| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
| 1776 |
Peter H. Hunt |
William Daniels, Howard Da Silva, Donald Madden, Ken Howard, John Cullum, Ron Holgate, Blythe Danner |
Musical |
Columbia Pictures; adapted from the stage musical |
| Across 110th Street |
Barry Shear |
Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, Tony Franciosa |
Crime drama |
United Artists |
| Another Nice Mess |
Bob Einstein |
Rich Little, Herb Voland |
Comedy |
|
| Avanti! |
Billy Wilder |
Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Clive Revill |
Comedy |
based on Samuel A. Taylor play |
| Bad Company |
Robert Benton |
Jeff Bridges, Barry Brown |
Western |
Paramount |
| Ben |
Phil Karlson |
Meredith Baxter, Joseph Campanella |
Horror |
sequel to Willard |
| Beware! The Blob |
Larry Hagman |
Robert Walker, Jr., Dick Van Patten |
Sci-fi |
|
| The Big Bird Cage |
Jack Hill |
Pam Grier, Anitra Ford, Sid Haig |
Exploitation |
New World |
| Black Rage |
Chris Robinson |
Ted Cassidy, Phyllis Robinson |
Drama |
|
| Blacula |
William Crain |
William Marshall, Vonetta McGee |
Horror |
based on Dracula |
| Bluebeard |
Edward Dmytryk |
Richard Burton, Raquel Welch, Joey Heatherton, Virna Lisi, Nathalie Delon |
Thriller |
Cinerama Releasing Corporation |
| Bone |
Larry Cohen |
Yaphet Kotto, Andrew Duggan, Joyce Van Patten |
Crime drama |
|
| Boxcar Bertha |
Martin Scorsese |
Barbara Hershey, David Carradine, Barry Primus, Bernie Casey |
Drama |
American International |
| Buck and the Preacher |
Sidney Poitier |
Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee |
Western |
Columbia |
| Butterflies Are Free |
Milton Katselas |
Goldie Hawn, Edward Albert, Eileen Heckart, Paul Michael Glaser |
Comedy |
Oscar for Heckart |
| Cabaret |
Bob Fosse |
Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey, Michael York |
Musical |
Allied Artists; Oscars for Fosse and Minnelli; 8 total |
| The Candidate |
Michael Ritchie |
Robert Redford, Melvyn Douglas, Peter Boyle |
Drama |
Warner Bros.; Oscar for screenplay |
| The Carey Treatment |
Blake Edwards |
James Coburn, Jennifer O'Neill |
Mystery |
based on novel by Michael Crichton |
| Chato's Land |
Michael Winner |
Charles Bronson, Jack Palance, James Whitmore, Ralph Waite, Simon Oakland |
Western |
United Artists |
| Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things |
Bob Clark |
Alan Ormsby, Valerie Mamches |
Horror |
|
| Child's Play |
Sidney Lumet |
James Mason, Robert Preston, Beau Bridges |
Mystery |
Paramount |
| Cisco Pike |
Bill L. Norton |
Kris Kristofferson, Gene Hackman, Karen Black, Harry Dean Stanton |
Drama |
Sony Pictures |
| Come Back, Charleston Blue |
Mark Warren |
Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques |
Comedy |
sequel to Cotton Comes to Harlem |
| Conquest of the Planet of the Apes |
J. Lee Thompson |
Roddy McDowall, Don Murray, Ricardo Montalbán, Hari Rhodes |
Science fiction |
3rd sequel to Planet of the Apes |
| Cool Breeze |
Barry Pollack |
Thalmus Rasulala, Judy Pace |
Crime |
MGM |
| A Cop |
Jean-Pierre Melville |
Richard Crenna, Catherine Deneuve |
Crime |
Allied Artists |
| Corky |
Leonard Horn |
Robert Blake, Charlotte Rampling, Patrick O'Neal, Christopher Connelly |
Action |
MGM |
| The Cowboys |
Mark Rydell |
John Wayne, Bruce Dern, Roscoe Lee Browne, Robert Carradine, A Martinez |
Western |
Warner Bros.; became TV series |
| The Culpepper Cattle Co. |
Dick Richards |
Gary Grimes, Billy Green Bush, Luke Askew, Bo Hopkins |
Western |
20th Century Fox |
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
| Deep Throat |
Gerard Damiano |
Linda Lovelace, Harry Reems |
Adult |
|
| Deliverance |
John Boorman |
Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox |
Drama |
based on a novel by James Dickey; 3 Oscar nominations |
| Dirty Little Billy |
Stan Dragoti |
Michael J. Pollard, Lee Purcell |
Western |
Columbia |
| The Doberman Gang |
Byron Chudnow |
Hal Reed |
Crime, Action |
|
| Dr. Phibes Rises Again |
Robert Fuest |
Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Robert Quarry, Beryl Reid |
Horror |
sequel to The Abominable Dr. Phibes |
| Dynamite Chicken |
Ernest Pintoff |
Richard Pryor, Al Goldstein |
Comedy |
|
| The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds |
Paul Newman |
Joanne Woodward |
Drama |
based on a play by Paul Zindel |
| Elvis on Tour |
Pierre Adidge, Robert Abel |
Elvis Presley |
Documentary |
MGM; won Golden Globe for Best Documentary |
| Endless Night |
Sidney Gilliat |
Hayley Mills, Britt Eklund |
Mystery |
based on a book by Agatha Christie |
| Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) |
Woody Allen |
Woody Allen, Gene Wilder, Burt Reynolds, Tony Randall, Louise Lasser, Lynn Redgrave, Heather MacRae, Lou Jacobi, Regis Philbin |
Comedy |
based on a book by David Reuben |
| Fat City |
John Huston |
Jeff Bridges, Stacy Keach, Susan Tyrrell |
Drama |
based on a novel by Leonard Gardner |
| Fillmore |
Richard T. Heffron |
Santana, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane |
Documentary |
Concert film |
| The Final Comedown |
Oscar Williams |
Billy Dee Williams, Celia Kaye |
blaxploitation |
|
| Five Summer Stories |
Greg MacGillivray |
Eddie Aikau |
Documentary |
|
| Fritz the Cat |
Ralph Bakshi |
Skip Hinnant |
Animated, Adult |
first animated film Rated X |
| Frogs |
George McCowan |
Ray Milland, Sam Elliott |
Horror |
AIP |
| Fuzz |
Richard A. Colla |
Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch, Yul Brynner, Jack Weston, Tom Skerritt |
Action comedy |
United Artists |
| Get to Know Your Rabbit |
Brian De Palma |
Tom Smothers, Katharine Ross, Orson Welles |
Comedy |
Warner Bros. |
| The Getaway |
Sam Peckinpah |
Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Al Lettieri, Ben Johnson, Sally Struthers, Jack Dodson, Bo Hopkins, Dub Taylor, Slim Pickens |
Crime drama |
based on a novel by Jim Thompson; remade in 1994 |
| The Godfather |
Francis Ford Coppola |
Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, John Cazale, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Richard Castellano, Richard Conte, Sterling Hayden, Al Lettieri, Gianni Russo, Abe Vigoda, John Marley, Alex Rocco, Al Martino |
Crime drama |
Paramount; won 3 Oscars; top-grossing film of 1972; based on novel by Mario Puzo |
| The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid |
Philip Kaufman |
Cliff Robertson, Robert Duvall |
Western |
Universal |
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
| Hammer |
Bruce D. Clark |
Fred Williamson, Bernie Hamilton, Vonetta McGee |
Action |
United Artists |
| Hammersmith Is Out |
Peter Ustinov |
Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Ustinov |
Comedy |
Cinerama Corp. |
| The Heartbreak Kid |
Elaine May |
Charles Grodin, Cybill Shepherd, Jeannie Berlin, Eddie Albert, Audra Lindley |
Comedy |
script by Neil Simon; 2 Oscar nominations; remade in 2007 |
| Heat |
Paul Morrissey |
Joe Dallesandro, Sylvia Miles |
Drama |
produced by Andy Warhol |
| Hickey & Boggs |
Robert Culp |
Bill Cosby, Robert Culp |
Crime |
United Artists |
| Hit Man |
George Armitage |
Bernie Casey, Pam Grier |
Crime |
MGM |
| The Hot Rock |
Peter Yates |
Robert Redford, George Segal, Zero Mostel |
Crime |
William Goldman script; Donald Westlake book |
| Images |
Robert Altman |
Susannah York, René Auberjonois |
Thriller |
Columbia |
| J.W. Coop |
Cliff Robertson |
Cliff Robertson, Geraldine Page |
Western |
Columbia |
| Jeremiah Johnson |
Sydney Pollack |
Robert Redford, Will Geer |
Western |
Warner Bros. |
| Joe Kidd |
John Sturges |
Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, John Saxon |
Western |
Universal; script by Elmore Leonard |
| Journey Back to Oz |
Hal Sutherland |
Milton Berle, Herschel Bernardi, Margaret Hamilton |
Animation |
based on Oz book |
| Junior Bonner |
Sam Peckinpah |
Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino, Joe Don Baker, Barbara Leigh, Ben Johnson |
Western |
Cinerama Releasing Corp. |
| Kansas City Bomber |
Jerrold Freedman |
Raquel Welch, Kevin McCarthy |
Drama |
