1972: Year's Best Movies

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.

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

A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.

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

In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.

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

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

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.

The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.

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

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

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.

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.

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 recently-released ex-con and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes awry.

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.

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.

Wishing to become a successful reggae singer, a young Jamaican man finds himself tied to corrupt record producers and drug pushers.

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.

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

Two men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take different directions.

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.

A shorter version of Out 1 (1971), however some of the omitted scenes of the long version are included.

In Vinegaroon, Texas, former outlaw Roy Bean appoints himself the judge for the region and dispenses his brand of justice as he sees fit.