Seeking out the

5000 greatest films

in a century of cinema

Not Yet Seen in 1972

The 14 Amazons - Cheng Gang / Charles Tung

The Adventures of Barry McKenzie – Bruce Beresford

Alfredo, Alfredo - Pietro Germi

The Amazing Mr. Blunden - Lionel Jeffries

Angry Guest (E ke) - Chang Cheh

Another Nice Mess – Bob Einstein

Antony and Cleopatra - Charlton Heston

Apna Desh (Our Country) – Jambu

The Assassination of Trotsky - Joseph Losey

Asylum (House of Crazies) - Roy Ward Baker

Au Pair Girls - Val Guest 

Bad Company – Robert Benton

Baharo Phool Barsao - M. Sadiq

The Bar at the Crossing (Le bar de la fourche) - Alain Levent

Baron Blood (Gli orrori del castello di Norimberga) - Mario Bava

Bartleby - Anthony Friedman

Une belle fille comme moi – Francois Truffaut

Ben – Phil Karlson

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant – Fassbinder

Blackula – Willaim Crain

Bluebeard - Edward Dmytryk

Bone (Beverly Hills Nightmare / Dial Rat for Terror / Housewife) - Larry Cohen

The Boy Turns Man (Momcheto si otiva) - Lyudmil Kirkov

Brother Sun, Sister Moon (Fratello Sole, Sorella Luna) - Franco Zeffirelli

The Boy Who Turned Yellow – Powell / Pressburger

Butterflies are Free - Milton Katselas

The Call of the Wild - Ken Annakin

The Carey Treatment - Blake Edwards

Carry On Matron - Gerald Thomas

The Castle of Purity (El castillo de la pureza) - Arturo Ripstein

Cats' Play (Macskajáték) - Károly Makk

Chato's Land - Michael Winner

Child's Play - Sidney Lumet

Cheongchun gyosa (The Young Teacher) - Kim Ki-duk

Chloe in the Afternoon (L'Amour l'après-midi) - Éric Rohmer

Cisco Pike - Bill L. Norton

Come Back Charleston Blue - Mark Warren

Corky - Leonard Horn 

La Course du lièvre à travers les champs - René Clément    

The Cruel Sea (Bas ya Bahar) - Khalid Al Siddiq

The Culpepper Cattle Company - Dick Richards

Cu mâinile curate (With Clean Hands) - Sergiu Nicolaescu

Daigoro vs. Goliath (Great Desperate Monster Battle: Daigoro vs. Goliath) - Toshihiro Iijima

The Dawns Here Are Quiet (A zori zdes tikhie) - Stanislav Rostotsky

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg - Peter Medak

Days of '36 - Theodoros Angelopoulos

Death Line (Raw Meat) - Gary Sherman

Dirty Little Billy - Stan Dragoti

Don't Torture a Duckling (Non si sevizia un paperino) - Lucio Fulci

Dracula A.D. - Alan Gibson

Dr. Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo (Dr. Jekyll and the Wolfman) - León Klimovsky

Dr. Phibes Rises Again! - Robert Fuest

Dynamite Chicken - Ernest Pintoff

Eagle in a Cage - Fielder Cook

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds - Paul Newman

Endless Night - Sidney Gilliat

The Emigrants (Utvandrarna) - Jan Troell

Fata Morgana - Werner Herzog

Fillmore (Fillmore: The Last Days / Last Days of the Fillmore) - Richard T. Heffron

The Final Comedown - Oscar Williams

Fist of Fury (Jīng Wǔ Mén) - Lo Wei

Un flic – Jean-Pierre Melville

Follow Me! - Carol Reed

Four Flies on Grey Velvet – Dario Argento

Fritz the Cat - Ralph Bakshi

Frogs - George McCowan

Fuzz - Richard A. Colla

Game of Death - Bruce Lee

Gentlemen of Fortune (Dzhentlmeny udachi) - Aleksandr Seryj

The Girl on the Broomstick (Dívka na koštěti) - Václav Vorlíček

Glastonbury Fayre - Nicolas Roeg / Peter Neal

The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty (Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter) - Wim Wenders

Godzilla vs. Gigan, (Earth Destruction Directive: Godzilla vs. Gigan / Chikyū Kogeki Meirei Gojira tai Gaigan?) - Jun Fukuda

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid - Philip Kaufman

Hammersmith Is Out - Peter Ustinov

The Heartbreak Kid – Elaine May

Henry VIII and His Six Wives - Waris Hussein

Her Third (Der Dritte) - Egon Günther

Hickey & Boggs – Robert Culp

Images – Robert Altman

Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan (Ai Nu) - Chor Yuen

Innocent Bystanders - Peter Collinson

Insect Woman (Chungnyeo) - Kim Ki-young

J. W. Coop - Cliff Robertson

Kansas City Bomber - Jerrold Freedman

Koshish – Gulzar

Lady Caroline Lamb - Robert Bolt

Lady Liberty (La Mortadella) - Mario Monicelli

The Legend of Nigger Charley - Martin Goldman

Limbo - Mark Robson

Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (Kozure Ōkami: Kowokashi udekashi tsukamatsuru) - Kenji Misumi