MGM |
| The King of Marvin Gardens |
Bob Rafelson |
Jack Nicholson, Ellen Burstyn, Bruce Dern |
Drama |
Columbia |
| Lady Sings the Blues |
Sidney J. Furie |
Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor |
Biography |
story of Billie Holiday; 5 Oscar nominations |
| The Last House on the Left |
Wes Craven |
Sandra Cassel, David A. Hess |
Horror |
|
| Last of the Red Hot Lovers |
Gene Saks |
Alan Arkin, Sally Kellerman, Paula Prentiss |
Comedy |
Paramount; based on Neil Simon play |
| Left Hand of Gemini |
|
Ian McShane, Richard Egan |
Sci-fi |
|
| The Legend of Boggy Creek |
Charles B. Pierce |
William Stumpp |
Mystery |
|
| The Legend of Nigger Charley aka Legend of Black Charley |
Martin Goldman |
Fred Williamson, D'Urville Martin |
Western |
|
| The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean |
John Huston |
Paul Newman, Anthony Perkins, Victoria Principal, Jacqueline Bisset, John Huston, Ava Gardner |
Western, Biography |
First Artists |
| Limbo |
Mark Robson |
Kathleen Nolan, Kate Jackson, Stuart Margolin |
Drama |
|
| Los Amigos |
Paolo Cavara |
Anthony Quinn, Franco Nero, Pamela Tiffin |
Western |
|
| The Magnificent Seven Ride |
George McGowan |
Lee Van Cleef, George Kennedy, Stefanie Powers |
Western |
third sequel to The Magnificent Seven |
| The Man |
Joseph Sargent |
James Earl Jones, Martin Balsam, Barbara Rush |
Drama |
script by Rod Serling |
| Man of La Mancha |
Arthur Hiller |
Peter O'Toole, Sophia Loren, James Coco |
Musical |
based on Dale Wasserman play; 2 Golden Globes |
| The Mechanic |
Michael Winner |
Charles Bronson, Jan-Michael Vincent |
Action |
United Artists |
| Melinda |
Hugh A. Robertson |
Calvin Lockhart, Vonetta McGee |
Drama |
MGM |
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
| Napoleon and Samantha |
Bernard McEveety |
Michael Douglas, Jodie Foster |
Adventure |
Disney |
| Necromancy |
Bert I. Gordon |
Orson Welles, Lee Purcell |
Horror |
|
| The New Centurions |
Richard Fleischer |
George C. Scott, Stacy Keach |
Crime drama |
based on a novel by Joseph Wambaugh |
| Night of the Lepus |
William F. Claxton |
Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh |
Horror |
MGM |
| Now You See Him, Now You Don't |
Robert Butler |
Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn |
Sci-fi, Comedy |
Disney |
| The Offence |
Sidney Lumet |
Sean Connery, Trevor Howard, Vivien Merchant |
Drama |
United Artists |
| One Is a Lonely Number |
Mel Stuart |
Trish Van Devere, Monte Markham, Janet Leigh |
Drama |
MGM |
| The Other |
Robert Mulligan |
Uta Hagen, Diana Muldaur, John Ritter |
Horror |
20th Century Fox; from Tom Tryon novel |
| Painters Painting |
Emile de Antonio |
Andy Warhol, Willem de Kooning |
Documentary |
|
| Pancho Villa |
Eugenio Martin |
Telly Savalas, Clint Walker, Chuck Connors |
Western |
filmed in Spain |
| Payday |
Daryl Duke |
Rip Torn, Ahna Capri |
Drama |
Cinerama Releasing |
| Pete 'n' Tillie |
Martin Ritt |
Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett, Geraldine Page |
Comedy, Drama |
Universal; 2 Oscar nominations |
| Pink Flamingos |
John Waters |
Divine |
Comedy |
cult film |
| Play It Again, Sam |
Herbert Ross |
Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Susan Anspach |
Comedy |
Paramount; based on Allen's play |
| Play It as It Lays |
Frank Perry |
Tuesday Weld, Anthony Perkins, Adam Roarke |
Drama |
Universal; from Joan Didion novel |
| Pocket Money |
Stuart Rosenberg |
Paul Newman, Lee Marvin |
Western, Comedy |
First Artists |
| Pope Joan |
Michael Anderson |
Liv Ullman, Olivia de Havilland |
Drama |
Columbia |
| Portnoy's Complaint |
Ernest Lehman |
Richard Benjamin, Karen Black, Lee Grant |
Comedy, Drama |
Warner Bros.; from Philip Roth novel |
| The Poseidon Adventure |
Ronald Neame |
Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Shelley Winters, Stella Stevens, Roddy McDowall, Carol Lynley, Pamela Sue Martin, Red Buttons, Jack Albertson |
Disaster film, Adventure |
based on Paul Gallico novel; won 2 Oscars |
