The 20 Greatest Films of 1972

The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.

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.

A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man.

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".

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.

A group of passengers must embark on a harrowing struggle for survival after a rogue wave capsizes their cruise ship at sea.

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.

A small-time reporter tries to convince the police she saw a murder in the apartment across from hers.

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.

Shaft is back to find the murderer of an old friend on the cold hard city streets with a little help from his new friends.

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

Whilst writing a children's book, a woman interrupted by images unsure if they may, or may not be real

A newlywed man on his honeymoon has second thoughts about his marriage and falls for a different woman.

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.

A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.

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.

During the Great Depression, a union leader and a young woman become criminals to exact revenge on the management of a railroad.

British progressive rock band Pink Floyd perform at the ancient Roman Amphitheater in the ruins of Pompeii, Italy in 1971. Although the band perform a typical live set from the era, there is no audience beyond the basic film crew.

Two Phildelphia con men try to evade gangsters they have conned and cops who are trying to put them in jail.

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.

Filmmaker Roman Polanski spends a weekend with world champion driver Jackie Stewart as he attempts to win the 1971 Monaco Grand Prix, offering an extraordinarily rare glimpse into the life of a gifted athlete at the height of his powers.

Alan Bennett's debut play for television follows the members of a Halifax cycling club, on an outing from Halifax to the ruins of Fountains Abbey. Set in the summer of 1911 and projects an idyllic vision of Edwardian England.