Los Amigos (Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears) - Paolo Cavara

Ludwig - Luchino Visconti

Madame Sin - David Greene

Man of La Mancha – Arthur Hiller

The Man Who Quit Smoking (Mannen som slutade röka) - Tage Danielsson

Manhunt (La mala ordina) - Fernando Di Leo

The Mattei Affair – Francesco Rosi

The Mechanic - Michael Winner

Metzitzim (Peeping Toms) - Uri Zohar

Mutiny on the Buses - Harry Booth

My Dearest señorita (Mi querida señorita) - Jaime de Armiñán

My Name Is Shanghai Joe - Mario Caiano

The New Centurions - Richard Fleischer

The New Land - (Nybyggarna) - Jan Troell

Night of the Lepus (Rabbits) - William F. Claxton

Now You See Him, Now You Don't - Robert Butler

The Odessa File - Frederick Forsyth

One Is a Lonely Number - Mel Stuart

The Other - Robert Mulligan

The Other Side - Jane Arden

The Outside Man (Un homme est mort) - Jacques Deray

Oyster Village (Seokhwachon) - Jeong Jin-woo

Pancho Villa - Eugenio Martín

Pearl in the Crown (Perła w koronie) - Kazimierz Kutz

Pete ‘n’ Tillie – Martin Ritt

Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii - Adrian Maben

Play It as It Lays - Frank Perry

Plot (L'Attentat /The French Conspiracy) - Yves Boisset

Pocket Money – Stuart Rosenberg

Pope Joan Michael Anderson

The Possession of Joel Delaney - Waris Hussein

Private Parts - Paul Bartel

Pulp – Mike Hodges

Rage – George C. Scott

A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die (Una Ragione Per Vivere E Una Per Morire / Massacre at Fort Holman) - Tonino Valerii

Red Psalm (Még kér a nép) - Miklós Jancsó

The Rendezvous (Yakusoku?) - Kōichi Saitō 

The Revengers - Wendell Mayes

Roma – Frederico Fellini

The Salzburg Connection - Lee H. Katzin

Savage Messiah - Ken Russell

Savages – James Ivory

Skyjacked – John Guillermin

Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina (Slam the Monster on the Frontpage) - Marco Bellocchio

The Scientific Cardplayer (Lo Scopone Scientifico) - Luigi Comencini

La Scoumoune (The excommunicating) - José Giovanni

Season of the Witch (Hungry Wives / Jack's Wife) - George A. Romero

The Seduction of Mimi (Mimí metallurgico ferito nell'onore) - Lina Wertmüller

Shaft's Big Score! - Gordon Parks

Sitting Target (Screaming Target) - Douglas Hickox

Slaughterhouse-Five – George Roy Hill

Something to Hide (Shattered) - Alastair Reid

Sounder – Martin Ritt

State of Siege – Costa-Garvas

Stigma - David E. Durston

Street Mobster (Gendai yakuza: hito-kiri yota) - Kinji Fukasaku

Storm Rider – Giancarlo Santi

Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me (Une belle fille comme moi / A Gorgeous Bird Like Me) - François Truffaut

Tabi no Omosa - Kōichi Saitō

Tales from the Crypt - Freddie Francis

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire) - Yves Robert

Taming of the Fire (Ukroshcheniye ognya) - Daniil Khrabrovitsky

The Thing with Two Heads - Lee Frost

They Only Kill Their Masters - James Goldstone

To Find a Man - Buzz Kulik

Tomorrow - Joseph Anthony

Tonta tonta pero no tanto (Foolish, Foolish, but not that Much) - Fernando Cortés

Tout va bien (Everything's Fine) - Jean-Luc Godard

Travels with My Aunt - George Cukor

Treasure Island - Andrea Bianchi / Antonio Margheriti

The Triple Echo (Soldier in Skirts) - Michael Apted

Ulzana's Raid - Robert Aldrich

Under Milk Wood - Andrew Sinclair

Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (Gunki hatameku moto ni) - Kinji Fukasaku

Une belle fille comme moi (Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me) - François Truffaut

Up the Sandbox – Irvin Kershner

La Vallee - Barbet Schroeder

Vampire Circus - Robert Young

Victoria No. 203 - Brij

The Visitors - Elia Kazan

The War Between Men and Women - Melville Shavelson

The Water Margin (Shui hu zhuan) - Chang Cheh

Way of the Dragon – Bruce Lee

The Wedding – Andrzej Wajda

When the Gods Fall Asleep (Quando os Deuses Adormecem) - José Mojica MarinsYoung The Wrath of God - Ralph Nelson

X,Y, and Zee (Zee and Co.) - Brian G. Hutton

You'll Like My Mother - Lamont Johnson

Young Winston – Richard Attenborough