1972 English-language 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 directed by Bernardo Bertolucci

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.

Frenzy is a 1972 British neo-noir thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock in the penultimate feature film of his extensive career. The screenplay by Anthony Shaffer is based on the 1966 novel Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square by Arthur La Bern. The film stars Jon Finch, Alec McCowen and Barry Foster and features Billie Whitelaw, Anna Massey, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Bernard Cribbins and Vivien Merchant. The original music score was composed by Ron Goodwin.

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

1972 film directed by Douglas Trumbull

1972 film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

1972 film by John Waters

1972 film by Peter Bogdanovich

1972 film by Sydney Pollack

1972 film by John Sturges

1972 film by Federico Fellini

1972 concert documentary film

1972 Italian film by Pier Paolo Pasolini

1972 film by Eugenio Martín

1972 film by Franco Zeffirelli

1972 film directed by Michael Ritchie

1972 film by Herbert Ross

1972 film by John Huston

1972 film directed by Richard Attenborough

1972 film by George Cukor

1972 animated film by Ralph Bakshi

1972 film by Alan Gibson

1972 film directed by George Roy Hill

1972 film by Milton Katselas

1973 film by Brian De Palma

1972 film directed by Michael Winner

1972 film by Perry Henzell

1972 film by Joseph Losey

1972 film by Elaine May

1972 film by Mark Rydell

1972 film by William T. Sterling

1972 film by Martin Scorsese

1972 film by Sidney J. Furie

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 Martin Ritt

1972 film by George McCowan

1972 film by Bill Melendez

1972 film by Peter Medak

1972 film by Arthur Hiller

1972 film directed by Artie Mitchell and James Mitchell

1972 film by Peter Yates

1972 film directed by Robert Altman

1972 film by Michael Winner

1972 film by Robert Aldrich

1972 film by Gordon Parks

1972 film by John Huston

1972 film by Bob Rafelson

1972 film by Brian G. Hutton

1972 film by Phil Karlson

1972 film by Larry Hagman

1972 film by Charlton Heston

1972 film by Sam Peckinpah

1972 film by Robert Young