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1970s
British films of 1972
116 films, in order of release. 87 with no exact release date are listed after them.
Films released in 1972
Released
Title
Director
Certificate
21 January
Zee and Co.
X Y & Zee
Brian G. Hutton
8 February
Pancho Villa
Eugenio Martín
March
Doomwatch
Peter Sasdy
8 March
Tales from the Crypt
Freddie Francis
April
Suburban Wives
Derek Ford
30 April
Vampire Circus
Robert Young
May
The Man with Two Heads
Andy Milligan
May
Sitting Target
Douglas Hickox
16 May
Tower of Evil
Jim O'Connolly
19 May
Carry On Matron
Gerald Thomas
19 May
Frenzy
Alfred Hitchcock
23 May
Four Dimensions of Greta
Pete Walker
25 May
Chato's Land
Michael Winner
26 June
Dracula A.D. 1972
Alan Gibson
X
July
Au Pair Girls
Val Guest
6 July
Asylum
Roy Ward Baker
20 July
Young Winston
Richard Attenborough
23 July
Innocent Bystanders
Peter Collinson
16 August
Pope Joan
Michael Anderson
September
Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii
Steve O'Rourke
,
Adrian Maben
30 September
Horror Express
Eugenio Martín
5 October
Endless Night
Sidney Gilliat
13 October
Death Line
Gary Sherman
30 November
The Call of the Wild
Ken Annakin
December
Go for a Take
Harry Booth
December
That's Your Funeral
John Robins
10 December
Sleuth
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
17 December
Travels with My Aunt
George Cukor
26 December
Fear Is the Key
Michael Tuchner
—
Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall
Norman Cohen
—
Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization
James Ivory
—
The Alf Garnett Saga
Bob Kellett
—
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
William Sterling
—
All Coppers Are...
Sidney Hayers
—
All I Want Is You... and You... and You...
Bob Kellett
—
The Amazing Mr Blunden
Lionel Jeffries
—
Antony and Cleopatra
Charlton Heston
—
The Asphyx
Peter Newbrook
—
The Assassination of Trotsky
Joseph Losey
—
Asylum
Peter Robinson
—
Auguste Rodin
—
Bartleby
Anthony Friedmann
—
The Big Game
Robert Day
—
Bless This House
Gerald Thomas
—
Born to Boogie
Ringo Starr
—
The Boy Who Turned Yellow
Michael Powell
—
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Franco Zeffirelli
—
Carry On Abroad
Gerald Thomas
—
Danny Jones
Jules Bricken
—
The Darwin Adventure
Jack Couffer
—
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Peter Medak
—
Demons of the Mind
Peter Sykes
—
Dougal and the Blue Cat
Serge Danot
—
Dr. Phibes Rises Again
Robert Fuest
—
Eagle in a Cage
Fielder Cook
—
Edgar Degas
—
Embassy
Gordon Hessler
—
Fear in the Night
Jimmy Sangster
—
The Fiend
Robert Hartford-Davis
—
The Flesh and Blood Show
Pete Walker
—
Follow Me!
Carol Reed
—
For the Love of Ada
Ronnie Baxter
—
Glastonbury Fayre
Nicolas Roeg
—
Hide and Seek
David Eady
—
Hunted
Peter Crane
—
I Am a Dancer
Louis Jourdan
,
Pierre Jourdan
—
I Want What I Want
John Dexter
—
Images
Robert Altman
—
Jacques Louis David
—
Jean-Francois Millet
—
John Constable
—
Kadoyng
Ian Shand
—
Kelly Country
Stuart Cooper
—
Lady Caroline Lamb
Robert Bolt
—
The Last Target
—
Live a Life
—
Living Free
Jack Couffer
—
The Love Box
Tudor Gates
,
Wilbur Stark
—
Macbeth: An Opera In Four Acts
Dave Heather
—
The Mad Trapper
David Cobham
—
Madame Sin
David Greene
—
Made
John Mackenzie
—
The Merchant of Venice
Cedric Messina
—
Mutiny on the Buses
Harry Booth
—
My Childhood
Bill Douglas
—
My Childhood. My Ain Folk
Bill Douglas
—
Nearest and Dearest
John Robins
—
Neither the Sea Nor the Sand
Fred Burnley
—
Nobody Ordered Love
Robert Hartford-Davis
—
Nothing But the Night
Peter Sasdy
—
Ooh… You Are Awful
Cliff Owen
—
The Other Side of the Underneath
Jane Arden
—
Our Miss Fred
Bob Kellett
—
The Pied Piper
Jacques Demy
—
Pulp
Mike Hodges
—
Raising the Roof
Michael Forlong
—
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
Jonas Mekas
—
Rentadick
Jim Clark
A
—
Robinson Crusoe
Leif Gram
—
The Ruling Class
Peter Medak
—
Running Scared
David Hemmings
—
Savage Messiah
Ken Russell
—
A Separate Peace
Larry Peerce
—
Sex and the Other Woman
Stanley Long
—
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
Waris Hussein
—
Something to Hide
Alastair Reid
—
Steptoe and Son
Cliff Owen
—
Straight On till Morning
Peter Collinson
—
Sunstruck
James Gilbert
—
Trauma
Karl Heinz Zeitler
—
Treasure Island
John Hough
,
Andrea Bianchi
and others
—
The Triple Echo
Michael Apted
—
Up the Front
Bob Kellett
—
Weekend of a Champion
Roman Polanski
,
Frank Simon
—
What Became of Jack and Jill?
Bill Bain
—
Z.P.G.
Michael Campus
1971
1973