Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, The (1972)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla - Lurid, feverish masterpiece from the incredibly prolific Fassbinder, chronicles a doomed lesbian relationship from the claustrophobic confines of…
Canterbury Tales, The (I Racconti di Canterbury) (1972)- Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Hugh Griffith, Tom Baker, Pier Paolo Pasolini - Pasolini interprets four of Geoffrey Chaucer’s tales in the second of the director's medieval trilogy, set in a bawdy, perverse and dark vision of…
Cesar & Rosalie (1972)- Dir. Claude Sautet
Feat. Yves Montand, Romy Schneider, Sami Frey… - French romantic drama with Yves Montand and Sami Frey playing contrasting romantic rivals to divorced single mum Romy Schneider. Montand is a coarse…
Cries and Whispers (1972)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Ingrid Thulin, Liv Ullmann, Harriet Andersson… - “It’s Monday morning and I’m in pain…” So begins one of Bergman’s most nerve–wrecking psychodramas, set in a 19th household of…
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeiosie (1972)- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Stephane Audran… - Best Foreign Film Oscar–winner in which six guests convene for a meal they never actually get to eat! Bunuel veers between reality and illusion…
Fellini's Roma (1972)- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Federico Fellini - The Italian master's eclectic home town portrait blends reconstructed memoirs and contemporary images (incl. a stunning traffic jam sequence) into a…
Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan (1972)- Dir. Yuen Chor
Feat. Lily Ho, Yue Hua, Bei Di - One of the most controversial, yet best directed films of Hong Kong erotic cinema, this shocked avid audiences in its day and exerts a raw power even…
Love in the Afternoon (L'Amour l'après-midi) (1972)- Dir. Eric Rohmer
Feat. Bernard Verley, Zouzou , Françoise Verley… - The sixth and final movie in Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales" series concerning a bourgeois man who is still tempted to pursue other women despite being…
Ludwig (1972)- Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Helmut Berger, Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard… - A sumptuous biopic of 'mad' Prince Ludwig II of Bavaria (Berger) who reigned in the mid–1800s, creating and inhabiting his own bizarre world of…
Seduction of Mimi, The (1972)- Dir. Lina Wertmuller
Feat. Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato - Satirical comedy taking plenty of shots at Italianisms, about a poor labourer who is forced to leave his family in Sicily to take an illegal factory…
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