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The Best Movies of 1972
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Movie: The Godfather ( 1972 )
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
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Movie: Last Tango in Paris ( 1973 )
A young Parisian woman meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex.
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Movie: Deliverance ( 1972 )
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
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Movie: The Getaway ( 1972 )
A recently-released ex-con and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes awry.
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Movie: Conquest of the Planet of the Apes ( 1972 )
In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, Caesar, the son of the late simians Cornelius and Zira, surfaces after almost twenty years of hiding out from the authorities, and prepares for a slave revolt against humanity.
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Movie: Pink Flamingos ( 1976 )
Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".
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Movie: The Poseidon Adventure ( 1972 )
A group of passengers must embark on a harrowing struggle for survival after a rogue wave capsizes their cruise ship at sea.
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Movie: Cabaret ( 1972 )
A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.
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Movie: Jeremiah Johnson ( 1972 )
A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by the Crow tribe and proves to be a match for their warriors in single combat on the early frontier.
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Movie: Solaris ( 1972 )
A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.
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Movie: Fritz the Cat ( 1972 )
In the late 1960s, a pretentious, womanizing young cat drops out of college, starts a riot in Harlem, hits the road with an ex-girlfriend and gets mixed up with domestic terrorists.
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Movie: The Last House on the Left ( 1972 )
Two teenage girls heading to a rock concert for one's birthday try to score marijuana in the city, where they are kidnapped and brutalized by a gang of psychopathic convicts.
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Movie: The Cowboys ( 1972 )
Rancher Wil Andersen is forced to hire inexperienced boys as cowhands in order to get his cattle herd to market on time but the rough drive is full of dangers and a gang of rustlers is trailing them.
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Movie: Aguirre, the Wrath of God ( 1977 )
In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.
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Movie: What's Up, Doc? ( 1972 )
The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.
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Movie: The Way of the Dragon ( 1972 )
A country bumpkin martial artist visits his relatives in Rome, Italy, where he must defend them and their restaurant against harassment from brutal gangsters.
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Movie: Fist of Fury ( 1972 )
During the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, the star pupil of a recently-deceased martial arts teacher battles a Japanese dojo which seeks the demise of his master's fighting school.
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Movie: The Big Bird Cage ( 1972 )
Blossom (Pam Grier) and Django (Sid Haig) are thieving mercenaries who engineer a prison break from the outside.
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Movie: Frenzy ( 1972 )
A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man.
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Movie: What the Peeper Saw ( 1972 )
A wealthy author's second wife begins to suspect that her 12-year-old stepson may have murdered his mother, who mysteriously died in a bathtub accident.
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Movie: Silent Running ( 1972 )
In a future where all flora are extinct on Earth, an astronaut is given orders to destroy the last of Earth's plant samples, kept in a greenhouse aboard a spacecraft.
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Movie: The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean ( 1972 )
In Vinegaroon, Texas, former outlaw Roy Bean appoints himself the judge for the region and dispenses his brand of justice as he sees fit.
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Movie: The Canterbury Tales ( 1980 )
Pasolini's artistic, sometimes violent, always vividly cinematic retelling of some of Chaucer's most erotic tales.
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Movie: The Mechanic ( 1972 )
An aging hitman befriends a young man who wants to be a professional killer. Eventually it becomes clear that someone has betrayed them.
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Movie: The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant ( 1972 )
A troubled fashion designer strikes up a romance with a much younger woman.
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Movie: Fuzz ( 1972 )
Detectives at a rundown police precinct in Boston scramble to catch a bomber who's targeting local politicians while trying to extort money from the city.
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Movie: What? ( 1973 )
During her Italian vacation, a beautiful young American tourist finds herself a guest in a coastal villa inhabited by some odd people.
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Movie: Sisters ( 1973 )
A small-time reporter tries to convince the police she saw a murder in the apartment across from hers.
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Movie: Vampire Circus ( 1972 )
As the plague sweeps the countryside, a quarantined village is visited by a mysterious traveling circus. Soon, young children begin to disappear, and the locals suspect the circus troupe might be hiding a horrifying secret.
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Movie: Horror Express ( 1974 )
While on the Trans-Siberian Express, an anthropologist and his rival must contain the threat posed by the former's cargo: a prehistoric ape which is the host for a parasitic alien lifeform.
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Movie: The Heartbreak Kid ( 1972 )
A newlywed man on his honeymoon has second thoughts about his marriage and falls for a different woman.
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Movie: Joe Kidd ( 1972 )
An ex-bounty hunter reluctantly helps a wealthy landowner and his henchmen track down a Mexican revolutionary leader.
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Movie: Boxcar Bertha ( 1972 )
During the Great Depression, a union leader and a young woman become criminals to exact revenge on the management of a railroad.
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Movie: Cries & Whispers ( 1973 )
When a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface.
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Movie: Avanti! ( 1972 )
A successful businessman goes to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon father's body--and discovers that Dad died with his long-time mistress.
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Movie: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie ( 1972 )
A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.
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Movie: Sleuth ( 1972 )
A man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.
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Movie: Slaughterhouse-Five ( 1972 )
Billy Pilgrim has mysteriously become unstuck in time. He goes on an uncontrollable trip back and forth from his birth in New York to life on a distant planet and back again to the horrors of the 1945 fire-bombing of Dresden.
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Movie: Prime Cut ( 1972 )
A vicious Kansas City slaughterhouse owner and his hick family are having a bloody "beef" with the Chicago crime syndicate over profits from their joint illegal operations. Top enforcer Nick Devlin is sent to straighten things out.
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Movie: The Night Stalker ( 1972 )
An abrasive Las Vegas newspaper reporter investigates a series of murders committed by a vampire.
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Movie: The Other ( 1972 )
A series of gruesome accidents plague a small American farming community in the summer of 1935, encircling two identical twin brothers and their family.
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Movie: Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key ( 1972 )
A string of murders are committed near the estate of a degenerate author, whose abusive relationship with his wife is further complicated by the arrival of his manipulative niece.
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Movie: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask ( 1972 )
Seven stories are trying to answer the question: what is sex? Or maybe they are not trying.
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Movie: Blacula ( 1972 )
An 18th-century African prince, turned into a vampire by Dracula, finds himself in modern-day Los Angeles.
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Movie: 1776 ( 1972 )
A musical retelling of the American Revolution's political struggle in the Continental Congress to declare independence.
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Movie: Tales from the Crypt ( 1972 )
Five strangers get lost in a crypt and, after meeting the mysterious Crypt Keeper, receive visions of how they will die.
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Movie: The Day the Clown Cried ( 1972 )
A circus clown is imprisoned by the Nazis and goes with Jewish children to their deaths.
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Movie: Brother Sun, Sister Moon ( 1972 )
Dramatization of events in the life of St. Francis of Assisi from before his conversion experience through his audience with the pope, including his friendship with St. Clare.
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Movie: Gargoyles ( 1972 )
An anthropologist/paleontologist and his daughter, while travelling through the southwestern U.S., stumble upon a colony of living, breathing gargoyles.
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Movie: Don't Torture a Duckling ( 1972 )
When a southern Italian town is rocked by a string of child murders, the police and two urban outcasts search for the culprit amid scapegoating within the superstitious community.
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Movie: The Legend of Boggy Creek ( 1972 )
A documentary-style drama about the "Fouke Monster", a Bigfoot-type creature that has been sighted in and around Fouke, Arkansas since the 1950s.
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Movie: Frogs ( 1972 )
A group of helpless victims celebrate a birthday on an island estate crawling with killer amphibians, birds, insects, and reptiles.
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Movie: The Genesis Children ( 1972 )
A group of teen boys go to Rome in this controversial art film.
