The best movies 1972 Pagina 13

Bette Davis talks with Joan Bakewell and members of the audience at the National Film Theatre, London.

At 17 years of age, Leslie Hartop's parents decide the time has come for her to move out and make her way in the world. She moves in with the...

A study of the psyche of a sick, aging man who loses faith in the meaning of life.

The captain of one of the fishing seiners in the Far East, having accidentally discovered a large school of fish, did not notify the other crews,...

A remarkable young female surgeon gets diagnosed with terminal leukemia.

The year is 1943. The war is raging between the Germans and the Allies in North Africa. A truck with a Czech crew, Lieutenant Navara and six...

Heitor and Matilde are two siblings who decide to murder their rich father in order to quickly inherit his wealth. They get the killing done, aided...

Poor man Jamal found a gigantic diamond by the river near his house. Is he ready to become rich?

Pilot for failed TV series

A landlord chases his escaped serf but some town takes the refugee under its protection. That leads to a serious confrontation. Based on a true story.

A music idol is going to manage the career of a provincial who wants to succeed in football.

Many socially-concerned priests in Catholic Latin America have at some time left their parish churches to go and work in the fields and factories of...

Two men in Münster, who have known each other since their student days, have settled into life without realizing their dreams. They attempt to...

Set in contemporary Rome, the film shows through a series of encounters with “ancient” Romans, how the economic and political...

This film turns on two basic axes: the inquiry into ways of cinematographic representation and a critical image of official Spain at the time of the...

Film based on a play written by Elias Canetti.

"Boxcar" Bertha Thompson, a transient woman in Arkansas during the violence-filled Depression of the early '30s, meets up with rabble-rousing union...

This short film documents Australian composer Richard Meale’s homage to the young French poet, Arthur Rimbaud. Meale composed a music piece for...

A young couple decides to build their dream house, but run into numerous complications in the process. Everything from useless carpenters to building...

K-Z is a 1972 Italian short documentary film directed by Giorgio Treves, his study of the slaughterhouse in the centre of Turin as an allegory of a...

Three tales of horror, isolation and insanity set in Mexico.

Recovered Zulueta short.

Clownish simpleton can't resist meddling in his neighbors' business. Pretty much a remake of El Reveltoso.

Short documentary about the process of extracting gold to be worked as goldsmith.

The innocence of a woman due to a mental deficit will become the worst nightmare for her loved ones, after the harsh reality of the outside world...

Julia, Carmen and Charo are three young and funny ladies, lovers of three married men. These combine their family life and the relationship with...

How long will workers be subjected to exploitation? This is the question posed by this documentary, which explores the employer-worker relationship...

Businessman hires a stand-in to pass as the father of his mistress' children.

In a spectacular manhunt, a band of outlaws race cross-country with a million dollars and a newly married couple. A dramatic story of greed and...

The market town of Tlaxiaco dresses in multicolors when its inhabitants gather to sell their merchandise and thus obtain a resource to subsist.

Analyzes the typical features of the punto, a Cuban musical tradition from the days of Spanish colonialism.

A surrealist musical short, featuring folkloric dance and stark Mexican landscapes, in honor of the 1972 World Cup.

The documentary presents a political view of the period in question, using archival footage to illustrate historical events. Its approach seeks to...

An experimental film, black and white 16 mm film, made specifically to be submitted to the Ann Arbor Film Festival depicting a life drawing class...

Two rowdy saddle-tramps are hired to guide a caravan of orphans through the desert.

Short educational documentary about the teaching of the basics to elderly people.