après-midi), directed by Éric Rohmer, starring Zouzou – (France)

Ludwig, directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Helmut Berger, Trevor Howard, Silvana Mangano – (Italy/France)

Ludwig: Requiem for a Virgin King, directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, starring Harry Baer – (West Germany)

The Man, TV movie written by Rod Serling, starring James Earl Jones, Burgess Meredith, William Windom, Georg Stanford Brown, Jack Benny

Man of La Mancha, starring Peter O'Toole, Sophia Loren, James Coco – (U.S./Italy)

The Man Who Quit Smoking (Mannen som slutade röka) – (Sweden)

Manhunt (La mala ordina), starring Henry Silva – (Italy)

The Master Touch starring Kirk Douglas- (Italy)

The Mattei Affair, directed by Francesco Rosi, starring Gian Maria Volontè – Palme d'Or winner – (Italy)

The Mechanic, starring Charles Bronson

Mehdi in Black and Hot Mini Pants, starring Naser Malek Motiee and Hamideh Kheirabadi (Iran)

Metzitzim (Peeping Toms) – (Israel)

Moon of the Wolf, starring David Janssen and Bradford Dillman

Mutiny on the Buses, starring Reg Varney – (U.K.)

My Dearest señorita (Mi querida señorita) – (Spain)

My Name Is Shanghai Joe, starring Klaus Kinski and Chen Lee – (Italy)

Napoleon and Samantha, starring Michael Douglas and Jodie Foster

The New Centurions, starring George C. Scott and Stacy Keach

The New Land (Nybyggarna), directed by Jan Troell, starring Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann – Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film – (Sweden)

Nidhanaya (The Treasure) – (Sri Lanka)

Night of the Lepus, starring Janet Leigh, Stuart Whitman, Rory Calhoun, Deforest Kelley

The Night Stalker, TV movie starring Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Carol Lynley, Claude Akins. Ralph Meeker, Kent Smith, Charles McGraw, Larry Linville, Barry Atwater

Now You See Him, Now You Don't, starring Kurt Russell

The Offence, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Sean Connery and Trevor Howard – (U.K./U.S.A.)

One Is a Lonely Number, starring Trish Van Devere

The Other, starring Diana Muldaur

The Other Side of the Underneath, starring Sheila Allen – (U.K.)

The Outside Man (Un homme est mort), starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ann-Margret, Angie Dickinson – (France)

Oyster Village (Seokhwachon) – (South Korea)

Pancho Villa, starring Telly Savalas, Clint Walker, Chuck Connors, Anne Francis

Pearl in the Crown (Perła w koronie) – (Poland)

Pete 'n' Tillie, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Walter Matthau and Carol Burnett

Pink Flamingos, directed by John Waters, starring Divine

Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii, directed by Adrian Maben, starring Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Richard Wright, Nick Mason

Play It Again, Sam, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts

Play It as It Lays, directed by Frank Perry, starring Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins

Pocket Money, directed by Stuart Rosenberg, starring Paul Newman and Lee Marvin

Pope Joan, starring Liv Ullmann, Olivia de Havilland, Franco Nero

The Poseidon Adventure, directed by Ronald Neame, starring Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Carol Lynley, Stella Stevens, Shelley Winters, Jack Albertson, Pamela Sue Martin, Roddy McDowall, Leslie Nielsen

The Possession of Joel Delaney, starring Shirley MacLaine and Perry King

Prime Cut, starring Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman

Private Parts, directed by Paul Bartel

Pulp, starring Michael Caine – (U.K.)

Rage, starring George C. Scott and Martin Sheen

Raja Jani, starring Dharmendra – (India)

A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die, starring James Coburn and Telly Savalas – (Italy)

Red Psalm (Még kér a nép), directed by Miklós Jancsó – (Hungary)

The Revengers, starring William Holden and Ernest Borgnine

The Rowdyman, starring Gordon Pinsent – (Canada)

The Ruling Class, starring Peter O'Toole and Alastair Sim – (U.K.)

The Salzburg Connection, starring Barry Newman, Anna Karina, Klaus Maria Brandauer

Savage Messiah, directed by Ken Russell – (U.K.)

Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina (Slam the Monster on the Frontpage), starring Gian Maria Volontè – (Italy)

The Scientific Cardplayer (Lo Scopone Scientifico), starring Bette Davis, Alberto Sordi and Silvana Mangano – (Italy)

The Seduction of Mimi (Mimí metallurgico ferito nell'onore), starring Mariangela Melato – (Italy)

Shaft's Big Score, starring Richard Roundtree and Moses Gunn

Silent Running, starring Bruce Dern

Sitting Target, starring Oliver Reed, Ian McShane and Jill St. John – (U.K.)

Skyjacked, starring Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, James Brolin, Jeanne Crain, Walter Pidgeon

Slaughter, starring Jim Brown, Stella Stevens, Rip Torn

Slaughterhouse-Five, directed by George Roy Hill, starring Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Valerie Perrine

Sleuth, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine – (U.S.A./(U.K.)

Snoopy, Come Home

Solaris, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, starring Natalya Bondarchuk – (U.S.S.R.)

Something to Hide, starring Peter Finch and Shelley Winters

Sounder, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Cicely Tyson and Paul Winfield

State of Siege (État de Siège), directed by Costa-Gavras, starring Yves Montand – (France)

Steptoe and Son, starred Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett – (U.K.)

Stigma, directed by David E. Durston, starring Philip Michael Thomas

Street Mobster (Gendai yakuza: hito-kiri yota) – (Japan)

Super Fly, directed by Gordon Parks, Jr., starring Ron O'Neal

Tabi no Omosa (Journey into Solitude) – (Japan)

Tales from the Crypt, starring Peter Cushing and Joan Collins – (U.K.)

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire) – (France)

Taming of the Fire (Ukroshcheniye ognya) – (U.S.S.R.)

They Only Kill Their Masters, starring James Garner and Katharine Ross

The Thing with Two Heads, starring Ray Milland and Rosey Grier

To Find a Man, starring Pamela Sue Martin, Tom Bosley, Tom Ewell, Phyllis Newman

Tomorrow, starring Robert Duvall

Tonta, tonta, pero no tanto (Foolish, Foolish, but not that Much) – (Mexico)

Tout Va Bien (Everything's Fine), directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jane Fonda and Yves Montand – (France/Italy)

Travels with My Aunt, starring Maggie Smith

Treasure Island, starring Orson Welles – (France/Germany/Spain/USA)

Trick Baby, starring Kiel Martin and Mel Stewart

The Triple Echo, directed by Michael Apted, starring Glenda Jackson and Oliver Reed – (U.K.)

Trouble Man, directed by Ivan Dixon, starring Robert Hooks and Paul Winfield

Ulzana's Raid, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Burt Lancaster

Under Milk Wood, starring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O'Toole – (U.K.)

Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (Gunki hatameku moto ni) – (Japan)

Une belle fille comme moi (a.k.a. Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me), directed by François Truffaut – (France)

The Valachi Papers, starring Charles Bronson and Lino Ventura – (Italy/France)

La Vallée, directed by Barbet Schroeder, starring Bulle Ogier with music by Pink Floyd – (France)

Vampire Circus, starring Adrienne Corri and Anthony Higgins – (U.K.)

Victoria No. 203 – (India)

The Visitors, directed by Elia Kazan

The War Between Men and Women starring Jack Lemmon and Barbara Harris

The Water Margin (Shui hu zhuan), directed by Chang Cheh – (Hong Kong)

Way of the Dragon (Meng long guo jiang), directed by and starring Bruce Lee with Nora Miao and Chuck Norris – (Hong Kong)

We Won't Grow Old Together (Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble) – (France)

The Wedding (Wesele), directed by Andrzej Wajda – (Poland)

What's Up, Doc?, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal

When the Gods Fall Asleep (Quando os Deuses Adormecem) – (Brazil)

Where Does It Hurt? starring Peter Sellers

Winter Soldier, a documentary made by Vietnam Veterans Against the War

The Wrath of God, starring Robert Mitchum, Rita Hayworth, Frank Langella

X,Y, and Zee, aka Zee and Co., starring Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Caine, Susannah York

You'll Like My Mother, starring Patty Duke

Young Winston, biopic of Winston Churchill, directed by Richard Attenborough, starring Simon Ward, Robert Shaw, Anne Bancroft – (U.K.)

Highest-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1972 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: