Pink Flamingos (1972)

Cabaret (1972)

Summary: A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.

Release Date: February 13, 1972

Genres: Drama, Musical, Music

Director: Bob Fosse

Writers: Joe Masteroff

, John Van Druten

, Christopher Isherwood

Runtime: 2 h 04 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Allied Artists Pictures, ABC Pictures, A Feuer and Martin Production

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), MGM/CBS Home Video, CBS Video, CBS/Fox, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,600,000

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)

Summary: A troubled fashion designer strikes up a romance with a much younger woman.

Release Date: October 05, 1972

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Runtime: 2 h 04 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Filmverlag der Autoren, Tango Film

Distributor: New Yorker Films, HBO Max, The Criterion Collection

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 325,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 1,838

Slaughter (1972)

Summary: Slaughter, a former Green Beret, avenges the killing of loved ones by the Mob, and in so doing is coerced by the Feds into traveling to Mexico to finish off surviving mobsters.

Release Date: September 12, 1974

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Director: Jack Starrett

Writers: Mark Hanna

, Don Williams

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: R

Production: American International Pictures (AIP), Slaughter Productions

Distributor: American International Pictures (AIP), CBS/Fox Video, Orion Home Video, MGM Domestic Television Distribution, MGM Home Entertainment, TGG Direct, Olive Films

Countries: United States, Mexico

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 750,000

Private Parts (1972)

Summary: Young Cheryl moves into her estranged aunt Martha's rundown King Edward Hotel. One of its offbeat residents, disturbed photographer George, takes special interest in her. Cheryl begins suspecting that a resident was murdered.

Genres: Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Director: Paul Bartel

Writers: Philip Kearney

, Les Rendelstein

, Paul Bartel

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

MPAA: R

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Penelope Productions

Distributor: Premier Productions, MGM Home Entertainment, Scream Factory, Turner Entertainment Group, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Elevator Girls in Bondage (1972)

Summary: Inspired by the writings of Karl Marx, the female staff of a seedy San Francisco hotel revolt against the management to protest low wages and squalid working conditions.

Release Date: November 13, 2010

Genre: Comedy

Director: Michael Kalmen

Writer: Michael Kalmen

Runtime: 0 h 56 min

Production: Buffalo Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

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The Devil (1972)

Summary: Young Polish noble Jakub, freed during 1793 Prussian invasion, experiences father's death, betrayal. Traumatized, he follows his savior, committing brutal murders across the country.

Genres: Drama, Horror, History

Director: Andrzej Zulawski

Writer: Andrzej Zulawski

Runtime: 2 h 05 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Zespól Filmowy "X"

Distributor: Facets Media

Country: Poland

Language: Polish

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Fritz the Cat (1972)

Summary: A hypocritical swinging college student cat raises hell in a satiric vision of various elements on the 1960s.

Release Date: April 14, 1972

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Animation

Director: Ralph Bakshi

Writers: Ralph Bakshi

, Robert Crumb

Runtime: 1 h 18 min

MPAA: X

Production: Fritz Productions, Aurica Finance Company, Steve Krantz Productions

Distributor: Cinemation Industries, Orion Home Video, Warner Home Video, Substance Video, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Scorpion Releasing, American International Pictures (AIP), MGM Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 700,000

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Sounder (1972)

Summary: 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.

Release Date: April 26, 1973

Genres: Drama, Family

Director: Martin Ritt

Writers: Lonne Elder III

, William H. Armstrong

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: G

Production: Radnitz/Mattel Productions, Rainbow Group

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Paramount Home Entertainment, Sterling Entertainment Group, United American Video, Walt Disney Home Video, MarVista Entertainment, Koch Vision, Mill Creek Entertainment, Buena Vista Home Video, Legacy Distribution, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 3,100,601

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The Last House on the Left (1972)

Summary: 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.

