List of Italian films of 1972
A list of films produced in Italy in 1972 :
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| ' | Luigi Vanzi | Tony Anthony, Adolfo Celi, Richard Conte | Crime | |
| Alfredo, Alfredo | Pietro Germi | Dustin Hoffman, Carla Gravina, Stefania Sandrelli | Comedy | |
| All the Colors of the Dark | George Hilton, Edwige Fenech, Ivan Rassimov | Giallo | Italian-Spanish co-production | |
| Vassili Karamesinis, Omero Capanna, Gillian Bray | Western | |||
| Fabio Testi, Simonetta Vitelli, Riccardo Garrone | Western | |||
| Richard Harrison, Erika Blanc, Krista Nell | Italian-Turkish co-production | |||
| Un apprezzato professionista di sicuro avvenire | Giuseppe De Santis | Lino Capolicchio, Riccardo Cucciolla, Femi Benussi, Robert Hoffmann | drama | |
| Arcana | Lucia Bosè, Tina Aumont | |||
| The Assassin of Rome | Damiano Damiani | Nino Manfredi, Gabriele Lavia | historical drama | |
| Baron Blood | Joseph Cotten, Elke Sommer, Massimo Girotti | Italian-West German co-production | ||
| Beati i ricchi | Salvatore Samperi | Paolo Villaggio, Sylva Koscina | Comedy | |
| Beau Masque | Bernard Paul | Luigi Diberti | Drama | |
| Beyond the Frontiers of Hate | Giovanni Scarciofolo, Stefania Nelli, George Cavendish | Western | ||
| La bella Antonia, prima monica e poi dimonia | Mariano Laurenti | Edwige Fenech, Piero Focaccia | Commedia sexy all'italiana | |
| Ben and Charlie | Giuliano Gemma, George Eastman, Marisa Mell | Western | ||
| Bianco, rosso e... | Alberto Lattuada | Sophia Loren, Adriano Celentano | Comedy | |
| The Black Decameron | Piero Vivarelli | Beryl Cunningham | Comedy | |
| Black Turin | Bud Spencer, Françoise Fabian, Andrea Balestri | Italian-French co-production | ||
| Blood Story | Tony Kendall, Femi Benussi, Philip McNamara | |||
| Bloody Friday | Gianni Macchia, Raimund Harmstorf, Amadeus August | West German-Italian co-production | ||
| Boccaccio | Bruno Corbucci | Alighiero Noschese, Enrico Montesano, Sylva Koscina | Comedy | |
| Mark Edwards, Fernando Sancho, Carmen Sevilla | Western | Spanish-Italian-French co-production | ||
| Brother Sun, Sister Moon | Franco Zeffirelli | Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker | Drama | |
| Giovanni Scarciofolo, Enzo Pulcrano, Marina Malfatti | Western | |||
| Byleth - The Demon of Incest | Mark Damon, Claudia Gravy, Aldo Bufi Landi | |||
| La calandria | Pasquale Festa Campanile | Lando Buzzanca, Barbara Bouchet, Agostina Belli | Comedy | |
| Caliber 9 | Gastone Moschin, Barbara Bouchet, Mario Adorf | |||
| Charlton Heston, Michèle Mercier, Raimund Harmstorf | Western | British-French-German-Italian-Spanish co-production | ||
| Can Be Done... Amigo | Bud Spencer, Jack Palance, Renato Cestiè | Western | Italian-French-Spanish co-production | |
| Casa d'appuntamento | Ferdinando Merighi | Anita Ekberg, Barbara Bouchet | giallo | |
| Il caso Pisciotta | Eriprando Visconti | Tony Musante, Carla Gravina | historical drama | |
| The Canterbury Tales | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti | Erotic | Golden Bear winner at Berlin. Second film in Pasolini's 'Trilogy of Life'. Spoken in English |
| The Case of the Bloody Iris | Giuliano Carnimeo | Edwige Fenech, George Hilton, Paola Quattrini | Giallo | |
| Una cavalla tutta nuda | Franco Rossetti | Don Backy, Barbara Bouchet, Renzo Montagnani | Commedia sexy all'italiana | |
| Chronicle of a Homicide | Mauro Bolognini | Massimo Ranieri, Martin Balsam, Turi Ferro | Crime | |
| Il coltello di ghiaccio | Umberto Lenzi | Carroll Baker, Evelyn Stewart | Giallo | |
| Crime Boss | Antonio Sabàto, Telly Savalas, Paola Tedesco | |||
| Armando Crispino | Alex Cord, Samantha Eggar, John Marley | horror | ||
| Richard Harrison, Anita Ekberg, Dada Gallotti | Western | |||