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Movie: The French Sex Murders ( 1972 )
A man is accused of killing his favorite prostitute in a French brothel. He's tried and sentenced to death. He tries to escape but dies during pursuit. Soon, people connected to the case are killed one by one.
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Movie: Henry VIII and His Six Wives ( 1972 )
On his deathbed, King Henry VIII looks back over his eventful life and his six marriages.
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Movie: Super Fly ( 1972 )
The daily routine of cocaine dealer Priest who wants to score one more super deal and retire.
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Movie: Asylum ( 1972 )
In order to secure a job at a mental institution, a young psychiatrist must interview four patients inside the asylum.
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Movie: Ben ( 1972 )
A lonely boy befriends Ben, the leader of a violent swarm of killer rats.
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Movie: Fat City ( 1972 )
Two men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take different directions.
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Movie: Man of La Mancha ( 1973 )
The funny story of mad but kind and chivalrous elderly nobleman Don Quixote who, aided by his squire Sancho Panza, fights windmills that are seen as dragons to save prostitute Dulcinea who is seen as a noblewoman.
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Movie: The Stone Tape ( 1972 )
A research team from an electronics company moves into an old Victorian house to start work on finding a new recording medium. When team member Jill Greeley witnesses a ghost, team director Peter Brock decides not only to analyse the apparition, which he believes is a psychic impression trapped in a stone wall (dubbed a "stone tape"), but also to exorcise it--with ter...Read all
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Movie: Season of the Witch ( 1973 )
A neglected, unhappy suburban housewife gets mixed up in witchcraft with unexpected consequences.
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Movie: Butterflies Are Free ( 1972 )
A blind man moves into his own apartment against the wishes of his overprotective mother and befriends the freethinking young woman next door.
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Movie: Daughters of Satan ( 1972 )
A witch in a painting resembles an antique dealer's Wife.
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Movie: Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things ( 1975 )
Six friends in a theatrical troupe dig up a corpse on an abandoned island to use in a mock Satanic rite. It backfires with deadly consequences.
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Movie: The Revengers ( 1973 )
After a rancher's family is massacred by a gang of outlaws, he assembles a mean team of convicts as his posse to pursue the killers.
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Movie: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ( 1973 )
Alice tumbles into Wonderland, a dream realm filled with peculiar characters like the White Rabbit, March Hare, Queen of Hearts, and Dormouse. As she seeks her way home, she meets strange beings and discovers herself.
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Movie: Lady Sings the Blues ( 1972 )
The story of the troubled life and career of the legendary Jazz singer, Billie Holiday.
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Movie: The King of Marvin Gardens ( 1972 )
A daydreamer convinces his radio personality brother to help fund one of his get-rich-quick schemes.
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Movie: Play It Again, Sam ( 1972 )
A film critic obsessed with Casablanca (1942) seeks to get over his wife leaving him by dating again with the help of a married couple and his illusory idol, Humphrey Bogart.
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Movie: Dr. Phibes Rises Again ( 1972 )
The vengeful doctor rises again, seeking the Scrolls of Life in an attempt to resurrect his deceased wife.
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Movie: Dracula A.D. 1972 ( 1972 )
In 1972 London - a century after his final battle with Professor Van Helsing - Count Dracula is resurrected by occultist Johnny Alucard, and goes after his archenemy's descendants.
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Movie: The Candidate ( 1972 )
Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.
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Movie: Bluebeard ( 1972 )
A World War I pilot whom everybody envies as a "ladykiller" actually is one. After he beds a woman he's after, he murders her.
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Movie: The Thing with Two Heads ( 1972 )
Doctors are forced to transplant the head of terminally ill, arthritic racist surgeon Maxwell Kirshner onto the body of African American Death Row inmate Jack Moss because there is no other donor.
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Movie: Across 110th Street ( 1973 )
Two New York City cops go after amateur crooks who are trying to rip off the Mafia and start a gang war.
