1972 American films

The Godfather is a 1972 American epic gangster film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo based on Puzo's best-selling 1969 novel. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard Conte and Diane Keaton. It is the first installment in The Godfather trilogy, which chronicles the Corleone family under patriarch Vito Corleone (Brando) and the transformation of his youngest son, Michael Corleone (Pacino), from reluctant family outsider to ruthless mafia boss.

1972 film by Bob Fosse

1972 film directed by Gerard Damiano

Deliverance is a 1972 American thriller film directed and produced by John Boorman from a screenplay by James Dickey, who adapted it from his own 1970 novel. It follows four businessmen from Atlanta who venture into the remote northern Georgia wilderness to whitewater canoe the Cahulawassee River before it is dammed, only to find themselves in danger from the area's inhabitants and nature. It stars Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox, with the latter two making their feature film debuts.

1972 film by Sam Peckinpah

1972 film by Woody Allen

1972 film by Ronald Neame

1972 film directed by Wes Craven

1972 film directed by J. Lee Thompson

Avanti! (Italian interjection – 'come in!'; ) is a 1972 comedy film produced and directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills. The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on Samuel A. Taylor's play, which had a short run for the 1968 Broadway season. The film follows an American businessman attempting to recover the body of his father from Italy, only to learn his seemingly-straightlaced father died alongside his mistress.

1972 film directed by Douglas Trumbull

1972 film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

1972 film by Peter Bogdanovich

1972 film by John Waters

1972 film by John Sturges

1972 film by Sydney Pollack

1972 film directed by Michael Ritchie

1972 film by Herbert Ross

1972 film by John Huston

1972 film directed by George Roy Hill

1972 film by George Cukor

1972 film directed by Michael Winner

1972 film by Milton Katselas

1973 film by Brian De Palma

1972 film by Elaine May

1972 film by Mark Rydell

1972 film by Martin Scorsese

Blacula is a 1972 American blaxploitation horror film directed by William Crain. It stars William Marshall in the title role about an 18th-century African prince named Mamuwalde, who is turned into a vampire (and later locked in a coffin) by Count Dracula in the Count's castle in Transylvania in the year 1780 after Dracula refuses to help Mamuwalde suppress the slave trade. The film co-stars Vonetta McGee, Denise Nicholas, Gordon Pinsent and Thalmus Rasulala.

1972 film by Sidney J. Furie

1972 film by George McCowan

1972 film by Martin Ritt

1972 film by Arthur Hiller

1972 film by Peter Yates

1972 film directed by Artie Mitchell and James Mitchell

1972 film by Michael Winner

1972 film directed by Robert Altman

1972 film by Robert Aldrich

1972 film by John Huston

1972 film by Gordon Parks

1972 film by Bob Rafelson

1972 film by Phil Karlson

1972 film by Larry Hagman

1972 film by Sam Peckinpah

1972 film by Paul Newman

1972 film directed by John Guillermin

1972 American Western film directed by Robert Benton

1972 film by Robert Mulligan

1972 film by George McCowan

1972 film by Martin Ritt

1972 film by Bernard McEveety

1972 film by Robert Abel

1972 film by Michael Ritchie

1972 film by Peter H. Hunt

1972 film by Ralph Nelson

Z.P.G. (short for "Zero Population Growth") is a 1972 British-American dystopian science fiction film directed by Michael Campus and starring Oliver Reed and Geraldine Chaplin. It was inspired by the best-selling 1968 non-fiction book The Population Bomb, by Paul R. Ehrlich. The film concerns an overpopulated future Earth whose world government executes those who violate a 30-year ban on having children. Filmed in Denmark, the film is almost entirely set-bound featuring art direction designed to reflect a bleak, oppressive future.

1972 American film by Elia Kazan

1972 blaxploitation film by Gordon Parks, Jr.

1972 film by Irvin Kershner

1972 film by Blake Edwards

1972 film by Richard A. Colla