| Death Played the Flute | Michael Forest, Franco Borelli, Giuseppe Cardillo | Western | ||
| Devil in the Brain | Sergio Sollima | Keir Dullea, Stefania Sandrelli | Giallo | |
| Django... Adios | Brad Harris, Jose Torres, Vassili Karamesinis | Western | ||
| Don't Torture a Duckling | Lucio Fulci | Barbara Bouchet, Tomas Milian, Irene Papas, Florinda Bolkan | Giallo | Acclaimed giallo noted for its dark subject matter on child killings. |
| Doppia coppia con Regina | Julio Buchs | Marisa Mell, Gabriele Ferzetti | thriller | |
| I due gattoni a nove code... e mezza ad Amsterdam | Osvaldo Civirani | Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia | Comedy | |
| The Eroticist | Lucio Fulci | Lando Buzzanca, Lionel Stander, Laura Antonelli | Commedia sexy all'italiana | |
| Execution Squad | Enrico Maria Salerno, Mariangela Melato, Cyril Cusack | Poliziotteschi | Italian-West German co-production | |
| Eye in the Labyrinth | Mario Caiano | Rosemary Dexter, Adolfo Celi, Alida Valli | horror | |
| Richard Harrison, Fernando Sancho, Fanny Grey | Western | |||
| Fiorina la vacca | Vittorio De Sisti | Janet Agren, Gastone Moschin, Ornella Muti | Comedy | |
| Frankenstein 80 | John Richardson, Gordon Mitchell, Dalila Di Lazzaro | |||
| Gang War in Naples | Fabio Testi, Jean Seberg, Raymond Pellegrin | Italian-French co-production | ||
| Il generale dorme in piedi | Francesco Massaro | Ugo Tognazzi, Mariangela Melato | Commedia all'italiana | |
| Go Away! Trinity Has Arrived in Eldorado | Gordon Mitchell, Stelvio Rosi, Craig Hill | Western | ||
| God in Heaven...Arizona on Earth | Peter Lee Lawrence, Maria Pia Conte, Roberto Camardiel | Western | Spanish-Italian co-production | |
| God is My Colt | Giovanni Scarciofolo, Donal O'Brien, Krista Nell | Western | Italian-German co-production | |
| Lee Van Cleef, Horst Frank, Alberto Dentice | Western | Italian-French-German co-production | ||
| Mark Damon, Rosalba Neri, Stelvio Rosi | Western | Italian-Spanish co-production | ||
| Gordon Mitchell, Mario Novelli, Bill Vanders | Western | |||
| Hallelujah & Sartana Strike Again | Ron Ely, Alberto Dell'Acqua, Uschi Glas | Western | Italian-German co-production | |
| The Hassled Hooker | Eriprando Visconti | Terence Hill, Paola Pitagora, Martin Balsam | Crime | |
| Hector the Mighty | Enzo G. Castellari | Vittorio Caprioli, Giancarlo Giannini | Comedy | |
| His Name Was Holy Ghost | Gianni Garko, Pilar Velázquez, Cris Huerta | Western | Italian-Spanish co-production | |
| The Infamous Column | Nelo Risi | Helmut Berger, Vittorio Caprioli, Francisco Rabal | historical drama | |
| Henry Silva, Mario Adorf, Woody Strode | Crime | Italian-West German co-production | ||
| It Can Be Done Amigo | Maurizio Lucidi | Bud Spencer, Jack Palance | Spaghetti Western | |
| ' | Richard Harrison, Donal O'Brien, Gino Marturano | Western | ||
| Jus primae noctis | Pasquale Festa Campanile | Lando Buzzanca, Renzo Montagnani, Marilù Tolo | comedy | |
| Kill the Poker Player | Robert Woods, Nieves Navarro, Frank Braña | Western | Italian-Spanish co-production | |
| The Killer is on the Phone | Alberto De Martino | Telly Savalas, Anne Heywood, Rossella Falk | giallo | |
| Last Tango in Paris | Bernardo Bertolucci | Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider | Romantic Drama | |
| Life Is Tough, Eh Providence? | Tomas Milian, Gregg Palmer, Janet Ågren | Western | Italian-French-German co-production | |
| Liza | Marco Ferreri | Catherine Deneuve, Marcello Mastroianni | drama | |
| Lo chiameremo Andrea | Vittorio De Sica | Nino Manfredi, Mariangela Melato | Commedia all'italiana | |
| Long Arm of the Godfather | Adolfo Celi, Peter Lee Lawrence, Erika Blanc | |||
| Ludwig | Luchino Visconti | Helmut Berger, Romy Schneider, Silvana Mangano, Trevor Howard, Helmut Griem, Umberto Orsini | Historical drama | David di Donatello winner. There's a restored long version. It's about Ludwig II of Bavaria |
