1972 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 Andrei Tarkovsky

1972 film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci

1972 film by Werner Herzog

1972 film by Luis Buñuel

1972 film by Bob Fosse

1972 film directed by Gerard Damiano

1972 film directed by Ingmar Bergman

1972 film by Bruce Lee

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.

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 Hong Kong film

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 by Stanislav Rostotsky

1972 film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

1972 film directed by Douglas Trumbull

1972 film by Peter Bogdanovich

1972 film by Yves Robert

1972 film by John Waters

1972 film by Federico Fellini

1972 concert documentary film

1972 film by John Sturges

1972 film by Sydney Pollack

1972 film by Jean-Pierre Melville

1972 film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

1972 film by Eugenio Martín

1972 Italian film by Pier Paolo Pasolini

1972 film by Franco Zeffirelli

1972 film by John Huston

1972 film by Herbert Ross

1972 film directed by Michael Ritchie

1973 film directed by Lung Chien

1972 film by Ramesh Sippy

1972 film by Alan Gibson

1972 film directed by George Roy Hill

1972 animated film by Ralph Bakshi

1972 film directed by Richard Attenborough

1972 film by George Cukor

1972 film by Claude Sautet

1972 film directed by Francesco Rosi

1972 film by Perry Henzell

1972 film by Milton Katselas

1972 film by Joseph Losey

1972 film directed by Michael Winner

1973 film by Brian De Palma

1972 film by Mark Rydell

1972 film by Costa-Gavras

1972 film by Valerio Zurlini

1972 film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

1972-1990 film series by Francis Ford Coppola

1972 film by William T. Sterling

1972 film by Elaine May

1972 film by Martin Scorsese

1972 film by Jun Fukuda

1972 French film by François Truffaut