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Movie: Death Line ( 1973 )
When a government official disappears in the London tunnels, after several reports of missing people in the same location, Scotland Yard start to take the matter seriously, along with a couple who stumble into a victim by accident.
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Movie: A Cop ( 1972 )
After a shaky first heist, a group of thieves plan an even more elaborate and risky second heist.
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Movie: Carry on Abroad ( 1973 )
A group of tourists arrive at a half-finished hotel in Spain where the oddly identical staff and bad weather threaten the building's stability.
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Movie: The Ruling Class ( 1972 )
A member of the House of Lords dies, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son thinks he is Jesus Christ. Their other, somewhat more respectable family members plot to steal the estate from him; murder and mayhem ensue.
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Movie: A Reflection of Fear ( 1973 )
A disturbed young girl starts believing that there is something very sinister at work after her estranged father visits her at her mother and grandmother's house with the woman he plans to marry.
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Movie: Night of the Lepus ( 1972 )
Giant mutant rabbits terrorize the south-west.
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Movie: Junior Bonner ( 1972 )
Ace Bonner returns to Arizona several years after he abandoned his family, Junior Bonner is a wild young man. Against the typical rodeo championship, family drama erupts.
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Movie: Ulzana's Raid ( 1972 )
After fierce war chief Ulzana and a small war party jump the reservation bent on murder and terror, an inexperienced young lieutenant is assigned to track him down.
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Movie: The Magnificent Seven Ride! ( 1972 )
Forced by personal circumstances, Marshal Chris Adams recruits a writer and five prisoners to help him eliminate a gang of Mexican bandits.
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Movie: The Victim ( 1972 )
During an electrical storm, wealthy Kate Wainwright is trapped in her sister Susan's country house with no electricity and no phone. An unknown killer has murdered Susan, stuffed the body in the cellar, and is now pursuing Kate.
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Movie: Images ( 1972 )
Whilst writing a children's book, a woman interrupted by images unsure if they may, or may not be real
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Movie: Chato's Land ( 1972 )
In 1870s New Mexico, a half-breed kills a bigoted sheriff in self-defense but the posse that eventually hunts him finds itself in dangerous territory.
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Movie: The Hot Rock ( 1972 )
Dortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it...
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Movie: Endless Night ( 1972 )
A working-class young Englishman marries an affable American heiress, but their marital bliss is soon interrupted when they begin constructing a home on land alleged to be cursed.
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Movie: Tower of Evil ( 1972 )
A group of experienced archeologists are searching for an old and mystic Phoenician treasure when they are surprised by a series of mysterious murders...
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Movie: The New Centurions ( 1972 )
Family man Roy Fehler joins the L.A.P.D. to make ends meet while finishing law school and is indoctrinated by seasoned veteran Kilvinski. As time goes on, Roy loses his ambitions and family as police work becomes his entire life.
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Movie: Sounder ( 1973 )
The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.
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Movie: Portnoy's Complaint ( 1972 )
The movie chronicles a young man's (Richard Benjamin) love and passion in his own kinky way.
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Movie: The Valachi Papers ( 1972 )
Gangster Joe Valachi is a marked man in the same joint where mob boss Don Vito Genovese is imprisoned and he's forced to co-operate with the DA in exchange for protection.
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Movie: Pulp ( 1972 )
A seedy writer of sleazy pulp novels is recruited by a quirky, reclusive ex-actor to help him write his biography at his house in Malta.
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Movie: Hickey & Boggs ( 1972 )
Two Los Angeles private eyes follow a missing woman to her bank loot.
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Movie: Young Winston ( 1972 )
Complex family relationships, as well as a combat experience, form the personality of the future world-known politician.
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Movie: Travels with My Aunt ( 1972 )
At his mother's funeral, banker Henry meets his Aunt Augusta, an eccentric old woman who takes him on a wild adventure to rescue an old lover.
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Movie: The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid ( 1972 )
The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces for a bungled robbery of the bank in Northfield, Minnesota.