| The Master and Margaret | Aleksandar Petrović | Ugo Tognazzi, Mimsy Farmer | fantasy | |
| Kirk Douglas, Giuliano Gemma, Florinda Bolkan | Crime | Italian-West German co-production | ||
| The Mattei Affair | Francesco Rosi | Gian Maria Volonté, Luigi Squarzina, Franco Graziosi | Political drama | Palme d'Or winner at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. Based on the death of Enrico Mattei |
| Miss Dynamite | Antonio Sabàto, Marisa Mell, Fernando Sancho | Western | Italian-German-Spanish co-production | |
| La Mortadella | Mario Monicelli | Sophia Loren, William Devane, Gigi Proietti, Susan Sarandon, Danny DeVito | Comedy | |
| Edmund Purdom, Rosalba Neri | Horror | |||
| Vassili Karamesinis, Dario Pino, Gordon Mitchell | Western | |||
| Man Called Amen | Luc Merenda, Sydne Rome | Western | ||
| Man of the East | Terence Hill, Gregory Walcott, Henry Carey Jr. | Western | Italian-French-Yugoslavian | |
| Man from the Deep River | Umberto Lenzi | Ivan Rassimov, Me Me Lai | horror | |
| The Mighty Anselmo and His Squire | Bruno Corbucci | Alighiero Noschese, Enrico Montesano, Erminio Macario | Comedy | |
| More Sexy Canterbury Tales | Joe D'Amato | Monica Audras, Attilio Dottesio, Ari Hanow | decamerotico | |
| La morte accarezza a mezzanotte | Luciano Ercoli | Susan Scott, Peter Martell | Giallo | |
| The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life | Ettore Scola | Alberto Sordi, Michel Simon, Pierre Brasseur | Commedia all'italiana | |
| My Dear Killer | Tonino Valerii | George Hilton, Marilù Tolo | Giallo | |
| My Horse... My Gun... Your Widow | Craig Hill, Claudie Lange, Cris Huerta | Western | Italian-Spanish co-production | |
| Naked Girl Killed in the Park | Alfonso Brescia | Robert Hoffmann, Adolfo Celi | Giallo | |
| Gianni Garko, Agostina Belli, Roberto Maldera | Italian-Spanish co-production | |||
| Now They Call Him Sacramento | Michael Forest, Fernando Bilbao, Malisa Longo | Western | Spanish-Italian co-production | |
| The Adventures of Pinocchio | Giuliano Cenci | Renato Rascel, Lauro Gazzolo | animated film | |
| Il provinciale | Luciano Salce | Gianni Morandi, Maria Grazia Buccella | Comedy | |
| La ragazza dalla pelle di luna | Luigi Scattini | Zeudi Araya, Ugo Pagliai, Beba Lončar | erotic | |
| The Red Headed Corpse | Renzo Russo | Farley Granger, Erika Blanc, Krista Nell | Giallo | |
| Barbara Bouchet, Ugo Pagliai, Sybil Danning | Giallo | Italian-West German co-production | ||
| George Martin, Klaus Kinski | Western | |||
| Return of Halleluja | George Hilton, Lincoln Tate | Western | Italian-German-French co-production | |
| Return of the Holy Ghost | Vassili Karamesinis, Craig Hill, Remo Capitani | Western | ||
| The Ribald Decameron | Giuseppe Vari | Malisa Longo, Orchidea De Santis | Commedia sexy all'italiana | |
| Robert Blake, Catherine Spaak, Ernest Borgnine | Film noir | |||
| Roma | Federico Fellini | Peter Gonzales Falcon, Pia De Doses, Alvaro Vitali | Felliniesque | Cannes Award |
| La schiava io ce l'ho e tu no | Giorgio Capitani | Lando Buzzanca, Catherine Spaak | Comedy | |
| The Scientific Cardplayer | Luigi Comencini | Alberto Sordi, Silvana Mangano, Joseph Cotten, Bette Davis, Mario Carotenuto | Commedia all'italiana | 2 David di Donatello |
| The Seduction of Mimi | Lina Wertmüller | Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato | Commedia all'italiana | Entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival |
| Seven Blood-Stained Orchids | Umberto Lenzi | Rossella Falk, Antonio Sabàto | Giallo | |
| Shadows Unseen | Frederick Stafford, Marilù Tolo, Franco Fabrizi | Italian-French-West German co-production | ||
| Shoot Joe, and Shoot Again | Richard Harrison, Jose Torres, Franca Polesello | Western | Italian-Spanish co-production | |