Release Date: August 30, 1972

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Horror

Director: Wes Craven

Writers: Wes Craven

, Ulla Isaksson

Runtime: 1 h 24 min

MPAA: R

Production: Sean S. Cunningham Films, The Night Co., Lobster Enterprises

Distributor: Arrow Video, MGM Home Entertainment, Vestron Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 90,000

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Heat (1972)

Summary: Spoof of the casual sexual adventures of a one-time child actor in Hollywood. It also involves a bratty on-again, off-again lesbian character.

Release Date: October 06, 1972

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Paul Morrissey

Writers: John Hallowell

, Paul Morrissey

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: R

Production: Andy Warhol Factory

Distributor: Image Entertainment, Paramount Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

I Want What I Want (1972)

Summary: A 20-something son of a military officer feels like a woman trapped in a man's body. When he can hide it no longer, he falls out with his ladies'-man father and leaves home. Now what?

Release Date: June 02, 1972

Genre: Drama

Director: John Dexter

Writers: Geoff Brown

, Gillian Freeman

, Gavin Lambert

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

MPAA: R

Production: Marayan

Distributor: Scorpion Releasing

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 359,504

Lady Sings the Blues (1972)

Summary: The story of the troubled life and career of the legendary Jazz singer, Billie Holiday.

Release Date: October 12, 1972

Genres: Drama, Music, Biography

Director: Sidney J. Furie

Writers: Chris Clark

, Suzanne De Passe

, William Dufty

Runtime: 2 h 24 min

MPAA: R

Production: Jobete Productions, Motown Productions, Paramount Pictures

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC)

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 6,028,486

Last Tango in Paris (1972)

Summary: A young Parisian woman meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex.

Release Date: February 07, 1973

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

Writers: Bernardo Bertolucci

, Franco Arcalli

, Agnès Varda

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

MPAA: NC-17

Production: Produzioni Europee Associate (PEA), Les Productions Artistes Associés

Distributor: VidAmerica, Magnetic Video, 20th Century Fox Video, RCA (II), CBS/Fox, Key Video, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Warner Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, HBO Max

Countries: Italy, France

Language: Italian

Movie budget: $ 1,250,000

Domestic: $ 36,144,000

International: $ 38,181

Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972)

Summary: Medieval knights executed for their black magic rituals come back as zombies to torment a group of vacationing college kids.

Genre: Horror

Director: Amando de Ossorio

Writers: Jesús Navarro Carrión

, Amando de Ossorio

, Robert Oliver

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Interfilme, Plata Films S.A.

Distributor: Hallmark Releasing, Beyond International Pictures, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Sinister Cinema, Blue Underground, Full Moon Streaming, Synapse Films, Paragon Video Productions

Countries: Spain, Portugal

Language: Spanish

Pope Joan (1972)

Summary: In medieval Europe, a pious young woman becomes a scholar of theology, disguises herself as a man, rises through the Catholic Church hierarchy and is elected Pope.

Release Date: October 25, 1972

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Michael Anderson

Writer: John Briley

Runtime: 2 h 12 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Big City, Command Production Establishment, Roadshow Productions

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

The Hot Rock (1972)

Summary: 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...

Release Date: January 26, 1972

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

Director: Peter Yates

Writers: Donald E. Westlake

, William Goldman

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Landers-Roberts Productions

Distributor: Fox Video, 20th Television, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Twilight Time

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,895,000

Cousin Jules (1972)

Summary: An ode to rural France and the simple joys of life, Dominique Benicheti's glorious masterpiece COUSIN JULES captures the daily routine and rituals of Jules, a blacksmith, living with his wife, Felice, on a small farm in the French...

Release Date: October 12, 2012

Genre: Documentary

Director: Dominique Benicheti

Writer: Dominique Benicheti

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Société Rytna Film, Société des Films Orzeaux

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 29,337

Nous Ne Vieillirons Pas Ensemble (1972)

Summary: A husband and wife in a loveless marriage struggle to remain ignorant to their failed relationship.

Release Date: September 07, 1972

Genre: Drama

Director: Maurice Pialat

Writer: Maurice Pialat

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Lido Films, Empire Films

Countries: France, Italy

Language: French

Domestic: $ 14,104