| The Possession of Joel Delaney |
Waris Hussein |
Shirley MacLaine, Perry King, Michael Hordern |
Horror |
Paramount |
| Prime Cut |
Michael Ritchie |
Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Sissy Spacek, Angel Tompkins |
Drama, Action |
National General |
| Private Parts |
Paul Bartel |
Stanley Livingston |
Horror |
|
| Rage |
George C. Scott |
George C. Scott, Martin Sheen |
Drama |
Warner Bros. |
| Red Sun |
Terence Young |
Charles Bronson, Ursula Andress |
Western |
National General |
| A Reflection of Fear |
William A. Fraker |
Robert Shaw, Sondra Locke, Sally Kellerman |
Drama |
Columbia |
| The Revengers |
Daniel Mann |
William Holden, Ernest Borgnine |
Western |
National General |
| The Salzburg Connection |
Lee H. Katzin |
Barry Newman, Anna Karina, Klaus Maria Brandauer |
Thriller |
|
| Savages |
James Ivory |
Susan Blakely, Sam Waterston |
Comedy |
|
| Shaft's Big Score |
Gordon Parks |
Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn |
Crime drama |
sequel to Shaft |
| Silent Running |
Douglas Trumbull |
Bruce Dern, Ron Rifkin |
Sci-fi |
Universal |
| Skyjacked |
John Guillermin |
Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, James Brolin, Jeanne Crain, Walter Pidgeon, Roosevelt Grier, Leslie Uggams |
Disaster film |
MGM; Crain's final film |
| Slaughter |
Jack Starrett |
Jim Brown, Rip Torn, Stella Stevens |
Crime drama |
A.I.P. |
| Slaughterhouse-Five |
George Roy Hill |
Michael Sacks, Valerie Perrine |
Sci-fi, Drama |
from Kurt Vonnegut novel |
| Snoopy, Come Home |
Bill Meléndez |
Voices of Chad Webber, Robin Kohn |
Animated |
sequel to A Boy Named Charlie Brown |
| Snowball Express |
Norman Tokar |
Nancy Olson, Dean Jones |
Family |
Disney |
| Sounder |
Martin Ritt |
Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks |
Drama |
4 Oscar nominations |
| Stigma |
David E. Durston |
Philip Michael Thomas |
Drama |
|
| The Summertime Killer |
Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi |
Olivia Hussey, Karl Malden |
Crime drama |
|
| Super Fly |
Gordon Parks Junior |
Ron O'Neal, Julius Harris |
Crime drama |
score by Curtis Mayfield |
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
| They Only Kill Their Masters |
James Goldstone |
James Garner. Katharine Ross |
Mystery |
MGM |
| The Thing with Two Heads |
Lee Frost |
Ray Milland, Roosevelt Grier |
Sci-fi |
AIP |
| Thumb Tripping |
Quentin Masters |
Bruce Dern, Meg Foster |
Drama |
|
| To Find a Man |
Buzz Kulik |
Pamela Sue Martin, Darren O'Connor, Tom Bosley |
Drama |
Columbia |
| Tomorrow |
Joseph Anthony |
Robert Duvall, Peter Masterson |
Drama |
|
| Travels with My Aunt |
George Cukor |
Maggie Smith, Louis Gossett, Jr. |
Comedy |
based on novel by Graham Greene |
| Treasure Island |
Hal Sutherland |
Richard Dawson, Davy Jones, Dal McKennon |
Adventure |
animated; based on the novel |
| Treasure Island |
John Hough |
Orson Welles |
Adventure |
live-action; based on the novel |
| Trouble Man |
Ivan Dixon |
Robert Hooks, Paula Kelly |
Crime drama |
|
| Ulzana's Raid |
Robert Aldrich |
Burt Lancaster, Bruce Davison, Richard Jaeckel |
Western |
Universal |
| Up the Sandbox |
Irvin Kershner |
Barbra Streisand |
Comedy |
based on Anne Roiphe novel |
| The Visitors |
Elia Kazan |
Patrick McVey, Patricia Joyce, James Woods |
Drama |
|
| The War Between Men and Women |
Melville Shavelson |
Jack Lemmon, Barbara Harris |
Comedy |
National General |
| What's Up, Doc? |
Peter Bogdanovich |
Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn |
Comedy |
Kahn's 1st film |
| When the Legends Die |
Stuart Millar |
Richard Widmark, Frederic Forrest |
Drama |
|
| Winter Soldier |
Barbara Kopple |
John Kerry |
Documentary |
|
| The Woman Hunter |
Bernard L. Kowalski |
Barbara Eden, Robert Vaughn |
Mystery |
made for TV |
| The Wrath of God |
Ralph Nelson |
Robert Mitchum, Frank Langella, Rita Hayworth |
Western |
Hayworth's final film |
| You'll Like My Mother |
Lamont Johnson |
Patty Duke, Rosemary Murphy |
Horror |
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