| Enrico Maria Salerno, Gastone Moschin, Mario Adorf | ||||
| Ben Gazzara, Silvia Monti, Fausto Tozzi | ||||
| Il sindacalista | Luciano Salce | Lando Buzzanca, Paola Pitagora | Comedy | |
| Slap the Monster on Page One | Marco Bellocchio | Gian Maria Volonté, Laura Betti | Drama | |
| Smile Before Death | Silvio Amadio | Jenny Tamburi, Rosalba Neri | Giallo | |
| Sonny and Jed | Tomas Milian, Susan George, Telly Savalas | Western | Italian-Spanish-German co-production | |
| So Sweet, So Dead | Roberto Bianchi Montero | Farley Granger, Sylva Koscina | Giallo | |
| Spirits of Death | Evelyn Stewart, Luigi Pistilli, Ivan Rassimov | |||
| Sting of the West | Jack Palance, Lionel Stander | Western | ||
| Summertime Killer | Ben Gazzara, Silvia Monti, Fausto Tozzi | Spanish-French-Italian co-production | ||
| Tarzan and the Brown Prince | Manuel Caño | Steve Hawkes | Jungle adventure | - |
| They Believed He Was No Saint | Anthony Steffen, Daniel Martin, Tania Alvardo | Western | Spanish-Italian co-production | |
| They Call Him Amen | Luc Merenda, Alfio Caltabiano, Tano Cimarosa | Western | ||
| They Call Him Varitas | Mark Damon, Pat Nigro, Pietro Ceccarelli | Western | ||
| This Kind of Love | Alberto Bevilacqua | Jean Seberg, Ugo Tognazzi | drama | |
| Thunder Over El Paso | Antonio Sabàto, Chris Avram, Erika Blanc | Western | Italian-Spanish co-production | |
| Tragic Ceremony | Camille Keaton, Luciana Paluzzi, Luigi Pistilli | Horror | ||
| Trinity and Sartana are Coming | Alberto Dell'Acqua, Harry Baird, Beatric Pella | Western | ||
| The Two Faces of Fear | Tulio Demicheli | George Hilton, Luciana Paluzzi | giallo | Spanish-Italian co-production |
| Two Sons of Trinity | Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Lucreita Love | Western | ||
| Ubalda, All Naked and Warm | Mariano Laurenti | Edwige Fenech, Pippo Franco | Commedia sexy all'italiana | |
| L'uccello migratore | Steno | Lando Buzzanca, Rossana Podestà | Comedy | |
| L'udienza | Marco Ferreri | Enzo Jannacci, Claudia Cardinale, Vittorio Gassman | comedy-drama | Entered into the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival |
| The Valachi Papers | Terence Young | Charles Bronson, Lino Ventura | Crime | |
| Valerie Inside Outside | Brunello Rondi | Barbara Bouchet, Pier Paolo Capponi, Erna Schürer | drama | |
| Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key | Sergio Martino | Edwige Fenech, Beba Lončar, Anita Strindberg | Giallo | |
| Watch Out Gringo! Sabata Will Return | George Martin, Fernando Sancho, Vittorio Richelmy | Western | ||
| The Weapon, the Hour & the Motive | Francesco Mazzei | Renzo Montagnani, Eva Czemerys | Giallo | |
| What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution? | Vittorio Gassman, Paolo Villaggio | Western | Italian-Spanish co-production | |
| What Have You Done to Solange? | Massimo Dallamano | Fabio Testi, Cristina Galbó | Giallo | |
| When Women Lost Their Tails | Pasquale Festa Campanile | Senta Berger, Lando Buzzanca, Frank Wolff | Comedy | |
| When Women Were Called Virgins | Aldo Grimaldi | Edwige Fenech, Vittorio Caprioli | Commedia sexy all'italiana | |
| Winged Devils | Duccio Tessari | Riccardo Salvino, Barbara Bouchet | Adventure | |
| Without Family | Vittorio Gassman | Vittorio Gassman, Paolo Villaggio | Commedia all'italiana | |
| Who Killed the Prosecutor and Why? | Giuseppe Vari | Lou Castel, Beba Lončar, Adolfo Celi | Crime | |
| Who Saw Her Die? | Aldo Lado | George Lazenby, Anita Strindberg, Adolfo Celi | Crime | |
| You Are a Traitor and I'll Kill You | Pierre Brice, Giuseppe Cardillo, Fernando Sancho | Western | Spanish-Italian co-production | |
| You're Jinxed, Friend, You've Met Sacramento | Ty Hardin, Christian Hay, Jenny Atkins | Western |